STEVE EMBER: Im Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And Im Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we visit two museums housed in one building in Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian American Art Museum recently opened a show on the New Yor

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Washington Tourism Up, Despite Sequester Budget Cuts The number of visitors coming to the National Air and Space Museum has actually increased since the sequester took effect. The budget for the Smithsonian Institution museums that line the National

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A Giving History: Smithsonian Exhibit Showcases Americans' Charitable Acts play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:44repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update

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Martha Was The Last Passenger Pigeon Before the 1900s, passenger pigeons made up about 40 percent of the total bird population in the US. These birds migrated in massive colonies, and there were so many of them that they could actually black out the

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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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Several Tourist Spots Could Close if Government Shuts Down 政府关门导致几个景点关闭 Annual funding for the U.S. government will expire on September 30th. Its up to Congress to pass a bill to fund the government past October 1st. But the t

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EXPLORATIONS – May 29, 2002: Silk Road Folklife Festival By Marilyn Christiano VOICE ONE: This is Mary Tillotson. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, EXPLORATION

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PanamaResearchInstituteDedicatedtoEarth'sEcosystem Every year, about 1,000 scientists from around the world visit the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. The Institute is one of the oldest and largest facilities of its kind in the worl

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EXPLORATIONS - Smithsonian Exhibits Mark 30th Anniversary of AIDS 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 exh

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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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Shaping Human Evolution at the Smithsonian 史密森尼美国博物馆塑造人类进化过程 Welcome to American Mosaic from VOA Learning English. Im June Simms. Today on the show, we visit a museum where art and science help tell the story of huma

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At Smithsonian Festival, Art and Music from Black DC Neighborhoods One group at the festival performs using song and dance to showcase African traditions that are deeply rooted in Washington's black Southeast neighborhoods. The group is performing Ta

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Glass Art Evokes World's Natural Wonders Glass artist Josh Simpson's fascination with the natural wonders of the universe is evident in his intricate platters, which resemble galaxies, as well as his one-of-a-kind planet-like spheres. All of my work

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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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Smithsonian Folklife Festival Honors Pete Seeger 史密森尼民俗生活艺术节 WASHINGTON Each year during the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, theres a concert to honor the legacy of Ralph Rinzler, one of the events founders. This year, it was als

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Smithsonian Folklife Festival Showcases Vanishing Languages As soon as she heard the music, festival goer Patricia Joseph knew she had to dance. I always felt like dancing when I heard this kind of music, and I always felt restrained. But this was so

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ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The National Museum of African-American History and Culture here in Washington has many artifacts connected to slavery. For one woman, visiting the museum this week was a literal homecoming. Isabell Meggett Lucas was born and raise

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AMERICAN MOSAIC -July 5, 2002: Folklife Festival -Silk Road 03 Jul 2002, 19:07 UTC (Smithsonian photo -Kimberly Freeman) HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC — VOA’s radio magazine in Special English.

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Smithsonian, Argonne Team Up to Save Earliest Known Photographs 科学家努力拯救早期知名照片 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS The introduction of the daguerreotype in the 19th century ushered in the era of modern photography. Instead of sitting long hour

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Photo: National Portrait Gallery-Smithsonian Institution In this wooden sculpture by Marshall D. Rumbaugh, Rosa Parks is held by two policemen. Parks was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white male bus rider in Montgomery, Alabama. On

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