With a population of 3. 5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union.

The first European sighting of the Virgin Islands was by Christopher Columbus in 1493 on his second voyage to the Americas.

Bulgaria also has the lowest personal and corporate income tax rates in the EU, as well as the second lowest public debt of all European Union member states at 16. 2 % of GDP in 2010.

In European casinos, " no hole card " games are prevalent ; the dealer's second card is neither drawn nor consulted until the players have all played their hands.

The background to the wars lies in the incomplete emergence of nation-states on the European territory of the Ottoman Empire during the second half of the 19th century.

FBI pressure on Chaplin grew after his 1942 campaign for a second European front in the war and reached a critical level in the late 1940s, when Congressional figures threatened to call him as a witness in hearings.

However most of the colleges began in the mid-1960s as a response education and training for the then emerging baby boom generation, and to provide training to the post second World War II European immigrants and newer immigrants from around the world, that were starting to enter the country.

Cartier was followed by nobleman Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts who was accompanied by explorer / cartographer Samuel de Champlain in a 1604 expedition where they established the second permanent European settlement in North America, following Spain's settlement at St. Augustine.

The Parliament is currently composed of 754 Members of the European Parliament, who represent the second largest democratic electorate in the world ( after the Parliament of India ) and the largest trans-national democratic electorate in the world ( 375 million eligible voters in 2009 ).

The European Court of Human Rights did not rule upon the right to life until 1995, when in McCann v. United Kingdom it ruled that the exception contained in the second paragraph do not constitute situations when it is permitted to kill, but situations where it is permitted to use force which might result in the deprivation of life.

The design of the European flag was displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the French presidency of the EU in the second half of 2008.

It received 16. 5 % of the vote at the 2009 European Parliament elections, putting it in second place ahead of the then governing Labour Party.

In continental European music, parts for the euphonium are sometimes written in the bass clef a major second higher than sounding.

* 2004: The Europe-Democracy-Esperanto party ( E ° D ° E °) contests the European Parliament elections in France, on a platform of making Esperanto the second language of all EU member states, taking 0. 15 % of the vote.

Earlier in December 2005, the European Commission initiated the second stage of infringement proceedings against the British Government relating to Gibraltar ’ s failure to transpose five European Union directives on electronic communications, but these were closed after the relevant legislation was passed into law by the House of Assembly in June 2006.

During his second trip to America, in November 1493, Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Guadeloupe, while seeking fresh water.

GSM ( Global System for Mobile Communications, originally ), is a standard set developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute ( ETSI ) to describe protocols for second generation ( 2G ) digital cellular networks used by mobile phones.

Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.

Fearing the influence of the slave revolution, the United States and European powers refused to recognize Haiti, the second republic in the western hemisphere.

The team made its first European appearance in 1983 – 1984 in the UEFA Cup and were knocked out in the second round of the tournament by Sturm Graz.

On the second voyage, in 1456, Cadamosto became the first European to reach the Cape Verde Islands.

As West European economic growth accelerated during the Industrial Revolution, sea trade and colonialism which had begun in the second half of the 18th century, Russia began to lag ever farther behind, creating new problems for the empire as a great power.

According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 65 million people in the EU ( 13 % of the EU population ), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million ( 3 %).

Examples of the first case include the UN treaty committees, while the best exemplar of the second case is the European Court of Human Rights.

The first occasion was in 1988 for a museum tour as part of the Australian Bicentenary celebrations ; the second was for the 2006 / 7 Ashes series.

In 1936 the Lions visited Argentina for the second time, winning all ten of their matches and only conceding nine points in the whole tour.

Lara scored 688 runs ( 42 % of team output, a record for a series of three or more Tests, and the second highest aggregate runs in history for a three-Test series ) in the 2001 – 02 tour of Sri Lanka.

The Crickets were only the second white rock group to tour Great Britain.

Chaplin's second American tour with the Karno company was not particularly successful, as cast members fell sick and audiences failed to grasp the troupe's burlesque humour.

Thomas undertook a second tour of the United States in 1952, this time with Caitlin after she had discovered he had been unfaithful on his earlier trip.

The second tour was the most intensive of the four, taking in 46 engagements.

Detroit signed goaltender Ty Conklin for his second tour of duty with the team.

The tour for " Freedom of Choice " featured the band performing in front of large custom light boxes which could be laid on their back to form a second, smaller stage during the second half of the set.

Curtis committed suicide on 18 May 1980, the day before Joy Division were scheduled to depart for their first American tour, and prior to release of the band's second album, Closer.

In 1934, Pauli saw a failure of his car during a honeymoon tour with his second wife as proof of a real Pauli effect since it occurred without an obvious external cause.

In January 1929, Nurmi started his second U. S. tour from Brooklyn.

The band finished the second leg of the Time Machine Tour in July 2011 and released their latest studio album, Clockwork Angels in June 2012 with a supporting tour that began in September 2012.

On August 21, 1965, during a Beatles concert tour, Randy Resnick of B-Sharp, a Minnesota music store, presented Harrison with a second model 360 / 12 FG " New Style " 12-string electric guitar, distinguishable from Harrison's first 12-string by its rounded cutaways and edges.

Roxy Music's second drummer, Andy Newmark, performed during the tour, as Thompson withdrew due to health issues.

During the 1956 tour to England, he helped Australia to its only victory in the Lord's Test, when he scored a rapid 97 in the second innings in 143 minutes from only 113 balls.

They began a second U. S. tour in March 2007, once again to coincide ( and conclude ) with a Roseland Ballroom New York City show on Saint Patrick's Day.

Following the ' You Got My Number tour ' of October 1979, the Undertones began recording the songs for their second album at Wisseloord Studios in the Netherlands.

Following the completion of their second LP, the band embarked upon a two week tour of Irelend before touring continental Europe for the first time in March.

Less than two weeks after the completion of the ' Humming tour ', the Undertones toured the United States for the second time ; this time as the headlining band.

Following the conclusion of their ' Positive Touch tour ' in June 1981, the Undertones released their second single of 1981, " Julie Ocean ".

Following their second album, the Band embarked on their first tour as a headlining act.

The second Duke of Edinburgh, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, visited the islands in 1957 as part of a world tour on board the royal yacht Britannia.

; Under the Pink Tour: Amos's second world tour began on February 24, 1994 in Newcastle upon Tyne and ended on December 13, 1994 in Perth, Western Australia.