World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, ''worldwide'', i.e. anywhere on Earth.

In a philosophical context it may refer to: (1) the whole of the physical Universe, or (2) an ontological world (''see world disclosure''). In a theological context, ''world'' usually refers to the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The "end of the world" refers to scenarios of the final end of human history, often in religious contexts.

World history is commonly understood as spanning the major geopolitical developments of about five millennia, from the first civilizations to the present.

World population is the sum of all human populations at any time; similarly, world economy is the sum of the economies of all societies (all countries), especially in the context of globalization. Terms like world championship, gross world product, world flags etc. also imply the sum or combination of all current-day sovereign states.

In terms such as world religion, world language, and world war, ''world'' suggests international or intercontinental scope without necessarily implying participation of the entire world.

In terms such as world map and world climate, ''world'' is used in the sense detached from human culture or civilization, referring to the planet Earth physically.

Etymology and usage

The English word ''world'' comes from the Old English ''weorold (-uld), weorld, worold (-uld, -eld)'', a compound of ''wer'' "man" and ''eld'' "age," which thus means roughly "Age of Man." The Old English is a reflex of the Common Germanic ''*wira-alđiz'', also reflected in Old Saxon ''werold'', Old High German ''weralt'', Old Frisian ''warld'' and Old Norse ''verǫld'' (whence the Icelandic ''veröld'').

The corresponding word in Latin is ''mundus'', literally "clean, elegant", itself a loan translation of Greek ''cosmos'' "orderly arrangement." While the Germanic word thus reflects a mythological notion of a "domain of Man" (compare Midgard), presumably as opposed to the divine sphere on the one hand and the chthonic sphere of the underworld on the other, the Greco-Latin term expresses a notion of creation as an act of establishing order out of chaos.

'World' distinguishes the entire planet or population from any particular country or region: ''world affairs'' pertain not just to one place but to the whole world, and ''world history'' is a field of history that examines events from a global (rather than a national or a regional) perspective. ''Earth'', on the other hand, refers to the planet as a physical entity, and distinguishes it from other planets and physical objects.

'''World''' can also be used attributively, to mean 'global', 'relating to the whole world', forming usages such as world community or world canonical texts.

By extension, a '''world''' may refer to any planet or heavenly body, especially when it is thought of as inhabited, especially in the context of science fiction or futurology.

'''World''', in original sense, when qualified, can also refer to a particular domain of human experience.

The ''world of work'' describes paid work and the pursuit of career, in all its social aspects, to distinguish it from home life and academic study.

The ''fashion world'' describes the environment of the designers, fashion houses and consumers that make up the fashion industry.

historically, the ''New World'' vs. the ''Old World'', referring to the parts of the world colonized in the wake of the age of discovery. Now mostly used in zoology and botany, as New World monkey.

Philosophy

In philosophy, the term world has several possible meanings. In some contexts, it refers to everything that makes up reality or the physical universe. In others, it can mean have a specific ontological sense (see world disclosure). While clarifying the concept of world has arguably always been among the basic tasks of Western philosophy, this theme appears to have been raised explicitly only at the start of the twentieth century and has been the subject of continuous debate. The question of what the world is has by no means been settled.

;Parmenides The traditional interpretation of Parmenides' work is that he argued that the every-day perception of reality of the physical world (as described in doxa) is mistaken, and that the reality of the world is 'One Being' (as described in aletheia): an unchanging, ungenerated, indestructible whole.

;Plato In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato distingues between forms and ideas and imagines two distinct worlds : the sensible world and the intelligible world.

;Hegel In Hegel's philosophy of history, the expression ''Weltgeschichte ist Weltgericht'' (World History is a tribunal that judges the World) is used to assert the view that History is what judges men, their actions and their opinions. Science is born from the desire to transform the World in relation to Man; its final end is technical application.

;Schopenhauer ''The World as Will and Representation'' is the central work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer saw the human will as our one window to the world behind the representation; the Kantian thing-in-itself. He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.

;Wittgenstein Two definitions that were both put forward in the 1920s, however, suggest the range of available opinion. "The world is everything that is the case," wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein in his influential ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'', first published in 1922. This definition would serve as the basis of logical positivism, with its assumption that there is exactly one world, consisting of the totality of facts, regardless of the interpretations that individual people may make of them.

