Tradition Meets Modern-Day Politics in South Carolina In Columbia, South Carolina, stately homes from the 1800s show people's love for preservation and the church steeples stretch toward the sky show the focus on religion. These sights are as souther...
THIS IS AMERICA - American Folk Music, Traditional to 'Freak' 今日美国 - 美国民间音乐 BARBARA KLEIN: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Barbara Klein. This week on our program, we explore American folk music, the music o...
Scottish traditions 苏格兰传统 I found Scottish people are very, very down to earth, very, very friendly and Scotland isa very beautiful country. I think that everyone who comes to the UK should go visitScotland. Kate: Hello. I'm Kate and welcom...
Going to a baseball game is an American summer tradition, and a big part of that ballpark experience is the stirring, up-tempo organ music that's played throughout the game. When teams score runs or players make hits, organ music leads the fans in ch...
It could make the time-honoured tradition of taking the school register a thing of the past. Cutting-edge cameras are being used to scan childrens faces as they enter school. The face-recognition technology makes sure they have turned up, records whe...
Wedding Traditions 婚礼习俗 Helen: Hello. Welcome to Ask About Britain from BBC Learning English. ImHelen. Li: 我是杨莉。欢迎收听英国问答节目。 Helen: Leilah Lee has been working on her paper about cultural differences inwedding c...
This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Many of the key molecules for life have a specific direction, or handedness: DNA twists to the right, amino acids to the left. Now scientists at the Nation...
Covered in prayer shawls, ultra-orthodox Jewish men of the Cohanim Priestly caste participate in a blessing during the Jewish holiday of Passover at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem's Old City, 1 Apr 2010 Jewish and Christian pi...
Those mothers who marry younger were significantly more likely to have ... infant and child malnutrition. - Anita Raj Child marriage has been outlawed in India for years. Women cannot legally marry before they reach the age of 18. Yet the practice pe...
