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Fashions change year after year so lots of people can make piles of money. If folks are convinced that they need a different look each season, that this year's sweater's length and shoes style are imp...

It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) history,six times more deadly than the Titanic.When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarin...

Three English dictionaries published recently all lay claim to possessing a ne w” feature. The BBC English Dictionary contains background information on 1,000 people and places prominent in the ...

After the violent earthquake that shook Los Angeles in 1994, earthqua ke scientists had good news to report: the damage and death toll could have been much worse. More than 60 people died in this eart...

People have been painting pictures for at least 30,000 years. The earliest pictures were painted by people who hunted animals. They used to paint pictures of the animals they wanted to catch and kill....

As the merchant class expanded in the eighteenthcentury North American Colonies, the silversmith and the coppersmith businesses rose to serve it. Only a few silversmiths were available in New York ...

Before the mid 1860's, the impact of the railroads in the United States was limited, in the sense that the tracks ended at this Missouri River, approximately the center of the country. At the point th...

Health Minister Nicola Roxon’s latest proposal that patients be allocated to doctors on a listbasis is straight out of the playbook of Britain’s National Health Service.Let’s think a...

The European Commission said on Thursday it would toughen the regulation of medical devicesas a result of concerns raised by breast implants produced by the defunct French companyPIP, even as a scient...

The simple act of surrendering a telephone number to a store clerk may not seem harmful--so much so that many consumers do it with no questions asked. Yet that one action can set in motion a cascade o...