The Band Perry Scores Big with 'Pioneer' The title track from the sibling trios first chart-topping collection was inspired by a journey across the United States. Kimberly, Reid and Neil Perry drove from Nashville to California to record the project...
Pioneering Soil Researcher Wins Top Environment Prize Biologist Diana Wall went to the ends of the earth - the seemingly lifeless Antarctic desert - to study the life in soil. What soil life does for us, it provides us with many benefits that we don'...
Pioneering Soil Researcher Wins Top Environment Prize Biologist Diana Wall went to the ends of the earth - the seemingly lifeless Antarctic desert - to study the life in soil. What soil life does for us, it provides us with many benefits that we don'...
AMERICAN MOSAIC - Virginia Museum Show Features Glass Art Pioneer Dale Chihuly Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English. Im June Simms. On our show this week, we play music from a new boy band and an old one. We also tell about the increasin...
Entertainment Pioneer Dick Clark Dies at 82 He was not a singer or musician, but Dick Clark was one of the most famous names in rock and roll. In the 1950s and 60s his afternoon television show, American Bandstand, was a daily staple for teens across...
Writer Willa Cather Celebrated Europeans Who Settled in the American Midwest Written by Richard Thorman (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: I'm Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And I'm Tony Riggs with People in America. Today we tell about writer Willa Cather. (MUSIC) VO...
By Kane Farabaugh New York City 26 December 2007 Born in the small town of Waukesha in the Midwest U.S. state of Wisconsin in 1915, Les Paul showed signs of musical ability at a young age. From those small roots, the musician and inventor traveled th...
By David McAlary Washington 03 May 2007 Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr. is shown posed for a studio portrait in his space suit in this June 1962 file photo One of the first U.S. astronauts and only the fifth American in space, Walter Schirra, has die...
By Ray McDonald Washington 20 January 2006 Wilson Pickett, whose dynamic soul hits reflected his turbulent offstage life, is dead at age 64. VOA's Ray McDonald has more on the singer known as the "Wic...
PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Movie Pioneers By Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Sunday, November 21, 2004 (THEME) VOICE ONE: I'm Sarah Long. VOICE TWO: And I'm Steve Ember with People in America in VOA Special English....