She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

In 2010, Australia was the top producer of bauxite with almost one-third of the world's production, followed by China, Brazil, India, and Guinea.

Since 2005, the world's top selling brand of inkjet and laser printers has been HP which now has 46 % of sales in inkjet and 55. 5 % in laser printers.

Croatia is ranked among the top 20 most popular tourist destinations in the world, and was voted world's top tourism destination in 2005 by Lonely Planet.

The world's top 10 association croquet players as of May 2012 are Reg Bamford ( South Africa ), Robert Fulford ( England ), Robert Fletcher ( Australia ), David Maugham ( England ), Toby Garrison ( New Zealand ), Aaron Westerby ( New Zealand ), Paddy Chapman ( New Zealand ), Jamie Burch ( England ), Greg Bryant ( New Zealand ) and Ben Rothman ( USA ).

The top three producers were China with 1, 800, India with 220, and USA with 63. 5 million tonnes for a combined total of over half the world total by the world's three most populated states.

The South Side is home to the University of Chicago ( UC ), ranked one of the world's top ten universities ; and the Museum of Science and Industry.

The centre is host to half of the world's top 50 banks and to half of the top 20 insurance companies.

The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

Frankfurt Airport ranks among the world's top ten airports.

In 2010, GM made an initial public offering that was one of the world's top 5 largest IPOs to date.

In July 2011, Greenpeace released its Dirty Laundry report accusing some of the world's top fashion and sportswear brands of releasing toxic waste into China's rivers.

Through the 2009-2010 NBA season, 152 hoosier athletes have played professional basketball in the world's top league.

It is amongst world's top 10 fastest growing ports.

As two of the world's top three economic powers, both countries also rely on close economic ties for their wealth, despite ongoing and occasionally acrimonious trade frictions.

In January 1998, she played in the category XVII event, the Hoogovens in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, in which 14 of the world's top grandmasters participated.

Lund University () is one of Europe's most prestigious universities and Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities.

* One of the world's longest trains ( up to 2. 5 km long ) runs here, with more than 200 wagons mainly transporting iron ore, and some carriages for passengers ; alternatively, people sit on top of the iron piles.

In a 2006 survey of " 15 of the world's top travel writers " by The Observer, Palin named Peru's Pongo de Mainique ( canyon below the Machu Picchu ) his " favourite place in the world ".

Raised between Fez and San Sebastian, Chef Najat Kaanache has served as an unofficial Culinary Ambassador of Morocco, sharing Moroccan flavors and cooking techniques with many of the world's top chefs during her pilgrimage through the best restaurant kitchens of Spain, Denmark, Holland and the US.

Though ranked as 15th in production at ( mbpd ), the top 3 producers Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States produce ( 11. 8 %), ( 12. 0 %), and ( 11. 1 %) respectively, collectively accounting for ( 44 %) of the world's total production. To put oil revenues in perspective: at an estimated export rate of, with a projected sales price of $ 65 per barrel in 2011, Nigeria's anticipated revenue from petroleum is about $ 52. 2 billion.

Russia is the world's top supplier of arms, a spot it has held since 2001, accounting for around 30 % of worldwide weapons sales and exporting weapons to about 80 countries.

In February 2006 Jones was placed 9th and the highest placed sportsman in a poll of the world's sexiest men, voted for by readers of New Woman magazine.

The photograph of a sportsman exposing himself in the pages of one the world's most " proper " publications was a source of much mirth.

One story from 1942 concerned the kidnapping of Salomey by " the world's greatest sportsman hogbreeder " J. R. Fangsley, who wanted to breed her with the last male Hammus alabammus, " Boar Scarloff " ( a pun on actor Boris Karloff ).

Sand Master Park, located in Florence, Oregon USA is the world's first sandboard park with of private sculpted sand dunes and a full-time pro shop.

It is currently the world's oldest pro wrestling promotion still in existence.

This grass-roots alliance of amateur and professional radio astronomers is headed by executive director emeritus Prof. H. Paul Shuch, the engineer credited with developing the world's first commercial home satellite TV receiver.

