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 eastern part of the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch is about one thousand six hundred kilometers west of California.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

One of these is deep-six. It means to hide something or put it where it will not be found.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

One of the scientists says the past six years have shown the lowest Arctic sea ice cover ever measured.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

More than six hundred seventy-one thousand foreign students attended an American college or university during the last school year.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

you can offer more flavors instead of one cake you know you can offer six different kind of cupcakes."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

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

"Summer in the City" was released in the summer of nineteen sixty-six and was one of the Lovin' Spoonful's greatest hits.

VOA: special.2009.06.22

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

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

Let us begin the Olympics,thank you." About one thousand competitors from twenty-six states and Canada took part in the event.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

One hundred eighty thousand copies of "Main Street" were sold in the first six months after it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

The U.N.World Food Program says more than a billion people one in six worldwide do not get enough food to be healthy.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Pirates have attacked at least sixty-one ships so far, compared to six for the same period last year.

VOA: special.2009.04.25