On June 18, China sent its first spacewoman into space. Her name is Liu Yang. She is 34 years old. She is a pilot in the Chinese Air Force공군. She went into space successfully on board the Shenzhou-9선저우 9호. She will stay about 20 days in space. She will do many experiments during
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Last Tuesday was a special day in the Netherlands. Seventy years ago on June 12 in 1942, Anne Frank started writing her famous diary at a house in the country. She received the diary on her 13th birthday from her father. She was a Jewish girl who lived during World War II. In her diary, she
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On June 3, 1,000 ships gathered on the River Thames. What brought them together? The ships march through the river to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s special day. She worked hard as the queen of England for 60 years. Last week, people in Britain celebrated her hard work. A royal ship led the
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There is a special airplane that can fly without any fuel. It is powered by the sun’s rays! On May 25, a plane called ‘Solar Impulse’ flew from Switzerland to Morocco successfully. The wings of the plane are covered with 12,000 solar panels. They store the sun’s light to power the plane. The
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Look at the golden ring in the picture! On May 21, people in Asia and western North America were surprised to see a golden ring in the sky. However, it’s not a golden ring, but the sun’s ray! It happened because the moon blocked the sun. It’s called the ring of fire eclipse금환일식.
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Say hello to Queen Elizabeth. The queen is wearing a beautiful dress and a crown. She is smiling at you. Surprisingly, she is not real! It is a new wax figure of the queen. On May 14, Madame Tussauds마담 투소 밀랍인형 박물관in London unveiled the figure to the public. The museum made
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On May 6, France chose Francois Hollande of the Socialist Party사회당 as its new leader. He beat the current President Nicolas Sarkozy to become the next president. He got 51.1 percent of the votes, while Sarkozy received 48.9 percent. Hollande promised to make France a better country.
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On April 30, the Freedom Tower became the tallest building in New York. The Freedom Tower is also called “One World Trade Center.” Currently, it has 100 floors and is 387 meters tall. The tower will have 104 floors and will be about 541 meters tall. The construction will be finished in 2013 or
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Recently, a miracle happened to a Japanese boy. He is 16 years old and his name is Misaki Murakami. When Japan was hit by a strong tsunami last year, he lost everything. Recently, an American man named David Baxter found the boy’s soccer ball on a beach in Alaska. The ball
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On April 17, the space shuttle Discovery flew for the last time. It took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, getting a piggyback ride on a Boeing 747. Discovery flew to Washington DC for its last flight. The space shuttle worked very hard since its first flight in 1984. It went into space 39
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