An actor plays Spanish-American Admiral David Farrugut, a hero in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.18

In nineteen ninety-nine, Walter Plowright won the World Food Prize as a hero of the fight against rinderpest.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

And it nominated a hero of the Spanish-American War, New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt, as vice president.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

His father,Arthur MacArthur, was a hero of the American Civil War and continued to serve in the army after the war ended in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Besides, there was a growing feeling among the Whig leaders that they should choose a military hero as their presidential candidate - a general like Andrew Jackson.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

An exhibit entitled "Joseph Beyrle - Hero of Two Nations" opened Thursday at the World War II Museum in Moscow.

VOA: standard.2010.05.07

Awlaki's English-language Website praises Hasan as a "hero" and a "man of conscience".

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

The same official termed as "disgusting" the hero's welcome the Gadhafi government gave to convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was released from prison by Scottish authorities on Thursday because he suffers from terminal cancer.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24