S***n
发帖数: 2932 | 1 我对维特根斯坦一直不太感冒。不过昨天看了个8g，太特么神／牛了。。。看完很虚幻。
书作者，就像这里被评价的有点夸张。
不过一战、二战之间的奥匈帝国／奥地利確是很有趣。
顺便再隆重推荐一下，我成年以后唯一记得有印象的长篇小说，奥地利作者robert
musil 的《the man without quantities》（中译：没有个性的人）。
ps，维特根斯坦弟弟paul wittengenstein的故事里，我偶像Prokofiev还友情出演了。
。。
为什么没有我偶像maurice ravel呢？呃，以前就听说paul介个左手刚擎家，当时还想
ludwig witetngenstein他弟很牛阿，看prokofiev的评价，凡事都抗不住有钱。。。
有点点长。。。的文:
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/016_01/3520
Sniveling Rivalry
On April 27, 1951, a few days before he died of cancer, Ludwig Wittgenstein
completed one of his ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8966 | 2 10个breed里我喜欢6个……
不知道给狗加上“dangerous”的tag会造成多大的影响？
在哈尔滨，我知道，GR也是危险的……
狗狗们，小心，人类最危险！！！
Dangerous Dog Breeds
Any dog can be dangerous in the right situation. Even otherwise apparently-
tame dogs will defend themselves if provoked. However, based on objective
data, there appear to be certain breeds that are more dangerous than others.
The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention ("CDC") gathered
data about dog attack fatalities occurring in the United States over an
eighteen-year perio... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 30080 | 3 呵呵，这个俺知道，开个玩笑。
奥斯丁不光是最爱欢迎的英语作家之一，而且在学术界也有很高的地位。可惜诺贝尔奖
只发给在世的人，她的成就又只在她死后才被承认，不然是很可能得奖的。
以下根据WIKI，
During Austen's lifetime, because she chose to publish anonymously, her
works brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews.
Through the mid-nineteenth century, her novels were admired only by members
of the literary elite. However, the publication of her nephew's A Memoir of
Jane Austen in 1869 introduced her to a wider public as an appealing
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发帖数: 1574 | 4 这里有非常详细的资料。每条资料都有确切出处。有些（如Temple lot case)是Joseph Smith多个妻子在法庭上的供词。有些则来自摩门教自己的资料或档案记录。
Q: Did Joseph Smith Obey the Commandment and Have Sex with His Wives?
A: Yes.
Compton writes:
"Because of claims by Reorganized Latter-day Saints that Joseph was not
really married polygamously in the full (i.e., sexual) sense of the term, Utah Mormons (including Joseph's wives) affirmed repeatedly that Joseph had physical sexual relations with his plural wives-despite the Victorian conventions in nineteenth-c... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38403 | 5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artifacts_significant_to_t
10-line ritual cup (c. 1 AD) - 2,000-year-old limestone cup with 10 lines of
Aramaic or Hebrew script found near the Zion Gate of the Old City of
Jerusalem. Found by U.S. archaeologists; Shimon Gibson of the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte stated that "To have 10 lines of text is
unprecedented..." They know it contains the Hebrew word for God indicating
it was probably important to the priests who used it in rituals.[3]
Am... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1433 | 6 Please read about the history of romance_love to find out whose earth is
flat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_%28love%29
The more current and Western traditional terminology meaning "court as lover
" or the general idea of "romantic love" is believed to have originated in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, primarily from that of
the French culture.
is |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 7 Melanie Kirkpatrick, A Mixed Welcome; For Chinese-Americans, a long road to
acceptance—even to public schooling. Wall Street Journal, Sept. 15, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703946504575470252150532876.html
(book review on Mae Ngai, The Lucky Ones; One Family and The Extraordinary
Invention of Chinese America. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2010))
Note:
(a) Some people surnamed 魏 in Hong Kong has the family spelled Ngai. Though
well versed in Cantonese, I am clueless.
(b) I pre |
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发帖数: 6973 | 8 Steven Pinker, Violence Vanquished. We believe our world is riddled with
terror and war, but we may be living in teh most peaceful era in human
existence. Why brutality is declining and empathy is on the rise. Wall
Street Journal, Sept 24, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311
1904106704576583203589408180.html
(an essay adapted from his book, The better Angels of Our Nature: Why
violence has declined. Viking, 2011)
My comment:
(a) pax is Latin for peace.
