Directed and produced by Timur Bekmambetov, it consisted of 18 history-themed spots with an average running time of one minute.
World Cup | FIFA World Cup | World Trade Center | World Series | 2010 FIFA World Cup | World Bank | World Health Organization | Guinness World Records | history | 1978 FIFA World Cup | World Series of Poker | Allies of World War II | BBC World Service | ATP World Tour 250 series | World Heritage Site | American Museum of Natural History | World Boxing Association | World Boxing Council | 2006 FIFA World Cup | Natural History Museum | History | World Wide Web | As the World Turns | World Trade Organization | ATP World Tour 250 Series | World Rally Championship | World Intellectual Property Organization | History (U.S. TV channel) | World Economic Forum | Western world |
The school offers various standard courses in the areas of English (aka. Writing, or Literature), Math (such as Algebra I, Geometry, Algebra II, Calculus, Trigonometry, et cetera), Science, (such as Biology or Chemistry), Social or Global Studies (with areas such as World History, US History, and Humanities), Physical Education and Health, as well as electives such as "Band", "Art", or "Choir".
The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created is a nonfiction book on world history and economics by American author William Bernstein.
Hugh Honour and John Fleming, A World History of Art, 1st edn.
He heads the project "Russia and Central Europe in the Middle Ages" in the World History Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Advanced Placement World History (also known as AP World History, WHAP, AP World, or APWH,) is a college-level course that is offered through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program, designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different types of human society.
He has taught courses in sports, American and world history at Flinders University; and Aboriginal history and sports journalism at the University of South Australia.
Approved by the United Nations in 1989, the Convention is the most widely ratified and most quickly ratified country in world history.
A graduate of San Beda College, Sanchez is a wide reader of books on public administration, philosophy, World Wars I and II, international parliamentary structures and world history.
Doc Frankenstein has since been involved in world history (flashbacks show him as a gunslinger in the Wild West, a soldier in World War II, a supporter of the teaching of evolution in 1925's Scopes Trial, and a supporter of Roe v. Wade in 1972).
Courses include chemistry, biology, marine biology, algebra, pre-calculus, calculus, statistics, Spanish, French, Latin, Mandarin, world history, American history, economics and English, various AP courses, and various electives in each category.
The letters were written to his young daughter Indira, and were meant to introduce her to world history.
Helene Jarmer (born on August 8, 1971), as a member of the National Council of Austria, is the third culturally Deaf person in world history to be elected to a national parliament (after Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen of South Africa who was elected to the South African Parliament in 1999, and Dimitra Arapoglou who was elected to the Greek Parliament in 2007).
He is of Lebanese Christian descent and is currently in semi-retirement, teaching courses in World History, Middle Eastern politics and international law at Concordia University, McGill University, University of Ottawa and Carleton University.
More recently, NCHS has developed materials for World History including World History for Us All: The Big Eras: A Compact History of Humankind for Teachers and Students with Ross E. Dunn, a professor emeritus and co-Director for World History.
Nostradamus has been credited, for the most part in hindsight, with predicting numerous events in world history, from the Great Fire of London, and the rise of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler, to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
In 2006, PCS's AP World History program (directed by teacher Tara Firenzi) won an award for being the best AP World History program in the nation.
For almost 40 years, Cox taught world history and comparative religion at the Sidwell Friends School in Bethesda, Maryland, and eventually became head of the school's history department.
However, the questions are very similar to the AP World History Exam, and it is recommended a student do significant outside study by reading a preparation book or AP Textbook if that student has not taken an AP course in World History.
Padover also authored Nehru on World History, published in 1960, condensed from Glimpses of World History by Jawaharlal Nehru.
So, on 30 January 1965, after his state funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral (the largest ever held in world history up to that point), London, his body was taken by train to nearby Hanborough railway station and thence to Bladon.
Kirkus Reviews has reservations though, "This ambitious, rambling synthesis of individual and world history, stylistically akin to work by Salman Rushdie and Günter Grass, nevertheless lacks their vigor and originality.
Mahoney wrote and edited several books, including The United States in World History (co-written with J. B. Rae) and a number of works on the life and thought of philosopher and statesman Edmund Burke.
Reflections on violence in Chinese fiction and real-world history, covering famous writers such as Lu Xun and Mao Dun as well as less-well-known ones from mainland China and Taiwan.
In fact, portrayals of Alexander in some high school and college world history text books still reflect Tarn more than anyone who has come after". Reames also saw Tarn's strong influence in Mary Renault's trilogy of historical novels about Alexander - though Renault's acknowledged Alexander's homo-erotic tendencies, while Tarn had regarded references to them in ancient sources as "defamations" which the Macedonian king had to be defended against.
He taught on the Great Books and Renaissance history at Michigan, world history at Xavier University of Louisiana, medieval history at Tulane, and early modern history and the philosophy of history at Georgia.
2003: Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900