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Eurovision Song Contest 2013
The Eurovision Song Contest 2013 was the 58th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Malmö, Sweden, following the country's victory at the with the song "Euphoria (Loreen song), Euphoria" by Loreen. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster (SVT), the contest was held at the Malmö Arena, and consisted of two semi-finals on 14 and 16 May, and a final on 18 May 2013. The three live shows were presented by Swedish comedian and television presenter Petra Mede, being the first time only one host had presented the show since the contest. Former Swedish entrant Eric Saade acted as the green room host in the final. Thirty-nine countries participated in the contest, with returning after its one-year absence. , , and all ceased their participation for various reasons. Slovakia and Turkey have yet to return to the contest since. The winner was with the song "Only Teardrops", performed by Emmelie de Forest and written by Lise Cabble ...
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Petra Mede
Petra Maria Mede (; born 7 March 1970) is a Swedish comedian, dancer, actress and television presenter. Mede is known for her several roles in comic shows and as a television presenter, and is best known outside of Sweden for hosting the Eurovision Song Contest in , , and , and appearing as a guest performer in . Early life Petra Maria Mede was born in Stockholm to Ulla Elisabet (; born 1940) and entrepreneur (born 1939), and raised in Partille, near Gothenburg. She has a younger sister named Anne Mede Ageling. She graduated in Philosophy as well as in the French language. Career Mede started off as a dancer at , but her career was cut short by a back injury at the age of 20. She worked as a tourist guide in Stockholm before moving to comedy aged around 35, taking part in a contest for emerging comedians in 2005. Mede began being seen on television, appearing on ', ', ', '' Parlamentet'' and '. She received an award for best emerging actress in 2007. In 2008, she and Anna M ...
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Azerbaijan In The Eurovision Song Contest 2013
Azerbaijan was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with the song "Hold Me" written by Dimitris Kontopoulos, John Ballard and Ralph Charlie. The song was performed by Farid Mammadov. The Azerbaijani entry for the 2013 contest in Malmö, Sweden was selected through ''Milli Seçim Turu 2013'', organised by the Azerbaijani broadcaster İctimai Television (İTV). Following eight semi-finals and a final on 14 March 2013, a six-member jury selected "Hold Me" performed by Farid Mammadov as the winner. Azerbaijan was drawn to compete in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 16 May 2013. Performing during the show in position 4, "Hold Me" was announced among the top 10 entries of the second semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 18 May. It was later revealed that Azerbaijan placed first out of the 17 participating countries in the semi-final with 139 points. In the final, Azerbaijan performed in position 20 and placed se ...
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Göteborg Horse Show
Gothenburg Horse Show is an international horse show held annually in the Scandinavium arena in Gothenburg, Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count .... The event has been arranged since 1977 and is often held in the spring. External links * Agricultural shows Equestrian venues Show jumping events Dressage events Sports competitions in Gothenburg Agriculture in Sweden Equestrian sports competitions in Sweden 1977 establishments in Sweden Recurring sporting events established in 1977 Horse driving competition Spring (season) in Sweden FEI-recognized competition {{Gothenburg-stub ...
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Expressen
(''The Express'') is one of two nationwide evening newspapers in Sweden. Describing itself as independent liberal, was founded in 1944; its symbol is a wasp and its slogans are "it stings" or " to your rescue". The newspaper awards the culture prize Expressens Heffaklump for children's and youth culture. Overview The first edition of was published on 16 November 1944. A main feature that day was an interview with the crew members of a British bomber who were successful in sinking the German ship ''Tirpitz''. A project of Albert Bonnier Jr., Carl-Adam Nycop, and Ivar Harrie – who was to become the first editor-in-chief –  was created in part to push back against " national socialism and related violent ideologies." The paper is owned by the Bonnier Group. As of 2005, the paper had a liberal stance, but it declared its independent leaning in 1995. Through mergers, the Gothenburg edition of is titled '' GT'' (originally ''Göteborgs-Tidningen'') and the Malmö e ...
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Eva Hamilton
Countess Eva Gerd Alice Cecilia Hamilton (born 29 April 1954) is a Swedish journalist who from 6 November 2006 until 2014 was the CEO for the Swedish public service television company Sveriges Television. In 2007, Hamilton was named "Sweden's most powerful woman in media" by the ''Veckans Affärer ''Veckans Affärer'' (, lit. "the week's business") was a Swedish business magazine published on a weekly basis in Stockholm, dealing in all business-related matters both within and outside Sweden. It was in circulation between 1965 and 2019. ...'' magazine.''Dagens Nyheter'', 2007-03-08, page. 46 References 1954 births Living people Hammarskjöld family Swedish countesses Swedish women business executives Swedish journalists Swedish television executives Sveriges Television people 20th-century Swedish women {{Sweden-journalist-stub 21st-century Swedish nobility Journalists from Stockholm ...