(i) Pax Romana
http://en.wi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 77 | 9 Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sense of self and politics
had their foundation in a spiritual consciousness that
defined her posture as a radical humanist toward many
of the most controversial issues of the nineteenth century.
She supported the cause of abolition in the United States,
child welfare in Britain,and unification in Italy out of
a belief in democracy as an expression of the equality and
dignity every human being deserves as a child of God. Her
feminism,expressed in the verse noval Auro |
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发帖数: 761 | 10 http://bigthink.com/book-think/what-are-the-best-poems-of-the-p
What Are the Best Poems of the Past 25 Years?
Austin Allen on July 24, 2012, 12:30 AM
In 2006 the New York Times asked a select group of literary sages: “What’s
the best work of American fiction of the last 25 years?” The results of
the poll stirred chatter, passions, and healthy controversy. Toni Morrison’
s Beloved emerged as the voters' favorite, followed by Don DeLillo’s
Underworld, Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, and John Upd... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19049 | 11 单看《云图》小说简介，颇为难懂，如“盗梦空间”一般。时间跨度1000年，六张云图
分别记录了发生在南太平洋、比利时、美国、英国等地的六个故事，但故事环环相扣：
第一个故事为1850年前后，太平洋，罹患寄生虫病的美国公证人亚当从查塔姆群岛乘船
回国，航行途中目睹震惊场面；而第二个故事则是在1931年的比利时，身无分文的英国
年轻作曲家罗伯特在大师门下经历着爱恨情仇；1975年，美国加州，小报记者路伊萨顶
着巨大危险调查核电站工程中的腐败和雇凶杀人；21世纪初，英国，被黑道追杀的出版
人卡文迪什被软禁在一家养老院中，苦不堪言；反乌托邦时代的未来，内索国，宋记餐
厅克隆人服务员星美451反抗着缔造和剥削克隆人群体的社会；后末日未来，夏威夷，
失去父亲的牧羊少年扎克里与高科技文明幸存者不期而遇……故事中，六位主人公看似
是同一灵魂的化身，却又被印上截然不同的胎记，六段揭露人类本性的故事构成了一幅
绚丽无比的云图，“欲望”的重罪吞噬了整个人类的灵魂。
参演男星雨果·维文透露，自己将在影片《云图》中一人分饰六角，其他的演员如
汤姆汉克斯、苏珊·萨兰登等也将一人分饰多角，贝瑞扮演第三个故事中的女记者... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 759 | 12 CHAP. 5.--OF THE SOCIAL LIFE, WHICH, THOUGH MOST DESIRABLE,
IS FREQUENTLY DISTURBED BY MANY DISTRESSES.
We give a much more unlimited approval to their idea that
the life of the wise man must be social. For how could the
city of God (concerning which we are
already writing no less than the nineteenth book of this
work either take a beginning or be developed, or attain its
proper destiny, if the life of the saints were not a
social life? But who can enumerate all the great grievances
with which h |
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x*****u
发帖数: 3419 | 13 A Very Short History of Bad Writing
Now, anyone familiar with the history of English prose might wonder
whether anything we do here will substantially improve its future. Since
the earliest times, many writers have graced us with much good writing.
But others have afflicted us with much that is bad. Some of the reasons for
the bad writing are rooted in history, others in personal experience.
