More than one thousand people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck western Indonesia at the end of September.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

More than six hundred seventy-one thousand foreign students attended an American college or university during the last school year.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

The eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about one thousand six hundred kilometers west of California.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

A group of one thousand soldiers went to Harpers Ferry,Virginia, where the Union army had a gun factory and arsenal.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

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

Mister Branson expects his company will be able to take one thousand people into space within the first year of operation.

VOA: special.2009.12.18

Currently,more than twenty-one thousand nurses who trained in the Caribbean are working in the United States, Canada and Britain.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

Let us begin the Olympics,thank you." About one thousand competitors from twenty-six states and Canada took part in the event.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Some experiments are already taking place in the mine at a depth of about one thousand five hundred meters.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

She is the first National Collegiate Athletic Association Division One coach in men's or women's basketball to win one thousand games.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

His nineteen seventy-three television show from Hawaii was seen in forty countries by more than one thousand million people.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

Doctor Pascal Meier of the University of Michigan Health System led an international study of one thousand five hundred patients.

VOA: special.2010.09.15