Definitions for "Waterloo"
Keywords:  eurovision, abba, won, sweden, contest
Waterloo is ABBA's second album, originally released March 4, 1974 (see 1974 in music) in Sweden. It became the band's breakthrough success in the United States, where it was the first release by the group. "Waterloo" was the song that won ABBA the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.
"Waterloo" is the first single from ABBA's album Waterloo, which was their second album for Polar and their first for Epic and Atlantic. This was the song that won ABBA the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest and began their path to worldwide fame. The single was coupled with "Watch Out" as the B-side.
"Waterloo" is widely known as an English recording by supergroup ABBA but when the group won the pre-selections for the Eurovision Song Contest they sang it in Swedish. The day they won the ESC, the studio recording of this song was released as a single in Sweden.
Keywords:  defeat, battle, blucher, sergei, dino
a final crushing defeat; "he met his Waterloo"
the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Napoleon met his final defeat; Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon
Waterloo was a Soviet-Italian film of 1970, directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It was the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo, and was famous for its lavish battle scenes.
Probably one of Belgium's greatest disappointments. The site of one of the turning points in world history is marked by an enormous pile of dirt topped by a copper lion from which a terrific view of some nearby allotments can be had. There is an interactive visitors' centre where the day can be redeemed by buying toy soldiers and watching a surreal film about some small children running through a hay meadow.
Waterloo was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Waterloo in Lancashire. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.
Waterloo was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1968 to 1979. From 1973 to 1976, it was known as Waterloo—Cambridge. This riding was created in 1966 from parts of Waterloo North and Waterloo South ridings.