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Life of Aesop
THE LIFE and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity（朦朧，陰暗） . Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient co
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A letter from E.B. White
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Andrew Carnegie
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Sigmund Freud and the dreams
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Love story of 'Super Dan'
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最真實的拳王阿里
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On her own, but not alone
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Teen Entrepreneurs
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A Famous Story of Mark Twain
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A Prodigy's Early Years
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
When Fortune Spots You
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
A Hard Lesson
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Mahatma Gandhi
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 f
Abraham Lincoln—a great reader
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Confucius
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Sir Winston Churchill
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The life of Isaac Newton (II)
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 Newto
Alfred Nobel — A man of contrasts
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The mystery of the famous word collector
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
The life of Isaac Newton (I)
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 gre
Betsy Ross: First Flag Maker?
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Nancy Wake: the “White Mouse”
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 Germ
羅迪·道爾 RoddyDoyle
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奧巴馬大出風頭 民主黨東山再起
四年一度的美國總統大選（presidential election）經過長時間的競選活動（election campaign）之后終于以巴拉克•奧巴馬（Barack Obama）創造了歷史宣告塵埃落定。媒體爭先恐后予以鋪天蓋地的報道。在此期間，一些與美國總
瓦爾特·馬可肯生平簡介及作品
Walter Macken， the famous novelist， playwright and actor， was born in Galway in 1915. He first began to write at the age of eight. He joined the Taibhdhearc in 1934， while still attending school. It was t
"酷"變冷的時候
When Cool Goes Cold "酷"變冷的時候副題：Nike was a marketing MVP. But with its image, brand and business under fire, a company and a CEO with a sense of mission are suddenly reeling. 耐克曾是銷售業的
