On July 21, 1989, Mr. T. made an appearance in World Class Championship Wrestling, seconding Kerry Von Erich.

In February 1986, promoter Fritz Von Erich withdrew World Class Championship Wrestling ( WCCW ) from the NWA in a bid to become a national promotion.

During his reign, Lawler feuded with World Class Championship Wrestling's Champion Kerry Von Erich.

During WCCW's golden years ( 1981 – 1985 ), the company was booked for the most part by Ken Mantell, with David Von Erich, Gary Hart, Bruiser Brody and ( after David's death ) Kevin Von Erich being the go-to people to keep the success of World Class going.

By then, the promotion had switched to the World Class name and was centered around Fritz's sons, Kevin, David, Kerry, and later, Mike Von Erich.

Kevin Von Erich later defeated Black Bart for the World Class heavyweight title at the Cotton Bowl, and hold that belt for nearly a year.

In an attempt to keep World Class hot, by means of running long-term angles, Brian Adias, who was billed as the childhood friend of the Von Erichs ( which is legitimate, since Brian grew up with the Adkissons in Denton and also went to high school with Kerry ), began a storyline with them by turning heel against Mike Von Erich during a match, then eventually began feuding with Kevin Von Erich later on.

This event, which drew over 10, 000 fans the previous three years, drew less than that amount for the 1987 event, which featured Kevin Von Erich defending the World Class title against Nord The Barbarian, who in actuality was a protégé of Bruiser Brody's.

Headlining for Mantell's group were such former World Class stars as Fabulous Lance ( formerly Lance Von Erich, who by then had walked out on Fritz in a dispute over money ), Wild Bill Irwin, The Missing Link, Buddy Roberts, Brian Adias, Jack Victory, Tatum and Parsons.

Kerry Von Erich also returned to World Class, wrestling with a prosthetic foot, and during a November card at the Sportatorium, he interfered in a match between his brother Kevin and Brian Adias.

Afterwards, World Class promoted the renewed Freebird-Von Erich rivalry pitting Terry Gordy, Buddy Roberts, King Parsons and The Angel of Death against Kevin and Kerry Von Erich and Chris Adams, with Steve or Shaun Simpson also helping to even the odds.

Meanwhile, Kerry Von Erich won the World Class title from Perez ; and lost it to Iceman Parsons following an infamous incident during a March 1988 card in which the lights at the Sportatorium went out during the match, and when the lights returned, Kerry was down on the mat, with Parsons pinning him.

In the summer of 1988, the major storyline pitted Michael Hayes and Steve Cox against the Samoan Swat Team, managed by Buddy Roberts ; along with a series of bouts between Jerry Lawler and Kerry Von Erich over the World Class and AWA titles.

The deal made Jarrett 60 percent owner of World Class, with Kevin and Kerry Von Erich being 40 percent owners.

Kevin Von Erich, without the benefit of television ( as the result of KTVT's cancellation of Saturday Night's Championship Sports ), the absence of his brother Kerry ( who was in the WWF as The Texas Tornado ), and longtime World Class guru Gary Hart ( who was starting his Texas Wrestling Federation promotion at the time ), began promoting Sportatorium wrestling himself, bringing back the World Class Championship Wrestling name.

Longtime World Class mainstays Chris Adams, King Parsons, Kevin's brother Chris Von Erich, Percy Pringle, John Tatum, David Sheldon, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Jeanie Clarke and Toni Adams remained, while wrestlers associated with the Memphis end of the USWA left.

As a result, on November 23, 1990, Von Erich held its last World Class Championship Wrestling card at the Sportatorium, which featured Kevin winning the Texas heavyweight championship from David Sheldon ( The Angel of Death ) in the card's final match.

Several attempts to revive WCCW since then have been modest at best: in 1991, Kevin Von Erich began a working agreement with Boston-based International Championship Wrestling, which renamed itself International World Class Championship Wrestling.

Terry Taylor also departed the NWA / UWF and competed in World Class for a few months ( feuding with Chris Adams and Kevin Von Erich ) before joining the WWF in the middle of 1988 as The Red Rooster.

From 1984-1988, the stadium hosted the annual World Class Championship Wrestling's David Von Erich Memorial Parade of Champions wrestling card every May.

* Erich Segal, author and screenwriter ( Harvard College, Massachusetts, Class of 1958 )

* Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier in the Patrick Robinson novel Nimitz Class

* In the Dale Brown novel Storming Heaven, the airport is subject to a massive terror attack when Belgian international terrorist Henri Cazaux in an L-610 cargo plane loaded with explosives violates the Class C, B and A airspace ( in that order ) while being pursued by an F-16 fighter.

