And so I'll do things that are really fun activities, because these are children who are living in unimaginable poverty.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

This was because of efforts by Patrick Leahy, a senator who has represented Vermont for more than 30 years.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

The name arose because many of the northerners who went south arrived with all their possessions in a carpet handbag.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

However,because Leonardo was born to parents who were not married to each other, he was barred from some studies and professions.

VOA: special.2010.09.15

President Garfield had been assassinated by a man who believed he should have gotten a government job because of his politics.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

The people who started the company named it Google because in mathematics, googol,spelled g-o-o-g-o-l, is an extremely large number.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

The artist who created Charlie Brown and his dog Snoopy had retired a month earlier because of poor health.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

She says she researches her family history because she wants to know where she came from, who her ancestors were.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

Schoenberg said Gershwin was a man who lived in music and expressed everything through music, because music was his native language.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

The program was important because it helped provide work for more than three thousand seven hundred professional artists who were unemployed.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

She says the study looked at restaurants and bars because research suggests that people who drink alcohol are also more likely to smoke.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

A gold digger is someone who seeks to marry a rich person because he or she is only interested in that person's money.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

In time, any man who rushed to fight a fire became known as a fire buff because of the buffalo coat he wore.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

This is because people who live in Washington,D.C., have no voting representation in the United States Congress.

VOA: special.2009.03.20