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Right after this news break.

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I'm Steve Miller reporting the escalation
of violence in the Syrian conflict has

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left more than two hundred people dead
in recent days and heightened concern of

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a humanitarian crisis U.S.

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State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert
called for deescalation Russia must end

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its support of the regime Assad regime and
its allies they're responsible for the

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attacks for the dire humanitarian situation
in East Ghouta and for the horrendous

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civilian death toll. Is the last main
rebel stronghold near the Syrian capital

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my present Mike Pence his office
says North Korea canceled

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a meeting at the Winter Olympics at the
last minute Brooks has that story on

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Tuesday the vice president's chief of
staff told Reuters Pence was scheduled to

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meet with Pyongyang officials including Kim
Jong un SR on the Olympic sidelines on

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February tenth

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a day after opening ceremony but according
to officials at North Korea canceled at

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the last minute it would have been the first
scheduled encounter between top level

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Trump White House officials
and Pyongyang signs of

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a thaw in relations between the two Koreas
have sparked speculation they could lead

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to direct talks between Washington and
Pyongyang that was reporter Ryan Brooks

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officials in Florida's capital prepared
Wednesday for hundreds of students to march

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to the state capitol to hold

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a rally calling for lawmakers to pass gun
control measures following the deadly

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shooting at

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a high school February fourteenth more
than one hundred Stoneman Douglas students

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took buses to Tallahassee to take part
in Wednesday's rally and to meet with

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legislative leaders
students are also planning

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a March twenty fourth rally in Washington
and other major cities called the March

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for our lives this is V.O.A. News. U.S.

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President says he has directed the
Justice Department to propose new gun

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regulations that is a
hoax has the details and

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a half the students protested outside the
White House demanding tougher gun laws

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especially in time and knows
that he has recommended

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a ban on so-called bomb stocks devices
that let semi automatic weapons fire

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hundreds of rounds a minute
just a few moments ago I sighed

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a memorandum directing the attorney
general. To propose regulations to ban all

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devices that turn illegal weapons into
machine guns futile political debates have

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followed every new school shooting since
the first one in one thousand nine hundred

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nineteen Columbine survivors of the latest
one in Florida say they are determined

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to fight until they get some of these outs
I hope are going to be onerous coming

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killed six people in an
attack on a police station in

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a small South African town Wednesday Jeff
Custer has more than five police officers

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in an off duty soldier were killed in
the attack in a small town about either

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a kilometer southeast of you
honest Berg based all weapons in

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a vehicle in what police
were treating as a robbery

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a police spokesman said the incident
occurred early in the morning the attackers

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entered the station and randomly opened
fire on the police officers on duty the

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gunman also shot a bystander
who turned out to be

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a off duty soldier as they fled in

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a stolen police vehicle South Africa's
police minister called the attack

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a national tragedy Jeff Custer V.O.A.

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News. At least five thousand people in
New Zealand South Island were cut off by

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massive landslides and hundreds of
tourists stranded Wednesday after

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a storm caused by cycling Gaeta
whipped through the country sparking

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a state of emergency in several southern
towns torrential rains from get to lash

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the center of New Zealand causing floods
in the city of Christchurch and other

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provinces and Asian retail enjoying day
has accepted the resignation of. It's Co

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C.E.O. After he was convicted
of bribery and embezzlement and

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a wide ranging corruption scandal that
brought down South Korea's president back in

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Hay The company said Wednesday that
Chandon bin has left his C.E.O.

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Post and they holdings but will remain on
his board as vice chairman Shanae son of

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look they founder was convicted and
imprisoned earlier this month Noorani has

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stopped twenty shots to lead Finland to

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a three two victory over the Russians in
the women's hockey bronze medal game at

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the Olympics Canada and the United States
will play for the gold medal Thursday and

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in men's hockey the Czech Republic won

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a stunning three two shootout victory over
the United States in the men's hockey

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quarterfinals Wednesday the Czech Republic
will now move to face the Russian squad

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who have dance after posting

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a six one quarterfinal rout of
Norway time Steve Miller view

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world news from B O A.

