For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Later,after he had returned to England, he would be shocked to find that these very different birds were all finches.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

He had been on the first exploratory trip to the mountain that had mapped the way up from the southern side.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

He had a system. He would describe characters and plots, then have ghostwriters expand those ideas into a book.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

His ideas were so endless that he was not even troubled when he once lost some music he had been writing.

VOA: special.2009.02.08

He captured images of the spot and studied a picture that he had taken earlier of the same area on Jupiter.

VOA: special.2009.08.25

He had to make sure the great light on the top of light house would shine during the black storm.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

His mother, the only woman, he had ever known told him to read the Bible and read it every day.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

They passed a law saying no southerner could vote if he had taken part in the rebellion against the Union.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He had to go into the woods alone that year because Seth had moved to another part of the country.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

He said his views were influenced by the many poor and working class people he had met in his life.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

His last stop was a luggage store where he had all his new clothes put into several expensive suitcases.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

In return,he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis,Missouri, to San Francisco,California, in twenty-five days or less.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

He had just become the first person to fly a plane alone across the Atlantic Ocean, from New York to Paris.

VOA: special.2009.06.28