By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

(JANIS JOPLIN - "BALL AND CHAIN") The music ended on Sunday night or,rather,the early hours of Monday, August eighteenth.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

"Auld Lang Syne," by the eighteenth century Scottish poet Robert Burns, is a song about friends and remembering times long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

On March fourth, eighteen sixty-nine, Ulysses Grant traveled to Washington for his inauguration as the eighteenth president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

The French chemist Nicolas Leblanc discovered how to make soda ash from salt in the late eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

Europeans started to copy the fine traditions of Japanese and Chinese ceramics as early as the eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2009.09.09

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, many Europeans moved to colonial America in part to escape religious oppression.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

From the twelfth to the eighteenth century, the Louvre was the home of the ruling families of France.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

On February eighteenth, nineteen thirty, he discovered an unusual object after less than one year of searching.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Chocolate remained a drink that only wealthy people could afford to drink until the eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

The lithographic process was invented in the late eighteenth century by the German writer Aloys Senefelder.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

On December eighteenth, ground controllers asked Borman and Lovell if they were ready to come home.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

In the late eighteenth century, Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin,suggested that species evolved from their ancestors.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

Four paintings tell about the events of the Revolutionary War in the late eighteenth century.

VOA: special.2010.01.27