1.   The first begins Monday with jury selection.

2.   Dutch merchants and their families would pass their time on hardwood chairs pulled up to the fireplace, the site where cultural self-display first began.

3.   Historian William Manchester has been chronicling the Kennedy family since the first of them began to die.

4.   Prudential first began its effort to sell the reinsurance company about two years ago, but failed to get the price it was seeking, according to analysts.

5.   The first had begun over the Pacific Ocean and rolled through California and Texas before heading North.

6.   The first began disgorging its load into an aluminum pipe that ran down across a hillside pasture and spouted into the muddy-bottomed pond.

7.   The first begins Thursday on PBS.

8.   The first began in December, as Russian forces sought to seize the city by early January.

9.   The first will begin this week and feature an instant-win game, which will be expanded to concessions at movie theaters.