But even in two thousand two, fewer than eleven percent of patents were awarded to women in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

In nineteen eleven, a fire at a clothing factory in New York had taken the lives of one hundred forty-six people.

VOA: special.2010.09.06

The International Maritime Bureau reports there were one hundred eleven pirate attacks in waters near the Somali coast last year.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

NASA plans to send the Mars Science Laboratory to the red planet in the autumn of two thousand eleven.

VOA: special.2009.12.30

The report said the rate of pneumonia in adults after surgery decreased more than eleven and a half percent.

VOA: special.2010.04.21

Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel Prize in nineteen eleven, this time in chemistry.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

And in eighteen hundred eleven, John Jacob Astor built a fur trading center at the mouth of Oregon's Columbia River.

VOA: special.2009.02.19

It was a disaster. In eleven days of fighting, one-third of the Confederate Army in Georgia was destroyed.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

The company says it plans to sell a version of the Nano in Europe in two thousand eleven.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

But the latest Census Bureau report says the number of home-based businesses rose to more than eleven million in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2010.04.23

Eleven workers died. He said BP expects to complete two relief wells in August to stop the leak from a damaged well.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

We see that you know from everyone,they say their interest in science begins before the age of eleven.

VOA: special.2010.04.01

The gene was found in eleven bacterial species, including those that cause cholera and dysentery, a diarrheal disease.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

At age eleven, the young drummer received a full scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston,Massachusetts.

VOA: special.2009.10.02

They can also see some of the things he used in his magic tricks, including a straitjacket and eleven pairs of handcuffs.

VOA: special.2010.12.17

She has announced plans to end the show in September of two thousand eleven after twenty-five years.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

The number of people in the small town of Spencer,Iowa,for example, dropped from eleven thousand to eight thousand in just a few years.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Doctor Venkataswamy established the first Aravind Eye Hospital in Tamil Nadu state with only eleven beds.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

A new study found better results in four-year-olds who go to bed around the same time every night and sleep at least eleven hours.

VOA: special.2010.06.09

Cernan and Schmitt landed in a valley almost directly north of the Apollo Eleven landing place.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

It also has eleven students at a campus in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

VOA: special.2009.05.07

The poem was published in The American Magazine in December of nineteen eleven.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

Radicals in the House of Representatives brought eleven charges against President Johnson.

VOA: special.2010.01.28

This was the eleventh time in eleven years that rates have increased.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The artist Constantino Brumidi finished this huge work in only eleven months.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

The next World Summer Games are in Athens in two thousand eleven.

VOA: special.2009.08.15

Then,in two thousand eleven, the Solar Decathlon will return to Washington.

VOA: special.2009.10.27