I of Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World from Marathon to Waterloo according to Edward Shepherd Creasy, 1851 ( see also ). this is the battle of marathon

The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.

The marathon is the only road running event featured at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics and the Summer Olympics, although there is also an annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships.

The foremost separate road running event is the annual IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ( formerly World Road Running Championships ).

* Poke, The Battle of Tours, from the book Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World From Marathon to Waterloo by Sir Edward Creasy, MA

London is one of the top five world marathons that form the World Marathon Majors competition ) with a $ 1 million prize purse.

* Big Four ( marathon ), four major marathon races comprising four of the five World Marathon Majors

The city is also home to the International World Jet Ski Final Races, multiple professional fishing tournaments, custom boat regattas, the Western Winter Blast pyrotechnics convention, Havasu 95 Speedway, the Chilln-n-Swilln Beer Festival annual charity event, the Havasu Triathlon, the Havasu Half Marathon and the Havasu Island Hot Air Balloon Fest & Fair.

* Douglas Wakiihuri, 1987 World Athletic Championships Marathon Champion, 1988 Olympic Marathon silver medalist, 1990 London Marathon Champion, 1990 New York Marathon Champion

It is one of five World Marathon Majors.

* Poke, " The Battle of Tours ", from Sir Edward Creasy, MA, Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World From Marathon to Waterloo

Elite level road running series include the World Marathon Majors, the Great Run series, and IAAF Road Race Label Events.

1963, the 24-member delegation of the BSP to the 11th World Scout Jamboree in Marathon, Greece, perished in a plane crash in the sea off the coast of Mumbai, India.

In recognizing Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai's mark of 2: 03: 02 at the 2011 Boston Marathon as " the fastest Marathon ever run ", the IAAF has noted: " Due to the elevation drop and point-to-point measurements of the Boston course, performances that course are not eligible for World record consideration.

World records have been broken at all five World Marathon Majors on numerous occasions ; seven times at the Berlin Marathon, three times at the Boston Marathon, and four times each at the Chicago, London, and New York City Marathons.

* Walter Hagen ( 1892 – 1969 ), " Golf's Greatest Showman ", World Golf Hall-of-Famer, won 11 Majors.

Along with the Boston Marathon and Chicago Marathon, it is among the pre-eminent long-distance annual running events in the United States and is one of the World Marathon Majors.

It was the final race of the 2006 – 2007 World Marathon Majors, a two-year series of elite marathon racing that also includes the Boston, Chicago, London and Berlin marathons.

At the end of World War II, two 6th Armored Division assistants from G-3, Majors Paul L. Bogen and Clyde J. Burke along with Aide-de-Camp Captain Cyrus R. Shockey, compiled a Combat Record of the Sixth Armored Division in the European Theatre of Operations 18 July 1944-8 May 1945.

Shortly after World War II Labatt Park was the home of the London Majors, which won the Canadian Sandlot Congress in 1947 and the Can-Am Baseball Congress championship in 1948, beating the Fort Wayne, Indiana, General Electrics in a best-of-seven-game series at Labatt Park, as well as winning the Canadian, Ontario and Intercounty titles.

Alongside the Boston, New York, London and Berlin Marathons, it is one of the five World Marathon Majors.

Tilden was the World No. 1 player for seven years, he won 15 Majors including ten Grand Slams, the 1921 World Hard Court Championships and four Pro Slams

* World Marathon Majors, championship style marathon competition

Along with four other races, it forms the World Marathon Majors, a series offering a $ 1 million prize purse to be split equally between the top male and female marathoners.

* Review of The Majors at World Golf

Following the suspension of the World League, Karcher returned to the college ranks as an assistant on Johnny Majors ' coaching staff at the University of Pittsburgh.

This central episode consists of a series of staccato scenes set in the period from the beginning of the present century up to the first World War.

* Donald Malarkey, World War II U. S. Army soldier of the 101st Airborne Division was portrayed in the TV series Band of Brothers.

* Accel World, a Japanese light novel series by Reki Kawahara.

* Another World ( TV series ), an American soap opera

* Alexandra Mack, aka Alex Mack, main character in the popular American Television series The Secret World of Alex Mack

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

A series of largely unsuccessful 5-year plans initiated in July 1986 in partnership with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund attempted to reform the foreign exchange system, liberalize imports, reduce restrictions on international transactions, diversify exports, and reform the coffee industry.

For several years, the National League and American Association champions met in a postseason championship series — the first attempt at a World Series.

The two division winners within each league played each other in a best-of-five series to determine who would advance to the World Series.

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

The winners of each division played each other in a best-of-five series to determine who would advance to the World Series.

In 1969, Spike Milligan based a BBC television series named The World of Beachcomber on the columns.

This series is set in 1917, on the Western Front in the trenches of the First World War.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

During the aftermath of the Second World War, Pasternak had composed a series of poems on Gospel themes.

The brand launched an online reality TV series called Bud House that followed the lives of 32 international football fans ( one representing each nation in the World Cup ) living together in a house in South Africa.

After World War II, the French Constitution of 1946 inaugurated the first of a series of reforms that led eventually to complete independence for all French territories in western and equatorial Africa.

During World War I, in which his younger son Michel served and his friend and admirer Clemenceau led the French nation, Monet painted a series of weeping willow trees as homage to the French fallen soldiers.

The divisional winners met in a best-of-5 series to advance to the World Series, in a " 2 – 3 " format, first two games were played at the home of the team who did not have home field advantage.

In what was a dramatic five game series, their NLDS victory over the Atlanta Braves was the franchise's first postseason series win since they went to the World Series in 1908, when they beat the Detroit Tigers in five games.

He was hired by the French publishing company Éditions du Seuil as editor of the series Petite Planète ( Small World ).

The Winter Olympics, the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the FIS World Cup events ( including the Holmenkollen and the Tour de Ski, a grueling 9 race series completed in eleven days ) have long been a showcase for the world's fastest cross country skiers.