The novel is told partly in first-person narration by the main character, Julian Class, and partly by an anonymous third-person narrator, who is able to comment on aspects of Julian's personality and background.

* Georgi Iliev, AUBG graduate, Class of 1996, author of The Life and Death of Mr. Iliev ( 2006 ) and Holy Fool: Dogtown ( 2010 ), recipient of the 2010 Book of the Year award in Bulgaria for his novel Holy Fool.

* Robert Muchamore-The Recruit ( novel ) and Class A ( novel )

* Madge Wildfire, the name of one of the LNER Peppercorn Class A1 locomotives ( after the character in Sir Walter Scott ’ s novel )

* A tikbalang named Irene E. features prominently in The Mythology Class, a graphic novel written and illustrated by Filipino comic creator Arnold Arre.

* The Book Class ( 1984 ) a novel by Louis Auchincloss

* The Class ( 1927, novel )

* Class A ( novel ), the second book in the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore

* Charles Webb, Class of 1957, the author of the novel The Graduate.

A number of critics have erroneously claimed that the film is based on the 1936 film My Man Godfrey when in fact it is a reworking of the 1930 movie What A Man, based on the 1924 novel The Dark Chapter ; a Comedy of Class Distinctions by E. J. Rath and its 1926 Broadway adaptation They All Want Something by Courtenay Savage.

The Onegin stanza is also used in the verse novel Equinox by Australian writer Matthew Rubinstein, serialized daily in the Sydney Morning Herald and currently awaiting publication ; in the biography in verse Richard Burgin by Diana Burgin ; in the verse novel Jack the Lady Killer by HRF Keating ( title borrowed from a line in Golden Gate in Onegin stanza rhymes but not always preserving the metric pattern ); and in several poems by Australian poet Gwen Harwood, for instance the first part of " Class of 1927 " and " Sea Eagle " ( the first employs a humorous Byronic tone, but the second adapts the stanza to a spare lyrical mood, which is good evidence of the form's versatility ).

His novel The Class ( 1985 ), a saga based on the Harvard Class of 1958, was also a bestseller, and won literary honour in France and Italy.

In clinical trials in the autoimmune segment, T1h is the only Class I novel biological being tested in India for rheumatoid arthritis ( RA ) and psoriasis.

The Ruling Class, a teen novel about a clique of spectacularly cruel girls who essentially run a high school in a wealthy Dallas suburb, has been described as " a magnetic tour de force created by a master storyteller at the top of her form.

Adamic was the author of Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America ( 1931 ); Laughing in the Jungle: The Autobiography of an Immigrant in America ( 1932 ); The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia and Discovers His Old Country ( 1934 ); Grandsons: A Story of American Lives ( 1935, novel ); Cradle of Life: The Story of One Man's Beginnings ( 1936, novel ); The House in Antigua ( 1937, novel ); My America ( 1938 ); From Many Lands ( 1940 ); Two-Way Passage ( 1941 ); My Native Land ( 1943 ); and The Eagle and the Root ( 1950 ).

* William Wharton ; Class of 1943: Writer, best known for his first novel Birdy, which was also successful as a film.

" In this novel there are evident references to the 1972 English comedy film The Ruling Class, played by Peter O ' Toole and, in particular, to character of " The Electric Messiah " which appears in this movie.

* Atlas ( 1927 – 1962 ), a LMS Royal Scot Class steam locomotive

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

Examples include Class I agents ( e. g., verapamil ), Class II agents ( e. g., amlodipine, nifedipine ), or the Class III agent diltiazem.

# Class III devices generally require premarket approval ( PMA ) or premarket notification ( 510k ), a scientific review to ensure the device's safety and effectiveness, in addition to the general controls of Class I.

* Class ( education ), a group of students attending a specific course or lesson

* Class ( social ), the hierarchical arrangement of individuals in society, usually defined by wealth and occupation

* Class ( biology ), a taxonomic rank in biological classification

* Class ( philosophy ), an analytical concept used differently to group phenomena from grouping as ' types ' or ' kinds '

* Class ( set theory ), in mathematics

* Class ( film ), a romantic comedy released in 1983

* Class ( 1998 film ), an independent film co-produced by Steve Howey

* Class ( TV series ), a British television programme, which airs on CBBC

* The Class ( TV series ), a CBS sitcom

* The Class ( 2007 film ), an Estonian film

* The Class ( 2008 film ) ( Entre les murs ), a prize-winning French film

* Class ( computer programming ), or type of object, a fundamental concept of object-oriented programming

* Class ( warez ), a defunct group in the warez scene

* Class ( locomotive ), a single design of a locomotive as assigned by the railroad