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2021-09-02 09:28:42 #Book_club #book2 Open / Comment

2021-09-02 09:23:58 #Extract 'A Diary of A young Girl' by Anne Frank Wow! Young Anne is getting furious … Open / Comment

2021-09-02 09:17:48 #Extract 'A Diary of A young Girl' by Anne Frank Wow! Young Anne is getting furious … Open / Comment

2021-09-02 09:13:21 #Extract 'A Diary of A young Girl' by Anne Frank Wow! Young Anne is getting furious 'They criticize everything, and I mean everything, about me: my behavior, my personality, my manners; every inch of me, from head to toe and back again, is the subject of gossip and debate. Harsh words and shouts are constantly being flung at my head, though I'm absolutely not used to it. According to the powers that be, I'm supposed to grin and bear it. But I can't! I have no intention of taking their insults lying down. I'll show them that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday. They'll sit up and take notice and keep their big mouths shut when I make them see they ought to attend to their own manners instead of mine. How dare they act that way! It's simply barbaric. I've been astonished, time and again, at such rudeness and most of all. . . at such stupidity (Mrs. van Daan). But as soon as I've gotten used to the idea, and that shouldn't take long, I'll give them a taste of their own medicine, and then they'll change their tune! Am I really as bad-mannered, headstrong, stubborn, pushy, stupid, lazy, etc., etc., as the van Daans say I am? No, of course not. I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but they blow them all out of proportion! If you only knew, Kitty, how I seethe when they scold and mock me. It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.'
New words and idioms grin and bear it (idiom) to accept something bad without complaining
I really don't want to go but I guess I'll just have to grin and bear it.
barbaric - (adjective) extremely cruel and unpleasant
She found the idea of killing animals for pleasure barbaric.
give sb a dose/taste of their own medicine - to treat someone as badly as they have treated you
change your tune - to change your opinion completely, especially because you know it will bring you an advantage
He was against the idea to start with, but he soon changed his tune when he realized how much money he'd get.
shortcoming noun [ C usually plural ] - a fault or a failure to reach a particular standard
Whatever his shortcomings as a husband, he was a good father to his children.
seethe - (verb) to feel very angry but to be unable or unwilling to express it clearly
The class positively seethed with indignation when Julia won the award.
pent-up ( adjective) - Pent-up feelings are not allowed to be expressed or released
Screaming at the top of your voice is a good way of venting pent-up frustration. Open / Comment

2021-09-02 07:29:25 #Thisday_in_history Vietnam declares its independence from France
1945 September 02,hours after Japan’s surrender in World War II, Vietnamese communist Ho Chi Minh declares the independence of Vietnam from France. The proclamation paraphrased the U.S. Declaration of Independence in declaring, “All men are born equal: the Creator has given us inviolable rights, life, liberty, and happiness!” and was cheered by an enormous crowd gathered in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh Square. It would be 30 years, however, before Ho’s dream of a united, communist Vietnam became reality.

First ATM opens for business
On September 2, 1969, America’s first automatic teller machine (ATM) makes its public debut, dispensing cash to customers at Chemical Bank in Rockville Centre, New York. ATMs went on to revolutionize the banking industry, eliminating the need to visit a bank to conduct basic financial transactions. By the 1980s, these money machines had become widely popular and handled many of the functions previously performed by human tellers, such as check deposits and money transfers between accounts. Today, ATMs are as indispensable to most people as cell phones and e-mail.
Diana Nyad, 64, makes record swim from Cuba to Florida
On September 2, 2013, 64-year-old Diana Nyad becomes the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the use of a shark cage for protection. Nyad completed the 110-mile swim from Havana to Key West, through the jellyfish-and shark-infested waters of the Straits of Florida, in approximately 53 hours.
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2021-09-01 06:40:13 #happy_Independence_day There are many songs that sing about the homeland, but the one that I think unique and has no parallels among patriotic songs is ‘Vatan Azizdur’ originally performed by Muyassar Razzoqova. No song can give the atmosphere of independence celebration like it does. This version is contemporary one performed by today's generation of singers. Open / Comment

2021-09-01 06:10:04 HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY! @Insight_English Open / Comment

2021-08-31 07:24:07 #Thisday_in_history Princess Diana dies in a car crash
Shortly after midnight on August 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales—affectionately known as "the People’s Princess"—dies in a car crash in Paris. She was 36. Her boyfriend, the Egyptian-born socialite Dodi Fayed, and the driver of the car, Henri Paul, died as well.
Princess Diana was one of the most popular public figures in the world. Her death was met with a massive outpouring of grief. Mourners began visiting Kensington Palace immediately, leaving bouquets at the home where the princess, also known as Lady Di, would never return. Piles of flowers reached some 30 feet from the palace's gate.
Thomas Edison patents the Kinetograph
Thomas Edison receives a patent for his movie camera, the Kinetograph. Edison had developed the camera and its viewer in the early 1890s and staged several demonstrations.
The camera was based on photographic principles discovered by still-photograph pioneers Joseph Nicephone Niepce and Louis Daguerre of France. In 1877, inventor Edward Muybridge developed a primitive form of motion pictures when Leland Stanford, governor of California, invited him to develop photo studies of animals in motion. Muybridge developed an ingenious system for photographing sequential motion, setting up 24 cameras attached to trip wires stretched across a racetrack. As the horse tripped each wire, the shutters snapped. The resulting series of photos could be projected as something resembling a motion picture. This breakthrough in the early 1870s inspired another student of animal motion, Etienne Jules Marey of France, to develop in 1882 a rotating camera rather like a rifle, where different pictures were taken in a rapid sequence by a rotating cartridge.
William Cobb demonstrates first solar-powered car
On August 31, 1955, William G. Cobb of the General Motors Corp. (GM) demonstrates his 15-inch-long “Sunmobile,” the world’s first solar-powered automobile, at the General Motors Powerama auto show held in Chicago, Illinois.
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2021-08-29 08:54:44 #book_club #book2 'The diary of a young girl' by Anne Frank. Let's get immerse ourselves in one of the remarkable books in human history. @Insight_English Open / Comment