The citizens of Ada knew he had been arrested several times but had always been released for lack of evidence.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

He had been on the first exploratory trip to the mountain that had mapped the way up from the southern side.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Scott Brown won a seat in Massachusetts that had been held by Democrat Ted Kennedy for almost fifty years.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

He had been feeding it milk from a donkey, and he believed he could raise the baby just fine.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

After three and a half years of fighting, hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers had been killed or wounded.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

He said the same right had been given to people in New Mexico and Utah by the compromise of eighteen fifty.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

Kristen Iversen says he did become rich, but not until they had been married for seven years and had two children.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

Darwin had been working on his theory for over twenty years when he published " On the Origin of Species."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

The owner of Sun Records, Sam Phillips,had been looking for a white performer who could sing black rhythm and blues.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Later,she raised money to help poor immigrant women who had been passengers on the lower levels of the Titanic.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

He says young dinosaur fossils are extremely rare, a possible sign that many of them had been eaten by attackers.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

That year a French biologist who had been studying reefs in the western Atlantic discovered that they are animals.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

The organization had been established in eighteen sixty-three to offer better treatment for people wounded or captured during wars.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Five men had been arrested after breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate office building.

VOA: special.2009.04.26