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World: Encyclopedia - World Series Trophy

The World Series Trophy is awarded each year by Major League Baseball to the team winning the World Series. Recent trophy designs consist of 30 flags representing the 30 teams in North America's two top leagues, the National League and the American League. The 2004 trophy was made of brass and pewter, weighs 30 pounds (14 kg) and has an estimated value of $15,000. The trophy, which is technically known as "The Commissioner's Trophy," is presented to the ownership of the World Series-winning team by the commissioner. Unlike the Stanley Cup, which is awarded to the champions of the National Hock ...

World: Encyclopedia - List of Neopian worlds

This is a list of Neopian worlds in alphabetical order. A Neopian world is a type of virtual land in Neopia (A virtual pets website) where players venture with their Neopets. Each one has its own appearance and "culture", but consists of common areas such as shops and recreational spots (that is, games). Note that technically, regions or lands is more literally accurate than the commonly used term worlds, as these are all actually subdivisions of (or in orbit around, in the case of Kreludor) the planet of Neopia.< ...

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List of Neopian worlds - Mini-worlds

World: Encyclopedia - World Peace Council

The World Peace Council (or World Council of Peace) was formed in 1949 in order to promote peaceful coexistence and nuclear disarmament. It has been alleged to be a front organization of Communist parties due to its advocacy of unilateral disarmament in western countries and the active participation and funding of the council by the Soviet bloc as well as the leading role taken in the WPC by Communists such ...

World: Encyclopedia - Weekly World News

The Weekly World News (WWN) is a tabloid newspaper published by American Media. It combines wire reports of strange news with in-house writings and columns. Weekly World News - Description. The WWN claims it always prints the truth (typical slogan: "Nothing but the truth: The Weekly World News!"). So many of the stories are so obviously fake it seems these claims are intended as a joke. It is worth noting that while the tabloid's main rival The Sun carried a fine pr ...

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Weekly World News - Popular culture

World: Encyclopedia - World music

World music is, most generally, all the music in the world (Bohlman 2002, Nidel 2004, p.3), but is more specifically all music genres that are not part of mainstream popular music or classical music from North America or Western Europe, and has some kind of "ethnic" component. The word connotes traditional or folk music from the third world, European popular and folk music with influences from the third world, and traditional music especially (but not only) from the third world. The term is used primarily as a marketing/classificatory ...

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World: Encyclopedia - Brave GNU World

Brave GNU World is an online column on computer software featuring interesting GNU projects each month. It was started by Georg C. F. Greve in 1999. A German edition of the column is printed in Linux Magazin. The name Brave GNU World is based on Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World. Brave GNU World - External link. Homepage ...

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Brave GNU World - External link

World: Encyclopedia - World tree

In certain Indo-European religions there was a belief in a world tree, such as Yggdrasil, in Norse mythology, an Oak in Slavic mythology and in Hinduism, a banyan tree. Although the concept is absent from the Greek mythology, medieval Greek folk traditions and more recent ones claim that the Tree that holds the Earth is shewn by goblins (Kallikantzaroi). A World Tree (Wacah Chan) also appears in the Maya religion as the axis mundi. It connects the Middleworld of man, with Xibalba (Otherwor ...

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World tree - In popular culture

World: Encyclopedia - Circus World

Circus World was a theme park built in Polk County, Florida, United States, on the east corner of the intersection of US 27 and Interstate 4. It was originally a property of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, and was intended additionally to be the Circus's winter headquarters. The Preview Center for "Circus World Showcase" as it was originally called, a 27,000-ft² building designed to look like a circus tent, was erected and opened in 1974. The building featured, among other things, an IMAX movie theatre. Exh ...

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Circus World - External Link

World: Encyclopedia - Bahá'í World Centre

The Bahá'í World Centre is the name given to the administrative centre of the Bahá'í Faith. Based in Haifa, Israel, the Bahá'í World Centre is recognisable by the gardens that dominate the area of Mount Carmel directly above the sea port. Bahá'í World Centre - Structurally. For a more complete list see the article Bahá'í World Centre buildings Structurally, the Bahá'í World Centre covers all Bahá'í buildings in Israel. These would include: The Sh ...

