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

VOA: special.2010.08.30

The World Cup is organized by FIFA, the Fdration Internationale de Football Association.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

And,the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro is more than one thousand.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Yvo de Boer is the top climate official at the United Nations.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Chicago is competing against Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and Madrid.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

If you get a chance to see a red sunset over the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico, you will know why that southwestern state is called The Land of Enchantment.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

"De Colores" is a popular Spanish folksong.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

The State Department's new anti-trafficking coordinator, Luis de Baca, stressed that encouraging improvement is the main point of the exercise.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

London is the site of the The 2016 games in Rio De Janeiro will be the first in South America.

VOA: standard.2009.10.02

The delegation, led by EU Aid Commissioner Karel de Gucht, is to visit Zimbabwe Saturday and Sunday.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

The U.N.'s de Boer says there is still much discussion about the pledges.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Thetop U.N.climate official Yvo de Boer said it is time to act.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

What is clear, says Claire de Gallembert, an expert on Islam at the Paris-based National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) is that the debate is alienating France's five-million-member Muslim community.

VOA: standard.2010.01.30

That step,he said, shows it is designed to absorb those areas into Russia, both de facto and de jure, which is why Russia started the war (in August), Utiashvili said.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30