;Heidegger Martin Heidegger, meanwhile, argued that "the surrounding world is different for each of us, and notwithstanding that we move about in a common world". The world, for Heidegger, was that into which we are always already "thrown" and with which we, as beings-in-the-world, must come to terms. His conception of "world disclosure" was most notably elaborated in his 1927 work ''Being and Time''.

;Freud In response, Freud proposed that we do not move about in a common world, but a common thought process. He believed that all the actions of a person are motivated by one thing: lust. This led to numerous theories about reactionary consciousness.

;Other Some philosophers, often inspired by David Lewis, argue that metaphysical concepts such as possibility, probability and necessity are best analyzed by comparing ''the'' world to a range of possible worlds; a view commonly known as modal realism.

Religion and mythology

Mythological cosmologies often depict the world as centered around an axis mundi and delimited by a boundary such as a world ocean, a world serpent or similar.

See also

Globe

List of sovereign states

Universe

References

External links

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Dream Team in sport, often only as a nickname, may refer to:

The roster of the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team in Barcelona

Brazil men's national volleyball team under coach Bernardo Rezende since 2002

FIFA Dream Team, an all-time all-star football team published by FIFA in 2004

The Puerto Rico national baseball team in the 1995 Caribbean Series

An era (1991–1994), in the history of FC Barcelona, a Spanish football club

The Philippines national basketball team in the 1990 Asian Games

The Dream Team (professional wrestling), professional wrestling tag-team in the World Wrestling Federation 1985–1987

Dramatic Dream Team, Japanese professional wrestling promotion

Super League Dream Team, award for players in the European rugby Super League

Dream Team Australian rules football team, that represented the States and territories of Australia other than Victoria in the AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match

AFL Dream Team, a notable online competition for supporters run by the Australian Football League

Dream Team in television and film may refer to:

Dream Team (TV series), a British television series

The Dream Team (film), a 1989 American comedy film

Dream Team (The Office) an episode of the American television series ''The Office''

The Dream Team (Entourage Episode), an episode of ''Entourage''

Let's Go Dream Team! Season 2, a Korean television series

Dream Team may also refer to:

Dream Team (theater), a Stage Management Team located in Terre Haute, IN that worked on shows including Real Girls Can't Win, 1,001 Arabian Nights, and Bad Dates

Dream Team (comics), a fictional group of Marvel Comics superheroes

The Dream Team (warez), a cracking/releasing warez group for the IBM PC active 1989–1996

LA Dream Team, American hip-hop act

Nickname for the defense legal team in the O. J. Simpson murder case

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Timo Boll (born March 8, 1981 in Erbach im Odenwald, Hesse) is a German professional table tennis player who currently plays with Borussia Düsseldorf and is the German No.1 of the German Table Tennis National League. He is No.2 in the World Rankings as of April, 2011.

Childhood

Already at the age of four years Timo Boll was playing table tennis and at that time was coached by his father. In 1987 he became a member of the TSV Höchst and played there at association level. At the age of eight years he was discovered by Helmut Hampel, a Hessian trainer who promoted him. In 1990, he started to train at the training centre Pfungstadt and four years later changed to FTG Frankfurt with which he took part in the second division, at which time other associations became attentive of him. TTV Gönnern hired him in 1995. Timo Boll was put in position five on the team but, nevertheless, lost only one match in the whole season and thus contributed to the rise of the team in the table tennis national league. In 2007, Timo Boll went to the German table tennis champion team Borussia Düsseldorf.

Career

National league and international junior results

At age 14, Timo Boll took together with Frank Klitzsch the title of the youngest player of the national league. Timo Boll celebrated his first international results during the student European championships in Den Haag 1995, where he won three gold medals. After a second place finish in his first junior European Championship 1996, he won during the following two years the title in the singles, in the doubles and with the team. He finished school with a secondary school level I certificate.

