It is the world's third-tallest all-hotel building.

With a height of it is also one of the world's tallest non-spired church buildings and the third-tallest structure in the city of Liverpool.

A 600-lb ( 270 kg ) North Korean national flag flies from the world's third tallest flagpole, which is located at Kijŏng-dong, on the North Korean side of the Military Demarcation Line within the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

File: Gijeong-ri Flag. jpg | The world's third tallest flagpole flying a Flag of North Korea.

* Dunkirk was once home to the world's tallest one-piece wooden flagpole.

" The flagpole was superseded as the world's tallest, following the construction of the flagpole in Baku's National Flag Square at.

After the US bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bernard claimed, the Atlanteans became concerned that radioactive air might flow into the world's interior, and so some emerged in their flying saucers in an act of self-defense.

On June 14, 1940, while the world's attention was focused on the fall of Paris to Nazi Germany a day earlier, the Soviet military blockade of Estonia went into effect, and two Soviet bombers downed Finnish passenger airplane " Kaleva " flying from Tallinn to Helsinki carrying three diplomatic pouches from the U. S. legations in Tallinn, Riga and Helsinki.

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.

For example, Concorde cruised at Mach 2. 05 with its engines giving an SFC of 1. 195 lb /( lbf · h ) ( see below ); this is equivalent to an SFC of 0. 51 lb /( lbf · h ) for an aircraft flying at Mach 0. 85, which would be better than even modern engines, it was the world's most efficient jet engine.

Initially flying under the radar, the film wound up winning the Golden Lion, the highest award at the world's oldest film festival.

Kim carried a 17 – 1 – 1 professional record into the Mancini fight and had won 8 bouts by KO before flying to Las Vegas in the WBA as the world's number 1 challenger to world lightweight champion Mancini.

* The German Horten Ho 229 of 1945-the world's first twin jet engine pure flying wing

The cranes are large to very large birds, including the world's tallest flying bird.

The Bar-headed Goose is thought to be one of the world's highest flying birds, having been heard flying across Mount Makalu ( the fifth highest mountain on earth at ) and apparently seen over Mount Everest (, although this is a second hand report with no verification ).

It is thus one of the world's heaviest flying birds.

Bustards are all fairly large with the two largest species, the Kori Bustard ( Ardeotis kori ) and the Great Bustard ( Otis tarda ), being frequently cited as the world's heaviest flying birds.

The feathertail glider ( Acrobates pygmaeus ), also known as the pygmy gliding possum, pygmy glider, pygmy phalanger, flying phalanger and flying mouse, is the world's smallest gliding possum and is named for its long feather-shaped tail.

With a mean weight of around, it is the world's heaviest flying bird species on average although large male bustards and swans can exceed the pelican in maximum weight.

Although they had little, if any, formal training in aeronautics or related fields, the Hortens designed some of the most advanced aircraft of the 1940s, including the world's first jet-powered flying wing, the Horten Ho 229.

The Horten Ho 229, the world's first jet-powered flying wing

The world's largest aerial firefighting flying boats, the Martin Mars Water Bombers, make their home on nearby Sproat Lake.

* Missiles: The Pulse jet powered V-1 flying bomb was the world's first cruise missile, Rockets progressed enormously: V-2 rocket, Katyusha rocket artillery and air launched rockets.

At the end of the valley is an " oasis ", with calmer colours and plants, where the spectacular ride Air, the world's first B & M flying coaster, can be found.

Bogotá holds the world's first Car Free Referendum ( which passes with flying colors ).

Fulton, a mechanical engineer from the Royal Field Artillery, had been an early enthusiast of military flying and had attended the world's first air show at Rheims in 1909.

Monrovia is listed as the home port by between ten and fifteen percent of the world's merchant shipping, registered in Liberia under Flag of Convenience arrangements.

During the 1913 Paterson silk strike, IWW leader “ Big ” Bill Haywood asserted that someday all of the world's flags would be red, “ the color of the working man's blood .” In response, the city's leaders ( who opposed the strike ) declared March 17 to be “ Flag Day ,” and saw to it that each of the city's textile mills flew an American flag.

To celebrate the Silver Jubilee of the Queen's coronation in 1977, the main hangar doors of what was then the British Hovercraft Corporation ( a successor to Saunders Roe ) were painted with the world's largest image of the Union Flag, which can still be seen today.

The former Saunders-Roe factory at Venture Quays, which still boasts the world's largest Union Flag, now produces wind turbines, which can be seen laid on the quay for shipping out.

In light of the economic gap between rich and poor countries, movement adherents claim “ free trade ” without measures in place to protect the environment and the health and well being of workers will contribute only to the strengthening the power of industrialized nations ( often termed the " North " in opposition to the developing world's " South ").

From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

Since the Korean Armistice Agreement ended the armed conflict that existed during the active part of the Korean War in 1953, leaving a de-facto truce in place ever since, the North Korean government has been largely isolationist, becoming one of the world's most authoritarian societies.

The Arctic Cordillera is the world's northernmost mountain system and contains the highest point in eastern North America.

If their estimates are correct, 6. 1 percent of North Korea's total population was in the military, numerically the world's fifth largest military force, in the late 1980s ( fourth largest as of 2006 ).

With GDP per capita of less than $ 2, 000, North Korea remains as one of the world's poorest and least developed countries, in sharp contrast to its neighbor South Korea, which has one of the largest economies in Asia.

Since the Korean War armistice in 1953, the North Korean government has been largely isolationist, becoming one of the world's most totalitarian societies.

* 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.

In May 1937 the world's first North Pole ice station, North Pole-1, was established by Soviet scientists 20 kilometres ( 13 mi ) from the North Pole.

The world's largest gas field is Qatar's offshore North Field, estimated to have 25 trillion cubic meters ( 9. 0

More than half the world's rabbit population resides in North America.

Although a variety of different Asian peoples had migrated to the Korean Peninsula in past centuries, very few have remained permanently, so by 1990 both South Korea and North Korea were among the world's most ethnically homogeneous nations.

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

Clockwise, from left: United Nations soldiers during the Korean War, which was the first UN authorized conflict ; Two atomic explosions from the RDS-37 and Operation Upshot-Knothole | Upshot-Knothole ( Soviet and American, respectively ) nuclear weapons, symbolizing the escalation of Cold War tensions between the two nations in the 1950s ; Israeli troops prepare to fight the Egypt ians during the Suez Crisis of 1956 ; A replica of Sputnik I, the world's first satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 ; Fidel Castro leads the Cuban Revolution in 1959 ; North Sea flood of 1953

It is the world's best known brown ale and is an icon of the North East of England as a result of its historical links to the region.

Although North Vietnam blocked the flights, the effort was instrumental in bringing the plight of those POWs to the world's attention and their captors soon began treating them better.

They are one of the world's most variably sized mammals, since a large male from northern North America weighs about 20 times as much as a small female from the tropics.

Coast Douglas-fir is one of the world's best timber producers and yields more timber than any other tree in North America.

According to Steinway, 97 % of the world's piano soloists chose to play publicly on a Steinway piano during the 2010 – 11 North American concert season, and 99 % during the 2002 – 03 worldwide concert season.

This increase has happened as the world's population moves towards the high ( 75 – 85 %) urbanization levels of North America and Western Europe.

At, Vancouver Island is the largest Pacific island east of New Zealand, the largest island on the western side of North America, the world's 43rd largest island, Canada's 11th largest island, and Canada's second most populous island after the Island of Montreal.

* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat, the world's first commercially successful steamboat, makes her maiden voyage.

In 2001, Toshiba signed a contract with Orion Electric, one of the world's largest OEM consumer video electronic makers and suppliers, to manufacture and supply finished consumer TV and video products for Toshiba to meet the increasing demand for the North American market.