So the group started a competition called the National Geographic Bee to test students' knowledge about places around the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

A few months earlier, the government of President George Washington had started a contest for the best design for the Capitol.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The sailors landed on a beach and started a cooking fire near some containers of the mineral natron.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

He started a textile business in that island nation in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Africa.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

American popular music changed forever fifty years ago when Berry Gordy,Junior started a record company in Detroit,Michigan.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

Their ad in the newspapers started a flood of letters - more than one hundred a day.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

In nineteen thirty-six, American publisher Henry Luce started a new magazine,called Life, based on the photographic essay.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Anti-slavery activist William Lloyd Garrison started a paper in eighteen thirty-one with the purpose of ending slavery.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

In the nineteen nineties, New York City officials started a campaign to remove signs of disorder like broken windows, graffiti markings and trash.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

It started among farmers and led to the creation of a new political party -- the Populists.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

The festival started as a way for musicians in Austin to reach out to larger audiences.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King,Junior had started a movement of non-violent protest in the South.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

The next year, he started a radio show for the company that made Pepsodent toothpaste.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Riis started a personal war against slum houses, the sort he saw in Mulberry Bend.

VOA: special.2010.08.01