2004-07-28 Hoover Dam
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Bob Doughty. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember withEXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about Hoover Dam.It was the largest and most…
2004-07-21 Yosemite National Park
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember withEXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today, we tell about one of themost famous national parks in…
2004-07-14 Cassini-Huygens at Saturn
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Faith Lapidus VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about NASA’s Cassini-Huygens spacecraft that is now…
2004-07-07 San Francisco Maritime National Park
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Gwen Outen. VOICE TWO: And this is Bob Doughty withEXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English. Today we tell about the SanFrancisco Maritime National Historical Park. This…
2004-06-30 North Carolina Lighthouses
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program,EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about the lighthouses that protect shipssailing along…
2004-06-23 Space Digest
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English.Today we tell about the Cassini-Huygens (HOY-guns) spacecraft. Itwill soon be…
2004-06-16 Volcanoes National Park
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Sarah Long with theVOA Special English program EXPLORATIONS. Today, we visit two of themost unusual national parks in…
2004-06-09 Rio Grande, Part 2
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with theVOA Special English program, EXPLORATIONS. Today, we finish thestory of one of the most important…
2004-06-02 Rio Grande, Part 1
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Shirley Griffith. VOICE TWO: And this is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program,EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about one of the most famous rivers…
2004-05-26 James Doolittle
(THEME) ANNOUNCER: EXPLORATIONS, a program in Special English on the Voice ofAmerica. Today Shirley Griffith and Frank Oliver tell about a famous WorldWar Two pilot, Jimmy Doolittle. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE:…
2004-05-19 Dry Tortugas National Park
Paul Thompson (MUSIC) ANNCR: Welcome to EXPLORATIONS in VOASpecial English. Today, Mary Tillotson and Steve Ember visit one ofthe must unusual national parks in the United States. It is calledthe…
2004-05-12 Sport Parachuting
VOICE ONE: EXPLORATIONS — a program in Special English by the Voice ofAmerica. (THEME) Have you ever wondered what it would be like to jump out of anairplane with only…
2004-05-05 Global Positioning System
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And this is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special Englishprogram, EXPLORATIONS. Today we tell about a device you can hold inyour…
2004-04-28 Space Digest
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: This is Doug Johnson. VOICE TWO: And this is Phoebe Zimmermann with EXPLORATIONS in VOA SpecialEnglish. Today, we have news about the American vehicles exploringthe surface of…
2004-04-21 Doc Holliday and the Old West
(THEME) VOICE ONE: This is Phoebe Zimmermann. VOICE TWO: And this is Doug Johnson with EXPLORATIONS in VOA SpecialEnglish. Many stories have been told about the old American West.Some are…