Peanuts are the world's second most important legume.

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

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

Many participants were among those 11 million or more protesters that on the weekend of February 15, 2003, participated in global protests against the imminent Iraq war and were dubbed the " world's second superpower " by an editorial in the New York Times.

Established in 1694, it is the second oldest central bank in the world, after the Sveriges Riksbank and the world's 8th oldest bank.

South Asia has the world's largest English-speaking population with a certain percentage of people who speak English as their first or second language, although most speakers of Indian English, Pakistani English etc.

The world's second most popular drink was born in a collision between the United States and Spain.

This acquisition made Compaq, at the time, the world's second largest computer maker in the world in terms of revenue behind I. B. M.

" The boiling lake ( the world's second largest ) is within a crater and is fed by a waterfall-the boiling is believed to be caused by the heat of a magma chamber beneath the lake.

* Mount Isa, Queensland is often said to be the world's largest or second largest city by surface area.

The Gibraltar Chronicle is the world's second oldest English language newspaper to have been in print continuously.

Greenland possesses the world's second largest ice sheet.

One of the positive results of the campaign was GAR ( Golden Agri-Resources ), the world's second largest palm oil production company, deciding to commit itself to forest conservation.

She eventually amassed more than 90 van Gogh paintings and 185 drawings, one of the world's largest collections of the artist's work, second only to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Every year Hanover hosts the Schützenfest Hannover, the world's largest marksmen's festival, and the Oktoberfest Hannover, the second largest Oktoberfest in the world.

There are two examples: Iceland, which is the world's second largest volcanic island, and Jan Mayen — both are in the Atlantic.

The demographics of India are inclusive of the second most populous country in the world, with over 1. 21 billion people ( 2011 census ), more than a sixth of the world's population.

India has formal diplomatic relations with most nations ; it is the world's second most populous country, the world's most-populous democracy and one of the fastest growing major economies.

Gandhi was the second female head of government in the world after Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and she remains as the world's second longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2012.

The economy of Japan is the third largest national economy in the world after the United States and the People's Republic of China and is the world's second largest developed economy According to the International Monetary Fund, the country's per capita GDP ( PPP ) was at $ 34, 739 or the 25th highest in 2011.

With average growth rates of 10 % in the 1960s, 5 % in the 1970s, and 4 % in the 1980s, Japan was able to establish and maintain itself as the world's second largest economy from 1968 until 2010, when it was supplanted by the People's Republic of China.

First was the foundation of Edo ( in 1603 ) to whole inland economical developments, second was the Meiji Restoration ( in 1868 ) to be the first non European power, third was after the defeat of World War II ( in 1945 ) when the island nation rose to become the world's second largest economy.

The world's first scheduled airmail post service took place in the United Kingdom between the London suburb of Hendon, North London, and Windsor, Berkshire, on September 9, 1911.

The world's first official airmail stamps were issued in 1917 when Poste italiane overprinted their existing special delivery stamps.

* Hired Freighter plane :-The world's first official airmail flight took place in India, on 18 February 1911.

The Department of Posts, India also celebrated the centenary of the world's first official airmail flight, which took place between Allahabad and Naini on 18 February 1911.

* 1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft.

* 1946 – First flight of the Convair B-36, the world's first mass-produced nuclear weapon delivery vehicle.

* 1994 – The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, makes its first flight.

* 1952 – The world's first ever jet airliner, the De Havilland Comet 1 makes its maiden flight, from London to Johannesburg.

* 1927 – At 07: 52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

* 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.

* 1927 – Charles Lindbergh touches down at Le Bourget Field in Paris, completing the world's first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

* 1964 – The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.

Early in the morning of 2 October 2000 at the High Energy Laser Systems Test Facility ( HELSTF ), Lightcraft Technologies, Inc. ( LTI ) with the help of Franklin B. Mead of the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory and Leik Myrabo set a new world's altitude record of 233 feet ( 71 m ) for its 4. 8 inch ( 12. 2 cm ) diameter,, laser-boosted rocket in a flight lasting 12. 7 seconds.

Overall, happiness for Plotinus is "... a flight from this world's ways and things.

For high-fidelity flight simulation, the division operates the world's largest flight simulator ( the Vertical Motion Simulator ), a Level-D 747-400 simulator, and a panoramic air traffic control tower simulator.

* 1976 – Concorde makes the world's first commercial passenger-carrying supersonic flight

Aviation history was made in St. Petersburg on January 1, 1914 when Tony Jannus made the world's first scheduled commercial airline flight with the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line from St. Petersburg to Tampa.

Burcham's flight of 4 h 5 min 22 s that December was not broken until July 24, 1991 when U. S. airshow pilot Joanne Osterud set a new world's record of 4 h 38 min 10 s. In 1936, Burcham flew his Boeing 100 to the World's Aerobatic Championship at the National Air Races in Los Angeles.

*" Be the Change ", an eclectic musical work dedicated to Anousheh Ansari's space flight as she became the world's first female private space traveler

The Barcelona – Madrid air shuttle service, known as the " Puente Aéreo " ( in Spanish ), or " Pont Aeri " ( in Catalan ) literally " Air Bridge ", was the world's busiest route until 2008, with the highest number of flight operations ( 971 per week ) in 2007.

This was shortly followed by the Blériot XII, a high-wing two-seater monoplane first flown on 21 May, and for a while Blériot concentrated on flying this machine, flying it with a passenger on 2 July, and on 12 July making the world's first flight with two passengers, one of whom was Santos Dumont.

This event took place ten days after the world's first manned balloon flight by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier using a Montgolfier brothers hot air balloon.

Heinrich Kubis was Germany's ( and the world's ) first flight attendant, in 1912.

On November 7, 2011 United Airlines flew the world's first commercial aviation flight on a microbially derived biofuel using Solajet ™, Solazyme's algae-derived renewable jet fuel.

The only other space flight in the short Voskhod program, Voskhod 2, carried two suited cosmonauts — of necessity, because it was the flight on which Alexei Leonov made the world's first walk in space.

The three cosmomauts on this flight spent 23 days on Salyut 1, the world's first space station.

Later, he started the world's first flight school in 1919 at the same location.