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,...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new report says the illegal killing of rhinos for their horns is increasing in Africa and Asia. Rhinoceros poachers are killing an estimated two to three of the rare animals each week. Experts say...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, we tell about Louis Kahn. He is considered one of the most important American building designers of the twentieth century. (MUSI...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Demonstrators marching Saturday from the Danish parliament in the center of Copenhagen to the site of the climate change conference In Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations Climate Change Conference opene...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Doug Johnson. Today, we play music from a new album by Animal Collective And answer a question about funeral traditions in the United States But first, we tell about a new organizat...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Dubai's recent debt problems have brought attention to the growth of Islamic finance. A government-owned group of companies, Dubai World, has been seeking to restructure twenty-six billion dollars of...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In eighteen sixty-four the Union of northern states and the Confederacy of southern states were still fighting. The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one. Each side had its ow...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Bess Lomax Hawes was an American folk musician, singer and teacher who died last month at the age of eighty-eight. She came from a family of music historians. She helped her father and brother, John a...
VOICE ONE: I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: Climbing in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Some people say the higher you climb, the harder you fall. But those people probably would no...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Shy people often avoid situations that force close contact with other people. They worry that something they say or do will make others laugh at them. But some people worry much more than others about be...
VOICE ONE: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And I'm Mario Ritter. Today, we will tell about the two thousand nine Nobel Prizes for discoveries in science. We also will tell about progress against acqui...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. Some pirates catch fish instead of ships. The problem is known as illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Such fishing harms the productivity of fisheries, and hurts developing countries especi...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we explore a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the American Southwest, near the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Carls...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Scientists are studying ways to make mosquitoes resist malaria-causing parasites Scientists continue to seek better weapons against malaria. Each year the number of cases is in the hundreds of milli...
VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: Marilyn Monroe And I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about movie star Marilyn Monroe. She died many years ago, yet still is one of the best known American...
