Broadcast: Jan 26 2003 The Lewis and Clark Fife and Drum Corps helped launch the expedition bicentennial, evoking the music and pageantry of a young American nation. The musicians come from Saint Char

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First up today on CNN student news. JJ's restaurant, Kansas City Missouri, closed early on Tuesday. People there smelled a strong gas odor, about an hour later, this is what JJ's looked like. An explosion ripped the roof off, the whole place burst in

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Now, we continue the story of America's fourteenth president, Franklin Pierce. Pierce was elected in eighteen fifty-two. He was a compromise candidate of the Democratic Pa

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Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. James Monroe In the spring of eighteen twenty, President James Monroe was coming to the end of his first four years as president. He wanted to be elected again. But he faced

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ANNOUNCER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Franklin Pierce was elected the fourteenth president in eighteen fifty-two. He was forty-eight years old, one of America's youngest presidents. Pierce was the comp

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PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Frank and Jesse James, Brothers in Crime in the Old West TONY RIGGS: PEOPLE IN AMERICA, a program in Special English by the Voice of America. Two of the most famous outlaws of the old American west were brothers. I'm Tony Riggs. T

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Dred Scott Ruling Opens the Whole Country to Slavery 德瑞德.斯科特的统治使得整个国家实行奴隶制 From VOA Learning English, this is The Making of a Nation. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. Early in 1857, the United St

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Kansas-Nebraska Act Raises Slavery Issue Once Again 堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案再次提出了奴隶制问题 From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning American Englis

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In these ways slavery had ceased to be a vital institution north of Maryland and Kentucky. 通过这些努力,在马里兰和肯塔基北部已经不存在有效的奴隶制机构, Why should slavery be allowed west of the Mississippi River? 为什

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英国每日邮报:一项调查显示,美国夏威夷,华盛顿和纽约被列进美国生活成本最高的七大州. 在夏威夷生活很贵 The Daily Mail: New study reveals Hawaii, Washington D.C, and New York are among the seven most expensive

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EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Students at U.S. Colleges Have Several Ways to Get Financial Aid By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: Thursday, April 07, 2005 I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education

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This is AP news minute. 1. Strong storms with the reports of tornadoes touched down in Missouri and Illinois, creating massive damage to home. In Missouri, one person was killed when an apparent tornado ripped through Perry county. While in Illinois,

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The Reverend Al Sharpton preached Sunday at a church in Saint Louis Missouri, he told congregants the fight is not over despite the resignation of Officer Darren Wilson. Wilson formally resigned from the Ferguson Missouri Police Department Saturday.

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HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC, in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. On our show this week: We answer a question about rivers /P Play some music by My Brightest Diamond /P And report about a new time change in the United States. Dayli

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US History: Missouri's Request for Statehood Reopens Question of Slavery 密苏里州要求建国重开奴隶制问题 From VOA Learning English, welcome to The Making of a Nation, our weekly program of American history for people learning English. I

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More Than 70 Arrests in Missouri Protests 70多人在密苏里抗议中被捕 Police arrested more than 70 protestors and reporters Monday night and early Tuesday in the central U.S. town of Ferguson, Missouri. The demonstrators were protesting the s

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Youve Heard of The Birth of the Blues Heres one of those word-association games. If we said waltz, youd probably think of Vienna, Austria. Closer to our home, if we said Dixieland, New Orleans, Louisiana, would likely rush to mind. Country music? Nas

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After Connecticut passed a law requiring gun background checks and gun safety courses, gun deaths decreased by forty percent. Forty percent. Prsident Obama today. In his announcement that he would take executive action to require more gun sellers to

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Finally Virginia seceded, but the western Virginians, in their turn, seceded from Virginia and two years later were admitted to the Union as the state of West Virginia. 最终弗吉尼亚人脱离了联邦,而西部的弗吉尼亚人紧接着脱离了

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Lakshmi Singh 15 republican senates are launching a new effort to keep their former colleague Chark Hagga from becoming secretary of defense. In effort led by Texas senator John Corlon , the letter urged president Oba

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