In other cities and smaller towns, local people listen to band concerts and watch fireworks explode in a dark sky.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Poor Billy! A bullet came out of the sky one day and tore a great hole in Billy's chest.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

The first sign of trouble was a tiny burst of light in the western sky over the United States.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Now they are stars in the sky, so they meet each other in lunar months,seventh in July, each year once.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Its titan piers grip ocean floor, Its great steel arms link shore with shore, Its towers pierce the sky.

VOA: special.2010.07.23

I knew the sky was black because all the heat, which meant light to me, had died out of the air.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Max Arthur Cohn's painting "Coal Tower" shows the dark form of a coal tower against a light sky.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

Helen looked straight up at the sky as if a lost memory or thought of some kind was coming back to her.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

The expression "fireworks" gets its meaning from the fireworks that people shoot into the sky when they are celebrating a great event.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

She could see the lake. Some fog was coming up as the sky darkened on this Halloween night.

VOA: special.2010.10.30

And BP's chairman told Sky News that Tony Hayward will no longer be supervising the daily operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

They wrote a book on the subject called "Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide."

VOA: special.2010.06.16

And,this sculpture permits visitors to climb up into the sky to enjoy an extraordinary -- and temporary -- view of New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.13