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

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

VOA: special.2009.06.20

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

VOA: special.2009.02.03

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

Beads made of glass,of wood, of clay and of crystal.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

This year, the city of New York will also celebrate the opening of part of an important symbol of America that has been closed to the public for the past eight years.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

"I think that would not have happened without the advocacy of hundreds of thousands of people and churches that are part of Bread for the World and that keep the pressure on their members of Congress."

VOA: special.2010.06.22

"The combination of the sweep and scope of Melville's language, the beauty of the story, the depth of the characters all pushed me into a whole new realm of composing and thinking of what music is onstage."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

"One of the programming problems was try to figure out how to break an arbitrary chocolate bar into a certain number of pieces of a certain number of sizes and to do it as quickly as possible.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

"Mr.Vice President, Mr.Speaker,members of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives: "Yesterday,December seventh,nineteen forty-one -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

VOA: special.2011.06.02

at General Eisenhower's headquarters,General Jodl, the representative of the German High Command and of Grand Admiral Doenitz, the designated head of the German state, signed the act of unconditional surrender of all German land,sea and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Forces, and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command."

VOA: special.2011.06.16

"The best antidote to intolerance is not the 'Defamation of Religions' approach of banning and punishing offensive speech, but rather a combination of robust legal protections against discrimination and hate crimes, proactive government outreach to minority religious groups, and a vigorous defense of both freedom of religion and expression."

VOA: special.2009.10.31