It was designed and completed in about a year and opened on the first day of the World's Fair.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

In the Netherlands, it is illegal to explode firecrackers in the weeks before New Year's Day.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

"We are active now in one hundred ninety countries and it's estimated that one billion people participate in Earth Day events around the globe now."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

It's a cool day because everybody gets to give balloons and chocolates and all that stuff to the person you're in a relationship in or whatever."

VOA: special.2010.02.08

I think it's probably really the most important holiday in the United States because it is a day that is not tied to a particular religion.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

"Worst. The worst was also the funnest, 'cause I got up early Thanksgiving day and we went to the Burwick Marathon, but it's a nine-mile road race.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

These are important days because soon it will be February fourteenth,Valentine's Day.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

It was the coldest inaugural day in the nation's history.

VOA: special.2009.01.29

Barbara Klein has more. The band that brought us one of the best albums of the decade is back with a new CD, It is Green Day's eighth studio album.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

What does he think of Valentine's Day? "I think it's actually a good opportunity to remember those things that we want to do on Valentine's Day you know,special things for the spouse or whoever you probably ought to do them year-round.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

"And then when you look at how it's taught, you have some teachers who are teaching handwriting by providing instruction for ten,fifteen minutes a day, and then other teachers who basically teach it for sixty to seventy minutes a day which really for handwriting is pretty much death."

VOA: special.2009.10.29

"That's the wonderful thing about Earth Day is that it really provides a platform, an opportunity for grassroots organizations and community organizations to really focus on what's happening in their neighborhoods and their homes in their communities, in their businesses and to focus on the priority problems and to engage people maybe for the first time in taking environmental action."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

"It's a fantastic experience, everyone's excited, it's an amazing place to come and visit on the day that Christ was born."

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Austerity is the order of the day and it's not always popular as deadly riots in Greece recently proved.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16