The letters were taken from the name of the town where Martin Van Buren was born Old Kinderhook,New York.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

Some were known as "privateers." They were given special letters by the British government to attack the ships of enemy nations.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

As she felt the doll with one hand I slowly formed the letters, d-o-l-l with my fingers in her other hand.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

The writing on the stone says in large letters: Norton the First, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

But March also means another kind of madness -- the nervous wait for admissions letters from colleges and universities.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

No trip to Los Angeles is complete without seeing the word "Hollywood" spelled out in huge letters on a hillside.

VOA: special.2010.01.03

One is based on Scrabble, the board game where players try to form words from letters with different point values.

VOA: special.2011.02.10

Last week,leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to some of the leading mobile device developers.

VOA: special.2011.05.02

Early in October, the governor of South Carolina, William Gist, wrote letters to the governors of other southern states.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Supporters in the senators' home states were told to write hundreds of letters demanding that Johnson be found guilty.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

The only evidence was cut into a tree and a fence: the letters C-R-O and the word Croatoan,C-R-O-A-T-O-A-N.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The owners asked the new workers to write letters to friends still in the old country, urging them to come to America.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

During his life, Adair received Special Letters of Recognition from Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter and George H.W.Bush.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

This online service lets people send short messages that are no more than one hundred forty letters long.

VOA: special.2009.02.06