In 1986, Bombardier acquired Canadair after the Canadian government-owned aircraft manufacturing company had recorded the largest corporate loss in Canadian business history.

The incident resulting in the single largest loss of life in the history of the US Navy not related to combat occurred when USS Cyclops, under the command of Lt Cdr G. W.

The largest defeat in club history was a 52 – 0 loss against the Baltimore Colts in 1964.

In the final, Australia made 359 runs for the loss of two wickets, the largest ever total in a final, defeating India by 125 runs.

Globally one of the largest contributors to erosive soil loss in the year 2006 is the slash and burn treatment of tropical forests.

It was the largest party in Dáil Éireann at every general election from the 1932 general election until the 2011 general election, when it suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government in the history of the Irish state, a loss described as " historic " in its proportions, where it saw its electoral support base diminished by 75 %, as a reaction to the intervention, and in the running of the Irish economy, of the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank in November 2010.

From the time beginning with the incorporation of the Portuguese Empire in 1580 ( lost in 1640 ) until the loss of its American colonies in the 19th century, Spain maintained the largest empire in the world even though it suffered fluctuating military and economic fortunes from the 1640s.

A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.

In total, 95 bombers are lost, making it the largest Bomber Command loss of World War II.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, concluding the 11th with largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members ( 12 ) during that war.

* 1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.

The Emperor Penguin ( the largest penguin ) has the largest body mass of all penguins, which further reduces relative surface area and heat loss.

* 1944 – The Kassel Mission results in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in World War II.

The unprecedented events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed.

* 2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777. 68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

It was the largest theatre of war in history in terms of numbers of soldiers, equipment and casualties and was notorious for its unprecedented ferocity, destruction, and immense loss of life.

According to a 2006 United Nations initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contribute on a " massive scale " to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity.

** IBM announces a $ 4. 97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.

* March 10 – 11 – Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members ( 12 ) during the then-secret war later known as the Laotian Civil War.

* December 23 – The HMHS Britannic, the largest individual British loss in WWI, departs Liverpool on her maiden voyage.

This event also marks the largest job loss in Australian history.

The country was further weakened by the destruction of much of its capital city in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars and the loss of its largest colony, Brazil, in 1822.

`` It was a king cobra, the largest you ever saw, and it deserved to live out its life in the jungle, didn't it??

The Eimeriorina-the largest suborder in this phylum-the life cycle involves both sexual and asexual stages.

Uintatheres were huge creatures with long narrow skulls, of which the elongated facial portion carried three pairs of bony horn-cores, probably covered with short horns in life, the hind-pair having been much the largest.

At its peak, roughly corresponding to the Middle Ages, it was the richest and largest European city, exerting a powerful cultural pull and dominating economic life in the Mediterranean.

In his long life he completed over 35 works, the largest and most famous of which is Tantrāloka, an encyclopedic treatise on all the philosophical and practical aspects of Trika and Kaula ( known today as Kashmir Shaivism ).

The collection, among the world's largest, overviews Egyptian life spanning Ancient Egypt, the Middle Kingdom, the New Kingdom, Coptic art, and the Roman, Ptolemaic, and Byzantine periods.

Syndicalism can be accurately divided into the purely economic focused camp, exemplified by the Italian USI ( Unione Sindacale Italiana, the largest Italian syndicalist union in 1920, taking part in Biennio rosso ) and the anarcho syndicalism of the CNT ( national confederation of labour ), taking both political and economic action, wishing to take control of both workplace and political life, while syndicalism has traditionally focused on the economic sector alone.

In Marvel vs. Capcom 2, it is considered by many players to be the most powerful character in the game, largely due to its powerful combos and semi-infinites, as well as having the largest life meter in the game.

The largest, the Karakul ( Qarokul ) Lake, is a salt lake devoid of life, lying at an elevation of.

Although life in the countryside deteriorated, Constantinople grew to become the largest and wealthiest city in the world.

In more recent times, the University boasts one of Europe's largest collections of life scientists, as well as having been the training ground of numerous politicians, including former First Minister Donald Dewar, fomer leader of the Liberal Democrats and current Rector of the University Charles Kennedy, Liam Fox, John Smith, Sir Menzies Campbell and current Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

By the end of his short life, Sviatoslav carved out for himself the largest state in Europe, eventually moving his capital from Kiev ( modern day Ukraine ) to Pereyaslavets ( modern day Romania ) on the Danube in 969.

In 2003 twelve Carabinieri were killed in a suicide bombing on their base in Nasiriyah, near Basra in southern Iraq, in the largest Italian military loss of life in a single action since the Second World War.

The largest personality of Czech evangelical baroque writing is John Commenius, who spent his youth in Bohemia but was forced into exile later in life.

Suburbanisation, which is happening in the cities of the largest developing countries, was sold and seen as an attempt to balance these negative aspects of urban life while still allowing access to the large extent of shared resources.

The event was carried to 140 million television viewers, the largest audience of his life.

His autobiography, " Burning Bright ", details both his obsession with collecting cigarette cards, as well as his business life, which included becoming President of Selection Trust-at the time, one of the largest mining companies in the world-as well as his lifelong passion for cricket, which culminated in his presidency of Kent Cricket Club.

One of the largest mass extinction to have affected life on Earth was in the Permian-Triassic, which ended the Permian period 250 million years ago and killed off 90 % of all species ; life on Earth took 30 million years to recover.

Cannas grow from swollen underground stems, correctly known as rhizomes, which store starch, and this is the main attraction of the plant to agriculture, having the largest starch particles of all plant life.

With this project, UDP now possesses the largest student infrastructure in the University District of Santiago, considered and projected around the university life of its students, empowering the development of their academic, sporting and social activities.