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They were to be sold on April 5 in what was touted as the first auction of Franco's work.

When he signed with Rice as a freshman, he was touted as the first Iranian to receive a Division I men's basketball scholarship.

It was touted as the first privately held company in Shanghai at the time.

That pair was touted as the first solid evidence for the spin-up theory.

That is the researchers' sober assessment of an Ebola drug that made page one news earlier this month when it was touted as the first promising treatment for this deadly disease.

Unsurprisingly, Michael Bay was a trailblazer: 2009's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was touted as the first film in history to receive assistance from four out of the five branches of the military (the Coast Guard sat it out).

Twitter has often been touted as the "first with news".

Selling in Waterstone's bookshops for £199 ($351), it is being touted as the first e-book reader to be widely available in this country.

The low traffic numbers are significant because the series has been touted as the first television-quality production for the Web, as well as the first to be introduced online as a warm-up for its network debut.

Revered as the baroque master of lifelike portraits and light and shadow, the 16th-century painter Caravaggio is now being touted as the first master of photographic technique, two centuries before the formal invention of the camera.

Miley, who reached Saturday night's final of the 400m individual medley by winning her heat in the sixth fastest qualifying time of 4min 34.98sec, has long been touted as the first British swimmer to win a medal at these Olympics.