In eighteen forty-four, the Republican Sentinel of Virginia wrote this about the opposition party: "The Whigs may attempt to belittle our candidates ...

VOA: special.2010.08.08

But others say he wrote this way because he was left-handed and writing backwards was easier and helped keep the ink from smearing.

VOA: special.2010.09.15

Frank Loesser wrote this sad song, "Spring Will be a Little Late This Year."

VOA: special.2011.05.02

The Scott Joplin Organization in Sedalia,Missouri says Joplin wrote this rag, "The Chrysanthemum,"

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Freddie Hubbard wrote this jazz song and the Billy Taylor Trio performs it.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

She wrote this song, "Which Side Are You On?"

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Brazilian great Antonio Carlos Jobim wrote this famous tune.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

On May fifteenth, just seventeen days after leaving New York, Captain Creesy wrote this in the Flying Cloud's log: "We have passed the Equator in two days less time than ever before.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

He wrote this about his experience: I know that during that long and racking march of thirty-six hours over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia it seemed to me often that we were four,not three. The American poet T.S.Eliot was influenced by Shackletons description.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

I wrote this son, my father and I wrote this song, for the acid victims of Kandahar City -- a few young girls who were trying to make their way home from school when they got attacked by acid.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote about this in her two thousand five book "Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln."

VOA: special.2009.02.09

University of Notre Dame anthropology professor Susan Blum wrote about this in a new book, "My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture."

VOA: special.2009.04.23

It was during this time in New York that Woody wrote what became his most famous song, "This Land is Your Land."

VOA: special.2010.06.20

Earlier this year, Tomohiko Hagino in Japan wrote to ask for information about a painful disease -- fibromyalgia.

VOA: special.2011.07.26