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发帖数: 1830 | 2 一个胡吹的国内新闻 完全没有可信度
Overall, as of April 2016, there were 494 high-rise buildings under
construction or proposed for construction in New York City.[1]
Under construction[edit]
This lists buildings that are currently under construction in New York City
and are expected to rise to a height of at least 600 feet (183 m). Buildings
under construction that have already been topped out are also included, as
are those whose construction has been suspended. For buildings whose heights
have not yet been rel... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 25234 | 3 今天带娃参加学区的language group，是给语言表达上有欠缺的孩子提供的服务，不过
很多指导对普通孩子也可能有帮助，训练师给了一张单子，是
concepts in order of difficulty by age band
按半年的时段，给3－6岁的孩子提出了一些需要掌握的概念，让我贴在家里冰箱上，对
照娃的年龄那一条，经常在对话中用到这些概念，让娃也会掌握和使用这些概念。
敲完发现有许多词是重复的，顺序也不一样，不知道怎么回事，不过既然总体就这些概念，照着练练总没错的，大家做
参考吧
3－0 to 3－5 （三岁0个月到三岁5个月，以下类推）
least difficult to most difficult
top
another
under
missing
highest
finished
nearest
all
up
empty
tallest
both
outside
down
largest
different
full
same
longest
in front
many
across
most
smallest
around
next
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e******r
发帖数: 549 | 4 版上有人说住市区里都是人傻钱多，市区里什么都不如郊区。
转自Boston Global的文章，自己长眼看看吧。
http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/03/01/boston-historic-
A new age for an old town
The Boston Globe
Share Tweet 95
Dozens of buildings are redefining the skyline and reshaping entire
neighborhoods with offices and luxury dwellings.
By Casey Ross
GLOBE STAFF MARCH 01, 2015
There have been three great ages of development in modern Boston. The first
began after the Back Bay was filled in the late 19th century, a radical
change that tr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3809 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 Military2 讨论区 】
发信人: zhubaba (zhubaba), 信区: Military2
标 题: China Concrete Pumper Gets Into Nuclear Effort
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Mar 22 23:33:44 2011, 美东)
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/22/china-concrete-pu
gets-into-japan-nuclear-effort/?mod=google_news_blog
To cool quake-ravaged systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors,
Japanese authorities have funneled water in from the sea, dumped it from
helicopters, shot it from fire trucks and of late had success
reestablishi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 901 | 6 The largest, tallest skyscraper in the Southeast U.S. – the 55-story Bank
of America Plaza in Atlanta – is going to auction on the courthouse steps
tomorrow. The $363 million BofA Plaza loan became delinquent in December
2011 after the owner, commercial real estate firm BentleyForbes, stopped
making payments.
In Atlanta's largest real estate deal, BentleyForbes bought the 1.25 million
-square-foot building in 2006 for $436 million from Bank of America and real
estate investment trust Cousins Pro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 901 | 7 The largest, tallest skyscraper in the Southeast U.S. – the 55-story Bank
of America Plaza in Atlanta – is going to auction on the courthouse steps
tomorrow. The $363 million BofA Plaza loan became delinquent in December
2011 after the owner, commercial real estate firm BentleyForbes, stopped
making payments.
In Atlanta's largest real estate deal, BentleyForbes bought the 1.25 million
-square-foot building in 2006 for $436 million from Bank of America and real
estate investment trust Cousins Pro... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 553 | 8 1 World Trade Center to top out Monday as tallest building in hemisphere
New York (CNN) -- Construction crews at the 16-acre World Trade Center site
will raise the final two sections of a 408-foot spire to the top of One
World Trade Center on Monday morning, making the building the tallest in the
Western Hemisphere, according to the site's management.
A stainless steel beacon weighing almost six tons will be the final piece
put in place to give the building an iconic height of 1,776 feet, accord... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3809 | 9 http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/22/china-concrete-pu
gets-into-japan-nuclear-effort/?mod=google_news_blog
To cool quake-ravaged systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors,
Japanese authorities have funneled water in from the sea, dumped it from
helicopters, shot it from fire trucks and of late had success
reestablishing pumps.
