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

VOA: special.2009.05.11

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

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

This started a gold rush unlike any other in American history in the Golden State.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

Internet businessman Elon Musk started a young company called Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Facebook started as a site for college students to share interests and information.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

One group of parents started a Web site called Birthdays without Pressure.

VOA: special.2009.09.11

"Who Do You Think You Are?" started as a show in Britain.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

The interior minister says, "The enemy has started a guerrilla war."

VOA: special.2009.10.17

And he started a guerrilla war against the occupying forces.

VOA: special.2010.07.29