Within a few years, he would be accepted into scientific organizations like the Geological Society and the Royal Society.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

It has high mountains. It has valleys formed by ancient ice that cut deep into the Earth millions of years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

People moved into the American Southwest more than ten thousand years ago as the last ice age was ending.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

African countries frequently have to wait for years, if not decades,for new medical products to trickle into their health systems.

VOA: special.2011.01.19

She spent her later years turning her home and art collection into a beautiful museum for the public to enjoy.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

BP agreed to put twenty billion dollars over the next three years into an independent fund to pay claims and damages.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

She shook a little bell on the table, and a small black girl about 12 years old ran into the room.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

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

A few years later, a settler named Abijah Long also found the entrance and went into the cavern.

VOA: special.2009.12.07

But Congress has put more into the budget of the national park system in the past three years.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The group notes that a past fishing treaty took almost ten years to come into force.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

After millions of years, it was pushed up into the air to form land and mountains.

VOA: special.2009.01.07

When Theodore was thirteen years old, he got into an argument with two other boys.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Yet in later years he developed the failed romance into an interesting situation for "Peanuts."

VOA: special.2009.10.25