In nineteen twenty-five, a young science teacher in the southern state of Tennessee challenged the state's new teaching law.

VOA: special.2011.01.13

The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

"This is ground zero for the nation." Democrats in the state Senate fled to the neighboring Midwestern state of Illinois.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

He left his wife and family in the nineteen twenties to find work in the American state of California.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Almost all of the sculptures in the garden were made from limestone from the state of Indiana in the Midwest.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

However,it is not that simple. Randy Frost is a psychologist at Smith College in the American state of Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2011.02.22

Two thousand eight hundred ninety-five centimeters of snow fell at the Mount Baker Ski area in the northwestern state of Washington.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the American state of South Dakota is home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

VOA: special.2011.04.07

And some people dream about being somewhere else where it is warm and pretty - like the state of California.

VOA: special.2009.01.26

The aim of this day is to urge local action and increase awareness about the state of the world's environment.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Less than ten years ago, the Johns Hopkins Autoimmune Disease Research Center was formed in the state of Maryland.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

Mary Harris was a schoolteacher in the state of Tennessee when she married an iron worker named George Jones.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

One reason for the speech was the state of Arizona's recent passage of its own law against illegal immigration.

VOA: special.2010.07.03