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Regardless of who you are or what you have been,you can be what you want to be.--- William Clement Stone, American best selling author 无论你的现在和过去如何，你都可以决定你的未来。---威廉克莱门特斯通，美国畅销书作

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'Soviet Daughter': How A Great-Grandmother's Diary Became A Graphic Novel

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A secret diary, a hidden history. Julia Alekseyeva discovered her great-grandmother Lola's memoir, and she turned it into her debut graphic novel. It's called Soviet Daughter. It tells the story of Lola, a barely educate

VOA标准英语2011--Russia Seeks Democracy After Soviet Collapse

Russia Seeks Democracy After Soviet Collapse In the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has made enormous economic progress. Incomes have increased 10 times. But bookending these changes are demonstrations - in 1991 against com

VOA标准英语2011--Immigrants Reflect on Soviet Collapse

Immigrants Reflect on Soviet Collapse Since the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, millions of people have emigrated from the newly created nations that once were constituent republics of the communist empire. Our correspondent spoke to sever

VOA标准英语2009年-Afghanistan: Lessons from Soviet Withdrawal

Twenty years have passed since the Soviet Union ended its disastrous military venture in Afghanistan. Some Soviet veterans were traumatized by the war and refuse to talk about it, others reflect on the experience and draw lessons they say apply to N

VOA标准英语2013--For Africans in Moscow, a Slow Return to Soviet Exoticism

For Africans in Moscow, a Slow Return to Soviet Exoticism When Russian nationalist skinheads chant against the chyorni or the blacks they protest Muslim immigrants from Central Asia. But Africans in Moscow say they also can be targets. For several Af

VOA标准英语2014--Europe Raises Stakes With Tour of Former Soviet States

Europe Raises Stakes With Tour of Former Soviet States LONDON The President of the European Council Herman van Rompuy visited Georgia Wednesday - the latest stop on a tour of former Soviet states which aim to sign Association Agreements with the Euro

VOA常速英语2007-Former Soviet Union Launched Space Age 50 Years

By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 03 October 2007 October 4th marks 50 years since the former Soviet Union hurled humanity's first object into Earth orbit. It was a small round device known as Sputnik -- Russian for satellite -- with four antennas and a trans

美国国家公共电台 NPR 'The Year I Was Peter The Great': A Young American In Soviet Russia

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: At age 87, Marvin Kalb has spent a great many interesting years. He was a Moscow bureau chief and a diplomatic correspondent for CBS and for NBC. He's been the host of NBC's Meet The Press and the author of many books. And his ne

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But the way progress happens, is because new generations and new eras grow and develop and become better than the previous ones. 但进步是因新的一代人和新的时期而发生，不断的进步和发展，并超越之前的年代。 It's the

经济学人108:前苏联的末途 The end of the Soviet Union: Walking dead

Books and Arts; Book Review;The end of the Soviet Union; Walking dead; 文艺；书评；前苏联的末途；行尸走肉； The Last Man in Russia: The Struggle to Save a Dying Nation.By Oliver Bullough. 《俄罗斯最后一人：拯救行将灭亡之

万物简史 第92期:敲石头的人们(17)

Then come Lyell's epochsthe Pleistocene, Miocene, and so onwhich apply only to the most recent (but paleontologically busy) sixty-five million years, and finally we have a mass of finer subdivisions known as stages or ages. Most of these are named, n

万物简史 第91期:敲石头的人们(16)

Lyell, in his Principles, introduced additional units known as epochs or series to cover the period since the age of the dinosaurs, among them Pleistocene (most recent), Pliocene (more recent), Miocene (moderately recent), and the rather endearingly

VOA标准英语2008年-US Envoy Says Interests of Former Soviet States

By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 04 June 2008 Russia's relations with independent countries that once formed the Soviet Union have often been contentious, and Moscow's efforts to exert influence in the region have also led to tensions with the West, particu

World AIDS Day Finds Russia, Former Soviet Union in Grips of

By Bill Gasperini United Nations health officials say Russia and other nations of the former Soviet bloc are confronting the world's fastest-growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS. One decade ago, the countries

VOA常速英语2007-Putin Commemorates Victims of Soviet Repression

By Peter Fedynsky Moscow 30 October 2007 Russian President Vladimir Putin has commemorated more than 20,000 people executed at a Moscow killing field during the height of Stalinist terror in 1937 to 1938. Mr. Putin said those who perished included th

VOA标准英语2013--Gay Rights Roil Former Soviet Georgia

Gay Rights Roil Former Soviet Georgia TBILISI, GEORGIA Gay rights have spread in the West, but a backlash is taking hold in the former Soviet Union. Russias new ban on gay propaganda is sparking Western calls for boycotts of Russian products and even

看电影学英语 伊拉克恶狼谷

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篮球英文堂 第130期:科比访谈 生涯最强的对手是?

Who's the toughest guy you ever played against? 迄今为止，最让你束手无策的球员是谁 The toughest guy I ever played against... 迄今为止，最让我头疼的球员 Depends, It's... I can go by eras actually, so 这就不好说了我可

灵感发源地-艺术博物馆

the power of location 灵感发源地 Art Museums 艺术博物馆 If you're going to learn from somebody, why not learn from the greats? Explore paintings from a variety of eras, countries, and styles to increase your perspective. Challenge your brai