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First World

Statistics like GNI, life expectancy, and educational attainment levels are combined to form a list of countries ranging from very high human development to low human development.


A Place Called Chiapas

In 1993, the Mexican Federal Government signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States, effectively communicating to the Mexican people that allowing unimpeded American business penetration of Mexico's economy would promote Mexico from the Third-World to the First-World.


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1917–18 Manchester United F.C. season

On 9 October 1917 while Fighting in France during the First World War, United former player Arthur Beadsworth was killed while serving as a Sergeant in the Seventh Battalion of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment of the British Army.

23rd Battalion

23rd Reserve Battalion, CEF, an infantry unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War

66th Punjabis

After the First World War, the 66th Punjabis were grouped with the 62nd, 76th, 82nd and 84th Punjabis, and the 1st Brahmans to form the 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922.

Alfred Renard

The same First World War forces Alfred Renard to suspend his study at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the "Faculté des sciences appliquées", just at a time when aviation makes great progress.

Anja Javoršek

In 2014, Javoršek took part in her first World Cup events in Planica, placing 26th and 25th (25 and 26 January 2014), after having achieved two top ten positions at the 2014 Alpen Cup in Predazzo.

Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum

The museum first opened shortly after the liberation of Minsk from the Nazi invaders, on 25 October 1944, making it the first World War II museum to open during the course of the war.

Berrick Salome

In 1965, Reginald Ernest Moreau (1897–1970), an eminent ornithologist, and a Berrick Salome resident from 1947, realized that he could build up a picture of the village as it had been in the decades before the First World War, based on the recollections of elderly villagers.

British women's literature of World War I

Literary historian David Trotter asserts that the addition of women’s writing helps provide a more encompassing, and thus, stronger picture of Britain’s involvement in the First World War.

Bullecourt 1917, Jean and Denise Letaille museum

In 2008, the Australian Department of Veterans Affairs wants to upgrade seven sites showing the Australian forces during the First World War (Ypres and Passchendaele in Belgium; Fromelles, Bullecourt, Mont-Saint-Quentin, Pozières and Villers-Bretonneux).

Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic

The new constitution was further influenced by the Czech humanist tradition (Jan Hus, Petr Chelčický, Jan Amos Komenský, František Palacký, František Rieger, Tomáš Masaryk) as well as the peace conferences which took place after the first world war.

Darryl Tyson

On August 15, 1986, he lost by unanimous decision in his first world title shot to Jimmy Paul for the IBF lightweight title.

David Ethan Kennerly

He localized Korea's first world, Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds, and designed the social system of Dark Ages: Online Roleplaying.

Diana Souhami

Edith Cavell, a biography of the nurse who was executed for her role in the smuggling of allied soldiers out of Belgium during the First World War.

Eddie Futch

Champions who worked under Futch's tutelage include Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes, Riddick Bowe, Michael Spinks, Alexis Arguello, Marlon Starling, Wayne McCullough, Montell Griffin, and his first world champion fighter, Don Jordan, who was crowned world welterweight champion in 1958.

Edmund Crosby Quiggin

However, with the outbreak of the First World War, Quiggin found himself in war service from 1915 to 1919, first in Boulogne and then in the Admiralty's Intelligence Division.

Edward Kinder Bradbury

Bradbury was an officer in the British Army during the First World War where as second-in-command of L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery he led the battery during an engagement at Néry during the Retreat from Mons on 1 September 1914, where he was killed in action.

Edwin Max

Max made his first World Championship debut in 2008 as a member of the BDO, losing in the first round to evantual finalist Simon Whitlock.

Eric Betts

Air Vice Marshal Eric Bourne Coulter Betts (1897-1971) began his career in the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War.

Ernest Deane

Like fellow international Basil Maclear, Deane was killed in action during the First World War, serving as a captain with the Royal Army Medical Corps, attached to the Leicestershire Regiment near Laventie.

Francis Lupo

He was killed in action near Soissons, France during the Army's first large-scale offensive operation of the First World War.

George Ellison

George Edwin Ellison (1878–1918), the last British soldier to be killed in the First World War

George Harper

George Montague Harper (1865–1922), British General during the First World War

Greywalls

It was leased after the First World War, and in 1924 it was purchased by Sir James Horlick, founder of Horlicks Ltd.

