Houses are buildings that people can live, eat and sleep in. They protect you from dangers and bad weather. Most houses show the lifestyles, traditions and cultures of the people who live in them. Homes and houses have different shapes andsizes . They are built of different materials that depending on the climate of the area you live in. Building materials Long ago, […]
Andy Warhol was the most popular figure in the pop art movement that came up in the 1950s in the United States and Great Britain. During his career he produced paintings, films, commercials, print ads and other works of art. Andy Warhol’s parents came to America from Czechoslovakia at the beginning of the 20th century. As a boy Andy liked to draw and cut […]
Impressionism is an art style that developed in France in the late 19 th century. Young painters used new techniques to paint outdoor scenes. They experimented a lot with different forms of light and color. Impressionists wanted to show theviewer how a landscape looked at different times of the day. They did not put so much emphasis on the detail of objects. Many critics of […]
The Vatican in Rome is not only the capital of the Roman Catholic Church; it is also a place where valuable books, works of art and sculptures have been kept over many centuries. Four million people come to the Vatican Museums every year toobserve these precious masterpieces. As soon as you enter the Vatican Museums you walk through sculptured doorscreated by Cecco Bonanotte in 1999 to symbolize the Vatican’s step […]
A mosque is a place where Muslims worship and pray to God. Some mosques are also places where Muslims get together and discuss things or where religious education takes place. In some countries mosques also serve political purposesand imams discuss political issues. Mosques date back to the seventh century when they first emerged on the Arabian Peninsula. For centuries towns formed around this central building. Mosques have different sizes and […]
Monuments are objects or buildings that have been created to honor an important person or a historic event that happened. People have built monuments for thousands of years. In many cases they are symbols of ancient civilizations, like the pyramids of ancient Egypt or the GreekParthenon. These monuments were so large that it took thousands of people to build them. During the past two […]
Claude Monet was a French painter and one of the leading artists of theimpressionist period. His paintings became famous around the world. Monet was born in 1840 is Paris. His father had a shipping company while his mother cared for the family. At the age of five Monet and his family moved to Le Havre, where he went to school. His talent […]
Music File Hosting – Download Audio – Biography – William Randolph… Welcome to the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today, Steve Ember and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about American publisher William Randolph Hearst. Mr. Hearst created what was once the nation’s largest newspaper organization. He bought newspapers in many areas of the United States. […]
Music File Hosting – Upload Audio Files – Biography – Ray Kroc_ 1902-1… I’m Phoebe Zimmermann. And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about Ray Kroc, the man who helped make the fast food industry famous. He expanded a small business into an international operation called McDonald’s. […]
Download Music – Share Audio – Biography – Milton Hershey_ … I’m Barbara Klein. And I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Today we tell about Milton Hershey. He built one of the sweetest towns in the United States. Milton Snavely Hershey was born in eighteen fifty-seven in central Pennsylvania. […]