The long-beaked echidna is an endangered animal that only lives north of Australia, on New Guinea and nearby islands.

VOA: special.2009.07.07

A group of small states on the coast of North Africa was seizing American ships and holding their crews hostage.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Hundreds of the things Blackbeard used on Queen Anne's Revenge can be seen at the North Carolina Maritime Museum.

VOA: special.2011.07.26

Alaska is on the border of northwestern Canada, far enough north that part of it is within the Arctic Circle.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The many traditions of North African music she listened to as a child had a big influence on her.

VOA: special.2010.08.11

The British Hudson's Bay Company also built a trading center on the Columbia and claimed a large area north of it.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

Two large brown adobe buildings containing many rooms are on the north and south side of a stream.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

In such a war,he said, the North would break the chains of the black man on the battlefield.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

Oil and gas was found in nineteen sixty-eight near Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

During the Union occupation of Fredericksburg, thousands of escaped slaves fled through Virginia on their way North.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

Last week, President Obama attended a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on the French-German border.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

In the East, one storm dropped lots of snow on communities from North Carolina to the New England states on the weekend before Christmas.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

The military said troops were moving in from the north and the south on the narrow area of coastline still held by the rebels.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

He said the North could look on in safety while the actions of some of its people were producing flames of bitterness throughout the southern states.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

All this water poured into Lake Pontchartrain on the north side of New Orleans.

VOA: special.2010.08.24

Two years of a bitter, bloody civil war started to show their effects on both the Confederate states of the South and the Union states of the North.

VOA: special.2009.10.22

He told them to stay on the north side of the river.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

The colonists,however, settled on Roanoke Island instead of sailing farther north.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

They opposed the compromise, because it might permit slavery in the New Mexico territory, and because it called for stronger laws on the return of slaves who had escaped to the North.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

"During the last two days the contrabands fairly swarmed about the Fredericksburg and Falmouth Stations, and there was a continuous black line of men, women and children moving north along the road, carrying all their worldly goods on their heads.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

North Korea on Monday exploded a nuclear device and tested a series of missiles in defiance of the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

Jewish community leader Mark Pelavin addressed the vigil on behalf of the North American Union for Reform Judaism.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

On a sunny afternoon in the southern U.S.state of North Carolina, Gwen Pitt is supervising the cotton harvest.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12