It was the world's first beer fad, and porter breweries, bolstered by steam-age technology, grew to unprecedented size.
Under the British, who ruled Aden for 128 years, it was the world's largest port after New York.
It was the world's first publicly available microcomputer and ran on a microprocessor that Intel had invented in 1971.
"I don't think Randy would be half as excited if it was the World Series, " fellow co-owner and breeder Tom Flaherty said.
Ministers said it was the world's most ambitious set of public accounts.
For a time, Twitter suggested it was the world's most talked about subject, which is more an indication of its huge impact here.
It was the World Cup finalists' fourth successive defeat in 15 months at their home ground in front of a record 78, 808 crowd.
Understood or not, it was the world's good fortune that we were able to take on Saddam when we did: It was the right time, right place, right war.
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Burt, who had to have a theater renovated to accommodate the size and scope of the show since there was no suitable venue in the country, aims to take it to other cities around the world but believed it was important to have the world premiere in Cambodia.
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The prime minister said it was putting the world economy in a "precarious" situation and eurozone leaders had a "collective responsibility".
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It was a tremendous experience, but it was the sports world that called to him.
Olonga said he believed it was time the world started to take notice of what was happening in Zimbabwe.
Earlier this year at Mobile World Congress it introduced the Ascend D, claiming it was the fastest smartphone in the world.
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Fittingly, it was on the world stage that Mr de Villepin first truly seduced his compatriots.
It was the first World Cup women's race held at Meribel since 1994, and only the sixth ever.
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This year's MWC saw French firm Wysips unveil what it said was the world's first viable solar touch screen.
T-shirts advertising a new and rather obscure scientific-networking tool of dubious economic value: it was called the world wide web.
Truth be told, Brazil does not have much to show more than 45 months after it was awarded the World Cup.
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It was the first World Cup hat-trick since Portugal's Pauleta in 2002 and the first from an Argentine since Gabriel Batistuta in 1998.
After all, it was the developing world's refusal to countenance cuts that led America to turn its back on Kyoto in the first place.
It was because the world cartel backing the price went bankrupt.
Earlier, Justice Minister Tommy Lapid said it was good that the world was "rid" of Mr Arafat, whom he described as "the leader of terrorism against Israel".
Was it because he was bringing evil to the world through lying or was it something else?
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It was my baptism into the real world of finance, and it was here in the Goldman Sachs trading rooms at 20 Broad Street and then 55 Broad Street that I was trained to become the financial journalist I am today.
And at the time, it was the largest dam in the world. (Applause.) Even today, it stands as a testimony to American ingenuity, American imagination, the power of the American spirit -- a testimony to the notion we can do anything.
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Mr Sargeant reminded AM's that "businesses warned that it was the end of the world when minimum wage was brought in", and reassured members that introducing such policies "has to be measured by affordability".
The study was publicized widely throughout the world, but it was denounced by the European Union Food Safety Authority, rejected in a rare joint statement by the six French national scientific academies, and ridiculed by scores of scientists.
The organization's handling of her case also sparked widespread criticism over accusations that it was unclear what standards the world body was using to determine her gender.
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