Henry Lamb

Lamb saw active service in the First World War in the Royal Army Medical Corps as an battalion medical officier with the 5th Battalion, The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and was awarded the Military Cross.

Henryk Korowicz

During the First World War, he served as an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army and, after Polish independence, in the Polish Army, during the Polish-Soviet War, on the Volhynia front.

Hippolyte Morestin

Morestin greatly influenced the British-New Zealand surgeon Harold Gillies, who met him on leave in Paris during the First World War.

Homburg–Neunkirchen railway

After the First World War the Saar came under the administration of the League of Nations.

Hospital train

Such trains were able to connect with hospital ships at French channel ports in order to repatriate wounded British soldiers during the first world war.

Hubert H. Peavey

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->During the First World War recruited Company D, Sixth Infantry, Wisconsin National Guard, and served as captain.

IAPCHE: the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education

Europe: The first world-wide conference in Europe was held in 1984 in Breukelen, the Netherlands.

John Hardy

Sir John Francis Gathorne-Hardy (1874–1949), British First World War General who served in Italy and the Western Front

Kimiko Zakreski

Zakreski got her first World Cup podium on the 2008-09 FIS Snowboard World Cup tour, finishing second in Limone Piemonte, Italy.

Ludwig Kübler

At the beginning of the First World War he was serving with the 15th Royal Bavarian Infantry Regiment "King Friedrich August of Saxony" at the Western Front and was involved in September 1914 fighting in Lorraine and around St Quentin as commander of a machine gun platoon.

Marcin Bachleda

He made his World Cup debut in February 2001 in Willingen, and collected his first World Cup points with a 28th place in January 2002 in Zakopane.

Nushibi

This alignment was opposed a coalition of two other powers, Persia and Eastern Turkic Kaganate, which brought about the first world wars of the 7th century Early Middle Ages.

Pietro Lazzari

After the end of the First World War Lazzari joined the Italian Futurist movement and exhibited with such artists as Giacomo Balla and Gino Severini.

Port Sunlight War Memorial

The founder of the village and employer of its residents, William Lever, was anxious to have a memorial to commemorate those of his workers who had been lost in the First World War.

Ranikhet

Maintained by the Kumaon and the Naga Regiment of the Indian Army, the museum has a wide collection ranging from stories of the heroics of the First World War till date.

Saira Elizabeth Luiza Shah

Her future husband, Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, who was descended from the Sadaat of Paghman, had settled in England before the first world war and she met him in Edinburgh during that war, where he was studying medicine at Edinburgh Medical School.

Simon Jecl

He made his World Cup debut in January 2008 in Les Contamines, and collected his first World Cup points in January 2009, with a 27th place in St. Johann in Tirol.

St Cuthbert's Church, Holme Lacy

In the north chapel is a window depicting Sir Galahad and Sir Bors to the memory of Sir Archibald Lucas-Tooth, 2nd Baronet who died in active service in the First World War in 1918.

Thieffry

Edmond Thieffry (1892–1929), Belgian First World War air ace and aviation pioneer

Underwater rugby

In 1978, underwater rugby was officially recognized by the World Underwater Federation CMAS, and from 28 to 30 April 1978, the first European Championships took place in Malmö, Sweden, and from 15 to 18 May 1980, the first World Championships in Mülheim.

Vernon Scannell

The family, always poor, moved frequently: Ballaghaderreen in Ireland, Beeston, Eccles, before settling in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, where his father, who had fought in the First World War, developed a reputation as a good portrait photographer and the family's severe financial difficulties began to ease.

Victor Child

While in England during the First World War he served with the Royal Flying Corps.

Victoria Tereshchuk

She claimed her first World Championship medal, silver, at the 2006 edition in Guatemala City, Guatemala, but then dropped to 34th and 26th the following year at the European and World Championships respectively.

Ville Larinto

Larinto made his World Cup debut in 2007-08, and picked up his first World Cup points in the Four Hills opener at Oberstdorf, Germany on 30 December 2007, when he finished 29th.

World record progression 1500 metres freestyle

The first world record in the men's 1500 metres freestyle in a long course (50 metres) swimming pool was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908.

World record progression 800 metres freestyle

The first world record in the men's 800 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908.