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Encyclopedia > Lola

Lola is a Spanish name, short for Dolores; its diminutive is Lolita. Lola may also refer to: Dolores is a common Spanish given name, it literally means pains; it is short for la Virgen María de los Dolores, Virgin Mary of the Pains (Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows). ... Look up Lolita in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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Animals

Pale Male (b. ...

Companies and products

  • Lola Racing Cars
  • LOLA Cosmetics, a high-end cosmetic brand by Hollywood makeup artist Victoria Jackson
  • Lola, a cartoon syndicated by United Media.
  • Lola landscape architects
  • LA MAISON DE LOLA, a lifestyle brand most famous for its luxe handmade soft toys

Lola Racing Cars (also Lola Cars International) is a racing car engineering company founded in 1961 by Eric Broadley and based in Huntingdon, England. ... United Media is large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. ...

Computing

Lola is designed to be a simple hardware description language for describing synchronous, digital circuits. ...

Films and theatre

The Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Award) is the highest German movie award. ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Lola, was a 1961 film directed by Jacques Demy. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The director and screenwriter Jacques Demy (1931 - 1990) was one of the most approachable filmmakers of the French New Wave. ... Lola, also known as Twinky outside the United States, was a 1969 film starring Charles Bronson and directed by Richard Donner. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... For other persons named Charles Bronson, see Charles Bronson (disambiguation). ... Lola is a 1981 film directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 – June 10, 1982) was a German movie director, screenwriter and actor. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Juan José Bigas Luna (Barcelona, March 19, 1946) is a Spanish film director. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ... Run Lola Run (original German title Lola rennt, which translates to Lola Runs) is a 1998 film by German screenwriter and director Tom Tykwer, starring Franka Potente as Lola. ... Tom Tykwer (born May 23, 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany) is a German film director. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

Languages

This article is about an Indonesian language. ... The Aru Islands (also Aroe Islands or Kepulauan Aru) are a group of about 95 low-lying islands in the Maluku province of Indonesia. ...

People

Lola Beltrán on the cover of one of her albums Lola Beltrán (born María Lucila Beltrán Ruiz on March 7, 1932 in Rosario, Sinaloa – died March 24, 1996 in Mexico City) was one of the greatest Mexican ranchera singers, nicknamed Lola la Grande (Lola the Great... Lola Rodríguez de Tió (September 14, 1848-November 10, 1924), born in San Germán, Puerto Rico was the first Puerto Rican born poetess to establish herself a reputation as a great poet throughout all of Latin-America. ... Lola (born 1981 in Paris, France) is a Brooklyn, New York-based female singer/songwriter. ... Clube Atlético Mineiro, usually known as Atlético Mineiro is a Brazilian football team from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, founded on March 25, 1908. ... Year 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... La Faraona Lola Flores, born January 21, 1923 in Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz, Spain - died May 16, 1995, was a singer, dancer, and actress. ... Lola (born August 30, 1976 in Moorpark, California, USA) is a pornographic actress born to Cuban parents. ...

Fictional characters

Marlene Dietrich IPA: ; (December 27, 1901 – May 6, 1992) was a German-born American actress, singer, and entertainer. ... Josef von Sternberg (29 May 1894 – 22 December 1969) was an Austrian-American film director. ... Der Blaue Engel (English: The Blue Angel) is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, and is one of the most famous films made by Marlene Dietrich. ... Brandy & Mr. ... Lola Bunny is a fictional cartoon character from Warner Bros. ... This article is about the motion picture. ... Plaza Sésamo is a Mexican educational childrens television series for preschoolers and is a co-pioneer of the contemporary educational television standard, along with its predecessor Sesame Street, combining both education and entertainment. ... Barry Manilow (born June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter best known for such recordings as I Write the Songs, Mandy, Weekend in New England and Copacabana. ... Copacabana is a 1978 disco song, sung by Barry Manilow, and written by Jack Feldman, Barry Manilow, and Bruce Sussman. ... Lillian Lilly Truscott is a fictional character from the Disney Channel hit TV show Hannah Montana. ... Hannah Montana is a television series which debuted on March 24, 2006 on Disney Channel. ... Grim Fandango is a graphical adventure computer game released by LucasArts in 1998. ... Charlie and Lola. ... Atonement (2001) is a novel by British writer Ian McEwan. ... Atonement is a 2007 British film directed by Joe Wright. ... Robotboy is a French and American animated television series which was produced by Cartoon Network & French production company Alphanim with TV Channels France 3 and Cartoon Network as well as Luxanimation. ...

Places

Lola is a town in the Forest Region of Guinea, lying near the Liberian border. ...

Sports

MasterCard Lola is a former Formula One team that contested one race in the 1997 Formula One season. ... The 1997 Formula One season was the 48th FIA Formula One World Championship season. ...

Songs

Lola is a song written by Ray Davies and performed by the Kinks which details a romantic encounter between a man and a transvestite he meets in a Soho, London club. ... The Kinks were an English rock group formed in 1963 by lead singer-songwriter Ray Davies, his brother, lead guitarist and vocalist Dave Davies, and bassist Pete Quaife. ... For other uses, like the interjection or World of Warcrafts abbreviation, see Wow. ... Superbus is a five-piece French pop-rock group, formed in 1999[1]. // After a trip to USA in 1999, Jennifer Ayache went looking for musicians to make a group. ... Whatever Lola Wants is a popular song (sometimes rendered as Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets.) The music and words were written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross for the musical play Damn Yankees. ... Damn Yankees is a musical comedy, a modern retelling of the Faust legend set during the 1950s (when the New York Yankees dominated Major League Baseball), in Washington, D.C., with a script by George Abbott and Douglass Wallop and music and lyrics by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross. ... Dana International (Hebrew: דנה אינטרנשיונל; stage name of Sharon Cohen, born Yaron Cohen (male) in Tel Aviv, Israel on February 2, 1972) is an Israeli transsexual pop singer of Yemenite origin, who won the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest for her song Diva. Next to original songs, Dana International is known for her...

See also

Look up Lolita in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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Lola, in twenty minutes, must solve the mystery in which she is drawn into.
At each of this situations, Lola shows great resources about how to help her petty criminal boyfriend, who has lost 100,000 DM, and now must account for the missing money.
Potente brings freshness to the role and she totally captivates the viewer in her no-nonsense approach to life, in general.
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