Eighteen year old slam poet Safia Elhillo deals with another serious issue in her poem, "Immigrant City."

VOA: special.2009.04.17

More came every year. By the eighteen seventies, California's political leaders were demanding an end to further immigration from China.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

Mister Hearst sent a reporter to Cuba in eighteen ninety-seven to secretly rescue nineteen-year-old Evangelina Cisneros from a prison in Havana.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

And since it was eighteen eighty-eight -- a presidential election year -- the tariff became an important election issue.

VOA: special.2010.05.20

After he finished his studies at Harvard in eighteen seventy-six, he traveled in Europe and the Middle East for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

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

In eighteen fifty, President Zachary Taylor died after serving about a year and a half in office.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

For example, at the University of Kentucky, out-of-state graduate tuition averaged about eighteen thousand dollars this year.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The researchers studied the diets of thirty-one thousand children ages two to eighteen over a thirty-year period.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

Some of the advice they received came from the youngest member of the Jonas Brothers, eighteen-year-old Nick.

VOA: special.2011.07.28

About forty percent of all eighteen to twenty-four-year-olds or almost eleven and a half million were in school in October of last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

In eighteen thirty-four,Poe married his cousin Virginia Clemm, the thirteen year old daughter of his father's sister.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

It failed within a year. At eighteen, Patrick married a sixteen year old named Sarah Shelton.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

In one study, researchers examined the pages of five hundred eighteen-year-olds from the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.18

She was born in Ireland but Professor Gorn found that the year was eighteen thirty-seven.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Travel was impossible during the four year American Civil War that began in eighteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Americans bought an estimated eighteen and a half million bicycles last year.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Eighteen twenty-one was also an important year in the history of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

Eighteen sixty was a year of mixed feelings of hope and fear.

VOA: special.2009.07.09

Eighteen ninety-two was a presidential election year in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

The following year, Jones set a school record with eighteen assists.

VOA: special.2010.06.25

But eighteen-year-old Julia Holmblad joined the group for a different reason.

VOA: special.2011.04.01

Historians say Harriet Tubman was born in the year Eighteen-Twenty.

VOA: special.2011.02.13

That is an increase of eighteen percent over this year.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Presidents have issued Thanksgiving proclamations every year since eighteen sixty-three.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Eighteen sixty-two was a congressional election year.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

Eighteen-year-old John Marbach just finished high school.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

Eighteen sixty-four was such a year.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Eighteen-year-old Placida knows that feeling.

VOA: special.2010.05.13