【小题3】 At first, the father refused to lend the money because ___. A.he thought the boy wanted to keep the money for himself B.he thought the boy would buy something of no use C.he did not have enough money at that moment D.the boy always borrowed the money from him【小题...
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The first bit went on-line during the time of Barak Obama. (Remember all the racial healing?) Every single event that happened, from the rising of the sun to one’s preference in breakfast cereal was attributed to racism. It was all so exhausting. I mocked it. Mockery turned out to be...
In this installment of our series on locales and PostgreSQL, we’ll talk about what can happen with the library that provides locales changes out from under a PostgreSQL database. It’s not pretty. First, more about collations Back in an earlier installment, we described a collation as a fu...
“Did you send me these? I only knew one Dave back then.” “What, there are lots of Dave’s born in the 1960s/early 70s one of the most popular names…where have you been! :)” Loutz had indeed sent the one from Japan. Loutz had also been to Thailand also, but didn’t ...
But Maria did more than destroy roads, bridges and entire towns -- it took down the island's power grid and knocked out most of the wireless networks and internet cables. In the weeks after the storm, those communications gaps severely hampered relief efforts. Without the...
At first Mr. Zhang enjoyed himself there. He could do everything he wanted and went wherever he liked. Nobody disturbed him and knocked at the door at midnight. But on the fourth day he was in trouble. After lunch it was very hot. He went swimming in the river. Suddenly he saw a ...
On Christmas Eve 1914, in the dank, muddy trenches on the Western Front of the first world war, a remarkable thing happened. It came to be called the Christmas Truce. And it remains one of the most storied and strangest moments of the Great War—or of any war in history. British mac...
a slow process. I’m taking a workshop on how to make this work in early December and hope to be really cooking right after the first of the year. Far any readers who don’t follow me (come on-you know you want to) I leave you with gratitude for walking down the road with me....
And while it’s not clear that he and his court could fully grasp what the British wanted (and likely would have refused in any case), he was willing to (and did) bend on this particular point. Unfortunately, during the second British embassy to the Imperial Court, it appears that the...