They came from a home built by the Assyrian ruler Sargon the Second in modern day Iraq.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

This has been the second part of the story "A Princess of Mars" by Edgar Rice Burrows.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

The second part of the title is taken from a song by the Beastie Boys.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

He says you can harvest parsley by cutting most of the plant, or leave more of the plant in the ground for a second crop.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

A second goal is for the number of malaria cases and deaths to be reduced by fifty percent or more from the number reported in two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

Bolt shattered his old mark by 11-100ths of a second to set the new world record of 19.19 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

On the final run, he edged out the Canadian sled driven by Lyndon Rush by a mere 0.01 of a second.

VOA: standard.2010.02.28

"I was saved only by a few feet and about a second going down an embankment and smashing into a brick wall."

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Skiing,speed skating, luge and bobsled are all Winter Olympics sports usually decided by fractions of a second.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Sebelius was given a second, ceremonial oath of office on Friday, by Vice President Joe Biden.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

That's according to a second report released this week by the American Association of University Women.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Dr.Mark Hamer's study on the psychological impact of second-hand tobacco smoke appears in the Archives of General Psychiatry, a journal published by the American Medical Association.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

The North also said it had reached the final stage of a uranium enrichment program, possibly creating a second process by which it can build nuclear arms.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

In addition,officials now say General McChrystal's assessment is just one part of a broader Afghanistan strategy review by the administration, its second since the president took office in January.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

St.Louis has two science cafs. The second one - sponsored by Washington University - meets once a month during the academic year at a bar called the Schlafly Bottleworks.

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

President Barack Obama and other U.S.officials argued strongly at the summit against any early slowing of stimulus spending by governments, saying that it might bring about a second global recession.

VOA: standard.2010.06.27

In the men's 100-meter hurdles, Ryan Brathwaite of Barbados nosed out Terrence Trammell of the United States by one-100th of a second to win his nation's first-ever World Championship gold medal in a national record time of 13.14 seconds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

The first step uses a bit of influenza DNA to get the patient's immune system to begin fighting off the flu, and then the protection is given a "boost" some time later by the second step, which can be either another bit of DNA or a conventional flu vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

This is much truer,of course, in a place like Georgia, where the first elected president Gamsakhurdia was overthrown by a civil war, then the second Shevardnadze was overthrown from the street in the Rose Revolution and now Saakashvili, after losing his war with Russia, in fact, is now threatened by the street,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.01