She shows how Darwin came to understand that these island animals had differences, developed over time, that helped them survive.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The turning point came in June nineteen forty-two in the central Pacific in the great battle of Midway Island.

VOA: special.2011.06.23

The representative from the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu made an emotional appeal for a treaty with legal force.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

On the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica, Amizade places volunteers with a local partner in the small community of Petersfield.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

For example, the popular bobsleigh team from the island of Jamaica did not qualify for the Olympics four years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Michigan in the Midwest and Maine,New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont in the East also permit some medical uses.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

In fact,the people who live on Islamorada Key claim their island is the "Sports Fishing Capital of the World."

VOA: special.2010.03.22

They told the commander they thought they were west of a small island near the coast of northwestern France.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Millions of immigrants coming to America passed the statue as ships carried them to the immigration processing center on Ellis Island.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

A young boy named Max runs away from his mother and sails to an island full of frightening-looking creatures.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

The lava from Kilauea continues to add land to the island as the volcanoes of Hawaii have always done.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

Historians say British mapmaker Bartholomew Gosnold first made a map of the island for the rulers of England in sixteen-oh-two.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

No one knows why. Roanoke is a low, narrow island between the mainland and the islands of the Outer Banks.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation raised about one hundred million dollars in private money to do the work.

VOA: special.2009.06.29