Reigning World Cup holders Uruguay declined to participate, in protest at the refusal of several European countries to travel to South America for the previous World Cup, which Uruguay had hosted in 1930.

Reigning World Series MVP Manny Ramirez was featured on the cover of the 2005 installment of the series.

Reigning World Champion ( and local favourite ) Nelson Piquet qualified 7th in his Brabham-BMW, while a Formula One rookie by the name of Ayrton Senna qualified 17th for his first ever Grand Prix in his Toleman-Hart.

Reigning World Champion Ayrton Senna of McLaren was only in fourth place, having accumulated eight points.

Reigning World Champion Jacques Villeneuve finished in sixth place, after Williams had their worst qualifying result since the 1989 United States Grand Prix.

Reigning world driver's champion Nelson Piquet and his Brabham-BMW were usually the fastest combination on track but appalling early season reliability, where the reigning Drivers ' World Champion failed to score a point due to numerous engine and turbo failures before his win in Canada, meant he was never able to challenge consistently, and by half way through the season it was apparent he wouldn't repeat as champion.

Reigning World Doubles Champions Alistair Graham & Julian Mitchell ( Hartham Park )

* World Chess Championship 1981: Reigning champion Anatoly Karpov retained his title when challenger Viktor Korchnoi conceded the 18th game of the series, giving Karpov the sixth win in the match, that had started on October 1 at the Kurzentrum playing hall in Merano, Italy.

* JP Donovan III – Reigning National Champion XTerra Triathons

Reigning five-time Champion Juan Manuel Fangio, the dominant driver of the 1950s and one of the greatest of all time, competed in only two races as a privateer, retiring after the French Grand Prix.

Reigning champion Frenchman Alain Prost driving a McLaren MP4 / 3 finished third.

Ntombi laTwala's image has been widely disseminated in the West since her inclusion in Andy Warhol's portrait series during her exercise of the regency for her son, as one of four Reigning Queens, along with Queens Beatrix of the Netherlands, Margrethe II of Denmark and Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

Two songs taken from the album (" Mandatory Suicide " and " South of Heaven ") have become near constant fixtures in the band's live setlist, notching up appearances on the following: the live DVDs Live Intrusion, War at the Warfield, Still Reigning, Soundtrack to the Apocalypses deluxe edition's bonus live disc, and the live double album Decade of Aggression.

There is no mention of any " state " flag until the mid-14th century, when a Spanish atlas, the Conosçimiento de todos los reynos depicts the flag of " the Empire of Constantinople " combining the red-on-white Cross of St George with the " tetragrammic cross " of the ruling house of the Palaiologoi, featuring the four betas or pyrekvola (" fire-steels ") on the flag quarters representing the imperial motto Βασιλεύς Βασιλέων Βασιλεύων Βασιλευόντων (" King of Kings Reigning over those who Rule ").

" Strangers on a Train: Hitchcock's Rich Imagery Reigning Supreme " on Noir of the Week, April 20, 2008.

Reigning " King of the Mountain " for motorcycles is Mike Panayi on a Featherbed Norton 750 twin.

Reigning champion Fangio, badly injured in an early season crash, took no part in the championship, but was to go on to drive for BRM.

In March 2007, Norton Records released Dangerous Game, a critically acclaimed solo album, on which she is backed by The Reigning Sound.

* Reigning Sound on MySpace

Reigning champions Williams had a poor season overall, with only 3 podium finishes.

Among his best known works are the series Ten Studies in Female Physiognomy ; A Collection of Reigning Beauties ; Great Love Themes of Classical Poetry ( sometimes called Women in Love containing individual prints such as Revealed Love and Pensive Love ); and Twelve Hours in the Pleasure Quarters.

* Waller, Maureen ( 2006 ) Sovereign Ladies: The Six Reigning Queens of England.

