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The following morning, Violet told Henry and Jessie about the tire tracks she and Benny had spotted near the old pond. Youre sure they were fresh tracks? Henry asked. Violet shrugged. I think so. They might have been left by visitors, Jessie suggeste
VOICE ONE: This is Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today we tell the story of athlete Jesse Owens.
JesseOwens was the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of a slave. But he had theworlds attention at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, when he left Hitlers Aryan supremacytheories in the dust and collected four individual gold medals. Owenswas still at hi
Puma is a German manufacturer of sports shoes, and lifestyle and other sportswear. It was founded in 1924 by brothers Rudolf and Adolf Dassler. They became famous at the 1936 Olympic Games in Munich. Adolf persuaded U.S. sprinter Jesse Owens to wear
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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Two witchy sisters, a family curse on love and lots of potions and hexes. Author Alice Hoffman returns to the story of the Owens family first begun in her book Practical Magic. You may recall it was turned into a film with
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They could not lose. Resistance movements started. They would take over places like this and opened the sluice gate allowing the water to pour back down into Owens Valley. Irregularly they dynamited the aqueduct. But the city rebuilt it and the game
AMERICAN MOSAIC - Electronic Games for Women / Newport Jazz Festival / Jesse Owens By Broadcast: Friday, August 06, 2004 HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (THEME) This is Doug
B James Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves. His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9. There, a school teacher asked the youth his name. “J.C.” ,he replied.
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