l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 1 Their husbands have run some of the most brutal regimes of the Arab world.
But who are the women who stand by the dictators?
In December 2010, the French first lady Carla Bruni sat down to lunch under
the gold chandeliers of the Elysée palace with Asma al-Assad, wife of the
Syrian leader Bashar. As they sat demurely with their husbands around a
butterfly-print tablecloth dominated by a pastel flower-arrangement, a
photographer was ushered in to grab a picture for French celebrity magazines
. Aft... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 2 The Truth About Dorner: Leftism Is Violence
February 10th, 2013 - 4:09 pm
There’s nothing for me to add to the great work already done by
SooperMexican, Mediaite, Michelle Malkin, Sean Hannity and others critiquing
the media coverage of alleged mad dog cop-killer Christopher Jordan Dorner.
The media has been dishonest in trying to cover up Dorner’s left-wing
views. They’ve been beyond hypocritical in drawing no link between Dorner’
s acts and his politics — after they have repeatedly tried to li... 阅读全帖 |
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S**C
发帖数: 2964 | 3 You are talking about me? TGT currently on many value metrics is below its
historical average vs. SP500, save P/B....but so are most retailers.
Comparing TGT to WMT, the other dividend aristocrat, WMT is a lot cheaper,
15-20% cheaper by my estimation. WMT's Q1 ER is coming tomorrow, I am
licking my chops. |
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发帖数: 8307 | 4 The plutocrats and aristocrats cannot fight God. |
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发帖数: 38600 | 5 Israel, good riddance! The US should treat Israel just like any other
terrorist state: economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation. Two "special"
relationships I've personally never bought into are the ones with Israel (
apartheid, fascist, hypocritical, etc) and Great Britain (imperialistic,
cruel, monarchical, aristocratic). Of course both "societies" cloak
themselves in progressive rhetoric but this is, as already stated, just spin
and hypocrisy. Israel will never dismantle the illegal settle... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 6 We have a tsunami on the way!
This is the genesis of social dysfunction.
This is the genesis of social malfunction.
And malfunction is what happens when dysfunction has become so badly that
you are talking about self-destruction here.
So anything that helps people thrive, allow people greater access to their
creativity and productivity that’s where money comes from we are following.
We need to throw away bad economic ideas that are holdovers from the 20th
century. Money is not produced by a bunc... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 7 We have a tsunami on the way!
This is the genesis of social dysfunction.
This is the genesis of social malfunction.
And malfunction is what happens when dysfunction has become so badly that
you are talking about self-destruction here.
So anything that helps people thrive, allow people greater access to their
creativity and productivity that’s where money comes from we are following.
We need to throw away bad economic ideas that are holdovers from the 20th
century. Money is not produced by a bunc... 阅读全帖 |
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a**********t
发帖数: 9684 | 8 Those are white trash British, such as the immigrants to Australia, they
were all descendents of prisoners in London
Royal blood and aristocrats are still OK |
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s***q
发帖数: 10585 | 9 只要是一辆车，都能找到一大堆歧义
ACURA
Always Catching Up, Rarely Ahead
Asia's Curse Upon Rural America
A Car Usually Rarely Appreciates
AMC
Always Made Crap
Autos May Combust
AUDI
Accelerates Under Demonic Influence
Always Unsafe Designs Implemented
Always Under Diagnostic Inspection
Always Upside-down, Double Interest
Another Understated Dealer Incentive
A Used Dodge Incognito
BMW
Bob Marley and the Wailers
Beautiful Mechanical Wonder
Beautiful Models Wanted
Bavarian Manure Wagon
Biggest Metal Waste
Big Money... 阅读全帖 |
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d*****r
发帖数: 273 | 11 标普500股息经典(The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats)指数由具有以下特征的股票构
成：
* 是当前标普500(the S&P 500)指数成员
* 股息至少连续增长了25年。
标普500股息经典指数是真正能衡量蓝筹公司业绩的指数。鉴于在过去25年中，有几次
经济衰退和战争，只有出类拔萃的蓝筹公司才能上这个指数。只有具有强大的竞争优势
的公司才有能力保持股息连续增长这么长时间。
在过去的几年里，标普500股息经典指数的总回报连续高于标普500指数。下表和图显示
了截止到2010年12月31日的这两个指数的比较：
2011年的标普500股息经典指数包括下列42种股票：
* 3M Co – (MMM)
* AFLAC Inc – (AFL)
* Abbott Laboratories – (ABT)
* Air Products & Chemicals Inc – (APD)
* Archer-Daniels-Midland Co – (ADM)
* Automatic Data Processi... 阅读全帖 |
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n**********y
发帖数: 30 | 12 朋友换工作遇到两个option一时不知道怎么取舍，帮他上来发帖问问大牛们：
Option A：一个叫Aristocrat Technologies的做老虎机的公司，在Vegas，各位有听说
过这家公司的么？公司人文环境咋样？
Option B：一个叫Constellium的欧洲公司，最近好像财务状况不是很好，另外
location在南方乡村（不是开玩笑的乡村，确实in the middle of nowhere）
$上面B比A要多给15%
帮人家发帖问问，望各位懂行的不吝赐教，谢谢！ |
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M*********s
发帖数: 1086 | 13 看了下你找的amazon沙发的说明：
“A modern take on a classic shape with ruffling, tufting, and buttons, the
Aristocrat series comes in either black or white leather or silver
leatherette with wood legs.”
