Elma
Encyclopedia
Places
- Elma, IowaElma, IowaElma is a city in Howard County, Iowa, United States. The population was 598 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Elma is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land....
, USA - Elma, ManitobaElma, ManitobaElma, Manitoba is a community in Manitoba. It is located on the Whitemouth River, at the junction of Highway 15 and Highway 11 in the Rural Municipality of Whitemouth....
, Canada - Elma, New YorkElma, New YorkElma is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 11,304 at the 2000 census. The town is named after a type of tree.The Town of Elma is located in the north-central part of the county, east of Buffalo, New York. Because of its location, Elma likes to refer to itself as the...
, USA- Elma Center, New YorkElma Center, New YorkElma Center is a hamlet located in the Town of Elma in Erie County, New York, United States. As of the 2000 census, this community population was 2,491...
- Elma Center, New York
- Elma, WashingtonElma, WashingtonElma is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 3,107 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Elma is located at ....
, USA - Elma Township, Richland County, North Dakota, USA
Geography
- Elma River, a tributary of the Łyna river
- European Land Mammal Age, former name of the European Land Mammal Mega Zone
People
- Elma Karlowa, German actress (starring in, e.g., Ali: Fear Eats the SoulAli: Fear Eats the SoulAli: Fear Eats the Soul is a 1974 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and starring Brigitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem. The film won two awards at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival and is considered to be one of Fassbinder's most powerful works...
, Fox and His FriendsFox and His FriendsFox and His Friends, is a 1975 West German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, starring Fassbinder himself, Peter Chatel and Karlheinz Böhm. The plot follows the misadventures of a working-class homosexual who falls in love with the elegant son of an industrialist...
, Berlin AlexanderplatzBerlin Alexanderplatz (television)Berlin Alexanderplatz, originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part television film adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the Alfred Döblin novel of the same name, and stars Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Elisabeth Trissenaar and Gottfried John...
) - Elma DiendaElma DiendaElma Jane Dienda is a Namibian politician and teacher. A member of the Congress of Democrats, Dienda was a member of the National Assembly of Namibia from taking CoD's final spot in 2004 until CoD did not receive enough votes for her re-election in 2009...
- Elma LewisElma LewisElma Idna Lewis was the founder of the National Center of Afro-American Artists and the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts. She received the MacArther Fellows Grant in 1981. She was also given a Presidential Medal for the Arts by President Ronald Reagan in 1983...
- Elma MauaElma MauaElma Ngatokoa Maua was a Cook Islands-born New Zealand journalist and editor. Maua was one of New Zealand's first Pacific Islander journalists....
- Elma MitchellElma MitchellElma Mitchell is a British poet.-Life:She won a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, where she took a first in English in 1941....
- Elma MurosElma MurosElma Muros-Posadas is the Philippines' Long Jump Queen and Iron Lady. Now retired, Filipina track and field he won a total of 15 gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games....
- Elma NapierElma NapierElma Napier was a Scottish-born writer and politician who lived most of her life in the Caribbean island of Dominica. She published several novels and memoirs based on her life, and was the first woman elected to a Caribbean parliament....
- Elma SinanovićElma SinanovicElma Sinanović is a popular Bosniak singer from Novi Pazar, Serbia.-Discography:* Dva prstena * Zavodnik * Kakvo je to ludilo * Moje drugarice * Ruka pravde...
- Elma Theana
- Elma de VriesElma de VriesElma de Vries is a Dutch marathon speed skater and inline speed skater. She is the older sister of marathon speed skater Bob de Vries.-Biography:...
Fictional characters
- Elma Leivonen, a fictional character from the anime/manga series Strike WitchesStrike Witchesis a mixed-media project originally created by Humikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. It was later adapted into two light novel series, three manga series, an anime OVA, a televised anime series and various video games. The story revolves around teenage girls who are...
Companies
- Elma ElectronicElma ElectronicElma Electronic is a publicly traded Swiss electronics company founded in 1960 and based in Wetzikon, Switzerland. The company has 5 product divisions: Systems Platforms, Backplanes, Enclosures & Components, Rotary Switches, and Cabinet Enclosures. The largest segment is systems packaging solutions...
- Empresa Líneas Marítimas ArgentinasEmpresa Líneas Marítimas ArgentinasEmpresa Líneas Marítimas Argentinas was an Argentine cargo shipping line formed in 1960.-History:It was dismantled during the 1990s as part of president Carlos Menem's 1990s state reform laws...
, a defunct Argentine cargo shipping line - ELMA (European Languages and Movies in America)ELMA (European Languages and Movies in America)ELMA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to showcasing European movies.It was founded in 2006 by Pascal Ladreyt and is based in Santa Monica, California....
Other uses
- Elma (gastropod)Elma (gastropod)Elma is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Streptaxidae.- Distribution :The distribution of the genus Elma includes:* Taiwan* Vietnam...
, genus of land snails in the family Streptaxidae - Elasto ManiaElasto ManiaElasto Mania is a physics simulation game released in 2000. Elasto Mania claims to be "based on a real physical model". It explores the notion of elastic motorcycles. The goal of each level is to collect every apple spread throughout it, and then to touch the flower...
, a 2D motorcycle PC-game