In May of nineteen forty-three, Louie Zamperini and his crew left their base in Hawaii to begin a rescue operation.

VOA: special.2011.05.04

Jill Wiseman of Austin,Texas, left her job at a high-tech company four years ago to do beading full time.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of nineteen to return to New York City where he was born.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

He worked on his high school newspaper and later left the University of Texas at Austin to become a journalist.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

But he says the Liberal Democrats left policymaking to aging politicians out of touch with the needs of the people.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

So I set out on a journey to see his buildings and to find whatever was left of him out there."

VOA: special.2011.07.24

Jefferson Davis left his farm in Mississippi to become president of the Confederate States of America on February eleventh.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

He had seen days of much food and laughter; fat stomachs when food was left to rot and spoil;

VOA: special.2010.02.27

He left his wife and family in the nineteen twenties to find work in the American state of California.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

But the pictures that he and his photographers made left a wealth of history for all future generations to see.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

This left even less gold and silver to exchange for the huge amounts of paper money the banks had issued.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

I felt close to that kind of thing because I had denied it and had been left away from it so long.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

On that same day, Abraham Lincoln left his home in Illinois to become president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

In eighteen eighty-six, Maggie Tobin left home for the town of Leadville,Colorado, to join a sister and brother who already lived there.

VOA: special.2010.03.08