和那个Rh的比， 差得还真是太多了。
外表材料‘leatherette’， 就压根不是真皮。说wood legs， 但没说是不是硬木，更
没说frame是不是木头，是不是特别干燥加工的硬木， - 而frame是沙发最重要的部分
。另外也没提是不是有钢筋托和弹簧， 以及垫子里面是什么填充物。
在看Rh的这款：
-Kiln-dried hardwood frame
-Upholstered in supple, hand-finished leather
-Leather develops a burnished patina over time
-Pocket-coil spring suspension
-Wit... 阅读全帖 |
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d*******e
发帖数: 72 | 14 高分红知名大企业股票 (dividend aristocrats) |
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C*******7
发帖数: 71 | 15 来自主题: NextGeneration版 - 来说说美剧吧 BBC有很多迷你剧超级赞的
在这儿挺多了美语，换伦敦音听也挺开心的
推荐一个Aristocrats，一共6集，人人影视做的中英文字幕非常棒 |
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k*****r
发帖数: 14 | 16 我的行程安排:
11/5 ,和LD一起飞到ALBANY,然后开车去OTTAWA
11/6, 签证.
11/7-8 如果签证过的话MONTREAL,QUEBEC纨绔.
之所以选择开车过去是因为我有一些SOUTHWEST的免费机票,(我平均一周出差一次,所以
FREE飞机票很快就来了.)再说万一被巨,开车也比较容易混进来.
事先在HOTWIRE上订的旅馆. ARISTOCRAT SUITE HOTEL,旅馆就在OTTAWA CITY HALL后面,步行到
使馆需要20分钟. 50美刀一夜,设施还可以,只可惜地毯太脏,窗帘关不紧.第二天CHECK OUT
时还让我吃了一惊,收了我22加币停车费,真是气不打一处来,头一着住店还要收停车
费.强烈建议不要住这家.(HOTWIRE上50刀三星级OTTAWA DOWNTOWN的就是他了).
两点出发,飞机晚点了近三小时,到ALBANY时已经是晚上十点了,我是在ORBITZ上租的THRIFTY
的车,30刀一天, INTERMEDIATE SIZE.结果给了我一辆SUV,开着真爽,可就是GAS SUCKER.满
满一缸油跑不到三百MILE.本来准备走8 |
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发帖数: 160 | 17 Do you want to beat the market? Can you beat the market?
这是一个龟兔赛跑的故事。故事的主人公姓氏不详，职业不详，年幼时家境一般，母亲
两次离婚，是个穷教师，八十年代退休时年薪两万多，本人常春藤文科毕业，座驾2006
Toyota Camry,端的是猛男一枚也！我们姑且叫他百恩厚 （buy and hold - so what
）?. 老百今年芳龄59 (so what?)，投资股市44年（hmm...),而且盈利 （really？）
坐拥千万 (wow!)
