Salem was founded in the 1700s by the Moravians, a strict Protestant sect originally from what is now the Czech Republic and eastern Germany.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

In fact,one of the nation's oldest boarding schools for young women - the Moravians' Salem Academy founded in 1772 - is still in operation.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

President Obama looked out at the congregation at Vermont Avenue Baptist Church, founded in 1866 by former slaves, and remarked on the lessons of history.

VOA: standard.2010.01.17

Fostering financial literacy among young people and preparing them for the workplace has been the mission of Junior Achievement since it was founded in 1919.

VOA: standard.2009.12.04

(Speaking) Toyota was founded in the early 1930s but the its real success came after World War II when it developed something called "The Toyota Production System."

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Mister Legiardi-Laura, poet and writer Joe Ubiles and arts education expert Amy Sultan founded the program in two thousand one.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

In nineteen eighty-seven, she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development to improve the lives of black children.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

Now we are in the Pio-Clementine Museum, founded by Pope Clement the Fourteenth in seventeen seventy.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

In nineteen fifty, she and twelve other women founded the Ladies Professional Golf Association.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

In nineteen eighty-one, Kay Yow,along with others,founded the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

Lila Vanderbilt Webb founded Shelbourne Farms in eighteen eighty-six.

VOA: special.2010.10.25

FLO STONE: "I founded the festival in nineteen ninety-three.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

The library, founded by anthropologist Melville Herskovits, is the largest separate library in the world for the study of Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.07.10

After graduating from university in a computer gaming program, he founded an educational video game company called Let Me Think Games.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20

He founded WMA three years ago to offer ailing Americans accredited and affordable medical treatment in six countries.

VOA: standard.2010.04.08

Leone is full of churches, including the first on the island, a Congregational church founded by a British missionary in the 1800s.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

The Taliban was founded outside the city in 1994, and have recently been flexing their muscles again.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

Al-Shabab,which currently controls key towns in southern and central Somalia, was founded several years ago by al-Qaida-trained Somali radicals and is virulently anti-West.

VOA: standard.2009.05.01

Cidade Velha, founded by the Portuguese in 1462, is the oldest European settlement in the tropics.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

In 1969,Dean founded the Jimmy Dean Meat Company in his hometown of Plainview,Texas.

VOA: standard.2010.06.14

Longtime dissident Miklos Haraszti co-founded the Hungarian democratic opposition movement in the mid-1970s.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

"I embarked on the road of sustainability or ethics or biodiversity about five years ago, when I founded a company called Noir I work with 16,000 farmers in Africa.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31