BeadforLife began as a chance meeting between three American women on a trip to Uganda and a local jewelry maker.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

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 name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus."

VOA: special.2010.08.01

"There was a chance that we would go on a trip to India and Afghanistan, but apparently we're not doing that.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Mister Stoker is thought to have based his evil Count Dracula character on a ruler who lived in fifteenth century Romania.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

JOHNNY CASH: I walked through a county courthouse square On a park bench, an old man was sitting there.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Lee sent Stonewall Jackson, with twenty-four thousand men, on a quick march around the western end of Pope's lines.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

And,in another development, the Senate voted Thursday to permit final debate and a vote on a financial reform bill.

VOA: special.2010.05.21

Then he put the moon on a gold chain so that Lenore could wear it on her neck.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

I live on a shoestring. I have a very small budget and little money to spend on clothes.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

It is based on the story of a fairy from heaven who comes to Earth and marries a cowhand on a farm.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

The sailors landed on a beach and started a cooking fire near some containers of the mineral natron.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Mr.Strauss-Kahn is charged with a sexual attack on a cleaning woman at a New York hotel last Saturday.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

On a passenger cruise ship, fresh air is available on decks and in other places above sea level.

VOA: special.2009.07.14