It led the sculptor Felix de Weldon to create one of the largest free-standing bronze statues in the world.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

A ship-building program begun fifteen years earlier had made the American Navy one of the strongest in the world.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Most cases of malaria are in African countries, south of one of the world's biggest deserts - The Sahara.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

For the past year, the World Food Program has operated a project to prevent hunger in twenty-one countries in Africa.

VOA: special.2009.11.17

In the United States, the legal age to drink alcohol is twenty-one -- one of the highest in the world.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Their study considers painting sixty-three percent of rooftops white in one hundred large cities in warm areas around the world.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

One of the lasting effects of Norman Borlaug is the World Food Prize, which he established in nineteen eighty-six.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

November eleventh,nineteen eighteen, was the day Germany signed a cease-fire agreement with the Allies in World War One.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

By the middle nineteen fifties, Doctor Seuss had become one of the best-loved and most successful children's book writers in the world.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Twenty-one nations around the world recently joined forces to better understand and prevent greenhouse gas emissions from farms.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

He was the chief military advisor to the Philippine military forces when the United States entered World War Two in December,nineteen forty-one.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The World Health Organization this week declared the first pandemic, or worldwide spread, of influenza in forty-one years.

VOA: special.2009.06.13