Then some members of the group split apart, because of a new message Smith claimed to have received from God.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

In January, the pirates claimed that they released the Sirius Star and its crew after three million dollars was paid.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

He claimed that living in Illinois and Wisconsin -- where slavery was illegal -- had made him a free man.

VOA: special.2009.05.14

The British Hudson's Bay Company also built a trading center on the Columbia and claimed a large area north of it.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

In eighteen seventy-six, both the Republicans and Democrats claimed the electoral votes of three southern states: Florida,Louisiana,and South Carolina.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

These men got rich. But such areas were few and quickly claimed by the first men to find them.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

In addition to these victories, the Confederacy claimed responsibility for several new naval technologies during the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The Census Bureau says that in two thousand seven, thirty-six and a half million people in the United States claimed Irish ancestry.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

The young policeman thought anyone who claimed to be the emperor of the United State might be a danger to the public.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Both countries claimed land that bordered the British colony of Guiana on the northeast coast of South America.

VOA: special.2010.07.08

In eighteen-twenty-three, at the age of eighteen, Smith claimed that an Angel told him of a golden book.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

The campaigns of President Hamid Karzai and former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah both claimed a majority.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

Chechen rebel leader Doku Umarov claimed responsibility for the Moscow bombings in the name of Islam.

VOA: special.2010.04.03

Earlier,Mexico had agreed to pay more than two million dollars for damages claimed by Americans.

VOA: special.2009.02.19