Human rights groups and witnesses say at least one hundred fifty-seven people were killed, a number disputed by the military government.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

History records say that in only four years the area around Dawson produced more than fifty-one million dollars in gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

And something did. The following winter, the winter of eighteen fifty-one, is still remembered for the heavy snows in the mountains.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

In nineteen fifty-one, Navy Admiral Hyman Rickover urged the United States Congress to provide money for the first nuclear-powered submarine.

VOA: special.2010.06.11

In nineteen fifty-one she played the character "Gigi" in the Broadway play of the same name to great critical praise.

VOA: special.2009.10.16

In his first observations from Mount Wilson, Hubble used a telescope with a mirror one hundred fifty-two centimeters across.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

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

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

All fifty states require at least one year of hospital work for doctors-in-training educated at medical schools in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.07.13

He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

One hundred-fifty years ago today, President Abraham Lincoln approved an order for the services of seventy-five thousand militiamen.

VOA: special.2011.04.15

"Probably,for a one-hundred-fifty-thousand-dollar- a-year employee it would cost me in the range of ten to fifteen thousand dollars."

VOA: special.2011.05.13

They found that thirty-two percent of boys received one of the ten most popular names in nineteen fifty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

The disagreement between the two ended in nineteen fifty-one, when President Truman dismissed General MacArthur as commander.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

Data collected from one hundred fifty-one countries show that about seven percent of young girls now smoke.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

On October sixteenth, eighteen fifty-nine, John Brown led an armed group of twenty-one men into Harpers Ferry.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

The nineteen fifty-nine album "Time Out" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet was the first jazz album to sell more than one million copies.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

He acted in thirty-one movies. In nineteen fifty-eight, just as he finished making the movie "King Creole."

VOA: special.2010.04.04

In return,they earned one hundred twenty-five dollars, later raised to two hundred fifty dollars, for each book.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

The study estimated mortality rates for people age fifteen to fifty-nine in one hundred eighty-seven countries.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

More than thirty-nine thousand men and one hundred fifty-seven thousand women took park in the study.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

In eighteen fifty-one, he sold the house and the land around it to the federal government.

VOA: special.2010.05.10

The Battle of Solferino took place one hundred fifty years ago, in June of eighteen fifty-nine.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

A ticket to ride the train from Chicago to Seattle,Washington was fifty-one dollars and fifty cents.

VOA: special.2009.02.04

Early in eighteen fifty-seven, the United States Supreme Court announced one of its most important rulings.

VOA: special.2009.05.21

One of Carlene Stephens' favorite artifacts is a four hundred fifty-year old carved figure from Germany.

VOA: special.2011.06.21

Betty Jameson was officially accepted into the Hall Fame of Women's Golf in nineteen fifty-one.

VOA: special.2009.03.29