Merry arrived seven years after her mother had her first child and she was quite a Christmas gift.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

After his father died in eighteen forty-seven, young Samuel went to work as an assistant to a publisher.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

It recreates television interviews that British performer David Frost held with former president Richard Nixon after he left office in nineteen seventy-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

He found that those who came after Title Nine had a seven percent lower risk of obesity twenty to twenty-five years later.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

The James Webb Space Telescope, named after NASA's second director, will have a mirror seven times the size of the Hubble Space Telescope.

VOA: special.2011.05.23

One of them,the Apollo-11, traveled to the moon just seven months after the last X-15 flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

After seven to eight weeks of more sleep, the players ran faster in short training races.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

But that attempt was canceled after a storm caused a giant mass of snow to slide down the mountain, killing seven ethnic Sherpa guides.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Yet,seven hundred fifty thousand copies of the book were sold during the year after its release.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

George Gershwin died in nineteen thirty-seven, just days after doctors learned he had brain cancer.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

She was born Margaret Tobin in eighteen sixty-seven, two years after the Civil War ended.

VOA: special.2010.03.08

The play was in seventeen eighty-seven, after Taylor helped to put down Shay's rebellion.

VOA: special.2011.05.22

On July first, after seven years with Cleveland, LeBron James became a free agent.

VOA: special.2010.07.26

One hundred sixty-seven men were killed when the structure exploded after a gas leak.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

After that climb, he will have completed his goal of climbing the seven summits.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The researchers found that thirty-seven percent of the monkeys that ate as much as they wanted had died of causes related to aging after twenty years.

VOA: special.2009.09.01

After the pipeline was built, the field began production in nineteen seventy-seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

However,the members of the quartet reunited after seven years.

VOA: special.2009.03.01

After nineteen-oh-seven Joplin lived mostly in New York City.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

More than seven months after the election, Norm Coleman came before reporters at his home in St.Paul,Minnesota to concede defeat.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

Metzner said Noriega should not spend another seven years imprisoned in France after already serving his sentence in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

He then became a free agent, and after seven years with the Yankees signed with the Los Angeles Angels.

VOA: standard.2009.12.24

Another correspondent for the same newspaper was kidnapped outside Kabul last December and escaped his captors seven months later, after being taken to Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

The Congress of the People, which was formed four months ago by disgruntled former ANC leaders, took 30 parliamentary seats after winning seven percent of the vote.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

The seven-member commission said it decided on the postponement unanimously, after agreeing that fair elections could not take place in the absence of proper voter registration lists.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

After several greetings and handshakes, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez described Mr.Obama as "an intelligent man" and said he wants to return an ambassador to Washington after a seven-month absence.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

Nearby,Marina Pirozhnivona, recounted how her 86-year-old aunt died last Saturday after experiencing breathing problems on a day when wood smoke pushed city carbon monoxide to almost seven times safe levels.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10