BeadforLife began as a chance meeting between three American women on a trip to Uganda and a local jewelry maker.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

Early in the nineteen hundreds, a woman named Anna Jarvis began a campaign to honor mothers in America.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

In nineteen forty-four, Borlaug left his job with DuPont, and began a project to increase Mexico's wheat production.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

He began as a juggler, someone who can keep several objects in the air at the same time.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Pat Bodnar has more. "And the Pursuit of Happiness" began as a monthly column in the Opinion section of the New York Times.

VOA: special.2010.12.10

Why did they become so famous? The story of these famous men began a little before the American Civil War of the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

In two thousand five, Ball State University in Muncie,Indiana, began a program called "Degree in Three."

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Late in nineteen thirty-five, workers at several General Motors factories began a "sit-down" strike at their machines to demand better pay and working conditions.

VOA: special.2011.03.31

In nineteen thirty-seven, Bob Hope began a series of radio programs called the "Woodbury Soap Show."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

With a sixty-five dollar loan, she began a sewing business and began to earn money.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

But Todd Duncan began a major change in classical musical performance in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

But the holiday began as a way to remember soldiers killed in the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Mia Farrow began a hunger strike to protest the situation of refugees in Darfur.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

He began a program of observing not only Mars, but also Venus and Mercury.

VOA: special.2010.07.11