But with the opening of the city's first contemporary art museums, the country's first W Hotel, and a growing restaurant scene, tourists are starting to get a taste of the vibrant cultural life that has been bubbling beneath the city's ornate veneer.
With the election of Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, the country's first Indian-American governor, Cao believes the state has come a long way in dispelling the racial stereotypes long associated with it.
Ohio-based American Electric Power, the largest consumer of coal in the U.S., is trying to build the country's first super-efficient commercial-scale coal gasification plant.
The Kenyan capital has been sleepy since Monday's vote for president, the country's first election since its 2007 vote sparked tribe-on-tribe violence that killed more than 1, 000 people.
The women's 10, 000m was comprehensively won by Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse , who earned the country's first-ever European Championships gold medal.
Notably absent from the list were some of the highest-profile names attached to the bank, such as shareholders Mahmoud Karzai, one of the Afghan president's brothers, and Hassan Fahim, a brother of the country's first Vice President Mohammad Qasim Fahim.
This is an old habit (the first newspaper in France was supported by Cardinal Richelieu, the country's first prime minister) and may explain why French politicians do not need to tell the truth to voters: it is because no one else will.
The Indian Football Association (IFA), which manages football in West Bengal, organized the country's first international friendly between the hugely popular Venezuela and Argentina in 2011.
While Italy has had high-speed trains since the late 1970s, NTV is the country's first rail operator not run by the state.
It was a heady time in South Africa, between Nelson Mandela's release from prison in 1990 and the country's first democratic election in 1994.
They will be encouraged by the views of many present on September 29th, as the ground was broken for the country's first Arab-American museum in the suburb of Dearborn.
This lush, green-black volcanic island is considered Italy's diving paradise, with 40 spots on the country's first protected marine reserve.
Devi Shetty is India's most celebrated heart surgeon, having performed the country's first neonatal heart surgery on a nine-day-old baby, and numbered Mother Teresa among his patients.
Shortly before Euro 2008, Zenit St Petersburg clinched the Uefa Cup, three years after CSKA Moscow had claimed the country's first European club trophy with victory in the same competition.
Ota Fusae, 48, a former official at the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, defeated two major rivals in a gubernatorial election in Osaka Prefecture to become the country's first female prefectural governor, and one of the youngest, too.
Will South Africa's black languages suffer the fate of the six languages brought by the country's first Indian settlers 150 years ago?
Sunil Mittal has made Delhi's Bharti Enterprises a shining example of entrepreneurial success: he was the first to bring portable generators into India, and proceeded to import the country's first push-button telephones.
Australia's lower house has unanimously passed a bill recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples as the country's first inhabitants.
Just an hour from Montreal, Mont-Tremblant was the country's first resort to install a chairlift.
In August, lawmakers in Beirut rushed the country's first oil-exploration law through its normally snarled parliament.
Mandela endured 27 years in prison before becoming the country's first black president in 1994.
The country's first national census of pollution sources is due to begin in February.
Hughston, who ran one of the country's first sports medicine clinics, in Columbus, Ga.
Hundreds of people in Burma have attended the country's first public gay pride event.
In 1916, New York City wrote into law the country's first comprehensive Zoning Resolution.
In Wisconsin, voters elected the country's first openly gay U.S. senator, Tammy Baldwin.
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The library, on Borough Road, was opened in 1934 and was the country's first public library.
The UML and NC both expected to win the country's first post-war election last year.
Work starts on five more in 2001 -- including a submarine and the country's first aircraft carrier.
Should he be offered the Wales job and accept, Lagerback would become the country's first non-British manager.
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