12-year-old expert brings top encyclopaedia to book A Schoolboy with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest - the fifteenth - edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Lucian George, 12, a pupil at...
a great friendship 伟大的友谊_英语故事 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776.Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From...
Germany Reclaims Einstein as Their Hero 德国重封爱因斯坦为国家英雄 Germany reclaims Einstein as their hero Germany reclaims Einstein as their hero Suffering from an acute lack of heroes after losing two world wars, Germany has reclaimed...
The Life of the Greatest Comedy Artist -- Charlie Chaplin To a failure, hardship is an excuse；To a success, hardship is great fortune. Stagestruck Charlie Chaplin plodding all the way. Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London. Her fathe...
Napoleon 'tried to learn English' 拿破仑流放期间曾热衷于学习英语 Napoleon Bonaparte was keen to learn English while in exile, documents shown in Britain for the first time reveal. The deposed French emperor apparently wanted to learn t...
Living History-希拉里回忆心路历程《亲历历史》一路畅销 Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton says that she's still not quite sure why her memoirs, Living History, sold so well. In a four-page afterword to the paperback edition, which comes ou...
President Putin dresses up to play war games 俄总统普京戎装上阵体验远程轰炸和导弹发射 Russian President Vladimir Putin sits inside the Tupolev-160 strategic bomber jet at the Moscow's Chkalovsky military airport (AFP) President Vl...
In Atlantic City大西洋城惊魂 On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of quarters at a slot machine(老虎机，一种赌具）. She took a break from the slots for dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room. But firs...
Blair Admits Never Having Sent Flowers to His Wife British Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted on a television programme that he has never sent flowers to his wife Cherie and that he had a youthful crush on Hollywood beauty Grace Kelly. Blair, who all...
WHATEVER LOVE MEANS DIANA Although neither or them remembered the occasion, Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby. It happened during the winter of 1961, when twelve-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, was visiting his mothers Sa...
