When she was finished, she counted the money out to the waiter and left an extra coin on his tray.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

She was poor. But she never said 'no' to a hungry person who came to her farm and asked for food.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

Sullivan says when she was writing and recording songs for her album she knew she had to develop her own style.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

Helen was their first child. Until she was a year-and-one-half old, Helen Keller was just like any other child.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

She was fourteen years old. Later,after Elvis had finished his army service, she came to live with him in Memphis.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

She was born in London to Pakistani parents but grew up in New York City where she still lives.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

But one morning he come in, and Smiley asked him how was his wife, and he said she was better,thank God.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

But you always remember that she had this incredible freedom that most children don't have and she was so smart."

VOA: special.2009.08.24

She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

She was one of fifty people killed in a plane crash on February twelfth near her hometown of Buffalo,New York.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

The other is the Rachel Carson Homestead in Springdale,Pennsylvania, the home she lived in when she was a child.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

And she was always filmed so that her part could be cut out for versions shown in the American South.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

She was not married to either of them. She also did not hide the fact that she was bisexual.

VOA: special.2010.08.29

She was eighty-four years old. She was buried near the remains of her husband in the state of South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.08.08