"In a single generation, we've fallen from first place to twelfth place in college graduation rates for young adults.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

Norman Borlaug taught at Texas A&M University and worked on international projects until not long before his death on September twelfth.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The American Theater Wing and The Broadway League will present the awards at ceremonies on June twelfth in New York City.

VOA: special.2011.05.06

Even victims who were not seriously hurt in the earthquake January twelfth are in need of the most basic supplies.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

She was one of fifty people killed in a plane crash on February twelfth near her hometown of Buffalo,New York.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Then,shortly after sunset on April twelfth, Navy special operations forces feared that Captain Phillips' life was in immediate danger.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

It represents more than a million students every year who entered ninth grade but do not complete twelfth grade.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

On February twelfth, outside Buffalo,New York,Muzzammil Hassan, a well-known local businessman, told police that his wife was dead.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

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

VOA: special.2010.06.23

Some other experts say that the ancestor of the modern guitar was brought to Spain from Persia sometime in the twelfth century.

VOA: special.2010.05.12

Just before sunrise on April twelfth, eighteen sixty-one, the first shot was fired in the American Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

On the twelfth day of the Olympics the United States broke its medal record for competition outside America.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

The New Victorian School had burned to the ground because of an electrical problem on January twelfth,two thousand.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, launched Columbia from Kennedy Space Center on April twelfth nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

The first fire jump in the United States took place on July twelfth, nineteen forty, in the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

And it was shown during the opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics in Vancouver on February twelfth.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

By the twelfth century, soap- making centers had developed in cities such as Marseilles,France and Savona,Italy.

VOA: special.2011.03.09

NASA announced that Gemini Six would be launched in the early morning of Sunday, December twelfth.

VOA: special.2009.07.01

The twelfth Latin Grammy Awards are to be presented nine months from now in Las Vegas,Nevada.

VOA: special.2011.02.18

Mister Swanson says his interest in Abraham Lincoln began the day he was born, February twelfth.

VOA: special.2009.10.12

On April twelfth,nineteen sixty-one, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin flew in space for one hundred eight minutes.

VOA: special.2011.05.15

And in April she will host the Academy of Country Music Awards for the twelfth time.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

The National Geographic Society published her book just in time for the two hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth on February twelfth, eighteen oh nine.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

On April twelfth,nineteen-sixty one, he orbited the Earth one time in the Vostok One spacecraft.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

Space debris made news on March twelfth when a part of an old rocket motor about ten centimeters in size threatened the International Space Station.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Earlier this month, on July twelfth, Neptune reached the same area in the sky that it occupied when it was first observed by Johann Galle.

VOA: special.2011.07.27