Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, or Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, is an adaptation of pre – World War II judo developed by the brothers Carlos and Hélio Gracie, with a large focus on groundwork.

A protegee of Carlson Gracie, Mario earned his black belt at the 1995 World Championships of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, where he entered and won the heavyweight black belt division.

In November 2010, Crosley Gracie competed and won his division at the World No-Gi Jiu-Jitsu Championships held at Long Beach State University, Long Beach, California.

The Pyramid also hosts the World Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Championships or, in Portuguese language, Mundiais.

In 1969, Karpov became the first Soviet player since Spassky ( 1955 ) to win the World Junior Chess Championship, scoring an undefeated 10 / 11 in the finals at Stockholm.

Fan posing with 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Championship Trophy

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

The winner of the series advances to play the winner of the National League Championship Series in baseball's championship, the World Series.

Between 1957 and 1980 Granaglia won a record 13 World Championships, 12 European Championship titles, and 46 Italian National Championships.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

After sweeping Minnesota in the American League Championship Series, Baltimore was shocked by losing to the New York Mets in a five-game World Series.

The IIHF World U20 Championship typically begins on 26 December, while the Spengler Cup also begins on 26 December in Davos, Switzerland ; the Spengler Cup competition includes HC Davos, Team Canada, and other top European Hockey teams.

Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).

In addition to the World Championship, there are the Women's World Championship, the Junior World Championship, the World Senior Championship, the Correspondence Chess World Championship, the World Computer Chess Championship, and Blitz and Rapid World Championships.

Childhood's End -- apparently indebted to Kurd Lasswitz's Utopian romance, Auf Zwei Planeten ( 1897 ), and also to Wells's Histories Of The Future, especially, The World Set Free ( 1914 ) and The Shape Of Things To Come ( 1933 ) -- describes the bloodless conquest of earth by the Overlords, vastly superior creatures who come to our world in order to prepare the human race for its next stage of development, an eventual merging with the composite mind of the universe.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

And if the foreigners fighting in the Katanga Army are mercenaries then Lafayette and Von Steuben were mercenaries too, as were also the members of the Lafayette Escadrille in the early part of World War 1, and of Chennault's Flying Tigers in the early days of World War 2.

* Around the World ( 1943 ) also producer

There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.

Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

Significantly, Huxley also worked for a time in the 1920s at the technologically advanced Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside, and the most recent introduction to his famous science fiction novel Brave New World ( 1932 ) states that this experience of " an ordered universe in a world of planless incoherence " was one source for the novel.

Van Vogt was also profoundly affected by revelations of totalitarian police states that emerged after World War II.

This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

Not only was his Belgian nationality interesting because of Belgium's occupation by Germany ( which provided a valid explanation of why such a skilled detective would be out of work and available to solve mysteries at an English country house ), but also at the time of Christie's writing, it was considered patriotic to express sympathy with the Belgians, since the invasion of their country had constituted Britain's casus belli for entering World War I, and British wartime propaganda emphasized the " Rape of Belgium ".

Together these are also known as the Spirit World ( also Abraham's Bosom ; see Luke 16: 19-25 ).

' American ' is derived from America, a term originally denoting all of the New World ( also called " the Americas ").

However, Curie also worked with unshielded X-ray tubes during World War I, and analysis of her skeleton during a reburial showed a relatively low level of radioisotope burden.

Since tomatoes are New World plants, they are also fairly new to China and Chinese cuisine.

Several of ASU's graduate schools also appear among the top of the US News & World Report rankings, including the 30th-ranked W. P. Carey School of Business ( along with its 4th-ranked program in Supply Chain Management and the 15th-ranked program in Information Systems ), the 26th-ranked Sandra Day O ' Connor College of Law, the 43rd-ranked Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering ( including five individual programs ranked in the top 30 ), the 16th-ranked School of Public Affairs, the 26th-ranked Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, the 21st-ranked College of Nursing and Health, and 25th-ranked Healthcare Management.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

Since 1977, New Zealand has celebrated Arbor Day on June 5, which is also World Environment Day, prior to then Arbor Day, in New Zealand, was celebrated on August 4 – which is rather late in the year for tree planting in New Zealand hence the date change.

