He was stationed in Germany where he lived in a large house and dated a lot of beautiful women.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Some years earlier, he had asked several people to invest in a gold mine he had in Death Valley.

VOA: special.2011.08.03

He landed in California. He left a hole so deep that to this day it is known as Death Valley.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

He served in many other towns. Often,all he had to do was walk into a room to stop a fight.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

After he finished his studies at Harvard in eighteen seventy-six, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Lincoln never joined a church, but he believed in a supreme being who created every person with a purpose in life.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

He arrived in Washington in the spring of 1842 with the power to settle all disputes with the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

He acted in the belief that slaves throughout the south would rise up against their owners and join him.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

And when he traveled to his grandmother's house, he sat in the back of the bus behind a white line.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

He says that in Prague he will lay out a plan to seek the goal of a world without nuclear weapons.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

But one morning he come in, and Smiley asked him how was his wife, and he said she was better,thank God.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

But his family and friends knew he still believed in the causes he had sung and written about all his life.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

As he tells it,one day he looked in the window of a school and noticed how dark it was.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

One example he uses in his two thousand eight book is Huddie Ledbetter, the singer and guitarist known as Lead Belly.

VOA: special.2010.01.25