In the last seven hundred years, English writers have responded to
three influence... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4956 | 14 改革宗（加爾文主義）神學的歷史
HISTORY OF CALVINISM:
The Historical Development of Calvinism and Reformed Churches,
Including A List of Who's Who in Reformed Theology
十六世紀The Sixteenth Century
1. 約翰。加爾文John Calvin (1509 - 1564)
2. 加爾文神學所到的國家The Countries where Calvinism developed (16th
century
)
法國France (Huegenots)
荷蘭Netherlands (改革宗The Reformed)
德國，瑞士Germany / Switzerland (Beza - 改革宗The Reformed)
蘇格蘭Scotland (John Knox - 長老會 Presbyterians)
英格蘭England (清教徒﹕公理會The Puritans: Congregationalists)
愛爾蘭Ir... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3781 | 15 Arminius And His Teachings
There was nothing in Arminius to suggest revenge against one's enemies or th
e use of violence, much less the death sentence for heresy. He stood uncompr
omisingly for sound doctrine and believed in the infallibility and inerrancy
of the Bible as inspired by God. He rejected the Mass as a denial of "the t
ruth and excellence of the sacrifice of Christ." 4 He joined in calling the
pope "the adulterer and pimp of the Church, the false prophet ... the enemy
of God. . . th... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 38403 | 16 【 以下文字转载自 Belief 讨论区 】
发信人: leonana (leonany), 信区: Belief
标 题: Re: list of 和圣经有关的古物
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Aug 22 21:21:07 2011, 美东)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artifacts_significant_to_t
10-line ritual cup (c. 1 AD) - 2,000-year-old limestone cup with 10 lines of
Aramaic or Hebrew script found near the Zion Gate of the Old City of
Jerusalem. Found by U.S. archaeologists; Shimon Gibson of the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte stated that "To have 10 lines of text is
unprecedented.... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o
发帖数: 3781 | 17 Choice And Human Responsibility
Frederic Farrar has rightly said, what God commands "must be in the power of
the will, since ability is the measurement of obligation." 5 G. Campbell Mo
rgan stated firmly, "We cannot study this Bible without being brought face t
o face with personal responsibility ... when the voice of God speaks, man's
will is free to obey or to disobey." 6
Kenneth Foreman said, "If there is anything the Bible shows it is that God d
oes hold men responsible for their actions. Go... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6300 | 19 看看这个，看来Stephen Jay Gould反对Darwin's theory --
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2007/06/lessons_learned_from_haeck
Lessons Learned from Haeckel and His Drawings: We Shouldn't Always Believe
What the "Leading Experts" Tell Us about Evolution
The late Stephen Jay Gould was one of the most prominent and enthusiastic
cheerleaders of biological evolution during the later decades of the
Twentieth Century.
......
Gould described Haeckel as the "primary enthusiast and popularizer" of
Darwin's theory of evolut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2192 | 20 ABSTRACT
Neuropsychological research on the neural basis of behavior generally posits
that brain
mechanisms will ultimately suffice to explain all psychologically described
phenomena.
This assumption stems from the idea that the brain is made up entirely of
material
particles and fields, and that all causal mechanisms relevant to
neuroscience can therefore
be formulated solely in terms of properties of these elements. Thus terms
having intrinsic
mentalistic and/or experiential content (e.g., "fe... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 33185 | 21 1. The idea of zombies
Descartes held that non-human animals are automata: their behavior is
explicable wholly in terms of physical mechanisms. He explored the idea of a
machine which looked and behaved like a human being. Knowing only
seventeenth century technology, he thought two things would unmask such a
machine: it could not use language creatively rather than producing
stereotyped responses, and it could not produce appropriate non-verbal
behavior in arbitrarily various situations (Discour... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 244 | 22 The Wild Swans at Coole
W.B. Yeats
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
The woodland paths are dry,
Under the October twilight the water
Mirrors a still sky;
Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine and fifty swans.
The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me
Since I first made my count;
I saw, before I had well finished,
All suddenly mount
And scatter wheeling in great broken rings
Upon their clamorous wings.
I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,
And now my heart is sore.
All's cha |
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S***n
发帖数: 2932 | 23 【 以下文字转载自 Memory 讨论区 】
发信人: Swann (我蛮夷也), 信区: Memory
标 题: 8g Wittengenstein,一家子牛人／神人
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 17 15:39:08 2011, 美东)
我对维特根斯坦一直不太感冒。不过昨天看了个8g，太特么神／牛了。。。看完很虚幻。
书作者，就像这里被评价的有点夸张。
不过一战、二战之间的奥匈帝国／奥地利確是很有趣。
顺便再隆重推荐一下，我成年以后唯一记得有印象的长篇小说，奥地利作者robert
musil 的《the man without quantities》（中译：没有个性的人）。
ps，维特根斯坦弟弟paul wittengenstein的故事里，我偶像Prokofiev还友情出演了。
。。
为什么没有我偶像maurice ravel呢？呃，以前就听说paul介个左手刚擎家，当时还想
ludwig witetngenstein他弟很牛阿，看prokofiev的评价，凡事都抗不住有钱。。。
有点点长。。。的文:
http://www.bookforum.com/inp... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****7
发帖数: 8463 | 24 http://www.nature.com/news/the-unsung-heroes-of-crispr-1.20272?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews
The unsung heroes of CRISPR
The soaring popularity of gene editing has made celebrities of the principal
investigators who pioneered the field — but their graduate students and
postdocs are often overlooked.
