Its first outlet in China opened in January 1999 at the China World Trade Centre in Beijing.
The YSP, the first of its kind in the UK and the biggest in Europe, opened in 1977.
The company expanded overseas and in 1975 Marks and Spencer's first stores in opened in Paris and Brussels.
The Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond opened in 1788 and has its original boxes, box office and other features.
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the first of its kind in the UK and the biggest in Europe, opened in 1977.
Christ the King Centre for Learning in Huyton opened in 2009 under the government's Building Schools For the Future scheme.
Shares in Pfizer opened in the red after pre-market trading and worked their way to an intraday bottom, before bouncing up.
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It follows the JCB Academy in Staffordshire, which opened in 2010, and the Black Country UTC, sponsored by Siemens, which opened in 2011.
In other EMC big data news, it has opened in Israel its second EMC Labs location (the first was opened in China last year).
In looking at trends in the top 10, six films opened in North America in the late spring through summer window, which Hollywood views as its summer period.
Castlepoint in Bournemouth opened in 2003 but the car park has been held up by temporary props since 2005 when it was found to be unsafe.
Manufacturer Brother, which says it has made 5.9 million typewriters since its factory in Wrexham opened in 1985, has donated the last machine to London's Science Museum.
In December they opened in Santa Monica, advertising in newspapers.
The Duckmill Weir White Water Arena on the River Great Ouse in Bedford opened in May 2012 after permanent slalom uprights, lines and gates were added to the Duck Mill weir.
The first Blockbuster store in the UK opened in south London in 1989, and the firm has sought to expand its services in recent years, including with a trade-in facility for pre-owned titles.
They range from the inviting and informative Museo del Vino (Wine Museum) that opened in 2008 to the much-lauded Museo Picasso, opened in 2003 and housed in a former palace complete with Roman ruins in the basement.
Doc Cheng's units are in Raffles hotels in Bangkok and Hamburg, while Jaan's have opened in Raffles in London, Beverly Hills and Montreux, Switzerland.
When an American-style drive-in movie theatre opened in the north-eastern outskirts of Beijing in 1998, it was tempting to imagine young urban Chinese using their new cars as a tool for dating.
In a new store that opened in lower Manhattan in April, 34 of the 160 employees have already started their climb up the company ladder.
The tower, which forms part of the Glasgow Science Centre complex in Govan, was opened in a blaze of publicity in 2001.
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Mukhtiar Singh, a Sikh with a trademark passion for sports, ran two successful sporting goods stores in Indonesia and in 1969 opened a small buying office in Singapore to be closer to regional distributors.
The New Art Gallery in Walsall, which opened in 2000, is one that struggled in its early years.
Stores were opened in neighboring countries Norway and Denmark before the company opened in Switzerland (1973) and Germany (1974).
The cinema screen "as high as four double-decker buses" in the building opened in 2002.
El Diablo Tranquilo, one of the pioneer hostels in town, opened in 2007.
The perfumer's flagship store in Oman, opened in 2008, is a contemporary rendition of an Omani-style house, complete with Arabic touches.
The 80-hectare (200-acre) site in Louisiana was opened in 2005 as a retirement home for research chimps that were no longer needed.
The first hotel, the 100-room IndiOne in Bangalore, opened in June 2004.
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