* ICON Health & Fitness – Touted as the world's largest developer, manufacturer, and marketer of fitness equipment.

Touted by Weight Watchers as incorporating a decade of science compared to the prior Points-based plans, the focus remains on assisting members in creating a calorie deficit to lose weight using a reformulated calculation approach for computing target daily points ( e. g., approximately how many calories per day should be eaten ) and the costs of food ( the PointsPlus values of food ).

Touted as special event programming, the hour-long episode aired just before the Daytime Emmy Awards on June 23, 1992.

Touted features included a combined file manager and web browser, the ability to seamlessly open Microsoft Office documents from within Internet Explorer using ActiveX technology and a way to place dynamic webpages directly on the desktop in place of the regular static computer wallpaper.

Touted by some as a future Hall of Famer, his career was permanently altered on April 8, 1984, when he was hit in the face by a Mike Torrez fastball.

Touted as " what many people consider to be the most eagerly awaited album of 2006 " ( according to Norwegian magazine, Plan B ), the record debuted at # 3 on the sales chart in her native Norway.

Touted as a healthy alternative, it contains no caffeine and has 2 grams of carbohydrates per serving, as well as 5 % apple juice, which is uncommon among American market carbonated beverages.

Touted as the British version of The Monkees, The Bugaloos attracted more than 5, 000 young actors and actresses to audition for the show's four lead roles, each having to demonstrate aptitude in dance, singing, and acting.

Touted primarily for its physical training aspects, Sanchin also contains many applicable martial techniques.

Touted as A Mexican Street of Yesterday in a City of Today, Olvera Street was an instant success as a tourist site.

Touted by officials as " the most elegant barracks in history ," it housed soldiers during the Boca Raton Army Air Field's operation.

Touted as the next Wayne Carey early in his career, Brown was an unspectacular but consistent contributor during his first few seasons and, at 195 cm and 105 kg, was an imposing target across half forward.

Touted as a producer ’ s hero, Venki ’ s movies are always made well within budget Venki ’ s latest film is Chintakalaya Ravi and here the actor has glamour queens Anushka and Mamta Mohandas to match him in his duets and histrionics.

Touted by Fairbanks-Morse as "... the most useful locomotive ever built ..." upon its introduction in 1953, the 2, 400 horsepower ( 1. 8 MW ) H-24-66 Train Master was the most powerful single-engine diesel locomotive available, legendary for its pulling power and rapid acceleration.

Touted as the Gateway to Mindanao, Lipata Port serves as the entry point to Mindanao Island forming part of the extensive Pan Philippine Highway also called Maharlika Highway AH26 that originates from Laoag City to its southern terminus in Zamboanga City.

Touted as a " recreational paradise " by the Department of the Interior, Big Cypress was created in part to accommodate access with off-road vehicles ( ORVs ) by the hunters and the Miccosukee and Seminole people who had worked to protect Big Cypress from drainage and development.

Touted as a " Mario Lanza with sex-appeal ," the connections between the two tenors would diminish but not stop.

Touted as " one of America's most haunted homes ", the plantation is supposedly the home of at least 12 ghosts.

In Western Australia the Argyle diamond mine in the Kimberley ( Western Australia ) is the world's biggest producer of natural diamonds and contributes approximately one-third of the world's natural supply.

These are the world's biggest censuses and over 6 million enumerators were engaged in the 2000 and 2010 censuses.

At the 2012 meeting in Vancouver, Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( the world's biggest science conference ), support was reiterated for a cetacean bill of rights, listing cetaceans as " non-human persons ".

It is the world's third biggest aid donor after the United States and France.

It is the world's third biggest aid donor after the United States and France.

It is one of the world's biggest cave chambers.

Some points of interest are the Tropical House, the Cactus House, the Canary House and the Orchid House, which hosts one of the world's biggest collection of orchids, and free-flying birds and butterflies.

Others argue that as the world's biggest consumer, with its own natural resources, the U. S. can wisely dictate what conditions can apply to goods and services imported for U. S. consumption, misunderstanding the nature of prices and their emergent, non-centrally planned, nature.

" There are more than 90 barbecue restaurants in the metropolitan area and the American Royal each fall hosts what it claims is the world's biggest barbecue contest.

Luxembourg is the home of the world's biggest satellite company, SES, located in Betzdorf ( 49 ° 41 ' 36 N ; 6 ° 19 ' 45 E )

Rubies are the biggest earner ; 90 % of the world's rubies come from the country, whose red stones are prized for their purity and hue.

