That way,there would be "two great American national festivals," she said, the other being Independence Day on the Fourth of July.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Each year on that day the National Education Association calls for every child and every community in America to celebrate reading.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

The National Park Service says it will limit the number of climbers to about two hundred a day.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

National Woman's Day was first celebrated in the United States on February twenty eighth, nineteen hundred and nine.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

On Veterans Day,the president traditionally lays a wreath of flowers next to the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery near Washington.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

Still,the National Network to End Domestic Violence says programs across the country served more than sixty thousand victims on any average day last year.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

The National Institutes of Health suggests that women limit their calories to no less than one thousand two hundred calories a day without medical supervision.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

In nineteen fifty-three, the first lady persuaded Congress to declare a National Teacher Day.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

The holiday that honors him is called a National Day of Service.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

The National Education Association continued to observe the day in March.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

For the past week people gathered on the National Mall in Washington,DC to take part in Earth Day activities.

VOA: standard.2010.04.25

Shen says he and his bride,Tan Yue, especially picked the date because it is China's National Day.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

In the United States,it is like a gigantic national party day that no one wants to miss.

VOA: standard.2010.01.27

After the end of apartheid in 1994, the new government proclaimed the date South Africa's Human Rights Day and made it a national holiday.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

A national day of mourning was held last month. Some areas devastated in the February 7 fires are still closed off by the police.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

In February,more than 1,000 officers,veterans, and civilians rallied against military reforms in a protest sponsored by the Communist Party on Defender of the Motherland Day, a Russian national holiday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

It is a fictionalized account of an African-American man born on January 1st,1863, the day President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, who becomes a Buffalo Soldier in Yosemite National Park.

VOA: standard.2009.11.25

And Hooks' older sister was secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (or NAACP), the national civil rights group he would one day lead.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

The Tea Party express bus tour will make its way to Washington over the next several weeks and plans to arrive in the nation's capital for a rally on April 15, the national deadline day for citizens to file their annual income tax returns.

VOA: standard.2010.03.28

December 7 is known as "national students' day" in Iran, and it marks the anniversary of the 1953 slaying of three students by Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's security forces, following a coup against populist Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadegh, earlier that year Eyewitnesses say hundreds of students have received threatening emails,this week, warning them not to participate in Monday's demonstrations.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07