At age thirty-eight he scored four goals as his team gave the best performance ever by a team from Africa.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

She gave birth to Thomas -- or Tiggy, as his parents call him -- at a hospital in Washington.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

In sixteen eighty-one, King Charles the Second of England gave William Penn a large amount of land to establish a colony.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

And the announcement a month later of a non-aggression treaty between Germany and the Soviet Union gave Tokyo even more cause for concern.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

He gave a famous speech at the Berlin Wall that divided Soviet-controlled East Germany from West Germany.

VOA: special.2011.02.06

Finally,in April, eighteen sixty-three, Grant gave up all ideas of getting past Vicksburg without a fight.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

It ruled a wide-reaching empire. This week in our series, we look at how British power gave way to American influence after World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.08.04

A delay gave him time to take a fourteen-day hiking trip in the Himalayas.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

This is where President Lincoln gave a famous speech in eighteen fifty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

The Allies gave it to a German delegation on May seventh,nineteen-nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.11.11

Patrick Henry is most famous for a speech he gave in seventeen seventy-five to support his proposal to raise forces to defend the colony of Virginia against the British.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

The thing about the Titanic experience, what happened with the Titanic experience and the recognition she got from the New York Times in particular was that it gave her a platform from which to talk about some of the political and social issues -- miners rights,womens rights, the development of the juvenile court system, that sort of thing.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Earlier,the king gave President Obama a red-carpet airport welcome complete with a military honor guard and a 21 gun salute.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

In the second game, officials missed a clear offside against Argentina's Carlos Tevez whose header gave his team an early 1-0 lead over Mexico.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Much has changed since that time. Sobriety,his marriage to actress Nicole Kidman and the birth of their eight-month-old daughter,Sunday Rose, gave him a new perspective on life.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19