It was like the day -- a hundred years later -- when the first American walked on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

He says he was shocked by the way poor people in Port-au-Prince lived when he first visited in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Wagon trains -- groups of wagons -- rode in four lines across the land when they passed through dangerous country.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

And he made sure the country held its next presidential election as planned in eighteen sixty-four,when he was re-elected.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

When melting snow-crystals or raindrops fall through very cold air, they freeze to form small particles of ice, called sleet.

VOA: special.2011.01.11

Rosalyn Schanzer shows readers the young man who was only twenty-two years old when he left Plymouth,England in eighteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

At least three Indian tribes were living in the area that became Charleston when Spanish explorers arrived in Fifteen-Twenty-One.

VOA: special.2010.10.04

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

That was when men from Earth -- American astronauts flew their Apollo Eleven spacecraft to the moon, landed and returned home safely.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Future generations may sing about the "hero on the Hudson" - the pilot who saved his passengers when he crash-landed on a river.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The researchers compared these retinal images with pictures taken five years later when the women were eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.03.09

That was when twenty-five students in a class taught by Thomas Zurbuchen first talked about the idea.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

Freud was eighty-three years old when he died of cancer in London on September twenty-third, nineteen thirty-nine.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

But he says he felt the greatest satisfaction when a thirteen-year-old painted the word "gun" and then put a big "X" through it.

VOA: special.2009.06.01