Until 7 years ago, Mr. Badt worked as a chef in fine restaurants in Washington and New York City.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Two of his names -- Santa Claus and Saint Nicholas -- both come from the Dutch who settled in New York long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

What happened in New York a week ago has added to calls for new laws to deny gun and explosive purchases to suspected terrorists.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

Five years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine published two government-financed studies of serious mistakes.

VOA: special.2009.06.02

About two thousand five hundred years ago the first houses appeared on the flat tops of mesas in what is now northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Fifty years ago, a former governor of New York state, Alfred Smith, criticized some claims by President Franklin Roosevelt about the successes of the Roosevelt administration.

VOA: special.2010.09.26

Two weeks ago, sixteen year old Stacy performed a poem about the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.04.17

Its use started almost two-hundred years ago in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Years ago,a young forester took an unusual new job.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

One recent visitor said the Ellis Island immigration hall feels alive with the stories of people who left their native lands long ago to start a new life in a new country.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

He began to read: (Music) "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent,a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

Here is Christopher Cruise reading the Gettysburg Address: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

The new loans are double what China pledged at the first Forum on China Africa Cooperation three years ago in Beijing.

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

President Obama says the big banks that were in critical condition a year ago do not need any new government help.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Across the Tasman Sea, New Zealand had its warmest August since temperatures were first recorded 155 years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

A big change came four years ago, when Russia's new forestry law essentially privatized management of state forests.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Forty-two-year-old Renu Bose came to New Delhi from her village in West Bengal state to work as a house maid, two years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Four and a half years ago, the National Zoo unveiled its new addition to great fanfare.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

But six months ago, NATO set up a new command for training the police, and its officials say they are working to eradicate the culture of corruption and ill-discipline.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

Members of this community say they're determined to show the same resolve over the coming months as they did 20 years ago when they moved here to start a new life.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Last week,Israel won praise from U.S.President Barack Obama when it said it has not approved any new housing projects in the West Bank since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office five months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

Secretary Clinton says many people who heard President Obama's Cairo speech five months ago asked how his vision for a new understanding between the United States and the Muslim world would translate into meaningful changes in people's everyday lives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03