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

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

VOA: special.2011.07.25

In about sixteen fifty-three, a trader named John Farrar and three friends landed on the island from Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

The government built the Florida base shortly after the discovery of Soviet missiles about three hundred kilometers away, on the island of Cuba.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Some members of the local community had strong feelings about the death and worked to make sure the skeleton stayed on the island.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

And the D.P.J. has questioned an agreement about an American Marine base on the island of Okinawa.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

An immigration history center on the island contains the ship records of passengers who entered through New York from eighteen ninety-two through nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

The Chazy Reef on the island contains coral, like a reef in a warm, tropical ocean.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

In fifteen eighty-seven, more than one hundred people arrived from England to live on the island.

VOA: special.2009.08.17

Mister Bateson and Miz Mead decided to work together on the island of Bali in Indonesia.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

Mister Thornton came from a family of wealthy landowners who grew sugar on the island.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

Not long after that, the Captain married Trudy Braxton who lived on the island.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

But the crime did not stop people from continuing to live on the island.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

He made sure all of his sons were born on the island.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

Junipero Serra was born in seventeen thirteen on the island of Mallorca,Spain.

VOA: special.2010.12.29

With this agreement, the rebellion ended on the island of Luzon.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Besides planting, the students also released terrapins on the island.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Later in June, prisoners also worked on the island.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

No people live on the island now.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Collecting food and medical supplies is a common tool for many Cuban-Americans to offer person-to-person assistance to people on the island.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

But he added that U.S.policies to force change on the island, including an economic embargo, have failed to bring about democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.04.19

An earthquake off Java in 2006 triggered a tsunami that killed about 600 people on the island's southern coast.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03