* In the Thursday Next series of novels, notably Something Rotten, Jasper Fforde depicts an alternative world in which croquet is a brutal mass spectator sport.

Gouda is world famous for its Gouda cheese, which is still traded on its cheese market, held each Thursday.

The 1986 Tour de Corse, a world rally around the island of Corsica, began on Thursday, 1 May.

The City of Bogotá organizes Sin mi carro en Bogotá in cooperation with the World Carfree Day Consortium, the world's first large scale " Thursday " CFD project, and launches its Bogotá Challenge to the rest of the world.

It takes place in alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

Mrs Nakajima introduces her to bookjumping, the method by which one enters the fictional world without the Prose Portal: those with an inherent talent for it can literally read themselves into the world of fiction and Thursday does so.

Thursday is, however, in some legal trouble in the literary world for having changed the ending of Jane Eyre, in The Eyre Affair.

After a preliminary hearing in the Byzantine world of Kafka's The Trial and saving Abel Magwitch from drowning before the beginning of Great Expectations, Havisham and Thursday part ways and the latter character enters " The Raven " and retrieves Jack Schitt.

Miss Havisham finds her there when it's discovered that the copy of Cardenio which Thursday found in the real world was stolen from the Great Library ( a building where copies of every book ever written or conceived of are kept ) by another literary character.

Guided through her dreams and memories by Landen, Thursday found the event that caused the world ending accident — or rather, the person: Aornis Hades, Acheron Hades ' sister who wants revenge on Thursday for Acheron's death in The Eyre Affair.

At the book's end, Aornis pressures Thursday to kill herself so that Aornis will prevent the world from turning into Dream Topping.

* The Man from Next Thursday, Part Two: The man from next Thursday relates his plan to his intelligent cat, revealing that his attempts to kill the Ripping Friends is based on revenge ; the Ripping Friends ripped the nail off his giant chest-thumb and then re-attached it on the wrong side, making him a freak in the world of next Thursday.

Midkemia is the world setting from Feist's college role-playing group, also known as the Thursday Nighters ( until they became the Friday Nighters due to late games and early morning classes ), which had begun as an outgrowth of the Triton Wargaming Society at UCSD.

:... women and fairy-tales ... generally say that all witches will go here ( truly a rather difficult journey ) each Maundy Thursday ; but those who have visited the place once are not likely to return, and should find out the reason for the fable: If any place in the world looks hideous, this is surely one of the most cruel ...

Brothers Nelson Bunker Hunt and William Herbert Hunt attempted to corner the world silver markets in the late 1970s and early 1980s, at one stage holding the rights to more than half of the world's deliverable silver .< REF NAME =" TEXAS "> During the Hunts ' accumulation of the precious metal, silver prices rose from $ 11 an ounce in September 1979 to nearly $ 50 an ounce in January 1980 .< REF NAME =" NYT "> Silver prices ultimately collapsed to below $ 11 an ounce two months later ,< REF NAME =" NYT " /> much of the fall occurring on a single day now known as Silver Thursday, due to changes made to exchange rules regarding the purchase of commodities on margin .< REF NAME =" TimeBubble ">;

It is held each summer during the first weekend of July ( from Thursday to Saturday ) and is a major event for raggare from all over Sweden and the world.

* 24 October 1929 Black Thursday stock market crash, start of world economic collapse.

Project Blowed, hosted by Kaos Network, is the longest running hip hop open mic in the world ; started in 1994 by Aceyalone and friends, it is held every Thursday night at 43rd Place and Leimert Blvd.

In Nu-metal: The Next Generation of Rock & Punk, Korn was marked as the third biggest nu metal band in the world.

The opportunities for super-stardom were waning in the modeling world, and models like Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks took to television with reality shows like Project Runway and America's Next Top Model, respectively, to not only remain relevant but establish themselves as media moguls.

According to the International Monetary Fund, Bangladesh ranked as the 43rd largest economy in the world in 2010 in PPP terms and 57th largest in nominal terms, among the Next Eleven or N-11 of Goldman Sachs and D-8 economies, with a gross domestic product of US $ 269. 3 billion in PPP terms and US $ 104. 9 billion in nominal terms.

Next to his teacher Panaetius, he did most, by writings and personal contacts, to spread Stoicism in the Roman world.

Next they created the world to be a foot stool for the Gods.

Next we add unexpected exogenous shocks to the world supply v:

Next came Belinda's first world title try.

Next came his first international fight, in Caracas against the future 4 time world title challenger Leonel Hernandez.

Next came his third world title try, when the WBC's world Lightweight champion Ishimatsu Suzuki of Japan traveled to Puerto Rico to defend his title against De Jesus.

The planet Tau Cygna V visited by the USS Enterprise-D in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode " The Ensigns of Command " was designated as a Class H world.

1998's This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours was just as successful across most of the world, and gave the band their first number one single in " If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next ".

Next, the Qur ' an argues that polytheism takes away from human dignity: God has honored human beings and given them charge of the physical world, and yet they disgrace their position in the world by worshipping what they carve out with their own hands.

The new N-Gage, also referred to as N-Gage Next Gen, N-Gage 2. 0 or the N-Gage platform / application, saw a change in concept as Nokia explained to the world during E3 2005 that they were planning on putting N-Gage inside several of their smartphone devices-rather than releasing a specific device ( although their N81 model with its two dedicated gaming-buttons next to the screen is being marketed as a phone built for gaming ).

