in the country since they first arrived in 2001, and 2009 has proven to be the deadliest yet in terms of losses.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

The first ship carrying the gold seekers arrived in the port town of Skagway,Alaska, on July twenty-sixth,eighteen ninety-seven.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

Merry arrived seven years after her mother had her first child and she was quite a Christmas gift.

VOA: special.2009.12.21

ong before the first Europeans arrived in the New World, a strange looking animal lived on the rich grasses of the western plains.

VOA: special.2009.02.15

He arrived six weeks early. At first, she did not like carrying him in front.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

The model was designed to look the same as when those first Englishmen arrived.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The American fleet arrived in Manila Bay on May first.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

Grant arrived in the area first.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

They are the Navajo - whose ancestors walked that land at least a century, perhaps many centuries, before the first Europeans arrived.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

"In 1972,our first pandas arrived as a result of President Nixon and the relationship he built with China.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Equally excited fans greeted the launch from Hong Kong to Frankfurt, where some arrived as early as 3 am to be first in line.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

She became involved in prostitution at the insistence of a former boyfriend, who beat her,and forced her to sell her body the first night they arrived.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

The first of 6,000 M-ATVs arrived in Afghanistan late last year.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01