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AS IT IS 2013-09-24 Honoring the Victims of the Birmingham, Alabama Church Bombing 50 Years Ago From VOA Learning English, welcome to As It Is! Im Steve Ember. Today we remember a day 50 years ago this month when four African American girls were kill
Winking Star Six Centuries Ago Explained 揭秘600年前那颗一闪即逝的恒星 On March 11, 1437, Korean royal astronomers noticed something out of the ordinary in the night sky. There was a brand new star they'd never seen before, between two o
Lower East Side Tenement Museum Recreates Life in New York for Immigrants 100 Years Ago 下东区公寓博物馆再创100年前纽约移民的生活 From VOA Learning English, welcome to This Is America. Im Steve Ember. Today, Bob Doughty and Faith L
Tobacco Report From 50 Years Ago Has Changed the World 吸烟有害报告50周年 If there is one person whose work created a ripple effect that is changing the world, it was the ninth surgeon general of the United States. Fifty years ago this month,
By Jessica Berman Washington 04 October 2007 Fifty years ago, on October 4, 1957, the former Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite into Earth's orbit, called Sputnik , which began a space race with the United States. While the intense co
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Rachel, I'm taking us back to high school for a minute. Our big problems are not detention, not homework. Instead, they are demons, the undead and vampires that need to be slayed. (SOUNDBITE OF NERF HERDER'S BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAY
KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Selena the movie debuted 20 years ago today. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, SELENA) JENNIFER LOPEZ: (As Selena) My dreams were the same as the dreams of all those people who were out there in the audience, like all their hopes were centered
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Donald Trump won white, working-class voters by a bigger margin than any Republican presidential candidate in modern history. Cultural and economic grievances were a big part of that. A new survey by NPR, the Robert Wood John
DAVID GREENE, HOST: Fifty years ago today, as the U.S. was reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King, the British politician Enoch Powell delivered an apocalyptic warning to his Conservative Party about the dangers of mass immigration. Pow
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) DAVID GREENE, HOST: So it has been a year now since a gunman killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando. And today on StoryCorps, we're going to remember Deonka Drayton, one of the people murdered that night. She was 32 a
By David Gollust Santiago 11 March 2006 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Chile for the inauguration of the South American country's president-elect Michelle Bachelet. On the sidelines of the
Forty years ago today was our worst tragedy at sea in living memory. The inter-island ferry, the Wahine, with 734 passengers, struck rocks in the Wellington harbour and sank. 51 people died. This was the Easter holiday and many people were travelling
By Parke Brewer Dortmund, Germany 10 June 2006 Trinidad and Tobago got off to a good start in its World Cup debut, holding heavily favored Sweden to a surprising scoreless draw. Trinidad and Tobago's goalkeeper Shaka Hislop (L) and teammates celebra
In the 1980s, France was carrying out nuclear weapons tests on small islands in the South Pacific. Greenpeace was preparing to visit Mururoa in French Polynesia to protest about Frances nuclear tests. The Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, was tie
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Parents, consider this your trigger warning. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, BARNEY THEME SONG) UNIDENTIFIED CHILDREN #1: (Singing) Barney is a dinosaur from our imagination, and when he's tall, he's what we call a dinosaur sensation. SIEGEL
Su Ge heads the China Institute of International Studies. He says President Xi Jinping's visit to the US this time carries the same gravity as former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's visit to the United States 36-years ago. With the changing pattern of