July 10th, 1940The Battle of Britain begins during World War II as Nazi forces start attacking southern England by air. Just weeks earlier, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warned his people to prepare for the assault. If the British Empire a

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Lincoln Wins 1860 Election, Loses Southern States 建国史话: 林肯赢得1860年选举 From VOA Learning English, this is The Making of a Nation. Im Kelly Jean Kelly. And Im Christopher Cruise. The presidential election of 1860 brought feelings of

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Democrats Questioned by Some for Choosing Charlotte For Convention Charlotte, North Carolina - home to 750,000 people - is everything America's South is known for: southern accents, southern fried foods, and southern charm. Charlotte is the global ba

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Taking a look at the satellite picture first and you can see cloud streaming across the south and east. Thats generating areas of rain and storms. Ragged cloud over the northern tropic is bringing a little light rain. Cloud sweeping over the southern

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Hello, Kirsty Heenan with the National Weather. Cloud over eastern New South Wales and Victoria in cool onshore winds is bringing widespread rain mainly near the coast. Patchy cloud over the northern tropics is causing isolated showers while cloud ov

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A band of cloud over the east in a trough is causing heavy rain over Victoria and showers through New South Wales and southern Queensland. Thick cloud over the Northern Territory in moist and stable air is triggering widespread thunderstorms, clear s

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First, to the satellite image and a dominant high is keeping skies clear and conditions chilly across eastern Australia. Low cloud over the southern states is triggering scattered showers there. A northern trough is generating late storms about the t

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Cloud over central and eastern Australia is bringing some rain as humid tropical air is drawn into a developing trough. There will also be isolated showers over the southeast from low cloud being driven over in southwesterly winds. Queensland can exp

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There will be showers spread across the southeast from cloud which has been driven by strong winds behind a front. That's also causing Alpine snow. It will be mainly clear elsewhere. A fine day for Queensland apart from a few isolated showers over th

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Hello, Jessica Askin with the National Weather. On the satellite image this morning, a range of high pressure is keeping much of the country clear and dry. Cloud over southwest Western Australia is causing a little rain and patchy cloud over the trop

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Hello, Kirsty Heenan with the National Weather. Thick cloud over the tropics and central interior is bringing heavy rain and storms. Cloud spreading over South Australia and New South Wales is causing thundery showers. While a monsoonal low in centra

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Hello, Jessica Askin with the National Weather. A mix of thick cloud in a deepening low is producing showers and storms over eastern South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. Cloud over southeastern Queensland and northern New South Wa

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Taking a look at the satellite image first. And area of low pressure is bringing rain, storms to southern Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. Another low over the Northern Territory is triggering showers and storms. Now for a look around the st

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The high pressure system is the dominant feature across the continent. Underneath, we got some very cold and frosty mornings, but we are expecting to see mostly sunny conditions. The only rainfall, a few light showers along the Queensland coast, down

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This the last day,summer is gonna be a little stormy across parts of the continent,particularly through the north range of the New South Wales,cross many parts of inland Queensland,some of those storms potentially reaching the coast.Up close the Nort

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By Aya Batrawy Cairo 12 March 2008 Two U.S. aid workers, a husband and wife, were attacked and beaten by a mob of students in a predominantly Christian part of southern Sudan. The reasons for the attack are still unclear, but the aid organization for

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By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 06 October 2009 Cattle struggle to survive in Kenya's drought The Masaai community in the Kajiado area of southern Kenya is struggling to cope with a drought that is now in its third year. At least half of the area's cows h

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Todd: Hey, Jessica, what are your plans for the summer? Jessica: This summer! I think I'm going to go on a trip with my brother to Argentina. Uh, we are still making the plans to go but I think we're going to go for two weeks. And we're probably goin

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On our last program we discussed a simple experiment run by an Alexandrian named Eratosthenes in the third century B.C. By noting that, at the same time of day, sticks in the ground cast different-length shadows depending on whether they were in a no

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Let's take a look at the satellite. Cloud over Western Austraila and Queensland's tropical coast is causing some showers. Clear skies elsewhere due to a high. Looking around the states. In Queensland, there is a chance of isolated showers about the e

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