Erik Satie ’ s Gymnopédie and Maurice Ravel ’ s Pavane pour une infante défunte, composed before World War II, reflect melancholy sentiment without angst in soft, quiet compositions.

In October 2009, when visiting Yerevan, the World Bank ’ s managing director, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, warned that Armenia will not reach a higher level of development unless its leadership changes the " oligopolistic " structure of the national economy, bolsters the rule of law and shows " zero tolerance " towards corruption.

Campaigners believe that the Abbey ’ s historical pronouncement makes it a prime candidate to achieve World Heritage Status.

The term blitzkrieg is here employed with reference to Germany ’ s efforts to win a quick victory in the First World War and is not associated with the use of armoured or mechanised forces or with airpower.

Bud United ’ s first efforts were centered around the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

Bacardí Gold, Bacardí 8, and Bacardí Reserva Limitada were also awarded International High Quality Trophy awards at the 2010 Monde Selection ’ s World Quality Selections.

Chuck Holmes, foreign editor for NPR Digitial, said, “ I ’ m surprised and displeased, and it makes me wonder what other information is out-of-date or incorrect in the CIA World Factbook .”

The method of study in the Classical World was “ Philo ’ s Rule ”: ( lit.

He wrote that " whether a Christian may not employ this Medicine ( let the matter of it be what it will ) and humbly give Thanks to God ’ s good Providence in discovering of it to a miserable World ; and humbly look up to His Good Providence ( as we do in the use of any other Medicine ) It may seem strange, that any wise Christian cannot answer it.

Wonders of the Invisible World appeared at the same time as Increase Mather ’ s Cases of Conscience.

The balance of the workforce in America changed during World War II through the dramatic rise of women ’ s participation as men left their positions to enlist in the military and fight in the war.

Similar views are presented by G. K. Chesterton in his 1910 book What ’ s Wrong with the World.

* The 1972 Annual World's Best SF (= Wollheim ’ s World ’ s Best SF: Series One ) ( 1972 )

The famous Totentanz by Bernt Notke in Lübeck ’ s Marienkirche ( destroyed during the Allied Bombing of Lübeck in World War II ) presented the dead dancers as very lively and agile, making the impression that they were actually dancing, whereas their living dancing partners looked clumsy and passive.

Voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty ’ s Sloop, Resolution, Commanded by Capt.

The popularity of the Futurama exhibit fit closely with the fair ’ s overall theme “ The World Of Tomorrow ” not just in its emphasis on the future, but also in its redesign of the American landscape.

The Futurama exhibition was subsequently presented as one of the 1939 New York World Fair ’ s main attractions, as it was the “ Number one hit show .” It captured the fancy of the public and critics alike, with journalists competing to find adequate words to convey Bel Gedde ’ s “ ingenuity ”, “ daring ”, “ showmanship ”, and “ genius ”.

In Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt Soddy praises Wells ’ s The World Set Free.

During World War II, in order to protect it from advancing allied forces, Hitler ordered the king ’ s coffin, as well as those of Frederick the Great and Paul von Hindenburg, into hiding, first to Berlin and later to a salt mine outside of Bernestrode.

Under the government ’ s post-conflict economic and financial program, implemented with IMF and World Bank input, real GDP recovered in 1999 by almost 8 %.

" They won ’ t remember me for winning the World Cup, it ’ ll be for that save.

The Norden bombsight was a highly sophisticated optical / mechanical analog computer used by the United States Army Air Force during World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War to aid the pilot of a bomber aircraft in dropping bomb s accurately.

In 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr .' s death, Alston was asked to create another mural for the hospital to be placed in a pavilion named after the assassinated civil rights leader titled Man Emerging from the Darkness of Poverty and Ignorance into the Light of a Better World ".

French troops using a catapult to throw hand grenade s and other explosives during World War I

After 2 more years without a race the Dutch Grand Prix was back on the World Championship ( s ) calendar in 1958 and from then on remained a permanent fixture ( with the exception of 1972 ) until, when it was held for the last time.

Part of the information on Electoral Systems offered by the World Policy Institute ( WPI )' s Project for Global Democracy & Human Rights

The current format of the tournament involves 32 teams competing for the title at venues within the host nation ( s ) over a period of about a month ; this phase is often called the World Cup Finals.

