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  Eurovision Song Contest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Some viewers of the Contest view the event as a combination of camp entertainment and a musical train wreck (a fact played upon in the UK broadcast with the sardonic BBC commentary of Terry Wogan) and a subculture of Eurovision Song Contest drinking games has evolved in some countries.
In the United Kingdom the entry is chosen by the public during the programme "Making Your Mind Up", which took its name from UK group Bucks Fizz's winning entry in 1981.
Monty Python's Parody of the Eurovision Song Contest, "The Europolice Song Contest"
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 1998 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
February 14 - Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
July 25 - Wakayama Arsenic poison case - 63 poisoned and 4 dead by arsenic in a festival in the town in Wakayama Prefecture in Japan - Masumi Hayashi is arrested for murder.
August 20 - 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged Al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Her reign of over five decades has seen ten different Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom and numerous Prime Ministers in the other personal union nations of which she is or was Head of State.
The Queen, or her Governors-General in the realms outside the United Kingdom, also gives a speech at the annual State Opening of Parliament, outlining the government's legislative agenda for the year, but the speech is written by ministers.
In the United Kingdom, her official title is Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Elizabeth_II_of_the_United_Kingdom   (6132 words)

  
 Belgium - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Belgium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The kingdom of Belgium was founded after the 1830 revolution, but the history of the area – the southern part of the Low Countries (also sometimes referred to in their entirety as the Netherlands) – dates back to pre-Roman times.
But in 1815 at the Congress of Vienna they were united with Holland, and William Frederick of Orange-Nassau (see Orange, House of) became king of the Netherlands (that is, the modern Netherlands and the modern Belgium) as William I in September 1815.
In 1996 the revelation of a paedophile scandal surrounding a criminal named Marc Dutroux led many Belgians to denounce what they perceived as the corruption and incompetence of politicians and the police.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Belgium   (4427 words)

  
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United Kingdom referendum on the Treaty establishing a constitution for Europe
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 Greece
These generous, brave acts took many foreigners by surprise and led to a considerable breakthrough in bilateral relations, marred by decades of hostility over territorial disputes and the situation in the divided island of Cyprus.
In January 1996, the countries reached the brink of war over the tiny, uninhabited islets of Imia, situated in the southeastern Aegean Sea.
For instance and among other initiatives, Helena Paparizou, the winner of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest was recently designated as the official ambassador of the Hellenic Tourism Organization.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/greece.html   (5766 words)

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