Born: 15 March 1779 at Melbourne House, Piccadilly, London First entered Parliament: 31 January 1806 Age he became PM: 55 years, 123 days and 56 years and 34 days Maiden speech: 19 December 1806 in the reply to the King's speech Total time as PM: Six year...

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Biography of Karl Marx 卡尔马克思 全世界无产阶级的伟大导师和领袖，马克思主义的创始人。 英汉对照 Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5th, 1818 in the city of Trier, Germany to a comfortable middle-class, Jewish family. His father, a lawyer and ardent supporter of Enlightenment lib...

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Michael Dell's Two-Billion-Dollar Dream One afternoon in 1977, as his parents and two brothers fished in the Gulf of Mexico, 12-year-old Michael Dell sat on the beach, painstakingly putting together a trotline, a maze of ropes to which several fish hooks ...

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英汉对照 Widowed queen's devotion to manservant and grief at his death revealed by letter in which she tells of 'so warm and loving a friendship'. Ben Fenton reports The extent of Queen Victoria's love for John Brown, her Highland manservant, is revealed in a...

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Frederic Francois Chopin Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish-born composer and renowned pianist, was the creator of 55 mazurkas, 13 polonaises, 24 preludes, 27 etudes, 19 nocturnes, 4 ballads, and 4 scherzos. Frederic Chopin was born in Zelazowa Wola, Poland...

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Nowadays, auto-flush motion sensor toilets are in schools, airports, hotels, and tourist spots around the world. But do you know who invented this modern convenience? The answer may surprise you. It was Teng Hung-Chi of Nantou, Taiwan, who was only 19 whe...

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Born: 5 February 1788 in Bury, Lancashire First entered Parliament: 15 April 1809 Age he became PM: 46 years, 308 days and 53 years, 206 days Maiden speech: 23 January 1810 seconding the reply to the King's Speech at the opening of Parliament Total time a...

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Drew Barrymore Barbara Walters: You went into 1)rehab. Those were difficult times? Drew Barrymore: Yeah, that was 2)tough. Its hard when youre young to go through something so 3)scary, but its strange cause I think, a part of me could become so 4)bitter f...

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a great friendship Thomas Jefferson and James Madison met in 1776.Could it have been any other year? They worked together starting then to further American Revolution and later to shape the new scheme of government. From the work sprang a friendship perha...

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Bill Gates receives honorary knighthood Gates' royal honor - bestowed by the queen on the advice of the government - was announced in January 2004, but a mutually convenient date to receive it had not been available until now. British recipients of knight...

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