International results

In 2002, Timo Boll joined the ranks of the world top-10 players with his Europe-Top-12-Tournament victory against Vladimir Samsonov. He reached final of the European Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb in the singles, and in doubles with Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth the gold medal. The German team was defeated in the finale by a score of 2–3, by the Swedish team. With his victory in the Chinese world cup in Jinan (he beat the world champion Wang Liqin and the Olympic champion Kong Linghui clearly), Timo Boll finished the year at first position in the world rankings in January, 2003. During the European-Championship 2003, Vladimir Samsonov led the Belorussian team to the final victory against the German. He was too strong for Timo Boll. After his elimination in the singles world championship in the second round, he lost the rank of the world's number one table tennis player.

Injury and comeback

Back problems hampered Boll during the first half of 2004. These problems handicapped his preparation for the 2004 Summer Olympics, in which he retired in the quarterfinal against Jan-Ove Waldner. After a period marked by public criticism, Timo Boll registered tournament victories in Poland, Austria and Germany. He also reached the semifinal of the Pro Tour in Peking, where he was edged out 3-4 in games by Ma Lin. Early in the 2005 season, Boll's back problems struck again; nevertheless, he won the silver medal in doubles with Christian Süß at the World Championship. After correcting a referee's wrong decision in favour of his opponent in the singles round of sixteen (in which he was defeated), he received the Fair Play Award from the ITTF. The year ended well as he won the Champions League with TTV RE-BAU Gönnern, and the world cup tournament in Liège in Belgium, in which he defeated all three Chinese first-class players. In 2007, he won the European Championship in singles, doubles, and in the team competition.

Draft to Borussia Düsseldorf

In December 2006, Timo Boll signed a 3 year contract with Borussia Dusseldorf. Apart from the financial weakness of his old team and various other considerations, Timo Boll moved for the good training possibilities, in view of the upcoming Olympic Games 2008 and because of the possibility to be able to train there with his doubles partner Christian Süß.

During the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing he participated again with the German national team. After victories over Croatia, Canada, Singapore and Japan in preliminary rounds and the semi-final, the team lost 0–3 against the host Chinese team. As the first-seeded player in 2008, Boll defended his three European Champion titles from the year before.

Technique

Timo Boll is a left-handed player whose best weapon is his forehand topspin drive but is also noted for his extremely quick backhand loop. His blade is the "Timo Boll Blade Series ALC" with Tenergy 05 rubbers on both sides. His present double partner is Christian Süß.

Contract

On the 1st of July, 2007, his three-year contract began with Borussia Dusseldorf.

Private

Timo Boll married his long time girlfriend, Rodelia Jacobi, on 31 December 2002.

Awards

1997 Table Tennis Junior Player of the Year

1998 German Table Tennis player of the Year

2005 Bambi Sport

2005 German Sportsmen of the Year 3rd position

2006 Sportsmen of the Year in Hessen

2007 Fair-Play-Award of Minister (Secretary) of the Interior

Home Secretary

2007 German Sportsmen of the Year 2nd position

2008 Sportsmen of the Year in Hessen

2010 Sportsmen of the Year in Hessen

2010 German Sportsmen of the Year 2nd position

Titles

World Cup 2002 and 2005

Single European Champion 2002, 2007, 2008, and 2010

Team European Champion 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010

Europe Top-12 2002, 2003, 2006, 2008 and 2010

European Super Cup 2007, 2008 and 2009

ITTF Pro Tour (18) and Grand Finals (1): Brasil 2001, Austria 2002, Japan 2003, Poland, Germany and Austria 2004, Japan, Sweden and Grand Finals 2005, China, Germany and Poland 2006, Austria, Germany and Poland 2008, Qatar, Germany, and Poland 2009, Japan 2010.

Double: European Championship 2002 (together with Zoltan Fejer-Konnerth), 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 (together with Christian Süß), Japan Open 2005, Pro Tour Grand Final 2005, 2009 (together with Christian Süß)

Double: 2nd position World Championship 2005, 3rd position European Championship 2005 together with Christian Süß

Team: 2nd position Olympic Games 2008; 2nd position European Championship 2000, 2002, 2003, 2nd position World Championship 2004, 2010; 3rd position World Championship 2006.

