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

VOA: special.2009.12.27

However,because Leonardo was born to parents who were not married to each other, he was barred from some studies and professions.

VOA: special.2010.09.15

For the first time in her life, Sarah left the area along the Mississippi River where she was born.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Georgiana's past lovers used to say that the hand of a magical fairy had touched her face when she was born.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

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

But I was born in Haiti. In the summer of 2009 I would like to lead a humanitarian trip to Haiti.

VOA: special.2009.01.01

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

I was born on the plains where the wind blows free, and there is nothing to break the light of the sun.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

Niki de Saint Phalle was born in France, but spent much of her life in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Douglas was born on an Army base near the southern city of Little Rock, Arkansas in January,eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

The main facts about her life are these: She was born December tenth, eighteen thirty, in the small Massachusetts town of Amherst.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

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

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Benjamin Hooks was born in Memphis,Tennessee, at a time when the southern city discriminated against blacks in all areas of public life.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

Zora was born at a time of racial tensions between blacks and whites in the southern United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.22