The Cremation Association of North America says cremations were used in almost thirty-five percent of funerals in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Years of disagreement between the North and the South finally burst into civil war in April of eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

All together, this mass of waste floating in the North Pacific Ocean is known as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

He says farmers in some parts of North Dakota plant wheat that is ready to harvest in only about one hundred days.

VOA: special.2010.02.09

Five days after Lee's surrender, Johnston asked for a meeting with General William Sherman, the commander of Union forces in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

William the Conqueror led it. The Normans were a French-speaking people from Normandy in the north of France.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

In the north London neighborhood of Haringey, some young people are using their energy to do positive things.

VOA: special.2011.08.13

For example, permanent populations of Canada geese in North America have increased three hundred percent in eighteen years to four million birds.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

She also taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Saint Mary's College of Maryland and Duke University in North Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Tate works with a team of glass artists at a studio in the state of North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Feelings against the war were growing stronger, not only in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but also in several other farm states of the north.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Jefferson proposed that a group of explorers travel across North America in search of such a waterway.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

It is the largest trade show of any kind in North America with over one hundred thirty thousand square meters of exhibition space.

VOA: special.2010.01.26

Researchers at Duke University in North Carolina have developed a small pouch made of foil and plastic.

VOA: special.2010.05.24