"I am not the first president to take up this cause," he said "but I am determined to be the last."

VOA: special.2009.09.12

He said they would rise up at the first sign of a leader who wished to break their chains.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

He had been on the first exploratory trip to the mountain that had mapped the way up from the southern side.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

But,she later woke up. The first thing she asked for was a pair of scissors so she could start another paper creation.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

Rosa Parks was not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the bus for a white person.

VOA: special.2009.03.08

They do not know why da Vinci painted it, or how it ended up in the collection of French ruler Francis the First.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

He became the first known American suicide bomber last October when he blew himself up in Somalia.

VOA: special.2009.10.17

He did not have much luck,though, the first time he went up to dunk the ball.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

They worked quickly to catch up. Less than a year later, on October first,nineteen fifty-eight, the National Aeronautic and Space Administration,or NASA, began operations.

VOA: special.2010.08.20

In nineteen forty-seven, eight theater groups showed up uninvited to the first Edinburgh International Festival.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

The city's urban transportation system recently launched the first of up to five hydrogen buses.

VOA: special.2009.09.07

The seven musicians produce a big sound, like in "Wake Up" from their first album,"Funeral."

VOA: special.2010.08.13

Then they began to die. In some of the gold centers, big mining companies bought up all the land from those who first claimed it.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

On February first, two thousand three, Columbia broke up as it reentered the atmosphere.

VOA: special.2011.07.27