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    The Birmingham Blitz was the heavy bombing by the Nazi German Luftwaffe of the city of Birmingham and surrounding towns in central England, beginning...
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  • Birmingham Blitz may refer to: Birmingham Blitz; the bombing of Birmingham, England during the Blitz. Birmingham Blitz (basketball); basketball team based...
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    1940 to the spring of 1943, Birmingham was bombed heavily by the German Luftwaffe in what is known as the Birmingham Blitz. The damage done to the city's...
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    The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen) was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British...
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  • Birmingham Blitz Dames (BBD) was a women's flat track roller derby league based in Birmingham in England. Founded in 2006, the league was a member of...
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  • The Birmingham Blitz were a semi-professional basketball team that plays in the American Basketball Association (ABA) based in Birmingham, Alabama. Founded...
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  • the matter was raised in Parliament. It was badly damaged during the Birmingham Blitz: the Railway End and the Kop as a result of bombing, while the Main...
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    The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British...
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  • killed. 13 August: Birmingham Blitz: Aircraft factory at Castle Bromwich bombed; 17 people are killed. 25/26 August: Birmingham Blitz: First air raid on...
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  • games firm collapse". Birmingham Post. 24 October 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2017. Crookes, David (29 July 2013). "UK-based Blitz Games Studios to close...
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  • to the West Midlands. Birmingham was bombed again during December (3, 4, 11) and on 11 March 1941, but the full Birmingham Blitz came in April 1941, with...
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    to the West Midlands. Birmingham was bombed again during December (3, 4, 11) and on 11 March 1941, but the full Birmingham Blitz came in April 1941, with...
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  • pathogen Big black dog, a type of mixed-breed subject to black-dog bias Birmingham Blitz Dames, an English roller derby team Bucket-brigade device, an analogue...
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  • roller derby league based in Reno, Nevada Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames, roller derby league based in Birmingham in England This disambiguation page lists...
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    Ring is a major shopping area in central Birmingham England, and has been an important feature of Birmingham since the Middle Ages, when its market was...
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    of St Thomas's Church, Bath Row, which was half demolished in the Birmingham Blitz in 1940 and never restored.[citation needed] The grounds were laid...
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  • Bill Harris Arena (category Sports venues in Birmingham, Alabama)
    The arena has previously served as the home of the Birmingham Magicians and the Birmingham Blitz of the American Basketball Association and the Alabama...
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    Ringway Centre (category Buildings and structures in Birmingham, West Midlands)
    of Smallbrook Street and Hurst Street. A few buildings survived the Birmingham Blitz most notably the Scala Cinema which stood at the western end of the...
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    to a Grade I listed building from its previous Grade II. During the Birmingham Blitz, on the night of 11 December 1940, all but the fine tower and classical...
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    sustained extensive bomb damage as a result of air raids during the Birmingham Blitz. After the war, the remains of the roof were dismantled after being...
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    war. The city was heavily bombed by the German Luftwaffe during the Birmingham Blitz in World War II. By the war's end 2,241 citizens had been killed by...
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  • five casualties in the first raids of the Birmingham Blitz, in November when there were heavy raids on Birmingham and Coventry, and again in March and April...
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    to the new formation. Birmingham was bombed again during December (3, 4, 11) and on 11 March 1941, but the full Birmingham Blitz came in April 1941, with...
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  • early part of The Blitz concentrated on London and the South and East Coasts, the West Midlands also suffered badly, with Birmingham and Coventry experiencing...
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    again during December (3, 4, 11) and on 11 March 1941, but the full Birmingham Blitz came in April 1941, with heavy raids on the nights of 9/10 and 10/11...
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  • The Baedeker Blitz or Baedeker raids was a series of aerial attacks in April and May 1942 by the German Luftwaffe on English cities during the Second...
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    servizi della città (in Italian). 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2022-12-29. "Birmingham's Blitz victims remembered". BBC. 2005-10-07. Retrieved 2008-04-23. "ASPIRE...
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    movement emerged from the nightclub scene in London and Birmingham at venues such as Billy's and The Blitz. The New Romantic movement was characterised by flamboyant...
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  • lived in Birmingham as a child and into his early adult years. Birmingham boasts two female amateur roller derby leagues the Birmingham Blitz Derby Dames...
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  • – expansion team that did not begin play in 2006–2007 season Birmingham Blitz Birmingham Magicians Bluegrass Stallions – joined Premier Basketball League...
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