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20.02.2008 - Nineteenth-century pioneers on their way to California were glad to leave this part of the country. Still, some did stay - fortune hunters, outlaws, adventurers, merchants and those who provided entertainment. The call of gold and silver had driven people - men, for the most part - to Nevada, to places like Calico, Belmont or Goldfield.

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[...] adventure in the fantasy worlds of Las Vegas. The Rio is one of the new mega-hotels. Eleven of the world's largest hotels are located in Las Vegas. The Rio [...]

http://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/usa-the-sound-of/inhalt/sendungen/goldrausch-in-las-vegas/english-filmscript.html

'Terra Australis Incognita', a Latin term meaning ‘Unknown Southern Land’, was the last landmass to be discovered by European explorers. This mystical land and the riches it held inspired explorers to sail into the unknown.

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[...] It was the explorer and botanist JOSEPH BANKS who, in 1779, suggested that New South Wales would be a fine site for a penal colony. The British accepted [...]

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A highly developed and powerful nation, the land of opportunity, land of the brave and the free, a multicultural country: this is how many of us see the United States of America. However it is impossible to describe this complex nation in only one paragraph.

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[...] New York Although it claims to be the capital of the world, New York City is not the capital of the USA. [...]

https://www.lernhelfer.de/schuelerlexikon/englisch-abitur/artikel/american-cities

20.02.2008 - Dead as a doornail - the main street of Mamou, a little town in southwest Louisiana, with a population of 4,000. It's Saturday morning, just before 9. At first sight, the place looks sleepy. The stores are closed. Only the barbershop is open, as it has been every Saturday morning for the past fifty years, but there are no customers so far.

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[...] Louisiana and is one thing above all: flat. The land west of the Mississippi Delta is blessed with water, thanks to the great river. Rice-growing plays [...]

http://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/usa-the-sound-of/inhalt/sendungen/cajuns-in-louisiana/english-filmscript.html

20.02.2008 - They came from England, across the great ocean, believing that they were on their way to a state of blessedness. They called themselves the "Pilgrim Fathers" and their ship was the Mayflower. It was the year 1620. But on board the overcrowded ship were not only puritanical Pilgrim Fathers, fleeing from religious persecution in their homeland.

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[...] herself the name "Columbine". It stands for a new and freely chosen identity in a world of her own. Columbine: "The name of a character in the old Italian [...]

http://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/usa-the-sound-of/inhalt/sendungen/die-hexen-von-boston/english-filmscript.html

Canadian literature is a vast topic supplying us with a long list of well-known authors, who wrote and still write about many different national and world issues. LUCY MAUD MONTGOMERY, MARGARET LAURENCE and MARGARET ATWOOD are the writers chosen to exemplify the role of women in Canadian literature and their importance in Canadian culture.

https://www.lernhelfer.de/schuelerlexikon/englisch-abitur/artikel/canadian-writers

20.02.2008 - One o'clock in the morning at "Tramps" in New York. It's as full as the Cavern Club in Liverpool used to be when the Beatles played there. And now, with similar enthusiasm, the audience is waiting for one of the hottest acts on the Hip Hop scene: the Blastmaster of Rap - KRS One. KRS One: "Hip Hop is formed out of the necessity to have an identity in a society that doesn't recognize you.".

http://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/usa-the-sound-of/inhalt/sendungen/hip-hop-in-der-bronx/english-filmscript.html

* 01. Februar 1902 in Joplin (Missouri) † 22. Mai 1967 in New York LANGSTON HUGHES war einer der einflussreichsten afroamerikanischen Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er prägte die Literatur der Harlem Renaissance.

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20.02.2008 - The folk legend, Woody Guthrie, about the thirties:. Woody Guthrie: "And so we watched the dust storms come up like the Red Sea closin' in on the Israel children. Anyway we stood there and watched the son-of-a-gun come up. And I'm a-tellin' you, it got so black when that thing hit, we all run into the house.

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[...] the largest supply of gas in the world, and the Ogalala Water Aquifer, which is one of the biggest underground lakes in the world and neither one of [...]

http://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/usa-the-sound-of/inhalt/sendungen/staubstuerme-in-oklahoma/english-filmscript.html

20.02.2008 - Richard: "... and Taj Mahal will be there as well as the Lovin' Spoonful. So that's going on, it's free. It's in the park in the polo grounds on Sunday at 11. And you know, last week we had a great concert at the Avalon Ballroom and these guys were there to start it off - here are the Byrds ...". America's youth gravitates to the West Coast, to San Francisco.

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[...] as well as film and slide projectors. In each of the two large watch faces he's using, he has one colour diluted with water and oil. Ray no longer does [...]

http://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/usa-the-sound-of/inhalt/sendungen/blumenkinder-in-san-francisco/english-filmscript.html