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World: Encyclopedia - WGC-World Cup

The WGC-World Cup is an annual men's golf tournament. In 2005 the sponsored name of the tournament is, "The Algarve World Cup in Portugal". It is contested by teams of two representing their country. Only one team is allowed from each country. The players are selected on the basis of the Official World Golf Rankings, although not all of the first choice players choose to compete. The World Cup has existed since 1953, and was initially known as the "Canada Cup". It was incorporated into the World Golf Championships series in 200 ...

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World: Encyclopedia - BBC World

BBC World is the British Broadcasting Corporation's 24-hour international current affairs TV channel with BBC News, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interviews, and was launched in January 1995. Its main global competitor is CNN, though it also competes with News Corporation's Sky News, Fox News and Star News in other markets. The channel is based in the BBC's new Broadcast Centre and takes News feeds from BBC Television Centre both of which are in west London. BBC World - History. BBC ...

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BBC World - Censorships

World: Encyclopedia - Chessington World of Adventures

Chessington World of Adventures is a British theme park owned by the Tussauds Group. It was formerly Chessington Zoo but was reopened in 1987 under the new name following a £18 million development investment. It is situated 12 miles South West of central London on the A243, 2 miles from the A3 and M25 (junction 9 or 10). In recent years, the Tussauds Group has been transforming the theme park into a more family-oriented attraction, with the more extreme rides being relocated to Thorpe Park. Chessington World of Adventur ...

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Chessington World of Adventures - Rollercoasters

World: Encyclopedia - Arts of the ancient world

Arts of the ancient world refers to the many types of art that were in the cultures of ancient societies, such as those of ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome Other related archivesEgypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, Rome, ancient, art, cultures

World: Encyclopedia - Cricket World Cup

The ICC Cricket World Cup is the world championship of one-day cricket, a tournament held quadrenially between all Test-playing nations, as well as several representatives from other cricket-playing nations who qualify through a series of qualifying matches. The next tournament will be held in the West Indies in 2007. Cricket World Cup - History. The Cricket World Cup was first held in 1975 in England, with eight teams participating: Australia, England, the West Indies, Pakistan, India, and New Zealand (the ...

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World: Encyclopedia - World AIDS Day

World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the global AIDS epidemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. December 1 was chosen because the first case of AIDS was diagnosed on this day in 1981. Since then, AIDS has killed more than 25 million people, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, the AIDS epidemic claimed an estimated 3.1 million (between 2.8 and 3.6 million) lives in 2005 of whi ...

World: Encyclopedia - World Day for Water

World Day for Water, or unofficially World Water Day, occurs each year on March 22, as designated by United Nations General Assembly resolution. This day was first formally proposed in Agenda 21 of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Observance was expected to begin in 1993 and has grown significantly ever since. The UN invited its member nations to devote this day to implementing UN recommendations and promoting concrete activities within their countries. ...

World: Encyclopedia - World Ocean Day

World Ocean Day began on 8 June 1992 at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. However, it is not an officially recognized secular holiday by the United Nations as of yet. World Ocean Day is an opportunity every year to honor the oceans and products they provide, such as seafood, as well as marine lives themselves for aquariums and pets. The oceans also provide sea-lanes for international trade. Global pollution and over-consumption of marine lives have resulted in drasti ...

World: Encyclopedia II - Worlds of Wonder - Magic World

The Magic World booklet was an attempt to bring the Basic Role-Playing basis of RuneQuest closer to the popular Dungeons & Dragons rules. Character abilities were still based on individual skills and percentages, and not levels, but unlike the classless Basic Role-Playing or RuneQuest, initial characters could start as one of 4 D&D style professions or character classes. Warriors started with more fighting skills, Rogues with adventuring skills, like stealth, Sages with non-combat know ...

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