PEOPLE IN AMERICA - Nat King Cole, 1919-1965: One of Americas Most Popular Singers SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Im Shirley Griffith. STEVE EMBER: And Im Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week, we tell the story of someon...
Chinese Symbols Prove Popular in US 汉字在美国大受欢迎 From the moment Spaniards - or Vikings, some would say - first dropped anchor and encountered the natives whom the Spanish called Indians because they thought they had arrived in India -...
Popular Culture Inspires Top US Baby Names Theres a better-than-random chance that babies born in the United States last year, 2010, were named Bella or Edward. Those were among the 10 most popular girls and boys names, respectively, and it was more...
Study: Popular Herbal Remedy Doesn't Ease Enlarged Prostate Scientists investigating a popular herbal treatment for enlarged prostate, saw palmetto, have concluded it is no more effective than a placebo. That conclusion comes from a study which inclu...
THE MAKING OF A NATION - American History: Popular Culture in '50s STEVE EMBER: Welcome to THE MAKING OF A NATION American history in VOA Special English. Im Steve Ember. Imagine a time machine. Youve just climbed into it for the purpose of visiting...
[00:07.37]Comparing cultures [00:09.71]Listen to a person talking about sports [00:11.96]in the USA and Britain and answer the questions [00:16.27]American football is one of the most popular [00:18.95]sports in the United States. [00:21.50]It's very...
[00:00.00]In the United States, [00:02.94]the mixing of immigrant cultures [00:04.98]produced new forms of dance, [00:07.22]such as tap dancing. [00:09.22]Before the Frist World War, [00:11.29]new ballroom dances came to Europe and America, [00:14.75...
Popular sports in the UK 英国的热门运动 Insert My favourite sport is tennis because I play it and I enjoy it. Football and hockey because I enjoy playing them and I am good at them. I am Pakistani so cricket obviously and soccer somehow. Rugby...
The Silas Lake Park reopens today after being closed for six months. The park was closed because mud and rock slides destroyed part of Cambridge Road, the only access into the park. We had to remove tons of boulders and rocks, said Hugh Foster of the...
