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World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. ( doing business as WWE, Inc .; ) is an American publicly traded, privately controlled entertainment company dealing primarily in professional wrestling, with major revenue sources also coming from film, music, product licensing, and direct product sales.
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* The Band ( wrestling ), the Total Nonstop Wrestling name for the professional wrestling stable New World Order
Mercer is perhaps best known as the ringside commentator of World Class Championship Wrestling in the 1980s.
Judo, Freestyle Wrestling, and Greco-Roman Wrestling are Olympic Sports while Brazilian Jiu-jitsu and Sambo have their own World Championship Competitions.
The ADCC Submission Wrestling World Championship is the most prestigious full range ( takedown, position, and submission inclusive ) grappling tournament in the world.
He was Hulk Hogan's tag-team partner at the World Wrestling Federation's ( WWF ) first WrestleMania which he won.
Mr. T returned to the World Wrestling Federation as a special guest referee in 1987 as well as a special referee enforcer confronting such stars as the Honky Tonk Man.
On July 21, 1989, Mr. T. made an appearance in World Class Championship Wrestling, seconding Kerry Von Erich.
Currently, the largest professional wrestling company worldwide is the United States-based World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), which bought over many smaller regional companies in the late twentieth century, as well as its primary competitors in early 2001, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).
Gradually, the nature of professional wrestling became an open secret, although American promotions ' events were still often regulated by state athletic commissions through the 1980s, until World Wrestling Federation owner Vince McMahon publicly admitted that wrestling was entertainment, not competition.
She then formed the World Women's Wrestling Association in the early 1950s and recognized herself as the first champion, although the championship would be vacated upon her retirement in 1956.
The French theorist Roland Barthes was among the first to propose that wrestling was worthy of deeper analysis, in his essay " The World of Wrestling " from his book Mythologies, first published in 1957.
Other documentaries have been produced by The Learning Channel ( The Secret World of Professional Wrestling ) and A & E Network ( Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows ).
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World of Warcraft has employees of Blizzard Entertainment that serve as gamemasters to help users with various problems in gameplay, chat, and other things like account and billing issues.
A fifth title, Intellivision World Series Major League Baseball, developed as part of the Entertainment Computer System series, also supports the Intellivoice if both the ECS and Intellivoice are connected concurrently.
Blizzard Entertainment helped to set part of " Make Love, Not Warcraft ", an Emmy Award – winning 2006 episode of the comedy series South Park, in its massively multiplayer online role-playing game ( MMORPG ) World of Warcraft.
A few weeks later, Blizzard Entertainment posted on WorldofWarcraft. com their " Letter to the Machinimators of the World ", a license for noncommercial use of game content.
In December 2005, Blizzard Entertainment and Xfire, a gaming-focused instant messaging service, jointly sponsored a World of Warcraft machinima contest.
* Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World ( 1988 ; Apple II, Amiga, DOS, Commodore 64, Mac, Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System ( Europe only ), SNES ( Japan-only, different from the European version ), MSX, PC-Engine CD )
Other appearances and listings include: Entertainment Weekly < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Top 100 TV Icons in 2007, Entertainment Weekly < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Top 12 Entertainers of the Year in 1998 ( ranked # 3 ) and Glamour < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 50 Best Dressed Women in the World 2004 and 2005 ( ranked at No. 17 and # 24 ).
Anchor Bay Entertainment had once announced that it would be releasing the director's cut of Until the End of the World in North America, but has since changed ownership and interest in Wenders ' work was abandoned.
The World Series of Poker ( WSOP ) is a series of poker tournaments held annually in Las Vegas and, since 2005, sponsored by Caesars Entertainment ( known as Harrah's Entertainment until 2010 ).
In 2004, Harrah's Entertainment ( now Caesars Entertainment ) purchased Binion's Horseshoe, retained the rights to the Horseshoe and World Series of Poker brands, sold the hotel and casino to MTR Gaming Group, and announced that the 2005 Series events would be held at the Harrah's-owned Rio Hotel and Casino, located just off the Las Vegas Strip.
* August 25 – Mike Lockwood ( Crash Holly ), American World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ) professional wrestler ( d. 2003 )
Two castmembers of non-athletic reality shows, Mike " The Miz " Mizanin ( from The Real World and its spin-off, The Challenge ) and David Otunga ( from I Love New York ), became professional wrestlers for World Wrestling Entertainment.
Dynamite Entertainment have since published 25 issues of the The Wheel of Time: Eye of the World comic book series as of March 2012.
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* Anthony Zaknich: Neural Networks for Intelligent Signal Processing, World Scientific Pub Co Inc, ISBN 981-238-305-0
Chicago, London & Toronto: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1952 ( Great Books of the Western World coll .).
To remain competitive, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. has stressed the reputation of the Britannica, reduced its price and production costs, and developed electronic versions on CD-ROM, DVD, and the World Wide Web.
Poetry Slam, Inc. holds several National and World Poetry Slams, including the Individual World Poetry Slam, The National Poetry Team Slam and The Women of the World Poetry Slam.
Those plans have since been put on hold after Beaverton attempted to forcibly annex Nike, Inc .' s World Headquarters, which would have increased Nike's taxes substantially.
Wide World of Sports debuted April 29, 1961 and was the creation of Edgar J. Scherick through his company, Sports Programs, Inc. After selling his company to the American Broadcasting Company, Scherick hired a young Roone Arledge to produce the show.
During this period, the WWF's parent company Titan Sports was renamed World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. ( WWFE Inc. or WWFE ) and on October 19, 1999 became a publicly traded company, offering 10 million shares priced at $ 17 each.
In 2000, the World Wide Fund for Nature ( also trademarked WWF ), an environmental organization, sued World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. in the United Kingdom .< ref >
* Singh, K. Natwar, Editor, E. M. Forster: A Tribute, With Selections from his Writings on India, Contributors: Ahmed Ali, Mulk Raj Anand, Narayana Menon, Raja Rao & Santha Rama Rau, ( On Forster's Eighty Fifth Birthday ), Harcourt, Brace & World Inc., New York, 1 January 1964.
Juniata College is mentioned in the following publications: 2006 Princeton Review's Best 361 Colleges ; Loren Pope's Colleges That Change Lives ; Kaplan, Inc .' s Insider's Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges ; Peterson's Competitive Colleges ; Miriam Weinstein's Making A Difference College Guide: Outstanding Colleges to Help You Make a Better World ; Barron's Best Buys in College Education ; Leland Miles ' Provoking Thought: What Colleges Should Do for Students ; Elle Girl Magazine: Top 50 colleges that Dare to be Different ; Rugg's Recommendations on the Colleges ; and Don Asher's Cool Colleges.
* The World of Edward Gorey, Clifford Ross and Karen Wilkin, Henry N. Abrams Inc., 1996 ( ISBN 0-8109-3988-6 ).
On April 5, 2007, New ATA Holdings, Inc., bought out North American Airlines parent company World Air Holdings, Inc. and promptly changed the name of the holding company to Global Aero Logistics, Inc. to reflect the worldwide desires of the latest owners.
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