The next year he was one of the first five players to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

She says many times the school nurse is the first one to bring health problems to the attention of parents.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Well,experts say the expression appears to have been first used in the United States more than one hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Seventy-one bird species have disappeared forever since people first arrived on the Hawaiian Islands one thousand seven hundred years ago.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

It was the first time so many men one hundred thousand had fought against each other in the western world.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

But now the first worldwide study warns that one in six of the many different kinds of mangroves could disappear.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

She is the first National Collegiate Athletic Association Division One coach in men's or women's basketball to win one thousand games.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

Hamilton was never president. But he was the first Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers.

VOA: special.2010.11.12

During World War Two, Dave Brubeck,who is white, formed one of the first racially mixed bands in the Army.

VOA: special.2009.11.30

She has recorded more than thirty albums since she had her first number one song on the country music charts.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

Jack Benny was one of the first comedians who was willing to let other people share some of the laughs.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

In the nineteen sixties, he was one of the first Democrats in the United States Congress to oppose the party leadership.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

The United States had sent an astronaut of its own into space for the first time in nineteen sixty-one.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solid-body electric guitars and the eight-track recording device.

VOA: special.2009.09.27