At the same time, officials in Canada and the Soviet Union negotiated an arrangement that would see the top players of each nation – amateur or professional – play in an eight game " Summit Series " in September 1972 between the world's two greatest hockey nations.

On February 9, 1928, Hartsdale became the birthplace of the American " Couch Potato " when the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird ( 1888 – 1946 ) transmitted the world's first inter-continental short-wave television signal from a transmitter ( call sign 2KZ ) in Coulsdon, Surrey ( a suburb of London ) to his colleague O. G. Hutchinson in the cellar of Robert M. Hart, an amateur radio operator ( call sign 2CVJ ) in Hartsdale.

Minocqua is home to the world's oldest amateur waterski team, the Min-Aqua Bats.

For over 30 years the ranch has hosted the Loretta Lynn's Amateur Motocross National Championship, the world's largest amateur motocross race, in addition to GNCC Racing events.

Virginia Beach is also home to the East Coast Surfing Championships, an annual contest of more than 100 of the world's top professional surfers and an estimated 400 amateur surfers.

Due to the nature of this programme and conditions of filming, many of the world's most authentic lookalikes boycotted the project leaving the producer to rely on the careful use of soft focus, lighting and carefully positioned camera angles to make the mainly amateur lookalikes resemble the characters they portrayed.

He continues to play in a reduced capacity and has been referred to as the world's strongest amateur.

On the 1959 trip to Britain, he also made his only attempt at the British Amateur, the world's oldest international amateur event, at Royal St George's Golf Club, reaching the quarterfinal round ( top 8 ).

Nicklaus was named the world's top amateur golfer by Golf Digest magazine for three straight years, 1959 – 1961.

He was Canadian heavyweight champion as both an amateur and a professional, and twice fought for versions of the professional world's heavyweight title.

Chuvalo finished his amateur career with a 16-0-0 record, all by KO within four rounds. Nicknamed " Boom Boom ", Chuvalo turned professional in 1956, knocking out four opponents in one night to win a heavyweight tournament held by former world's champion Jack Dempsey at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto on April 26, 1956.

He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.

During his peak as a golfer from 1923 to 1930, he dominated top-level amateur competition, and competed very successfully against the world's best professional golfers.

Notts County are considered to be one of the pioneers of the modern game and are the oldest of the world's professional association football clubs ( there are older professional clubs in other codes of football, and Sheffield F. C., an amateur club founded in 1857, are the oldest club now playing association football ).

Unzicker was at times the world's strongest amateur chess player, and World Champion Anatoly Karpov called him the " world champion of amateurs ".

He operated the world's first amateur radio station from space, W5LFL, which expanded into an important activity on dozens of shuttle flights, Space Station Mir and the International Space Station, with scores of astronauts and cosmonauts participating.

The first amateur satellite, simply named OSCAR 1, was launched on December 12, 1961, barely four years after the launch of world's first satellite, Sputnik I. OSCAR 1 was the first satellite to be ejected as a secondary payload and subsequently enter a separate orbit.

He founded Xtreme Games LLC in 1994, which represented hundreds of small independent or amateur game companies and claims to be the " world's largest virtual game company.

In the 1989 event, held at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, though he did not take the title, he did achieve the world's first amateur maximum break of 147 in official competition.

At age 8, Horowitz achieved distinction as the world's youngest amateur radio operator ( or " ham ").

In 1989, a group of eight amateur mountaineers, the " Social Climbers ", held what was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records ( 1990 edition ) to be " the world's highest dinner party " on top of the mountain, as documented by Chris Darwin and John Amy in their book The Social Climbers, and raised £ 10, 000 for charity.

It also explores American athletes ' amateur status and the conditions and lack of resources these athletes had to endure in their attempts to compete with the world's top athletes, who were provided all they needed to train and compete at a top level, while dealing with the pressure from their American fans who expected nothing but the best from them.

Andrew Watson, an amateur player, was capped for Scotland three times in the early 1880s, and played in the Scottish Cup for Queen's Park. Arthur Wharton, who played for Preston North End and Sheffield United, amongst others, is recognised as the world's first black professional footballer.