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Welcome to learning English

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a daily thirty minute program from the Voice
of America I'm Jonathan Evans and I'm

00:30:10
Ashley THOMPSON This program is aimed
at English learners so we speak

00:30:16
a little slower and we use words and phrases
especially written for people learning

00:30:22
English. Today on the
program you will hear

00:30:29
from people and Alice Bryant later we will
present our American history series The

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Making of

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a nation but first Ashley will
bring us the news report. Students

00:30:45
from Marjorie's Stoneman Douglas High
School are pressuring state lawmakers in

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Florida to consider gun control
laws but the move comes after

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seventeen students and teachers were
killed and last week's shooting the

00:31:05
students have organized
a demonstration for

00:31:09
a Wednesday in the state capital of
Tallahassee to put pressure on the Republican

00:31:15
controlled legislature I really think
they are going to hear us out said

00:31:22
Chris Grady

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a senior who plans to attend the
demonstration he said he hopes the trip will

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lead to some commonsense gun laws
like rigorous background checks

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background checks are short investigations
of people who seek to buy weapons

00:31:44
shortly after the shooting several legislators
visited the school to see the damage

00:31:51
they appeared shaken afterward. Some
Republican Party lawmakers said

00:31:58
Monday that they would consider new gun
laws however there is still strong

00:32:04
resistance by many Republicans
to any gun control measures SEN

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BILL gal Votto is

00:32:13
a Republican and the incoming Florida
Senate president he said the Florida

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Senate was considering several measures
including raising the age to buy guns

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to twenty one he also
said it was considering

00:32:31
a waiting period for gun purchases creation
of gun violence restraining orders

00:32:38
and banning bump stocks these are
devices that permit much quicker repeat

00:32:44
firing of

00:32:45
a rifle officials said Nicholas Cruz
the nineteen year old suspect in

00:32:52
last week's shooting had shown warning
signs of psychological problems that could

00:32:58
lead to violence last year he legally
purchased the semiautomatic rifle he

00:33:05
used in last week's attack the Senate
also is considering increasing

00:33:12
spending for mental health programs in
schools and giving police greater powers to

00:33:18
detain someone considered to be

00:33:21
a danger to themselves the Senate will
also look at a proposal to deputize

00:33:27
a teacher or someone else at school
to permit gun possession still

00:33:34
some Republicans question whether
additional gun restrictions are the answer.

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Republican Senator Dennis Baxley said I
really don't want to see this politicized

00:33:47
into a gun debate he added We have

00:33:51
a terrible problem with obesity but
we are not banning forks and spoons

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Democrats believe raising
the age limit and creating

00:34:01
a waiting period to buy rifles
is not enough Democratic Sen

00:34:08
Gary Farmer called such proposals
joke he said I don't see that

00:34:15
as

00:34:15
a restriction it should never have been that
an eighteen year old could buy an assault

00:34:21
weapon no Floridians should be able
to buy an assault weapon. The U.S.

00:34:28
Federal law permits those eighteen and
over to buy rifles cruise past the

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required investigations to buy the A R
fifteen he used in the attack as well as

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at least six other rifles since the attack
students from Marjorie Stoneman Douglas

00:34:49
High School have become increasingly vocal
about their demands for gun control

00:34:55
measures many are publicly naming the
politicians who take financial support

00:35:02
from the National Rifle Association
some criticized President Donald Trump

00:35:08
for blaming Democrats the critics
say Trump has taken no action Trump

00:35:15
announced on Tuesday that
he has directed the U.S.

00:35:20
Attorney general to create rules that
would ban bump stocks the high school

00:35:26
students are also calling for anti gun
violence demonstrations on March twenty

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fourth in Washington D.C.

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And other cities.

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On

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a recent program we told you the stories of
English words borrowed from other languages

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. Today we will tell you about
words that English has taken from

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Chinese many of the Chinese words
that are now part of English

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were borrowed long ago they are
most often from Cantonese or other

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Chinese languages rather than
Mandarin let's start with

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kowtow the English word kowtow is

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a verb that means to agree to easily to
do what someone else wants you to do

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or to obey someone with power in

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a way that seems weak it comes
from the Cantonese word kowtow

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which means knock your head it
refers to the act of kneeling

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and lowering one's head as

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a sign of respect to superiors
such as emperors elders and

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leaders in the case of emperors
the Act required the person to

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touch their head to the ground
in seventeen ninety three

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Britain's King George the third sent
Lord George McCartney and other trade

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ambassadors to China to negotiate

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a trade agreement the Chinese
asked them to kowtow to the

