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The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) and concludes the MLB postseason.First played in 1903, [1] the World Series championship is a best-of-seven playoff and is a contest between the champions of baseball's National League (NL) and American League (AL). [2]
A Airbus A380-800 of Dubai-based Emirates, one of the two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates. A flag carrier is a transport company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given sovereign state, enjoys preferential rights or privileges accorded by that government for international operations.
The practice of government ownership of airlines, particularly flag carrier airlines, occurs in many countries. The following is a list of both airlines currently owned by a government, and former government-owned airlines.
The white and red colors also represent the flag colors of Peru and the associated nation's flag carrier - LAN Perú (later known as LATAM Perú). Loganair: A tartan pattern of kilt (the national garment of Scotland) featured in the vertical stabilizer. Luxair: The Luxembourg flag and the logo of the airline are on display on the back of the plane.
The national carrier of the Northeast African country of Sudan is another one with a long history, since it was founded in 1946. Following two accidents — one in 2003 causing 116 deaths and one ...
Although it was named in 1985, the trophy was first awarded in 1967, when the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Boston Red Sox.Coincidentally, the 1967 World Series was nine months after the first Super Bowl, where the Green Bay Packers were awarded the AFL-NFL World Championship Trophy for defeating the Kansas City Chiefs (the trophy was renamed the Vince Lombardi Trophy prior to Super Bowl V ...
Fiji Airways, formerly Air Pacific, is the flag carrier of Fiji.It operates international services from its hubs in Fiji to 27 destinations, and has an extended network of 108 international destinations through its codeshare partners, including Qantas, who also own a stake in the airline.
Air Astana (Kazakh: Эйр Астана) is an airline and the flag carrier of Kazakhstan.Based in Almaty, the airline was founded by the Government of Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund Samruk Kazyna (51%) and BAE Systems (49%) and commenced operations on 15 May 2002.