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《鱼颊》 谭恩美14岁那年喜欢上了一位白人牧师的儿子罗伯特，那年圣诞平安夜，她父母决定邀请白人牧师一家来聚餐。
谭担心罗伯特会如何看她们家简陋的圣诞餐，如何看待她家亲戚宴桌上嘈杂的声音，还有满桌的中国菜 - 没有美式烤火鸡和红薯。
圣诞平安夜一早，谭母就忙起来了，有大虾，鼓着眼等着下锅的全鱼，豆腐，和切得如自行车胎般的鲜鱿鱼。
晚宴上，谭的亲戚们伸手穿过桌子，用筷子夹菜，罗伯特一家则耐心地等着食物盘子传到他们。
当谭母将蒸全鱼端出，谭的亲戚们小声道好，罗伯特脸很无奈地扭曲着。
敏感的谭很难堪，心里正绝望着，谭父用他的筷子夹了鱼眼下的一块嫩软的脸颊肉，对她说，恩美，你最喜欢吃的“Amy,your favorite”（126, Tan)。
那一刻，恩美真愿自己消失。
晚宴后，谭母告诫谭，希望她外面如美国女孩，内里必须做中国人。
You want be same like American girls on the outside. But inside, you must always be Chinese.(Tan, 127) 14岁的谭很不以为然，直到多年以后，她过了初恋的青春期，她才体会到母亲的苦心和她那天精心做的晚宴。
晚宴上，母亲选择的全是女儿喜爱的食物。
在美国生活的我们和成长的孩子，多多少少都会经历文化差异，关于文化，龙应台的解释是，“文化，就是一种生活方式，在特定的地理、历史、经济、政治条件中形成。
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人本是散落的珠子，随地乱滚，文化就是那根柔弱又强韧的细丝，将珠子串起来成为社会。
”一个家有家庭文化，一个民族有民族文化，一个公司有公司文化。
文化，确切地说，是约定俗成的礼仪，意识观念，日常习性等不同方面将原本分散的个体串织起来，产生公认的民俗习惯，信念，道德观，抑或价值观。
文化对个体有约束力和影响力的同时，个体对所属文化有依附感和安全感。
因为外子是美国人，我对东西文化差异有很直接，直观和感性的认识。
家庭文化为例子，中国传统文化重纵向血脉相承，古时有，“不孝有三，无后为大”之说。
美国文化受基督文化影响，重横向夫妻关系，也就是说，一旦夫妻结婚，夫妻应脱离父母，成为彼此的第一位。
“人要离开父母与妻子连合，二人成为一体。
”（创世纪2：24）记得我从前公司部门经理Dan，他的妻子来自菲律宾，他们有4个孩子。
这4个孩子是她妻子和第一任菲律宾先生的，因她的菲律宾先生早逝，她带孩子来美国，找到了她学生时的美国笔友(Pen Pal)Dan,那时的笔友有如现在的网友。
他们喜结良缘，如今已结婚20多年，4个孩子都已长大。
又有，两年前，我离开公司时，部门来了个小伙子，刚订婚，给我看他未婚妻的相片，未婚妻很漂亮，大他几岁，离过婚，有3个很小的孩子，但小伙子告诉我，他已学会为孩子换尿布，他为自己不久将同时荣升为先生和父亲而自豪呢
再有，西方文化重本位主义，强调个体独立。
东方文化重集体本位，强调社会家庭责任感。
美国婆婆和我出门买东西，从来要自己付钱。
每年老人生日，我们寄礼物给老人。
同样，孩子或孙辈过生日，老人也一定寄礼物给我们。
中国文化，儿女独立后，一般要给父母钱，尤其是我们不在父母身边，只有通过寄钱，多少弥补无法在他们跟前尽孝的缺憾。
美国文化里，没有“养儿防老”这个词，父母生养孩子是纯粹付出，但基督文化里有尊重孝敬父母（Honour thy father and thy mother) 的教导。
美国老人在孩子大了以后，身体还好时，喜欢出游，享受生活。
中国老人对孩子仍然有责任感，我是很有福的人，两次生孩子，母亲都来照顾我，生第二个孩子时，父母一起来美，帮忙很大，美国老人是不可能做到的。
《鱼颊》文章里，谭母心思放在孩子上，加上一家子的亲戚，文化使然，她做中餐，中式餐桌风俗，原本是一顿很丰盛的圣诞晚宴。
但谭恩美的心思是她的暗恋情人，情人恰好是美国白人，谭的描述：他不是中国人，他白得如马槽里的玛丽亚。
He was not Chinese, but as white as Mary in the manger.（Tan, 125) 于是，饮食文化的区别和餐桌礼仪的不同，那个家宴让谭感到无地自容而记忆深刻了。
在美国我们也常请客，中国父母来访时，一定是中国饮食习惯。
美国亲戚来访时，美国饮食礼仪。
大多数时候，我们的朋友有中有西，我们做中餐和西餐，摆在餐厅桌台上，大家自助方式就餐，简单易行，皆大欢喜。
病症用另外一个词怎么说,就是形容一个问题的关键因素的词?3Q
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Quatre grandes inventions de la boussole, avant que de l'invention de la boussole humaine diriger dans les consquences inimaginables de mer, souvent désorienté et causé ouvertes, soit une invention chinoise de la boussole, navigation avec la direction humaine. La discrimination est aux roulements de boussole d'un appareil simple. Quatre grandes inventions de la Chine antique une. Le composant principal de l'installation est un axe de rotation libre de l'aiguille. L'aiguille dans le champ magnétique peut être maintenue sous la direction magnétique radiale de la tangente. L'aiguille de la géographie l'utilisation arctique et antarctique de cette exécution peut identifier la direction. Utilisé généralement dans la navigation, la géodésie, le voyage et les domaines militaires. L'invention de la boussole de nos personnes travaillantes, la pratique à long terme de l'arrangement magnétique d'objets des résultats. En raison du travail de production, les gens en contact avec la magnétite, a commencé la nature magnétique de l'arrangement. C'était nature magnétique d'abord découverte de rail d'amorce. Plus tard j'ai découvert que la nature de l'aimant. Avec de diverse expériences et recherche, et finalement l'invention de la boussole peut être pratique. La découverte des phénomènes magnétiques que Pre-Qin chronomètre nos ancêtres ont beaucoup accumulé de la connaissance à cet égard, explorant la magnétite souvent produite de minerai de fer, la magnétite (les composants principaux de la magnétite). Ces résultats ont été enregistrés un à long terme il y a vers le bas. « Tube » plusieurs d'articles disques le plus tôt de ces découvertes : « un aimant aux montagnes, sous lesquelles le bronze. De « autres classiques tels que » le livre des montagnes et des mers, « a également un disque semblable. Des caractéristiques magnétiques d'absorption de fer très tôt ont été trouvées, chapitre compétent de « Lüshichunqiu » neuf volumes seuls : le « chee frotte le rail, ou parce qu'elles sont citées. « Leur a à ce moment-là appelé » le chee » magnétique « « aimant attirant le fer comme mère de leurs enfants pour attirer. Et dit : « C'est une mère en pierre dure, mais le chee de chee de Shi et deux, pierres d'amour peuvent attirer ses enfants. pas la charité, les pierres ne sera attirée. « Han après, elle a été faite a été mise un aimant » pierre de chee « est une pierre affectueuse. Comme aimant attirant le fer, ainsi s'ils peuvent attirer d'autres métaux ? Nos ancêtres ont fait beaucoup pour essayer et trouver un aimant non seulement pour attirer l'or, l'argent, le cuivre et d'autres métaux. la tuile ne pourra pas attirer de tels articles. Quand les personnes occidentales se sont rendues compte que le seul aimant