By Peta Thornycroft Harare 31 March 2008 Zimbabwe's electoral commission has begun releasing official results from the nation's presidential and legislative elections. The announcement of the preliminary tallies, showing the ruling and main oppositio

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Ellie spoke to the tour agent. The price for the 3-night bus tour was good. Her cousin Vicky called her. Ellie told Vicky about the tour. Vicky liked the price. She said she and her husband would come, too. On Saturday, Ellie and her young son met Vi

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It was a big apartment building. The building was in a big city. Delivery people left packages at the front desk. The front desk held the packages for apartment tenants. Mr. Smith was expecting a package. He stopped at the front desk. Had his package

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AMERICAN MOSAIC - Country Music: Lee Ann Womack Is the Big Winner at CMA Awards By Lawan Davis, Katherine Gypson and Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Friday, November 25, 2005 (MUSIC) HOST: Welcome to AMERI

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Farm Workers Union Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Grape Strike By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Friday, September 30, 2005 I'm Jim Tedder with the VOA Special English Economics Report.

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The happiest place on earth is officially middle-aged. Disneyland has just turned fifty and Disney is marking the occasion with a huge celebration. The southern California icon has inspired a number of spin-offs and imitators. To keep up. Disneyland

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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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By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 26 September 2009 Protesters have demonstrated in front of the Burmese Embassy in Bangkok to mark the second anniversary of the military crackdown on Buddhist monk-led calls for democracy. About 30 protesters, including Bud

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AlligatorRecordsCelebrates40thAnniversary Happy 40th birthday Alligator Records! The legendary blues label has marked the event with the release of Alligator Records 40th Anniversary Collection. If you ever want to start a blues label you should prob

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LYNN NEARY, HOST: Writer Ann Brashares struck gold with her book The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants. The best-selling novel for young adults turned into a series and was made into a movie. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, THE SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELING PANTS)

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LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST: Anne Tyler's latest novel is about a woman in her 60s who married young, had two children and then is widowed young. She remarries and finds her life truly changed by a phone call that was probably made in error. But, of cours

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Polio Vaccine 50th Anniversary By Karen Legget and Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, May 03, 2004 This is Robert Cohen with the VOA Special English Development Report. Fifty years ago,

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By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 15 October 2007 Thomas Sankara, the charismatic former president of West Africa's Burkina Faso who gave the country its name, will be memorialized alongside the celebrations for progress made under the current rule of President

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By Al Pessin Pentagon 17 March 2008 As the Iraq war passes its fifth anniversary this week, the U.S. military is bracing for a transition that will reduce its combat power in Iraq by more than 20 percent by July, as the surge forces President Bush de

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By Faiza Elmasry Milwaukee, Wisconsin 14 September 2007 The Midwestern U.S. city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is home to many immigrants and their descendants from many different cultures, and this ethnic mix is celebrated with a number of summer festival

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By Stefan Bos Budapest 11 July 2007 A Bosnian Muslim woman cries over a coffin with the remains of her relative in Potocari, near Srebrenica, during funeral ceremony of 465 Bosnian Muslims, 11 Jul 2007 An estimated 30,000 people gathered near the Bos

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People climb around a statue of former South African President Nelson Mandela, during celebrations outside the Drakenstein prison near Cape Town, 11 Feb 2010 South Africans Thursday celebrated the release from prison 20 years ago of former President

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By Retno Pinasti and Rafael Setyo Washington 21 August 2007 A coal-powered engine on the Strasburg Railroad A visit to Strasburg, Pennsylvania is a trip to the past, a time when steam powered the railroads and horse-drawn implements were used to farm

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Sixty-four years ago, the United States dropped the first nuclear weapon used in war on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A few days later, another was exploded over Nagasaki. More than 200,000 people died in the bombings and many of them were Korean.

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Keren Ann的音乐就是无限清新美好的代名词,心情不好的时候总能在她的歌声里找到安慰,治愈系、甜美系、清新系~Keren Ann的歌就像清晨散落草尖的露珠,闪着细微但是令人惊喜的光亮。 Artis

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