An Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger airliner

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans.

Some 98 % of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water.

Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

* 1946 – Électricité de France, the world's largest utility company, is formed as a result of the nationalisation of a number of electricity producers, transporters and distributors.

Aon is the world's second largest insurance brokerage, and largest reinsurance brokerage.

In modern Hinduism slaughter according to the rituals permitted in the Vedic scriptures has become less common, though, the world's largest animal sacrifice occurs at Gadhimai, a Hindu festival which takes place every 5 years.

It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest and most prestigious scientific and educational computing society.

He also had a well-trained larger army and possessed a substantial part of Nadir Shah's treasury, including the world's largest Koh-i-Noor diamond.

Alexandria is home to what is lauded by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest ball of paint.

* List of world's largest cuckoo clocks

The Okavango Delta, the world's largest inland delta, is in the northwest and the Makgadikgadi Pans, a large salt pan lies in the north-central area.

One of the world's largest Bauxite mines in Weipa, Australia

The British Museum houses the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, over 100, 000 pieces, outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

The British Museum has one of the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of antiquities from the Classical world, with over 100, 000 objects.

Formerly the Department of the Ancient Near East, with a collection numbering some 330, 000 works, the British Museum possesses by far the world's largest and most important collection of Mesopotamian antiquities outside Iraq.

Nationwide Building Society is the UK's and the world's largest building society

It was, very probably, the world's largest land battle of the 17th century.

In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, and had built more than 500 cars by 1970.

The world's largest animal, the blue whale, and fastest animal, the peregrine falcon, are chordates.

Canada has the tenth largest economy in the world ( measured in US dollars at market exchange rates ), is one of the world's wealthiest nations, and is a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) and Group of Eight ( G8 ).

According to the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest companies in 2008, Canada had 69 companies in the list, ranking 5th next to France.

Canada and the United States are currently the world's largest trading partners, share the world's longest border, and have significant interoperability within the defence sphere.

One of its 8 sections has been converted to a gondola lift and is still operating as the 13. 2 km Norsjö aerial tramway making it the world's longest passenger cableway.

Current publicised projects range from an diesel engine for unmanned aerial vehicles, through to an engineering partnership on one of the world's most powerful normally aspirated road car engines.

Held at Curtiss Field on Long Island near New York City and sponsored by her friend Abbott and the Chicago Defender newspaper, the show billed Coleman as " the world's greatest woman flier " and featured aerial displays by eight other American ace pilots, and a jump by black parachutist Hubert Julian.

While working with the Dayton-Wright Company he developed the " Bug " aerial torpedo, considered the world's first aerial missile.

Living in the capital was another Italian immigrant, Frederico Valle, once a cameraman and director in Europe ( he used Wilbur Wright's visit to Rome in 1909 as the opportunity to film the world's first aerial cinematography ), now a producer of newsreels for his adopted country.

Ancient Chinese soldiers also mounted massive aerial fire arrow attacks from war kites, where they would send a volley of flaming arrows from the war kite onto the ground target, carrying out the world's first-ever air attacks.

" The many challenges included building a 101 kilometer long access road ( a project that required boring kilometer long tunnels through two mountains ) and constructing the world's longest single span aerial tramway.

In 2002, Garaventa of Switzerland merged with Doppelmayr of Austria, forming the world's largest aerial lift manufacturer.

On October 23, 1911, an Italian pilot, Captain Carlo Piazza, flew over Turkish lines on the world's first aerial reconnaissance mission, and on November 1, the first ever aerial bomb was dropped by Sottotenente Giulio Gavotti, on Turkish troops in Libya, from an early model of Etrich Taube aircraft.

Chinese Boeing P-26 / 281 fighters engaged Japanese Mitsubishi A5M fighters in what is among the world's first aerial dogfighting between all-metal monoplane fighter aircraft.

These include Airflite, a large defence contractor and Fugro the world's largest aerial geophysical survey company.

The Wakamiya conducted the world's first naval-launched aerial raids in history and was in effect the first aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

New York City, being the largest city in the United States, has a transportation system which includes the largest subway system in the world, measured by track mileage ; the world's first mechanically ventilated vehicular tunnel, and an aerial tramway.

He founded the Altitude Agency in 1991, which was the world's first press agency and images bank specialising in aerial photography ( 500, 000 pictures taken in more than 100 countries by more than 100 photographers ).

When the tramway was in operation prior to the 1996 avalanche, it was heralded as the " world's steepest aerial tramway ," although that claim is difficult to ascertain.

As part of managing PDOT, he inherited the responsibility to oversee development of the Portland Aerial Tram, one of the world's few urban aerial trams.

Originally founded in 1909, it is one of the world's first air forces, and was a pioneer in aerial combat during the First World War.

Braidwood had previously been the fire chief in Edinburgh, where the world's first municipal fire service was founded in 1824, and he is now regarded, along with Van der Heyden, as one of founders of modern firefighting.

In the 1980s, Dan Goodwin, aka SpiderDan, aka Skyscraperman, in advocacy for high-rise firefighting and rescue, scaled many of the world's tallest buildings and structures including the Sears Tower, the John Hancock Center, the North Tower of the World Trade Center, the Parque Central Complex in Caracas, Venezuela, and the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada.