She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

As the world's top sportsman -- pro or amateur -- Sports Illustrated tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer ( Time cover, May 2 ), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.

In 2010, Australia was the top producer of bauxite with almost one-third of the world's production, followed by China, Brazil, India, and Guinea.

Since 2005, the world's top selling brand of inkjet and laser printers has been HP which now has 46 % of sales in inkjet and 55. 5 % in laser printers.

Croatia is ranked among the top 20 most popular tourist destinations in the world, and was voted world's top tourism destination in 2005 by Lonely Planet.

The top three producers were China with 1, 800, India with 220, and USA with 63. 5 million tonnes for a combined total of over half the world total by the world's three most populated states.

The South Side is home to the University of Chicago ( UC ), ranked one of the world's top ten universities ; and the Museum of Science and Industry.

The centre is host to half of the world's top 50 banks and to half of the top 20 insurance companies.

The five top European leagues – the Premier League ( England ), La Liga ( Spain ), Serie A ( Italy ), the Bundesliga ( Germany ) and Ligue 1 ( France ) – attract most of the world's best players and each of the leagues has a total wage cost in excess of £ 600 million /€ 763 million / US $ 1. 185 billion.

Frankfurt Airport ranks among the world's top ten airports.

In 2010, GM made an initial public offering that was one of the world's top 5 largest IPOs to date.

In July 2011, Greenpeace released its Dirty Laundry report accusing some of the world's top fashion and sportswear brands of releasing toxic waste into China's rivers.

Through the 2009-2010 NBA season, 152 hoosier athletes have played professional basketball in the world's top league.

It is amongst world's top 10 fastest growing ports.

As two of the world's top three economic powers, both countries also rely on close economic ties for their wealth, despite ongoing and occasionally acrimonious trade frictions.

In January 1998, she played in the category XVII event, the Hoogovens in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, in which 14 of the world's top grandmasters participated.

Lund University () is one of Europe's most prestigious universities and Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities.

* One of the world's longest trains ( up to 2. 5 km long ) runs here, with more than 200 wagons mainly transporting iron ore, and some carriages for passengers ; alternatively, people sit on top of the iron piles.

In a 2006 survey of " 15 of the world's top travel writers " by The Observer, Palin named Peru's Pongo de Mainique ( canyon below the Machu Picchu ) his " favourite place in the world ".

Raised between Fez and San Sebastian, Chef Najat Kaanache has served as an unofficial Culinary Ambassador of Morocco, sharing Moroccan flavors and cooking techniques with many of the world's top chefs during her pilgrimage through the best restaurant kitchens of Spain, Denmark, Holland and the US.

Though ranked as 15th in production at ( mbpd ), the top 3 producers Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the United States produce ( 11. 8 %), ( 12. 0 %), and ( 11. 1 %) respectively, collectively accounting for ( 44 %) of the world's total production. To put oil revenues in perspective: at an estimated export rate of, with a projected sales price of $ 65 per barrel in 2011, Nigeria's anticipated revenue from petroleum is about $ 52. 2 billion.

Russia is the world's top supplier of arms, a spot it has held since 2001, accounting for around 30 % of worldwide weapons sales and exporting weapons to about 80 countries.

Guinea-Bissau is among the world's least developed nations and one of the 10 poorest countries in the world, and depends mainly on agriculture and fishing.

The development of the world's first practical design for an ICBM, A9 / 10, intended for use in bombing New York and other American cities, was undertaken in Nazi Germany by the team of Wernher von Braun under Projekt Amerika.

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.

The January 1996 FIDE ratings list was a landmark as Polgár's 2675 rating made her the No. 10 ranked player in the world, the only woman ever to enter the world's Top Ten.

In April 1997, she played in the Dos Hermanas Chess tournament, a single-round robin category XIX event of 10 of the world's best players.

: Landlocked ; strategic location between China and India ; contains eight of world's 10 highest peaks

With eight of the world's 10 highest mountain peaks, including Mount Everest at 8, 848 m. In the early 1990s, one large public sector project and a number of private projects were planned ; some have been completed.

They found that studies generally assumed a scenario that half of the world's nuclear weapons would be used, ~ 5000 Mt, destroying approximately 1, 000 cities, and creating large quantities of carbonaceous smoke-1 – 2 × 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > grams being mostly likely, with a range of 0. 2 – 6. 4 × 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > grams ( NAS ; TTAPS assumed 2. 25 × 10 < sup > 14 </ sup >).

* 2008 – " Bloody Friday " saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10 % in most indices.

Fishing: Peru is an international leader in fishing, producing nearly 10 percent of the world's fish catch.

In September 2012 Australian researchers say the world's first quantum computer is just 5 to 10 years away, after announcing a global breakthrough that makes manufacture of its memory building blocks possible.

Russia possesses 10 % of the world's arable land.

According to government statistics, the population of Seoul, one of the world's largest cities, surpassed 10 million people in late 1988.

* 1980 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10. 14 miles ( 16. 224 km ) stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.

The United States Geological Survey reports in its yearbook that this region produced a little less than 1 % of the world's tantalum output in 2002 – 2006, peaking at 10 % in 2000 and 2008.

* September 5 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10. 14 miles ( 16. 32 km ), stretching from Göschenen to Airolo.

On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's first registered nurse.

* October 10 – Richard D ' Oyly Carte's Savoy Theatre opens in London, the world's first public building to be fully lit by electricity, using Joseph Swan's incandescent light bulbs.

* July 10 – AT & T's Telstar, the world's first commercial communications satellite, is launched into orbit and activated the next day.

* September 10 – The IND Eighth Avenue Line, at this time the world's longest subway line (), begins operation in Manhattan.

* May 10 – A hot air balloon crashes in Tullamore, Ireland, causing a fire that burns down about 100 houses, making it the world's first aviation disaster ( by 36 days ).