Japan has played a unique role in world history.

This became known as an international fiasco in World Cup history.

Facts on File library of world history.

The Field Museum of Natural History, located in Chicago, Illinois, USA, is one of the largest natural history museums in the world.

No leading country in world history has persistently maintained a negative saving rate.

See also FIBA Basketball World Cup records National team appearances in the FIBA Basketball World Cup FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup (formerly FIBA World Championship for Women) Wheelchair Basketball World Championship References External links 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup official website 2010 FIBA World Championship official website FIBA World Championship History (PDF) United States Men's World Championship Team History

Western Europe s accomplishments since World War II are among the most heartening and impressive success stories in world history.

For the first time in chess history there were two world champions, the FIDE world champion Karpov and the PCA world champion Kasparov.

PRINCETON The Arab world has entered the most dramatic period in its modern history.

Natural disasters have a long history in this geologically active part of the world.

In 1996 Iraq was ranked 139th in the world, the worst FIFA ranking in Iraqi football history.

The history of the world economy shows the trilemma at work.

They continue to assume that we live in an era of Western domination of world history.

The world is poised to undergo one of the most dramatic power shifts in human history.

First, democratic States now outnumber their non democratic counterparts, establishing a significant precedent in world history.

Although many of the subjects of modern history coincide with that of standard history, the subject is taught independently by various systems of education in the world.

World War I to Saudi control In the beginning of 20th century, during World War I, Medina witnessed one of the longest sieges in history.

For the first time in history, we have the knowledge, the technology, and the wealth to design a different world. We have the resources to make poverty history.

El Gamsy was chosen as one of the best 50 military leaders in the world military history.

After the Second World War he travelled in Europe and the United States and studied art history.

However if a mid estimate of 30 million deaths is accepted, the Great Leap Forward was the deadliest famine in the history of China and in the history of the world.

Italy won the 2006 FIFA World Cup, and is currently the second most successful football team in World Cup history, after Brazil, having won four FIFA World Cup championships.

The international coordination of world economic policies, as formalized in the recent G 20 statement, is unprecedented in history.

History The concept of a world chess champion started to emerge in the first half of the 19th century, and the phrase world champion appeared in 1845.

Fundamental to making poverty history are the Governments of the developing world themselves.

morabeteen Al Andalus is not just a place or chapter in history, it is an unmatched civilization in the history of mankind that kept on illuminating the world for about eight centuries.

PARIS France no longer claims center stage in world history, but it remains influential beyond its national borders.

This separation long symbolized America s unusual history of bank regulation probably the most unusual in the developed world.

(Sometimes football history gets mixed up with real history the defeat of a superior Dutch team by Germany in the World Cup final of 1974 also needed to be redressed.)

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History Developments The airport opened on 15 October 1942 during the Second World War.

The importance of cities in today s world economy is unprecedented. Until the Industrial Revolution, human history was overwhelmingly rural.

But I always feel like that in Istanbul, a great city where so much world history has been forged.

During World War I, the Battle of Jutland in the North Sea was one of the largest naval battles in history.

Other galleries present topics including news history, the September 11 attacks, the First Amendment, world press freedom and the history of the Internet, TV and radio.

The assurance given to the world that wars will no longer originate in Europe represents a formidable reversal of history.

For the first time in history, we have the knowledge, the technology, and the wealth to design a different world.

President Richard Nixon hailed the 1971 Smithsonian agreement as the most significant monetary agreement in the history of the world.

It was the second most powerful earthquake in the recorded history of the world, with a moment magnitude of 9.2.

The younger generation no longer recognizes nation , history , and world through the instruction of ideology.

History After World War II all tourist organizations were nationalized by the new communist government.

The best periods in Chinese history were those in which the country was most open both internally and towards the outside world.

In Central and Eastern Europe, however, the end of the Second World War marked the beginning of a painful chapter in history.

At the 2007 World Cup in China, U.S. captain Kristine Lilly competed in her fifth (and ultimately final) World Cup, making her the first woman and at the time one of three players in history to appear in five World Cups.

Work in the history of ideas may involve interdisciplinary research in the history of philosophy, the history of science, or the history of literature.