attirant le fer, qui peut attirer d'autres articles. Quand deux aimants sont remontés dans la proximité étroite entre eux, s'attirer parfois, parfois mutuellement exclusif. Maintenant les gens savent que les aimants ont deux poteaux, et on a appelé le poteau de N, très un S dit. Mutuellement exclusif d'homosexuel très, attraction mutuelle très hétérosexuelle. À ce moment-là, les gens n'ont pas su la raison, mais ce phénomène est de noter que. Du Han occidental, un grand alchimiste nommé de Luan, il s'est servi de la nature magnétique des deux échec-comme des choses en ajustant la polarité de la position mutuelle de deux gages, et du gage parfois deux pour s'attirer, parfois mutuellement exclusif. Jeu de seau appelé par Luan de Tai « . » Il a considéré ce jeu étrange consacré à la dynastie de Han, et la démonstration de tache. La joie étonnante par dynastie de Han, poumon considérablement Wyatt, Luan s'est fermée sensiblement, le « Général Lee cinq. » Nature de Tai Luan de l'utilisation d'un aimant, produite un jeu étrange pour tricher la dynastie de Han. La terre est un grand aimant, les deux étaient très près de la géographie antarctique et des secteurs géographiques dans l'Arctique. Ainsi la surface des aimants de la terre, rotation libre, les aimants sera pour l'attraction homosexuelle, la nature de la direction au nord-sud de PHASE hétérosexuelle. La raison les ancients assez non clairs, mais ce phénomène très clair. La boussole des patriarches -- La boussole de SI Nan au sujet de l'ancêtre est apparue dans la période faisante la guerre d'états. Elle est faite d'aimant naturel. Ressembler à un Shangdi, le fond, sur les « emplacements lisses, » et pour maintenir un équilibre, et le bidon tournant librement. Quand il est statique, la cuillère serait aiguë aux sud. Les ancients seul ont appelé le « SI Nan », le livre, « Han Feizi » : « SI Nan Wang d'abord à l'extrémité durant la nuit. L'extrémité de la soirée, « est maintenant le quartet, la position signifiera. Des disques de « Guiguzi » du SI Nan, personnes d'Eao Yu Zheng sur la ceinture de SI Nan pour les assurer ne perdent pas la direction. La période de printemps et d'automne, les gens avait pu en mesure à la dureté de 5 degrés à 7 degrés de nephrite et la jadéite sculpted dans la forme de divers ustensiles, dureté et mettent en boîte donc seulement 5.5 degrés à 6.5 degrés de SI fait par aimant naturel Nan. La dynastie orientale Wang de Han en son livre « tout bien pesé » des formes et des directions de SI Nan a noté clair. SI Nan est bloc après cuillère aimant-faite considérante, poteau de guide de cuillère, font la cuillère entière exactement que le foyer est tombé au centre de l'extrémité de la cuillère, cuillère sous les chantiers de construction lisses, emplacements étrangers dans Yens, Riganzhi autour gravés avec les couples, à la synthèse de 24. Cette conception est une observation sérieuse des ancients beaucoup de la nature magnétique du phénomène, et beaucoup accumulé de la connaissance et d'expérience, après des années d'étude avant accomplissement. Les personnes de SI Nan sont l'apparition de la polarité magnétique r efers to the practical application of knowledge. But SI Nan has many flaws, natural magnet is not easy to find, easy processing time for combat, and the heat loss of excitation. So SI Nan magnetic relatively weak, but contacts with the Office site to be very smooth, otherwise they will be turning too much friction, trying rotation, could not achieve the intended effect of the guidelines. SI Nan and a certain size and weight, very convenient to carry, This is probably not SI Nan long been widely used in 2001. SI Nan bronze plate made and natural magnet magnetic component spoon, a bronze plate inscribed with the 24 to disregard magnetic disk spoon in the center disc. static, spoon at the end of the South. The invention of the compass, the ancient folk used to cut thin leaf iron into fish, fish in the abdomen slightly hollow, like a small boat, After magnetic floating in the water, we will be able to guide the North. At that time, which is used as a game. Cui Eastern leopard in the ancient Note, which referred to the Guide to fish. Northern Song Dynasty, Zeng Qiliang in public, General Military contains guidelines for the production and use of the fish : Rail thin with leaves tailoring, Ercun length, width 0.2, both sharp as fish, at the expense of charcoal fire rage, Hou Link red iron seal seal fish out the first fire, the end is to pair up spaces Zhanshui desired shape is not only the final minutes to close for harvests. use, no home Shuiwan in the wind perpendicularly fish in the water, floating, to its first regular afternoon also. This is an artificial magnetic methods, which use the earth's magnetic field, magnetization of iron tablets. That is a hot iron tablets placed in the radial direction. Hot iron plates internal elements in a relatively activities of the state, so that iron molecule along with the direction of the Earth's magnetic field, achieve the purpose of magnetization. Dipping into the water, and this can be arranged quickly fixed, and the Merlion will increase slightly downward slopping magnetization. Artificial magnetization method, the invention of the compass use and development has played a tremendous role. The magnetic and geomagnetic development is a major event in history. Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty, Meng Xi Bi Tan, said another artificial magnetic approach : Magnetic Mount expert to head, they can guide. by Shen Kuo said, the technicians used a magnet to friction needle, then onto the magnetic needle. From the current point of view, this is a natural magnet to the magnetic field, enable pin internal magnetic domain of convergence with a certain direction, so that the pin shows that the magnetic method. This method than geomagnetic method is simple, but effective than geomagnetic magnetization method, and the friction law is the world's earliest inventions, but for the practical value of the magnetic point for the emergence created the conditions. Shen Kuo also Meng Xi Bi Tan, a supplement to absorb, talked about the law of friction caused by the magnetic phenomena : magnet Mount head, often sharply Department guidelines also refer to the North, the fear of sexual or stone ... contrary to the South and the North should vary, do not have a deep examination ears. That is to say, using a magnet to friction needle, the needle guide sometimes front, sometimes refers to the North. From the current perspective, a magnet has two N and S poles, and when magnetized needle head position, is the magnetization direction is different. But Sheng Kuo did not know the reason, he's a true record of this phenomenon and frankly admit that they did not do in-depth thinking. In the expectation that future generations can be further explored. On the needle devices, Sheng Kuo introduced the four methods : 1. Float water -- will wear the needle on top of Juncus effusus floating in the water, can direction. 2. Rotary Bowl lips fixed -- the needle up on CD brink of the needle can rotate direction. 3. Rotary fixed fingernails -- put aside the needle above fingernails as nail is smooth, rotating the needle can be easily and direction. 4. Clothed hanging Act -- the needle in the central Tu some wax, a sticky silk, hanging in the wind not as a place that can instruct the course. Shen Kuo also on the four methods of comparison, he noted that the water float the biggest drawback of the water easily sloshing impact on the measurement results. Bowl rotation fixed lip and nail fixed rotation, as a small friction, rotation is very flexible, but tend to fall. Sheng Kuo compared hold in esteem the thread hanging, in his view, is an ideal and practical way. In fact Sheng Kuo noted that the four methods to date have been summarized in the two devices compass system -- water and dry needle acupuncture. Meng Xi Bi Tan Shen Kuo (1031-1095), author of the ancient Chinese science and technology works, The book told of magnetic compass and some of the problems. Southern Yuan Chen Liang in the Lin Guang Ji, on the fish and other Guide Guide turtles making. This guide fish with armed by the documented in a book is different is the use of wooden statue fish fingers are so big muyu into the belly of a natural magnet placement, the magnet S pole at the head, sealed with wax good, I fish from a needle inserted. Guide fish become. Be floating on the water surface, the head guide, this is a dose of water category. Guide turtle is popular at the time a new device, a lodestone placed in the abdominal wood turtles, Abdominal wood turtles in the bottom of a smooth dug a hole at the tower and placed on the board in the top of a sharp slide in Penny reinforce, This wood turtles were placed in a fixed, free rotation on the fulcrum. As the fulcrum Department friction small, wood turtles can freely turn Guide. When it is not used for navigation and direction, and for the trick. But this is the subsequent emergence of the precursor dry compass. Guide turtles invention was not later than 1325. - Etched pieces of wood turtles, tortoises embedded in the abdomen magnet center, wood turtles are located in Tsim prop-up, when stationary-guide both the North. Compass position to determine the direction of the compass addition, they also need a round plate match. Initially use the compass, it may not have a fixed position plate, with the need to measure the direction, a position of the needle site and integrated