At the start of this year there were two hundred thirteen thousand cases of leprosy reported in one hundred twenty-one countries.

VOA: special.2009.10.14

Rosalyn Schanzer shows readers the young man who was only twenty-two years old when he left Plymouth,England in eighteen thirty-one.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

A report from the e-Marketer research group predicts that worldwide,tablet sales will reach more than eighty-one million in two thousand twelve.

VOA: special.2010.12.20

Forbes Magazine estimates the league had an income of about one hundred sixty-five million dollars in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.06.02

American-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in late two thousand one, after the terrorist attacks on the United States.

VOA: special.2009.06.15

He was one of only twenty-three senators who voted in two thousand two against supporting the invasion of Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.09.13

The researchers found that he and three members of his family had two disease-causing mutations in one gene.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

They could cross the mountain in one of two places -- the White Pass and the Chilkoot Pass.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Gannett,the nation's largest newspaper publisher, has cut more than one-fifth of its jobs in the past two years.

VOA: special.2009.03.21

And it can go from zero to ninety-five kilometers an hour in just two and one half seconds.

VOA: special.2009.11.03

And,he was right. John F.Kennedy became president in nineteen sixty-one and served until his murder two years later.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

The first Seven Mile Bridge was replaced in nineteen-eighty-two, but you can still see the old bridge, close to the new one.

VOA: special.2010.03.22

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

He was the chief military advisor to the Philippine military forces when the United States entered World War Two in December,nineteen forty-one.

VOA: special.2009.05.24