VOICE ONE:This is Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And this is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today, we tell about how people learned an important piece of information necessary for safely sailing on the oceans. It is called longitude.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:Navigators could find a shi...
VOICE ONE:I’m Gwen Outen.VOICE TWO:And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about a museum in New York City. It explores and celebrates the stories of people from different nations who came to the United States to live.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:The front of 97 ...
VOICE ONE:I’m Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I’m Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we explore ways in which local governments around the world are working to protect the environment.Roof garden on the Chicago City HallThese “green cities” are working to...
Correction attachedVOICE ONE:I’m Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I’m Phoebe Zimmermann with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about a very popular musical instrument. Listen and see if you can guess what it is.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:If you guessed it was a guitar, you are correct. P...
VOICE ONE:I’m Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I’m Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English.Cacao fruit with seeds insideToday we travel around the world exploring the history of chocolate. Its story begins with a plant whose scientific name, Theobroma cacao, means “food ...
VOICE ONE:This is Phoebe Zimmermann.VOICE TWO:Doc HollidayAnd this is Doug Johnson with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Many stories have been told about the old American West. Some are true. Many more are just interesting stories. Today we will try to tell the true story of one of the most fam...
VOICE ONE:I’m Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I’m Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. For thousands of years, people have been debating the meaning of happiness and how to find it.One big happy family -- or are they really?From the ancient Greeks and Romans to current day w...
VOICE ONE:I’m Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the first attempts to settle what is now the western state of California. These attempts began with Spanish settlers who built twenty-one Catholic churches called miss...
VOICE ONE:I’m Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And I’m Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the most popular walking paths in the United States, the Appalachian Trail.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:One of the most popular activities enjoyed by Americans is spending ...
VOICE ONE:I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we hear some unusual sounds from space. Scientists created them by taking radio wave observations and turning them into sound waves that we can hear.But first we tell about the Venus Exp...
VOICE ONE:I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. At the British Museum in London, millions of people every year visit a famous collection of marble statues from the ancient Greek building called the Parthenon.These finely carved works and the buildi...
We visit the Suez and Panama canals, the Chunnel and the Three Gorges Dam.VOICE ONE:This is Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we finish our series of programs about the Wonders of the World. In earlier programs, we told about ancient str...
bulengVisiting Angel Falls, Mount Fuji, the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef.VOICE ONE:This is Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we bring you the second of three programs about beautiful and unusual places in our world. Last week, ...
Several of the ancient wonders exist today.VOICE ONE:This is Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we present the first of three programs about some of the most interesting, beautiful and unusual places on Earth. We begin with a list of what ...
The last of our 4-part series on keeping traditions alive.VOICE ONE:I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This is the last in our series of reports about efforts to keep traditional ways alive. Today we tell about attempts to preserve Native Americ...
Visitors could see art from 200 galleries representing 30 countries.VOICE ONE:I'm Bob Doughty.VOICE TWO:Choe U-Ram's mechanical flowerAnd I'm Pat Bodnar with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we travel to the warm and sunny city of Miami, Florida to visit the largest modern art show in the...
In 1825, the canal joined the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It made New York City a major port, but the effects were wider reaching than that.VOICE ONE:I'm Shirley Griffith.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. In the early eighteen hundreds, traveling in the...
Also: Astronomers discover a fifth planet orbiting a nearby star. And details of the recent shuttle flight to the International Space Station.VOICE ONE:I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about a system of planets orbiting a...
The third part of a series of programs on keeping traditions alive.VOICE ONE:I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. We continue our series of reports about efforts to keep alive some traditional ways of doing things. Today we tell about preserving s...
Some people thought the project was both impossible and foolish. Everyone knew it would be dangerous.EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America.It was called the last great goal in flying. It would be a flight around the world without stopping or adding more fuel. Today, Fr...