老百是怎么做到的呢？
他在14岁时开始做 newspaper boy, 赚了人生第一桶金，碰巧 Warren Buffett 也好像
是从 newspaper boy 起步（我希望大家不要会错意，明天早上开始给邻居送报纸）。
Anyway老百70年开始入市，买了 Philip Morris,74年买了 Exxon，这期间他还买了
Abbott Labs，其后还买了其他一些公司。不过上帝造人有时不当心也会出错，忘了给
老百一根卖股票的基因，他到现在还没有卖过一股股票！！！
他... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 160 | 18 股市在all time high,所以几乎没有价格低的，非常可以理解。
你可以google一下 dividend aristocrat, 这些都是SP500的dividend growth 的佼佼
者，c查一查过去几十年的股票历史，都是翻了多少番的。而且股息年年增长。我能看
到还算低的，ADM,AFL,HCP,HP.不过股市如果真有correction, 可能什么都跌。如果真
有气魄，手里握现金等大跌。
DIS |
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E***r
发帖数: 1037 | 19 FYI, dividend Ex-dates of Dow's aristocrats
11/8 BA ~$1 (2.3% TTM)
11/17 MMM $1.11 (2.6%)
11/16 CVX $1.08 (4.1%)
11/18 JNJ $0.80 (2.7%)
11/18 XOM $0.75 (3.5%)
11/29 KO $0.35 (3.3%)
11/29 MCD $0.94 (3.2%)
要在ex-date前至少一天买进
有些可能已经部分priced in了 |
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g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 20
In the 1960s, however, Princeton made a conscious decision to change,
eventually opening its admissions to urban ethnic minorities and women. That
decision has now borne fruit. Astonishingly, the last three Supreme Court
nominees — Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — are Princeton
graduates, from the Classes of 1972, ’76, and ’81, respectively. The
appointments of these three justices to replace Protestant predecessors
turned the demographic balance of the court.
Why did the Protest... 阅读全帖 |
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g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 21
In the 1960s, however, Princeton made a conscious decision to change,
eventually opening its admissions to urban ethnic minorities and women. That
decision has now borne fruit. Astonishingly, the last three Supreme Court
nominees — Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — are Princeton
graduates, from the Classes of 1972, ’76, and ’81, respectively. The
appointments of these three justices to replace Protestant predecessors
turned the demographic balance of the court.
Why did the Protest... 阅读全帖 |
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g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 22 ......
In the 1960s, however, Princeton made a conscious decision to change,
eventually opening its admissions to urban ethnic minorities and women. That
decision has now borne fruit. Astonishingly, the last three Supreme Court
nominees — Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — are Princeton
graduates, from the Classes of 1972, ’76, and ’81, respectively. The
appointments of these three justices to replace Protestant predecessors
turned the demographic balance of the court.
Why did the P... 阅读全帖 |
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g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 23
In the 1960s, however, Princeton made a conscious decision to change,
eventually opening its admissions to urban ethnic minorities and women. That
decision has now borne fruit. Astonishingly, the last three Supreme Court
nominees — Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — are Princeton
graduates, from the Classes of 1972, ’76, and ’81, respectively. The
appointments of these three justices to replace Protestant predecessors
turned the demographic balance of the court.
Why did the Protest... 阅读全帖 |
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g******4
发帖数: 6339 | 24
"Yale, Princeton and Harvard were the great WASP universities, ..."
请想象 if 我们中国人300年前来这里，建立我们自己的大学, 招募我们的子弟, 教育
他们成为总统，国会议员.
其他种族人, 说，这不公平 .... bla, bla
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In the 1960s, however, Princeton made a conscious decision to change,
eventually opening its admissions to urban ethnic minorities and women. That
decision has now borne fruit. Astonishingly, the last three Supreme Court
nominees — Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — are Princeton
graduates, from the Classes of... 阅读全帖 |
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c******e
发帖数: 263 | 25 wiki:
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks was claimed to have African descent.[5]
[7][8] No reliable historians have supported this.[citation needed] However,
history is less clear on who his maternal grandfather was.[41] At one time,
Lincoln described him as "a Virginia planter or large farmer"[41] who had
taken advantage of a young woman, Lucy Hanks, which encounter led to the
birth of Nancy Hanks, Lincoln's mother.[41] Lincoln felt that it was from
this aristocratic grandfath... 阅读全帖 |
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t**********p
发帖数: 2672 | 26
Again, why you use statistics to explain and support your conclusion? A
correlation is a necessary but not a sufficient condition alone to make
causal inferences with reasonable confidence to make conclusion.
This is more complicate than you think, summarizing with one sentence
explain very well your strong biased against Christian, how about share with
us your negative experience or personal struggle with Christian or God?
"Again, there's quite a bit of variation from state to state, but overa... 阅读全帖 |
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T******T
发帖数: 3066 | 27 All this protection of civilian, humanitarian efforts blah blah is just a
crock of shit. The little difference between the so-called western democracy
and all those aristocratic and totalitarian states is somehow we excel at
brainwashing the public to believe that our wishes and opinion actually make
a difference. |
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b**********5
发帖数: 7881 | 28 i was just gonna say!!! there's always some "rape" scenes in his soaps. He
always plays some aristocrat or like a CEO, and the women are always poor
and no social status. and they are in love, and for some reason, they
always have some kind of misunderstanding. so he always treats her shitty
the entire show until the end. so in the middle, he would "rape" these
women a couple times...
