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World Health Assembly The World Health Assembly is the forum through which the World Health Organization (WHO) is governed by its 192 member states. It is the world's highest health policy setting body and is composed of health ministers from member states.
World Health Organization The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that acts as a coordinating authority on international public health, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. Established on 7 April 1948, the agency inherited the mandate and resources of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been an agency of the League of Nations.
World Heavyweight Championship The World Heavyweight Championship is the name given to a number of unrelated titles, meant to emphasize the top championship of boxing, professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, or other similar sports and performance arts.
World Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association) The National Wrestling Association version of the World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Association (NWA), an offshoot of the National Boxing Association (NBA). The title existed from 1929 through 1949, when it was unified with the National Wrestling Alliance's World Heavyweight Championship.
World Heavyweight Championship (Omaha) The Omaha version of the World Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by promoters in and around Omaha, Nebraska, who chose to recognize Édouard Carpentier as world heavyweight champion following his win over NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz on June 14, 1957, in Chicago due to a back injury suffered by Thesz during the match. The NWA continued to recognize Thesz as their champion.
World Hepatitis Awareness Day World Hepatitis Awareness Day 2006, observed on Sunday October 1, has been designated by hepatitis patient associations around the world as a day on which to raise awareness about hepatitis and demand action to curb the spread of the disease and treat people who are infected.
World Heritage Site A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a specific site (such as a forest, mountain, lake, desert, monument, building, complex, or city) that has been nominated and confirmed for inclusion on the list maintained by the international World Heritage Programme administered by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, composed of 21 State Parties (countries) which are elected by the General Assembly of States Parties for a fixed term. (This is similar to the United Nations Security Council.
World Heritage Sites in Scotland World Heritage Sites in Scotland are specific locations that have been included in the UNESCO World Heritage Programme list of sites of outstanding cultural or natural importance to the common heritage of humankind. Historic Scotland is responsible for 'cultural' sites as part of their wider responsibility towards the historic environment.
World Heroes World Heroes is a fighting game series that was created by ADK for the Neo-Geo, though some of the games in the series were also ported to the Sega Saturn, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and Game Boy. The general premise was that a scientist, Dr.
World Hockey Association The World Hockey Association (French: Association Mondiale de Hockey) was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979. It was the first major competition for the National Hockey League since the collapse of the Western Hockey League after the 1925-26 WHL season.
World Hockey Association 2 The World Hockey Association 2 was an ice hockey league created at the instigation of the organizers of the proposed recreated World Hockey Association to serve as its development league. The WHA2 teams – some of which had played the 2002-03 season in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League – were all in the southeastern United States.
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award The World Horror Convention Grand Master Award is a yearly distinction given to an author who has contributed greatly to the field of horror literature. Nominees must be alive at the time of voting and can not have previously won the award.
World Humanist Day World Humanist Day is a Humanist holiday celebrated annually around the world on June 21st. According to the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), the day is a way of spreading awareness of Humanism as a philosophical life stance and means to effect change in the world.
World Hunger Year World Hunger Year (WHY) is an organization that seeks to address the root causes of hunger and poverty. WHY was founded in 1975 by folk singer Harry Chapin, a social activist who was as well known for his humanitarian efforts as for his guitar ballads.
World Hunting Association The World Hunting Association was founded in 2006 with the aim of organizing professional deer hunting competitions. The hunts were to be conducted in a fenced 1000 acre (4 km²) ranch and would involve the use of Rifles, muzzleloaders and archery equipment.
World Hurdle The World Hurdle is a Grade 1 National Hunt horse race in the United Kingdom for four-year-old and above horses run over a distance of 3 miles (4,828 metres) on the New Course at Cheltenham Racecourse during the Cheltenham Festival in March. There are twelve hurdles to be jumped in the race.
World championship tour (WCT) surfing World Championship Tour Surfing is the embodiment the top tier of the ASP's two-tier system. The WCT has ruined surfing by taking a lifestyle and trying to make it into a competitive, soulless, spectator sport that tries to objectify a subjective artform.
