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

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

In his first one hundred days in office, President Roosevelt worked with Congress to pass a series of measures.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

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

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

The first lady showed the young gardeners how to turn the soil for the one hundred square meter garden.

VOA: special.2009.03.31

One hundred eighty thousand copies of "Main Street" were sold in the first six months after it was published.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

In his first observations from Mount Wilson, Hubble used a telescope with a mirror one hundred fifty-two centimeters across.

VOA: special.2009.04.29

He is the first person to be tried on piracy charges in the United States in more than one hundred years.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

The tradition of marking the first one hundred days of a new president began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

It was the last of one hundred thirty five flights for the world's first reusable space vehicle design.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

A recent story in a local agricultural newspaper said the first robot cost one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars.

VOA: special.2009.05.12

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

Ratan Tata says the first one hundred thousand buyers of the car will be chosen by chance.

VOA: special.2009.03.28

It was the first in the world. Since then, about one hundred nations have followed that example.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

Last month,Mrs.Obama welcomed almost one hundred local students to the first event in the South Lawn Series.

VOA: special.2010.06.07

But first,a report on a town marking the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of an anti-slavery rebellion.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Lives improved. Within those first one-hundred years, transportation links had helped form a new national economy.

VOA: special.2010.01.11

Last month,Rita Levi-Montalcini became the first Nobel Prize Laureate to reach the age of one hundred.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

Lomtandaso Hlope was one of the first seven hundred women to weave for Gone Rural.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

On July thirty-first, the ship traveled six hundred and one kilometers in only twenty-four hours.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Rolling Stone magazine placed the group's first album "Oracular Spectacular" eighteenth on a list of the top one hundred albums of the last ten years.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

This week we look at President Obama's first one hundred days in office.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

became a national best-seller. One hundred fifty years after "On the Origin of Species" first appeared, it remains one of the most influential and debated books ever written.

VOA: special.2009.12.01

"This is something,after all, that first came to the attention of the American public one hundred years ago when a national health insurance program was proposed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and successive presidents, mostly Democrats but not all, have favored it."

VOA: special.2010.03.27