A few years ago,some marketing and advertising experts were asked to name the best nickname for an American city.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Word expert Mitford Mathews says that as early as eighteen fifty-four, an American publication used the words peanut agitators.

VOA: special.2010.10.03

The victims,including an American, were watching the World Cup final on television Sunday at two social places in the capital.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The state is named after an American Indian tribe a recognition of the groups that came long before the Pilgrims.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

More than six hundred seventy-one thousand foreign students attended an American college or university during the last school year.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

In the nineteen eighties and nineties, an American television comedy series told about four older women living in Miami,Florida.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" is considered one of the best books about an American boy's life in the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

When a German submarine sank a British ship in the Irish Sea, one of the victims was an American citizen.

VOA: special.2010.10.07

Join us again next week for THE MAKING OF A NATION -- an American history series in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

An American stuck in London, already one of the world's highest priced cities, found that her hotel had doubled its prices.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

An American State Department spokesman said IHH representatives have met with top Hamas officials over the past three years.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

"I think the story in some ways tells us what we want to think of ourselves as an American.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

He says that would reduce the need for an American missile-defense system proposed for the Czech Republic and Poland.

VOA: special.2009.03.07