World Championship in Composing for Individuals The World Championship in Composing for Individuals (WCCI) is a triennial competition of the individual composers of chess problems organised by FIDE via the Permanent Commission of the FIDE for Chess Compositions (PCCC).
World Championship Soccer 2 World Championship Soccer 2 is one of the many typical football/ soccer games released on the highly successful SEGA Mega Drive system in the 1990's. Released in 1994, the original game came in the well recognised blue-bordered style boxes that are common to many of the late-release SEGA Mega Drive releases.
World Championship Tennis WCT (World Championship Tennis) used to be a tour for professional male tennis players established in 1967. A number of tennis tournaments around the world were affiliated to WCT and players were ranked in a special WCT ranking according to their results in those tournaments.
World Championship Wrestling World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion which, in its proper form, existed from 1988 to 2001. Although the name "World Championship Wrestling" had been used as a brand and television show name by various National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)-affiliated promotions (most notably Georgia Championship Wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions) since 1983, it was not until five years later that an actual NWA-affiliated promotion called World Championship Wrestling appeared on the national scene, under the ownership of Atlanta, Georgia-based media mogul Ted Turner.
World Championship Wrestling Of America World Championship Wrestling Of America (WCWA) is an independent professional wrestling promotion created in 2003 that is owned by Rob and Amanada Reeder. It is one of the leading Indiana independent companies and usually holds a show every two to three months.
World Championship Wrestling: Sunday Edition World Championship Wrestling: Sunday Edition was an hour-long Sunday evening edition of TBS' Saturday night wrestling shows, Georgia Championship Wrestling and NWA World Championship Wrestling. It began in the 1970s to compliment GCW, which by 1984 had been renamed World Championship Wrestling.
World Championships of Performing Arts The World Championships of Performing Arts is a competition held annually in Los Angeles, California judging competators in acting, singing, dancing, modeling, instrumentalists, and variety artists. Founded by Griff O'Neil, over time there have been over 50,000 applicants and 47 countries have been involved.
World Christian Conference The World Christian Conference (WCC) is an annual conference that is held near Santa Cruz, California. The purpose is to mobilize Christians to become strategically involved in God's plan to make disciples of all nations.
World Christian Fundamentals Association World Christian Fundamentals Association, religious organization founded in 1919 by the Baptist minister William Bell Riley of the First Baptist Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. The group was the earliest and most influential of the Adamist leagues, but was crippled in 1924 when an accident laid up Riley for six months.
World in Action World in Action was an investigative current affairs series produced by Granada Television in the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1998. It frequently took risks that other similar series would not have taken, and gained a reputation for unorthodox thought and campaigning journalism in the finest Mancunian tradition.
World in Conflict World in Conflict is a real-time tactic game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment. The game is set in 1989, where economic troubles, similar to the ones that occurred in real-life, cripple the Soviet Union to the extent where it must risk nuclear armageddon to stay in power.
World in Flames World in Flames is a board wargame designed by Harry Rowland and released in 1985 by the Australian Design Group. It is currently in its 7th edition, World in Flames - Final Edition, each new edition featuring changes to the rules, maps and counters provided with the game.
World in Motion "World in Motion" is, as of 2006, New Order's only single to reach number 1 in the UK Top 40. The song was released under the name Englandneworder, and was produced for the England football team's 1990 World Cup campaign.
World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships The World Individual Debating and Public Speaking Championships is a high profile annual English language debating and public speaking tournament for individual high school level students representing different countries. All competitors must take part in four events: parliamentary debate, impromptu speaking, interpretive reading and either persuasive speaking or after-dinner speaking.
World Indoor Lacrosse Championship The inaugural World Indoor Lacrosse Championship was held in Hamilton, Kitchener, Mississauga, and Oshawa, Ontario, Canada in May 2003. National teams from Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, the Iroquois Nation, Scotland and the United States participated.
World Institute of Scientology Enterprises World Institute of Scientology Enterprises (WISE) is an organization that educates and assists businesses in the use of Scientology management methods and techniques. It uses what it calls "standard admin" (administration), which comprises a fairly large volume of information.
