21. What is found out about American seniors? A. Most of them have good habits. B. Nearly 30% of them bathe three days a week. C. All of them are fighting germs better than expected. D. About one third of them brush their teeth only once a day. 22. Doctors suggest that people ...
“America is Suffering from an Outbreak of Psychology.” Those words were written in 1924 by Stephen Leacock, Canada’s Mark Twain. Leacock wrote in the March issue of Harper’s Magazine: In the earlier days this science was kept strictly confined to the colleges … It had no particular con...
throughout the Renaissance(文艺复兴).Despite some differences in vocabulary, the written material from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible(英王詹姆士钦定版《圣经》), is considered to be in Modern English. ...
Do you know that: if you die tomorrow, the 57 you are working for could easily replace you in a matter of days. But the family you leave 58 will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into our 59 than into our families--- ...
I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away...
DiedMay 15, 1906b. 1825 American soldier. He started the tradition of playing Taps at military funerals. In early July 1862, a cannoneer of Tidball's Battery A, 2nd U.S. Artillery, was killed in action. Tidball wished to bury him with full military honors, but was afraid the traditio...
Some of the party’s first rallies were held to coincide with April 15, 2009 because April 15 is Tax Day, or the day in which individual income taxes must be paid to the US federal government. Politics doesn’t seem like such a grand ol’ place these days, does it? But it is ...
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it would likely be weighing two candidates from clearly opposing parties this time around — and the two-party division in the House today is readily apparent. As a result, it’s very difficult to imagine any Democrat or Republican deciding to vote for the o...
The cost of the project was an estimated five million dollars, an enormous amount for those days. There was some on-again-off-again Federal funding, but the War of 1812 put an end to this. In 1817 DeWitt Clinton was elected Governor of New York and persuaded the state to finance and ...