In the conflict between Cronus and Jupiter, Prometheus had adopted the cause of the Olympian deities. To him and his brother Epimetheus was now commit...
Some arguments are not easy to settle. For example, many people say Rebecca and Abigail Bates were real heroes of the War of 1812. Others think that&r...
I curiously watched my grandmother open the yellowing paper packet with painstaking care. When she untied the knots, a cluster of strange, shriveled o...
Can you bear it? The famous teddy bear is more than 100 years old, and got its name from a United States president. In 1902, President Theodore Teddy&...
Long, long ago there lived far away in India a woodcutter（伐木工，樵夫） called Subha Datta and his family, who were all very happy together. The father went...
In 1999, Ryan Hreljac (hurl-jack) and Jimmy Akana became pen pals（笔友）. They lived on two continents, thousands of miles apart. Their lives could not h...
Three old men were sitting on the wall of Kilmilik Pier码头，桥墩 with their backs to the sea and their faces to the village and the sun. Suddenly there wa...
There is a story of a thief who satisfied the material needs of his family by stealing money from unsuspecting travelers. When he realized that what h...
Novelist Sinclair Lewis was supposed to deliver an hour-long lecture to a group of college students who planned to be writers. Lewis opened his talk w...
There was once a farmer. His land was hilly多坡的，丘陵的; the soil was not the best. He had a cow that wasn't giving much milk; he had chickens who were...