It comes from earlier days when the Roman Catholic Church ruled that Catholics must not eat meat on Fridays.

VOA: special.2010.02.14

Farmers can start rotational grazing by removing animals from a pasture when the grass is eaten to less than 5 centimeters.

VOA: special.2009.01.06

When last heard from, Amelia Earhart was seeking to become the first female pilot to fly a plane around the world.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

John Bachar was fifty-two years old when he fell from Dike Wall near his home in Mammoth Lakes,California.

VOA: special.2009.12.09

They say it will enable them to protect themselves from HIV infection when involved with sexual partners who refuse to wear condoms.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

The Democrat rose from vice president to president when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April of eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

The flight tested the heat shield. The shield protected the spacecraft from the great heat produced when it returned through the Earth's atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

They worked through the night and had the fire controlled the next morning, when other men arrived from a camp in the area.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Adults may think they are protecting children from secondhand smoke when they smoke outside their home or only when the children are not there.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

He was identified as having post traumatic stress disorder when he returned from service in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

He also did not want Priscilla to see other people when he was away from home.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the dead lying all over the ground.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

However, eleven other workers were killed when they fell from the bridge through the net.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

But they were really happy when they completed their studies and graduated from high school.

VOA: special.2009.07.26