* Beriev A-40 ' Albatros ', the largest multipurpose amphibian airplane in the world, NATO codename " Mermaid ".

*** The Permian temnospondyl Prionosuchus, the largest amphibian known, reached 9 m in length and was an aquatic predator resembling a crocodilian.

One of the largest extant species of amphibian in the world, they can grow from in mass and from in length.

A wildlife sanctuary named ' The Armadale Reptile Park ' was opened in Wungong in 1995 by the Gaikhorst family and has the largest public reptile and amphibian display in Western Australia along with dingoes, flying foxes, farm animals marsupials and birds.

The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.

however, the anode is still the part receiving the largest heat flux.

It is often stated that the largest snakes require five years to attain maturity, but this apparently is an overestimation.

Bernard Heuvelmans also treats of the largest snakes, but on the third level, and is chiefly concerned with the anaconda.

In addition, the iodoamino acid formed in largest quantity in the intact thyroid is di-iodotyrosine.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

The ultimate objective of American policy is to help establish a world in which there is the largest possible measure of freedom and justice and peace and material prosperity ; ;

I speak of `` the largest possible measure '' because any person who supposes that these conditions can be universally and perfectly achieved -- ever -- reckons without the inherent imperfectability of himself and his fellow human beings, and is therefore a dangerous man to have around.

The dome of the church is, outside of St. Peter's, one of the largest in Rome.

It is the second largest city in Japan, with about four million people.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

Behind this reply, and its many variations, is the ever-present budget problem all libraries must face, from the largest to the smallest.

Also, the state with the largest number of Negroes is New York -- not in the South at all.

The largest city by population is Birmingham.

The largest city by total land area is Huntsville.

The single largest organization of Anthropologists is the American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), which was founded in 1903.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

The largest family in this group is Plethodontidae, the lungless salamanders, which includes sixty percent of all salamander species.

Alaska () is the largest state in the United States by area.

One of the largest problems that affect patients with disabilities is discomfort with prosthesis.

The largest segmental script is probably an abugida, Devanagari.

The largest known abjad is Sindhi, with 51 letters.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

* The Siku Quanshu, the largest compilation of literature in Chinese history.

The Chinese emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty oversaw the compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia, one of the largest encyclopedias in history, which was completed in 1408 and comprised over 370 million Chinese characters in 11, 000 handwritten volumes, of which only about 400 remain today.

* 2007 – The Chinese Correction: the Shanghai Stock Exchange falls 9 %, the largest drop in 10 years.

In the United States territory of Guam, Asians, mostly Filipinos, with smaller numbers of Koreans, Chinese, and Japanese, are the largest minority group.

Both males and females grow to an adult length of to from snout to vent, with a total length of to making it the third largest aquatic salamander species in the world ( next to the Chinese giant salamander and the Japanese giant salamander ) and the largest in North America.

By the turn of the 19th century, the company had become the largest of the ‘’ hongs ’’ or foreign trading conglomerates with offices in all the important Chinese cities as well as Yokohama, Japan.

* 1948 – Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launched a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign, the largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.

* 1363 – End of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.

The Qianlong Emperor sponsored the largest collection of writings in Chinese history, the Siku Quanshu completed in 1782.

The five largest religious groups by population, estimated to account for between 5 and 7 billion people, are Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism ( with the relative numbers for Buddhism and Hinduism dependent on the extent of syncretism ) and Chinese folk religion.

During the same time, Chan Buddhism grew to become the largest sect in Chinese Buddhism.

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

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* The Battle of Lake Poyang, a naval conflict between Chinese rebel groups led by Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang, took place in August to October of 1363, and was one of the largest naval battles in history.

* 1013 – One of the Four Great Books of Song, the Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau compiled by 1013 was the largest of the Song Chinese encyclopedias.

* The largest of the Four Great Books of Song, the Song Dynasty Chinese encyclopedia Prime Tortoise of the Record Bureau ( which had been compiled since 1005 ), is completed in 1, 000 volumes of 9. 4 million written Chinese characters.

The U. S. GM cotton crop was 4. 0 million hectares in 2011 the second largest area in the world, the Chinese GM cotton crop was third largest by area with 3. 9 million hectares and Pakistan had the fourth largest GM cotton crop area of 2. 6 million hectares in 2011.

The Chinese Communist Party is the world's largest political party, claiming nearly 78 million members at the end of 2009 which constitutes about 5. 6 % of the total population of mainland China.