He started a textile business in that island nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

Although he started painting in New York and other eastern states, he began traveling west in eighteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

In the late nineteen thirties, he started to collect small pieces of paper including food paper packaging, paper cups and book pages.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

He started writing in eighteen seventy-six, but put the story away after about two years of work.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

During his childhood, the future senator attended ten different schools in several cities before he started college.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

In time,he started the Carnegie Steel Company and built it into the biggest in the world.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

He started the first running club in America and wrote a book about jogging for fitness.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

Like many performers of his time, he started in vaudeville in the early nineteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The next year, he started a radio show for the company that made Pepsodent toothpaste.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

He started posting videos of his contest performances on YouTube for his friends and family.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

Ken Wisnefski is chief executive of WebiMax, a company he started in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

He started as a serious musician, before he discovered he could make people laugh.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

He started a campaign to get clean water for the state of New York.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Two years after he started using watercolor, he stopped illustrating for magazines like Harper's.

VOA: special.2010.07.25