By Roger Hsu Washington, D.C. 05 July 2007 Two decades before the famed California gold rush in 1849, America's first gold rush occurred in the southeastern state of Georgia. This gold fever opened new frontiers, but nearly destroyed the Cherokee Ind

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The nonprofit group provides free services and launched the Open Architecture Network. Transcript of radio broadcast: 06 July 2008 This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Slums are densely populated areas of housing where people live in

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IN THE NEWS - UN Observers in Syria Visit Massacre Site Near Hama 新闻报道 - 联合国观察员进入了哈马市附近屠杀事件现场 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 United Nations

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Sudanese Refugees Victims of Air Raid At least one Sudanese refugee was injured and 14 others are missing following an air raid Monday in South Sudan. The U.N. refugee agency says the attack occurred in Upper Nile State where Sudanese refugees have s

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For more than 400 years, the Chatham Dockyard was at the heart of British Maritime history. When it closed in 1984, thousands were put out of work and the dockyard fell into disuse. But now it is emerging as a tourist destination, an educational cent

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Lesson Ten Short Conversations The Electric Palace Unveiled Rodney Rathbone: I thought I saw you over here. Lucy: Robbie Rathbone, you scared me! Rodney: Why? Doing something you're not supposed to be doing? Lucy: No. What are you doing here? Rodney:

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A Teen Might Pick The Landing Site For NASA's Next Mars Rover play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0003:57repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash pl

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LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: A new social network has grown quietly in recent months. It's called Gab, and its users are invited to speak freely and appeal attractive to many members of the far-right and others who feel their views are stifled by mains

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The remaining elements of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile interception system were transported Thursday morning to the site in southeast South Korea. At about 8:10 a.m. local time (2310 GMT Wednesday), trucks of the US forc

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Chinese archaeologists have started to excavate more of the life-size terracotta warriors at the famed ancient tomb of the country's first emperor. China state TV on Sunday showed archaeologists uncovering more of the elaborately carved soldiers, to

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Recently at a site only two kilomtres to the southeast, archaeologists have unearthed the first traces of people living in the same period. It's a find that may finally answer why stonehenges located where it is. Here is the section through one of th

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The locals have waited decades for this. Diggers slowly clawing a way yields of silt that many blame for the winter's floods. For the environment agency, it's a chance to rebuild trust.-It's good that extra funding that is really making this possible

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By Greg Flakus Houston 10 November 2007 The state of emergency and continuing violence in Pakistan are of special concern to the estimated half a million people of Pakistani descent living in the United States. Many of them are following events in th

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By Scott Stearns White House 09 October 2007 The White House says it is concerned by the leak of a private security firm's eavesdropping on al-Qaida communications. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, the company's chief says the dis

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By Carolyn Weaver Washington, DC 16 June 2006 watch Pentagon Memorial report Donald Rumsfeld unveiling the marker at the Pentagon Memorial Family members of 9/11 victims gathered with American officials at the Pentagon this week for a groundbreaking

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By Kane Farabaugh New York City, NY 12 September 2006 watch NYC Sept 11 Anniversary Family and friends gathered in New York to honor loved ones Families and friends of 9/11 victims in New York gathered at the base of the World Trade Center site Mond

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今天我们要学的词是would-be。 Would-be, 意思是希望成为的,即将成为的。 The store manager wrestled the would-be robber to the ground, 商店经理跟劫匪搏斗,把劫匪摔倒在地。 Would-be buyers disagreed about whethe

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Pope Benedict XVI began his last day in the United States at Ground Zero, the site of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York. 教皇本笃十六世以参观纽约世贸大厦遗址开始他最后一天对美国的访问。世贸大厦遗址

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By Mona Ghuneim New York 09 October 2007 Sixteen years after the rediscovery of an African burial ground in Lower Manhattan, New York City and federal officials dedicated a memorial on the site, and paid tribute to the thousands of nameless men, wome

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Are you looking for love? When you want to impress a potential girlfriend or boyfriend, you take great care with your appearance and try to be on your best behaviour. But what about your grammar? Do you check if you are using verbs and commas properl

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