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Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was the greatest British statesman of modern times. During his long, colorful public career he was a member of parli...

Confucius, the greatest teacher in the history of China, was born in 551 B.C. He began to devote himself to serious studies and made up his mind to be...

Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a sci...

In 1669 Newton became professor of mathematics at Cambridge. Three years later he joined the Royal Society. The Royal Society was a group of learned m...

Most of you, no doubt, know the story of Newton and the falling apple and how it led to his discovery of the law of gravity. But how much do you know ...

ONE of the greatest contributors to the first Oxford English Dictionary was also one of its most unusual. In 1879, Oxford University in England asked ...

Nancy Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1912. The family moved to Australia in 1914 and after being educated in Sydney she travelled to Eur...

True or false? Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. Would you be surprised to know both answers could be right? Many historians say, yes. Others,...

四年一度的美国总统大选（presidential election）经过长时间的竞选活动（election campaign）之后终于以巴拉克•奥巴马（Barack Obama）创造了历史宣告尘埃落定。媒体争先恐后予以铺天盖地的报道。在此期间，一些与美国总统大选相关的词汇成为高频词汇，如果...

Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin in 1958. He attended St. Fintan's Christian Brothers School in Sutton and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and con...