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30 unusual facts about Europe


Aleksey Belyakov

Aleksei Stepanovich Belyakov (born 1917) was a Soviet diplomat and ambassador to Finland 1970–71 and the leader of the European section of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Alphonse Lavallée

His son developed an arboretum in the park of the Château de Segrez in Saint-Sulpice-de-Favières (Essonne), which was one of the biggest in Europe at this time.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse consists of members based in Europe, North America and Asia.

Bert Hellinger

Hellinger travelled widely, delivering lectures, workshops and training courses throughout Europe, the USA, Central and South America, Russia, China, and Japan.

Biotechnology and Integrating Organizational Medicine

Composed exclusively of volunteers, BIOM has its organizational heart in Europe and, while inspired by solidaristic principles, its field of operation is nowhere limited to so called third world countries.

Bucak

Its variants are also names for various localities in Asia and Europe.

Cecil Healy

After the Games, Healy toured Europe, giving many Europeans the first chance to see the crawl stroke; he competed in Hamburg, winning the Kaiser's Cup, and also competed in Belgium, Netherlands and Britain.

Center for Policy Studies

The center is committed to strengthening local capacity for critical policy analysis and pursues research and publication that is interdisciplinary and carried out with partners in the global policy community, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

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The Center for Policy Studies (CPS) is an academic unit within Central European University, dedicated to improving the quality of governance in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union by the provision of independent public policy analysis and advice.

Cumhur Oranci

He left Turkey before the coup d'état of 12 September 1980 and spent some time in Europe working for the left-wing daily Aydinlik.

Flowerpot

Also Orchids, African violets and Pelargonium geraniums were shipped in pots from other parts of the world, including Africa, to North America and Europe.

Francisco Tárrega

In 1881, Tárrega played in the Opera Theatre in Lyon and then the Paris Odeon, in the bicentenary of the death of Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Guillem de Copons

Guillem de Copons (?, segle XIV — ?, segle XV) was a writer and diplomat, possibly of Valencian origin, that made some translations into Catalan from some important ancient Greece, ancient Rome and the European Middle Ages literary works.

Heinrich von Maltzan, Baron zu Wartenburg und Penzlin

He then visited Aden and Bombay, and after some two years of study in Europe again began to wander through the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean, repeatedly visiting Algeria.

Jerome Tafani

Jerome Tafani is the Chief Financial Officer for Europe of the United States' Illinois based McDonald's Restaurant Corporation.

Jewish emancipation

Before the emancipation, most Jews were isolated in residential areas from the rest of the society; emancipation was a major goal of European Jews of that time, who worked within their communities to achieve integration in the majority societies and broader education.

La Clef du cabinet des princes de l'Europe

Chevalier received the privilege from Emperor Charles IV, who now ruled Luxembourg, to continue publishing La clef du Cabinet des princes.

Mišnice

Its date of invention is unknown but it is known to have existed in Europe by the 9th century.

Nigel Hastilow

It was reported in 2008 that he had been approached to stand as a candidate for the UK Independence Party (UKIP) at the European elections but turned down the opportunity arguing that he had always said he would remain loyal to the Conservative Party.

Panteón Rococó

While being stars in Mexico, they have been touring Europe for the last several years, especially Germany, where their European Label Übersee Records is located.

Peter Berngardovich Struve

Pyotr's grandson, Nikita Struve (b. 1931), is a professor at a Paris university and an editor of several Russian-language periodicals published in Europe.

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With the Russian Civil War raging and his life in danger Struve had to flee; and after a three-month journey arrived in Finland, where he negotiated with Gen. Nikolai Yudenich and the Finnish leader Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim before leaving for Western Europe.

Pinkasim

Pinkasim were books or journals which were used to coordinate and document organizations in Jewish towns and villages during the early modern period in Europe.

Seganfredo

Being a linguistically Italian surname in its present form, the members of this family are mostly concentrated on the north of Italy, particularly on the province of Vicenza (Veneto), as well as many having immigrated from Europe to the south of Brazil, especially to the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Teodoro A. Dehesa Méndez

When the artist Diego Rivera was looking for a sponsor to allow him to travel to Europe to further his art career, he approached Governor Dehesa who agreed to sponsor him.

The Toy Shop

Shelburne Museum’s collection of toys, which includes both European and American examples from the early nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth century, encompasses a broad range of both handmade and manufactured examples.

Theatre of Yugen

Theatre of Yugen’s experimental ensemble features artists from North America, Europe, and Asia who have been trained in traditional Japanese Noh and Kyogen forms.

Trial of the Talmud

The Trial of the Talmud is one of a series of disputations that took place in Europe during the Middle Ages, a group of rabbis were called upon to defend the Talmud.

University of Bergen Department of Comparative Politics

Initially, the subject was mainly concentrated on European affairs, but global political developments has caused a widening of interests and focus to themes associated with democracy and democratisation in Asia, Africa and Latin America as well.

