In many countries it has long been the tradition to hold an annual tree or forest festival. The origin of such celebrations dates back to antiquity and is in the dawn of religious feeling and awe for what trees represented. However, Arbor Day, as it...
-The meaning of many different customs observed during Easter Sunday have been buried with time. Their origins lie in pre-Christian religions and Christianity. All in some way or another are a salute to spring, marking re-birth. The white Easter lily...
-Mardi Gras is a traditional holiday celebrated in many of the southern states of the USA. The most famous celebration takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. The people there enjoy this celebration by going to parades where they catch beads, doubloon...
-The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Y...
It was December, 1955, and Martin Luther King, Jr. had just received his doctorate degree in theology（神学）. He had moved to Montgomery（ 蒙哥马利）, Alabama to preach at a Baptist church. He saw there, as in many other southern states, t...
The second Monday of January is Coming-of-Age Day, a national holiday to encourage those who have newly entered adulthood to become self-reliant members of society. The holiday used to be on January 15, but in 2000 it was moved to the second Monday o...
Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon（新月）on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon（满月）15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival（元宵节）, which is celebrated at night with la...
Buried for nearly 3,600 years, a rare statue of Egypt's King Neferhotep I has been brought to light in the ruins of Thebes by a team of French archaeologists. Officials said on Saturday that the statue was unusual in that the king is depicted holding...
Miss Canada Natalie Glebova was crowned Miss Universe 2005 in Bangkok on Tuesday at the climax of a beauty pageant that once again managed to stumble into controversy. Glebova, a 23-year-old motivational speaker from Toronto, succeeded last year's wi...
The Colosseum or Flavian Amphitheater was begun by Vespasian, inaugurated by Titus in 80 A.D. and completed by Domitian. Located on marshy land between the Esquiline and Caelian Hills, it was the first permanent amphitheater to be built in Rome. Its...
The University of Cambridge is one of the oldest universities in the world, and one of the largest in the United Kingdom. It has a world-wide reputation for outstanding academic achievement and the high quality of research undertaken in a wide range...
Greek Gift(s)直译是希腊人的礼物，出自荷马史诗《奥德赛》以及古罗马杰出诗人维吉尔（Publius Virgilius Maro,公元前70-前19年）的史诗《伊尼特》（Aeneis）中关于特洛伊城陷落经过的叙述。 据《奥...
潘多拉是希腊神话中第一个尘世女子。普罗米修斯（Prometheus）盗天火给人间后，主神宙斯（Zeus）为惩罚人类，命令神用黏土塑成一个年轻美貌、虚伪狡诈的姑娘，取名潘多拉（Pandora），意为...
To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley雪莱 致云雀 Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. H...
四六级阅读占考试的比重很大，很多考友也为阅读烦恼不已，该怎么办呢？两个字：多看！ 所以，从今天开始，每天会节选一些文章和大家一起阅读。 今...
