[00:01.72]Benjamin Franklin [00:07.17]Franklin's life is full of charming stories [00:11.27]which all young men should know [00:13.04]how he peddled ballads in Boston, and stood, [00:16.22]the guest of kings in Europe; [00:18.15]how he worked his pas

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AILSA CHANG, HOST: People are paying their final respects to Aretha Franklin today. She's lying in repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit as part of memorial activities this week in her hometown leading up to he

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Pink Cadillacs Will Line Up For Aretha Franklin's Funeral DAVID GREENE, HOST: When Detroit celebrates the life of Aretha Franklin on Friday, there will be more than a hundred pink Cadillacs lining the road in front of the church where her funeral wil

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VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was related to an earlier president with same last name, Theodore Roosevelt. Many Americans call Franklin Roosevelt by the first letter of eac

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VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Today we tell about one of the greatest American presidents, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Franklin Delano Roosevelt Frank

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When they hear the name Ben Franklin, many folks think of the Declaration of Independence, the Continental Congress and things like that. Not as many people remember that Franklin was an inventor . . . and a good one, too! He also did some pioneering

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Did Ben Franklin really discover electricity with a kite? 本.富兰克林真的靠一只风筝发现了电吗? Everybody has heard the famous story of how pioneering experimenterand part-time founding fatherBen Franklin tied a key to a kite string

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Pre-Listening Vocabulary propose: suggest Great Seal of the US: a presidential stamp placed on federal documents in the US illustration: drawing vain: overly admiring of oneself invader: an unwelcome person who tries to enter or take over a region by

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THE MAKING OF A NATION #82 - Franklin Pierce, Part 1 By Chris Johnson Broadcast: Thursday, September 30, 2004 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the V

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VOA Learning English presents Americas Presidents. Today we are talking about Franklin Pierce, the 14th president of the United States. He took office in 1853 at age 48. At that time, he was the youngest person elected to the White House. Pierce was

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Shirley: Yuri, I'm really enjoying checking out all your art, and I'd like to ask you some questions about this one in particular: Franklin's Fear. Can you tell me how you came up with the idea for this painting? Yuri: Right, this one came up with a

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STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a kind of ghost story next. It's the backstory of a discovery. Three years ago on this program, we placed a phone call to the journalist Paul Watson. He was on an icebreaker, a ship in the Arctic with the aid of a helicop

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Aretha Franklin, The 'Queen Of Soul,' Dies At 76 DAVID GREENE, HOST: We are sad to report this morning that the Queen of Soul has died. Aretha Franklin was 76 and had pancreatic cancer. Let's look back now with NPR's Ted Robbins. TED ROBBINS, BYLINE:

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MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We are going to end this program where we started it - by remembering a towering figure from American life. On Friday, the Greater Grace Temple in Detroit embodied the spirit, the fierceness and the joy of Aretha Franklin. Thousa

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Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林 Franklin's life is full of charming stories which all young men should know-how he peddled ballads in Boston, and stood, the guest of kings in Europe; how he worked his passage as a stowaway to Philadelphia, an

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Eleanor looked different when she returned to New York after Allenswood. She walked and talked with confidence. She looked attractive in her smart, new clothes. The long dresses suited her. But no matter how confident Eleanor looked or felt, there wa

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Aretha Franklin 艾瑞莎弗兰克林 All the stars want to be slim, but American queen of soul Aretha Franklin is different. Miss Franklin couldnt be happier, she says, Im proud to be a Big Woman. 明星们都希望能拥有美好苗条的身形,然

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Benjamin Franklin 本杰明富兰克林 Franklin's parents were both pious Puritans. The family attended the old South Church, the most liberal Puritan congregation in Boston, where Benjamin Franklin was baptized in 1706. 富兰克林的双亲皆为虔

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Franklin Roosevelt 富兰克林罗斯福 Franklin Roosevelt was one of the most important leaders of twentieth century America and perhaps in the whole span of American history. He significantly changed the role of the federal government in the Ameri

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