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Riga (Latvian: Rīga, pronounced [riːɡa] ( listen)) is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 657,424 inhabitants ( 2011) Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial centre of the Baltic Sea region.[citation needed] The city lies on the Gulf of Riga, at the mouth of the river Daugava. Riga's territory covers 307.17 km2 (118.60 sq mi) and lies between 1 and 10 metres (3.3 and 33 ft) above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain.
Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. The city will be the European Capital of Culture in 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. The city hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 and the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). Riga is served by Riga International Airport, the largest airport in the Baltic states.
Mariah Carey (born March 27, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut in 1990 under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, and released her self-titled debut studio album, Mariah Carey. The album went multi-platinum and spawned four consecutive number one singles, on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Following her marriage to Mottola in 1993, a series of hit records, including Emotions (1991), Music Box (1993) and Merry Christmas (1994), established her position as Columbia's highest-selling act. Daydream (1995), made music history when the second single, "One Sweet Day" a duet with Boyz II Men, spent a record sixteen weeks on top of the Billboard Hot 100, and remains the longest running number one song in US chart history. During the recording of the album Carey began to deviate from her pop background, and slowly traversed into R&B and Hip-hop. After her separation from Mottola, this musical change was evident with the release of Butterfly (1997).
Actors: Icíar Bollaín (writer), Pascal Gaigne (composer), Icíar Bollaín (director), Núria Casanueva (miscellaneous crew), Nacho Ruiz Capillas (editor), Ferran Lahoz (actor), Ibon Cormenzana (producer), Sonia Grande (costume designer), Montserrat Alcoverro (actress), Verónica Echegui (actress), Larry Levene (producer), Larry Levene (producer), Luis de Val (producer), Luis de Val (producer), Marc Panadés (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: ,Actors: Bobby Reed (actor), Kiran Kaur Saini (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Prater (actor), Jim Revis (miscellaneous crew), Kelli Nordhus (actress), Mary McNeill (actress), Ryan Hoffman (producer), Shanna Olson (actress), Robert Romeo (producer), Bruce Adel (actor), Anthony Aniano (actor), Paul Sincoff (director), Chris Peckover (producer), Jed Williams (actor), Alex Baker (actor),
Plot: Jon, the bass player in an up-and-coming rock band, struggles to gain respect as he search for Justine, the girl of his dreams and the only person to validate his existence. In a world full of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, Jon can't seem to catch a break, and can never seem to convince anyone that he is, in fact, in the band.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Bahman Ghobadi (writer), Bahman Ghobadi (director), Bahman Ghobadi (producer), Mostafa Kherghehpoosh (editor), Hayedeh Safiyari (editor), Hossein Alizadeh (composer), Babak Amini (producer), Abbas Ghazali (producer), Soran Ebrahim (actor), Hamid Ghavami (producer), Hamid Karim Batin Ghobadi (producer), Avaz Latif (actress), Ajil Zibari (actor), Hiresh Feysal Rahman (actor), Abdol Rahman Karim (actor),
Plot: Set in Ghobadi's native Kurdistan, close to the Turkey-Iran border. Soran is a 13-year-old boy who orders other children around as he installs an antenna for villagers keen to hear of Saddam's fall. Eventually, he falls for Agrin but is disturbed by her brother Henkov, who was left armless after he stepped on a landmine and who can now seemingly predict the future.
Keywords: american, amputee, arabic, arbil-iraq, arm, armless-boy, bandage, barbed-wire, battle, bicycleActors: Pedro Elviro (actor), Jim Gérald (actor), Henri-Georges Clouzot (writer), Henri Decoin (writer), Henri Diamant-Berger (writer), Viktor Tourjansky (writer), René Sylviano (composer), Viktor Tourjansky (director), Simone Simon (actress), Jean-Max (actor), Pierre-Gilles Veber (writer), Simone Cerdan (actress), Henry Prestat (actor), Alexandre Mathillon (actor), Jean-Henri Blanchon (writer),
Genres: Drama,