Before November 2001 The World Factbook website was updated yearly ; from 2004 to 2010 it was updated every two weeks ; since 2010 it has been updated weekly.

" Generally, comics are not allowed to include such words as " damn ", " sucks ", " screwed " and " hell ", although there have been exceptions such as the September 22, 2010 Mother Goose and Grimm in which an elderly man says, " This nursing home food sucks ," and a pair of Pearls Before Swine comics from January, 2011 with a character named Ned using the word " crappy ".

* Before the 2010 season, the left field lower seating bowl was water-proofed and seats replaced.

Before July 1, 2010, students were required to enroll in a student union, nation or AF in order to receive grades at the university, but this is no longer compulsory.

Before the start of the 2010 – 11 season the NBA had an exciting summer with one of the most anticipated free agent classes of all time.

He is famous for his dark, quirky-themed movies such as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 9 and Dark Shadows, and for blockbusters such as Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Batman, Batman Returns, Planet of the Apes, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland, which was the second highest-grossing film of 2010, and the twelfth highest-grossing film of all time.

Before 2010, the earliest known fossil prawns come from rocks in Madagascar of Permo-Triassic age,.

Before the 2010 regulations, the complete list of the actual and theoretical varieties also included Pinot de Juillet and Pinot Rosé.

Before 10 October 2010, the Vaalserberg was the highest point in the Netherlands, until upon the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles when Mount Scenery on Saba ( the highest point in the Kingdom of the Netherlands ) became part of the Netherlands.

Before the earthquake of February 27, 2010, which measured 8. 8 on the moment magnitude scale, the last catastrophic earthquake to strike Valparaíso devastated the city in August 1906, killing nearly 3, 000 people.

Before July 2010, professional registration of psychologists was governed by various State and Territory Psychology Registration Board.

Before their 2010 Stanley Cup victory, the team had not won the Cup since.

Before Corey Haim's death in 2010, they did a reality TV show for two seasons ( 2007 – 08 ) on A & E named The Two Coreys after their 1980s moniker.

Before 2010, commissioners were elected on a nonpartisan basis, but Sullivan County's commission election became a partisan election in 2010 after the county Republican Party decided to conduct a primary election for commission seats.

Before the 2010 United Kingdom general election it was divided into three constituencies contained wholly within the borough-Brent South, Brent East and Brent North.

Before it was cancelled by President Barack Obama in early 2010, the Constellation Program had been a major activity in NASA since 2004.

Before 2010 residents were zoned to Pike Middle School.

Before 2010, the CDP was divided, with a portion of it becoming Burke Centre CDP ; the population remaining in the Burke CDP was reported at 41, 055 in the 2010 census.

Before being fully integrated in the 2011 season, it was also used in 2010 races at Michigan International Speedway, Richmond International Raceway and Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Before the 2010 census, it had been the second-most populous city in the district.

Before the start of the 2010 / 11 academic year, Physiotherapy became a part of the School of Medicine, having previously been run by the School of Biomedical and Health Sciences.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 19 082 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 148 000 in 1950.

Despite pronouncements at the highest levels of government on the importance of free competition, Armenia is next to last in the effectiveness of its anti-monopoly policy according to the 2010 results of the World Economic Forum Global Competitiveness Report.

With the Armenian government needing more anti-crisis loans from the World Bank and other foreign donors, the debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to exceed 40 percent in 2010.

* According to Internet World Stats, Internet penetration in June 2010 was 47. 5 %.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 2 007 000 in 2010, compared to only 413 000 in 1950.

Bulgaria is an industrialised upper-middle-income country according to the World Bank with a gross national income per capita of US $ 6, 280 in 2010.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 16 469 000 in 2010, compared to only 4 284 000 in 1950.

According to the 2010 revison of the World Population Prospects the total population was 8 383 000 in 2010, compared to only 2 456 000 in 1950.

Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2010

The Bluetooth SIG announced the start of the second Innovation World Cup on 1 June 2010, with a focus on applications for the sports & fitness, health care, and home information and control markets.

On 7 September 2008 he took part in Soccer Aid 2008, and on 6 June 2010 in Soccer Aid 2010, playing for the Rest of the World vs a team of England celebrities and ex pros.

Bud United ’ s first efforts were centered around the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Bacardí 8, for example, received two gold medals and a silver from the San Francisco World Spirits Competition between 2008 and 2010.

In addition, it received the International High Quality Trophy at Monde Selection's World Quality Selections in 2010, and a Grand Gold Medal in 2011.

Bacardí Gold, Bacardí 8, and Bacardí Reserva Limitada were also awarded International High Quality Trophy awards at the 2010 Monde Selection ’ s World Quality Selections.

* Vuvuzela ( simple short horn, origins disputed but achieved fame or notoriety through many plastic examples in the 2010 World Cup )

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Irina Krush ( born December 24, 1983 ) is an American chess player who has won the U. S. Women's Chess Championship in 1998, 2007, 2010, and 2012.

In 2010, Judit began her return to competitive chess and would play more than she had in recent years.

In April 2010, Polgár played an eight-game rapid chess match against Czech GM David Navara which was part of the ČEZ Chess Trophy 2010 festival of the Prague Chess Society.

Polgár participated in the rapid chess tournament of the Presidential Chess Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan from April 29 to May 1, 2010.

* 1911 – Andor Lilienthal, Hungarian chess player ( d. 2010 )

* 1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player ( d. 2010 )

* 1932 – Larry Evans, American chess grandmaster and journalist ( d. 2010 )

* March 24 – Vasily Smyslov, Soviet chess player ( died 2010 )

* March 4 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player ( d. 2010 )

In the Museum of Modern Art retrospective ( 2010 ), it was suggested that the pieces of the mirror falling into the ocean waves set up At Land ( 1944 ) as a direct sequel, while Deren's last scene in the latter film ( running with her hands up with a chess piece in one of them ) is then echoed by a scene in Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ), with that character still running.

He has also won the two strongest tournaments ( by rating strength ) in chess history: the 2009 Mikhail Tal Memorial and the 2010 Grand Slam Masters Final.

Kramnik began 2010 at the Corus chess tournament in the Netherlands, during which he defeated new world number-one Carlsen with the Black pieces in their head-to-head encounter, ending Carlsen's 36-match unbeaten streak.

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010 ) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster, and was World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.

Despite failing eyesight, he remained active in the occasional composition of chess problems and studies until shortly before his death in 2010.

On 24 December 2010 Anand was guest of honour on the grounds of Gujarat university, Ahmedabad, where 20, 486 players created a new world record of simultaneous chess play at single venue.

This has made him a well-liked figure throughout the chess world for two decades, evidenced by the fact that Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, and Magnus Carlsen, of whom the former two were rivals for the World Championship throughout Anand's career, each aided him in preparing for the World Chess Championship 2010.

* Stockfish UCI chess engine ranking second in Elo as of 2010

He was the President of the Republic of Kalmykia in the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2010, and he has been the President of FIDE ( or the " World Chess Federation "), the world's pre-eminent international chess organization, since 1995.

Jørgen Bent Larsen ( 4 March 19359 September 2010 ) was a Danish chess Grandmaster and author.

Topalov won the 2010 Linares chess tournament held from February 13 to 24 in Andalusia, Spain, defeating 2009 Chess World Cup champion Boris Gelfand in his final game.

On 1 January 2010 the new FIDE rating list was published, and at the age of, he became the youngest chess player in history to be ranked world number one, breaking the record previously held by Vladimir Kramnik.

The hotel opened on September 15, 2010 and closed on October 5, 2010 after all the chess players had left.