If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

Alabama is known as the Heart of Dixie because it is in the very middle of a group of states in the Deep South.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

It is known as the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

It also is known as the "Doppler effect."

VOA: special.2009.04.29

It is now known as John Brown's Fort.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

The northern Kunduz province borders Tajikistan and it is known as a relatively peaceful Afghan province.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon says peace talks could have resumed long ago, if it were not for the refusal of President Abbas, who is also known as Abu Mazen.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

"When our government has information on a known extremist and that information is not shared and acted upon as it should have been and this extremist boards a plane with dangerous explosives that could cost nearly 300 lives, a systemic failure has occurred.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

December 7 is known as "national students' day" in Iran, and it marks the anniversary of the 1953 slaying of three students by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's security forces, following a coup against populist Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadegh, earlier that year Eyewitnesses say hundreds of students have received threatening emails,this week, warning them not to participate in Monday's demonstrations.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07