Japan has played a unique role in world history.

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

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

The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known.

The French intervention has been described as one of the first humanitarian interventions.

But that era is over. Increasingly, the rest of the world has gone from being objects of world history to becoming its subjects.

CATW has a 17 year history of working against trafficking and prostitution worldwide.

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.

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.

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

Diets don't work. No diet in the history of the world has ever worked for more than two percent of the population.

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

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

Harvard has a large undergraduate and graduate program in History of Science, and is one of the largest departments currently in the world.

The point is that we are probably seeing, for the first time in the history of the Arab world, a revolution bottom up people's revolution.

Babylon The oldest known world maps date back to ancient Babylon from the 9th century BC.

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.

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.

In other words, that was the first creature in the history of the world that had a computer as its parent it did not have an organic parent.

The world s countries are engaging in one of the most complex and consequential exercises in collective action that has ever had to be managed in the history of international relations.

What is happening today in the Arab world is history in the making, written in the blood, sweat, and tears of the victims of decades of violent repression.

And, as the cradle of the world s first democracy, Greece needs other symbols of national renewal than scepters and robes.

Indeed, since the industrial revolution, the development of such new urban areas is a central theme in the history of the world.

I was interested in the idea of why and how I could create a new story, a new narrative in art history and a new narrative in the world.

For the first time in human history, talented students don't have to have their potential and their dreams written out of history by lousy teachers.

The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human made satellite, and the first man in space.

The history of Antarctica emerges from early Western theories of a vast continent, known as Terra Australis, believed to exist in the far south of the globe.

History The history of the Portuguese Army is directly connected to the history of Portugal.

We have arrived at a moment in history when cooperative global political leadership is more important than ever.

This year, for the first time in human history, more people will live in urban areas than rural communities.

It was the first government in world history to nationally issue banknotes or true paper money, and the first Chinese government to establish a permanent standing navy.

Writings He wrote a history of the world ( Chronographiai , in five books) from Creation to the year AD 221, covering, according to his computation, 5723 years.

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

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

In the aftermath that followed, the event was described by media sources from the UK and around the world as the greatest moment in Premier League history.

MOSCOW The German people, and the whole world alongside them, are celebrating a landmark date in history, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Visual art The history of British visual art forms part of western art history.

In any case, 2011 is likely to remain engraved in the history of the Arab world as the year when people started raising against their oppressive regimes.

Throughout the history of the world, nomadic civilizations have absorbed the influence of others, both in the West and the East, and in turn have had a profound impact on them.

After one of the greatest cataclysms in world history, the United States joined with visionary builders from over 50 countries to create the United Nations.

Today, April 6, marks the 10th anniversary of the death of a person who marked both the history of Tunisia and that of the world.

At no time in human history have the fates of every woman, man and child been so intertwined across the globe.

The world's leaders will come to New York in September to make momentous decisions regarding the most far reaching reforms in the entire history of the United Nations.