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日期：2010-01-04 Like a lot of college freshmen, Sean Belnick has a job. He works for a company that brings in more than $20 million dollars a year. But Belnick is not just another employee; he is also the companys owner. We started off with a couple of orders a day... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-11-26 I started winning competitions. We still had very little money -- my father had to borrow $5,000 to pay for a trip to the International Young Pianists Competition in Ettlingen, Germany, in 1994, when I was 12. I realized later how much pressure he w... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-11-26 As a boy growing up in Shenyang, China, I practiced the piano six hours a day. I loved the instrument. My mother, Xiu-lan Zhou, taught me to read notes, and my father, Guo-ren Lang, concertmaster（首席小提琴手） of a local folk orchestra（管弦乐队）... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 Married by arrangement at 13, Gandhi went to London to study law when he was 18. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and for a while practiced law in Bombay. From 1893 to 1914 he worked for an Indian firm in South Africa. During these years Gandhi's... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 Benjamin Franklin is remembered as an inventor, author, statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. But all great people were kids once and got into mischief. In writing about his life, Franklin recalled a youthful event that he later... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 Mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific writer (3,000 poems, 2,000 songs, 8 novels, 40 volumes of essays and short stories, 50 plays), who drew inspiration both from his native Bengal and from English li... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 He became a great reader. He read every book and newspaper he could get hold of, and if he came across anything in his reading that he wished to remember he would copy it on a shingle, because writing paper was scarce, and either learn it by heart o... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was the greatest British statesman of modern times. During his long, colorful public career he was a member of parliament for 63 years. He also held almost every government post. And, most important of all, he led h... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 Confucius, the greatest teacher in the history of China, was born in 551 B.C. He began to devote himself to serious studies and made up his mind to become a scholar at the age of fifteen. When he began teaching in his early twenties, he soon began t... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a scientist with a love of literature, an industrialist who managed to remain an idealist. He made a for... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 In 1669 Newton became professor of mathematics at Cambridge. Three years later he joined the Royal Society. The Royal Society was a group of learned men from all branches of science. Before long Newton began again to study the problems of motion. He... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 Most of you, no doubt, know the story of Newton and the falling apple and how it led to his discovery of the law of gravity. But how much do you know beyond that? Do you know what kind of man this great scientist was? or where he stands in the histo... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 ONE of the greatest contributors to the first Oxford English Dictionary was also one of its most unusual. In 1879, Oxford University in England asked Prof. James Murray to serve as editor for what was to be the most ambitious dictionary in the histo... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 Nancy Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1912. The family moved to Australia in 1914 and after being educated in Sydney she travelled to Europe where she worked as a journalist. In Nazi Germany she saw the rise of Adolf Hitler and Anti-Sem... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-09-30 True or false? Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. Would you be surprised to know both answers could be right? Many historians say, yes. Others, no. Lets look at some facts about this amazing Revolutionary lady and see what you think. Elizabet... 阅读全文>> 日期：2009-04-16 四年一度的美国总统大选（presidential election）经过长时间的竞选活动（election campaign）之后终于以巴拉克奥巴马（Barack Obama）创造了历史宣告尘埃落定。媒体争先恐后予以铺天盖地的报道。在此期间，一些与美国总统大选相关的词汇成为高频词汇，如果我们利用这... 阅读全文>> 日期：2007-08-09 ... 阅读全文>> 日期：2007-08-09 ... 阅读全文>> |
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