Its dimensions rivaled those of an Olympic swimming pool.Then there are the ferries that link the Venezuelan mainland with the offshore island of Margarita, the country's most popular tourist destination.
Here's a look at the latest numbers:The share of income going to the top 1% rivaled that of the Gilded Age prior to the crisis.
Marseille remains an important economic centre, though its influence in southeastern France is rivaled by the city of Lyon.
This period was rivaled only by a last flowering of astrology in the late 14th century, when John Abramius and his students revised the older astrological treatises in Greek to provide the Renaissance with vulgate texts.
While poetry and theatre claimed the major honours, Spanish Romanticism also produced many novels but none that rivaled those of Scottish contemporary Sir Walter Scott.
Since 1970, its population growth rate has rivaled that of Phoenix.
Indeed, in the United States in the first half of the 20th century, the only book estimated to have rivaled the Bible's sales in a given month was Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind (1936), a historical novel set in the South during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Hāʾil subsequently grew as a result of its direct contact with the Ottoman government and its control of the principal pilgrim route from the east until it rivaled Riyadh in importance and influence.
The touch-screen interface of the iPhone was in its way more advanced than the graphical user interface used on personal computers, its storage rivaled that of computers from just a few years before, and its operating system was a modified version of the operating system on the Apple Macintosh.
Ordzhonikidze then became a member of both the executive committee of the Petrograd Soviet (the revolutionary council of workers and soldiers that rivaled the authority of the provisional government) and of the Bolshevik Party committee.
Other architects of note include Renzo Piano, known for his international museums; Aldo Rossi, whose critical writings rivaled his built works; and Paolo Portoghesi, who created public buildings from curvilinear forms.
