The story was about an old fisherman who had been fighting for a long time to catch a huge marlin(枪鱼).The old man went fishing every day but he hadn't caught a fish for eighty-four days. In the first forty days,there was a boy with him. The old man taught the boy to fish....
Although progress was made in our industry, and some foreign capital entered China—for instance, the concessions in Shanghai, Tianjin’s industry, and Wuhan’s military industry—China as a whole was an impoverished, backward, and war-torn country, falling way behind. This situation remained fo...
Rife with clever wordplay and a dexterous combination of styles, Chuck Berry's first major hit single was a rock 'n' roll revolution in the making. While the lyrics weren't necessarily subversive, Berry's skin color and influential sound were enough to generate a degree of controversy. Mainst...
Rife with clever wordplay and a dexterous combination of styles, Chuck Berry's first major hit single was a rock 'n' roll revolution in the making. While the lyrics weren't necessarily subversive, Berry's skin color and influential sound were enough to generate a degree of controversy. Mainst...
however, was recognized in 1952, when he was offered the presidency of Israel. He declined, saying he was too naive in politics. But perhaps his real reason was different:" Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."...
"I feel that the destroyer of peace today is abortion," she said, and then she told them why, in uncompromising term. For about I. 3 seconds there was complete silence, then applause built and swept across the room. But not everyone: the President and the First Lady, the Vice ...
In 1952 Colonel Harland Sanders opened the first KFC restaurant in Utah. Since then, his perfectly crafted Original Recipe chicken and its secret recipe of 11 herbs and spices has become famous all over the world, and today we have 950 restaurants across South Africa. The Colonel was all abou...
During the Vietnam War era, it was resurrected as an ode to pacifism. 1945: 'Atomic Cocktail' Gilles Petard/Redferns // Getty Images 1945: 'Atomic Cocktail' - Artist: Slim Gaillard Quartette The world's first nuclear weapons were tested and deployed in 1945, paving the way for horrific ...
The air bag is a piece of safety equipment in cars. It was first designed by John W. Hetrick in 1952. Like many inventions, he came up with the idea as a result of an event that had occurred in his life. He says: “In the spring of 1952, my wife, my seven-year-old daughter,...
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