Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

Later,he wrote some of the best known songs of the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War protests of the sixties.

VOA: special.2011.06.27

He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

He was the best-known Republican in the country at that time: Senator William Seward of New York.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

One of America's best-loved writers of short stories was William Sydney Porter -- better known as O.Henry.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

This writer is best known for his novels about the private lives of small-town, middle class Americans.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

The water flooded some of Nashville's best-known places, including the Grand Ole Opry House.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

But he probably is best known for another invention -- the geodesic dome.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

He is probably best known for his multi-colored Rolls Royce Phantom V limousine.

VOA: special.2011.01.28

Today we tell about one of America's best-known writers, Mark Twain.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

In eighteen sixty-three,he gave what became his best known speech.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

One of Joe Hill's best-known songs is "Casey Jones."

VOA: special.2009.09.07

His best-known solo work is probably the album "Graceland."

VOA: special.2009.10.19

Perhaps the best-known was a young easterner,Owen Wister.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

She's best known for her many roles in film and on television - from the obsessive lover in "Fatal Attraction."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

The giant R.J.Reynolds Tobacco Company's headquarters is in Winston-Salem, and Winston is the name of one of Reynolds' best-known cigarette brands.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

One of the best known players to have played for him was center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who was then known as Lew Alcindor.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

After his death, the baton passed to John Williams, best known for composing Academy-Award winning movie scores.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Powell - one of the most respected and best known black political figures in the country - chose the same program to issue his rebuttal.

VOA: standard.2009.05.24

He also collaborated with her as a songwriter on some of her best-known ballads.

VOA: standard.2010.04.02

Norman Rockwell is one of the best-known American artists of the 20th century.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09