Also in 1947, the Whiskey à Go-Go nightclub opened in Paris, France, considered to be the world's first commercial discothèque, or disco ( deriving its name from the French word meaning a nightclub where the featured entertainment is recorded music rather than an on-stage band ).

Also on July 12, 2012 the mean 24-hour temperature recorded at Death Valley was 117. 5 ° F, which makes it the world's warmest 24-hour temperature on record.

Also known as Arabia or the Arabian subcontinent, it is the world's largest peninsula and covers 3, 237, 500 km < sup > 2 </ sup > ( 1, 250, 000 mi < sup > 2 </ sup >).

Also of note in the region is the freeway system, which is the world's busiest.

Also, Ebeltoft is home to one of the world's first glass museums and to the Fregatten Jylland, the longest wooden warship in the world.

Also, international MENSA IQ testing completed in 2004 identified as the world's smartest woman ( and one of the smartest people in the world ) Daniela Simidchieva of Bulgaria, who has an IQ of 200.

Also, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center ( NCDC ), which has " the world's largest active archive " of surface temperature measurements, maintains a global temperature record since 1880.

Also the company Tralfa developed the world's first spray paint robot, today run by ABB.

Also central to Cárdenas's project were nationalistic economic policies involving Mexico's vast oil production, which had soared following strikes in 1910 in the area known as the " Golden Lane ," near Tampico, and which made Mexico the world's second-largest oil producer by 1921, supplying approximately 20 percent of domestic demand in the United States.

Also, many of the world's most popular science fiction authors got their way to Eastern European readers via Galaktika ( accompanied by the Kuczka-edited SF-novel series Kozmosz Fantasztikus Könyvek ( Cosmos Fantastic Books ) and later Galaktika Fantasztikus Könyvek ( Galactica Fantastic Books )), including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, Robert Sheckley and Philip K. Dick.

Also, the city had for the 2008 New Year's celebration the world's largest moon pie baked for the occasion.

Also in 1884, Greathead was engaged as engineer on the London ( City ) & Southwark Subway, later the City & South London Railway ( and now part of the Northern Line ) which was, when it opened in 1890, the world's first underground electric railway.

Also, in 1933 Schütte-Lihotzky had presented some of her work at the Chicago world's fair, Century of Progress.

" Also figuring in the story line are Mame's personal secretary and nanny-in-law, Agnes Gooch ; her " bosom buddy " Vera Charles, the baritone actress and world's greatest lush ; and Dwight Babcock, the stuffy and officious executor of Patrick's father's estate.

Also in 1983, U. S. audiences voted Ward one of the world's 10 most beautiful women.

Also in 1930 Yudin organized the world's first blood bank at the Nikolay Sklifosovskiy Institute, which set an example for the establishment of further blood banks in different regions of the Soviet Union and in other countries.

The air cushioned landing craft ( Landing Craft Air Cushion, or LCAC in the US Navy ) is based on small to mid sized multi-purpose hovercraft, Also known as " over the beach " (" OTB ") craft, they allow troops and material to access more than 70 percent of the world's coastline, while only approximately 15 percent of that coastline is available to conventional landing craft.

Also during Jacob's time as Director-General was the first showing of Panorama which is the world's longest-running current affairs series as of 2012.

Also on display are Niépce's 1807 Pyréolophore which is probably the world's first internal combustion engine, plus his 1818 implementation of a draisienne for which he coined the word vélocipède.

Also in 1984, 350 miles east of Six Flags St. Louis, Kings Island at Mason, Ohio opened the TOGO-designed King Cobra as the world's first purpose-built stand-up roller coaster.

Also, inspired by the unusually high reports of UFO sightings in the region over the years, one of the world's handful of museums dedicated to ufology was recently opened in Denizli.

Also a winner at the inaugural British Empire Games, Hampson was one of the world's leading runners in the 800 m and half-mile event.

Also in 1976 Videcom international with British Airways, British Caledonian and CCL launched Travicom, the world's first multi-access reservations system ( wholly based on Videcom technology ), forming a network providing distribution for initially 2 and subsequently 49 subscribing international airlines ( including British Airways, British Caledonian, TWA, Pan American World Airways, Qantas, Singapore Airlines, Air France, Lufthansa, SAS, Air Canada, KLM, Alitalia, Cathay Pacific and JAL ) to thousands of travel agents in the UK.

Also this subduction zone has created arguably the world's largest active volcano Lake Toba which produced the largest volcanic eruption in human history erupting just over 2, 800 km³ of magma, a VEI of 8.

Also, the state with the largest number of Negroes is New York -- not in the South at all.

Also, by 1999, 38-40 % of the population of the Cayman Islands was of Jamaican origin and in 2004 / 2005 little over 50 % of the expatriates working in the Cayman Islands ( i. e. 8, 000 ) were Jamaicans ( with the next largest expatriate communities coming from the United States, United Kingdom and Canada ).

Also the ongoing installation of a Fiber-Optic network structure in the National District and the City of Santiago ( second largest in the country ) will force other competitors into upgrading theirs to be able to compete in the markets they now lead.

Also known as slow-speed, or traditionally oil engines, the largest diesel engines are primarily used to power ships, although there are a few land-based power generation units as well.

Also, this period saw one of the largest mass migrations ever recorded in modern history, with a total of 12 million Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims moving between the newly created nations of India and Pakistan ( which gained independence on 15 and 14 August 1947 respectively ).

Also located in North Jakarta is Ancol Dreamland ( Taman Impian Jaya Ancol ), currently the largest integrated tourism area in South East Asia.

Also in this easternmost area is the Old Sow, the largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

Also under construction are parts of A3-Autostrada Transilvania, which is the largest motorway project in Europe with a length of 588 km from Bucharest to Oradea ( near the Hungarian border ).

Also, the largest football stadium, Tórsvøllur, is located here, seating 6, 000 spectators.

Also, the Royal Library of Alexandria was once the largest in the world.

Also nearby is Adirondack Park, one of the largest parks in the nation.

Also included were a top official of the Banca di Roma, Italy's third largest bank at the time, and a former director-general of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro ( BNL ), the country's largest.

Also in December 1993, the Tribune hired Margaret Holt from the South Florida Sun-Sentinel as its assistant managing editor for sports, making her the first female to head a sports department at any of the nation's 10 largest newspapers.

Also there is a branch for Al-Azhar University, the largest Islamic university in the world.

: Also of note, the ' Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt ', or Alexander von Humboldt school in Mexico City is the largest German school outside Germany.

Also located here are the largest trout fishery in Russia ( founded in 1964 ) and a breeding nursery for great apes.

Also in 2008, the defendants of United States v LG Display Co., United States v. Chunghwa Picture Tubes, and United States v. Sharp Corporation heard in the Northern District of California, agreed to pay a total sum of $ 585 million to settle their prosecutions for conspiring to fix prices of liquid crystal display panels, which was the second largest amount awarded under the Sherman Act in history.

Also fueling development is the massive casino / resort complex located in neighboring Tunica County ( the third largest gambling district in the United States ).

* Also known for being the home of the former World's largest Easter Egg Hunt.

Also known as London Gatwick, it is London's second largest international airport and second busiest by total passenger traffic in the United Kingdom after Heathrow.

Also on display at the exposition was the Curtis Organ, still one of the largest pipe organs in the world.

Also, the city is the largest in the Manche département, although Saint-Lô is the préfecture ( capital ).