Today we tell about the life and work of one of America's greatest music writers: Scott Joplin, the King of Ragtime.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

He performed the one-man play called "The King of the Desert" at a small historic theater in Hollywood.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

He said Van Buren slept in the same kind of bed as the one used by the French King, Louis the 15th.

VOA: special.2009.01.22

These include "pomp and circumstance" from "Othello," "full circle" from "King Lear" and "one fell swoop" from "Macbeth."

VOA: special.2010.01.13

They were men who fought one war against the king of England, and were now prepared to fight against their own government.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

Martin Luther King Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and gave one of the most famous speeches in American History.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

He acted in thirty-one movies. In nineteen fifty-eight, just as he finished making the movie "King Creole."

VOA: special.2010.04.04

One day, the king discovered the relationship between his daughter and the young man.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

A foundling to start with,he would flourish later on as his powers waxed and his worth was proved, In the end each clan on the outlying coasts beyond the whale-road had to yield to him and begin to pay tribute.That was one good king.

VOA: special.2011.01.05

Jordan's King Abdullah is one of the new American president's strongest allies in the Middle East.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

all the talent,the fame, the accolades and awards, the multi-million dollar endorsements, "King James" is still missing one important jewel in his royal treasury: an NBA championship.

VOA: standard.2010.07.08