Disease-control experts from the United States confirmed the first cases of cholera in Haiti on October twenty-first in the Artibonite area.

VOA: special.2010.11.10

As the service module moved away, they saw for the first time the damage done by the exploding oxygen tank.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Still,with all these difficulties, ten-thousand troops made it to Washington in the first few weeks of the Civil War.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

In two thousand seven, the Food and Drug Administration approved Lyrica as the first drug specifically for the disease.

VOA: special.2011.08.02

The writing on the stone says in large letters: Norton the First, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

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 Westminster Kennel Club was the first member of the pure breed dog registry group, The American Kennel Club.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

It was the countdown for Apollo Eleven the space flight that would carry men to the first landing on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

In April,after the first cases in the United States, officials told schools to close at the first sign of an H1N1 outbreak.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Professor Burgess says the first ten years of the twenty-first century are expected to register the most attacks of any ten-year period.

VOA: special.2009.06.16

She says the study was the first to compare the economic effects of different kinds of smoking bans.

VOA: special.2009.05.27

During the first half of the nineteenth century, leaders of the United States could find no answer to the question of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

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