This is called a wake. The body is placed in a special burial box called a casket or coffin.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Jordan had recorded a song called "Caldonia" and other popular songs in the late nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Researchers have known since the nineteen thirties that the actively growing tip of a plant releases a hormone called auxin.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

Information that is used to draw attention away from the real facts of a situation is called a red herring.

VOA: special.2011.04.10

He invented the skill of throwing a special rope called a lasso over a cow's head to catch wandering cattle.

VOA: special.2011.06.11

For example,a group called Shark Safe helped prevent the killing of sharks at a fishing competition in Florida earlier this month.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

He was five years old when he began singing with his brothers in a group called the Jackson 5.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Earlier this week, he used a law called the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act to target three Mexican drug organizations.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

His group and the World Health Organization recently published a report called "The Global and Regional Toll of Preterm Birth."

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Right now a program called the Black Barbershop Health Outreach Program is traveling to fifty cities across the United States.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

So the group started a competition called the National Geographic Bee to test students' knowledge about places around the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

A treaty called the Rome Statute established the court in The Hague, in the Netherlands, in two thousand two.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

The chief engineer,Joseph Strauss, wrote a poem called "The Mighty Task is Done" after the Golden Gate Bridge was completed.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14