Settlements grew from the missions along the California coast.

VOA: special.2010.12.29

Dubai World's debts grew from projects initiated during Dubai's property boom, including man-made islands in the shape of palm trees and the world's tallest building.

VOA: standard.2009.12.02

(Choral music) The two European leaders listened to a French army choir sang the Marseillaise and then the German anthem, marking a French-German friendship that grew from the ashes of the two world wars.

VOA: standard.2009.11.11

Nina Simone wrote that she grew to love her first piano teacher, a white woman from England.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

The Maya took the cacao trees from the rainforests and grew them in their gardens.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

Mister Thornton came from a family of wealthy landowners who grew sugar on the island.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Interest grew. Today,he receives orders from as far away as Australia and New Zealand.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

He grew up in La Plata,Argentina, in a Jewish family from eastern Europe.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

He came from the state of Mississippi but grew up in Texas.

VOA: special.2010.01.18

Garson was born in the United States and grew up playing football not far from the Miami stadium hosting this year's Super Bowl.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Wall Street cheered Friday following an upbeat fourth quarter report from the Commerce Department showing the U.S.economy grew at the fastest pace in more than six years.

VOA: standard.2010.01.29

Today,he trains and teaches young people blocks from where he grew up.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Many pepper farmers like Ngnoun Lay come from generations of pepper growers: He says since he was born his mother and father grew pepper and now he does the same thing.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

to the place where it all began for Michael Jackson. The small home where he grew up not far from downtown Gary is now a shrine to the late singer and his family.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11