Now, they are reportedly bringing in a new weapon: A powerful Chinese-
made truck designed to shoot wet concrete several stories into the air.
A truck-mo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 14458 | 10 三一V5
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2011/03/22/china-concrete-pu
gets-into-japan-nuclear-effort/?mod=google_news_blog
To cool quake-ravaged systems at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors,
Japanese authorities have funneled water in from the sea, dumped it from
helicopters, shot it from fire trucks and of late had success
reestablishing pumps.
Now, they are reportedly bringing in a new weapon: A powerful Chinese-
made truck designed to shoot wet concrete several stories into the air.
A tr... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7272 | 11 Homeowners living in the world's tallest residential skyscraper are having
to climb up more than 1,300ft of steps - the equivalent of walking one-third
of the way up Ben Nevis - after all the lifts broke down.
Princess Tower in Dubai, which stands at 1,355ft tall with 97 above-ground
residential floors, has been named the tallest residential building in the
world Guinness World Records.
But residents living in the luxurious tower block - many of whom are British
- have been told they have 'no ch... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 12 That is bull _ _ _ _.
Originally from Taiwan, I have lived in US for more than a quarter century, mostly in Boston.
(1) For centuries--ever since heights were recorded--American men and women were the tallest in the wolrd. Until four years ago.
Rob Stein, America Loses Its Stature as Tallest Country. Washington Post, Aug 13, 2007.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn
/content/article/2007/08/12/AR2007081200809.html
Quote:
"U.S. adults lost their position as the tallest people on Earth to the Dut... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 928 | 13 有一段時間（98-04）、世界上最高大廈竟然是馬來西亞的
1985年，檳城就有280米的高樓（而該建築物是自1974年始建），而且是著名公司arup
搞的。鱉國現在最高級的大廈才請arup。
1986年上海最高建築還是1930年建的80多米的建築物
Tallest buildings (from 1901)
Years tallest Name Location
1974–1998 Sears Tower Chicago
1998–2004 Petronas Towers Kuala Lumpur
2004–2010 Taipei 101 Taipei
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发帖数: 8613 | 14 在平均身高方面，中国应该在减小与欧美的差距。在欧美历史上，平均身高曾经变化很
大。
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/taller.htm
“”“”“”“”“”“”“”
In studies by various researchers of men born about 1950, the Norwegians and
Dutch are the tallest in the world, with an average height of 178
centimeters(about 5 feet 10 inches), followed by Swedes at 177 centimeters.
Americans are next at 175 centimeters (about 5 feet 9 inches).
Preliminary government research suggests that not much has changed recently,
according to Steckel. "The average he... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8922 | 15 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
Manto (馒头) 于 (Mon Aug 9 16:37:56 2010, 美东) 提到:
今年五月份去参观的时候拍的，蒙牛在北京的生产基地。照片里是袋装奶的线，那儿还
有很多别的生产线。奶都是专门的运奶卡车送来的，直接灌进生产线处理，工作人员只
是操作监视仪器，都见不到奶，全是自动化的。
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Levis (北京，那个寒冷的夏天) 于 (Mon Aug 9 16:44:09 2010, 美东) 提到:
出问题都在运奶卡车上,不在生产线上.
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purity (purity) 于 (Mon Aug 9 16:46:34 2010, 美东) 提到:
你们怎么这么喜欢喝牛奶吃奶粉啊，有那么好喝吗？
我从小到大不喝牛奶，不喜欢喝，一样长得很健康。
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发帖数: 18174 | 16 olympian可能得算outliers。如果只看ncaa div1：
Results/Findings.
For NCAA Div I: 65% come from the tallest 25%. 3% come from the
shortest 25%.
For NCAA Div I: The fastest 1% come from the tallest 5%(>74.25”
men, >68.55” for women).
For NCAA Div I: Taller swimming groups are faster on average than
smaller swimming groups.
For NCAA Div I: SP parity exists across all height groups.
The average height of motivational performance groups gets taller
as the performance... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4735 | 17 The tallest Chinese girls i ever knew are 172/173 cm. Men are in 186 cm.
The tallest white girl i knew is 175 cm. White Male is in 190 cm.
