Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. On April ninth, eighteen sixty-five, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses Grant. Within weeks, the Civil War would be over. When peo...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Early this year, Special English began receiving comments about all the stories on our Web site. The Education Reports have received many comments. We began the year in the middle of our Foreign Stude...
VOICE ONE: I'm Mario Ritter. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about some of the biggest space stories of two thousand nine. First, there was the American space agency's discovery of water on...
This is the VOA Special English Health Report. We talked last week about ways to avoid cold-weather injuries. Today we are going to talk about emergency treatment of hypothermia. Hypothermia can be mild, moderate or severe. Mild hypothermia is someth...
HOST: This is SCIENCE IN THE NEWS, in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. This week our program is about a mystery as old as time. Bob Doughty and Sarah Long tell about the mystery of time. (THEME) VOICE ONE: If you can read a clock, you can know t...
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. A round barn in Illinois American farmers traditionally keep their animals and equipment in barns that are rectangular. But there are hundreds of barns in the Midwest and other parts of the country...
VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: Numbers arrive, on pedicabs, to be placed atop Times Square in New York for the New Year's Eve ball drop welcoming 2010 And I'm Shirley Griffith. This week on o...
This is the VOA Special English Development Report. A new study says the leading cause of disability in older people in low and middle income countries is dementia. The researchers disagree with the World Health Organization which says blindness and...
VOICE ONE: Im Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And Im Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we remember six interesting people who died in the past year. We begin with two writers. VOICE ONE: John Updike John Updike once said t...
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. Almost two hundred countries met for two weeks at a United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the end, only five of them reached an agreement: the United States, China, India, B...
HOST: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. (MUSIC) I'm Bob Doughty. As always, music makers released lots of new holiday albums this year. There are country, jazz, gospel and other kinds of holiday songs. Since it is Christmas today we...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. (MUSIC) There is a place where Christmas lives all year long. It is called Bronner's CHRISTmas Wonderland in Frankenmuth, Michigan. The family-owned business calls itself the world's largest Christmas...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. Surrender finally came for General Robert E. Lee and the Confederacy he had served as a great soldier. It was mostly his military skill and intelligence that kept the South...
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas. The Constitution separates religion from government. Researcher Charles Hayne...
VOICE ONE: I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Eleanor Creesy. She helped to guide one of the fastest sailing ships ever built. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: A painting of the Flyin...
