MARK KURLANSKY has written on a wide range of subjects, but is best known for his books on food—notably “Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World” and “Salt: A World History”.

马克•科尔兰斯基就很多主题著有不少作品，但最为有名的还是关于食物的书，尤其是《鳕鱼》和《盐》。

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The birth of Christ was the beginning of a major epoch of world history.

基督的诞生是世界历史一个重要时代的开始。

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Bailyn holds that, contrary to the notion that used to flourish in America history textbooks, there was never a typical New World community.

贝林认为，与过去在美国历史教科书中盛行的观念相反，从来没有一个典型的新世界共同体。

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Beadwork has a long history as an art form practiced by American Indians and other cultures around the world.

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Ian Hacking, who wrote a history of probability theory, searched through world literature for any reference to a probability and could find none anywhere before 1600.

伊恩·哈金为概率论追根溯源,他查遍世界所有关于概率的文献,发现无法追溯到十七世纪以前

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Smallpox affected world history hundreds of years ago, and it was a disease that was common in Europe, but not common in the Americas until the Americas were colonized.

天花影响了几个世纪前的历史,这种病在欧洲很常见,但在美国不多见,直到美国成为殖民地

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His landing in America on 12 October 1492 marks a seminal event in world history, opening up a New World for Europeans.

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Mr Lang, until last year a head of history in a sixth form college, also wants a greater awareness of world history, looking beyond the United Kingdom and Europe.

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This progresses upwards with increasing complexity to the end of secondary level education - where a study of world history requires an analysis of the role of specified Russian leaders in the break-up of the Soviet Union.

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