Heidi Ledford20 July 2016
When Blake Wiedenheft started studying microbes, his work was both remote
and obscure.
He spent his PhD sampling hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, then
created artificial ... 阅读全帖 |
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t*****e
发帖数: 224 | 25 Part 2
II. The Later Marxism
Marx worked out his system of theory in the main during the third quarter of
the nineteenth century. He came to the work from the standpoint given him by
his early training in German thought, such as the most advanced and aggressive
German thinking was through the middle period of the century, and he added to
this German standpoint the further premises given him by an exceptionally
close contact with and alert observation of the English situation. The result
is that |
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t*****e
发帖数: 224 | 26 Part 2
II. The Later Marxism
Marx worked out his system of theory in the main during the third quarter of
the nineteenth century. He came to the work from the standpoint given him by
his early training in German thought, such as the most advanced and aggressive
German thinking was through the middle period of the century, and he added to
this German standpoint the further premises given him by an exceptionally
close contact with and alert observation of the English situation. The result
is that |
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发帖数: 2959 | 27 BERKELEY – The most interesting moment at a recent conference held in
Bretton Woods, New Hampshire – site of the 1945 conference that created
today’s global economic architecture – came when Financial Times columnist
Martin Wolf quizzed former United States Treasury Secretary Larry Summers,
President Barack Obama’s ex-assistant for economic policy. "[Doesn’t] what
has happened in the past few years,” Wolf asked, “simply suggest that [
academic] economists did not understand what was going on?”
H... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 114 | 28 The first polymers used were all obtained from natural products. Natural ru
bber from the Hevea trees was being used by the American Indians when Columb
us arrived in 1492. Cellulose in different forms, starch and collagen in lea
ther are other examples of native polymers. Modification of native polymers
started in the mid-nineteenth century and the first wholly synthetic polymer
was made in the beginning of the 20th century. The science of polymers bega
n in the 1920s.
The development of polyme |
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发帖数: 632 | 29 The Siegel theta function is implemented in Mathematica as SiegelTheta[Omega
, s].
This function was investigated by many of the luminaries of nineteenth
century mathematics, Riemann, Weierstrass, Frobenius, Poincaré. Umemura has
expressed the roots of an arbitrary polynomial in terms of Siegel theta
functions (Mumford 1984).
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SiegelThetaFunction.html
the |
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发帖数: 9065 | 30 难道这里就没有人看过The Lady Tasting Tea这本书吗？作者是David Salsburg， 在
前言里面有一段论述...Typical of this cultural lag is the exchange between
Emperor Napoleon and Pierre Simon Laplace in the early years of the
nineteenth century. Laplace had written a monumental and definitive book
describing how to compute the future positions of planets and comets on the
basis of a few observations from Earth. "I find no mention of God in your
treaties, M. Laplace," Napoleon is reported to have said. "I had no need for
that hypoth |
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A*******s
发帖数: 9638 | 31 Read this：
Warning Third Parties
Any physician who diagnoses a contagious disease has a duty to counsel the patient about the communicability of the disease and to ensure that any other persons at risk are warned. This duty has been clear and explicit in the laws of this country since the nineteenth century. This duty can be discharged directly, by warning the exposed individuals, or indirectly, by reporting the disease to public health officials or by counseling the patient to warn persons at r... 阅读全帖 |
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A*******s
发帖数: 9638 | 32 Read this：
Warning Third Parties
Any physician who diagnoses a contagious disease has a duty to counsel the patient about the communicability of the disease and to ensure that any other persons at risk are warned. This duty has been clear and explicit in the laws of this country since the nineteenth century. This duty can be discharged directly, by warning the exposed individuals, or indirectly, by reporting the disease to public health officials or by counseling the patient to warn persons at r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24893 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 StephenKing 俱乐部 】
发信人: StephenKing (金博士), 信区: StephenKing
标 题: 不系安全带，John Nash今天车祸死了
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun May 24 11:17:59 2015, 美东)
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Born June 13, 1928
Bluefield, West Virginia, U.S.
