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Today, July is nearly over Let's travel back into time : the year is... 1965 : President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law In December 1945, Truman had been the first president to propose national health insurance : at the time, the...
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(1) Sometimes... we really don't know how to pronounce an unknown English word ! > > > " PRONOUNCE" is an interesting "add-on" (= a tool you can add onto Firefox) which gets you to hear the word pronunciation : > select the unknown word > right-click...
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A baby's staring at us... ... while the voice of a black man starts listing the various situations when his skin does not change colour. Sometimes publicity targeting have no commercial goal... And it happens to show smart adverts like this one : it was...
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Do you remember the parody of "The Matrix" ? Here is another parody : unlike the futuristic background of "The Meatrix", in this animation the scene is set in present times. Chances are you will recognize the film which inspired the animation below :o)...
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BREATHINGEARTH.NET As soon as you click on > > > BREATHINGEARTH the simulation starts. You can visualise people's birth and death rates all over the world.. The simulation also shows the carbon dioxyde emissions of every country in the world. You have...
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Visualising can help you understand educational programmes better... >>> The BBC has created a splendid TIMELINE illustrating BRITISH HISTORY , from the Neolithic until nowadays. Photo by Marcin Wichary - licence CC BY On the BBC Timeline , you can browse...
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On July 22, in... - 1588 : > > > The SPANISH ARMADA (an invasion fleet sent by Philip II of Spain) is sighted off the coast of Cornwall. - 1969 : US astronaut Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon, stepping down from Apollo 11. How much...
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The BBC Radio Homepage presents a series of channels that will help you improve both pronunciation and fluency > > > BBC International RADIO There, you can get INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS : the BBC World Service (news in English), BBC news in Russian, Arabic,...
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Guess you have all heard of this American TV series dealing with Wisteria Lane neighbourhood... We know about Lynette and her five "lovely" kids, Gabrielle's never-ending love & hate story with Carlos, and Bree's freezing smile... Not to mention Susan's...
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