It led the sculptor Felix de Weldon to create one of the largest free-standing bronze statues in the world.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

Georges de la Tour painted the emotionally expressive "The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds" in sixteen thirty-five.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

(JIMMY BUFFETT - "VOLCANO") The first European to see the Florida Keys was Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon in the year fifteen-thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who first saw it in sixteen-oh-nine.

VOA: special.2010.08.30

In Rio de Janeiro, a famous hip-hop artist called Marcelo D2 also lived in a favela.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

In the eighteen eighties, Ferdinand de Lesseps -- builder of the Suez Canal -- formed a French company to build a waterway across Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Catherine de Medici of Italy married the French King Henri the Second in fifteen thirty-three.

VOA: special.2011.01.26

French explorer and trader Rene-Robert Cavelier De La Salle, built it in sixteen seventy-nine.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

In nineteen forty-six, Felix de Weldon started all over again.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

(Speaking in French) Aounit hopes the government call will prompt what he describes as a larger "de-ghettoization" of France's social system, which must also include equal access to jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Two of Chirac's former prime ministers, Alain Juppe and Dominique de Villepin, have both stood trial on separate charges, while ex-interior minister Charles Pasqua was sentenced to prison in a third trial that ended this week.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Republican Representative Chris Smith was among seven members of Congress who wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressing concern that programs promoting democracy, civil society and rule of law in Iran were being de-funded or halted.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28