Vince Graham

Vince is an advocate for advancing human-scaled urbanism, and has spoken at architectural and planning symposia in Australia, Europe, and throughout the United States.


1937–38 Detroit Red Wings season

In Europe, the teams played a nine-game series in England and France.

1988 Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship

With the championship generally ignored by most of the top teams from the stronger Group A championships (Australia, Europe and Japan), Crowe, Bond and Pirro were able to gain the top three placings despite each only running in two of the four rounds.

380 BC

Pytheas, Greek explorer, who will explore northwestern Europe, including the British Isles (d. c. 310 BC) (approximate date)

A Spectre Is Haunting Texas

The title appears to be based on a Karl Marx quote from The Communist Manifesto: "A spectre is haunting Europe...the spectre of communism."

Ángel Amarilla

Born in Eusebio Ayala, Amarilla was signed by Valencia CF in the summer of 1999, being hailed as of one of the biggest promises in his country after playing as a 17-year-old for Atlético de Rafaela, which led his agent Eduardo Gamarnik trying to find a club for him in Europe.

Arpitania

Mikael Bodlore-Penlaez, «Savoy and Aosta, heart of the Arpitan people» in Atlas of Stateless Nations in Europe: Minority People in Search of Recognition, Y Lolfa, 2011.

Castelnau-de-Lévis

The village at the base of the château is the site of a motocross championship, the Championnats du Monde MX3 et d’Europe 125 de Motocross. The track is also scheduled to host the French 2009 Sidecarcross world championship Grand Prix on 29 March 2009, however, this will still have to be confirmed by the FIM.

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

Club Nintendo

Club Nintendo in Australia was launched on April 24, 2008 to coincide with the release of Mario Kart Wii, with the website, catalogue and product registration going live on March 11, 2009 using the same system offered by Nintendo of Europe.

Crossair Europe

Crossair Europe (European Continental Airways) was an airline headquartered on the grounds of EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in Saint-Louis, Haut Rhin, France, near Basel, Switzerland.

Cryptocephalus virens

These beetles can be found in Southern and Central Europe from Italian Alps and Bavaria to Southern Poland, Russia, Turkey, East Palearctic ecozone and the Near East.

Doncho Papazov

The yacht, named Tivia, took the journey around Europe in the winter of 1978, going through the Baltic Sea, the Bay of Biscay, the Mediterranean, and finally the Black Sea.

Dunmore Pineapple

Discovered by Christopher Columbus on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe in 1493, pineapples became a rare delicacy in Europe, and were symbolic of power, wealth, and hospitality.

Electoral integrity

These standards have been endorsed in a series of authoritative conventions, treaties, protocols, and guidelines by agencies of the international community, notably by the decisions of the UN General Assembly, by regional bodies such as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), the Organization of American States (OAS), and the African Union (AU), and by member states in the United Nations.

Epilepsy Is Dancing

"Epilepsy is Dancing" is the first single from Antony and the Johnsons' 2009 album The Crying Light, released on April 6 (April 7 in the US) licenced through Secretly Canadian (worldwide), and Rough Trade (Europe).

Fan EP

Released in 2005 by Wind-up Records as a promotional CD in Europe, the EP contains the song "Metalingus" from the band's debut album, One Day Remains, in addition to three rare live songs recorded on March 28, 2005.

Gas Exporting Countries Forum

In May 2006 Gazprom deputy chairman Alexander Medvedev threatened that Russia would create "an alliance of gas suppliers that will be more influential than OPEC" if Russia did not get its way in energy negotiations with Europe.

Gekido

Gekido (known as Gekido: Urban Fighters in Europe) is a beat 'em up for the PlayStation game console. The game uses a fast paced beat 'em up system, with many bosses and a colorful design in terms of graphics. The game features the music of Fatboy Slim and Apartment 26. Marvel comic book artist Joe Madureira also contributed. A version of Gekido was also released on the Game Boy Color in Europe.

Geography of Romania

Located at the intersection of Central and Southeastern Europe, bordering on the Black Sea, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe—the Atlantic Coast—and the most easterly—the Ural Mountains.

Gmina Baranów, Masovian Voivodeship

Baranów is the most possible location for the new Warsaw Airport - planned as the biggest hub for Central and Eastern Europe.

H. vulgaris

Hydrocotyle vulgaris, the marsh pennywort, a small creeping perennial herb species native to North Africa, Europe, Florida and west to the Caspian region

Harpalus anxius

In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: Andorra, the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Cyprus, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Portugal, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

Henry F. May

Born in Denver, Colorado, he was reared in Berkeley, California and spent a formative year in Europe with his family as the youngest of three children.

Joel Dykstra

He and his family lived in Europe for nine years while Dykstra worked for Lasmo Energy.

Lezlie Deane

In the 1990s she was recruited by producers Peter Rafelson and Michael Lewis to join the dance-pop group Fem2fem, and toured Europe and North America as an opening act for Nine Inch Nails (NIN) and Marilyn Manson.

