In the North, people mourned. One man wrote: "The events of the last month or two have done more to build northern opposition to slavery than anything which has ever happened before, than all the anti-slavery pamphlets and books that have ever been written."

VOA: special.2009.07.02

About 125,000 fans of comic books, movies and video games are expected to attend the 4-day event which runs through July 25.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

They don't print books. I have had this experience - a publisher received paper on which to print my work two years ago, but hasn't printed it yet."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

He puts forward a reading list of recent books, including one by a former CIA agent, which the tape says will clarify the "message" of the terrorist attack eight years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

And we have still the concerns about the text books, which continue to be disseminated not only in Saudi Arabia, but around the world to madrassas,for example, which still contain things that we consider beyond the pale."

VOA: standard.2009.10.26