For it marked the beginning of the end of the world's wooden navies.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

It became the fastest-selling U.S.pop single of all-time, and by the end of the decade, was the best-selling single of the 1980s.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

Occupying American soldiers pilfered it at the end of the war and sold the paintings in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

Wiman says part of what makes science cafs successful is where that conversation takes place: "We have it in the lower level of Herbie's restaurant in the Central West End."

VOA: standard.2010.05.04

It's eight in the evening and the end of a hectic day at the house of Carolyn Maloney, Melissa Bean and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, all Democrats, in a neighborhood near the U.S.Capitol.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

But he dealt with it." As the family huddled on stage at the end of the service, one of the singer's three children, tearfully spoke about how much she loved her father.

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

Venezuelan President Chavez threatened to refuse to sign the declaration to protest Cuba's absence from the hemispheric gathering, and to protest the document's failure - as it is now reportedly written - to demand an end to the U.S.embargo of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.04.18