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The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain. It was divided in 1994...

The 100th Guards Rifle Division was an elite Red Army airborne infantry division during World War II. The division fought in the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive...

The 7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70 (from 7.5 cm Kampfwagenkanone 42 L/70) was a 7.5 cm calibre German tank gun used on German armoured fighting vehicles in the Second...

This article covers the architecture of Sweden from a historical perspective. As is the norm in the history of architecture, the architectural history...

Miss World Malta is a national Beauty pageant for selecting a delegate to represent Malta at the Miss World pageant. This pageant is not related to Miss...

Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (28 January 1755 – 2 March 1830) was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring...

Waffenamt (WaA) was the German Army Weapons Agency. It was the centre for research and development of the Weimar Republic and later the Third Reich for...

Dudgeon v United Kingdom (1981) was a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) case, which held that Section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, which...

Norberto Höfling (20 June 1924 – 18 April 2005) was a Romanian footballer and coach. Höfling began his career as professional footballer in Romania, being...

Sir Edward MacMillan Taylor (18 April 1937 – 20 September 2017), known as Teddy Taylor, was a British Conservative Party politician who was a Member of...

Standard Swedish (standardsvenska, rikssvenska, högsvenska) denotes Swedish as a spoken and written standard language. While Swedish as a written language...

Lecchese is a dialect of Western Lombard language spoken in the city and suburbs of Lecco (Lombardy). It has the characteristic, in contrast with the other...

Sunrise Avenue was a Finnish rock band originally formed in 2002 in Helsinki, Finland. In the early days, the band was called Sunrise and the name was...

Paris is known as the City of Light. Part of the credit for this sobriquet can be ascribed to long-standing city ordinances that have restricted the height...

Savka Dabčević-Kučar (6 December 1923 – 6 August 2009) was a Croatian politician. She was one of the most influential Croatian female politicians during...

The MV Manx Viking / Nindawayma was a passenger, truck and car ferry, whose last active service was on Lake Huron, operated by the Owen Sound Transportation...

Monkstown Football Club is an Irish rugby SENIOR club based in Dublin 4, within walking distance of the Aviva Stadium, playing All Ireland League (2C)in...

The Manchester Conference Centre is a conference centre in Manchester, England that used to be owned and managed by the Opal Property Group, which has...

Kelsterbach (German: [ˈkɛl.stɐˌbax] ) is a town in Groß-Gerau district in Hessen, Germany and part of the Frankfurt Rhein-Main urban area. It is located...

Sonderabteilung Lola (in Norway also known as Rinnanbanden (Rinnan gang) was an independent group under the German Sicherheitsdienst in Trondheim, KDS...