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• 1.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 037北美水獭烟(4)
• When you talk about what is called the peace pipe at a treaty negotiation, that is more meaningful than to sign a document, so it's a way of sealing a...
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• Smoking was not only sophisticated, it was intellectual and meditative, and Sherlock Holmes famously described one particularly testing case as quite ...
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• The overthrow of smoking in the western world in the last 30 years has been an extraordinary revolution;in Hollywood now, only the baddies smoke, and ...
• 4.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 038球赛带(1)
• I'm in the Mexican gallery in front of what looks like a giant stone horseshoe-it's about 20 inches (50 cm) long and about 4 inches (10 cm) thick and ...
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• They do represent the real yokes that were worn during the ball game, but those real yokes were of perishable materials and they probably, in almost a...
• 6.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 038球赛带(3)
• This was not an easy game. The aim was to keep the heavy rubber ball in the air and to land it eventually in the opponents' end of the court, and the ...
• 7.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 038球赛带(4)
• But these games were far more than just competitive sports, they held a special place in the belief system of the ancient Central Americans, and our s...
• 8.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 038球赛带(5)
• They were ball players, they lived in the underworld, and they played ball with the lords of death, regardless of who was playing that game. 他们都是...
• 9.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 038球赛带(6)
• And one of the striking characteristics of organised games throughout history is their capacity to transcend cultural differences, social divisions an...
• 10.纪录片《大英博物馆世界简史》 039女史箴图(1)
• A common theme that's emerged from the objects of this week has been the changing views of what constitutes an acceptable pleasure-at different times ...