These "hotspot" areas include Northern Australia, Central South America, Eastern Siberia and parts of the United States and Canada.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

A year later, the president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, honored the social scientist with America's highest award for civilians.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

A year later, the president of the United States, Jimmy Carter,honored the social scientist with America's highest award for civilians.

VOA: special.2011.07.03

But other groups, like the America First Committee, demanded that the United States stay out of another bloody European conflict.

VOA: special.2011.05.12

Every week at this time, the Voice of America tells about someone important in the history of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Every week at this time, the Voice of America tells about popular words and expressions used in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

And he was the first black director of the United States Information Agency which at the time supervised the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

On the twelfth day of the Olympics the United States broke its medal record for competition outside America.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

The convention named former United States Senator Jefferson Davis to be president of the Confederate States of America.

VOA: special.2009.07.23

today,after all the votes have been tallied, health insurance reform becomes law in the United States of America.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

The Recording Industry Association of America marked the sale of three million copies in the United States as of two thousand two.

VOA: special.2010.10.18

The United States used some of its share to pay for the education of Chinese students in America.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

It said the Union existing between South Carolina and the United States of America was being dissolved.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

Maria Gunnoe of the Appalachian area of West Virginia in the United States won from North America.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

"We will rebuild,we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The largest and most popular shopping mall in the United States is the Mall of America.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Soldiers of the new Confederate States of America shelled the Union base at Fort Sumter, built on an island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

By February first,eighteen sixty-one, seven southern states had withdrawn from the United States of America.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Many people feel "God Bless America" is the unofficial national song of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

The capital of the Confederate states of America was located far south in Montgomery,Alabama.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

Mister Rowan said being chosen to head the United States Information Agency and the Voice of America was one of the great honors of his life.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

The plan succeeded. Some countries in Latin America and the Caribbean questioned the right of the United States to act as policeman for the Western Hemisphere.

VOA: special.2010.08.26

He did not want to see the end of the United States of America.

VOA: special.2009.04.02

Slavery was legal in the Confederate States of America -- the South.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

Virginia joined other southern states in forming the Confederate States of America.

VOA: special.2009.07.20