MARIO RITTER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. The years after World War One were an important turning point in the making of the American nation. The country turned away from the problems of Europe. Now i...
今天我们要学的词是historic。 Historic, 历史性的。 A historic moment, 历史性时刻。美国总统大选尘埃落定，巴拉克.奥巴马当选，将成为美国历史上第一位黑人总统。 Obama won the historic election, 共和党...
Five months after devastating earthquake killed hundreds of thousands, need for supplies great for million more who are homeless Kane Farabaugh | Chicago 09 June 2010 Lionel Jean-Baptiste of the Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti, a Haitian aid agency...
Grammar Girl here. Todays topic is the difference between the words historic and historical. A listener, Denise, wants to know if she should say, We sell historic replicas or We sell historical replicas. Was an event a historic occasion or was it a h...
FAITH LAPIDUS: Welcome to the MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. In the presidential election of eighteen eighty-eight, one issue that played a major part was tariffs. At that time, import taxes were high on many products. Th...
Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION -- American history in VOA Special English. In the spring of eighteen sixty-five, the American Civil War was over. And the president who had led the Union during that war was dead. Abraham Lincoln had been murdered b...
By Dan Robinson Capitol Hill 05 November 2009 US Capitol, Washington DC The stage is set for a historic debate in the U.S. Congress on legislation crafted by majority Democrats to reform the U.S. health care system. The debate expected in a special...
Security and trade have been the focus of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki's visit to Australia. It is the first time an Iraqi leader has made an official trip to Australia, a country which supported the American-led campaign to oust Saddam Huss...
By Mil Arcega Washington 27 February 2008 Wheat futures shot up this week to near the all-time high ($11.6975 a bushel) as foreign buyers scrambled to lock in supplies. A combination of bad weather, increasing global demand and export slowdowns in wh...
By Victoria Cavaliere New York 29 December 2007 The first synagogue built by Eastern European Jews in New York City has undergone a massive, $20 million renovation and it recently reopened. Victoria Cavaliere reports from VOA's New York bureau that...
