Many years later, Wiley Post would say that first airplane was the most wonderful thing he had ever seen.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

Historians believe the Maya people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around two thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2010.02.17

The competition was first held in two thousand two and has taken place every two years since two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.10.27

But her trip to Japan,Indonesia,South Korea and China makes her the first in almost fifty years to visit Asia first.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

In one area was a blank canvas that had been waiting twenty-five years for the first line of paint.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

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

He made his own breakfast for the first time in many years, he was still angry with his father.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

It was like the day -- a hundred years later -- when the first American walked on the moon.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

The three-and-a-half percent growth was the first expansion in more than a year, and the strongest in two years.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

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

The study found that smokers who quit had a seventy percent increased risk of developing the disease in the first six years.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

The two groups were retested four years later, and the study compared the results with the first test.

VOA: special.2009.10.21

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

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