So,at the age of forty-seven she started to glue crushed colored glass in special designs on every surface in her house.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

The thirty-four room house opened to the public in February of two thousand eight after fifteen million dollars in work.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

meaning killed. The Random House Historical Dictionary of Slang provides a possible explanation for the use of eighty-six in restaurants.

VOA: special.2010.01.08

At the White House, a reorganization has begun, in part to prepare for Mr.Obama's re-election campaign in two thousand twelve.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

In many areas of fast-flowing water, a boat could be turned over by a wave as high as a house.

VOA: special.2009.10.07

This must be done to equally divide the four hundred thirty-five voting districts in the House of Representatives among the states.

VOA: special.2010.12.25

On January 4th, the president-elect left his house in Chicago to join his family in Washington and prepare to take office.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

And,he was proud of being the first African-American to break the color barrier in a major opera house.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

Caroline Cleveland was right. She and her husband moved back into the White House after he became president again in eighteen ninety-three.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

After thirty-six hours, Brown was captured in the building that served as the fire engine and guard house.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Throughout the south and middle-west, they succeeded in electing agricultural candidates as governors, state legislators,Senators, and members of the House of Representatives.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

Historically, the party in the White House -- currently the Democratic Party -- suffers losses in midterm elections.

VOA: special.2010.06.12

In March of eighteen eighty-nine, Grover Cleveland left the White House after four years as president.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

In eighteen fifty-one, he sold the house and the land around it to the federal government.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

James Brown was born in nineteen thirty-three in a one-room house near Barnwell, South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

What a courtyard does in a traditional Chinese house is really it connects all the rooms. Maya Lin is a Chinese-American building designer and artist.

VOA: special.2010.03.03