By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

In July of nineteen sixty-nine he was almost speechless when Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

In sub-Saharan Africa, the area hardest hit by AIDS, for every person who gets treated, two others go untreated.

VOA: special.2011.05.18

The first shooting incident by a person who could be considered a professional gunman took place in Texas in eighteen fifty-four.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

A low-fat diet is one in which less than thirty percent of a person's daily calorie intake comes from fat.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

The first recorded shooting incident by a person who was a professional gunman took place in Texas in eighteen fifty-four.

VOA: special.2010.03.17

In your pain and sadness, you may decide that the person you loved is hard-hearted, and in fact,has a heart of stone.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

Each hair on a person's head grows from a single tube-like hole in the skin called a follicle.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

In fact,a friend of a lonely person was fifty-two percent more likely to develop feelings of loneliness.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

In May, a thirteen-year-old American boy became the youngest person to climb the tallest mountain on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Brian O'Connor of the Family Violence Prevention Fund says young men need guidelines in how to treat young women -- in person or online.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

She was the last person to photograph Gandhi before he was murdered in nineteen forty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Working in such a laundry was known as the eight-pound livelihood because a person had to lift an iron weighing almost four kilograms all day.

VOA: special.2010.03.03