In eighteen thirty-five, the Methodist Church held a group camp meeting in what was to become the town of Oak Bluffs.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

"What was it like up on stage?" "It was pretty fun. I was mostly chopping because I'm not good with chords.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

He believed that much of what was being said and done in Ohio was close to the crime of treason.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

Miss Sullivan and others had to teach her what was in these books by forming words in her hands.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

But that idea failed. So the agency decided to use the plane for what was then a new practice: smokejumping.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

What was there to count? There was only an empty yard and the blank side of the house seven meters away.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

It was a place for people to sing about social injustices as well as what was happening on the streets.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

This victory gave Japan control over the economy of the southern part of what was then called Manchuria, in northeastern China.

VOA: special.2011.03.03

President Franklin Roosevelt's wife Eleanor planted what was called a "Victory Garden" as part of the war effort in nineteen forty-three.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

He says Harpers Ferry was a noisy,dirty, polluted industrial city in what was then Virginia, the largest slave state in America.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

He returned to the United States with the aim of planning what was to be a victorious comeback.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

One of his promises was to fight a fare increase on what was known as the M.T.A.subway system.

VOA: special.2010.01.25

In nineteen ninety-two, Aravind established what was described as Asia's first training center for the prevention of blindness.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

A British doctor reported the first cases of what was probably Buruli ulcer in eighteen ninety-seven in Uganda.

VOA: special.2009.04.06