The Spanish painter Diego Rodrguez de Silva y Velazquez made an interesting painting of his assistant in sixteen fifty.

VOA: special.2010.08.04

The nonprofit group Population Services International and its partner Association de Sante Familiale launched the service in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

It led the sculptor Felix de Weldon to create one of the largest free-standing bronze statues in the world.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

But first,Mister Venter said, they had to de-activate a gene in the receiving cell that would have killed the synthetic genome.

VOA: special.2010.07.20

Bruce Springsteen, Dave Brubeck,Mel Brooks, Robert De Niro and Grace Bumbry will be honored at the Kennedy Center on December sixth.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

For example,the father of Mexican-American musician Zack de la Rocha spent time working as an art director for Mister Chavez.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

People cheered wildly as General Charles de Gaulle and Free French troops marched into the center of the city.

VOA: special.2011.06.16

Georges de la Tour painted the emotionally expressive "The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds" in sixteen thirty-five.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Eduardo Souta de Moura of Portugal was named the winner of the two thousand eleven Pritzker Architecture Prize.

VOA: special.2011.04.13

Edward Roybal,Kika de la Garza and Baltasar Corrada wanted to help prepare young Hispanics to become future leaders.

VOA: special.2010.09.13

(JIMMY BUFFETT - "VOLCANO") The first European to see the Florida Keys was Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon in the year fifteen-thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

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

VOA: special.2010.05.07

Lake Champlain is named for the French explorer Samuel de Champlain who first saw it in 1609.

VOA: special.2009.01.05