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发帖数: 7025 | 18 The tallest white girl I know is 190 cm.
The tallest white guy I know, I'm not sure, but I think is around 195 cm. He
was my boss.
He is easy to spot in a crowd. |
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L*****a
发帖数: 321 | 20 网上的数据： “ While redwoods can grow to nearly 380 feet (115 m), the
tallest tree in the Muir Woods is 258 feet (79 m). ”“ Researchers have
confirmed that a 379.1 -foot （115.55 m) tree in Redwood National and State
Parks is the world's tallest” |
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a****e
发帖数: 9589 | 21 From Yahoo:
The ski-lift-themed Summit Plummet, complete with mounds of fake snow, makes
you wonder if it's really a smart idea to slide down the slopes in just
your bathing suit. But don't worry: The waters here are heated year-round to
a bath-like 80 degrees. Free-fall waterslides, like this one, are designed
to make the rider feel like they're dropping without any restraint (
essentially falling at an extremely steep angle at top speeds). The tallest
in the country—and second tallest in the w... 阅读全帖 |
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a******g
发帖数: 1538 | 23 其实人家原文里面提到yao ming couple，不知道为何翻译的时候给删掉了
For the Hallquists, their record is for the tallest living married couple.
For now, in order for Yao Ming and her wife to beat the Hallquists record,
they must submit their record
Yao Ming (7 ft 6 in) who plays for Houston Rockets is married to Ye Li (6 ft
3 in) who is also a basketball player in China. When combined their height
will be 13 feet and 9 inches and would easily beat that of Hallquist couple
by 5 inches.
On May 21, 2010, the Yao and Ye has th... 阅读全帖 |
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w**w
发帖数: 5391 | 24 "The figures vary in height, according to their roles, with the tallest
being the generals." from wiki. |
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发帖数: 18578 | 25 这不是我说的，别人专门做身高研究的科学家说的，你自可以发email去跟他论理。
The Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the
Nineteenth Century
http://www.nber.org/papers/h0112.pdf
关于身高和营养以及遗传的关系，这里有专家的回答，你也可以写email和他们理论，
正巧他也是一个中国人，没准你还可以邀请他到这里来灌水：
Molecular biologist Chao-Qiang Lai of the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of
Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University
answers.
This question can be rephrased as: "How much variation (difference between
individuals) in height is attributab... 阅读全帖 |
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P*****t
发帖数: 4978 | 26 Liverpool developer lures Chinese investors with 'Shanghai Tower'
Planning application submitted for £5.5bn project amid concern for
Merseyside city's Unesco world heritage docklands
A plan to attract Chinese investors to Liverpool by building the tallest
building outside London and calling it the "Shanghai Tower" was today
submitted for planning approval.
Peel Holdings, a Manchester-based developer, wants to build a 55-storey
skyscraper on the Mersey waterfront as part of what could become... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 27 I have tried my best, but still can not find anything in English that
distinguishes boom pumps made by Putzmeister AND Sany. In other words, the
two brands are not mentioned in the same Fukushima report, except one (see (
3) below). Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) has websites in Japanese or
English, neither of which mentions pumps at all (reportedly TEPCO Digest on
Mar 22 did mention a pump without mentioning the brand (title: "Concrete
Pump Car completed watering Unit 4 spent fuel pool (20:30p... 阅读全帖 |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 28 I am a biologist by training. But it appears you are as ignorant about
rockets as I.
(1) Tiangong 1 weighs merely 8.5 metric tons (hereafter tonnes). Besides
Tiangong 1 on Sept 29, 2011 Long March 2F also launched Shenzhou 5 (in 2003)
, 6 and 7, all into low Earth orbit (LEO), which is defined as "from the
Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2,000 km."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit
In comparison:
Geostationary transfer orbit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_transfer_orb... 阅读全帖 |
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h***y
发帖数: 4936 | 29 看了一下这桥的数据，你是对的，我前面听信新闻，完全搞错了。而且这里的最高是桥面落差高度，不是桥体高度。
米约最高的桥墩高度是343米，落差最高是270米。而墨西哥的这个桥落差是390米，所以只是斜拉桥这个范畴的highest（同时也是公路桥梁里的second highest），但米约仍然是任意桥梁里桥体的tallest，同时也是公路斜拉桥里的second highest。我晕，被新闻误导了。 |
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S*****s
发帖数: 7520 | 30 Japan tsunami reconstruction money 'misspent'
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes says parts of Japan unaffected by the disas
ter have received money
Continue reading the main story
Related Stories
Japan quake: Loss and recovery in numbers
The tsunami debris washed from Japan to Oregon
Japan marks disaster anniversary
Japan has spent funds intended for reconstruction after the 2011 earthquake
and tsunami on unrelated projects, a government audit has found.
