In the state of Iowa, Diane Ott Whealy wanted to protect historic plant varieties, like the seeds her great-grandfather brought to the U.S. from Germany more than ahundred years ago.
London was fifteen hundred years old, and was agreat town—for that day.
伦敦有1500年的历史，在那时候，它算一个大城市。
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I have ahundred things to write to you, great and small, if only I could do it neatly, but my writing grows more and more indistinct, a sign, I fear, of heart weakness.