One of her first jobs for the magazine was a series of stories about the life of the French Emperor Napoleon.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

Faith Lapidus tells about her life. Wilma Mankiller was the first woman to lead the Cherokee Nation, based in Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

For the first time in her life, Sarah left the area along the Mississippi River where she was born.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

She never forgot these days. Later in life, she wrote: "No deaf child can ever forget the excitement of his first word.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

The first time I looked through its magic lens, the clouds that surrounded my daily life rolled away.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

"I never really realized that that meant that every living thing really came as an evolutionary development of the first seeds of life."

VOA: special.2009.12.01

He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life, he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

He was not always a clergyman. During the first half of his life he was a teacher in the military school at Woolwich.

VOA: special.2011.03.26

For the first time in his married life, Mr. Mindon felt as important as his wife Millicent.

VOA: special.2009.01.31

For the first time in his married life, Mister Mindon felt as important as his wife Millicent.

VOA: special.2010.05.29

It was there he first developed two ideas that were important for the rest of his life.

VOA: special.2010.05.30

On Monday, for the first time, President Obama offered his own version of a plan to breathe new life into the legislation in Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

But it was a finding that did not at first seem important to everyday life.

VOA: special.2009.12.08

For the first time, researchers are creating a complete count of the world's sea life.

VOA: special.2009.01.13