Lucile Grahn

After 1846, Grahn toured much of Europe, not only dancing, but also producing several ballets, including a revival of Perrot's Catarina, and her even her own play Bacchus et Ariadne.

Marguerite Georges

She toured Europe in 1812–1813, during which she performed at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and Dresden.

Maureen Fleming

Fleming has performed in North America, Europe, and Asia, and collaborated in her multimedia works with playwright David Henry Hwang, composer Philip Glass, photographer Lois Greenfield, and ikebana artist Gaho Taniguchi.

Max Loong

Shows he has hosted in Europe include Fanta Fiesta (teleprompter), McMusic (requestshow), FreaX (gameshow), Popschau (newsshow), Sunrise (latenightshow) and his own produced hit show Interaktiv (liveshow) where he has interviewed famous artistes such as Britney Spears, Mariah Carey, Usher, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Robert Downey Jr. and Pierce Brosnan to name a few.

Meldrum

Their second album, Blowin' Up the Machine (produced by Toby Wright), was released through Frontiers in Europe on May 11, 2007, and in the U.S. on September 11, 2007.

Middlesex County Volunteers

They have also performed numerous times with John Williams, Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops, at Colonial Williamsburg's Grand Illumination, and throughout the British Isles and Western Europe.

Nadezhda Plevitskaya

Plevitskya made concert tours throughout Europe (and, in 1926, to the United States, where she was accompanied by Sergei Rachmaninoff), while her husband, General Skoblin, took a leading role in a White émigré organization, the ROVS.

Ninth Army

Ninth United States Army, one of the main U.S. Army combat commands used during the campaign in Northwest Europe in 1944 and 1945.

Opinions on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

A number of Muslim commentators, including Ehsan Ahrari of the Asia Times, have pointed at laws in Germany, France, Austria, and seven other countries in Europe which explicitly regard the denial of the Holocaust as a crime, free speech considerations notwithstanding.

Paradip

Paradip has been identified for development as one of the six major petroleum, chemicals and petrochemical investment regions (PCPIRs) in India, along the lines of Pudong in China, Rotterdam in Europe and Houston in North America.

Paul Sarvela

With more than 130 conference papers to his credit, his work has been presented nationwide in the United States, as well as in parts of Europe, where he has been a visiting professor at the University of Cologne (Germany) and lectured in Finland.

Post Regiment

Their final album, Tragiedia wg Post Regiment ("Tragedy According To Post Regiment") was released in 1998 on Profane Existence records in the USA and Skuld releases in Europe.

Propaganda during the Reformation

Propaganda during the Reformation, helped by the spread of the printing press throughout Europe, and in particular within Germany, caused new ideas, thoughts, and doctrine to be made available to the public in ways that had never been seen before the sixteenth century.

Rise of nationalism in Europe

The Polish attempts to win independence from Russia had previously proved to be unsuccessful, with Poland being the only country in Europe whose autonomy was gradually limited rather than expanded throughout the 19th century, as a punishment for the failed uprisings; in 1831 Poland lost its status as a formally independent state and was merged into Russia as a real union country and in 1867 she became nothing more than just another Russian province.

River kingfishers

Three species reach Australia, but only the Common Kingfisher is found across most of Europe and temperate Asia.

Roberto Sabatino Lopez

He taught for many years at Yale University as a Sterling Professor of History with a great passion also for the history of the Commons in Italy and Europe in general.

Sabiha Al Khemir

Between 1991–1992 Al Khemir was a consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York for the exhibition ‘Al-Andalus: Islamic Arts of Spain.’ She traveled in Europe and North Africa in search of objects and history that would provide the basis for the show.

Solar balloon

Dominic Michaelis is recorded as having owned the first pure solar balloon in Europe.

Sultan Choudhury

From 1998 to 2003 Choudhury was Director of brokerage operations at Charles Schwab Europe.

The Little Drummer Girl

The story follows the manipulations of Martin Kurtz, an Israeli spymaster who is trying to kill a Palestinian terrorist named Khalil, who is bombing Jewish-related targets in Europe, particularly Germany, and the English actress Charlie, who becomes a double agent working on behalf of the Israelis.

The Shadow of the Vulture

The story is set around the Battle of Mohács and the later Siege of Vienna (1529), with Suleiman the Magnificent's attack into Europe.

Tourrettes, Var

The aerodrome of Fayence-Tourrettes was one of the most active in Europe.

Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Cinderella: Masks, Magic and Mirrors (Sept. 2 - Mar. 31 2008) which included materials from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

VH1 Europe

Though produced in Warsaw (Poland), VH1 Europe broadcasts from MTV Networks Europe's premises in Camden Town (London, UK) to the whole continent of Europe, covering also the Middle East, South Africa and parts of Northern Africa.

ZaMirNET

Amidst the "worst crimes committed in Europe this century" the first major experiment in email was launched in June 1992 in Zagreb and Belgrade, almost exactly a year after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, triggering a brutal response from Serbia.