11月1日是西方的传统节日万圣节，在这一天总少不了南瓜、幽灵、女巫和黑猫这些元素。在西方文化中，黑猫通常与厄运、邪恶联系在一起，关于黑猫的迷信说法有许多，比如：It is bad luck for a black cat to cross your path黑猫在面前穿过是不吉利的Never tur...
科学研究表明，我们一出生就会微笑。不经意间露出笑容时，我们在想些什么？虽然刚出生时还没有复杂的意识，但一个浅浅的微笑，仿佛已将我们和世间美好联系在一起。在这个万物欣欣向荣的日子里，我们迎来了让人心情倍儿棒的世界微笑日（World Smile Day）。世界微笑日由世界精神卫生联盟（World Fed...
Today's Highlight in History: Twenty years ago, on February 22nd, 1980, the United States Olympic hockey（冰球，曲棍球） team upset（颠覆，扰乱） the Soviets at ...
Today's Highlight in History: On February 21st, 1965, former Black Muslim leader Malcolm X, 39, was shot to death in New York by assassins（刺客） ide...
Carson McCullers, Carl Van Vechten, photographer, July 31, 1959.Creative Americans: Portraits（画像，肖像） by Van Vechten, 1932-1964Novelist Carson McCuller...
Today's Highlight in History: On February 18th, 1861, Jefferson Davis was sworn in as president of the Confederate States of America（美利坚联盟国） in Mo...
Today's Highlight in History: On February 17th, 1801, the House of Representatives broke an electoral（选举的） tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron ...
Today's Highlight in History: On February 16th, 1862, during the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenness...
Today's Highlight in History: On February 15th, 1898, the US battleship（战舰） "Maine" mysteriously blew up（爆炸） in Havana Harbor, killing m...
Today's Highlight in History: On February 14th, 1920, the League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago; its first president was Maude Wood Park. ...