Listen Music Files – Listen Audio Files – Biography – Jesse Owens_ 191… This is Gwen Outen. And this is Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Every week we tell about a person who was important in the history of the United States. Today we tell the story of athlete Jesse Owens. He […]
Listen Music Files – Play Audio – Biography – Jackie Robinson_… ANNOUNCER: Welcome to PEOPLE IN AMERICA, a program in Special English on the Voice of America. Today Shirley Griffith and Rich Kleinfeldt tell about a man who changed professional baseball in the United States. Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was the first black man to play […]
Upload Music Files – Download Audio – Bob Feller_ 1918-2010_ One o… I’m Barbara Klein. And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Bob Feller, one of the best pitchers in the history of American baseball. “I didn’t know much. I just reared back and let them […]
Share Music – Play Audio – Biography – Babe Ruth_ 1895-… I’m Shirley Griffith. And I’m Doug Johnson with the Special English program, PEOPLE IN AMERICA. Every week we tell about a person important in the history of the United States. Today, we tell about Babe Ruth, America’s greatest baseball player. Some say he was […]
Play Music – Share Audio – Biography_ Arthur Ashe_ 1943… I’m Barbara Klein. And I’m Steve Ember with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the life of tennis champion Arthur Ashe. He was an athlete and a social activist who died before he was fifty. He was honored for his […]
Upload Music Files – Share Audio – Biography – Winslow Homer_ A… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Barbara Klein with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Winslow Homer, considered to be the greatest American artist of the nineteenth century. Homer created pictures that showed the relationship between humans and nature. […]
Listen Music – Download Audio – Biography – Robert Rauschenb… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Robert Rauschenberg. He is widely considered one of the most influential artists of the past half-century. Throughout his long career, Rauschenberg explored painting, sculpture, printmaking and […]
Download Music – Play Audio – Nam June Paik 1932-2006_ One… I’m Shirley Griffith. And I’m Mario Ritter with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Nam June Paik is widely considered one of the first video artists. Today, video art is a rich and popular field in modern art. But in the 1960s, the use of […]
Music File Hosting – Upload Audio Files – Biography – Mary Cassatt_ 18… I’m Bob Doughty. And I’m Faith Lapidus with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the nineteenth century artist Mary Cassatt. She was best known for her beautifully expressive paintings of women and children. Cassatt spent her life working to […]
Listen Music Files – Download Audio – Leonardo da Vinci_ 1452-1519… I’m Steve Ember. And I’m Shirley Griffith with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of the greatest thinkers in the world, Leonardo da Vinci. He began his career as an artist. But his interest in the world around him drove […]