very hot!! u should watch one of his shows during thanksgiving! will really
spice up ur sex life |
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x********i
发帖数: 905 | 29 10 Myths About Legacy Preferences in College Admissions
By Richard D. Kahlenberg
Legacy preferences, which provide a leg up in college admissions to
applicants who are the offspring of alumni, are employed at almost three-
quarters of selective research universities and virtually all elite liberal-
arts colleges. Yet legacy preferences have received relatively little public
attention, especially when compared with race-based affirmative-action
programs, which have given rise to hundreds of books... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****e
发帖数: 5133 | 30 定义一下target shooting吧，
bullseye比赛那种保证50码10发组1.5英寸散布的1911要来一把，还是用在PPC比赛有
Aristocrat三档后瞄的枪，
还是有个可调后瞄的就算target pistol了？ |
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b******8
发帖数: 253 | 31 You sure he is so charming, this wenqiang. I think he is not intellectual,
not aristocratic. No sense of culture. I will not fall for this kind of guy
in a million years. |
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f*****g
发帖数: 15860 | 32 Rounders Script
[Man Narrating] Listen, here's the thing.
If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the
table,
then you are the sucker.
Guys around here'll tell ya... you play for a living.
It's like any other job. You don't gamble. You grind it out.
Your goal is to win one big bet an hour, that's it.
Get your money in when you have the best of it, and protect it
when you don't.
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k**g
发帖数: 1558 | 33 我和老公10月底去意大利度蜜月，之前看了很多穷游上的介绍，了解了许多重要信息，我们也整理了一些东西，写了这么个半是游记半是攻略的帖子，希望能够给将要出行的朋友一点小小的提示。
我们行程：10月15日纽约出发16日到罗马，20日罗马租车去锡耶纳，21日锡耶纳开车到
佛罗伦萨，24日佛罗伦萨坐火车到威尼斯，26日威尼斯回纽约。
***吃***
Rome
我们到罗马后第一餐去了穷游上推荐的L'archetto, 在威尼斯广场（Piazza Venezia）
边上的小巷子里, Via dell'Archetto 26。最好7：30pm之前到，因为饭店很popular，
我们吃到一半的时候外面就排起了长队。我们按推荐点了2份pasta的拼盘（Assaggino
），自己选了2种口味，服务生推荐了第三种口味，都很棒。还点了0.25升house wine
(red)，再加一份蔬菜（自助的）和一份panna cotta。一共40多欧。客人太多了，服务
生都忙不过来，所以点菜上菜结账都比较慢，但是东西好吃也不贵。
威尼斯广场走上去有个平台，平台上有个café，可以俯瞰罗马城。我们在那里买了熏
肉和sal... 阅读全帖 |
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n********r
发帖数: 84 | 34 People, he is speaking the purest of all Englishs (if I can use the plural
form here counting all the variants) and the most aristocratic version of all,
as opposed to that used by the London Taxi drivers or miners, say. It even
has a name, Queen's or King's English, depending on the gender of the monarch
on the throne at the time, or Oxford English. Have you ever listened to BBC or
watched James Bond 007? That's the English they use. It's spoken by the
educated elite. Bear in mind the English i |
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s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 35 It may be useful to loot at the history of fashion. Before the 18th century
there were simply no fashion in Europe. The styles and colors of clothes are
defined by the social status of the people who wear them. French revolution
and the subsequent industrial revolution gave rise to two things in the
19th century: a bourgeois class that is wealthy enough to seek beauty beyond
utility, and shops that produce ready to wear clothes which are of
comparable quality to those of tailor made ones but at ... 阅读全帖 |
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i*******e
发帖数: 6275 | 36 打击下：
给你找的：
Callery is a general classification. Bradford, Cleveland, Aristocrat, and
all the others are cultivars of Callery. Although it is possible to graft a
fruiting pear to a Callery roostock, why would you want to?
Callery pears have been widely planted as decorative specimens all over the
country, and are numerous in Virginia, where they fall down and drop limbs
all the time due to their weak branch structure and brittle wood. They have
also begun to naturalize heavily, and will soon be c... 阅读全帖 |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 37 结论是：
Emperor CAO Cao’s claim was not supported by genetic evidence.He claimed to
be a descendant of Marquis CAO Can and therefore was of aristocratic
ancestry.
