2014-02-21 Gold Gains Importance in DRC Conflict
Welcome to As It Is, from VOA Learning English! I’m Bob Doughty in Washington. Today on the program, some nations are attempting to cut links between the conflict in the…
American History – 127. Gold! How the Search for Riches Drove Development After the U.S. Civil War
(MUSIC) VOICE ONE: THE MAKING OF A NATION — a program in Special English. (MUSIC) Soon after the Civil War ended in eighteen sixty-five, thousands of land-hungry Americans began to…