His mother's increasing deafness led the young man to study acoustics -- the way we hear and how sounds are made.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

shouted a happy voice. And with a little sobbing cry Bobby's mother opened her arms to her son.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

He had Huntington's Chorea, the same disease of the brain and nervous system that had killed his mother.

VOA: special.2010.06.20

He is moving into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with his wife, Michelle, their two daughters and Michelle's mother.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

So Baptiste killed his daughter's murderer with his own hands, and returned forever to his mother's people.

VOA: special.2010.11.06

He continued working in his mother's theater company as an actor and a manager until nineteen thirteen.

VOA: special.2009.05.31

he wrote about his mother's ability to correctly identify her children's sicknesses when the doctors were wrong.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

Smith knew he would have to tell the sad story to Billy's mother and young wife.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

In time,Eunice's mother went to work cleaning house for a white woman in the town.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

The National Recording Preservation Board says the song honors both Tupac's mother and mothers everywhere.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

The Joplins were poor, so Scott's mother paid for the weekly lessons with food.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

That's his motto. He has great advice: 'don't set the kitchen on fire.'" Author Mohammed Naseehu Ali shared childhood memories of his mother's kitchen in Ghana.

VOA: special.2011.08.08

Cesar's mother,Juana, taught him much about the importance of leading a non-violent life.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

The Statue of Liberty's face was created to look like the sculptor's mother.

VOA: special.2009.06.29