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5,000 Year-Old Tavern Found in Iraq

Introduction:

In Iraq, home to the world’s oldest civilization, a team of archaeologists has unearthed an ancient tavern full of interesting relics. They believe that contrary to popular belief this civilization contained not just priests and noble classes but also a middle class.

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5,000 Year-Old Tavern Found in Iraq | Definition Match

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5,000 Year-Old Tavern Found in Iraq | True or False

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Full text for 5,000 Year-Old Tavern Found in Iraq:

Sumeria, the oldest known civilization, located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers (now Southern Iraq) was already established 1,000 years before the Great Pyramids were built.
In Lagash—inhabited in the fifth millennium BCE and one of the oldest areas in Ancient Mesopotamia—the foundations of a tavern were recently found by archaeologists. They included an open-air sitting area, and a kitchen with a clay oven, clay chiller, and ancient crockery.
Using new magnetometry techniques and sedimentary analysis, the work is taking a different approach to archaeology compared to past excavations in the area.
Among the tavern’s contents were conical eating dishes containing the remains of fish, a Mesopotamian staple, and other storage jars with food inside.
It goes to show, according to the archaeologists, that the city wasn’t simply divided into the priestly and royal strata, and the lower classes, but contained a recognizable middle class as well.

Iraq sure has an interesting history.

Nonprofit Gets $25Mil From Airbnb Co-Founder to Launch Plastic Pollution Cleanup

Introduction:

Plastic is destroying the world’s bodies of water. Now, Airbnb’s co-founder has donated an enormous sum of money to one nonprofit group who’s looking at how to remove all the plastic.

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The news is a consistent and endless source of entertainment, knowledge and discovery. Because it plays such a vital part in our lives and is so important to keep up with, it’s doubtless a piece of your daily routine that can’t go ignored.

There are many reasons to read, watch or listen to the news. Understanding the ramifications of recent legislation passed. Listening to recent events and grasping the potential consequences to your country. Or, simply listening to what’s happening in other countries so you can compare them to your own. It’s a staple in our lives and the most reliable way to get information.

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Quiz Time!

Nonprofit Gets $25Mil From Airbnb Co-Founder to Launch Plastic Pollution Cleanup | Synonym Match

Macth the following words to their synonyms.

Nonprofit Gets $25Mil From Airbnb Co-Founder to Launch Plastic Pollution Cleanup | Fill in the Blank

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Nonprofit Gets $25Mil From Airbnb Co-Founder to Launch Plastic Pollution Cleanup | True or False

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Full text for Money Nonprofit Gets $25Mil From Airbnb Co-Founder to Launch Plastic Pollution Cleanup:

Airbnb’s co-founder has donated $25 million to support a nonprofit called The Ocean Cleanup as they prepare to assemble and deploy the largest plastic capture system ever developed for use in the ocean.
The Ocean Cleanup’s pilot ocean cleaning system, System 002, has been deployed in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) located between Hawaii and California since late 2021. It has so far removed close to 200,000 kilograms of plastic that otherwise would have remained trapped for decades or more.
This pilot system is now in the process of being scaled up to the largest, most cost-effective ocean cleaning system ever developed, and will feature a capture area 2.5 kilometers across, and a three-vessel team that will allow it to operate 24-7.
As the only group currently cleaning the trillions of plastic pieces in the GPGP, The Ocean Cleanup has streamlined their cleaning systems to be as cost-effective as possible, allowing their entirely not-for-profit income generation and any potential donations to go far.
His vision attracted millions in private contributions from philanthropists, even while government scientists sneered at the use of fossil-fuel vessels to pull the nets to capture the plastic.

Money from Trevi Fountain Used to Feed the Poor

Introduction:

Every year the money thrown into the Trevi fountain in Rome is removed through a series of pipes, collected, and used to feed the city’s poor. Tourists throw tons of coins into the fountain hoping for good luck, but the tradition actually goes back to an old movie. Listen to find out more.

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The news is a consistent and endless source of entertainment, knowledge and discovery. Because it plays such a vital part in our lives and is so important to keep up with, it’s doubtless a piece of your daily routine that can’t go ignored.

There are many reasons to read, watch or listen to the news. Understanding the ramifications of recent legislation passed. Listening to recent events and grasping the potential consequences to your country. Or, simply listening to what’s happening in other countries so you can compare them to your own. It’s a staple in our lives and the most reliable way to get information.

That’s why Scrambled Eggs has decided to unite two of your biggest worlds. That is, learning English and keeping up with current events. We hope our challenging exercises, composed of listening, vocabulary and comprehension exercises in English, bring these worlds together in a satisfactory and entertaining way.

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Money from Trevi Fountain Used to Feed the Poor | Definition Match

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Money from Trevi Fountain Used to Feed the Poor | Fill in the Blank

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Money from Trevi Fountain Used to Feed the Poor | True or False

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Full text for Money from Trevi Fountain Used to Feed the Poor:

Each year, more than €1 million in coins thrown into the Trevi Fountain in Rome are removed and used to feed, clothe, and house the city’s poor. The fountain, completed in 1762, is a marble marvel and is one of the Eternal City’s most popular attractions.
It depicts the taming of the waters. Oceanus, god of the sea, is pulled by a shell chariot of seahorses. He is surrounded by shells, coral, fish, and other sea-related objects.
Tradition says that tourists put their back to the fountain and toss a coin over their left shoulder with their right hand. By doing this, the action supposedly guarantees they will return to Rome.
It was a 1954 film, Three Coins, that started the tradition. Three American women living in Rome throw coins into the fountain, wishing upon the Trevi to find love in the city.
The coins are collected by sweeping the coins together and then using a suction machine to gather them. Caritas, a charity managed by the Catholic church, receives this money and uses it to fund soup kitchens, homeless shelters, free supermarkets and other projects for the impoverished.
This money also goes towards a complex on the outskirts of Rome that contains a nursing home, canteen and dental office for city residents living in poverty.