But her trip to Japan,Indonesia,South Korea and China makes her the first in almost fifty years to visit Asia first.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

His Democratic Party of Japan ended more than fifty years of nearly continuous rule by the Liberal Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

The movie is about a man who travels to a distant planet about one hundred fifty years in the future.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

Scott Brown won a seat in Massachusetts that had been held by Democrat Ted Kennedy for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

The collision of the Russian and American satellites was the first of its kind in over fifty years of space travel.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

This week on our program, we tell about a musical play that is fifty years old this month.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

The truth and energy Robert Frank captured in "The Americans" make the photographs as fresh today as they were fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

He was a skilled piano player and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

One hundred-fifty years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln approved an order for the services of seventy-five thousand militiamen.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

American popular music changed forever fifty years ago when Berry Gordy,Junior started a record company in Detroit,Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

Then,fifty years later, a group of American businessmen ousted the ruler and established the Republic of Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Many people visit Harpers Ferry to see a town that looks the same as it did more than one hundred fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Over the past fifty years, she has made very important discoveries about the social behavior of chimpanzees.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

Alice Cooper's extreme clothing, face make-up,fake blood and crazy behavior have entertained audiences for nearly fifty years.

VOA: special.2011.03.21

It must give up Alsace-Lorraine, a part of France it had held for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.10.28

The questions the play brings up are as fresh today as they were fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

His three-point, lap and shoulder seat belt first appeared on cars in Europe fifty years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

The Battle of Solferino took place one hundred fifty years ago, in June of eighteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

Richard Fry says their job-holding rate is almost at the lowest point in nearly fifty years.

VOA: special.2009.11.19