Projects financed by the $150bn (￡93bn) fu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 20343 | 31 天冷的地方，人应该长得粗短圆胖。这样同样体积，表面积小。
非洲有些地方的人，长的高而细，估计就是为了散热。
In the case of some Sudanese tribes, males can have an average height of 1.9
m (6 ft, 4in) (!), while women of 1.8 m (6 ft) (!). These people have slim
but strong bodies, and their heads are more elongated than in the case of
the typical African Blacks. In case of a mixed race, these huge heights may
not be generally attained by the population.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Tallest-People-in-the-World- |
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发帖数: 29576 | 33 Michigan Central Station
Detroit, Michigan
This hulking Beaux-Arts train station was the tallest train station in the
world at the time of its construction in 1912. It was designed by Warren &
Wetmore and Reed and Stem—the same architects behind New York's Grand
Central Terminal—but has been abandoned since 1988. |
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W***n
发帖数: 11530 | 35 Economics
China Is Very, Very, Very, Very Big
26 Oct 30, 2014 12:48 PM EDT
By Noah Smith
Larry Summers and Lant Pritchett have written a paper predicting a Chinese
growth slowdown. In 2013, Barry Eichengreen, Donghyun Park, and Kwanho Shin
wrote a paper with much the same message, which accurately predicted the
recent Chinese slowdown from about 10 percent annual growth to about7.5
percent. In fact, the most basic model of economic growth, the Solow Model,
predicts that a country's growth slows ... 阅读全帖 |
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r*******g
发帖数: 32828 | 36 红红火火过大年
Just an hour or so ago, one of the tallest residential towers in the world,
the 79-story Marina Torch Tower in Dubai, made good on its namesake and
burst into flames. At least six floors seem to be affected at this point. |
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l*****h
发帖数: 709 | 37 There are six main systems of aqueducts and infrastructure that redistribute
and transport water in California: the State Water Project, the Central
Valley Project, several Colorado River delivery systems, the Los Angeles
Aqueduct, the Tuolumne River/Hetch Hetchy system, and the Mokelumne Aqueduct.
The State Water Project[edit]
See also: California State Water Project and California Aqueduct
An aerial view of the California Aqueduct at the Interstate 205 crossing
west of Tracy
The California Sta... 阅读全帖 |
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l*y
发帖数: 21010 | 39 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: ldy (大才001), 信区: USANews
标 题: Trump的11人大法官名单里有一个公开取笑Trump的
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed May 18 18:29:22 2016, 美东)
大家看看
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/18/478563401/tru
Trump's List Of Possible Supreme Court Nominees Includes A Judge Who Mocked
Trump
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Twitter
Google+
Email
May 18, 20163:52 PM ET
CAMILA DOMONOSKE
Twitter
De facto Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has released the names
of 11 people he would consider nominating to the Supreme C... 阅读全帖 |
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t**g
发帖数: 784 | 40 http://www.theplayerstribune.com/yao-ming-olympics-china/
Yao Ming
NBA / Retired
Let me tell you about a picture.
I was 20 years old, walking around the Olympic Village in Sydney with a few
of my basketball teammates from Team China, when we came to a souvenir shop
that was selling photographs. This picture showed Stadium Australia during
the opening ceremonies of the 2000 Olympics, which had just happened a few
days before. The photographer must have been as high up as you could go in
the stadi... 阅读全帖 |
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t*****9
发帖数: 10416 | 42 The multimillion-dollar condos sinking in San Francisco
Millennium Tower rises 58 stories above San Francisco's Financial District.
