Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. As we reported in our last program, slavery supporters failed to push through Congress a bill to make Kansas a slave state. Congress, instead, let the people of Kansas vote o

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Los Angeles Dodgers Hall of Fame baseball pitcher Sandy Koufax is pictured with President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama at an event honoring Jewish American Heritage Month in the East Room of the White House in Washington, 27 May 2010 U.

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Boy, we just wasted a whole morning, Roy complained over the phone to his middle-aged son. Roys wife had been scheduled for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam, because her shoulder had been bothering her for months. It had gotten to the point wh

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Before I start today's podcast, I would like to mention a little something about the title of yesterday's podcast. One of my listeners, called Bahareh, asked me to explain the expression Super Duper Slither Scooter. First of all, the scooter is just

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By Peter Heinlein Zelanbesa, Ethiopia 12 February 2008 United Nations is set to begin withdrawing peacekeeping forces from Eritrea as early as Wednesday. Sources close to the U.N. Mission say the troops will be relocated to the Ethiopian side of the

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By Steve Schy Turin 24 February 2006 Han Xiaopeng has made history by becoming the first Chinese skier to win an Olympic gold medal. Han's shock victory came in the men's freestyle aerials event Thurs

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 October 2007 The Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union says the cases of more than 250 parliament members in 32 countries who have been imprisoned, killed or disappeared remain unresolved and continue to be

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By Sarah Simpson Lagos 24 September 2007 One of the main armed groups operating in Nigeria's oil rich delta, The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND, has released a statement calling an end to a four-month ceasefire on attacks a

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 14 June 2008 Eritrea has dominated discussions at an East African summit in Addis Ababa attended by all regional leaders except Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki. From the summit site, VOA's Peter Heinlein reports the l

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Egypt's Moussa Stresses Experience in Time of Flux Moussa's past is both a strength and a weakness. The former foreign minister and ex- Arab League chief says he is ready to lead the nation. The country is in a major crisis, noted Moussa. And a major

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US Woman's Afghan Experience Inspires Novel Farishta means 'angel' in Dari, the widely spoken language in northern Afghanistan. It's also the title of a novel by Patricia McArdle, a retired American diplomat who spent a year in Afghanistan. Over her

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In New York City, grocery stores are hard to find. It's a lucky person who lives within a block of a grocery store. Delis and little restaurants are everywhere, but grocery stores are few and far between. The closest grocery store to Brian was Griste

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By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 14 March 2006 Israeli military authorities say a siege at a prison in the West Bank city of Jericho has ended with the surrender of a leading Palestinian militant. The prison s

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ROME, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) -- Inter head coach Claudio Ranieri praised his side's 4-4 draw with Palermo on Wednesday as a great advert for football. Diego Milito scored four goals and Fabrizio Miccoli responded with a hat-trick in the thriller under the s

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By Sarah Simpson Katsina, Nigeria 06 April 2007 Umaru Yar'Adua is the man most likely to become the president of Africa's most populous and oil-rich country, Nigeria. But until he emerged as the ruling party candidate in next month's presidential pol

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By Chris Simkins Washington, DC 08 February 2008 February is National Black History Month in the United States - an annual celebration that promotes and highlights the positive accomplishments made by people of African descent. VOA Correspondent Chri

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U.S. presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama set aside politics on Thursday as they honored the memory of those killed seven years ago in terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. The sharp rhetoric that has marked much of this year

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By George Dwyer Washington, DC 06 July 2006 watch Baby Boomers report President George W. Bush U.S. President George W. Bush turns 60 this week, joining the ranks of about three million American baby boomers who will also reach that landmark this ye

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Ethan: You missed a spot. Marie: Hold on. When we made our bet for the loser to wash the winners car, it didnt include the other person being there and being a pain in the neck . Ethan: Im just here to make sure everything gets washed properly, from

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