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* The Band ( wrestling ), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order
* Capitol Wrestling Corporation, a predecessor organization to World Wrestling Entertainment
Mercer is perhaps best known as the ringside commentator of World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980s.
* Euphoria an event of World Wrestling Council
Judo, Freestyle Wrestling, and Greco-Roman Wrestling are Olympic Sports while Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Sambo have their own World Championship Competitions.
The ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship is the most prestigious full range ( takedown, position, and submission inclusive ) grappling tournament in the world.
He was Hulk Hogan's tag-team partner at the World Wrestling Federation's ( WWF ) first WrestleMania which he won.
Mr. T returned to the World Wrestling Federation as a special guest referee in 1987 as well as a special referee enforcer confronting such stars as the Honky Tonk Man.
On July 21, 1989, Mr. T. made an appearance in World Class Championship Wrestling, seconding Kerry Von Erich.
FILA Wrestling World Championships and Boxing at the Summer Olympics were introduced in 1904.
World Wrestling Entertainment had a revenue of USD 1. 4 billion.
Currently, the largest professional wrestling company worldwide is the United States-based World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), which bought over many smaller regional companies in the late twentieth century, as well as its primary competitors in early 2001, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).
Gradually, the nature of professional wrestling became an open secret, although American promotions ' events were still often regulated by state athletic commissions through the 1980s, until World Wrestling Federation owner Vince McMahon publicly admitted that wrestling was entertainment, not competition.
She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in the early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956.
The French theorist Roland Barthes was among the first to propose that wrestling was worthy of deeper analysis, in his essay " The World of Wrestling " from his book Mythologies, first published in 1957.
Other documentaries have been produced by The Learning Channel ( The Secret World of Professional Wrestling ) and A & E Network ( Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows ).
* OnlineWorldofWrestling. com-The Online World of Wrestling

World and Entertainment
World of Warcraft has employees of Blizzard Entertainment that serve as gamemasters to help users with various problems in gameplay, chat, and other things like account and billing issues.
A fifth title, Intellivision World Series Major League Baseball, developed as part of the Entertainment Computer System series, also supports the Intellivoice if both the ECS and Intellivoice are connected concurrently.
Blizzard Entertainment helped to set part of " Make Love, Not Warcraft ", an Emmy Award – winning 2006 episode of the comedy series South Park, in its massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) World of Warcraft.
A few weeks later, Blizzard Entertainment posted on WorldofWarcraft. com their " Letter to the Machinimators of the World ", a license for noncommercial use of game content.
In December 2005, Blizzard Entertainment and Xfire, a gaming-focused instant messaging service, jointly sponsored a World of Warcraft machinima contest.
* Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World ( 1988 ; Apple II, Amiga, DOS, Commodore 64, Mac, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( Europe only ), SNES ( Japan-only, different from the European version ), MSX, PC-Engine CD )
Other appearances and listings include: Entertainment Weekly < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Top 100 TV Icons in 2007, Entertainment Weekly < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Top 12 Entertainers of the Year in 1998 ( ranked # 3 ) and Glamour < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 50 Best Dressed Women in the World 2004 and 2005 ( ranked at No. 17 and # 24 ).
* Titan Sports, the former parent company of World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE )
Anchor Bay Entertainment had once announced that it would be releasing the director's cut of Until the End of the World in North America, but has since changed ownership and interest in Wenders ' work was abandoned.
The World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) is a series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas and, since 2005, sponsored by Caesars Entertainment ( known as Harrah's Entertainment until 2010 ).
In 2004, Harrah's Entertainment ( now Caesars Entertainment ) purchased Binion's Horseshoe, retained the rights to the Horseshoe and World Series of Poker brands, sold the hotel and casino to MTR Gaming Group, and announced that the 2005 Series events would be held at the Harrah's-owned Rio Hotel and Casino, located just off the Las Vegas Strip.
The league was founded by World Wrestling Entertainment owner Vince McMahon.
* August 22 – Jonathan Coachman, American World Wrestling Entertainment announcer
* August 25 – Mike Lockwood ( Crash Holly ), American World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) professional wrestler ( d. 2003 )
Two castmembers of non-athletic reality shows, Mike " The Miz " Mizanin ( from The Real World and its spin-off, The Challenge ) and David Otunga ( from I Love New York ), became professional wrestlers for World Wrestling Entertainment.
* Robotomy ( 2010 — 2011 ; co-production with World Leaders Entertainment )
Dynamite Entertainment have since published 25 issues of the The Wheel of Time: Eye of the World comic book series as of March 2012.

World and is
This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
Growing out of this concern is the realization that all people of the Free World have a great stake in the progress, in freedom, of the uncommitted and newly emerging nations.
The goal is to enlist all available economic resources in the industrialized Free World, especially private investment capital.
There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
The Connally amendment says that the United States, rather than the court, shall determine whether a matter is essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of the United States in a case before the World Court to which the United States is a party.
According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.
Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.
Easy to get to, and becoming more popular every year, it is only fourteen hours from New York by Pan American World Airways jet, four hours from Rome.
Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.
With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.
In a more pessimistic vein about the economic outlook, I suspect that the reservoir of demand for consumer goods and housing which was dammed-up during the Thirties and World War 2, is finally in the process of running dry.
While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.
There is no doubt that higher education since World War 2, has moved away from `` pure '' liberal education toward greater emphasis on technology and specialization.
World production of about 1 million tons is divided primarily between Africa ( 63 percent ) and South America ( 27 percent ).
Progress will take place far less through what is done in any `` summit conference '' of the National Council or the World Council, or even in offices of the denominational boards, than through what happens in the communities where Christian people live together as neighbors.
A little parable illustrative of this truth is afforded by an incident related by Professor Bela Vasady at the end of the Second World War.
Helping foreign countries to build a sound political structure is more important than aiding them economically, E. M. Martin, assistant secretary of state for economic affairs told members of the World Affairs Council Monday night.
No less than twenty-two nations have already achieved independence since World War 2,, and the number is growing by the year.
George Kennan's account of relations between Russia and the West from the fall of Tsarism to the end of World War 2, is the finest piece of diplomatic history that has appeared in many years.
There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

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