compass. Geomantic compass with the Romanian site and water compass, dry compass. Azimuth site is 24 to, but the disk has been turned into a square circle. Such a look at the position of the needle plate in the position, we will be able to conclude that position out. Southern, has three different words were recorded by the records of the literature in this area : in Beaufort or Meridian is the arm Meridian C or scraping between needle. This is the Romanian site of the earliest documented. Described in the literature to Lo, is to Romania, is the Romanian site. Literature has been put magnetic declination of knowledge on the use of the compass. This is not only a compass needle Meridian (to determine the direction of magnetic poles, the magnetic needle) Meridian also between C scraping needle (with the shadow of the sun to determine the geographic poles, direction) between the two directions at an angle, is the magnetic declination. Disks around 24 engraved position, in which water, the needle across Story, floating on the water surface. Now we already know that the Earth's magnetic pole and two geographical poles, is nearly no coincidence. The needle at the Earth's magnetic pole, not the geographic North and South poles, and so the needle means it is not due south. Zhengbei direction of some variation of this is called magnetic declination angle. Because Earth's spherical approximation, the magnetic needle pointing it downward slopping at the Pole, and a horizontal angle. as the angle between magnetic inclination. Different locations of the magnetic declination and inclination not the same. A book of the Song Dynasty, by the total force to On the manufacturing method using magnetic compass, it is attention to the use of magnetic angle. Sheng Kuo Meng Xi Bi Tan, On the compass guide incomplete, and often micro-easterly. That the magnetic declination of its existence. Magnetic declination and inclination of the discovery of the compass point is accurate. Magnetic properties of an application by the invention of the compass will soon be applied in the military, production and daily life, topographical surveys, Navigation in particular. Compass navigation in the application development is a gradual process. Book's slightly later than the Meng Xi Bi Tan, Ping Chau to talk about in mind : Battles understanding geography, were viewing the night, the day it concept, Compass concept is dubious. This is the world's navigation history of the earliest recorded use of the compass. Wen pointed out that in the Bible, only when they can not see the use of the compass, we can see the beginning of the use of the compass. use less than skilled. 20 years later, Xu Jing and announced plans by an Ambassador Korea has a similar record : However, as the former star Mai, If unlucky offerings used needles floating guide to estimate the South and the North. to the Yuan Dynasty, Compass has leapt from the sea means freedom of the most important instruments of. Yin Ching both day and night using a compass navigation. But also prepared to use the compass navigation, sailing in different locations compass needle-connectivity plan, which is called the needle Road. Ship to go to a place, Dr needle-direction, road marking routes are all aware, as the basis for navigation. The invention of the compass, the ancient ancestors of magnetic phenomena observed and the results of the study. Ancient ancestors of magnetic phenomena for observation and study the process further understanding of the magnetic nature, and attempting to use more of this nature. Legendary emperor built Afang Palace, it is a magnet Gongmen Daoyin manufactured. If the assassin with a sword and that will be immediately attracts, the guards were caught red-handed. This is also the story of many, Jin Shu. Malone Biography documented Malone shuaibing western Gansu, Shaanxi, of the enemy to go through the narrow roads on either side, stacking magnet. The soldier wearing armor when passing by the firm attracts, the paralyzed. Malone, the soldiers wore Xijia, a magnet for they have no role to act freely. Enemies that magic, and no war is made. Eastern Han Dynasty foreign body Chi recorded around the islands in the South China Sea some shoals containing magnet Regular magnet to restrain iron leaf of the ship attracts, it is difficult to escape. Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, my ancestors on the nature of magnets has been a lot of awareness. Even when the poet Cao Zhi Zhi Jiao poem was used for magnetic iron primer on gold is not even. Sentence. It is evident that he also understands the nature of a magnet. Northern and Southern Dynasties Liang Tao Hongjing behalf of the other doctors were submitted to the magnetic measurement methods, he noted : excellent magnet produced in the South, a strong magnetic, attracting 3, 4 iron, so that both top-needle pegged on the magnet. Magnetic stronger magnet to attract more than ten-iron needles, even attracts a pour some knives. Tao Hongjing not only the strength of a magnetic neutral, but that the measurement method. This may be the world's first magnetic measurement records. 