However,because Hank's songs told of real-life troubles with such great emotion, something unusual began to happen to his music.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Public protest was so great that both parties in the eighteen eighty-eight elections promised to pass a federal law against trusts.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

The morning Powell left was like all mornings in the deserts of the great Southwest -- clear and beautiful.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

When repairs are not possible, Pat Metheny returns to what he is famous for --- simply great jazz guitar.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

She exhibited her art in Chicago, only to lose them all in the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Today on our show we listen to the great singer Lena Horne, who died this week at age ninety-two...

VOA: special.2010.05.14

On June twenty-sixth, the first C-47s landed at Tempelhof Airport - the beginning of the great operation that was to come.

VOA: special.2011.08.11

Under one picture she wrote: "While machines are making great progress in automobile factories, the workers might be under-paid.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

And..Sola! I would have you greet your father -- Tars Tarkas -- a great leader among your people.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

The severe economic crisis -- the Great Depression -- created an atmosphere for artistic imagination and creative expression.

VOA: special.2011.04.14

Then everything she had was destroyed again -- this time, in the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy-one.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Between nineteen-oh-five and nineteen-oh-seven, the Colorado River caused great amounts of flooding in parts of Arizona and California.

VOA: special.2009.08.12

The stock market crash marked the beginning of the Great Depression -- a long,slow,painful fall to the worst economic crisis in American history.

VOA: special.2011.02.17