The Sound of Music is coming home 《音乐之声》重回奥地利 The original stage production of The Sound of Music is to be performed for the first time in the Austrian capital, 40 years after the film was released. The first full-scale theatric...
Spotlight on Copenhagen Are you too old for fairy tales? If you think so, Copenhagen is sure to change your mind. See the city first from the water. In the harbor sits Demark's best known landmark--the Little Mermaid. Remember her? She left the world...
Stay Thin By Sleeping More A study published Monday found that people who sleep less tend to be fat, and experts said it's time find if more sleep will fight obesity. We've put so much emphasis on diet and exercise that we've failed to recognize the...
Help foreign guests at formal dinner With the Spring Festival just round the corner, your mouth might already be watering at the thought of the coming banquet. 春节就要到了。节日里自然少不了聚餐。一想到宴会上的美食，你是不...
Hints For Those That Would Be Rich The Use of Money is all the Advantage there is in having Money. For ￡6 a Year you may have the Use of ￡100 if you are a Man of known Prudence and Honesty. He that spends a Grout a day idly, spends idly above ￡...
The World as I See It My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a lone traveler and have ne...
Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklins life is full of charming stories which all young men should know----how he peddled ballads in Boston, and stood, the guest of kings, in Europe; how he worked his passage as a stowaway to Philadelphia, and rode in...
The Gettysburg Address Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing...
We thought we knew the English language, having even translated a whole book from English into Russian when we were in Siberia. I had learnt English in prison from a teach-yourself book, but had never heard a word of its spoken. Now that we were in L...
Balzac as handwriting Expert Balzac, the famous French writer, was a man of great talent. But he himself was proud of his ability to tell a persons character by his or her handwriting. He often told his friends that he could tell anybodys character e...