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Chen long emperor as the
story goes Lord Macartney

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refused for his delegation to do
more than bend their knees he

00:38:13
said that was all they were required
to do for their own king it is not

00:38:20
surprising then that McCartney left
China without negotiating the trade

00:38:27
agreement. After that critics
used the word kowtow

00:38:34
when anyone was too submissive
to China today the usage has no

00:38:41
connection to China nor any specific
political connection another borrowed

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word that came about through contact
between two nations is gungho in

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English the word gungho is an adjective
that means extremely excited about doing

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something the Chinese character's
gong and her together

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mean work together cooperate
the original term

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yeah good show set means Chinese
industrial cooperatives the

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organizations were established in
the one nine hundred thirty S.

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By Westerners in China to promote
industrial and economic development

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Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson of the
United States Marine Corps observed these

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cooperatives while he was in China he
was impressed saying all the soldiers

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dedicated themselves to one idea and
work together to put that idea over

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he then began using the term gung ho in the
Marine Corps to try to create the same

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spirit he had witnessed in one thousand
nine hundred forty two he used the word as

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a training slogan for the second Marine
Raider battalion during World War two

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The men were often called the gung
ho battalion from then the word

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gung ho spread as

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a slogan throughout the Marine Corps
Today its meaning has no relation to the

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military. In English a typhoon is

00:40:32
a very powerful and destructive storm
that occurs around the China Sea and

00:40:39
in the South Pacific the
word history of typhoon had

00:40:45
a far less direct path to the
English language than gung ho

00:40:52
and not all historical accounts
are the same but according to the

00:40:59
Merriam Webster new book of word
histories the first typhoons

00:41:05
reported in the English language were
in India and were called to fonts

00:41:12
or to fans the word to fan or to fan

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is Arabic and means violent
storm or flood the English came

00:41:27
across this word in India and
borrowed it as to fawn later

00:41:34
when English ships encountered violent
storms in the China Sea Englishman learned

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the Cantonese word toy phone
which means great wind the

00:41:47
words similarity to to fall on
is only by chance the modern

00:41:54
form of the word typhoon was
influenced by the Cantonese but re

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spelled to make it appear
more Greek kumquat is

00:42:06
a fruit that looks like

00:42:08
a small orange it is native to
South Asia and the Asia Pacific

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the word kumquat comes from the
Cantonese word kumquat or.

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Meaning golden orange gum means
golden and quat means citrus

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fruit or orange. The word also refers
to the plant that carries this

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fruit and eight hundred forty six

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a collector for the London Horticultural
Society introduced kumquats to Europe

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not long after the fruit found its way
to North America another food related

00:42:52
word from Chinese is Chow the
English word Chow is slang for

00:42:59
food American English speakers
also use the phrasal verb chow

00:43:06
down which can mean to eat something
quickly and without good manners it

00:43:12
comes from the Cantonese word.
Which means to stir fry or to

00:43:19
cook the American English usage
of the word chow as food dates

00:43:26
back to eight hundred fifty six and
California Chinese laborers built the

00:43:33
railroads in that state back then the
word mainly referred to Chinese food

00:43:41
today it refers to all kinds of
food most Americans would have

00:43:48
a hard time believing that ketchup was
not created right here in the USA

00:43:55
ketchup is America's most
popular condiment but as V.O.A.

00:44:01
Learning English reported last year the
story of catch up began more than five

00:44:08
hundred years ago in Southeast
Asia the word catch up most likely

00:44:15
comes from the word cut. From

00:44:19
a Chinese dialect called Moyo
the word originally referred to

00:44:26
a type of sauce made from mixing
pickled fish with spices. And

00:44:33
historians say the sauce was
probably first created in

00:44:38
a Chinese community in northern
Vietnam later this song would

00:44:45
reach Indonesia and to be called
chop the word first met the

00:44:52
English language in the late
seventeenth century when

00:44:56
a British colony in Indonesia
came into contact with this sauce

00:45:04
back in England the English first used
the word to refer to many types of

00:45:10
sauces later English settlers brought
to catch up with them to the

00:45:16
American colonies but the condiment did
not contain tomatoes until the mid

00:45:23
nineteenth century join us again
soon to learn the history of English

00:45:30
words borrowed from other languages
I'm Pete Musto and I'm Alice

00:45:36
Bryant.

