Sometimes her pictures made you feel you were looking down from a great height, or up from far below.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

But before Lee could get there, Union troops -- thousands of them marched down the road below Jackson.

VOA: special.2009.09.24

He decided to march most of his men down the west side of the river to a steamboat landing thirty kilometers below Vicksburg.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Mr.Obama's approval ratings average just below 50 percent in recent polls, down sharply from this time last year.

VOA: standard.2010.02.09

The president of the Surat Diamond Association, C.P.Vanani, says at least half the diamond units have shut down, while others are working below capacity.

VOA: standard.2009.04.03

Looking down 10 stories over Ground Zero, Marine Corporal Jonathan Rist said he hoped the new construction going on below would not remove every last shred of the buildings destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11,2001.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01