was described as the first of its kind.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

He was honored first as a member of the Yardbirds, then with Cream, then as a solo performer in two thousand.

VOA: special.2009.10.19

But close to five hundred million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

The first movie ended with Carrie Bradshaw marrying the man of her dreams, John Preston, better known as Mister Big.

VOA: special.2010.06.14

Last year,the top news story was the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president of the United States.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

He will be inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States, and the first black president, on January 20th.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

But close to half a million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

Mount Holyoke College was the first college to offer women the same kind of education as was offered to men.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

The end of his first one reads like poetry as he appeals for unity in a country under threat of civil war.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

The ruling was unpopular. It came as Americans resisted big corporations like the First Bank of the United States, chartered by Congress.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

In nineteen ninety-two, Aravind established what was described as Asia's first training center for the prevention of blindness.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

The international malaria community has set the end of twenty-ten as its target for meeting the first in a series of goals.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

She is the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States and earlier, as head of Harvard Law School.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

Carlo Urbani was the first doctor to warn the world of the disease that became known as SARS.

VOA: special.2009.01.27