Edward Kennedy never won the presidency, but became a long- serving and important member of the United States Senate.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

In the weeks before her death she won her twenty-ninth Blues Music Award, the most for any artist ever.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

The results from last Saturday's elections show Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's coalition won a strong victory over Shi'ite religious parties.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

She won a four-year college scholarship, the top prize nationally in a public speaking contest on the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

When Theodore Roosevelt won the election of nineteen-oh-four, he announced he would not be a candidate in nineteen-oh-eight.

VOA: special.2010.09.02

At the age of twenty-one, she won a national contest to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

In nineteen ninety-nine, Walter Plowright won the World Food Prize as a hero of the fight against rinderpest.

VOA: special.2010.11.02

Soviet forces under Marshal Georgy Zhukov won a fierce battle for the city of Stalingrad -- now Volgograd.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

Not only did the always interesting Lady Gaga show up inside a large egg-like structure, but unknown artists also won top prizes.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

It was the first time an African-American man had won one of the four major competitions in tennis.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

But his second Broadway play, "All My Sons",was a major success It won several awards in nineteen forty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.11.29

Fuller's good navy record won him a short-term appointment to the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis,Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

Go-Jek recently won ten thousand dollars in a competition through the American State Department's Global Entrepreneurship Program.

VOA: special.2011.07.29

In nineteen seventy-two this last book won the American book industry's highest prize, The National Book Award.

VOA: special.2010.12.26