The Historical Evolution of Europe's Borders

"The movie "Epic time-lapse map of Europe" fast forwards a map from the year 1000 AD until 2003 to reveal the dynamic nature of Europe's borders, alliances, unions, territories, and occupied lands. "

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2012/05/the_historical_evolution_of_europes_borders.html

European History Interactive Map

http://www.worldology.com/Europe/europe_history_lg.htm

ARROW, Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works

"ARROW, Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana, is a project of a consortium of European national libraries, publishers and collective management organisations, also representing writers through their main European associations and national organisations. "

http://www.arrow-net.eu/

Baarle-Nassau / Baarle-Hertog

"The border is so complicated that there are some houses that are divided between the two countries. There was a time when according to Dutch laws restaurants had to close earlier. For some restaurants on the border it meant that the clients simply had to change their tables to the Belgian side."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Nassau


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baarle-Hertog

Europeana

"A new online encyclopedia of European culture, called "Europeana," is set to debut in November. It's a rival to the Google Library Project, but also something else -- the start of a vast digital backup copy of what's in Europe's libraries, museums and national film collections."

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,584823,00.html

Eurotrip

"For budget-minded travellers"

http://www.eurotrip.com/

Open Forum Europe

"Welcome to OpenForum Europe. We are a not-for-profit, independent organisation launched in March 2002 to accelerate, broaden and strengthen the use of Open Source Software (OSS) in business and government. OFE pursues the vision of an open, competitive European IT market by 2010 in line with the European Commission i2010 Strategy with the mission of facilitating open competitive choice for IT users. OFE is supported by major IT suppliers and works closely with the European Commission and National Governments, both direct and via National Associates."

http://www.openforumeurope.org/

The European Archive

"The European Archive is a digital library of cultural artifacts in digital form. We provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public."

http://europarchive.org/

EuroVelo

"EuroVelo, the European cycle route network, is a project of the European Cyclists' Federation (ECF). The ECF mission includes:

* To ensure that bicycle use achieves its fullest potential so as to bring about sustainable mobility and public well-being and economic development via sustainable tourism;

* To change attitudes, policies and budget allocations at the European level."

http://www.ecf.com/14_1

Cyndi Almouzni

http://www.myspace.com/cyndimusic

Comparison of Eurovision Song Contest Simulation with Actual Results

"The voting patterns in the Eurovision Song Contest have attracted attention from various researchers, spawning a small cross-disciplinary field of what might be called 'eurovisiopsephology' incorporating insights from politics, sociology and computer science. Although the outcome of the contest is decided using a simple electoral system, its single parameter - the number of countries casting a vote - varies from year to year. Analytical identification of statistically significant trends in voting patterns over a period of several years is therefore mathematically complex. Simulation provides a method for reconstructing the contest's history using Monte Carlo methods. Comparison of simulated histories with the actual history of the contest allows the identification of statistically significant changes in patterns of voting behaviour, without requiring a full mathematical solution. In particular, the period since the mid-90s has seen the emergence of large geographical voting blocs from previously small voting partnerships, which initially appeared in the early 90s. On at least two occasions, the outcome of the contest has been crucially affected by voting blocs. The structure of these blocs implies that a handful of centrally placed countries have a higher probability of being future winners."

http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/9/2/1.html

Eupedia - Guide to Europe

http://www.eupedia.com/europe/maps_of_europe.shtml

Eurovision winners

Below you can find a list of winners of the Eurovision Song Contest from 1956 to 2005. In the fifty years of the competition's history there have been fifty three winning songs, as there was a four way tie in 1969. In total twenty two countries have won the contest.

http://www.keithm.utvinternet.ie/Winners.htm