The next morning, Pete met the Aldens at the door to the prep room. Sam isnt here yet, but you can wait for her in there. As Pete headed back down the hall toward the stairs, the children pushed open the door to the prep room. It was dark and quiet i

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No matter what image the name Cleopatra conjures up - a seductress who swayed two Roman rulers, the actress Elizabeth Taylor or the tragic heroine in a play by William Shakespeare - Egypt's last queen continues to fascinate and intrigue more than 2,0

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France, Algeria: Two Lenses on the Past Algeria's war of independence from France has been retold many times - in movies and in history books on both sides of the Mediterranean. Today, the French Army Museum in Paris offers the latest narrative - cas

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To Understand How Religion Shapes America, Look To Its Early Days ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Religion has always played a large role in the history and politics of this country. But in many ways, it has been an untold story. Well, the Smithsonian Museum of

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Voice 1 Welcome to Spotlight. Im Ryan Geertsma. Voice 2 And Im Robin Basselin. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 Marina Cantacuzino is a news

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Whats the mummys curse? Jessie asked. Some people believe mummies should not be removed from where they were buried, said Pete. They believe mummies carry evil spells to punish anyone who disturbs them. Thats the mummys curse. Really? Benny asked, hi

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SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Im Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit three current exhibits in Washington D.C. Two of the exhibits are in the Smithsonian Institutions National Museum of Ameri

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By Jill Moss THIS IS AMERICA -July 29, 2002: National Museum of American History VOICE ONE: The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. collects, cares for and protects more than one-hundred-forty

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Miro's Political Side on Display This is the kind of fantasy painting that Miro is known for. But for the first time, a museum in the United States is showing what's less known about Miro, that many of his paintings were a response to history - espec

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By VOA News 11 July 2006 Noguchi museum exhibit Visionary 20th century designer-inventor Buckminster Fuller and modernist sculptor Isamu Noguchi collaborated to bridge the gap between art and technology to create works that challenged the status quo

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VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we visit the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The United States Botanic Ga

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Music Would Not Be The Same Without the Guitar Im Steve Ember. And Im Phoebe Zimmermann with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a very popular musical instrument. Listen and see if you can guess what it is. If you guessed it was

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DOUG JOHNSON: Welcome to American Mosaic, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) Im Doug Johnson. Today we tell about South by Southwest, the major music conference in Austin, Texas. And we answer a listener question about the meaning of the stars on Americ

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - For Seniors, When Home Becomes a 'Virtual Village' FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Faith Lapidus. Today on our show, we play music from some of the artists performing at this year's Coac

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AS IT IS 2014-03-08 Students Get Hands-on with Science at Smithsonian Hello and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Faith Lapidus in Washington. Do you think learning to play a musical instrument makes a child more intelligent? The answ

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Hemingway Exhibit Opens at JFK Library in Boston 肯尼迪总统图书馆举办海明威展 The novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote 47 possible endings to his book A Farewell to Arms. Eight of them are part of a new show at the John F. Kennedy Presidenti

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Human skulls on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Natural Museum of Natural History Scientists writing in the journal Science report that two skeletons found in a cave in South Africa belong to a previously unclassified species of hominid or e

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RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: All right. I'm going to fess up. I am not a cat person. But NPR's Susan Stamberg is, which is why she leapt at the opportunity to check out a new exhibition at the Smithsonian's Sackler Gallery of Asian art. The exhibition is cal

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: You know, it's pretty rare for a book about a wrenching social problem to read like great literature. But when Evicted: Poverty And Profit In The American City came out in 2016, it won a Pulitzer Prize and a MacArthur genius grant

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Amelia Mary Earhart was born in her grandmothers house in Atchison, Kansas, on July 24, 1897. The house was high on a hill. It had eleven rooms. Maids and a cook worked there. Dinner was served on fine china. Amelias mothers parents had a lot of mone

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