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Countdown - Eurovision 2013 - Malmö - Stortorget
A countdown is a sequence of backward counting to indicate the time remaining before an event is scheduled to occur. NASA commonly employs the terms "L-minus" and "T-minus" during the preparation for and anticipation of a rocket launch, and even "E-minus" for events that involve spacecraft that are already in space, where the "T" could stand for "Test" or "Time", and the "E" stands for "Encounter", as with a comet or some other space object, like a spacecraft. Other events for which countdowns are commonly used include the detonation of an explosive, the start of a race, the start of the New Year, or any anxiously anticipated event. An early use of a countdown once signaled the start of a Cambridge University rowing race. One of the first known associations with rockets was in the 1929 German science fiction movie ''Frau im Mond'' (English: ''Woman in the Moon'') written by Thea von Harbou and directed by Fritz Lang in an attempt to increase the drama of the launch sequence o ...
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Øresund Bridge
The Øresund or Öresund Bridge is a combined List of road–rail bridges, railway and motorway cable-stayed bridge across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. It is the second longest bridge in Europe and combines both roadway and railway in a single structure. It runs nearly from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait. The Øresund Link is completed by the Øresund Bridge#Øresund Tunnel, Øresund Tunnel from Peberholm to the Danish island of Amager. The bridge as part of the Øresund Link connects the road and rail networks of the Scandinavian Peninsula with those of Central Europe, Central and Western Europe. A data cable also makes the Link the backbone of Internet data transmission between central Europe and Sweden. The international European route E20 crosses via road, the Øresund Line via railway. The construction of the Great Belt Fixed Link (1988–1998), connecting Zealand to Funen and thence to the Jutland Penin ...
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Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gubernatorial seat of Västra Götaland County, with a population of approximately 600,000 in the city proper and about 1.1 million inhabitants in Metropolitan Gothenburg, the metropolitan area. Gustavus Adolphus, King Gustavus Adolphus founded Gothenburg by royal charter in 1621 as a heavily fortified, primarily Dutch, trading colony. In addition to the generous privileges given to his Dutch allies during the ongoing Thirty Years' War, e.g. tax relaxation, he also attracted significant numbers of his German and Scottish allies to populate his only town on the western coast; this trading status was furthered by the founding of the Swedish East India Company. At a key strategic location at the mouth of the , where Scandinavia's largest dr ...
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Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ...
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Urban Areas In Sweden
An urban area or () in Sweden has a minimum of 200 inhabitants and may be a city, town or larger village. It is a purely statistical concept, not defined by any municipal or county boundaries. Larger urban areas synonymous with cities or towns ( for both terms) for statistical purposes have a minimum of 10,000 inhabitants.. The same statistical definition is also used for urban areas in the other Nordic countries. In 2018, there were nearly two thousand urban areas in Sweden, which were inhabited by 87% of the Swedish population. ''Urban area'' is a common English translation of the Swedish term . The official term in English used by Statistics Sweden is, however, " locality" (). It could be compared with "census-designated places" in the United States. History Until the beginning of the 20th century, only the towns/cities were regarded as urban areas. The built-up area and the municipal entity were normally almost congruent. Urbanization and industrialization created, howev ...
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Malmö Arena, Augusti 2014-2
Malmö is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region. Located on the Öresund strait on the southwestern coast of Sweden, it is the largest city in Scania, with a municipal population of 365,644 in 2024, and is the gubernatorial seat of Skåne County. Malmö received its city privileges in 1353, and today Malmö's metropolitan region is home to over 700,000 people. Malmö is the site of Sweden's only fixed direct link to continental Europe, the Öresund Bridge, completed in 2000. The bridge connects Sweden to Denmark, and carries both road and rail traffic. The Öresund Region, which includes Malmö and Copenhagen, is home to four million people. The city was one of the earliest and most-industrialised in Scandinavia, and was the birthplace of several of Scandinavia's largest industrial groups, such as Kockums, Skanska, and Scania AB. The city has undergone a major transformation in the 21st cen ...
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Junior Eurovision Song Contest
The Junior Eurovision Song Contest, often known simply as Junior Eurovision, is an international children's Music competition, song competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) among its members since 2003. Each participating broadcaster submits an original song representing its country to be performed –by children– and broadcast live to all of them via the Eurovision (network), Eurovision and Euroradio networks, and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine a winner. The competition is a spin-off the Eurovision Song Contest with which it has many similarities. Each participating broadcaster sends an original song lasting three minutes at most, to be performed by children of its choice aged 9 to 14 on the day of the contest, repsesenting its country and competing against the other participating entries. Since 2017, viewers from all around the world are invited to vote for their favourite entries through online voting, and a nati ...
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