She changed her area of study from English to science after she took a biology course that she liked.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

Borman and Lovell continued to circle the Earth, day after day, as workers hurried to meet the new launch date.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Confederate leaders ordered the attack after President Abraham Lincoln refused to withdraw the small force of American soldiers at Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

The findings appeared just days after another team reported its findings in the journal Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Pilot Chesley Sullenberger safely landed a US Airways passenger plane on New York's Hudson River after both its engines failed.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

Five years earlier, another oceanographer learned of the trash after a shipment of rubber duckies got lost at sea.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

I was never no good after that night,Charley. It was like a peak you reach, and then it's downhill."

VOA: special.2009.11.30

After the general's first victory, New York political leader Thurlow Weed happened to meet Taylor's brother on a Hudson River steamboat.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

One hundred eighty thousand copies of "Main Street" were sold in the first six months after it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

In nineteen thirteen, she was kept under house arrest for nine weeks after helping to organize mine workers in Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

After he finished his studies at Harvard in eighteen seventy-six, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

If they become infected, especially after the first three months of pregnancy, they can get very sick or even die.

VOA: special.2009.08.05