President Abraham Lincoln led the Union of northern states in four years of civil war against the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

In September, NASA scientists had announced the discovery of water molecules mainly in the moon's extreme northern and southern areas.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

Now it is spring in the northern part of the world so it is time to celebrate that season.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

The city is more than two thousand meters above sea level, near the southern Rocky Mountains in northern New Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

By eighteen sixty-three, America's northern states and southern states had been fighting a bitter civil war for two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Many years ago, a young man named Giovanni Guasconti left his home in Naples to study in northern Italy.

VOA: special.2011.01.29

He started to walk north. After a time, he arrived in the Bronx, the northern part of New York City.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Every year,moist air masses known as monsoon produce large amounts of rainfall in India,East Asia, northern Australia and East Africa.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

Puerto Rico,Guam,American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S.Minor Outlying Islands and the United States Virgin Islands are territories.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

Scientists know that some of the Bristlecone pines in northern California are also more than four thousand years old.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

"Every member of every northern legislature, " Webster said, "has sworn to support the constitution of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

This law kept slavery out of the northern part of the territory which the United States bought from France.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The Democrats won the election, because they were able to bridge the differences between their northern and southern members.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

For example, the vaccine has been available to a group of Maasai herders in northern Tanzania for about seven years.

VOA: special.2009.11.03