Three men -- Russell,Majors,and Waddell formed a transportation company in eighteen fifty-five to carry government supplies to soldiers in the West.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

The group is supposed to reach a compromise acceptable to at least fourteen of the eighteen members by December first.

VOA: special.2010.11.19

During his eighteen years in the major leagues, Clemente won many awards and helped his team win two World Series championships.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

After he finished his studies at Harvard in eighteen seventy-six, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

One day in October of eighteen fifty-nine, Americans were shocked by news of an attack led by John Brown.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

But records from eighteen fifty-eight show that as many as one thousand eight hundred wagons made the trip that year.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

He said the same right had been given to people in New Mexico and Utah by the compromise of eighteen fifty.

VOA: special.2009.04.23

In the eighteen hours until his rescue,he says, he kept his mind on prayer and playing music in his head.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

But late blight was also the cause of the potato famine in Ireland in the middle of the eighteen hundreds.

VOA: special.2009.10.20

He was a member of the design team and became chief engineer of the building project in eighteen sixty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

Public protest was so great that both parties in the eighteen eighty-eight elections promised to pass a federal law against trusts.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

In the presidential election of eighteen-sixty, he supported his party's candidate, not the candidate of the Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Mister Hearst sent a reporter to Cuba in eighteen ninety-seven to secretly rescue nineteen-year-old Evangelina Cisneros from a prison in Havana.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

He could support the Compromise of Eighteen Fifty and declare it to be the final settlement of the problem.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

This week in our series, Stuart Spencer and Jack Moyles begin the story of the Compromise of Eighteen Fifty.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

By the time he returned to England in October of eighteen thirty-six, he was already a well known geologist and naturalist.

VOA: special.2009.02.25

Historian Jeff Sklansky says a slow shift to personhood for American companies began with a Supreme Court ruling in eighteen nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

Years of disagreement between the North and the South finally burst into civil war in April of eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.08.20