Painters like Edgar Degas and Vincent Van Gogh used the sharp lines and off-centered look of these prints in their paintings.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

The Florida,for example, captured more than thirty ships before being captured itself off the coast of Brazil in eighteen sixty-four.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

Post would fly the plane. On June twenty-third,nineteen thirty-one, Post and Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

China's export prices may rise, but an American diplomat said the action "takes an irritant off the table in the U.S.-China relationship."

VOA: special.2010.06.25

They used light-sensitive molecules to turn on and off nerve cells in the deep brain structure of mice.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

"In short,our goal is to get G.M.back on its feet, take a hands-off approach and get out quickly."

VOA: special.2009.06.05

Now,as in those far-off Civil War days, getting information by the grapevine remains something of a game.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

In nineteen eighty-five, the group's members expressed their displeasure in the song,"MTV C Get off the Air."

VOA: special.2011.08.05

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

In nineteen ninety-nine, climbers set off to search for the remains of Mallory and Irvine.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

But already this year, pirates have carried out more than eighty-four attacks in the waters of the Gulf of Aden and off the Somali coast.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

In eighteen sixty-eight, the American writer James Parton called it "hell with the lid off."

VOA: special.2009.07.13

On July fifteenth,nineteen thirty-three, Post took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Nine days after take-off, Voyager landed smoothly at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

VOA: special.2010.10.06