Her work includes articles for magazines and newspapers around the world ( e. g., Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, The Independent ( UK ), The Irish Times, The Toronto Globe and Mail, The LA Times, La Jornada ( Mexico ), The Review of the International Red Cross, Columbia University ’ s Journal of Politics and Society ) and chapters to numerous books ( e. g., This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman book is the result of the “ This I Believe ” series on National Public Radio ; The Satanic Bible By Caesar 999 ; A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, and A Prayer, edited by Eve Ensler ; Lessons from our Fathers, by Keith McDermott ; Girls Like Us: 40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry and Song, by Gina Misiroglu ; The Way We Will be 50 Years from Today: 60 of the World ’ s Greatest Minds Share Their Visions of the Next Half-Century, edited by Mike Wallace ).

Next to the shrine is a graphic sex museum, filled with artifacts and paintings from around the world.

Next, perhaps, also around the second or third century CE, Laozi seems to have been identified as a creator god who also enters the world to rescue humanity from tribulation.

Returning to her own world, Next uses the Prose Portal to release her Aunt Polly and imprison Jack Schitt in the text of Edgar Allan Poe's " The Raven ".

When Savage's plane crashes into the Atlantic Ocean during his attempted invasion of America, he is presumed dead. Next, in " Maid of Honor ", Savage, claiming to be his own grandson, was engaged to Princess Audrey of Kasnia, but was secretly working with a secret faction of the Kasnian military to install a railgun onto the International Space Station, thereby allowing Kasnia, through Savage, to dictate control over the world.

According to commentary on the Star Trek Generations DVD, one of the real world reasons for the Enterprise-D's destruction stems from a concept drawing of a saucer section landing, produced for the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual.

Next is the world of man, buwah.

As the Zen literature reveals, as soon as an early Zen master attained fame in seclusion, he was called out into the world to exercise his powers.

The Middle Ages have known many arabic writers who revolutionized the Arab world literature with authors like Ahmad al-Buni and Ibn Manzur and Ibn Khaldoun who wrote the Muqaddimah while staying in Algeria, and many others.

Fans of the strip ranged from novelist John Steinbeck, who called Capp " possibly the best writer in the world today " in 1953, and even earnestly recommended him for the Nobel Prize in literature — to media critic and theorist Marshall McLuhan, who considered Capp " the only robust satirical force in American life.

The Latin translation helped the Life become one of the best known works of literature in the Christian world, a status it would hold through the Middle Ages.

The book of Job has been included in lists of the greatest books in world literature.

Classics ( sometimes encompassing Classical Studies or Classical Civilization ) is the branch of the Humanities comprising the languages, literature, philosophy, history, art, archaeology and other culture of the ancient Mediterranean world ( Bronze Age ca.

It has been described as " by far the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen.

Wired magazine, created by Louis Rossetto and Jane Metcalfe, mixes new technology, art, literature, and current topics in order to interest today ’ s cyberpunk fans, which Paula Yoo claims " proves that hardcore hackers, multimedia junkies, cyberpunks and cellular freaks are poised to take over the world.

Its influence has also spread widely outside East Asia, and is amongst the most translated works in world literature.

Poe and his works influenced literature in the United States and around the world, as well as in specialized fields, such as cosmology and cryptography.

* The monk Bede ( c. 672 – 735 ) wrote in his influential treatise on computus, The Reckoning of Time, that the Earth was round (' not merely circular like a shield spread out like a wheel, but resembl more a ball '), explaining the unequal length of daylight from " the roundness of the Earth, for not without reason is it called ' the orb of the world ' on the pages of Holy Scripture and of ordinary literature.

The Greek language holds an important place in the histories of Europe, the more loosely defined Western world, and Christianity ; the canon of ancient Greek literature includes works of monumental importance and influence for the future Western canon, such as the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey.

In October 2008, Engdahl told the Associated Press that the United States is " too insular and ignorant to challenge Europe as the center of the literary world " and does not really " participate in the big dialogue of literature.

It was not until the " Melville Revival " in the early 20th century that his work won recognition, especially Moby-Dick, which was hailed as one of the literary masterpieces of both American and world literature.

Jason appeared in various literature in the classical world of Greece and Rome, including the epic poem Argonautica and tragedy, Medea.

It is the aim of the Mawlana Rumi Review to redress this carelessly inattentive approach to world literature, which is something far more serious than a minor faux pas committed by the Western literary imagination.

The Engle Award honors an individual who, like Engle, longtime director of the Iowa Writers ' Workshop and co-founder of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, represents a pioneering spirit in the world of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment of the world through the literary arts.

Kobayashi wrote, “ Kitagawa Utamaro was an outstanding figure in the world of popular art and literature, but that world itself was at the bottom of the social scale.

Four Klingon translations of works of world literature have been published: < cite > ghIlghameS </ cite > (< cite > Gilgamesh </ cite >), Hamlet (< cite > Hamlet </ cite >), < cite > paghmo ' tIn mIS </ cite > (< cite > Much Ado About Nothing </ cite >) and pIn ' a ' qan paQDI ' norgh ( Tao Te Ching ).

" The Russian Formalist writer Viktor Shklovsky regarded Tristram Shandy as the archetypal, quintessential novel, of which all other novels are mere subsets: " Tristram Shandy is the most typical novel of world literature.

Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia.

While the types of writing systems in Mesoamerica range from minimalist " picture-writing " to complex logophonetic systems capable of recording speech and literature, they all share some core features that make them visually and functionally distinct from other writing systems of the world.