It soars 645 feet in the air, providing residents with panoramic views of
the Bay Area. The city's fourth-tallest skyscraper contains more than 400
multimillion-dollar condo units. The units ranged in price from $1.6 million
to $10 million.
Millennium Tower has sunk 17 inches and tilted 14 inches since it was
completed in 2008. Satellite images suggest it will conti... 阅读全帖 |
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L*******u
发帖数: 928 | 43 Based on a mark in an interior chamber naming the work gang and a reference
to fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu, Egyptologists believe that the
pyramid was built as a tomb over a 10 to 20-year period concluding around
2560 BC. Initially at 146.5 metres (481 feet), the Great Pyramid was the
tallest man-made structure in the world for more than 3,800 years.
Originally, the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a
smooth outer surface; what is seen today is the underlying core ... 阅读全帖 |
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s*******u
发帖数: 1055 | 44 https://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/the-bay-area-voted-hillary-
the-largest-margin-of-all-us-metros
California’s landslide vote for Hillary was such a sure thing, not even
Nate Silver could miss it. On the local level, San Francisco County has
consistently gone for the Democratic presidential candidate by a wide margin
, along with liberal strongholds like Washington, D.C., the Bronx, and
Manhattan. But this year, the San Francisco metropolitan area (which
includes Oakland and Haywa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 46 据《路透社》报道，有研究指出，上海的众多高层建筑可能会造成其沼泽地面下沉得更
快，使沿海城市更容易受到海平面上升的影响。
上海位于亚洲最长河流长江入海口附近的低洼冲积平原上。为满足其经济快速发展和工
业化进程的需求，地下水的过度抽取已导致该城开始下陷。目前，科学家们说，极地冰
盖融化造成的海平面上升，加上摩天大楼的影响，上海面临的地陷危险变得更加严重。
上海同济大学海洋地质学教授兼中国科学院院士的汪品先在路透社全球环境首脑会议上
说，"海平面上升是全球变暖带来的世界性影响。但是，地面沉降使上海和天津成为中
国受到最大威胁的两个沿海城市。"
另有一些科学家则认为高层建筑仅导致轻微的地面下沉，而建筑技术创新可以减轻下沉
幅度。
ENVIRONMENTOCTOBER 5, 2008 / 5:39 PM / 11 YEARS AGO
Shanghai highrises could worsen threat of rising seas
Rujun Shen
6 MIN READ
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shanghai, China’s most populous cit... 阅读全帖 |
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b****r
发帖数: 2555 | 47 Quote:
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the
best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss
hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany
doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are
named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more!" |
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t*n
发帖数: 14458 | 48 这不是chris rock吗
原话是 。。。is Asian。。。
Quote:
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the
best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss
hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany
doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are
named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more!" |
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发帖数: 4174 | 49 King and King 确实讲的是两个王子的爱情故事。
"On the tallest mountain above town," a young prince still has not married,
as is the custom in his kingdom. His mother, a grouchy Queen insists he must
find a princess to marry. The prince tells his mom "Very well, Mother.... I
must say, though, I've never cared much for princesses." His mother marches
princess after princess through the castle, but they fail to interest the
prince. After a while along comes Princess Madaleine escorted by her brother
Prince Lee, wh |
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m******1
发帖数: 19713 | 50 尼泊尔将于三个月内将同性平等权利纳入新宪法，这将是亚洲国家在对待同性恋问题上
的开先河之举。尼泊尔的现任国会相当友同，他们甚至颁发“第三性别”身份证。
“同性婚礼旅游”将由尼泊尔“粉色山脉”旅游公司推出，国会议员Sunil Pant是尼泊
尔最杰出的同性平权活动家，也是“粉色山脉”旅游公司的创立人。
大帅哥Sunil Pant：
Nepal Courts Gay Tourism Market
By Julie Bolcer
Mount Everestx180 (Getty) | Advocate.com
Interested in a wedding on the world’s tallest peak? The tiny Himalayan
nation of Nepal hopes to capitalize on gay-friendly laws and natural
advantages like its location near Mount Everest to attract tourists that
bring billions of dollars to th |
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