Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Detail of a mural by Allyn Cox in the Capitol building. The painting shows the burning of the Capitol in 1814. The United States declared war on Britain in eighteen twelve. I

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. James Madison In the spring of eighteen twelve, the United States and Britain were moving closer to war. Congress had approved a ninety-day embargo to stop America

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STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. BARBARA KLEIN: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we take you to President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington. (MUSIC) STEVE EMBER: Our story begins on the ev

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AS IT IS 2013-10-16 Amnesty Condemns School Attacks in Nigeria 人权组织谴责武装分子袭击尼日利亚学校 Hello and welcome to As It Is from VOA Learning English! Im Bob Doughty. Today we have two reports from Africa. We hear about claims

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A National Anthem Is Born During War of 1812 - The Making of a Nation No.38 国旗在1812年战争中诞生 From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning English. Im Steve Emb

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First Shots of the Civil War Fired at Fort Sumter 美国内战暴发于萨姆特堡 From VOA Learning English, this is The Making of a Nation. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. In late 1860 and early 1861, South Carolina and other south

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All demonstrations banned with defense minister in charge and army captain still in Moroccan military hospital Scott Stearns | Dakar 23 December 2009 Photo: AP Guinea military leader Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara (L) salutes next to his aide Abubakar Tou

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Remains of Crashed US Helicopter Still Lie in Mogadishu Somalia, now in the grip of famine, is also remembered as the scene of the Black Hawk Down incident, in which two U.S. helicopters were destroyed and 18 American soldiers killed in 1993. One of

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There were street riots. A party of thugs was hired to kill the popular Tribune. Tiberius Gracchus was attacked when he entered the assembly and was beaten to death. Ten years later his brother Gaius tried the experiment of reforming a nation against

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Chapter 31 - Pierre under fire Having descended the hill the general after whom Pierre was galloping turned sharply to the left, and Pierre, losing sight of him, galloped in among some ranks of infantry marching ahead of him. He tried to pass either

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But the prisoners train these puppies to then be service dogs to help our soldiers in Iraq who comes back with traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress, and then send them to the veterans from Iraq. Some of those inmates had never known lov

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美国人种树纪念内战阵亡军人 The U.S. Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history. From 1861 to 1865, at least 620,000 soldiers died in the fighting. The war was fought between the states of the North - the Union, and the South - t

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You spend the first three months on strenuous training, confined within a campsite. 刚开始,你会被关在一处营地里进行三个月的艰苦训练。 You have to run five kilometers every morning, carrying a heavy rucksack and rifle. You mu

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - Native American Indians Go to War to Protect Their Lands By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, September 08, 2005 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in S

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UN Admits Errors On Israeli Video Owen Fay New York 4 Aug 2001 08:02 UTC The United Nations has released a report 1)detailing the role of U.N. peacekeepers during and immediately after the 2)abduction

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The Army 军队 What is an army? 什么是军队? An army is a group of people who are ready to fight. 军队是一群准备战斗的人。 Why do they fight? 他们为什么战斗? They fight to gain something or to protect themselves. 他们为获

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This is AP News Minute. Vicious tornadoes have left trees down and homes destroyed in Nebraska and Oklahoma. Powerful winds ripped through rural Oklahoma, leaving 2 dead in its path. While in Nebraska, softball-sized hail rained down, causing serious

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In Nepal, a group of former child soldiers, living in detention in United Nations-supervised camps since a peace deal ended a Maoist insurgency, has been released. The children are the first of nearly 4,000 young boys and girls affiliated with former

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The evening of the fifth came on. 第五个晚上降临了。 The young moon was shining brightly in a cloudless winter sky, and its light was increased by a new-fallen snow. 冬夜,天上无云,月牙的明亮清辉撒落大地。天,刚下过雪

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Chapter 34 Having run through different yards and side streets, Pierre got back with his little burden to the Gruzinski garden at the corner of the Povarskoy. He did not at first recognize the place from which he had set out to look for the child, so

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