Imagine you could travel back to the 1930s and tell Michael Cullen what supermarkets are like today. Try to write him a letter. Dear Mr Cullen, I am a student from the 21st century. I am glad to know that you opened the first supermarket in the US. I want to share with you what ...
725.One medical text from the fourth century suggested using the extract from sweet wormwood to treat a fever. 一本四世纪的医学文献建议采用青蒿提取物来治疗发烧。 726.Tu’s team tested a collection of dried wormwood le...
Made from string covered with leather or cotton sacks stuffed with rags, the balls were easier on the hand. The late 19th century saw baseball made by machine and standardized across the United States to be lighter and harder, and they were capable of hurting a catcher's hands. 37 ...
Men’s 1930s fashion is often considered the finest men’s fashion in the past century – and for good reason. The 1930s were a turbulent decade where the free-spirited, reckless, youthful “me” class of the roaring twenties was replaced by serious, masculine, working-class men who had ...
Although Snow was not the only international journalist (4) to set(set) foot in China during the early decades of the 20th century,what set him apart (5) from the others was that he actually spent time with the Chinese Red Army.He listened to (6)...
The history of this iconic(符号的) garment reflects the rise of the modernChinese women in the twentieth century.In 1920s, the cheongsam flourished in Shanghai. It quickly became the regular outfit ofurban women in metropolitan cities. Through the 1930s and 1940s the cheongsam continued to...
By 1945, newspapers had declined to their lowest and continued to drop further alongside continued consolidation efforts into the 1970’s. While daily circulation declined, chains and printing expenses grew. The closer we got to the turn of the century and the digital age, readership dropped ...
I'd like to close with a quote from Mark Twain. More than a century ago, he was looking back on his life,and he wrote this: "There isn't time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, calling...
Another factor was the Great Migration that began at the turn of the century and lasted well into the 1930s. It was a movement of more than 1 million Blacks who left the rural communities in the Southern U.S. and, and moved to, to the cities, many of them in the North, like Chica...
By the 1960s the raccoon had become a major predator of the canvasback ducks nesting in southwestern Manitoba.The extermination of the wolf from most of the contiguous United States may have been a critical factor in the raccoon's expansion and numerical increase. In the eighteenth century, ...