* Nile River valley and delta, Egypt, is claimed as the world's biggest oasis by the 2007 edition of The Guinness Book of World Records with a stated area of 22, 000 square kilometres.

It will become the country's biggest airport with nine runways and it will become the World's busiest airport by international passenger traffic surpassing London-Heathrow and will have more passengers than Atlanta, which is currently the world's busiest airport.

Spanish companies invested in fields like renewable energy ( Iberdrola was the world's largest renewable energy operator ), technology companies like Telefónica, Abengoa, Mondragon Corporation, Movistar, Hisdesat, Gamesa, Indra, train manufacturers like CAF, Talgo, global corporations such as the textile company Inditex, petroleum companies like Repsol and infrastructure, with six of the ten biggest international construction firms specialising in transport being Spanish, like Ferrovial, Acciona, ACS, OHL and FCC.

The world's biggest snowcastle, the SnowCastle of Kemi, is built in Kemi, Finland every winter.

** The Hungarian Forint is introduced in Hungary by the government, ending the world's biggest hyperinflation in the country.

The funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations in Belgrade from all over the world ( only the funeral of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 will have more news coverage and a higher number of delegations ).

* Donald McKay builds the Great Republic, the world's biggest sailing ship, which at 4, 500 tons is too large to be successful.

Louis Redshaw, head of environmental markets at Barclays Capital, predicts that " Carbon will be the world's biggest commodity market, and it could become the world's biggest market overall.

Barbados eventually had one of the world's biggest sugar industries after starting sugar cane cultivation in 1640.

Antonio Basagoiti and other citizens founded the Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterrey, in 1900, a steel-producing company that accelerated the already fast industrialization of the city and became one of the world's biggest of its time.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

Clearwater Cave, for example, has one of the world's longest underground rivers.

* 1863 – The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.

* August 2 – Official opening of the Tower Subway beneath the River Thames in London, the world's first underground " tube " railway.

* Delaware Aqueduct, in New York State, United States – at 85 miles ( 137 km ) long, the world's longest continuous underground tunnel.

In 1983, the VAL, the world's first automated rapid transit underground network, was opened.

Both the copper corporations aimed to expand privatized copper production in the city of El Teniente in the Chilean Andes, the world's largest underground copper mine.

It was the world's first underground railway.

The origins of the Metropolitan line lie with the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opening in 1863 between Paddington and Farringdon Street, to connect the relatively remote terminus of Paddington with the City.

In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway opened the world's first underground line between Paddington and Farringdon Street with wooden carriages and steam locomotives.

In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened in London between Paddington and Farringdon Street, connecting Great Western Railway's relatively remote terminus at Paddington with Euston and King's Cross stations and the City.

The section between Paddington and Farringdon, the world's first underground railway had opened the previous year in 1863.

It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway ( MR ), the world's first underground railway, opened in 1863.

PATH accommodates 100, 000 pedestrians daily, and PATH businesses host the world's largest underground sidewalk sale once annually.

In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway opened a line from Paddington and Farringdon, the world's first underground railway.

A guilty verdict, on the other hand, would destroy the reputation of one of the world's leading collectors of biblical antiquities and drive the entire Israeli market underground.

Codenamed Aspidistra, it was installed in a huge, underground bunker near Crowborough in Sussex, England, where it was briefly the world's largest medium wave station, perfect for deceptive " black " operation.

Also in 1884, Greathead was engaged as engineer on the London ( City ) & Southwark Subway, later the City & South London Railway ( and now part of the Northern Line ) which was, when it opened in 1890, the world's first underground electric railway.

It is sometimes cited as the world's first underground tube railway, though it was not the first underground railway.

On 9 January 1863 the line opened as the Metropolitan Railway ( MR ), the world's first underground passenger railway.

This station was part of the world's first underground railway when it was opened as part of the Metropolitan Railway between and on 1 October 1863.

The station was opened on 10 January 1863 as the terminus of the original Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground metro line.

The station was part of the world's first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, which opened between " Bishop's Road " ( now ) on the Hammersmith & City line and " Farringdon Street " ( close to the present-day station ).

Its construction also included the building of the world's first stretch of underground railway, a branch of the Metropolitan Railway that later became part of the London Underground running beneath Farringdon Road from into the City at station.