On December twenty-fourth,nineteen-oh-six, radio operators on ships in the Atlantic Ocean near the American coast began hearing strange things.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

Soon,people began to use the word hedging to describe steps that could be taken to protect against financial loss.

VOA: special.2010.01.31

He began his career as a head football coach in nineteen sixty-nine, when he was selected to lead the Oakland Raiders.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

He was to help the government build an army for defense purposes as the Philippines began planning for independence.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The American space agency's Dawn spacecraft began circling Vesta, a member of the asteroid belt that orbits the sun.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

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

VOA: special.2009.07.05

Then a sudden and violent wind began to shake the tree and its leaves kept coming down all around me.

VOA: special.2009.11.15

However,because Hank's songs told of real-life troubles with such great emotion, something unusual began to happen to his music.

VOA: special.2009.11.22

Iran is observing the thirtieth anniversary of the country's Islamic revolution with a ten-day celebration that began last Saturday.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

Historian Jeff Sklansky says a slow shift to personhood for American companies began with a Supreme Court ruling in eighteen nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

So he left Dodge City. Several weeks later, the people in Dodge City began to see something that frightened them.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Working with researchers throughout the world, Borlaug began to offer his methods in areas where people were threatened with starvation.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

After the prize was announced, people who lived in the area of factory began to buy more of the company's candy.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Years later, Ms.Skloot began research for a book about Henrietta Lacks, her cells and their influence on medical and scientific history.

VOA: special.2010.07.21