Died May 23, 2015 (aged 86) [1]
Residence United States
Nationality American
Fields
Mathematics
Economics
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Princeton University
Alma mater
Princeton University
Carnegie Institute of Te... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 25533 | 34 5. Waiting for “Superman”
Director: Davis Guggenheim
In a year that gave us three major documentary features about the glaring
need for educational reform in America, Davis Guggenheim’s Waiting for “
Superman” presents the most unavoidably compelling argument. In one of the
biggest eye-openers, he shows that housing a man in prison (where inner city
high school dropouts are statistically likely to wind up) costs three times
as much per year as sending them (as kids) to even the most exclusive
pr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 60932 | 35 Link:
http://rugspakings.com/promotion.htm
Thought this was kinda cool since it is free.
Mousepad:
Approximate Size: 7" x 10"
Description:
The Freud is a splendid Qashqa'i Shekarlu rug covers the most famous piece
of furniture in the world, Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic couch. The
brilliantly coloured rug was made by one of the nomadic tribes of the Qashqa
'i confederacy in Persia in the nineteenth century. Freud's patients
reclined on this rug recounting their memories, dreams and fantasies.
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发帖数: 9197 | 36 "As an example, if a gamble has a 60% chance of winning (p = 0.60, q = 0.40)
, but the gambler receives 1-to-1 odds on a winning bet (b = 1), then the
gambler should bet 20% of the bankroll at each opportunity (f* = 0.20), in
order to maximize the long-run growth rate of the bankroll.
If the gambler has zero edge, i.e. if b = q/p, then the criterion will
usually recommend the gambler bets nothing (although in more complex
scenarios such a bet may help ensure the best compounding rate of return:
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发帖数: 5516 | 37 Sir Karl Raimund Popper, CH FRS[1] FBA (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994)
was an Austro-British[2] philosopher and a professor at the London School of
Economics.[3] He is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of science
of the 20th century;[4][5] he also wrote extensively on social and
political philosophy.
Popper is known for his attempt to repudiate the classical observationalist
/ inductivist form of scientific method in favour of empirical falsification
. He is also known for his oppo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2252 | 38 Clearwire Reports Selected Preliminary Third Quarter 2011 Results
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Clearwire-Reports-Selected-pz-195
Bellevue, Wash., Oct. 13, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Clearwire Corporation (
NASDAQ: CLWR - News), a leading provider of 4G wireless broadband services
in the U.S., today reported selected preliminary financial and operating
results for the third quarter 2011, in advance of a presentation by Hope
Cochran, Clearwire's CFO, at the Deutsche Bank Nineteenth Annual Leveraged... 阅读全帖 |
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x*****u
发帖数: 3419 | 39 【 以下文字转载自 Translation 讨论区 】
发信人: xiaozhu (此君), 信区: Translation
标 题: A Very Short History of Bad Writing z
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Aug 14 15:01:00 2011, 美东)
A Very Short History of Bad Writing
===================================
Now, anyone familiar with the history of English prose might wonder
whether anything we do here will substantially improve its future. Since
the earliest times, many writers have graced us with much good writing.
But others have afflicted us with much that is b... 阅读全帖 |
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H****s
发帖数: 1130 | 40 Perfume（香水）
Perfumes consist of a man-made mixture of aromatic chemicals and essential
Oils. Up until the nineteenth century all perfumes were composed of natural
aromatic Oils. Modern perfumes are almost synthetic and may contain up to 300
different elements in its blend. At the present time Natural pure perfumes
you can find are very rare (see Dr. Emerald Pure Natural Beauty Products) and
they contains no synthetic ingredients. Perfumes usually have an alcoholic base
and up to 30% concentratio |
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发帖数: 615 | 41 Comma Johanneum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search
Christianity Portal
The Comma Johanneum is a comma (a short clause) known since the 4th century[
1] and contained in most translations of the First Epistle of John published
from 1522 until the latter part of the nineteenth century, owing to the
widespread use of the third edition of the Textus Receptus (TR) as the sole
source for translation. In translations containing the clause, such as the
King James Versio |
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发帖数: 2074 | 42 Beyond doubt there was a self-serving element in such
criticisms;
the rebel clans, and especially the radicals within them,
wanted a
share of power for themselves, and they saw foreign policy
as the
most obvious chink in the Tokugawa's armor. But the west had
brought not only a principal cause of friction between the
domains
and the Tokugawa, but also the means of resolving it. The
sophisticated
weaponry available in the mid-nineteenth century made a
nonsense of
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