World Institute on Disability The World Institute on Disability (WID) is an international public policy center that advocates for the civil rights of people with disabilities and pushes for public policies that promote full inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
World Intellectual Property Day World Intellectual Property Day is observed annually on April 26. The event was established by the World Intellectual Property Organization in 2001 to "raise awareness of the role of intellectual property in our daily lives, and to celebrate the contribution made by innovators and artists to the development of societies across the globe" April 26 was chosen as this was the date on which the Convention Establishing the World Intellectual Property Organization] entered into force in [[1970.
World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty The World Intellectual Property Organization Copyright Treaty, abbreviated as the WIPO Copyright Treaty, was an international treaty on copyright law adopted by the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 1996. It provides additional protections for copyright deemed necessary by knowledge monopoly dependent industries due to advances in information technology since the formation of previous copyright treaties before it.
World Intellectual Wealth Organisation A World Intellectual Wealth Organisation (WIWO) has been proposed as an alternative to the World Intellectual Property Organization. It would be dedicated to the research and promotion of novel and imaginative ways to encourage the production and dissemination of knowledge in ways that enrich everyone.
World Islamic Front The World Islamic Front is the organization that issued the World Islamic Front Statement of 23 February 1998, "Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders" "Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders". World Islamic Front Statement.
World Jiu-Jitsu Championship The World Jiu-Jitsu Championship or Campeonato Mundial de Jiu-Jitsu (commonly Mundials) is one of the most prestigious Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu (BJJ) tournament in the world. They are hosted annually in Brazil by the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation.
World Journal World Journal (Chinese: 世界日報; pinyin: shì jiè rì bào) is a daily Chinese language newspaper serving overseas Chinese in North America. It is published in the cities Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Houston in the United States.
World Journal (Toronto) The World Journal (世界日報) is a Chinese language newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario. The paper originally catered to Taiwanese Canadian readers, using transliterations used in Taiwan for foreign names.
World Journalism Institute The World Journalism Institute (WJI) was founded by Robert Case in 1999. WJI is a journalism school whose mission is to recruit, equip, place and encourage journalists who are Christians in the mainstream newsrooms of America.
World Juggling Federation The World Juggling Federation (WJF) is a juggling organisation founded in 2000 by Jason Garfield which began to gain popularity in 2003 when ESPN showed an interest in televising a juggling competition. Its highest profile event is the WJF convention hosted in Las Vegas and shown on ESPN2.
World Junior A Challenge The World Junior A Challenge (WJAC) is an international ice hockey tournament sponsored by Hockey Canada, the Canadian Junior A Hockey League, and the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Championship is to display the best-of-the-best at the Tier II Junior "A" level.
World Junior A Challenge 2006 The World Junior A Challenge 2006 was an international Tier II Junior "A" ice hockey tournament hosted by Hockey Canada. The 2006 World Junior A Challenge was hosted by the Canadian City of Yorkton, Saskatchewan.
World Junior Figure Skating Championships The World Junior Figure Skating Championships is an annual event sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which younger figure skaters compete for the title of World Junior Champion. The ISU guidelines for junior eligibility have varied throughout the years; the current requirements are for the competitor to have reached the age of 13 by the previous July 1st, but not yet 19, except for men competing in pair skating and ice dancing, where the upper limit is 21.
World Junior Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association) The National Wrestling Association World Junior Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Association, an offshoot of the National Boxing Association, and was contested for by wrestlers weighing between 175 lb (79 kg) and 190 lb (86 kg). The title existed from 1936 through 1949, when it was unified with the National Wrestling Alliance's version of the championship.
World Junior Ice Hockey Championships The World Junior Ice Hockey Championship, (WJHC, formally the IIHF World U-20 Hockey Championship) is an annual event organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation for national under-20 ice hockey teams from around the world. It is traditionally held in late December, ending in the beginning of January.
World Junior Wushu Championships The World Junior Wushu Championships (WJWC) is an international wushu competition organised by the International Wushu Federation (IWUF) for competitors (both male and female) below 18 years of age. There are two categories for the taolu events - under 15 and under 18 years of age.
