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(astronomy) Of or pertaining to an apogalacticon

HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play jazz music by a young saxophonist, Hailey Niswanger And answer a question about the history of blue jeans ... But first, we tell about one company's pla

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Galactic Rotation 银河系自转 Astronomers calculate there is ten times more matter in our Milky Way galaxy than we can actually see. Discover how the orbital motions of stars in the galaxy reveal dark matter -- on today's Earth and Sky. JB: I'm Joel

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By Greg Flakus Houston 02 August 2007 Officials in Minneapolis are preparing for more sad news as recovery efforts go forward on the Mississippi River, where a major bridge collapsed Wednesday. There are only four confirmed deaths from the incident,

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Virgin Galactic Completes Test of Spaceship to Carry Tourists Virgin Galactic says its spacecraft designed to launch tourists into space completed an important test flight on Thursday. The rocket ship, called SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity, climbed more than

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By Daniel Schearf Singapore 20 September 2006 World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz speaks during annual meetings in Singapore The annual meeting of the World Bank andInternational Monetary Fund has ended after two days of discussions in Singapore, wi

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By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 19 July 2007 Kenya's attorney general acknowledged Thursday that his country has seen what he called an astronomical proliferation of light weapons such as assault rifles and pistols. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the

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Pope Benedict XVI waves to faithful during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's square at The Vatican, 17 Mar 2010 Pope Benedict has written to Catholics in Ireland to apologize for the sexual abuses carried out by the clergy in that country ov

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The first man to set foot on the moon has hailed the space race of the 1950s and '60s as an example of peaceful competition between rival superpowers. Legendary U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke at Washington's Air and Space Museum Sunday on the e

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The super bright quasar phase having ended many billions of years ago, when the fuel that fires violent emissions was completely consumed. But now, with the approaching gas cloud and a prospect of feeding, the black hole should get brighter. Exactly

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Tekapo is a special place. This small town has a big observatory at Mount John, 1000m above the town. It has six telescopes including New Zealands biggest telescope with a diameter of 1.8m, built with Japanese money. The observatory is operated by th

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In April 1970, Apollo 13 was scheduled to land on the moon in NASA's bid to further explore the lunar surface. Instead, an in-flight explosion rocked the spacecraft, preventing astronauts Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise from landing on the m

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ROME, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Napoli proved unstoppable at home in the Champions League when they beat Chelsea 3-1 at home in the first leg of the final 16 tie on Tuesday. Chelsea took the lead in the 27th minute through Juan Mata, and then Napoli respon

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U.S. authorities have charged a Pakistani-born U.S. citizen with terrorism related charges in connection to the failed Times Square bombing. Thirty-year-old Faisal Shahzad was charged Tuesday in a five-count complaint, one day after he was arrested w

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学英语单词
a near disaster
account division
an ace
annalter
Ansprung
anti-drug message
appreciatable
artists-in-the-schools
assimilation products
Bambara groundnut
bear -lead
binoculate
Birsk
blind drilling
bromous
brown spar
bygg
channel radius
choreopoem
coal-truck
combined creep
dampering of pulsation
deforse
destreyn
dichromium trioxide
difluorophthalic anhydride
Dukku(Duku)
E Nesbit
electron-hole plasma
endosteum
floor socket-outlet
folded dipole antenna
get the best of it
granular filter material
grecque
ground levels
height card
high speed universal lathe
high-nickel iron-base alloy
horsepower constant
Hydrangea candida
hypertonicity in the medulla
ievel
international organization of legal metrology (oiml)
IUHE
James Gillespie
job-oriented language
kitchen-diner
landed gentry
lithias
localization of chiasma
mandatory clause
mandoki
matalutin
measurable funds effect
medium term economic
Methuselah
metranoikter
multi computing unit
mursell
nanoelectromechanical system
naverage
neofeminists
nickerbocker
nitric anhydride
nuadus
Nuku Hiva
octagonal ingot
oxythiamine
particle volume
peltier coefficient
polymorphic transition
pork-pie hat
pressure seal
psutka
quick-break
rate of turn
recovery time constant
removeless
residual mechanical damage
RPA-ABB
seawater salinity
selprazine
signal modulation components
single-cross stitching machine
smooth point
soriba
statistic diameters
tackle principle
teaching stuff
tela salicylata
telle
temperature boundary layer
Treponema pallidum hemagglutination assay
Underwood Glacier
utriqueing
Venta del Charco
wadded
wave-hopped
xantopurpurin
yukigassen
zamites