One of the more difficult walks is an eight kilometer hike that is not for anyone afraid of high places.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

The recession has hit especially hard in California, home of the world's eighth largest economy and one out of eight Americans.

VOA: special.2009.07.31

The war between the United States and Spain in eighteen ninety-eight was one of the shortest in American history.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

When it is cold outside, the president and his family can warm up near one of the White House's twenty-eight fireplaces.

VOA: special.2009.05.08

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

It says that nearly one third of about eight hundred bird species in the United States are threatened in some way.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

At the end of September two thousand eight, the park celebrated the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the Butterfield Overland Mail.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Major measures of United States markets have closed with their biggest one-day losses since the financial crisis of two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2011.08.12

The World Monuments Fund placed the river on its two thousand eight watch list of one hundred most endangered sites.

VOA: special.2009.05.18

Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

In two thousand eight, American exports supported almost seven percent of all jobs, including one-third of jobs in manufacturing.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

This group was one of about one thousand eight hundred musical acts that performed at the South by Southwest festival last month.

VOA: special.2009.04.03

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

He was one of the nation's more than thirty thousand victims of traffic crashes in two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2010.07.01

"It's a great honor to be included as one of the recipients of the two thousand and eight Cable Television Hall of Fame."

VOA: special.2011.05.11

In the presidential election of eighteen eighty-eight, one issue that played a major part was tariffs.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

It involved more than one thousand one hundred children between the ages of eight and fifteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Professor Keyak says the measurement is much greater than monthly reductions in bone mineral density of point four percent and one point eight percent.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

FM radio stations transmit in a range of frequencies between eighty-eight and one hundred eight megahertz.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

India's seven to eight million pullers usually pay one-third of their earnings to the owner of a rickshaw to use it by the day.

VOA: special.2009.05.11

China again sent the second largest number, more than ninety-eight thousand, an increase of twenty-one percent.

VOA: special.2009.11.26

In two thousand one, sixty-eight percent of African rhino horns entering illegal trade were recovered.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

Of the eight, only one was found guilty, and only in a very limited way.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Mister Pinero died of alcohol-related disease in nineteen eighty-eight at the age of forty-one.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

State economists say Alaska had twenty-one years of economic growth through two thousand eight.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

In eighteen sixty-eight, one of Mary Cassatt's paintings was accepted into the Paris Salon.

VOA: special.2009.07.12