Around 200 BCE, the Han dynasty in China produced the first-ever compass. What did the first compass look like? Fashioned into the shape of a spoon or ladle, the lodestone sat upon a flat, square-shaped plate made of bronze, which served as a representation of Earth. In the center of...
Never did I ask you to move it. Remember: your task was to push. Look at yourself—your arms are strong; your back is shiny and brown; your hands are callused(使生茧)from constant pressure. Your abilities nowsurpasswhat you used to have. It is true that you haven’t moved the ...
1 stayed at home 2 went to New York City 3 visited my uncle 4 went to summer camp 5 went to the mountains 6 went to the beach 7 visited the museums f b g d c a e Pairwork A:Grace,where did you go on vacation? B:I went to New York City. A:Oh,really? Did you go with ...
The Internet has opened up a whole new online world for us to meet, chat and go where we’ve never been before. But just as in face to face communication, there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when on line. 【1】 Imagine how you’d feel if you were in the othe...
The Internet has opened up a whole new online world for us to meet, chat and go where we’ve never been before. But just as in face to face communication, there are some rules of behavior that should be followed when on line. 【1】 Imagine how you’d feel if you were in the othe...
How might a Resource Based Economy playout, if it ever did? Tuesday, 2020 December 15James O'Neill66704 Commentson How might a Resource Based Economy playout, if it ever did? OK, so the moment happened and the world magically said “Yes, Let’s do this RBE thing! Engage!” Now what...
a有时间就发邮件给我吧! Has the time to send the mail to me![translate] a他经常使我发笑。 He causes me to laugh frequently.[translate] aA compass is a kind of discrimination orientation to simple instruments. Compass squirming to Europe in sailing after big discoveries plays out irreplaceable...
took the Political Compass test again here on 29 Apr 2024 to see where I stand with my politics. I cannot imagine it has changed too much, hoping that I am closer to the left-hand side, than when I have taken it before: My Political Tests 2019. My 2024 Political Compass It looks [...
(South West Africa, now Namibia). I did not understand some of it. At the time I did not know why. My Afrikaans-speaking associates, Chantel Oosthuysen and Nelia, who joined the project in 2000 and 2001 respectively, described the Ngwatle Afrikaans dialect as being of their grandparents’...
I find myself today at the 1 year mark of moving in with my boyfriend, Brian and setting off on the journey of being a working artist.I was never a painter in college but, it made sense to take a small palette of watercolor paints with me on my bicycle trip in 2016.I did some ...