American popular music changed forever fifty years ago when Berry Gordy,Junior started a record company in Detroit,Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

Ancient Greek myths told of a time long ago when people lived in peace and happiness.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

"This is something,after all, that first came to the attention of the American public one hundred years ago when a national health insurance program was proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and successive presidents, mostly Democrats but not all, have favored it."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

On that Sunday 50 years ago, and hundreds wounded when police fired into a crowd of 5,000 black South Africans.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

He got the idea for Khan Academy four years ago, when he taught a young cousin how to convert kilograms to grams.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

A big change came four years ago, when Russia's new forestry law essentially privatized management of state forests.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Kingsley was fascinated by how the story explores mental health care from half-a-century ago when techniques now viewed as barbaric were commonplace.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

Fourteen-year-old Nam Gao says that when she moved to Thailand three years ago, her parents tried to enroll her in a Thai school.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

But when Suzuki ran for re-election two years ago, he ran into a problem a complicated election law that bans Internet use during the campaign season.

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

"I think it's a good thing, they probably should have done it a few weeks ago when they were saying it was the gas pedal and the floor mats."

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

"I embarked on the road of sustainability or ethics or biodiversity about five years ago, when I founded a company called Noir I work with 16,000 farmers in Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

When the search began, a half-century ago, it seemed sensible to assume that as technological civilization increased on a planet, more and more signals would be broadcast into space.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

Palestinian shopkeeper Nadia Hazboun said the security situation in the West Bank is much better than a few years ago, when there was fighting with Israel and militants ruled the streets.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Members of this community say they're determined to show the same resolve over the coming months as they did 20 years ago when they moved here to start a new life.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15