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.

* In 2005 the world's astronauts published an open letter through the Association of Space Explorers calling for a united push to develop strategies to protect Earth from the risk of a cosmic collision.

This myth was taken up in later Jewish and Christian apocalyptic literature and projected into the future, so that cosmic battle becomes the decisive act at the end of the world's history: thus the Book of Revelation ( end of the 1st century CE ) tells how, after the God's final victory over the sea-monsters, New Heavens and New Earth shall be inaugurated in a cosmos in which there will be " no more sea " ( Revelation 21: 1 ).

For example, five towers at the center of the Angkor Wat complex represent the peaks of Mount Meru, the center of the universe ; an outer wall represents the mountains that ring the world's edge ; and a moat depicts the cosmic ocean.

He also independently invented a semiconductor rectifier diode, which he used to invent the crystal radio detector for the world's first radio transmitter and receiver.

It is the world's largest caesium iodide RICH detector, with an active area of 11 m².

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a prominent Physiocrat, emigrated to the US and his son founded DuPont, the world's second largest chemicals company.

Arlington's former secretary, Pierre du Moulin, had after fleeing to the Republic begun to work for William ; in the summer of 1673 he exploited the fears of the English population by starting a propaganda campaign, using one of the Dutch main assets: the world's largest printing capacity.

Several characters ( including Ugly Sam, the world's worst wrestler, and Pierre the Chef ) were also voiced by comedian and voice actor Dayton Allen, who later went on to become a cast regular on NBC's primetime The Steve Allen Show.

* Bugatti Veyron, the world's fastest road-legal production car, named after Pierre Veyron

View of Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico with its 300 m dish-the world's largest.

From January to March the Observatory offers what is claimed as the world's highest ice skating rink, using a synthetic surface that enables the use of standard ice skates at normal room temperature.

Maury had the world's first vulcanized time ball, created to his specifications by Charles Goodyear for the U. S. Observatory.

* Milkyweb Astronomical Observatory Guide world's largest database of astronomical observatories since 2001-about 2000 entries

During his tenure, Gold hired famed astronomers Carl Sagan and Frank Drake, helped establish the world's largest radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Cornell-Sydney University Astronomy Center with Harry Messel.

The observatory makes prominent use of the slogan " Home of the World's Worst Weather ", a claim that originated with a 1940 article by Charles Brooks ( the man generally given the majority of credit for creating the Mount Washington Observatory ), titled " The Worst Weather In the World " ( even though the article concluded that Mt Washington most likely did not have the world's worst weather ).

Lick Observatory is the world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory.

The 77-cm refractor at Nice Observatory, when built the world's largest, longest, and highest refracting telescope in

The nearby Arecibo Observatory is known for housing the world's largest radio telescope.

The Arecibo Observatory is the largest single-unit radio telescope ever constructed and one of the world's most powerful radar-radio telescopes.

This is the site of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, one of the world's premier astronomical observatories.

Astronomer George Ellery Hale, whose vision created the Palomar Observatory, built the world's largest telescope four times.

Located within the National Radio Quiet Zone, it is home to the Green Bank Telescope, the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope, which is operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory ( NRAO ).

* Completion of Paris Observatory, the world's first such national institution.

From 1901 to 1946 the village of Rossitten, now Rybachy, became the site of the pioneering Rossitten Bird Observatory, the world's first, founded by German ornithologist Johannes Thienemann there because of the Spit's importance as a bird migration corridor.

By the mid-1990s the cutting edge of Canadian university astronomy studies was involved in some of the world's largest observatories: the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the Gemini Observatory.

The Anglo-Australian Telescope ( AAT ) is a 3. 9 m equatorially mounted telescope operated by the Australian Astronomical Observatory and situated at the Siding Spring Observatory, Australia at an altitude of a little over 1100 m. In 2009, the telescope was ranked as the 5th highest-impact of the world's optical telescopes.

* Wallace Sargent – Former director of the Palomar Observatory, he is one of the world's foremost astronomers and a leading academic at the California Institute of Technology.

* Special Astrophysical Observatory of the Russian Academy of Science, the site of the BTA-6 Telescope, which for many years was the world's largest telescope

The Navy Precision Optical Interferometer ( NPOI ) is a major astronomical interferometer ( world's largest baselines ), operated by the Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station ( NOFS ) in collaboration with the Naval Research Laboratory ( NRL ) and Lowell Observatory.

The Indian Astronomical Observatory ( IAO ), located near Leh in Ladakh, India, has one of the world's highest sites for optical, infrared and gamma-ray telescopes.

At one point, Madeira told Lick, " If I had your wealth, Mr. Lick, I'd build the world's largest telescope on top of that mountain ," pointing out a spot where the present Lick Observatory sits.