The site was launched to the public last September by a start-up company led by its twenty-six year old founder.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

Take the example of Facebook. It was launched in two thousand four as a social network just for Harvard students.

VOA: special.2009.09.14

Susie Kay was a teacher at a mostly African-American high school in Washington when she launched Hoop Dreams in 1996.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

Secretary Gates said he has launched a year-long study of the possible effects of a change in the law.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

'Oh,I like this. Where did you get this? It's so pretty.'" The three Americans launched BeadforLife in two thousand four.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

British ships,with the help of planes launched from an aircraft carrier, destroyed a powerful German battleship, the Bismarck on May 27,1941.

VOA: special.2011.06.09

But they were not the last. NASA -- the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched six more Apollo flights.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

The Obama administration has launched the first in a series of projects to support entrepreneurs in Muslim communities worldwide.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

At the same time,though, a campaign launched by Mexico's president against traffickers has led to bloody drug wars.

VOA: special.2010.10.11

United States government agencies and international partners launched their efforts to sequence the human genome in nineteen ninety.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

The United States Department of Education recently launched a free Web site designed to help immigrants learn English.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

This spring, Everglades National Park launched a visitation program to what was once a highly restricted military base.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Officials in Los Angeles have launched a major media campaign aimed at Hispanics, including videos and digital networking.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

The Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases was launched at the United Nations conference on climate change.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, launched Columbia from Kennedy Space Center on April twelfth nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

The trade was so important to national economies that rulers launched wars in their struggle to control spices.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

The number of visitors was falling. So a campaign was launched to give the city a new image.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD (translator): "The Sejil-2 missile, which has very advanced technology, was launched from Semnan and it landed precisely on the target."

VOA: special.2009.05.23

South Africa launched the tests last week as the International AIDS Society held a conference in Cape Town.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

In nineteen fifty-six, the United States launched a Jupiter military rocket that flew more than five thousand kilometers.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The Democracy Video Challenge was launched last year at the United Nations on September fifteenth, International Democracy Day.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

Two companies, Safaricom and Vodafone, launched the M-Pesa mobile money service in Kenya in two thousand seven.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

In nineteen ninety seven she helped launched the Vital Voices Democracy Initiative to promote the leadership of women as a foreign policy goal.

VOA: special.2011.02.25

Iran launched its first satellite into orbit in February -- the thirtieth anniversary of the Islamic revolution.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

The presidents and prime ministers launched what they called a Framework for Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

South Africa launched an expanded program to watch for public health threats during the World Cup.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

And earlier this year the same company that owns the Food Network launched the Cooking Channel.

VOA: special.2010.12.27

For example, in April of nineteen ninety-eight, Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky launched the Favorite Poem Project.

VOA: special.2010.04.05