German Championship: 9-times Single-Winner (1998, 2001–2007,2009), 3-times Double-Winner (1999 together with Lars Hielscher, 2005 and 2007 together with Christian Süß

Champions League: Winner 2005 and 2006 with TTV RE-BAU Gönnern

3rd position Qatar and Kuwait Open Single 2007

3rd position World Championship Single 2003, 2006

As the first German number one of the world table tennis rankings (January 2003)

See also

List of table tennis players

References

External links

official web page of Timo Boll

ITTF-profile of Timo Boll

World ranking Record for Timo Boll

portrait of Timo Boll

videos of Timo Boll

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|}} Joo Se-Hyuk (born January 20, 1980 in Seoul) is a South Korean table tennis player who has revolutionized the way players think about the defensive style. He was the finalist at the 2003 World Table Tennis Championships and is a member of the South Korean National Team.

Style of Play

Joo Se-Hyuk uses a defensive table tennis style that throws opponents off their game completely. Utilizing a series of defensive chops, he puts well-placed shots onto the opponent's side from enormous distances, combining placement with massive amounts of spin. Joo Se-Hyuk also uses a strong forehand topspin loop, and occasionally drives, to quickly counterattack an opponent. His dramatic and usually dynamic maneuvers across the table enable him to cover large areas, making him less prone to attack. Joo Se-Hyuk is one of the few defensive players to consistently rank in the International Top 10.

Tournament History and Credentials

2001 ITTF World Championships, Top 150 overall

2002 Asian Games, 2nd overall

2003 ITTF World Championships, Men's Singles finalist, Runner-up 2006 Internationally ranked 15th overall as of January 2006 2006 ITTF Korean Open, Men's Singles 1st

2009 Ranked #7 in the world as of August 2009 (his highest ranking to date)

Coaches

Yang Ki-Ho- Personal Coach

Yoo Nam-Kyu- National Coach

Kim Taek-Soo- National Coach

Life History

Joo Se-Hyuk was born in Seoul, South Korea on January 20, 1980. He stands 180 cm tall, and weighs 60 kg. He enjoys playing billiards, and first started competing when he was 8 years old. Becoming a national team player in 2001, fans began taking an interest in him for his dynamic defensive style.

References

Category:South Korean table tennis players Category:1980 births Category:Living people Category:Asian Games medalists in table tennis

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name	Dimitrij Ovtcharov
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Dimitrij Ovtcharov (born September 2, 1988 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. As of February 2011, he is ranked #15 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ovtcharov won the silver medal as part of the German men's team, together with Timo Boll and Christian Süß. He used a special technique in his serves, which was later picked by TIME as one of the top 50 innovations of 2008.

On September 22, 2010 Ovtcharov had been suspended by the German Table Tennis Federation (DTTB) due to a positive A-sample test for Clenbuterol that may be used as performance-enhancing substance. Ovtcharov himself denied the doping accusation and requested a B-sample analysis which still tested positive. After hearings and further investigations, the hair sample voluntarily offered by Ovtcharov showed no evidence of clenbuterol and its abuse. DTTB later unanimously decided to abolish the suspension on October 15, 2010. The decision was endorsed by ITTF.

Career records

Singles (as of June 14, 2011) Olympics: round of 16 (2008).

World Championships: round of 16 (2009, 11).

World Cup appearances: 3. Record: 5–8th (2008, 09, 10).

Pro Tour winner (3): 2010 India Open. 2011 Brazil Open. 2011 Korea Open Runner-up (2): 2009 Danish Open. 2010 Polish Open.

Pro Tour Grand Finals appearances: 4. Record: round of 16 (2007, 08, 09, 10).

European Championships: SF (2007).

Europe Top-12: 5th (2008, 09, 10, 11).

Men's Doubles

World Championships: round of 16 (2009).

Pro Tour winner (1): 2007 Chinese Taipei Open.

Pro Tour Grand Finals appearances: 1. Record: QF (2007).

Mixed Doubles

World Championships: round of 64 (2007).

Team

Olympics: 2nd (2008).

World Championships: 2nd (2010).

World Team Cup: 3rd (2009).

European Championships: 1st (2007, 08, 09, 10).

References

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