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...
We explore the history and chemistry of soap.VOICE ONE:I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Have you ever wondered when washing your hands what materials go into a bar of soap and why it cleans? Today, we answer that question with a visit to a soa...
yiOver half of the 7,000 languages in the world are in danger of disappearing.VOICE ONE:I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we travel far and wide to learn about some of the rarest languages in the world. Experts say over half of the world...
Thirty thousand people attended the Washington event to celebrate and learn about renewable energy, fair trade and improving the environment.VOICE ONE:I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Barbara Klein with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the Washington, D.C. Green Festival tha...
Almost 200 people, some famous, some not so famous, are in the Hall of Fame. Five more were honored this year, including Steve Fossett, who disappeared last month while flying a small plane in Nevada.VOICE ONE:I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Faith Lapidus with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. ...
''When I first found out that I was H.I.V.-positive, my initial reason for doing glass was I wanted to leave one glass vase for my nephew and nieces to remember their uncle by,'' says glass artist Tim Tate.VOICE ONE:I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:Tim Tate at the Washington Glass StudioAnd I'm Steve Emb...
The area is considered one of the richest areas of fossil bones in the world.VOICE ONE:I'm Shirley Griffith.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about an unusual scientific research area in the United States.It is filled with the remains of ancient an...
Much of what was learned from its flights speeded up the development of the American space program.ANNOUNCER:EXPLORATIONS -- a program in Special English by the Voice of America.(MUSIC)Neil Armstrong with the X-15Today, Doug Johnson and Frank Oliver tell about the first airplane that flew out of the...
Artist Nora Naranjo-Morse made them out of natural materials that are not permanent. The sculptures are designed to slowly return to the earth. First in a four-part series on keeping traditions alive.VOICE ONE:I'm Steve Ember.VOICE TWO:And I'm Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special Englis...
By A visit to the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park.VOICE ONE:This is Gwen Outen.VOICE TWO:And this is Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. This unusual national park celebrates the great harbor o...
''It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated,'' the 43rd president declared after hijackers struck the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. He was still in his first year in office.VOICE ONE:This is Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And this is Steve Ember...
Some experts say the ancient volcano that formed Yellowstone could become very dangerous in the future.VOICE ONE:This is Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:An eruption of the Old Faithful geyser in Yellowstone National Park in 2006And this is Doug Johnson with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell...
One of the islands was once a prison.Welcome to EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, Mary Tillotson and Steve Ember visit one of the must unusual national parks in the United States. It is called the Dry Tortugas National Park. It includes seven very small islands about two hundred kilometers...
Also: NASA's Dawn spacecraft will visit the asteroids Ceres and Vesta. And watch for the Perseid meteor shower.VOICE ONE:I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And I'm Bob Doughty with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week, we tell about a project to identify images of one million galaxies that have b...
The islands are threatened by too many visitors and invasive species.VOICE ONE:I'm Shirley Griffith.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember with Explorations in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean and the unusual creatures that live there.(MUSIC)VOICE ONE:A Gal...
Also: NASA has big plans for the red planet. And the Hubble Space Telescope will get an upgrade.VOICE ONE:I'm Barbara Klein.VOICE TWO:And I'm Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. This week we tell about the most recent flight of the space shuttle Atlantis. We also tell about a new s...
It has a strange and exciting beauty, like a great painting drawn onto living rock.VOICE ONE:This is Faith Lapidus.VOICE TWO:And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Come with us today as we visit a national park in the western state of Colorado.We also tell about one man wh...