World Karate Federation The World Karate Federation, or WKF, is the international governing body of the sport of karate. It is the only karate federation recognised by the International Olympic Committee, and it has more than ten million members.
World Karate Union World Karate Union (WKU): The World Karate Union Hall Of Fame was established in 1996 as a means to honor Martial Artists for their unselfish contributions to the Martial Arts. While some names are more recognizable than others all are deserving of respect and acknowledgement.
World Kick Boxing Association The World Kick Boxing Association (WKBA) is the first professional kick boxing organization which was founded by Osamu Noguchi who is a founder of kickboxing. WKBA is different from WKA (World Kickboxing Association).
World leadership forum The World Leadership Forum, located in London, England, is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation which promotes leadership internationally - especially in the areas of science, technology, education, communication and the arts - by spotlighting the work of exceptional leaders and achievers in a host of disciplines.
World literature World literature refers to literature from all over the world, including American literature, European literature, Latin American literature, Asian literature, African literature, Arabic literature and so on. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur in 1827 to describe the growing availability of texts from other nations.
World Lacrosse Championship The World Lacrosse Championship (WLC) began as a four-team invitational tournament which coincided with Canada's centennial lacrosse celebration in 1967. It is sanctioned by the International Lacrosse Federation.
World Land Trust The World Land Trust (originally the World Wide Land Conservation Trust) is a UK-based nonprofit environmental organization established in 1989. Its primary aims are to ensure conservation of plants, animals and natural communities in areas at risk .
World Laughter Day World Laughter Day takes place on the first Sunday in May. The first celebration was on January 11, 1998, in Mumbai, India, and was arranged by Dr Madan Kataria, founder of the worldwide Laughter Yoga movement.
World Leader Pretend World Leader Pretend is a five-person rock band from New Orleans, featuring Keith Ferguson (vocals/guitar/keyboards), Parker Hutchinson (keyboards), Matt Martin (guitar), Arthur Mintz (drums), and Alex Smith (bass). The band formed in 2002, and their name comes from the 5th track of the album Green by R.
World Leadership Award The World Leadership Awards are prepared by the World Leadership Forum and presented to city leaders who have shown exceptional imagination, foresight or resilience in a number of key fields, especially cities that have reversed trends, shaken off traditional images and acted as an example and inspiration to others.
World Leadership Awards The World Leadership Awards are prepared by the World Leadership Forum and presented to city leaders who have shown exceptional imagination, foresight or resilience in a number of key fields - especially cities that have reversed trends, shaken off traditional images, and acted as an example and inspiration to others.
World Leadership Forum The World Leadership Forum, located in London, England, is a not-for-profit non-governmental organisation which promotes leadership internationally - especially in the areas of science, technology, education, communication and the arts - by spotlighting the work of exceptional leaders and achievers in a host of disciplines.
World League of American Football The World League of American Football (WLAF) was founded in 1990 with support from the NFL to play semi-professional American Football in North America, Europe and later possibly Asia. This came after the NFL had played popular American Bowls in London's Wembley Stadium and elsewhere since 1986.
World Light Heavyweight Championship (National Wrestling Association) The National Wrestling Association World Light Heavyweight Championship was a professional wrestling championship sanctioned by the National Wrestling Association, an offshoot of the National Boxing Association (NBA), and was contested for with a weight limit of 175 lb (79 kg). The title existed from 1930 through 1952.
World medical systems Around the world there are many medical systems. Non-western systems are often labelled "alternative" or "complementary" in the West, but in their home nations they are usually regarded as traditional.
World music market The global music market consists of the record companies, labels and publishers that distribute recorded music products internationally and that often control the rights to those products. Some music labels are "independent," while others are subsidiaries of larger corporate entities or international media groups.
World Marathon Majors The World Marathon Majors is a championship style competition that will start in 2006 including the New York City, Boston, Chicago, London and Berlin marathons. The championship will also include Olympic and world-championship marathons.
