More than one-fourth of the four million newborns who die each year around the world were born too early.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

A study in the United States found that eighty-four percent of undergraduates last year had at least one credit card.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

The campaign of eighteen eighty-four between Republican Blaine and Democrat Cleveland was one of the most bitter in American political history.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

History records say that in only four years the area around Dawson produced more than fifty-one million dollars in gold.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

It was responsible for more than four and one-half percent of all the years people lived with disability.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

He wrote several long poems, but is best known for his one hundred and fifty-four short poems,or sonnets.

VOA: special.2010.01.06

One cover shows the Twentieth Colored Infantry of Eighteen Sixty-Four receiving a silk banner in New York City.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

He was ninety-four years old. Someone once asked him if he thought he would still be playing at one hundred years old.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

In the next four years, more than one-and-a-half-million cattle were moved north over the Chisholm trail to Kansas.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

But the report lists one hundred eight-four species that are considered in danger because of limited habitat, serious threats or falling populations.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

It was the first time an African-American man had won one of the four major competitions in tennis.

VOA: special.2010.02.07

Researchers in the United States studied one hundred thousand women during an eight-year period, beginning in nineteen ninety-four.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

For example, one American astronaut on a four-month long mission on the Russian space station Mir saw a vision of his dead father.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

The island now measures four hundred sixty-one hectares, about the same size as in the eighteen eighties.

VOA: special.2009.10.06