By Lauren Comiteau Amsterdam 19 February 2008 The Taliban's destruction of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan in March 2001 was the most dramatic expression of their mission to obliterate all idolatrous images from Afghanistan's pre-Islamic past. Along wit

发表于:2019-01-03 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA常速英语2008年(二月)

By Paul Burge London 05 May 2008 An exhibition is opening at the Imperial War Museum in London, marking the centenary of the birth of writer Ian Fleming, the man who created the world's most famous secret agent, James Bond. Paul Burge has the story o

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Tomorrow New York's American Museum of Natural History opens an exhibit designed to provide insight into dinosaur lifestyles. The exhibit showcases new discoveries , many of them from China. They include feathered dinosaurs and an ancestor of T-rex.

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Most histories of African Americans at sea focus on slave ships, which transported their human cargo from Africa to the United States or other parts of the world. But a new exhibit in the port city of Philadelphia expands that story to reveal the su

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By Chris Simkins Washington, DC 08 February 2008 February is National Black History Month in the United States - an annual celebration that promotes and highlights the positive accomplishments made by people of African descent. VOA Correspondent Chri

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By Zulima Palacio Washington 08 November 2007 The American University Museum in Washington. D.C. is hosting an exhibit (through December 30, 2007) that depicts the abuse of prisoners by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The exhibit by C

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