World Masterpiece Theater was a Japanese TV anime staple that showcased each year an animated version of a different classical book or story, which originally aired from 1975 to 1997 then resumed on 2007. It was produced by Nippon Animation, with it airing primarily on Fuji Television. Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata both worked on several of the series. The World Masterpiece Theater lasted for 23 seasons, from A Dog of Flanders in 1975 to Remi, Nobody's Girl (家なき子レミ, Ie Naki Ko Remi, Sans Famille) in 1997. It restarted again in 2007 by Nippon Animation with the release of Les Misérables: Shōjo Cosette, premiered across BS Fuji from January 7, 2007.
World Masters Games The World Masters Games is an international multi-sport tournament for athletes of ages beyond young adulthood. The games are held every 4 years, and are sponsored by the International Masters Games Association.
World Mayor World Mayor is a now annual award organized by City Mayors, which intends to raise the profile of mayors worldwide, as well as honour those who have served their communities well and who have contributed to the well-being of cities, nationally and internationally. The organizers make it plain that the award has no connection with any city or organization and is run on strictly non-commercial lines.
World Medical Association The World Medical Association (WMA), an international organization of physicians, was formally established on 17 September 1947, pursuant to deliberations and decisions taken in the First General Assembly of WMA held in Paris, France. Currently, the WMA has a membership of 80 National Medical Associations mission statement of the World Medical Association is:
World Memory Championships The World Memory Championships is an organized competition of mental sports in which competitors memorize as much information as possible within a given period of time The Championship has taken annually since 1990]. The first winner was [[Dominic O'Brien.
World Mental Health Day World Mental Health Day (October 10), is a global mental health education, awareness and advocacy project of World Federation for Mental Health, a global mental health organization with members and contacts in more than 150 countries.
World Meteorological Organization The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is an intergovernmental organization with a membership of 187 Member States and Territories. It originated from the International Meteorological Organization (IMO), which was founded in 1873.
World Middleweight Championship (National Wrestling Association) The National Wrestling Association (NWA) World Middleweight Championship was a professional wrestling title sanctioned by the National Wrestling Association, an offshoot of the National Boxing Association (NBA). The title existed from 1928 through 1940, and is said to have connecting lineage to what would become the National Wrestling Alliance's World Middleweight Championship.
World Misanthropy DVD World Misanthropy is a compilation album by the Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir. It is a limited edition with three DVD's containing live footage, interviews, media, behind the scenes cuts and pictures.
World Modern Arnis Alliance The World Modern Arnis Alliance or WMAA is a martial arts organization dedicated to teaching the art of the late Remy Presas, Modern Arnis. The organization incorporates Balintawak influences in its teachings also.
World Monuments Fund The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic art and architecture worldwide through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training. Since 1965, the New York-based World Monuments Foundation has worked with local communities and partners to stem the loss of more than 420 irreplaceable sites in 80 countries including the temple of Preah Khan at Angkor.
World Motor Sport Council The FIA World Motor Sport Council is the governing body of all international motorsport activities regulated by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. It is also responsible for the promotion of safety in worldwide motorsport, the encouragement of standardized regulations, and the promotion of motorsport in new markets, including developing countries.
World Movement for Democracy World Movement for Democracy is an international network of organizations which share a common goal of promoting democracy. Its missions is to "to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition.
World Movies World Movies is an Australian cable channel that broadcasts foreign films, usually subtitled, on Foxtel, Austar, and Optus Television. Digital subscribers and those with wide-screen televisions have the opportunity to watch the films broadcast in widescreen.
World Museum Liverpool World Museum Liverpool is a large museum in Liverpool, England which has extensive collections covering archaeology, ethnology and the natural and physical sciences. Special attractions include the Natural History Centre and a free Planetarium.
World Music Award The World Music Awards (founded in 1989) is an international awards show that annually honors recording artists based on their popularity, and worldwide sales figures, which are provided by the various organisations including record companies and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).
World Naked Bike Ride World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international event in which participants plan, meet and ride together en masse on human-powered transport (the vast majority on bicycles, and fewer on skateboards, roller blades, roller skates) to "protest oil dependency and celebrate the power and individuality of our bodies".
