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1.Quake watchers in California are uneasy. The series of moderateearthquakes that has shaken the state since last summer should have thrown up a wealth of clues about the precursors of quakes. It did not, although the place now bristles with seismic equipment and monitoring teams.2.He selected and arranged one hundred sayings popular at home andabroad on the subject of friendship. Its popularity needs no explanation, for a brief perusal of the quotations shows that they embody the notions of civilized friendship. The maxims stress selflessness.3. Take Me To Your Heart - Michael Learns To Rockhiding from the rain and snowtrying to forget but i won't let golooking at a crowded streetlistening to my own heart beatso many peopleall around the worldtell me where do i findsomeone like you girltake me to your hearttake me to your soulgive me your hand before i'm oldshow me what love ishaven't got a clueshow me that wonders can be truethey say nothing lasts foreverwe are only here todaylove's now or neverbring me far awaytake me to your hearttake me to your soulgive me your hand and hold meshow me what loveis be my guiding starit is easytake me to your heartstanding on a mountain highlooking at the moon through a clear blue sky i should go and see some friendsbut they don't really comprehenddon't need too much talkingwithout saying anythingall i need is someonewho makes me wanna singtake me to your hearttake me to your soulgive me your hand before i'm old show me what love ishaven't got a clueshow me that wonders can be true they say nothing lasts foreverwe are only here todaylove's now or neverbring me far awaytake me to your hearttake me to your soulgive me your hand and hold me show me what loveis be my guiding starit is easytake me to your hearttake me to your hearttake me to your soulgive me your hand and hold me show me what loveis be my guiding starit is easytake me to your heart4. MistletoeIt's the most beautiful time of the year,Lights fill the streets spreading so much cheer,I should be playing in the winter snow,But I'mma be under the mistletoe.I don't wanna miss out on the holiday,But I can't stop staring at your face,I should be playing in the winter snow,But I'mma be under the mistletoe.With you, shawty with youWith you, shawty with you,With you, under the mistletoeEveryone's gathering around the fire,Chestnuts roasting like a hot July,I should be chillin' with my folks, I know,But I'mma be under the mistletoe.Word on the streets Santa's coming tonight, Reindeer flying thru the sky so high,I should be makin' a list i know,But I'mma be under the mistletoe.With you, shawty with you,With you, shawty with you,With you, under the mistletoe,With you, shawty with you,With you, shawty with you,With you, under the mistletoe,Aye love, the Wise Men followed the star, The way I follow my heart,And they led me to a miracle.Aye love, don't you buy me nothing,'Cause I am feeling one thing,Your lips on my lips,That's a merry merry Christmas.It's the most beautiful time of the year, Lights fill the streets spreading so much cheer, I should be playing in the winter snow,But I'mma be under the mistletoe.I don't wanna miss out on the holiday,But I can't stop staring at your face,I should be playing in the winter snow,But I'mma be under the mistletoe.With you, shawty with you,With you, shawty with you,With you, under the mistletoe,With you, shawty with you,With you, shawty with you,With you, under the mistletoe,Kiss me underneath the mistletoe,Show me baby that you love me so,Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.Kiss me underneath the mistletoe,Show me baby that you love me so,Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.yeahhhhhhh.5. Lincoln in History （H. G. Pitt）The annals of the past contain few accounts of truly good men. Historians are more used to analyzing a mixture of ingredients, good and bad intentions, success and failure, high endeavors threatened by flaws in execution, and to balance out the sums ending with a careful plus or minus.Lincoln is rare in providing much for history to ponder and reflect on but little to dispute with except in the shortcomings in the execution of his policies. He is the rarer for his absolute success through four years of bitter politics and bloody warfare.He sought power, without pretending otherwise, and exercised it to the full. But he is singular, perhaps unique in history, in that he was never corrupted by power. His ambition was tied not to personal gain but to a pair of succeeding and complementary principles; to restore a nationdedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal” and to ensure that a union so recovered was purged of the great contradiction which had lain at the heart of its constitution.His loyalty to government by consent required that he could only achieve his aims if his fellow citizens agreed with him and could be held to their purpose through the darkest hours. In that art of persuasion, he was a consummate politician, subtly and ruthlessly working the levers of parties and politicians to achieve a balance between the fractions and factions of competing groups and ideas, whose particular interests threatened to destroy the precarious patriotism which sustained the army. He listened, avoided argument, kept his counsel, and then he made his decisions from which he could not diverge.His skills in reconciling oppositions and commanding their respect grew from his apprenticeship in the little rural communities where he had learned to make his way though the full diversity of the world, and from his long reflective self-observation in times of depression, which gave him the same sympathetic insight into the character of others that he had into himself. As the war continued and the casualty figures grew, the found a convinced agnostic faith that there was some divine purpose in the affairs of men, though he could not define or confine the deity withinany Christian confession. A man must observe the ebb and flow of events and act on what he can discern in the tides. He had no faith that man could deflect God from his course.Lincoln’s humility about his own capabilities saved him from jealous rivalries or disputes; he saw sincerity even in the views of his bitterest critics and in the rebel leaders. He infuriated his supporters and enemies alike by his apparent dithering when decisive action was needed, but he turned their strictures into constructive advice from which, in the end, the evolved his decision. He had had to teach himself the job of being president in the most ch allenging moment in the nation’s history and as he learned so he commanded more and more personal respect. He died with the noblest part of the great task achieved-the end of slavery. The very near religious veneration in which he was held at his death grew rapidly in the dark days of reconstruction when the new government attempted to complete the job by defining a meaning for freedom and equality which now include all Americans.The legend as it grew obscured the real man but the core of the story is true and achievements of the greatest President remain unchallenged and untarnished. He ensured the survival of “the last best hope of earth”-popular government and the rule of the law. Without Lincoln’spresidency, the fortunes of all other nations “so convinced in liberty” would have been at risk and the rest of the free world would have been left on its own to face the dark forces which ravaged the globe in the twentieth century.6.Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?。