It was also naval engineers that constructed the first tanks during World War I, giving rise to armoured fighting vehicles.

Tank armour has progressed from the Second World War armour forms, now incorporating not only harder composites, but also reactive armour designed to defeat shaped charges.

An arcology is also depicted in the 1968 futuristic novel " The World Inside ", by Robert Silverberg, where in the year 2381 the human race lives in 1000-storey-high towers, providing everything necessary to the society ( nutrition, energy, entertainment, jobs, etc .).

Independent battalions were also deployed as ' stiffeners ' for infantry divisions, and the StuG III's anti-tank capabilities contributed greatly to the German's ability to draw out World War II after they had lost the strategic initiative.

* 1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols ( also known as " National Democrats ") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.

the most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

Christie occasionally inserted stereotyped descriptions of characters into her work, particularly before the end of the Second World War ( when such attitudes were more commonly expressed publicly ), and particularly in regard to Italians, Jews, and non-Europeans.

Since World War II, main battle tanks have largely replaced gun-armed tank destroyers although lightly armored anti tank guided missile ( ATGM ) carriers are commonly used for supplementary long-range anti-tank work.

Since World War II, main battle tanks have largely replaced gun-armed tank destroyers although lightly armored anti tank guided missile ( ATGM ) carriers are commonly used for supplementary long-range anti-tank work.

He is commonly referred to in Bahá ' í texts as " The Master ", and received the title of KBE after his personal storage of grain was used to relieve famine in Palestine following World War I, but never used the title.

The prefixes kilo-and mega -, meaning 1000 and respectively, were commonly used in the electronics industry before World War II.

The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems ( ICD ), produced by the World Health Organization ( WHO ), is another commonly used manual which includes criteria for mental disorders.

* 1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U. S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.

After World War I fascists have commonly campaigned on anti-Marxist agendas.

The terms are very often used in programming examples, much like the Hello World program is commonly used as an introduction.

Many birds in other families are also commonly called " finches ", including some species in the very similar-looking waxbills or estrildid finches ( family Passeridae, subfamily Estrildinae ) of the Old World tropics and Australia ; several groups of the bunting and American sparrow family ( Emberizidae ); and Darwin's finches of the Galapagos islands, which provided evidence of natural selection and are now recognized to be peculiar tanagers ( Thraupidae ).

Generation X, commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western post – World War II baby boom.

* 1991: Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web commonly known as the " internet ".

A commonly accepted hypothesis attributes the high mortality of this colony in part to Old World diseases to which the natives had no immunity.

Lescot commonly said that Haiti's declared state-of-war against the Axis powers during World War II justified his repressive actions.

The novel was written in contemporary English for a mass audience, in the same way that mainstream Hollywood movies depicting the Second World War commonly depict German characters talking in English.

The International Classification of Diseases ( most commonly known by the abbreviation ICD ) is according to its publisher, the United Nations-sponsored World Health Organization " the standard diagnostic tool for epidemiology, health management and clinical purposes.

Kaj Harald Leininger Munk ( commonly called Kaj Munk ) ( 13 January 1898 – 4 January 1944 ) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II.

In the UK, kippers, along with other preserved fish such as the bloater and buckling, were also once commonly enjoyed as a high tea or supper treat ; most popularly with inland and urban working-class populations before World War II.

" The Funniest Joke in the World " is the title most frequently used for written references to a Monty Python's Flying Circus comedy sketch, which is also known by two other phrases that appear within it, " Joke Warfare " and " Killer Joke ", the latter being the most commonly spoken title used to refer to it.

The King Quail, an of the Old World quail, is often sold in the pet trade and is commonly referred to there as a " button quail ".

The Red Army Faction or Red Army Fraction ( RAF ; German: Rote Armee Fraktion ), in its early stages commonly known as Baader-Meinhof Group ( or Baader-Meinhof Gang ), was one of post – World War II Germany's most prominent left-wing militant groups.

These are commonly seen as the predecessor of the modern high-heeled shoe, while the poor and lower classes in Europe, as well as slaves in the New World, were barefoot.