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1.April Fools' Day or All Fools' Day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbors, or sending them on fools' errands, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. In some countries, April Fools' jokes (also called April Fools) are only made before midday. [1] It is also widely celebrated on the Internet.2.OriginThe origin of this custom has been much disputed. Many theories have been suggested.What seems certain is that it is in some way or other a relic of those once universal festivities held at the vernal equinox, which, beginning on old New Year's Day, the 25th of March, ended on the 1st of April.It has been suggested that Europe derived its April-fooling from the French [2]. France was one of the first nations to make January 1 officially New Year's Day (which was already celebrated by many), by decree of Charles IX. This was in 1564, even before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar (See Julian start of the year). Thus the New Year's gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of April became associated with the first day of January, and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair game for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of pretended ceremony on the 1st of April. French and Dutch references from 1508 and 1539 respectively describe April Fools' Day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of April.Though the 1st of April appears to have been anciently observed in Great Britain as a general festival, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of April-fools was a common custom. In Scotland the custom was known as hunting the gowk, i.e. the cuckoo, and April-fools were April-gowks, the cuckoo being there, as it is in most lands, a term of contempt. In France the person fooled is known as poisson d'avril. This has been explained from the association of ideas arising from the fact that in April the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. A far more natural explanation would seem to be that the April fish would be a young fish and therefore easily caught.The Dutch celebrate the 1st of April for other reasons. In 1572, the Netherlands were ruled by Spain's King Philip II. Roaming the region were Dutch rebels who called themselves Geuzen, after the French gueux, meaning beggars. On 1 April, 1572, the Geuzen seized the small coastal town of Den Briel. This event was also the start of the general civil rising against the Spanish in other cities in the Netherlands. The Duke of Alba, commander of the Spanish army could not prevent the uprising. Bril is the Dutch word for glasses, so on 1 April, 1572, Alba lost his glasses. Dutch people find this joke so hilarious they still commemorate the first of April.The French traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing a dead fish on the back of friends. Today the fish is substituted by a floppy kerk.Chaucer's story, the Nun's Priest's Tale, written c.1400, takes place on 32 March; that is, 1 April; it is Chanticleer and the Fox, a story of two fools.3.Well-known hoaxesAlabama Changes the Value of Pi: The April 1998 newsletter of New Mexicans for Science and Reason contained an article claiming that the Alabama Legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the Biblical value of 3.0. This claim originally appeared as a news story in the 1961 sci-fi classic Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. Spaghetti trees: The BBC television programme Panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing the Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They had claimed that the despised pest the spaghetti wevil had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees. South Park: April 1st was advertised as being the premiere of the show's second seasonand also the resolution of a cliffhanger where Eric Cartman was about to discover the identity of his father. Fans spent weeks speculating on the father's identity, but when they tuned in to the episode, they were instead treated to a half-hour of Terrance and Phillip fart jokes. The true resolution to the cliffhanger aired several weeks later. The show's creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone claim during the DVD introduction to this episode that they received death threats over pulling the