Paul Bunyan, An American Folk Tale Today we tell a traditional American story called a tall tale. A tall tale is a story about a person who is larger than life. The descriptions in the story are exaggerated much greater than in real life. This makes

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'Benito Cereno,' by Herman Melville, Part Three 赫尔曼麦尔维尔著《贝尼托塞莱诺》Ⅲ Today we complete the story of Benito Cereno, written by Herman Melville. As we told you in earlier parts of our story, rebel slaves seized the ship S

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JEFFREY BROWN: And next: A new book takes a look at the roots of the first lady's family tree. Gwen Ifill has that story. GWEN IFILL: Among the four million slaves living in the United States on the eve of the Civil War, there was a 10-year-old girl

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AMERICAN STORIES - An Occurence at Owl Creek BridgeBy Ambrose Bierce Broadcast: Saturday, April 29, 2006 Announcer: An American short story in Special English. (MUSIC) Today's story is called, An Occu

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We present the last of three parts of the short story Benito Cereno. It was written by Herman Melville. As we told you in earlier parts of our story, rebel slaves seized the ship San Dominick off the coast of Chile. They killed many of its officers a

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Story of One American Familys Russian Adoption Told in Documentary NEW YORK A documentary that tells the story of three Russian children adopted by an American couple has become especially relevant in the wake of Russias 2012 ban on U.S. adoptions. T

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(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Time now for StoryCorps. Monday is the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. And this morning, we remember 23-year-old Salman Hamdani. He was an emergency medical technician who rushed to the World Tra

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Today we begin the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the nation's most important early policy makers. The first government of the United States was weak. It had m

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VOICE ONE: Welcome to This is America in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week we tell about Philip Roth. It would be hard to pick an American writer with more published works, critical praise and honors t

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Benito Cereno by Herman Melville, Part Two 赫尔曼麦尔维尔著《贝尼托塞莱诺》Ⅱ Today, we continue the story Benito Cereno. It was written by Herman Melville. Last week, we told how African slaves on a Spanish ship rebelled in seventee

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'Benito Cereno,' by Herman Melville, Part One 《贝尼托塞莱诺》by赫尔曼麦尔维尔 Ⅰ Our story today is called Benito Cereno. It was written by Herman Melville. We tell the story in three parts. Here is Shep O'Neal with part one of Benit

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Construction Begins on National African American Museum After decades of planning, the Museum of African American History and Culture is being built on the National Mall in Washington. President Obama, former first lady Laura Bush and other dignitari

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Mark Twain: One of America's Best Known and Best Loved WritersBy Shelley Gollust Broadcast: Sunday, February 19, 2006 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO: Mark Twain An

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By Mohamed Elshinnawi Dearborn, Michigan 03 October 2007 There are scores of museums in the United States, to educate the public about specific ethnic groups, but not until two years ago was there one devoted to Arab Americans. That is when the Arab

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AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The third season of American Crime premieres this Sunday on ABC. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, AMERICAN CRIME) UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: (As character) When they were running crack in the city, they didn't have any Narcan. They let the Mexica

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TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. In her new work of nonfiction called American Ghost, writer Hannah Nordhaus investigates a haunting as well as the lost world of 19th-century European Jews who emigrated to the American Southwest. Book critic Mau

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THIS IS AMERICA - They Sing in English, Put on American Works, and Redefine OperaBy Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: Monday, June 05, 2006 (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Photographer Margaret Bourke-White Helped Create the Modern Art of PhotojournalismBy Shelley Gollust Broadcast: Sunday, May 21, 2006 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Barbara Klein. VOICE TWO

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THE MAKING OF A NATION - Wilson's Presidency Remembered Best for Its Foreign PolicyBy Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Thursday, March 09, 2006 VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION -- a program in Special Engl

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By Alan Silverman Holloywood 11 March 2007 The American immigrant saga has a South Asian flavor in a new film adapted from the best-selling novel by Jhumpa Lahiri about two generations of a Bengali family living in the United States. Alan Silverman h

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