In the spring and summer,he says, he would expect the prevailing winds in Western Europe to come from the West or Southwest - which would mean that the ash would be pushed towards the Arctic or Siberia.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

These were Brooklyn College in New York City,Texas A&M, the University of Texas-Austin, West Point and the University of Arkansas.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

When he returned to West Virginia, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Marshall College in nineteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.10.17

The other schools in the top five were the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Purdue University in West Lafayette,Indiana.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

Soon after the Civil War ended in eighteen sixty-five, thousands of Americans began to move west to settle the land.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

This week in our series, Larry West and Shep O'Neal tell the story of the election of eighteen sixty-eight.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Three men -- Russell,Majors,and Waddell formed a transportation company in eighteen fifty-five to carry government supplies to soldiers in the West.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

So,in eighteen fifty-seven, Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Throughout the south and middle-west, they succeeded in electing agricultural candidates as governors, state legislators,Senators, and members of the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Although he started painting in New York and other eastern states, he began traveling west in eighteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

And in April of nineteen eighty-six, a bomb exploded at a West Berlin discotheque popular with American troops.

VOA: special.2011.02.26

People who owned negro slaves wanted to take all their property -- including the slaves -- with them when they moved west.

VOA: special.2009.04.30

More than half are girls, and more than two-thirds are in sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and West Asia.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

A good place for watching unusual-looking people is Venice, an area on the west side of Los Angeles.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

Twenty-nine of them died in an explosion at an underground mine in West Virginia on April fifth,twenty-ten.

VOA: special.2011.07.01

This week in our series, Larry West and Tony Riggs describe an anti-war movement that was growing.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

By the middle eighteen-hundreds, almost all the eastern Indians had been moved west of the Mississippi River.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

He gave a famous speech at the Berlin Wall that divided Soviet-controlled East Germany from West Germany.

VOA: special.2011.02.06

Ever-returning spring, trinity sure to me you bring, Lilac blooming perennial and drooping star in the west, And thought of him I love.

VOA: special.2009.12.31

In June,the Speed Sisters became the first all-female racing team to compete in the Speed Test, a popular race in the West Bank.

VOA: special.2010.07.30

In eighteen ninety-two they were visiting in the United States when Pearl was born in Hillsboro,West Virginia.

VOA: special.2010.11.14