The writer began giving early versions of his books and drawings to the library beginning in the nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

Here Warren Scheer reads the very beginning of Geoffrey Chaucer's great poem, "The Canterbury Tales" as it was written in Middle English.

VOA: special.2011.01.12

The fifty year old international star was just days from beginning a series of performances in London.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Harry Monroe discuss the beginning of Abraham Lincoln's presidency.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The night was beginning to deepen and gather black around the groups of trees in the yard.

VOA: special.2009.06.27

The stock market crash marked the beginning of the Great Depression -- a long,slow,painful fall to the worst economic crisis in American history.

VOA: special.2011.02.17

Santa Fe was the capital of the Spanish kingdom of New Mexico beginning in sixteen ten.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

In the beginning of his book there is a poem by Scottish writer Rubber Lewis Stevenson.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Drug-related violence in Mexico has killed more than seven thousand people since the beginning of last year -- often with guns bought in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

The expression was first used in America at the beginning of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

It shows the effect of monsoons over seven centuries, beginning in the thirteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

But in the soldier's hometown in the western U.S.state of Idaho, his family has known about his capture from the beginning.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

The first of some 21,000 additional American troops are beginning to arrive there ahead of presidential elections in August.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

Tentatively,the two countries hope to hold a reunion in the beginning of October, when Koreans celebrate the thanksgiving holiday of Chuseok.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26