These are strange and confusing times in Washington. Political operatives meeting with Russian lawyers, a White House at odds with its own intelligence community. But the Washington intrigue appears to be driving renewed interest in the secretive world of spies. And that's just fine with the new director of Washington's International Spy Museum. Reporter Ardita Dunellari paid a quick visit to the Spy Museum to speak to a former spy who is now the museum's director.
After the devastation of World War II, architects in Yugoslavia got to work helping to rebuild the country which straddled the Cold War divide between the East and West. The architecture reflects styles from both sides and the architects' vision of the future. The Museum of Modern Art in New York examines their work in an exhibit called “Toward a Concrete Utopia.” Ardita Dunellari has the story.
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For the first time in a century all 50 states will get to witness at least a partial eclipse. VOA's Ardita Dunellari visited the National Air and Space Museum in Washington to learn what preparations are underway for viewing this spectacular display of nature.
September 11 brings vivid memories of the 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon for Bruce Powers. The George Washington University professor was a Pentagon defense analyst at the time, and was on the job that fateful day. He tells VOA’s Ardita Dunellari what he experienced and the ways he has found to give meaning to the event and honor colleagues who perished.
It’s not precisely clear why a 16th-century German cartographer chose to honor the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by naming a land mass after him instead of Christopher Columbus, who historically gets the credit for America’s discovery. VOA's Ardita Dunellari reports Martin Waldseemuller’s 1507 map has been called America’s birth certificate as the first geographic document to apply the moniker.
Cartographer Martin Waldseemuller’s 1507 map was first geographic document to apply the moniker 'America' to land mass across ocean
It’s not precisely clear why a 16th century German cartographer chose to honor the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by naming a land mass after him instead of Christopher Columbus. But Martin Waldseemuller’s 1507 map has been called America’s birth certificate as the first geographic document to apply a variation of the moniker, as VOA's Ardita Dunellari explains. It's on permanent display at the Library of Congress in Washington.
As scientists work on drugs and therapies to treat, and eventually cure cancer, health officials devise strategies aimed at cancer prevention. Research shows that some 50 percent of cancer cases in developed countries are preventable by changing daily habits and controlling harmful environmental factors.
President Obama introduced initiative to boost cancer research Tuesday, and breakthroughs at Johns Hopkins University indicate ‘limitless’ potential
National Gallery of Art is displaying retrospective of Piero di Cosimo's beautiful, but sometimes baffling, works
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has raised the curtain on one of the most intriguing painters of the High Renaissance. Mostly ignored after his death in the early 1500s, Italian master Piero di Cosimo is now claiming his place alongside the best-known artists of the period. VOA’s Ardita Dunellari reports.
