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1. Eurovision Song Contest -- Junior Eurovision Song Contest
   On September 23, the 14 children, who were selected as winners of the national competition for the forthcoming Junior Eurovision Song Contest (JESC) visited Sighnagi town-museum and Bodbe Monastery of Georgia’s eastern region of Kakheti. Together with authorities of the Georgian Public Broadcasting (GPB) and GPB programs’ hosts, JESC contenders observed the rehabilitation works of Sighnagi. Then they participated in the video shooting of a hymn specially written for them. The shooting took place on a green meadow. The video clip will be aired on GPB in the nearest future.
2. Poetry Contest -- Entries
   Empire:ZINE in conjunction with Spyder's Poetry Empire will have a poetry/writing contest every month. There are no specific categories, and any form of writing may be submitted. The entries will be sent to the S.P.E., and judged according to the criteria below.
3. Wheel of Fortune -- Contestants
   For two weeks beginning May 1, Wheel of Fortune contestants and home viewers will have the opportunity to win cash and prizes from some of the most well-known Internet brands. Each night, the EarthLink Premier Partners will sponsor a wedge on the Wheel that will offer on-air contestants gift certificates and cash prizes from Amazon.com, Just Balls, Miadora and EarthLink's popular e-commerce site, The Mall, (http://themall.earthlink.net). Additionally, Amazon.com, E*TRADE, USABancShares.com, and The Mall will be presenting many of the bonus round grand prizes to lucky contestants throughout the two weeks of special "Dot Com" programming.
4. Eurovision Song Contest
   The Eurovision Song Contest is one of the longest-running talent competitions in the world. Since 1956, the annual televised contest has brought together competitors and audiences from countries across Europe to pick a favorite new song. The annual television audience has been estimated at 1 billion. All countries that are members of the European Broadcasting Union, even some that are not in Europe, are eligible to compete. Each country chooses one song and performer for the competition. The songs are then performed on television and viewers across all participating countries vote for their favorites.
5. The Biggest Loser -- Contestants
   The Biggest Loser is an NBC reality television show that began broadcasting on October 19, 2004. It involves twelve contestants (Season 1), fourteen contestants (Season 2) and 50 contestants (season 3) who are overweight to varying degrees participating in a contest to lose the most weight.
6. New Edition -- New York
   The first edition of the Encyclopaedia Judaica was published in 1971-1972 in 16 volumes - in Jerusalem by Keter Publishing House and in New York by the Macmillan Company. Its first general editor was Jewish historian Prof. Cecil Roth of Oxford (1939-1964), Bar-Ilan (1964-65) and City University of New York (1966-1969). After Roth's death in 1970, he was succeeded by historian and philosopher Dr. Geoffrey Wigoder, who passed away in Jerusalem in 1999. Between 1972 and 1994, 10 annual yearbooks were collected in two events supplements, for 1973-1982 and for 1983-1992. Together these volumes contain more than 15 million words in over 25,000 articles worked on by approximately 2,200 contributors and 250 editors.
7. New Deal
   One of the most vocal critics of the New Deal was Father Charles Coughlin (1891-1979), a conservative Roman Catholic priest and political activist. Coughlin broadcast his weekly radio show--"Golden Hour of the Little Flower"-- from Detroit which reached an audience of 40 million listeners at the height of its popularity. Father Coughlin's rhetoric was a curious combination of anti-communism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Semitism. At first, he supported the New Deal, calling it "Christ's Deal," but then he became increasingly upset at the slow pace of reform as well as his inability to play a major policy-making role in the Roosevelt administration. In addition, he viewed as criminally wasteful some of the tactics used under the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) to limit overproduction: plowing under crops or slaughtering livestock. Coughlin launched the National Union for Social Justice to challenge the President, claiming that Roosevelt had "out-Hoovered Hoover."
8. New Testament
   The “New Testament” is the second part of the Christian Bible. Its twenty-seven books continue the story of God's people begun in theJewish Scriptures(the Old Testament). The word “testament” comes from a Latin word that means “will,” which was used to translate the Greek word diatheke,which means “will” or “agreement” (covenant). TheJewish Scripturestell of the agreement God made with the ancient people of Israel. This agreement was based, in large part, on the Law of Moses. Those who obeyed God and lived according to this Law were God's people.
9. New Hampshire -- New Hampshire Primary
   The New Hampshire Primary has a proud history that goes back to 1916. People were not voting directly for the candidates in 1916 instead they voted for delegates for the National Convention. In 1949 Richard Upton decided to make the primary more meaningful by passing legislation allowing the people to vote directly for the candidates instead of for delegates. In 1952, 43% of New Hampshire voters cast their votes in the states first true primary. In 1977 delegate names were removed from the ballot and a law that eliminated any possible future encroachment on the state's primary being the first was enacted. It has been the the first primary in the nation since that law in 1977.
10. New Netherland -- New Netherland Company
    Throughout its history the Dutch colony of New Netherland was little more than the trading outpost of a commercial company. The career of the earliest schoolmaster we learn through the unsavoury record of the police court; those of his successors through the tedious records of the church, examining, licensing, and supervising, and through those more sordid though more human documents, the records of the commercial company, providing, under greater or less protest, the meagre salary.

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