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VOA: special.2009.08.17

He landed in California. He left a hole so deep that to this day it is known as Death Valley.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

It is hard to miss the crowds of people always gathering in one room on this floor.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Madam C.J.Walker explained it this way: "If I have accomplished anything in life, it is because I have been willing to work hard."

VOA: special.2010.03.28

This is because it was against the law in England for women to act onstage.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

Some say it is his best. Kahn built this museum in the early nineteen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.12.13

This man is wearing plastic objects in his hair to curl and shape it.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

"Therefore,any secessionist movement, no matter where it is in the world, will look towards this and gain some encouragement that they too can pursue this path."

VOA: special.2010.07.24

"Our hope is that this will become the way school is in the United States, it will become the dominant way of going to high school."

VOA: special.2010.02.25

"Then the structural engineers take that information and they use it to detail the building in terms of, is this going to be a steel structure?

VOA: special.2011.03.28

Scientists say this is because when the Chazy Reef began to form hundreds of millions of years ago, it was in the southern half of the world.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

"Whereas the oil industry may find it business as usual to have a certain number of spills, it is really not acceptable, especially in this day and age.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

"I believe it is not only possible, but in fact easier to do this without deciding the legal question of whether these states have ever been out of the Union.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

This year,it is presented for solving a problem in biology.

VOA: special.2009.12.08