But they needed money to buy the land The money came from the legislatures of Tennessee and North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Lawmakers in Congress wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Americans can also adopt a burro removed from the wild by the Bureau of Land Management, a federal agency.

VOA: special.2010.02.16

Wagon trains -- groups of wagons -- rode in four lines across the land when they passed through dangerous country.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

The great wealth taken from the gold and silver mines was usually invested in other businesses: shipping,railroads,factories, stores,land companies.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

The research is part of a project to search on land and in the water for remains of the Lost Colony.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Yet insurance usually costs too much for a farmer with as little as a hectare or two of land.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

They showed the faces of people in a land that still wore the mask of defeat in America's Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

In sixteen eighty-one, King Charles the Second of England gave William Penn a large amount of land to establish a colony.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

He was surprised to see land turtles that weighed more than two hundred kilograms and were more than one meter long.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

So Captain Sullenberger made a quick decision to land the plane on the freezing water of the nearby Hudson River.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

He says the way most running shoes are designed may explain why those who wear them land on their heels.

VOA: special.2010.02.03

Share-cropping made it possible for blacks to work the land for themselves for the first time in their lives.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

"Standing on the steps of the Capitol will be a man whose story reflects the enduring promise of our land.

VOA: special.2009.01.17