Rio de Janeiro was selected to host the 2016 Games.
For the prostitution industry, this is the equivalent of being selected to host the Commonwealth Games.
Donnie and Marie Osmond have been selected to host the 2008 Miss USA pageant in Las Vegas.
Earlier this year, FIFA announced that France had been selected to host the Women's World Cup in 2019.
Delaware has been selected to host opening-weekend N.C.A.A. tournament games next year.
Thank goodness Rio de Janeiro was selected to host the 2016 Olympics, saving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars from the black hole of Windy City politics.
US Opens had delved into war of attrition territory long before this Pittsburgh venue was selected to host the 116th version, which begins on Thursday.
Last week, Canada's foreign minister said the country was "appalled" that Sri Lanka had been selected to host the event.
Now, three locations, "of particular First World War significance", have been selected to host parts of the display.
Birmingham has been selected to host the Commonwealth Games in 2022, the biggest sporting event to be awarded to an English city since the London Olympics in 2012.
The Center for Mobile Learning was selected to host a public server for App Inventor, in addition to making the App Inventor code open-source.
