Miz Goodall says when she began working in Tanzania, there were between one and two million chimps in the wild.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

She didn't say a word to me when she opened the door, but took me right into her living room.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

We reported last week that Helen Keller suffered from a strange sickness when she was only nineteen months old.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

Shirley Griffith has more. Miley Cyrus was thirteen when she first appeared on the popular Disney television show "Hannah Montana."

VOA: special.2010.08.06

Sullivan says when she was writing and recording songs for her album she knew she had to develop her own style.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

It is cut to the chase. She heard that expression when she attended an important meeting of one company.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

When she saw Misses Smith and the children coming down the road, Misses Gray went out to meet them.

VOA: special.2009.12.12

When she arrived in Moscow, a Soviet official gave her a special travel permit, because he liked her industrial photographs.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

Alpine skier Lindsey Vonn also experienced a sweet victory when she won the gold medal in the womens downhill ski race.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

When she was finished, she counted the money out to the waiter and left an extra coin on his tray.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

On her way back, on a Saturday evening in June, when she was almost here, the Indians captured her.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

Mary Harris was a schoolteacher in the state of Tennessee when she married an iron worker named George Jones.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

When she was about four years old, she heard her mother struggling to play a piece of music on the piano.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Susie Kay was a teacher at a mostly African-American high school in Washington when she launched Hoop Dreams in 1996.

VOA: special.2009.01.28