It is the most recognizable landmark of California, a suspension bridge that connects San Francisco Bay and Marin country of North California, between golden gate strait in the State. The bridge is three miles in length and about one mile in width. The golden gate bridge opened in the year ...
The MPLA, founded in 1956, merged two nationalist organizations and was centred in the country’s capital city of Luanda. From 1962 it was led by Agostinho Neto, who eventually became Angola’s first president. It fought the Portuguese for the independence of Angola in cooperation, but often...
But the Swiss government has ___ that 90 percent of the country’s remaining 1,500 glaciers will ___ by the end of the century ___ nothing is done to cut man-made pollution emissions. Davms said he has had to ___ increase the size of the blankets over the glacier in recent year...
BEIJING, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Before entering Harbin Ice-Snow World, a landmark theme park in the capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, my friend said to me that it maybe impossible for me to try the iconic giant slide, with an obvious infusion of regret audible in her vo...
In 1955 he recorded some songs for his mother’s birthday. The people at the recording studio liked his singing and his music. It was country and western music, but it also sounded a little like the music which black people used to sing in the American South. It was called “blues”....
He was an official war artist in World War II and his war-time depictions of bomb damaged churches and landmarks, most notably those of Coventry Cathedral, made Piper a household name and led to his work being acquired by several public collections. Piper collaborated with many others, ...
One of the "best" bars on the list is Tierney's Tavern in Montclair, NJ. Tierney's Tavern, The Sopranos" once filmed here in Montclair. From it's wooden architect and secret-menu burgers has established itself as North Jersey's "Cheers", according to usatoday.com....
After almost 20 years of digging into the lives, stories and worlds of thousands of people, Conversations continues as the ABC's most popular podcast, providing Australians with a social history of our country and paying close attention to the small, personal details that make up a life. The...
Alasdair Gray (born 28 December 1934) is a Scottish writer and artist. His acclaimed first novel, Lanark (1981), written over almost 30 years, was described by The Guardian as "one of the landmarks of 20th-century fiction." Poor Things (1992) won him a Whitbread Novel Award...
( ) 1.This passage talks mainly about ___. A.why cars were very important B.when light was invented C.how inventions affect people's daily life 1 / 14 word D.which country made the first step into space ( ) 2.According to the passage man didn't have a desire to ex...