Some of today's best world music acts spring from the discovery of an obscure passion.
Wales' previous best World Cup performance came in the inaugural 1987 tournament hosted jointly by Australia and New Zealand.
Winners announced ahead of the main event included the late Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, whose award for best world music album was collected by his daughter Anoushka.
Wales begin their 2011 Rugby World Cup campaign against South Africa in Wellington on 11 September - as the Welsh bid to better their best World Cup performance of third place in 1987, also in New Zealand.
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We've got the best workers in the world, the best businesspeople in the world. (Applause.) We've got the best universities in the world, the best researchers in the world. (Applause.) We're a young nation.
So the word is going out all around the world: If you want to find the best workers in the world, if you want to find the best factories in the world, if you want to build the best cars or trucks or any other product in the world, you should invest in the United States of America.
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Today we celebrate business leaders who compete not just to be the best in the world, but to be the best for the world.
We've got the best workers in the world, the best entrepreneurs in the world.
We've got the best colleges, the best universities, the best researchers in the world, the best scientists in the world.
The game will be about driving the best cars in the world in the best locations in the world, using 3-D models of engines built by the development team.
And we had the best universities in the world, and the best colleges in the world, and we had the number one -- we ranked number one in the proportion of college graduates in the world.
We have the best workers in the world, we got the best universities in the world -- (applause) -- we've got the most dynamic economy in the world, but we can't be afraid of the future.
And those who watch the matches on television (whence arrives much of Wimbledon's income) share at an electronic arm's length the added drama of the best game in the world being played at the best place in the world to play it.
Having gone through this very wrenching adjustment, we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best innovation and technologies in the world.
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The world's best, the world's hardest-working and the world's most ambitious are still coming our way.
So before Harvard makes claims about being the best in the world or the best in history, perhaps it should get an education and halfway live up to the claim.
While in 2011, she was voted World's Best Female Chef as part of the World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards.
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"France are a very strong team, one of the best in world, with a strong all-round game, " said Kidney.
Dehring, the managing director and chief executive of the tournament organising committee, wants to make it the "best Cricket World Cup ever".
Fiji enjoyed their best ever World Cup tournament despite the defeat, and their captain Mosese Rauluni said he could have asked for nothing more from his team-mates.
In a 1995 two-volume anthology of the best of World War II reporting, done by the Library of America, there are twenty-six dispatches from Pyle, one from Hemingway.
The Latin Americans and Europeans retort that the World Cup is meant to be a showcase for the best football in the world, and the best teams still come from football's traditional centres.
There was a huge roar from the crowd as the prince described St Andrews University as the best in world, and an 'Ahhh' when he said the couple's return felt like "coming home".
But all clinical research studies have to go through very strict ethical and regulatory checks before they get anywhere near a patient, and the UK has one of the best records world-wide for patient safety.
Eiji Toyoda, president and chairman of Toyota at the time, pressed his employees to produce a car that measured each part against the best in the world, including the best transmission and the best audio system, and to have a high fuel-efficiency rating to boot.
We've got the best colleges and universities in the world. (Applause.) We've got the best entrepreneurs in the world.
We have to make sure that we've got the best-trained workers in the world, we've got the best education system in the world.
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To those who consider the Model S the world's best car, I throw out this question: What's the world's best shoe?
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