Six countries took part during the first two years: Brazil,Egypt,Indonesia,Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Historians believe the Maya people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around two thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

The competition was first held in two thousand two and has taken place every two years since two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

The two groups were retested four years later, and the study compared the results with the first test.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

Twenty years later, he completed a device that was smaller than the first two, and weighed less.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Two years ago, it became the first school in the country to join the Confucius Classroom program.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Two years ago, the Centers for Disease Control released its first ever Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

About two thousand five hundred years ago the first houses appeared on the flat tops of mesas in what is now northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

Today we present the first of two programs about some of the most famous people who lived in the American West many years ago.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Two years later she won the Western Open for the first of her three major titles.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

The work was first performed in Germany in two thousand to mark two hundred fifty years since the death of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Arick first showed signs of the disease when he was about two years old.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

And ten years later, in two thousand eight, he was one of the first top Democrats to support a young senator seeking the party's nomination for president.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

Lincoln noted that seventy-two years had passed since the first president was inaugurated.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

It was first developed in the Roman Empire about two thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

Friday marks the first time in nearly two years that North Korean officials have set foot in South Korea.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

They deserved to win today." It was the first time in 16 years the NFL's top two teams squared off for the league championship.

VOA: standard.2010.02.08

The action means the Yongbyon reactor complex, where the plutonium for North Korea's presumed small arsenal of nuclear weapons was produced, will be without international monitoring for the first time in nearly two years.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15