World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry The World Network of Users and Survivors of Psychiatry (WNUSP), originally founded in 1991 as the World Federation of Psychiatric Users (WFPU), is an international organisation of recipients of mental health services. WNUSP is dedicated to protecting the human rights, self-determination and dignity of all users and survivors of psychiatric treatment throughout the world.
World Neverland Plus 2 World Neverland Plus 2 - Puruto Republic Story This is a game of human relations. The player starts of at the lowest level of existence, as you meet people, you attempt to progress to move up the ladder of life.
World News Tonight (UK TV series) The show featured in-depth reports, analysis and comment based around news stories from around the world (which may or may not have been part of the channel's news coverage earlier in the day), and was presented by James Rubin.
World Nuclear Association The World Nuclear Association (WNA), formerly the Uranium Institute, is a confederation of companies connected with nuclear power production. Its members come from all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining, uranium conversion, uranium enrichment, nuclear fuel fabrication, plant manufacture, transport, and the disposition of used nuclear fuel as well as power generation itself.
World of Coca-Cola The World of Coca-Cola is a permanent exhibition featuring the history of Coca-Cola and its well-known advertising. It is located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, adjacent to Underground Atlanta and is run by The Coca-Cola Company, whose world headquarters is located on nearby North Avenue.
World of Darkness The World of Darkness (or WoD) is the name given to two distinct fictional universes developed by White Wolf Game Studio. Both World of Darkness settings have been used for several horror fiction-themed role-playing games that make use of the Storytelling System.
World of Labor Institute The Instituto del Mundo del Trabajo (Spanish for World of Labor Institute) is and Argentine labor research institute, with offices in Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and other cities. Its current chairman is Julio Godio.
World of Motion World of Motion (October 1, 1982–January 2, 1996), sponsored by General Motors "GM’s World of Motion Exhibit opens in Epcot Center at Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Before the year is out, the one millionth visitor to the exhibit is recorded.
World of Music, Arts and Dance World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD) is a festival started in Shepton Mallet, England in 1982. The festival was pioneered by Peter Gabriel and various other including Stephen Pritchard, through their interest in sharing and celebrating world music, arts and dance.
World of Our Own World of Our Own is the third album by Irish boyband Westlife, released on 12 November 2001 (see 2001 in music). It reached number one in the UK and includes the singles "Uptown Girl", "When You're Looking Like That", "Queen of My Heart", "World of Our Own" and "Bop Bop Baby".
World of Outlaws The World of Outlaws (often abbreviated WoO) is an American sanctioning body. It is best known for sanctioning a national tour of sprint cars, although it also sanctions a national tour of late model stockcars.
World of Oz The World of Oz were a British psychedelic pop group who released a sole self-titled LP in 1968, before fading into relative obscurity, although CD re-issues of the album are now widely available. Their song 'The Muffin Man' was a minor hit in the UK and US, and reached the Top 10 in a number of European countries, including Holland and Belgium.
World of Ptavvs World of Ptavvs is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven, first published in 1968 and set in his Known Space universe. This was the first novel Niven published and is based on a 1965 short story of the same name.
World of Spectrum World of Spectrum is a website devoted to cataloging and archiving material for the ZX Spectrum home computer popular in the 1980s. The site contains an extensive database of information about games, utilities, books, hardware, etc.
World of Springfield Between December 1999 to December 2004, Playmates Toys released arguably the longest running contiguous series of figures; and the largest depth of characters in one scale from a single TV series, 'The Simpsons'.
World of Stupid Worid of Stupid is a television series currently airing on the Fox Reality network in the United States, and on the Razer network in Canada. The show is seemingly inspired by the American television series Jackass.
World of Tiers The World of Tiers novels are a series of connected science fiction/fantasy novels by Philip José Farmer. These are set within a series of artificially-constructed universes, created and ruled by decadent beings (who are genetically identical to humans, but who regard themselves as superior), who are the inheritors of an advanced technology they no longer understand.

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