The report shows that more people work on weekdays than on Saturday and Sunday - the traditional weekend days.

VOA: special.2011.07.22

On May thirtieth, eighteen sixty-eight, flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

On December twenty-fourth,nineteen-oh-six, radio operators on ships in the Atlantic Ocean near the American coast began hearing strange things.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

Her mouth is set firmly. On December first, nineteen fifty-five, Rosa Parks took a seat on a city bus in Montgomery,Alabama.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The people who collected customs -- taxes on imports -- could keep part of the money they collected.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

And on September twenty-second, eighteen sixty-two, he announced a new policy on slavery in the rebel southern states.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Economist Sebastian Mallaby at the Council on Foreign Relations says G-20 nations should work together on financial reforms.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

On July twentieth, nineteen sixty-nine, millions of people watched on live television as that goal was reached.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

But the president says he will not let health reform be paid for in his words -- "on the backs of middle-class families."

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Joe Rosenthal took it on February twenty-third, nineteen forty-five, on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

A flat-topped boat called the On-Time Ferry takes people and cars to a nearby small island,Chappaquiddick.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

Norman Ernest Borlaug was born to Norwegian-American parents in rural Iowa on March twenty-fifth, nineteen fourteen.

VOA: special.2009.11.10