This student from the state of Texas was the first place winner of last week's National Geographic Bee.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

I was surprised to see three riders in the same place where I had last seen my friend.

VOA: special.2011.07.16

The story of the swan's last song found a place in the works of other writers, including the early English writers Chaucer and Shakespeare.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

"Major Pettigrew's Last Stand" by Helen Simonson takes place in a small town in England.

VOA: special.2010.12.31

The world's last major outbreak of stem rust took place in the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

But at the last minute he found a place to land and get gas.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

The film "The Last Lions" takes place in the Okavango Delta of Botswana.

VOA: special.2011.03.23

New Zealand shared first place last year with Denmark and Sweden.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

A funeral took place last week at Washington's National Cathedral.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

In fact,last year was his one hundred fiftieth birthday, Celebrations took place not only in the United States, but also at two universities in Beijing and in Croatia, Italy and Poland.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

The meeting took place in Copenhagen,Denmark last month.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The last reunions took place a year ago.

VOA: special.2010.10.02

But several high-profile attacks have taken place, including last year's bombing at the Naval War College.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

The talks taking place this week in Barcelona will be the last before a major U.N.summit in December where delegates will hash out a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Does it need refinement in some way?" "And if it does need some adjustment in light of the events that have taken place over the last number of months, including the election and so on, and then what are the implications of that in terms of General McChrystal's resource request?" The secretary said the United States will not abandon its core mission in Afghanistan, which President Obama described as the destruction of the al-Qaida terrorist network, because it is "critical" to U.S.national security.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23