At the base of the hair root is a small ball-like formation called a bulb.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Another hike is a twenty-two kilometer walk that ends at an unusual rock formation.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

This rock formation is made of white-gray quartzite, a kind of sandstone.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

The tests showed it was four hundred years older than the Stonehenge formation in England -- and a thousand years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

North Korea's prime minister Kim Yong Il,told Mr.Wen that Pyongyang is open to nuclear talks, but made no specific endorsement of the six-party formation.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell says Gates urged both leaders to avoid a repetition of the "painful memory" of the five-month government formation process in 2005.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

The Global Political Agreement, signed one year ago by President Robert Mugabe and then-opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, led to the formation of the unity government with Mr.Tsvangirai named to the new post of prime minister.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12