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Welcome to the making of a
nation American history in Kyo

00:45:54
a special English. One day in
October of eighteen fifty nine

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Americans were shocked by news of an
attack led by John Brown he was an

00:46:08
anti-slavery extremist many
people also considered him

00:46:13
a madman. John Brown had declared
that he was ready to die fighting

00:46:20
slavery he said that God wanted him
to fight slavery by invading Virginia

00:46:27
with

00:46:28
a military force and even if the rebellion
failed he predicted that it would

00:46:35
lead to a civil war between the
north and the South should there be

00:46:40
a war he said the North would
break the chains of black slaves

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Brown decided to strike at Harpers Ferry

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a small town about one hundred kilometers
from Washington it was part of

00:46:58
Virginia at that time but is now
located in the state of West Virginia

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it had a factory that made guns
for the army and a supply center

00:47:11
a valuable military equipment Brown
wanted the guns and equipment for

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the slave army he hoped to
organize Harpers Ferry was

00:47:25
built on

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a narrow finger of land where the Shenandoah
River flows into the Potomac there

00:47:32
was

00:47:32
a bridge across each river Brown organized
his attack from across the Potomac

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in Maryland Harry Monroe and Jack
Moyles continue the story of John Brown

00:47:47
and his raid on Harper's Ferry with his
force of less than twenty men John Brown

00:47:53
moved through the darkness down to the
bridge that crossed the Potomac River two

00:47:59
men left the group to cut the telegraph
lines east and west of Harpers Ferry.

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After the bridge Brown's men surprised

00:48:10
a railroad Guard they told him he was
their prisoner The guard thought they

00:48:17
were joking until he saw their
guns once across the bridge

00:48:24
Brown and his men moved
quickly they captured

00:48:28
a few people in the street and another
guard at the front gate of the government

00:48:34
armory they seized the armory then
crossed the street and seized the

00:48:41
supply center millions of dollars worth
of military equipment was kept there

00:48:49
after leaving

00:48:50
a few men to guard the prisoners Brown
and the others went to the gun factory

00:48:56
across town they seized the few people
who were there and captured the factory

00:49:03
without firing

00:49:04
a shot Brown now controlled the three
places he wanted in Harpers Ferry

00:49:11
is problem now was to hold what he had
captured Brown knew he had little

00:49:18
time the people of the town would soon learn
what had happened they would call for

00:49:25
help and several groups of militia in the
area would come to the aid of Harpers

00:49:32
Ferry run planned to use the
people he had captured as hostages

00:49:39
the militia would not attack if there
was danger of harming the prisoners he

00:49:46
wanted as many prisoners as possible
to protect himself if his plan

00:49:52
failed he could offer them in exchange
for his own freedom and that of his

00:49:59
men Brown had decided to
capture as his best stage

00:50:06
Colonel Lewis Washington. The Colonel was

00:50:10
a descendent of President
George Washington he lived on

00:50:15
a big farm near Harper's Ferry
Brown sent some of his men to

00:50:21
capture the old colonel and free
his slaves they returned from the

00:50:28
Washington farm after midnight they
brought Colonel Washington and ten

00:50:35
slaves they also captured
another farmer and his son

00:50:42
the slaves were given Spears and
told to guard the prisoners

00:50:49
then at the far end of the Potomac
River Bridge the first shots were

00:50:56
fired Brown's son Watson
and another man fired at

00:51:02
a railroad guard who refused to halt

00:51:06
a bullet struck his head but did not
hurt him seriously the guard raced back

00:51:13
across the bridge to the railroad
station he cried out that

00:51:18
a group of armed men had seized
the bridge a few minutes later

00:51:25
a train from the West arrived at Harpers
Ferry the wounded Guard warned the train

00:51:31
men of the danger at the bridge two of
the train men decided to investigate

00:51:38
they walked toward the bridge before they
could reach it bullets began whizzing

00:51:44
past them they ran back to the train
and moved it farther from the bridge

00:51:51
then

00:51:52
a free negro man who worked at the railroad
station Hayward Shepherd walked down to

00:51:58
the bridge Brown's men ordered him
to halt shepherd tried to run

00:52:05
and was shot. He got back to the
station but died several hours later.

