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Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light,...
(普遍存在的) folk art was born; the showing of one’s latest pictures and the creation of family albums became popular social pastimes. Camera clubs and associations numbered their members in the millions. One amateur was the French novelist Emile Zola, who took innumerable photographs of his ...
Just as Sun Yat-sen never expected to see the birth of a Red regime in China, nor did Stalin believe the Chinese Communists could one day seize power. His hopes for the Chinese revolution rested with the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek. Stalin favored Chiang because he was convinced that Chiang ...
In 1819, Babbage visited the City of Light and viewed the unpublished manuscript with page after page of tables. If only, he wondered, there was a way to produce such tables faster, with less manpower and fewer mistakes. He thought of the many marvels generated by the Industrial Revolution...
A June survey by the Levada Center, an independent pollster, found Navalny was Russia’s second most “inspirational” politician, after the president. Article content If the strategy is successful, Guriev says, Navalny could help bring to power politicians from within the...
While the singer took questions from the crowd, actress Emma Thompson asked Adele if she had a supporter or protector in the past. "I had a teacher at [south London high school] Chestnut Grove, who taught me English. That was Miss McDonald," Adel...
Since Nadella took charge, the company has been engineering a stunning turnaround of its own. He has taken a company focused on personal computing but showing promise in its enterprise andcloud-computing businesses, and turned that equation on its head. In the past three years Microsoft sheared...
"He loved adventure and fun," says Mlodinow, who once took Hawking on a punt-boat trip down the River Cam in Cambridge, England, despite the obvious danger of the boat turning over. "You know about when he went on the Vomit Comet? It's a plane that flies in a parabolic ( 抛物线 ...