two women—Anna E. Guerin of France and Moina Michael of Georgia. Together they sold artificial poppies to benefit children left orphaned by the War, and by 1922, the poppy was adopted as the official memorial flower of the VFW. The Friday before Memorial Day was designated as Poppy Day. ...
When my teammate and I met to discuss our project, I was uneasy. Here was this challenging student who had a reputation for single-mindedness and good grades — the exact opposite of me. I actually wanted to drop the class at one point, but stoppe...
aSome believe it may have been a refuge for an Inca ruler, others that it was a religious sanctuary. It's all part of the attraction for the nearly million tourists who visit the mountain-top citadel every year. 一些相信它也许是一个避难所为印加人统治者,其他它是一个宗教圣所。 它是吸引...
The red poppy (or ‘Remembrance poppy’) came about after the First World War and has been worn at the relevant time each year to this day in commemoration of the British military that have died in action. As I was taught from a very early age, the wearing of a poppy was inspired by...
In the war-torn battlefields of Europe, the common red field poppy(Papaver rhoeas)was one of the first plants to reappear. Its seeds scattered in the wind and sat dormant in the ground, only germinating when the ground was disturbed—as it was by the very brutal fighting of World War 1...
BURNING THE POPPY I choked back my tears, as I pondered the rhyme On 11/11, at just the right time, In my home town square, where the wreaths had been laid And the mayor wore his chain, and the Last Post was played. “For their tomorrow we gave our today.” ...
Paragraph 2: One day I got word that he was admitted to hospital for a serious disease. 参考范文1 We started to meet regularly to draw up our plans. At first, it seemed that he dominated our discussion for he was familiar with the topic, but I was the opposite(与原文衔接自然). Howev...
35. “I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel alone.”– Robin Williams 36. “I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to di...
But, as I knew it would, the end did come. And there in the grande finale, the only thing that was left for me to do was revel in glory and the satisfaction of having a finished pair of socks. Yarn: Tanis Blue Label in Poppy and Sand Pattern: Lumberjacks For more Friday knitting...
libgomp the OpenMP implementation of gcc). This is probably still the case under some circumstances (e.g. data size) for Apple Accelerate although it seems to depend on the versions. The first time we observed the issue was on OSX 10.7. We (@cournapeand I) reported the bug and Apple ...