Frank McCourt left Ireland at the age of nineteen to return to New York City where he was born.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

Many are about his life growing up in the state of New Jersey, where he was born in nineteen forty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

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 mothers in Senegal are learning a new way to save the lives of babies born too soon.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

Berlin was born in Russia. But he captured the feeling,the people and the customs of his new country.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Michael Jeffrey Jordan was born in the Brooklyn area of New York City in nineteen sixty-three.

VOA: special.2011.03.11

She was born in New York City to parents from the American commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

VOA: special.2009.05.30

Wyclef was born in Haiti. At the age of nine he moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York and later to New Jersey.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

The tree sap in early spring; the new-born green leaf, soft and fresh as skin;

VOA: special.2010.02.27

I was born in the south myself. But I live in New York now.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

The new party was born in farming areas of the West and South.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Weibrecht was born six years after the 1980 Lake Placid games in New York.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09