prank, although there were not any police reports to prove this. Left Handed Whoppers: In 1998, Burger King ran an ad in USA Today, saying that people could get a Whopper for left-handed people whose condiments were designed to drip out the right side. Taco Liberty Bell: In 1996, Taco Bell took out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times announcing that they had purchased the Liberty Bell to reduce the country's debt and renamed it the Taco Liberty Bell. When asked about the sale, White House press secretary Mike McCurry replied with tongue-in-cheek that the Lincoln Memorial had also been sold and would henceforth be known as the Ford Lincoln Mercury Memorial. Lies to Get You Out of the House In 1985, the L.A. Weekly printed an entire page of fake things to do on April Fools day, by which hundreds of people were fooled. Kremvax: In 1984, in one of the earliest on-line hoaxes, a message was circulated that Usenet had been opened to users in the Soviet Union. San Serriffe: The Guardian printed a supplement in 1977 praising this fictional resort, its two main islands (Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse), its capital (Bodoni), and its leader (General Pica). Intrigued readers were later disappointed to learn that San Serriffe (sans serif) did not exist except as references to typeface terminology. (This comes from a Jorge Luis Borges story). FBI Crackdowns on On-line File Sharing of Music: Such announcements on April Fools Day have become common. Metric time: Repeated several times in various countries, this hoax involves claiming that the time system will be changed to one in which units of time are based on powers of 10. Smell-o-vision: In 1965, the BBC purported to conduct a trial of a new technology allowing the transmission of odor over the airwaves to all viewers. Many viewers reportedly contacted the BBC to report the trial's success. This hoax was also conducted by the Seven Network in Australia in 2005. Tower of Pisa: The Dutch television news reported once in the 1950s that the Tower of Pisa had fallen. Many shocked people contacted the station [citation needed]. Wrapping Televisions in Foil: In another year, the Dutch television news reported that the government had new technology to detect unlicensed televisions (in many European countries, television license fees fund public broadcasting), but that wrapping a television in aluminium foil could prevent its detection. Breast Exams by Satellite: In the 1990s, Portuguese national television network RTP announced the Ministry of Health would perform free breast exams by satellite, causing thousands of women to go out topless [citation needed]. Assassination of Bill Gates: Many Chinese and South Korean websites claimed that CNN reported Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, was assassinated [3]. Write Only Memory: Signetics advertised Write Only Memory IC databooks in 1972 through the late 1970s. Wheel of Fortune\\\/Jeopardy Double Switch: In 1997, Pat Sajak, the host of Wheel of Fortune, traded hosting duties with Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek for one show. In addition to Sajak hosting Jeopardy!, he and co-host Vanna White appeared as contestants on the episode of Wheel hosted by Trebek. White's position was filled by Sajak's wife Leslie [4]. Comic strip switcheroo: Cartoonists of popularly syndicated comic strips draw each others' strips. In some cases, the artist draws characters in the other strip's milieu, while in others, the artist draws in characters from other visiting characters from his own. Cartoonists have done this sort of switcheroo for several years. The 1997 switch was particularly widespread. The Trouble with Tracy: In 2003, The Comedy Network in Canada announced that it would produce and air a remake of the 1970s Canadian sitcom The Trouble with Tracy. The original series is widely considered to be one of the worst sitcoms ever produced. Several media outlets fell for the hoax. National Television Station (TVM) in Malta: In 1995, TVM announced the discovery of a new underground prehistoric temple with a mummy. Another year, TVM announced that Malta would adopt the European continent convention of driving on the right-hand side of the road [citation needed]. Free wine for all:The Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende announced in 1987 that the state's alcohol monopoly had 10,000 litres of illegally smuggled wine that had been confiscated. The inhabitants of Bergen were invited to the main store in town to receive their share of the goods, rather than to spill good wine down the drain. That morning staff were met by about 200 men & women with bottles, buckets, and other suitable vessels for carrying the prized