The library, founded by anthropologist Melville Herskovits, is the largest separate library in the world for the study of Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

Leone is full of churches, including the first on the island, a Congregational church founded by a British missionary in the 1800s.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

Cidade Velha, founded by the Portuguese in 1462, is the oldest European settlement in the tropics.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

It was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace, both 32-year-old children of preachers.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Al-Shabab,which currently controls key towns in southern and central Somalia, was founded several years ago by al-Qaida-trained Somali radicals and is virulently anti-West.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians, a strict Protestant sect originally from what is now the Czech Republic and eastern Germany.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

President Obama looked out at the congregation at Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, founded in 1866 by former slaves, and remarked on the lessons of history.

VOA: standard.2010.01.17