This Science in the News program was written by Lawan Davis and Brianna Blake, who also was our producer.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Levi Strauss partnered with a clothing maker named Jacob Davis, who had invented a process for making rivets for jeans.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

He had made the Fillmore Auditorium popular worldwide by bringing famous African American performers like Billie Holiday,James Brown and Sammy Davis,Jr.Bill.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

In the nineteen sixties, Ray Davis Junior used the mine for his work showing the existence of solar neutrinos.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Confederate President Jefferson Davis ordered his commander in Charleston, General Beauregard, to destroy the fort before the food could arrive.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Jefferson Davis left his farm in Mississippi to become president of the Confederate States of America on February eleventh.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

Davis was sure that no good would result from it, not even from stronger laws on the return of escaped slaves.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

He felt that punishing Davis would only create more bitterness and make reconstruction the rebuilding of the South more difficult.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

The producer was Lawan Davis. Listen again next week for another American story in Special English on the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

Trumpet players Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and pianists Thelonius Monk and Bud Powell were some of them.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

Through the years, John Lewis worked with some of the biggest names in jazz,including trumpet player Miles Davis.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

Charlie White and Meryl Davis are competing for the United States at the Olympics for the first time.

VOA: special.2010.02.10

Jefferson Davis said there was no need to attack the fort if hunger would soon force the United States soldiers to leave.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

(Silence) On April tenth, Jefferson Davis sent his decision to the Confederate commander at Charleston, General Pierre Beauregard.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

A national team led by two doctors at the University of California, Davis,studied hospital records from thousands of children with head injuries.

VOA: special.2009.10.28