IGN ranked it No. 61 in their "Top Modern Games" ranking.
Its modern holdings rank far behind those of the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim.
With the modern Brazil ranked with Russia, India and China as one of the great "Bric" emerging economies, and the prospect of hosting the World Cup in 2014 and then the Olympics in 2016, it is easy to forget that the country has been through a previous economic revolution.
Today, the book is regularly listed among the best English-language novels of the 20th century (both Time and Modern Library rank it beside Ulysses, Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Great Gatsby).
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NBF's more celebrated moniker, at least in some circles, is the "Wizard of the Saddle," a nickname he earned for his wondrous equestrian talents in battle, and one that calls to mind the highest modern-day rank of the KKK the Imperial Wizard.
More common was the worry that our innocent inquiry, by feeding the deplorable modern mania for ranking, list-making and fabricated competition, would not only distract from the serious business of literature but, worse, subject it to damaging trivialization.
He writes, "In the dark annals of modern cruelty, it ranks as bloodier than Bosnia and by some accounts in the same rough league as Rwanda".
England's two most iconic players of the modern era – Ian Botham and Andrew Flintoff – rank among the most courageous, attacking and charismatic cricketers in the sport's history; in any other context we might mistake them for Australians.
Modern Healthcare magazine ranked it the eighth-largest not-for-profit health-care system in the country and third in the region after the New York City Health and Hospital Corporation and the New York Presbyterian Healthcare System.