goods. Legislation in Norway causes alcohol to be relatively expensive and have limited availability [citation needed]. Rain drop power: On April 1st 2006 Norwegian media had a one-page story concerning rain drop power, which could replace oil as a primary energy source. One could write to the energy company BKK in Bergen in order to be a volunteer and receive the power generated for free. The Canadian news site bourque.org announced in 2002 that Finance Minister Paul Martin had resigned in order to breed prize Charolais cattle and handsome Fawn Runner ducks. SARS Infects Hong Kong: In 2003 during the time when Hong Kong is seriously hit by SARS, it was rumored that many people in Hong Kong had become infected with SARS and become uncontrolled, that all immigration ports would be closed to quarantine the region, and that Tung Chee Hwa, the Chief Executive of Hong Kong at that time, had resigned. Hong Kong supermarkets were immediately overwhelmed by panicked shoppers. The Hong Kong government held a press conference to deny the rumor. The rumor, which was intended as an April Fools' prank, was started by a student by imitating the design of Ming Pao newspaper website. He was charged for this incident.(Announcement of Hong Kong Government denying this rumor) China Decapitates Taiwan: In 2005, an undergraduate nicknamed SkyMirage, who was well-known in Taiwan for his humor, fabricated a series of news that China's airforce was bombarding Office of President, Taiwan. Water on Mars: In 2005 a news story was posted on the official NASA website purporting to have pictures of water on Mars. The picture actually was just a picture of a glass of water on a Mars Candy Bar. Annual BMW Innovations see a new cutting-edge invention by BMW advertised across British newspapers every year, examples including: Warning against counterfeit BMWs: the blue and white parts of the logo were reversed The Toot and Calm Horn (after Tutankhamun), which calms rather than aggravates other drivers, so reducing the risk of road rage, MINI cars being used in upcoming space missions to Mars, IDS (Insect Deflector Screen) Technology - using elastic solutions to bounce insects off the windscreen as you drive, SHEF (Satellite Hypersensitive Electromagnetic Foodration) Technology, which sees the car's GPS systems synchronise with home appliances to perfectly cook a meal for the instant you return home, Marque-Wiper - mini-wipers for each exterior BMW logo coming as standard on all future models, Uninventing the wheel to counter the EU ban on right-hand drive cars, and Zoom Impression Pixels (ZIP) to counter new Slow Cameras. Sheng Long - Electronic Gaming Monthly's infamous hoax of a secret character in Street Fighter II. There have been several other EGM pranks that readers have fallen into. Among them: claiming that some Street Fighter II characters possessed unlisted special moves, including Chun-Li hurling her bracelets at an opponent, Sega mascots Sonic and Tails appearing as playable characters in Super Smash Bros. Melee, and the release of a graphically-remade The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker as a preorder bonus. All such pranks have been met with praise and equal hatred from its readers, as can be seen in the April Fools letters section in the May issue. EGM tried the Sheng Long hoax again with Street Fighter III and once again got some people to believe it. Coldplay to back the Tories - On April 1 2006 the UK Guardian journalist Olaf Priol claimed that Chris Martin of rock band Coldplay had decided to publicly support the UK Conservative Party leader David Cameron due to his disillusionment with current New Labour prime minister Tony Blair [3], even going so far as to produce a fake song, Talk to David, that could be downloaded via the Guardian website [4]. despite being an obvious hoax, the Labour Party's Media Monitoring Unit were concerned enough to circulate the story throughout most of the government [5]. 4.Side-effects of April Fools' DayThe frequency of April Fool hoaxes sometimes makes people doubt real news stories released on 1 April.Hawaiians running from an approaching tsunami in Hilo, HawaiiThe 1 April 1946 Aleutian Island earthquake tsunami that killed 165 people on Hawaii and Alaska resulted in the creation of a tsunami warning system (specifically the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center), established in 1949 for Pacific Ocean area countries. The tsunami is known in Hawaii as the April Fools' Day Tsunami due to people drowning due to thinking the warnings were an April Fools' prank.Gmail's April 2004 launch was widely believed to be a prank, as Google was known to include joke pages on their website, until that point.The merger of Square and its rival company, Enix, took place on April 1, 2003, and was originally thought to be a joke. Fans of the long running square series Final Fantasy often claim that the merger was in fact a joke due to the decline of the series after the merger.The 2005 death of comedian Mitch Hedberg was originally dismissed as an April Fools' joke. The comedian's March 29, 2005 death was announced on April 1, 2005.Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z was announced for production by Aniplex, Cartoon Network, and Toei Animation on 1 April 2005 and was originally discredited, but turned out to be true when poster art and clips from the series were revealed days later. [8]People obeying hoax messages to telephone Mr.C.Lion and Mr.L.E.Fant and suchlike at a telephone number that turns out to be a zoo, sometimes cause a serious overload to zoos' telephone switchboards.more on wikipedia~
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1.Story summary: Emerge in Pacific beautiful island and islet: Magical island . The magical island crosses the fake Ke Nan Yi pedestrian , the field looks for precious buried treasure hunters with gathering here meeting by chance during the past the sunk in sleep seabed historical remains the ancient times seabeds palace , 2 daughter pirates 99 Bonny , Mary · Read legend having buried treasure left in there that 300 years there exists in the front to be handing down from generation to generation on the island to be able to be seen everywhere against the law or the movement buried treasure hunters. When probing the seabed palace, 1 buried treasure hunter is died by shark group after assaulting. The feeling thing takes place queer, Ke Nan spreads out just with disheartened plain and others。
2.Appeared in the beautiful Pacific island : islands. Island beauty of sleeping with ancient relics Harbor Harbor Palace. 300 years ago the two female pirates, Bonny. Mary Read, there have treasures to the spirit of the legend of a pedestrian island holiday General Klan. and the treasure hunters who gathered at the opening ceremony Chee Hwa here can be seen everywhere in the treasure hunters were bad moves. Exploring Harbor Palace, one treasure hunter died after being attacked by the shark group. A sense of the long debates, the General Klan and others will start with the Gray investigation. General Klan reasoning treasure hunters killed in the incident and will treasure legends gradually untied. Biggest mystery is hidden in the Blackjack What is the secret? This time, the climax stage, the palace was transferred to the seafloor. 3.Story : There was once a beautiful island that floats in the Pacific Ocean – the Magical Island (请注意，在标点中很少用到!!) A legend on the island has told, for , of an Undersea Palace that has been dormant on the bottom of the ocean since ancient times. A treasure was supposedly left there 300 years ago by two female pirates, Bonny and Mary Read. Ke Nan, a vacationer who had come to the island for a holiday, accidentally with the treasure hunters who were seen all over the island demonstrating illicit behaviour. Once, when exploring the Undersea Palace, one of the treasure hunters died from an attack by a group of sharks.(我个人觉得这句话有点不合实际因为一般不以群居。
) Feeling suspicious, Ke Nan immediately started investigating with Hui Yuan and friends. Using logical deduction, Ke Nan solved the mystery of the treasure hunter’s death and the legend of the treasure one by one. The most confounding problem was What exactly is the secret within the ‘Flag of the Pirates'? This time, the stage of the intense action turns to the Undersea Palace!! 4.Story epitome:Present in beautiful group of islands on the Pacific Ocean: The absolute being island. Pass from generation to generation the legend of the bottom of sea soundly asleep wears the ancient historic relic bottom of sea palace,300 year agos existent 2 woman's pirate the Anne · Bonny, the Mary · Read stays to have the treasure to hide there on the island Come to Conan's a group of people of the absolute being island holiday, Hide the hunters to fortune upon with gathering in the treasure that looks for the treasure here Everywhere it is thus clear that the treasure of the irregular action hides the hunters. While investigate the bottom of sea palace,1 treasure dies after hide the hunter the quilt the shark infestation shot. A feeling matter is suspicious, Conan is then and together the to wait for someone to launch the inquisition at first. The usage of Conan reason logically to hide treasure the hunter is kill the affairs and treasures hide the legend to untie one by one. Biggest riddle regiment, conceal in the pirate ensign what is the secret actually? This time, the satge of the high tide, was transfered to the bottom of sea palace.
