Lawmakers in Congress wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Apache Indians considered it to be their land and were all too ready to fight for it.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

Professor King says loss of culture, land and language all play a part in poor health.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Today, the government controls about ninety-seven percent of all the land in the Jackson Hole area.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Alfred Wegener said the mountains and fossils were evidence that all the land on Earth was united at some time in the distant past.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Then they began to die. In some of the gold centers, big mining companies bought up all the land from those who first claimed it.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

He rode that tornado across Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, all the time squeezing the rain out of it to save the land from drought.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

He worked on his own family's land every evening and all day Sunday.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

All the settlers found it easy to get land in the West.

VOA: special.2010.04.15

All the land together measured only one and one half hectares.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Almost thirty-four million hectares of land in all.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

They could not see any land at all.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

at General Eisenhower's headquarters,General Jodl, the representative of the German High Command and of Grand Admiral Doenitz, the designated head of the German state, signed the act of unconditional surrender of all German land,sea and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Forces, and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command."

VOA: special.2011.06.16

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."

VOA: special.2009.01.19

They all want to know about its unusual name. Okefenokee is a Miccosukee Indian word meaning land of trembling earth.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Of course,one of the first rides at Disney Land was a train that ran all around the park."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

Those tensions go all the way back to the Crusades - when Christian armies invaded the Holy Land.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But in the case where the government controls all the land, then there is no way that people can become what you call rich, or live a decent life.

VOA: standard.2009.11.01

In the land of China... people hardly got nothin'at all.

VOA: standard.other

The plane crashed as it tried to land amid heavy fog, killing all onboard - President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and a delegation that included Poland's top military leaders as well as many political and cultural figures.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Mr.Netanyahu has been a strong supporter of Jewish settlement in all of the biblical land of Israel, but he imposed the construction freeze last month after urging from the United States, which sees the settlements as an obstacle to peace.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

She says that a number of her counterparts were not aware that the Israeli offer included an end to all new settlement activity in the West Bank, an end to the expropriation of Palestinian land,and an end to any new construction permits.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton comes to Cairo after angering many Arabs by offering praise for an Israeli offer to curb settlement expansion on occupied Palestinian land, an offer that was met with outrage by many Arabs, who continue to demand Israel halt all construction.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03