Words like these come to mind as visitors enter a world of silence, darkness and cold, almost two hundred thirty meters under the ground.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

His breath was suspended. His blood was still as if to assist the silence.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

As soon as news reached Rome, a minute of silence was observed in the lower house of parliament.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Cracks are appearing in the wall of silence surrounding the secret practice of extraordinary rendition as prisoners are coming forward to tell of their ordeals.

VOA: standard.2009.03.21