According to a World Bank official, a country that has around 12 percent rate of growth or even lower, at the range of 7 to 8 percent, can afford a level of public debt of up to 50 percent.

While typical sports championship parades have been showered with some 50 tons of confetti and shredded paper, the V-J Day parade on August 14 and August 15, 1945 – marking the end of World War II – was covered with 5, 438 tons of paper, based on estimates provided by the New York City Department of Sanitation.

Among the early Old World cities, Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, existing from about 2600 BC, was one of the largest, with a population of 50, 000 or more.

These include Hobgoblins, Maximum Overdrive, Howard the Duck, Breakin ', The Beastmaster, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians, The Creeping Terror, Robot Monster, The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, The Man Who Saves the World and the works of Edward D. Wood, Jr.

In its 1937 invasion of China, Japan employed some 50, 000 bicycle troops, and similar forces were instrumental in Japan's march or " roll " through Malaysia in World War II.

The modern events in which athletes compete in at the World Cup and Olympics are ( distances presented in Female / Male format ): 1 km Sprint, 2X1 km Team Sprint, 10 km / 15 km Individual Start, 15 km / 30 km Pursuit, 30 km / 50 km Mass Start, and 4x5 km / 4x10 km Relay.

To counter the threat of the Russian T-34s, another, more powerful 50 mm gun was introduced, only to give way to a larger 75 mm cannon, which was in a fixed mount as the StuG III, the most-produced German World War II armored fighting vehicle of any type.

According to the World Cocoa Foundation, some 50 million people around the world depend on cocoa as a source of livelihood.

Instead of the loans given to allies in World War I, the United States provided Lend-Lease grants of $ 50, 000, 000, 000.

It was named # 37 overall among the " 150 Best Games of All Time " by Computer Gaming World Magazine ( 15th Anniversary Issue — November 1996 ), was voted # 13 overall in PC Gamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll ( April 2000 issue ), the editors of PC Gamer ranked it # 12 in the Top 50 Games of all time, in their October 2001 issue, citing the game's humor and pop-culture references and it was ranked # 15 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

World cashew prices dropped by more than 50 % in 2000, compounding the economic devastation caused by the conflict.

# Masters who have the absolute right to play in the World Championship Candidates Tournament, or any player who replaces an absent contestant and earns at least a 50 percent score.

Still, given that the sources of this data has remained the same for the past 15 years, we can at least see a trend of unemployment staying high throughout this period, but rising sharply in the mid to late 90's peaking at 70 % in 1999 ( 2000 CIA World Factbook is the source for that number ), and then decreasing to the usual rates of around 50 % in recent years.

Maintenance for RN1 and RN2 lapsed after the 1991 coup, prompting the World Bank to loan US $ 50 million designated for road repairs.

* " H. G. Wells's Idea of a World Brain: A Critical Re-assessment ", by W. Boyd Rayward, in Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50 ( 15 May 1999 ): 557 – 579

With an estimated Volcanic Explosivity Index ( VEI ) of 6, the eruption was equivalent to — about 13, 000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb ( 13 to 16 kt ) that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II, and four times the yield of Tsar Bomba ( 50 Mt ), the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated.

It runs approximately 50 minutes, and was conducted at its World Premiere by Toronto Symphony Orchestra music director Peter Oundjian, who is Idle's cousin.

After the First World War, silver and gold issues were ceased and cupro-nickel 25 and 50 penniä and 1 markka coins were introduced in 1921, followed by aluminium-bronze 5, 10 and 20 markkaa between 1928 and 1931.

During the Second World War, copper replaced cupro-nickel in the 25 and 50 penniä and 1 markka, followed by an issue of iron 10, 25 and 50 penniä and 1 markka.

At the outbreak of World War I, Weber, aged 50, volunteered for service and was appointed as a reserve officer and put in charge of organising the army hospitals in Heidelberg, a role he fulfilled until the end of 1915.

Writers such as Paul H. Ray and Sherry Ruth Anderson, in The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World ( 2000 ), Fredrick Turner in A Culture of Hope and Lester Brown in Plan B, have articulated a critique of the basic idea of modernism itself – that individual creative expression should conform to the realities of technology.

* The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information, World Futures, Volumes " 49 ( 3-4 )" & " 50 ( 1-4 )" 1997, Special Issue