00:52:25
Brown finally agreed to let the train
pass over the bridge and continue on to

00:52:31
Baltimore the train left
at sunrise by this time

00:52:38
word of Brown's attack had spread to
Charlestown more than twelve kilometers

00:52:45
away officials called out the militia
ordering the men of Charles Town to

00:52:51
get ready to go to the aid
of Harpers Ferry soon after

00:52:57
sunrise men began arriving at Harpers
Ferry from other towns in the

00:53:04
area they took positions above the
armory and started shooting at it

00:53:12
the militia from Charlestown arrived at
the Maryland end of the Potomac bridge

00:53:20
they charged across forcing Brown's
men on the bridge to flee to the

00:53:27
armory only one of Brown's
men was hit he was

00:53:33
killed instantly round song
that he was surrounded his

00:53:40
only hope was to try to negotiate

00:53:43
a cease fire and offered to release
his thirty hostages if the militia

00:53:50
would let him and his men go free
Brown sent out one of his men

00:53:57
and one of the prisoners with

00:53:59
a white flag. They excited crowd
refused to recognize the white flag

00:54:07
they seized Brown's man and
carried him away round moved his

00:54:14
men and the most important
of his hostages into

00:54:18
a small brick building at the
armory then he sent out two more of

00:54:25
his men with a prisoner
to try to negotiate

00:54:29
a cease fire one of
them was his son what's

00:54:36
this time the crowd opened fire Watson
and the other Raider were wounded

00:54:43
their prisoner escaped to safety
Watson was able to crawl back to the

00:54:49
armory one of the youngest of
Brown's men William Lehman

00:54:56
tried to escape he ran from the
armory and jumped into the Potomac

00:55:03
planning to swim across the
river he did not get far

00:55:10
a group of militias saw him and began
shooting Lehman was forced to hide

00:55:16
behind

00:55:17
a rock in the middle of the river two
men went out to the rock with guns

00:55:24
and shot him his body lay
in the river for two days

00:55:31
later more people were killed one
was the mayor of Harpers Ferry

00:55:38
fun tain back and after the mayor's death

00:55:43
a mob went to the hotel where one of Brown's
men had been held since he was seized

00:55:50
earlier in the day they pulled him from
the hotel and took him to the bridge over

00:55:56
the river several members of the mob
put guns to his head and fired.

00:56:04
They pushed his body off the bridge
and into the water across town

00:56:11
three of Brown's men were in trouble at the
gun factory the factory was built on an

00:56:18
island in the Shenandoah River the
island was now surrounded by militia

00:56:25
forty of the soldiers attacked the
factory from three sides they pushed the

00:56:32
three Raiders back to

00:56:33
a small building next to the river the
three men fought as long as possible

00:56:41
then they jumped through

00:56:43
a window into the river they
tried to swim to safety men with

00:56:50
guns were waiting for them bullets
fell around the three like rain one

00:56:57
man was hit he died instantly
another was wounded he was

00:57:03
pulled to land and left to
die the third man as death

00:57:10
he was captured and held for trial.

00:57:33
All through the afternoon and evening
Brown's men at the Armory continued to

00:57:39
exchange shots with the militia several
more on both sides were killed

00:57:46
or wounded one of those was
another of Brown's sons all over

00:57:54
he was shot and seriously
wounded. Night fellow then

00:58:00
a militia officer Captain. Walked
up to the small building held by

00:58:07
Brown he shouted to the men
inside that he wished to talk

00:58:13
Brown opened the door and let him
in for almost an hour the two

00:58:20
men talked they talked about slavery
and the right to rebel against the

00:58:27
government Brown was furious that
the crowd outside had refused

00:58:34
to honor his white flag of truce
earlier in the day he told C.N.N.

00:58:40
That his men could have killed unarmed
men and women but did not do so

00:58:47
that is not quite correct Captain since
said Mayor back him had no gun when

00:58:54
he was shot then I can only say
I am most sad to hear it said

00:59:01
brown men who take up guns against
the government said sane must expect

00:59:08
to be shot down like dogs
in Washington President

00:59:14
Buchanan and Secretary of War John Floyd
did not learn of the rebellion that

00:59:21
Harper's Ferry until after ten o'clock
that morning the president wanted

00:59:28
immediate action. And that's
our program for today

00:59:35
listen again to morrow to learn English
three stories from around the world I'm

00:59:41
Jonathan Evans and I'm Ashley Thompson.

01:00:08
I'm Steve Miller reporting.

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