Reigning for only ten months, Romulus was then deposed by the Germanic chieftain Odoacer and sent to live in the Castellum Lucullanum in Campania ; afterwards he disappears from the historical record.

Reigning alone, Caracalla was noted for lavish bribes to the legionaries and unprecedented cruelty, authorizing numerous assassinations of perceived enemies and rivals.

* January 20 – Kalākaua, Last Reigning King of Hawaii ( b. 1836 )

* June 26 – Louis Honoré Charles Antoine Grimaldi becomes Reigning Prince Louis II of Monaco.

After its release, Rolling Stone deemed her " The Reigning Queen of Rock and Roll.

Reigning bearers of forms of Highness included grand princes, grand dukes, sovereign princes, reigning dukes and princely counts, their families and the agnatic descendants of emperors and kings.

* Reigning grand dukes and grand duchesses hold the style of Royal Highness.

* Reigning dukes and duchesses bore the style of Highness, as did other members of ducal families.

It has since been performed by artists as diverse as Frank Sinatra, Clodagh Rodgers, and Reigning Sound and most famously by Lena Horne and Billie Holiday.

* Reigning Sound This song which opens their 2002 album Time Bomb High School.

Reigning from the death of his father Oscar II in 1907 until his own death 43 years later, he holds the record of being the oldest monarch of Sweden and the second-longest reigning after Magnus IV ; the longest-reigning as an adult.

Reigning as Donald III, the new monarch represented the interests of " a resentful native aristocracy ", driving out the Anglo-Saxons and Normans who had staffed the court of Malcolm and Margaret.

Reigning for 40 years from A. D. 618 to 658, he expanded the causeway system and saw an increase in the site ’ s population.

: Reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf, Count of Rietberg, Sovereign of the House of Liechtenstein.

" Metal Maniacs asked Slayer in a 2006 interview whether they would consider playing South of Heaven in the footsteps of the Still Reigning tour, to which Araya replied, " It's becoming a trendy thing now.

Reigning as Duke Carl Eduard, or Charles Edward, under the regency of the Hereditary Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg until he came of age in 1905, the new duke also continued to use his British title, Duke of Albany.

) Reigning female Russian rulers were styled imperatritsa.

Bands like Reigning Sound, Goober & the Peas and The Black Keys have all cited Fortune artists as influential.

Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (, Anatolij Evgen ' evič Karpov ; born May 23, 1951 ) is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion.

He played three matches against Kasparov for the title from 1986 to 1990, before becoming FIDE World Champion once again after Kasparov broke away from FIDE in 1993.

This thrust the young Karpov into the role of World Champion without having faced the reigning champion.

* 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

The first official World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886 ; the current World Champion is Viswanathan Anand.

The computer Deep Blue was the first machine player to overcome a reigning World Chess Champion when it defeated Garry Kasparov in 1997.

Trina Gulliver, eight-time World Professional Darts Champion, currently lives in Cheddar.

As of April 2012, the Association Croquet World Champion is Reg Bamford of South Africa.

As of 2011, the Golf Croquet World Champion is Mark McInerney ( Ireland ) and the Women's Golf Croquet World Champion is Rachel Rowe ( England ).

* Archie Moore, the Light Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, former enrollee

* 1969 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster, current World Chess Champion

Apart from World Champion, Grandmaster is the highest title a chess player can attain.

In 1978, Women's World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili became the first woman to receive the GM title, by a special decision of FIDE.

The Tsar reportedly awarded the title to the five finalists: Emanuel Lasker, José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, Siegbert Tarrasch, and Frank Marshall ( respectively, the World Champion, the next two World Champions, and two players who had lost World Championship matches to Lasker ).

Any World Champion is automatically awarded the GM title

Traditionally, chess has been a male-dominated activity, and women are often seen as weaker players ; thus advancing the idea of a Women's World Champion.

Trained in her early years by her sister Susan, who ultimately became Women's World Champion, Judit Polgár was a prodigy from an early age.