HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. This week: We play music by the comedian, actor and singer Wayne Brady ... And answer a listener question about the most literate cities in the United States ... But

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By Paul Sisco Washington 13 April 2007 Brain scan illustration of thought formation Researchers studying how the brain works say they have begun to be able to see a thought as it forms in the human mind. Scientists in Germany at the Max Planck Instit

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By Jordan Davis Dakar, Senegal 23 October 2006 Muslims around the world are celebrating the end of the holy month of Ramadan. In the village of Ngor, in the northern Dakar suburbs, the celebrations mean a new wardrobe for many. In a small, dark wood

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By Mona Ghuneim New York 25 April 2007 The Asian Cultural Festival celebrates and explores the multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and multi-dynamic Asian-American experience. Where better to host such a festival than in Queens, New York - the most ethnic

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By Benjamin Sand Irbil, Iraq 23 October 2006 In Iraq, celebrations for Eid al-Fitr to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan were unusually somber. Families gathered amid a sharp rise in violence across the country. ----- Iraqi Sunnis pray

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 28 May 2006 Pope Benedict XVI, right, offers the Holy Communion to a young girl, at Krakow's Blonia park, Poland, during the Holy Mass, Sunday, May 28, 2006 In Poland, hundreds of thousands of people attended a mass Sunda

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 25 May 2006 Fireworks explode as the Dome of the Rock Mosque, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is seen during Israel's Jerusalem Day celebrations Israelis are celebrating Jerusalem Day, an annual holiday aimed at st

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By Greg Flakus New Orleans, Louisiana 22 February 2006 watch Mardi Gras report In New Orleans, five months after Hurricane Katrina's devastation, the city is going ahead with its 150th year of celebra

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It is a festive Christmas Eve in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Christian worshipers light candles inside the Church of Nativity, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, 24 Dec 2008 Palestinian boy and girl scouts marched through Manger Square in Beth

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By Paula Wolfson Washington, D.C. 05 July 2007 President Bush is calling on Americans to be patient, as the U.S. troop buildup takes effect in Iraq. Mr. Bush spoke at an Independence Day event in the state of West Virginia -- as Americans across the

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By Parke Brewer Hamburg 10 June 2006 Germany's Miroslav Klose, right, during World Cup opening game The 2006 World Cup football tournament got under way with host country Germany winning its opening match against Costa Rica in Munich. Millions of fo

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 May 2006 Scene during Israeli anniversary celebrations Israel is celebrating its Independence Day under tight security. The celebrations included an appeal for peace with

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 10 July 2006 Huge celebrations are being held in Italy after the national team's victory over France at the World Soccer Cup championship in Germany. --------- Italian soccer fans cheer and wave their flags by the Vittori

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By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 13 June 2006 Italian fans watch Italy vs Ghana, Group E, World Cup 2006, soccer match, on a giant screen set up in downtown Duomo square in Milan Italians celebrated their victory over Ghana in the first soccer game in th

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By Anita Elash Paris 07 May 2007 French voters celebrated Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential election victory well into the night, as thousands of people gathered in central Paris, for a party sponsored by Mr. Sarkozy. But there were also protests in som

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 02 April 2007 Israel is observing the biblical holiday of Passover under tight security. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the holiday brings ancient traditions together with the complex realities of a m

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 12 April 2006 Israelis are celebrating the weeklong biblical holiday of Passover under tight security. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, some in prayer, gather around a fire as they burn

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By Paula Wolfson Washington 04 July 2006 Americans are celebrating their Independence Day holiday Tuesday across the United States. President Bush was on the road, showing his support for U.S. troops. ------- President Bush smiles as he poses for gr

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By Robert Berger Jerusalem 03 March 2007 Israel is celebrating the biblical holiday of Purim under tight security. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, Israel has restricted the movement of Palestinians amid concerns of possible terr

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 08 April 2007 Christian Orthodox worshippers pray and hold candles at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, 07 Apr 2007 Christians celebrated Easter Sunday in Jerusalem with services in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher and

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