People began hearing the phrase by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

He said the attempt by the United States to strengthen its force at Fort Sumter was clearly an act of aggression.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

He knew not why. There in the black darkness by the side of the body, he remembered everything without a shock.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

One was by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, another by the Spanish artist Velazquez, and another was by the Italian artist, Titian.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

He vetoed a number of programs that he thought interfered with rights given to the states by the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

Americans can also adopt a burro removed from the wild by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

Health experts say cancer will become the leading cause of death in the world by the year 2010.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

The ground still shows the path cut deep into the earth by the wheels of thousands of wagons.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The exhibit at the Marin Community Foundation will show artwork influenced by the environment and by Earth Day.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Alaska is the biggest of the fifty states by territory but one of the smallest by population.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The team made the discovery by measuring the speed at which our galaxy is moving through space.

VOA: special.2009.01.20

His work has made possible the development of communications carried around the world by the Internet.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

However,only thirty-five states approved the amendment by the deadline so it never went into effect.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

The W.H.O.says insecticide-treated bed nets have been shown to reduce the number of malaria cases by fifty percent and the infection rate by ninety percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.20