In the eighteen twenties, in the state of New York, a man named Joseph Smith started the Mormon religion.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

The man was John Brown. John Brown heard that five Free State men had died in the attack on Lawrence.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

As a young man, Jack Benny played violin in a vaudeville theater in his home state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Werner Herzog's movie "Grizzly Man" tells about the bear expert Timothy Treadwell who lived with and studied bears in the state of Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

They battle and survive a Mississippi flood for the reward of returning to state prison as the tall man did in the story "Old Man."

VOA: special.2010.01.10

"I do not have a problem and I do not know anybody who has a problem. But the 'boogey man' Obama is trying to state that we have a problem, and he wants to tax us,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.02