Bourke-White flew with American bomber planes in England as they prepared to attack enemy targets on the European continent.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

In time,they said, the moving ocean floor is blocked when it comes up against the edge of a continent.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

"You can be the generation that brings opportunity and prosperity to forgotten corners of the world and banishes hunger from this continent forever.

VOA: special.2011.06.24

They felt it was God's will, and their duty,to spread American democracy and freedom across the continent.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The scientists on Antarctica know better than anyone about the effects of pollution and human behavior on this important treasure of a continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

They gave a name to this mysterious continent: Terra Australis Incognita, or the "Unknown Southern Land."

VOA: special.2009.06.03

They wanted railroads that reached across the continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

The English explorer James Cook came looking for this undiscovered continent in the seventeen seventies.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

At that time the United States did not stretch all the way across the continent.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

In eighteen thirty-nine the American Naval officer Charles Wilkes led an expedition to the continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

He and former American President Jimmy Carter worked with the Sasakawa Africa Association to help increase the quality and production of corn on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

He said the huge continent had split more than two hundred million years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

The Flying Cloud was near land at the end of the South American continent.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

This huge continent on the Earth's South Pole covers about fourteen million square kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Scientists say it formed when high sea levels flooded the middle of North America, splitting the continent in two for millions of years during the late Cretaceous period.

VOA: special.2010.10.05

His efforts helped prove that Antarctica was in fact a continent.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

It was not long before American soldiers reached the European continent.

VOA: special.2010.10.21

He mapped over two thousand kilometers of the continent's coastline.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

Tornadoes have been observed on every continent except Antarctica.

VOA: special.2009.06.09