这跟我们讨论的现代汉人和是否是早期汉人的后代没有什么联系啊？
而且，现在发表的Paper，可信度是要怀疑的。当年的恐龙蛋还是一篇大Paper，而不是
short communications呢……
我们谈论的问题，不能够用DNA解决的，例如那个塞族和穆斯林。衣冠渡江时候的汉人
和吴越人还有楚人，因为他们都是华夏人群…… |
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b***e
发帖数: 15201 | 38 【 以下文字转载自 WaterWorld 讨论区 】
发信人: chuwawa (chuwawa), 信区: WaterWorld
标 题: 竟然有wsn质疑蒋夫人的英语口音 (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Mar 24 01:25:03 2013, 美东)
发信人: chuwawa (chuwawa), 信区: Military
标 题: 竟然有wsn质疑蒋夫人的英语口音
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Mar 24 01:24:39 2013, 美东)
这是正解：
that kind of accent also known as Mid-Atlantic or Aristocratic American (
although it can be found from people who weren't there) was really
popular during her time. Many prominent people from political figures such
as the Roosevelts, Newsc... 阅读全帖 |
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a********3
发帖数: 5250 | 39 这位大神啊？
Walter Raleigh
Writer Sir Walter Raleigh was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier,
politician, courtier, spy, and explorer。。。 |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 40 主要是elizabeth的secret lover……
这位大神啊？
Walter Raleigh
Writer Sir Walter Raleigh was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier,
politician, courtier, spy, and explorer。。。 |
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b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 41 来自主题: LeisureTime版 - 听歌儿吧！ the aristocrats
所以说，文化不同。
有些 joke 真的啥底线都没。哈哈。。 |
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x*******a
发帖数: 11067 | 42 第一章：
Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught
by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply
blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French
descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an
arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green
without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly
tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted... 阅读全帖 |
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r*s
发帖数: 2555 | 43 http://www.alonelylife.com/thread-73-best-survival-movies
73 Best Survival Movies
From surviving natural disasters, nuclear wars, and shipwrecks to sci-fi
alien invasions and zombie plagues, survival movies cover a wide range of
genres.
Here is our list of the 73 Best Survival Movies ever made.
Survival MoviesWilderness Survival Movies
1. Into the Wild – The real life story of Christopher McCandless, a man who
shunned society and went off into the wilderness in search of adventure.
The movie giv... 阅读全帖 |
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a**********t
发帖数: 9684 | 44 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000030/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
Her mother, Baroness Ella van Heemstra (1900–1984), was a Dutch aristocrat
and the daughter of Baron Aarnoud van Heemstra, who was mayor of Arnhem from
1910 to 1920 and served as Governor of Suriname from 1921 to 1928. Ella's
mother was Elbrig Willemine Henriette, Baroness van Asbeck (1873–1939), who
was a granddaughter of jurist Dirk van Hogendorp.
她母亲那边绝对是正宗贵族
她生于1929年，出生前外公还在做州长呢
二战被迫害和是不是犹太裔没... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 141625 | 45 噢，那我回头找找她的散文。我看《太太的客厅》是有点看不下去，女人讽刺女人，总
有一股酸意。而且没什么情节发展，不很吸引人。
说起沙龙，我香港的老板也每周开私人沙龙，参加的多是学术界有头有脸的人士。我作
为学生参加过。一方面他们的确旁征博引，海阔天空，非常渊博；另一方面聊到后来也
很无聊，常常觉得浪费时间。而且总要对主人阿谀奉承一下，总有小团体的感觉。不参
加沙龙的人，觉得estranged，说起沙龙总带一点醋意甚至敌意。所以我总觉得沙龙有
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发帖数: 345 | 46 长大可以去当stand up comedian了.. 这个水平离讲The Aristocrats 还有很大距离。
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b*********l
发帖数: 466 | 47 Hitler would have disliked Wittgenstein, a "stammering, precocious, precious
, aristocratic upstart ...". From Wiki LOL! |
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L******t
发帖数: 2855 | 48 从每日电报转来的啊。
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/4248401/100-novels-everyone-should-read.html
100 The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein
WH Auden thought this tale of fantastic creatures looking for lost jewellery
was a “masterpiece”.
99 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A child’s-eye view of racial prejudice and freaky neighbours in Thirties
Alabama.
98 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
A rich Bengali noble lives happily until a radical revolutionary appears.
97 The Hitchhiker’s ... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****r
发帖数: 4717 | 49 Also from the same book:
Actually, you reveal a great deal about your social class by the amount of
annoyance or fury you feel when the subject is brought up. A tendency to get
very anxious suggests that you are middle class and nervous about slipping
down a rung or two. On the other hand, upper-class people love the topic to
come up: the more attention paid to the matter the better off they seem to
be. Proletarians generally don't mind discussions of the subject because
they know that can do li... 阅读全帖 |
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