On January 4th, the president-elect left his house in Chicago to join his family in Washington and prepare to take office.

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In eighteen eighty-six, Maggie Tobin left home for the town of Leadville,Colorado, to join a sister and brother who already lived there.

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As many as one hundred crystals may join to form a snowflake larger than two and one-half centimeters.

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In eighteen seventy-seven, Edgar Degas came to her studio and asked her to join his group of artists who called themselves the Independents.

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Long-time Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter announced he is leaving the Republicans to join the president's Democratic Party.

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Snowflakes come in different sizes. As many as one hundred crystals may join together to form a snowflake larger than two and one-half centimeters.

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Nine years later,in eighteen forty-five, the United States Congress passed a resolution inviting the Republic of Texas to join the Union as a state.

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In nineteen ninety-six, Missus Lindbergh was invited to join the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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He wanted to re-join the ties that the Civil War had broken.

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She says Turkey has approved many legal reforms as part of its efforts to join the European Union -- but these have not necessarily been put into action.

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Non-disabled children were also welcome to join the camp.

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But Eroglu supports a two-state confederation, which could negatively impact Turkey's bid to join the European Union.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

For the fans,it will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join the celebrations and see the world's greatest football players compete at home in Africa.

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The 1960s was really not a troop-friendly kind of place, and this young man went to join the Army and he went to war.

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Lawmakers in Sierra Leone are preparing to join a seven-nation charter to protect the region's mangrove ecosystem which conservationists now say totals just 800,000 hectares.

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The website is overseen by a group of working physicists, but you don't need a Nobel Prize to join in the adventure of sub-atomic particles.

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The leader of al-Shabab forces in the Bay and Bakol regions, Sheikh Mahad Abdikarim, is asking for foreign Islamic militants to join al-Shabab in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

During a recent trip to Ukraine, U.S.Vice-President Joe Biden reaffirmed Ukraine's right to join NATO.

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The American-backed resolution, passed last week, has raised concerns that India will come under pressure to join the treaty, to which it is not a signatory.

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She holds similar political talks later in the week with Thai officials in Bangkok before flying to the resort island of Phuket to join in an annual dialogue of Pacific-rim country foreign ministers with those of ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.07.15

This brought in their writing skills. After we talk about all of them, we will write the numbers down - now this is three and two more - before we even tell them the plus sign, you know,how to join things together."

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