Still, it was a great victory for the Whig Party and a sharply felt loss for the opposing party, the Democrats.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Later designs brought a large area in the middle for the hay and feeding stations all around for the cows.

VOA: special.2009.12.29

They saw it as a chance to get more help for the lake's problems, and more national attention for the area.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

For the past four years, Al Wiman has organized a monthly science cafe for the Saint Louis Science Center in Missouri.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

The important thing,says one expert, is to find the right tree for the right place for the right use.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

A few months earlier, the government of President George Washington had started a contest for the best design for the Capitol.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

He composed it for the opening of the John F.Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington,D.C., in nineteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

Share-cropping made it possible for blacks to work the land for themselves for the first time in their lives.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Charlie White and Meryl Davis are competing for the United States at the Olympics for the first time.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Interest is also growing in energy management systems for the home and safe driving technologies for the car.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

But some in Congress want to cancel plans for the next-generation replacement for the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

The measure includes ten billion dollars for education and sixteen billion for Medicaid, the joint state-federal government medical program for the poor.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

He won an Academy Award in nineteen fifty for composing the music for the film, "The Heiress."

VOA: special.2009.06.21

Liberals say the fuel-efficiency requirements for the replacement vehicles are not strong enough for the environment.

VOA: special.2009.08.07