Two days earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Germany as thousands of people remembered a different war the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Yet it seemed to those seeking to solve the longitude problem that the only solution was in the moon and stars.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

But the economy was in ruins, falling faster with each passing day of the crisis that grew into the Great Depression.

VOA: special.2011.03.10

Then,shortly after sunset on April twelfth, Navy special operations forces feared that Captain Phillips' life was in immediate danger.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

That was in nineteen eighty-seven, a year after the first induction ceremony, which took place at a hotel in New York.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

There used to be a time when the quickest way to travel across the western United States was in a stagecoach.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Colonel Parker made sure that songs Elvis had recorded earlier were released during the years he was in the army.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

And he pushed the envelope on salaries. He realized he was in this massive media market in New York.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

When she was in the southern part of the United States, she was not permitted to stay in hotels for white people.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

In seventeen sixty, when he was in his middle twenties, Patrick Henry had decided to become a lawyer.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

But his resignation was not the only exit from a job that was in the news this week.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Researchers in Armenia found the world's oldest leather shoe, and they say it was in surprisingly good condition.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

She was in Paris. Some of her stories were never used because it took too long for them to reach the magazine.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

When he was in his early twenties, Copland went to Paris where he studied music with Nadia Boulanger.

VOA: special.2009.06.21