[阅读理解] In America,the number of people killed in car crashes in 2016 was above 40,000 for the first time in a decade,data released on Wednesday shows.“Americans believe there is nothing we can do to stop cras
Magnets are always bipolar: one pole attracts and the other repels or drives away. The Cold War arms race was bipolar, since it mainly involved the opposing powers of the United States and Russia. Evolutionism and creationism are bipolar views on the history of life, the two major opposing b...
First Holy Communionis a right-of-passage ceremony in the Roman Catholic Church where a seven-year-old is initiated into eating the body of Jesus Christ. I learned the elements of the Catholic service, the Mass, with my classmates in the second grade. The priest transforms the bread into J...
In 1983 a presidential entourage of as many as 17 high-ranking Korean officials was killed in Myanmar by North Korean agents. North Korea kidnapped several Japanese citizens in the past and still keeps them in the North. For Japan, this is a major hang-up in its relations with North Korea...
Tory sympathizers like the Scottish Rite in 1801 began efforts to return the colonies to English control which soon manifested in the War of 1812 and later, the Civil War. In the Civil War, Britain was not neutral, it was a key supplier of arms whom flaunted the arms embargo imposed by...
Most researchers agree that vaccines will be the only effective way to control a virus that has killed 28 million people and infected 42 million more worldwide. D. Two dozen other vaccines are being tested on 12,000 human volunteers, but none has advanced as far as VaxGen’s, and ...
Michael Swangowas a physician who admitted killing 4 of his patients, but some believe he killed as many as 60 patients. He's serving 4 consecutive life sentences. Dr. John Bodkin Adamshad more than 160 of his patients die of suspicious causes—132 of whom had put Dr. Adams in their wi...
Wasn't the cops who killed the Mayor. He would have died soon anyway. When the 'parasite' died ( upon being crunched by Paul's fists ) it secreted an acid which would have eaten away at the Mayor's nervous system. Everyone is relieved to hear this, which seems odd, especially in ...
The 124th lost all of their field officers, and four company grade officers, with one in three of the men either wounded or killed. A sidebar describes the life story of Col. Ellis, and an epilogue describes how he and another officer were returned to their families as well as a ...
It commemorates the death of Heyward Shepherd, a free Black man killed in John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859. Although Shepherd was not a slave, his memory was used by white politicians and the white press to justify slavery by claiming Shepherd "was ...