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

During one week in nineteen forty-eight, poisonous air in a nearby town killed twenty people and sickened six thousand others.

VOA: special.2009.07.13

The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

His nineteen seventy-three television show from Hawaii was seen in forty countries by more than one thousand million people.

VOA: special.2010.04.04

Farm workers and others who said they often used pesticides had a forty-one percent greater risk of Parkinson's than other people.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

His fictional detective C.August Dupin first appeared in his story "The Murders In the Rue Morgue" in eighteen forty-one.

VOA: special.2009.02.02

In eighteen forty-one, the British navy officer James Ross discovered areas now called the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.

VOA: special.2009.06.03

The Michael J.Fox Foundation has raised more than one hundred forty-two million dollars to fund research for better treatments.

VOA: special.2009.04.07

And the State Dining Room can hold one hundred forty people for official dinners in honor of foreign leaders.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

At U.C.L.A. the man known simply as "Coach" had a record of six hundred twenty wins and one hundred forty-seven losses.

VOA: special.2010.06.10

An estimated one billion people in forty countries watched this program when it was broadcast on television in nineteen seventy-three.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

In two thousand two the group had suggested such screening tests every one to two years for women forty and older.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

One that has been repeated many times says: "Here Lies Lester Moore, Four Slugs from a Forty-Four, No Les,No More."

VOA: special.2010.02.15

They found that forty-one percent of the profiles chosen at random included information about alcohol or drug use.

VOA: special.2009.02.18

His company NComputing says it has set up over forty thousand networks in more than one hundred countries.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

This online service lets people send short messages that are no more than one hundred forty letters long.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

The road is about one hundred forty kilometers from Washington, on the other side of the Potomac River.

VOA: special.2009.09.21

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

The World Health Organization this week declared the first pandemic, or worldwide spread, of influenza in forty-one years.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

The price is four hundred forty dollars compared to one hundred seventy,or less, for a traditional cycle rickshaw.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

In the last two years, only six people were found guilty of poaching charges out of forty-one arrested.

VOA: special.2009.12.14