Many experts also think Scott Joplin's opera "Treemonisha" included incidents of his life with his mother after Giles Joplin left.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

She's done a lot for me." Dave Sharpe established Pets2Vets as a result of his experience with his own dog.

VOA: special.2009.12.11

Some of his best memories are traveling to other countries with his father to find new products for the store.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

My brother planned to have a glass of beer with his friends a quick one C before he went home.

VOA: special.2009.07.19

Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Then, he finished a study program in non-profit management because he wanted to do something different with his life.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

He was five years old when he began singing with his brothers in a group called the Jackson 5.

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Someone with his head in the clouds is a person whose mind is not on what is happening in real life.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Mister Ramirez might not have been able to express himself in English, but he could do so with his art.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Many of Frost's best-loved poems were about the years he spent with his young family on a farm in Derry,New Hampshire.

VOA: special.2010.09.17

Kevin's mother thinks the robot has had a calming influence, helping her son get along better with his friends.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

He hated school. He didn't like living with his family on Cordelia Street in the industrial city of Pittsburgh.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

It was with his band in Berlin,Germany in nineteen sixty that Ella sang a famous song in a very different way.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

He made his own breakfast for the first time in many years, he was still angry with his father.

VOA: special.2009.03.07