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

A textile is a piece of cloth that has been formed by weaving, knitting,pressing or knotting together individual pieces of fiber.

VOA: special.2009.11.04

Every time a woman lost a round of the fighting, she had to take a piece of clothing off.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Now,there came to my ears a low,dull,quick sound, such as a watch makes when inside a piece of cotton.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

In nineteen forty-two, orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked composer Aaron Copland to write a piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

To keep himself awake as he flew east during the long night, Post tied a piece of string to one finger.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

The Smithsonian's Mars Day offered a chance for people of all ages to touch Mars, or at least a piece of it.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Visitors to Mars Day crowded around a piece of the meteorite in the huge Milestones of Flight Gallery.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

His idea for the original drawing came from a piece of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

It had been fixed with a piece of blue paper and the upper right hand corner was missing.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

The researchers left a piece of paper on the handlebars of the bicycles while their owners were away.

VOA: special.2009.03.03

As I handed them to him, I noticed that one had been torn in half and fixed with a piece of blue paper.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

He examined fossilized remains in a piece of gypsum found on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

The artist draws an image with oily ink onto a piece of stone or other flat surface.

VOA: special.2009.09.02