The name arose because many of the northerners who went south arrived with all their possessions in a carpet handbag.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

He says Poe's influence can also be seen in the work of H.G.Wells and Alfred Hitchcock,to name a few.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

They got this name because they wore on their coats a copper penny with the head of an Indian.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

"Timis County shares its name with a tributary of the Danube and is located in the western part of which European country?

VOA: special.2009.05.29

To get a better sense of the modern name game, we stopped some families out on the National Mall here in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It is also the name of a service organization in the United States that places volunteers in projects mostly in developing countries.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

An example is the story of a young man whose last name was spelled D-U-L-A but pronounced "Dooley."

VOA: special.2009.07.27

I always like the name Reagan and I'm kind of a Ronald Reagan fan, so,voila,here she came along.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

Space Invader was the name of a video game that was very popular in the nineteen eighties.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Some language experts say the expression came from a name given to noisy supporters of Andrew Jackson...

VOA: special.2010.04.11

He asks what it meant. Blackwater was the name of a private security and military training company.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

There are fringe events in Britain, Canada,Australia, the Czech Republic and Singapore, just to name a few of the more than eighty examples.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

And Margaret Tobin Brown liked to see her name in the newspaper for a lot of reasons."

VOA: special.2010.03.08

"Cheaper by the Dozen" was the name of a book written by two of the twelve children.

VOA: special.2009.05.04