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RMS Queen Elizabeth's size record stood for the longest time at over 54 years. This is a timeline of the world's largest passenger ships based upon internal volume, initially measured by gross register tonnage and later by gross tonnage.
1896 Summer Olympics venue, 2004 Summer Olympics venue 2011 Special Olympics World Summer Games venue: 1869: 74 Páirc Uí Chaoimh: 45,000 [50] Cork City Ireland: Cork GAA: 1976: 75 Nizhny Novgorod Stadium: 44,899: Nizhny Novgorod Russia: FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod 2018 FIFA World Cup venue: 2018: 4 [citation needed] 76 Mordovia Arena: 44,442 (t ...
Edward Smith, captain of Titanic, on board the Olympic in 1911. Titanic had about 885 crew members on board for the maiden voyage. [109] Like other vessels of the time, Titanic did not have a permanent crew, and the vast majority of crew members were casual workers who only came aboard the ship a few hours before sailing from Southampton. [110]
The largest cities in Europe have official populations of over one million inhabitants within their city boundaries. These rankings are based on populations contained within city administrative boundaries, as opposed to urban areas or metropolitan areas , which necessarily have larger populations than the cities at their core.
As the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris came to an end this weekend, most of the conversation surrounded the number of medals won, and the number of records broken. At least 40 athletes tested ...
Despite deployment of COVID-19 vaccines, Europe became the pandemic's epicentre once again in late 2021. [9] On 11 January 2022, Dr. Hans Kluge, the WHO Regional Director for Europe said, "more than 50 percent of the population in the region will be infected with Omicron in the next six to eight weeks". [10]
While more than 40 COVID-19 cases among this year’s Olympic athletes may seem like a lot, NBC News medical contributor Dr. Kavita Patel told Today.com last month that based on existing ...
More than a century after it sunk during its maiden voyage in 1912, killing more than 1,500 of its passengers, the story of the Titanic has continued to beckon adventurers hoping to view the ...