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Wiki Loves Earth ( WLE) is an annual international photographic competition held throughout May and June, organised worldwide by the Wikipedia community members with the help of local Wikimedia affiliates across the globe. Participants take pictures of local natural heritage and scenic landscape in their countries and upload them to Wikimedia ...
Editors may nominate one of their own photos taken and uploaded during the contest period at Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Fall 2011 Photo Contest Best Photo. The winner will be determined by one !vote per editor, with any editor registered on Wikipedia eligible to !vote. The winner will receive a barnstar.
Michael Ryan. Contest of Champions II is a five-issue comic book limited series published from September to November 1999 by Marvel Comics. The series was written by Chris Claremont and pencilled by Oscar Jimenez and Michael Ryan. The series is unrelated to the original limited series of the same name – Contest of Champions – published in 1982.
The China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP) is an annual photography award organized by China Photojournalists Society launched in 2005 in Shenzhen, it is open to photojournalists and photographers from around the world. [1] Awards are divided between eight categories. One gold, one silver, one bronze prizes and 2 awards of excellence ...
Wiki Loves Monuments is the successor to Wiki Loves Art, which was held in the Netherlands in 2009. The original WLM contest for "Rijksmonuments" (Dutch for "national monuments") encouraged photographers to seek out Dutch National Heritage Sites. The Rijkmonuments include architecture and objects of general interest recognized for their beauty ...
Dwarf-tossing. Dwarf-tossing, also called midget-tossing, is a pub / bar attraction or activity in which people with dwarfism, wearing special padded clothing or Velcro costumes, are thrown onto mattresses or at Velcro-coated walls. Participants compete to throw the person with dwarfism the furthest. Dwarf-tossing was started in Australia as a ...
Born in Pertuis, Vaucluse, Torr won her first singing contest at age fifteen, in 1962, winning the first year's On Chante dans mon Quartier contest in Avignon. Michèle was a tall beautiful woman with actress-like expression, and easily wins the audience over by singing the Édith Piaf song Exodus. Mireille Mathieu was runner-up that year with ...
Photo: R. A. Wilson, N6TV. Contesting (also known as radiosport) is a competitive activity pursued by amateur radio operators. In a contest, an amateur radio station, which may be operated by an individual or a team, seeks to contact as many other amateur radio stations as possible in a given period of time and exchange information.