Some of the farmers were victims of a terrible shortage of rain, and of their own poor farming methods.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Mix eight grams of alum with seven grams of cream of tartar in a small amount of hot water.

VOA: special.2010.08.02

He was also a member of the Grammy Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame and National Inventors Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

One of the researchers was Megan Moreno of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

VOA: special.2009.02.03

The speech followed days of protests by hundreds of thousands of supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

VOA: special.2009.06.20

Collectivism is the system of ownership and control of the means of production by the people collectively, usually under the supervision of a government.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

The majority leader of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, together with the chairmen of committees,keep the business of Congress moving.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

This nest is made up of thousands of pieces of bamboo tied together with the kind of brightly colored rope usually used by mountain climbers.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is honoring all three researchers for studies of the structure and operation of a kind of cell called a ribosome.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

"Out of the two thousand five hundred municipalities we have in Mexico, the equivalent of your counties in America, eighty of those have witnessed episodes of violence."

VOA: special.2011.06.13

That is why doctors advise people to perform monthly exams of all areas of skin, from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet.

VOA: special.2010.07.06

She was named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Hall of Fame among others.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Thurlow Weed, one of the important Whig leaders in the state of New York, remembered how the people had loved Jackson, the hero of the War of 1812.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

Moments that were days in the birth of fire and stars, moments of the struggle of all man and finally moments that showed the great mass of all humans' spirit.

VOA: special.2010.05.08