VOICE ONE: Emperor Norton Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we answer a question from a listener in Brazil. Tino Therezo in Sao Paulo wants to know about Joshua Norton. Who is that? Oh,

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‘How can you be so obtuse?‘ Andy said, so low that Chester could barely hear. But he heard the warden just fine. ‘What? What did you call me?‘ ‘Obtuse? Andy cried. ‘Is it deliberate?‘ ‘

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By World Series time of 1950 - this was the year Bobby Thompson hit his famous home run at the end of the season, you will remember - Andy was having no more trouble from the sisters. Stammas and Hadl

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Andy wasn‘t that way, but I was. The idea of seeing the Pacific sounded good, but I was afraid that actually being there would scare me to death - the bigness of it Anyhow, the day of that conversat

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THIS IS AMERICA - The Man Who Declared Himself Emperor of the US BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, the man who declared himself emperor of the United States: Joshua Norton.

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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report. An IBM super computer named Watson has won the latest battle of man versus machine. 这里是美国之音慢速英语科技报道。一台名为沃森(Watson)的IBM超级计算机在最近的一次

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Welcome to your personal audio guide to the Norton Museum of Art. You may find some visitors to the Norton Museum of Art have cell phones pressed to their ears, but they are not breaking any rules. In

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White House Protester Dies After Longest Vigil 美国反战禁核抗议人士康妮去世在白宫前示威35年 You probably saw Concepcion Picciotto if you visited the White House over the past 35 years or so. She lived in a camp, in Lafayette Park

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《美国X档案》是1998年美国上映的犯罪剧情片。由托尼凯耶执导,爱德华诺顿、爱德华弗朗、比佛莉德安姬罗主演。该片讲述了德瑞克温亚因父亲被杀崇拜新纳粹主义而入狱,在迷途知返后弟弟

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This is Whats Trending Today The eastern United States is recovering from a major storm, which left widespread damage. Strong gusts of wind broke windows and removed tops of buildings. Hundreds of thousands of people lost power for one or more days.

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1. Could this storm over port security send a wrong message to moderate Arab countries? President Bush says he worries the flack over the Dubai deal could push away allies in the Middle East. But he s

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By David McAlary Washington 05 May 2006 A school bus and a truck stand on the street in the German town of Senden Economic modernization is the path toward healthier, longer lives, but it has a deadly

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By Rosanne Skirble Washington 01 August 2007 Eleanor Holmes Norton Eleanor Holmes Norton is a third generation Washingtonian who says she was shaped by her hometown. My great-grandfather, Richard Holmes, was a run-away slave. Born in 1937, Norton gre

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Actors Robert De Niro and Edward Norton unite in John Curran's new psychological drama Stone. The story revolves around flawed people who have to face their weaknesses as their lives spin out of control. The early release of Gerald Greeson, also know

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Trauma Center Treats Sea Turtles This month, on beaches up and down the U.S. East Coast, tens of thousands of newly-hatched loggerhead sea turtles are emerging from the sand and crawling into the Atlantic. Very few of these baby turtles will survive,

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'Good Girls Revolt' Takes On Gender Bias In The Newsroom play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0007:12repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin.

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The whole time he was talking to me, 整个谈话期间 I sat there smiling and nodding like a numb idiot, 我麻木的像个傻子。 with my arms crossed over my chest, 双手交叉在胸前, while nothing, nothing, nothing came out of my throat.

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GWEN IFILL: As Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced yesterday, the Pentagon is grappling with what to keep and what to cut in a time of tight budgets and national security challenges. At the Air Force, leaders have set their sights on grounding a

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Oh here with Edward Norton, one of the stars at outstanding new movie Birdman. Norton as a pitch perfect take and a very good theater actor that takes himself very seriously. Watch his first rehearsal as the director and Birdman played by Michael Kea

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