The one hundred seventeen men,women and children were not the first white people to try to live on the island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

During the first two years of the Civil War, the Union captured several southern ports: Fort Hatteras and Roanoke Island, North Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

The son of Thomas Mayhew established the first European settlement on the island in sixteen forty-two at Edgartown.

VOA: special.2011.07.25

The first known European settlement on Poplar Island was established in the sixteen thirties.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

At first,President McKinley wanted Spain to give up only Luzon, the main island.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

Leone is full of churches, including the first on the island, a Congregational church founded by a British missionary in the 1800s.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

She says the first Hawaiian-born president has brought the island culture and mind-set to the White House.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

It was the first of a series of three massive storms that devastated wide areas of the island of Luzon, where Manila is located, and claimed almost a thousand lives.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12