I am dancing with my father at my parents fiftieth wedding anniversary. The band is playing an old-fashioned waltz as we move gracefully across the floor. His hand on my waist is as guiding as it always was, and he hums the tune to himself in a stea...
18 Hotel California On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air Up ahead in the distance, I saw a 1)shimmering light My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim I had to stop for the night There she st...
17 No More Silent Spring Rachel Carson was a scientist and a bird watcher. She noticed, in the late '50s, the gradual disappearance of some birds, and linked it to our use of 1)pesticides. She wrote a book about her fear that 2)robins would sing no...
16 At Home in the Savanna My name is Dopal. Im eleven years old and I live in 1)Tanzania, in the heart of the African 2)savanna. Im a Masai. Masais are 3)nomads who travel all over with their animals, looking for 4)pasture. Our most wonderful and va...
15 Beijing- An Olympic Dream Comes True (1)Beijings Four Rivals In Asia, the city of Osaka represents the candidature of Japan, which successfully set up for last winter games in Nagano. Japan also hosted the summer games in Tokyo in 1964. Competing...
14 The Richest Town in America Wheres the richest town in America? WORTH magazine 1)unveiled its 6th annual list out of the 250 richest towns and the most valuable homes, and the winner is Jupiter Island, Florida, 30 miles north of West Palm Beach o...
13 I Am America Im Illinois, the 24th largest state, and the 21st to be admitted to the Union in 1817. There are two sides to me. First, Im farmland, rolling hills and small country towns. And then, Im a city, not my capital city of Springfield, tho...
12 WHEN LOVE WAS THE ADVENTURE On a cold January morning in 1936, George V was given a kings burial. Following his coffin was his eldest son, the handsome, much loved, Prince of Wales. He was about to be proclaimed the next king of England. He was t...
11 Romance Behind Gone With The Wind In 1938, Photo Play Magazine listed Gable and 1)Lombard among Hollywoods unmarried husbands and wives, along with Gilbert Roland and Constance Spinet and Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwick. The 2)revelation threa...
10 The Lion King (Mufasa, the lion king is telling Simba, his son, an important rule of life.) Mufasa: Look, Simba, everything the light touches is our kingdom. Simba: Wow! Mufasa: A kings time as ruler rises and falls like the sun. One day, Simba,...
