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unusual facts about Western European



Anima Sound System

After touring Eastern European cities and capitals - 8 performances in Prague alone - Anima Sound System has begun to draw interest from Western European promoters - from the "Glasshaus" in Berlin, to "Divan du Monde" in Paris.


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Apis cerana

This species is the sister species of Apis koschevnikovi, and both are in the same subgenus as the Western (European) honey bee, Apis mellifera.

Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs

Originally, the Department of State first established a Division of Western European Affairs in 1909, which handled European nations primarily bordering on the Atlantic Ocean and their colonies.

Atlantic Europe

Bob Quinn in his documentary series Atlantean speculates that western European Celtic culture is actually an earlier, pre-Celtic, Atlantic culture that included Atlantic Europe and people of the Maghreb such as Berbers and that it continues today.

Automotive industry in France

2001 - Toyota built its Western European assembly line for the Toyota Yaris in Valenciennes.

Calliostoma gubbiolii

This marine species occurs in Western European waters; in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands and from Senegal to Angola.

Common Merganser

Notably, most of the western European male population migrates north to estuaries in Finnmark in northern Norway (principally Tanafjord) to moult, leaving the females to care for the ducklings.

Delenda Est

This meant that western European civilization came to be based on a Celtic-Carthaginian cultural synthesis (rather than Greco-Roman, as in actual history).

Detva

This factory, called Podpolianske strojárne Detva (PPS) at that time, produced UNC machinery, aka "Universal" on Western European markets.

Holy Rus

The meaning of the concept is close or almost the same as the concepts of Holy Israel or Kingdom of Heaven, known to the people of Western-European Civilization.

I.O.R.

Originally created by Malaxa-Carp, Optique De Le Vollois, and Bernard-Turnne, I.O.R. continued production under Soviet domination yet maintained links to famous Western European firms such as Carl Zeiss and Leica.

Ioannis Doukas

Doukas worked as painter in a number of western European cities: Paris, Marseille and Vienna, where he became distinguished in the painting of portraits.

Ira Reiss

The Western European countries highest on sexual pluralism were the Scandinavian cultures and the Netherlands.

Irakli Charkviani

Charkviani graduated from the Department of Western European and American Literature, Tbilisi State University.

Journal of Late Antiquity

The journal covers methodological, geographical, and chronological facets of Late Antiquity, from the late and post-classical world up to the Carolingian period, and including the late Roman, western European, Byzantine, Sassanid, and Islamic worlds, ca.

Jovan Skerlić

Upon the completion of his doctorate work in Lausanne in 1901, he spent the next three years in Paris and Munich, where he broadened his knowledge of Western European thought and literary theory and fell under the influence of the French thinkers, Jean-Marie Guyau in particular.

Jüri Talvet

Talvet received his MA degree in English philology from the University of Tartu in 1972 and defended his PhD degree in Western European literature at Leningrad (St. Petersburg) University in 1981.

Kasli iron sculpture

The best works of Kasli iron casting art made after the original models by the well-known Russian and Western European sculptors Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, Eugene Lanceray, etc.

Maronites

Modern Maronites often adopt French or other Western European given names (with biblical origins) for their children, including Michel, Marc, Marie, Georges, Carole, Charles, Antoine, Joseph and Pierre.

Medical torture

Similarly, it has been implied that Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Dr. Ayad Allawi violated his obligation to medical ethics whilst serving as Western European chief of secret police for the Baathist government of Saddam Hussein.

Renault Fluence

It is the gap in the range left by the removal of this model from the Franco-Spanish assembled Mégane range that the Fluence fills in those markets in the company's western European heartland, such as France, Italy, Belgium, Ireland and, since August 2010, Germany, where Renault offers it.

Tbilisi central station

Differently to the American consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, the project is therefore very much disputed by Western European transportation specialists and railway companies.

The Pentagon Channel

It is widely available on US Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable tv channels, can be viewed FTA in most Central and Western European countries (from Eurobird 9A at 9.0° East), Africa, the Americas and most of Asia via satellite, and can be viewed globally via the Internet at www.pentagonchannel.mil.

Xavier Dupré

Dupré lived in Cambodia from 2001 to 2004 where he designed Latin typefaces (i.e. fonts used for western European languages) as well as Khmer typefaces.

Yves Henry

A graduate from the Conservatoire de Paris (where he teaches nowadays), he was the first Western European pianist to win the Robert Schumann Competition (1981) and was subsequently prized at the Casadesus Competition (1985).

Zánka

This style also can be found in the western European region (for example Fulda, Saint Michele church).