Married by arrangement at 13, Gandhi went to London to study law when he was 18. He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and for a while practiced law in B...
As a boy growing up in Shenyang, China, I practiced the piano six hours a day. I loved the instrument. My mother, Xiu-lan Zhou, taught me to read note...
I started winning competitions. We still had very little money -- my father had to borrow $5,000 to pay for a trip to the International Young Pianists...
Like a lot of college freshmen, Sean Belnick has a job. He works for a company that brings in more than $20 million dollars a year. But Belnick is not...
Mark Twain was a famous American writer. He wrote many stories and many of them were funny stories. These stories are still read by many people all ov...
当拳王阿里点燃亚特兰大奥运会的火炬时，他知道自己并没有被帕金森症打败。一直照顾他的妻子朗尼·阿里说：谁能想到他是一个与病魔战斗的人呢？现在人们可以了解到他最真实的一面了。即使不开口讲话，他仍然拥有激励人心的力量。”Love doesn't stop when a p...
Marjorie Baer used to joke about her retirement plans. She wasn't married and had no kids, but she didn't intend to be alone—she and all...
Most people often dream at night. When they wake in the morning they say to themselves, What a strange dream I had! I wonder what made me dream that.&...
"Super Dan", as top-seeded Lin Dan of China is better known in the badminton（羽毛球） world, had his Olympic dream come true after claiming the ...
THE LIFE and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity（朦胧，阴暗） . Sardis, the capital of Lydia...