Charon, Pluto's largest moon, is named after the ferryman who carried the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx, which divided the world of the living from that of the dead.
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"It is also a symbol that marks the doorway between the world of the living and the world of the dead that is offered as our acknowledgement of the dead, " he told the BBC.
By then, England was the first country in the world where the majority of the population would be living in cities (albeit riddled with tuberculosis, for which a winter visit to the Alps in due course became de rigueur).
This is only the latest challenge for the man described in the Guinness Book of Records as "the world's greatest living explorer".
Analysts say for foreign airlines such as AirAsia and Etihad, the attraction of India is its huge population--the second-largest in the world--and the growing number of Indians living abroad.
Seniors would do far better each choosing their own health insurers themselves in a competitive marketplace, which is the system that has generated the highest standard of living in the world in America for all goods and services.
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Christians, 33% of the world's population, make up nearly half of the world's 214 million living migrants, the study shows.
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Most of the world learned of his living with the disfigurement and pain of oral cancer from a February 2010 article and photograph in Esquire magazine.
Paulo Coelho, the bestselling author whose novel The Alchemist has been dubbed by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most translated book by a living author (into a total of 53 languages), recently wrote an article strongly advocating for online peer-to-peer book sharing.
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Yet such legitimate concerns should not be allowed to detract from the basic progress that has occurred: in the past 20 years the share of the world's population living in proper democracies has risen from about a third to just over half.
All have had to cope with the most wrenching change any part of the world has had to endure in living memory, including the fastest population growth, the most rapid urbanisation and some of the biggest tides of immigration.
In the less developed markets of the world, the cost perspectives, living and operating conditions and emissions regulations are closer to where they are in China than they are in the United States, Germany or Japan.
However, he is still several years behind the holder of the title of oldest living male in the world.
Decades after George A Romero scared the life out of cinemagoers with the classic zombie horror Night of the Living Dead (1968), the movie world has been plagued again with shambling corpses.
The main feature of the Living Planet Report is the Living Planet Index which tracks the health of the world's ecosystems by monitoring 9, 000 populations of more than 2, 600 species.
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But wiser policy can ensure that it profits from the rise of the rest of the world rather than seeing its companies battered and its living standards reduced.
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However, a new league table of the world's top living business gurus makes the case for another influence as being even stronger -- that of thinkers and professors at business schools.
Port Talbot-born Vicari, who lives in Monaco, was once court painter to the Saudi Arabian royal family and government and is often described as one of the world's richest living artists.
Our own Foundation, Dancing Star (www.dancingstarfoundation) is working with partners and colleagues around the world to vastly multiply the environmental awareness and on-the-ground efforts by animal rights activists, conservation biologists and educators throughout the world to help stem the tide of irrevocable damage to the living earth.
The economic fantasy world that pro sports has had the benefit of living in could be in for a bit of a jolt.
"Because Tregib is in a rural area we feel very strongly that we have got to give the pupils a taste of the enterprise world if we are to get them to continue living in the area when they have left school, " he added.
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And it's the sort of two together that are making for the kind of complex world that we're living in today.
John McArdle said traders in Newry were "tearing their hair out" in the deepest economic downturn since the 1930s and he accused civil servants of "not living in the real world".
The African Union-led negotiations also cover other outstanding issues since secession, including the status of citizens of both countries who find themselves living on either side of the world's newest international border.
Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura, who holds the distinction of being the world's oldest living person, is celebrating his 116th birthday on Friday.
Indeed, 2007 marked the first time that a majority of the world's 6 billion people were living in urban areas.
Around the world, higher standards of living are drastically reducing the number of children women have.
The stark truth of the world today is that no country is owed a living.
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The world of digital living is changing rapidly, and that particular story feels old to me.
We in the U.S. are living in a world of illusion, where the cost of continuing with our lifestyles is escalating rapidly.
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