That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

Randolph Roth studied homicide rates over the past four hundred years in parts of the United States and western Europe.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

About nine hundred years ago, the Ancestral Puebloan people built villages high in the walls of canyons in Mesa Verde,Colorado.

VOA: special.2009.03.04

He is the first person to be tried on piracy charges in the United States in more than one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The problem reportedly has led to more than eight hundred crashes and nineteen deaths in the past ten years.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

The movie is about a man who travels to a distant planet about one hundred fifty years in the future.

VOA: special.2010.01.01

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

They are depressed. Word expert Charles Funk says people have been feeling down in the dumps for more than four-hundred years.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

Archeologists know that the ancestors of today's Pueblo Indians lived in the Frijoles Canyon for more than four hundred years.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

More than six hundred fifty million people have visited the Mall of America since it opened eighteen years ago.

VOA: special.2010.08.13

A Census Bureau official says four hundred billion dollars in grants and loans will be available over the next ten years.

VOA: special.2010.05.07

A researcher says three hundred forty-three thousand AIDS deaths in South Africa in the last ten years could have been prevented.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

(OMITTED) In the past few years, Thai Freedom House has taught English, Thai and art to about two hundred children.

VOA: special.2010.05.03