Russia's importance to ballet continued in the twentieth century thanks to the forward thinking Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes dancers.

VOA: special.2011.01.26

During the late 19th century, she traveled around the world to learn about foreign cultures and improve her knowledge of art.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The Santa Fe Trail began in the state of Missouri, the nineteenth century gateway to the wild and largely unexplored West.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Others say Edward O'Reilly invented the character in stories he wrote for The Century Magazine in the early nineteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Traditional healers spoke the language at least as early as the fifteenth century during the height of the Inca civilization.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

During the second half of the nineteenth century, the United States was not concerned much with events in other countries.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

Salvador Dali is widely recognized as one of the most famous and also disputed artists of the twentieth century.

VOA: special.2010.12.03

They called it a sacrifice to research that led the way to one of the greatest medical discoveries of the century.

VOA: special.2009.01.27

Supporters of G.M.foods say they can help feed an estimated three billion more people by the middle of the century.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

Experts say the book explored different social subjects that were especially meaningful to English readers in the late nineteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.01.20

He says a new system is needed to meet the speed and complexity of a twenty-first century global economy.

VOA: special.2009.06.19

Today we tell about Charles M.Schulz who wrote and drew the newspaper comic strip "Peanuts" for half a century.

VOA: special.2009.10.25

It would take another century until Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders to make these rights a reality.

VOA: special.2010.02.04

Many of these late nineteenth century houses would not have been built had it not been for a major tragedy.

VOA: special.2009.06.01