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.

The world's best are a match for the best club level sighted bowlers.

* 1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.

( the world's longest-running Rugby League fanzine, by supporters of Doncaster RLFC ) and Scarlet Turkey of National League One club Salford City Reds.

As of July 2012, the club is number one in Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the world's 50 most valuable sports teams, valued at $ 2. 23 billion.

* 1857 – Sheffield F. C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.

Founded in 1818, Leander Club is the world's oldest public rowing club.

In 1872, along with two local doctors, they founded the world's first tennis club in Leamington Spa.

The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, was formed in 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wanted to create in a professional club with the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth.

In 1488 the world's first writers ' club, called Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana, was founded in Kraków.

The world's first cricket club was formed in Hambledon in the 1760s and the Marylebone Cricket Club ( MCC ) was founded in 1787.

Eriksson later said that he was attracted by the consortium's plans to take the world's oldest league club to the top of the Premiership, and believed that they had the finance and commitment to do that.

* FC Barcelona ( the world's first cooperative-based football club )

The Blackheath club also organised the world's first rugby international ( between England and Scotland in Edinburgh on 27 March 1871 ) and hosted the first international between England and Wales ten years later – the players meeting and getting changed at the Princess of Wales public house.

The Society — sometimes claimed to be the world's first football club — consisted of London-based natives of Cumberland and Westmorland.

The Lusty Lady, a peep-show establishment, is notable as the world's only worker cooperative strip club.

Dublin University Football Club, founded in 1854, plays rugby football and is the world's oldest documented " football club ".

The world's first surf lifesaving club was founded at Bondi Beach, Sydney, in 1906 and surf life savers have a revered status in the national culture.

It is the world's oldest extant football club ( all codes ) in terms of continuous existence.

* 24 October — foundation of Sheffield FC, the world's oldest known association football club ( currently playing in the Northern Premier League ).

It will merge with St Helens RUFC in the 1980s but still claims to be the world's oldest " open " rugby football club.

As a club, it is the world's oldest that is currently involved in senior professional association football, but in fact the club does not create a football department until 6 March 1899 or play its first matches until 1902.

One of his main initiatives was to re-invent the club with new colors that meshed with the DNA of other KSE clubs, in the form of burgundy and blue, leading the way towards constructing the world's largest and most state of the art professional soccer stadium and fields complex, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, formulating club-to-club relationships with Arsenal of the English Premier League and Pachuca of Mexico, and ushering in a new era of optimism.