希腊 -- 从古代文明到经济危机 We did bunch of shit for mankind like 10,000 years ago. Now we are bankrupt 像10000年前为人类做了那么多，现在破产了... Italy 意大利 -- 从罗马帝国到时尚名牌 We were really importan...
Books and Arts; Book Review; The cold war; Feel of history; 文艺；书评；冷战；感怀历史； The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War. By Norman Stone. 《大西洋和它的对手们：冷战史》 诺曼斯通著。 Imagine...
If you could travel back in time, what would be your destination? We put the question to a group of contributors and guests, starting with the historian Patrick Dillon ... 如果你可以回到过去，你的目的地会在哪里？我们向一些本刊...
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On 26 May 1928, at a meeting in Amsterdam, the Fifa congress decided that a new tournament open to all its members should be played. A year later in Barcelona it was agreed that Uruguay, the Olympic champions and the era's footballing superpower, sho...
Who went to school? At the start of the 19th century very few children went to school. Most poor children worked. If they went to school, their families lost the money they earned. There were some good schools, for example, grammar schools and public...
The new men's tennis rankings are out. And Raphael Nadal has a surprise surprise close the gap on world No. 1 Roger Federer. 545 points now separate the two men. The Spaniard could end the Swiss star's stay at the top place Federer has been since Fe...
For fans of fashionable neckwear for men, what's old is new again. Now Mo Rocca who follows these matters has his own ideas about that. Way back in the 1990s, freedom was ringing everywhere. Women were making huge inroads in the workplace. As for me...
060 HISTORY Words Period century age era colony (civil)war invasion treaty prehistoric evidence ancient ancestor empire leader discover(y) revolution emperor primitive artifact archaeology origin Monument/memorial Phrases Study a period of history Hi...
Israel Set for Historic Withdrawal from Gaza 以色列历史性的举动——撤出加沙 Israel's withdrawal of all 21 Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip and four small ones from the West Bank g...
