Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman and John Williams all worked together on the music for the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha."

VOA: special.2009.01.16

All two hundred twenty-eight people on the flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris were killed.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

Robinson's success opened the door for other black athletes to play on all-white professional teams.

VOA: special.2009.04.05

And: "All around, people looking half-dead, walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head."

VOA: special.2009.06.22

This is especially true in sub-Saharan Africa, which falls behind on all of the goals.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

They're all gone too." New Orleans was built on low-lying wetlands along the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

Bobby had someone to play with him, someone to love him and care for him, while out there on the hillside Kathleen was alone--all alone.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Then,in November,eighteen fifty-nine, Darwin released the results of all his work on evolution.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

No one gets off the hook on this one -- from governments to schools, corporations to nonprofits, all the way down to families sitting around their dinner table."

VOA: special.2010.06.07

He has played on a total of eleven NBA All-Star teams.

VOA: special.2009.11.20

And you can experience it all on the Internet at americanhistory-dot-s-i-dot-e-d-u.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

They spent seventy-five hours, in all,on the surface.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

This is how she described what she could see from that house on a hill: "The far-off mountains in all their grandeur, and the deep valleys, and widely extended plains, and more than all, that little village below, containing only a very few white houses, but more than those young eyes had ever seen."

VOA: special.2010.06.27

This is what it said: I,Abraham Lincoln, president of the United States and commander in chief of the Army and Navy, do hereby declare that on the first day of January, eighteen sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state then in rebellion against the United States, shall then become and be forever free.

VOA: special.2009.10.08