21.   A second major museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, aspires to mini-Metropolitan Museum of Art status, with collections sampling all of world art history.

22.   A venerated figure, he was known to his colleagues for his encyclopedic knowledge of world history and his extensive vocabulary.

23.   But unlike other periods of world history dominated by one nation with overwhelming power, other countries are not forming alliances to offer a balance.

24.   But when he moved onto a larger stage, the stage of world history, he got himself into big trouble.

25.   By that time Europe was publishing the dominant accounts of world history.

26.   Church history the world over is littered with the secreted mistresses and children of heterosexual priests.

27.   Certainly these voyages were the precursors of colonialism and the slave trade, brutal chapters in world history.

28.   Each word carries importance, resonating with references to the religious order, to world history and to other texts.

29.   Environmentalists struggle to head off what, in our lifetimes, is potentially the greatest extinction of species in world history.

30.   Even with the most powerful military in world history, and the most extensive intelligence-gathering system on the planet, we have no target for our wrath.