Just before the first of the year, a congressman asked the president if he still planned to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Many of the matches were fixed. The wrestlers knew before the match which one of them would be the winner.

VOA: special.2010.02.21

He fled with his mother on the last public flight out of the country before the overthrow of the government.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

For each country, researchers estimated the probability that a fifteen-year-old today will die an early death before the age of sixty.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

So,a few months before the presidential election of eighteen ninety-two, America's agricultural Alliances held a joint convention in Omaha,Nebraska.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

He worried about his motorcycle. If the engine failed, he could die of lack of water before anyone could find him.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

He served as vice president for about a year and a half before the death of President Taylor.

VOA: special.2009.04.09

It was one of the last films produced by Metro Pictures Corporation before it became part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,or MGM, in nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

We see that you know from everyone,they say their interest in science begins before the age of eleven.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Some men made as many as thirty trips before they had all of their supplies at the top.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Next,she plays some ideas on the piano before entering the beginnings of a composition into a computer.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

After all,the Confederate secretary of war had declared that the Confederate flag would fly over the Capitol building before the first of May.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

The neighbors sometimes talked of the "better days" that little Missus Sommers had known before she had ever thought of being Missus Sommers.

VOA: special.2009.09.05