The rise of the giant corporations in Western Europe and the United States dates from the period 1880-1900.

In recent years America's partners and friends in Western Europe and Japan have made great economic progress.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

It may well be that the unification of Europe will prove inadequate, that the survival of free society will require nothing less than the confederation of the entire Western world.

Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.

It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war.

Other similar affirmations in the Declaration on Liberated Europe seemed to assure democratic institutions on the Western model.

Each time his objective had been the same -- a direct water passage from Western Europe to the Far East.

This is an area nearly as large as Western Europe ; ;

At war's end leadership in Western Europe passed from Britain because the Labour Government devoted its attention to the creation of a welfare state.

Anthropology as it emerged amongst the Western colonial powers ( mentioned above ) has generally taken a different path than that in the countries of southern and central Europe ( Italy, Greece, and the successors to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires ).

Alchemists contributed distillation to Western Europe.

The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

Medieval-A highly religious art beginning in the 5th Century in Western Europe.

His appeals to Western Europe for help against the Turks were also the catalyst that triggered the Crusades.

Phage therapy was in use in the 1920s and 1930s in the US, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe.

The best selling model, the Amiga 500, was introduced in 1987 and became the leading home computer of the late 1980s and early 1990s in much of Western Europe.

According to Plato, Atlantis was a naval power lying " in front of the Pillars of Hercules " that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9, 000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC.

For example the United States uses NTSC-M, the UK uses PAL-I, France uses SECAM-L, much of Western Europe and Australia uses PAL-B / G, most of Eastern Europe uses PAL-D / K or SECAM-D / K and so on.

Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. Interred here on Armistice Day 1920, it has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins ' fire was extinguished in the fourth century.

In 1867 he was the first Ottoman sultan to visit Western Europe ; his trip included a visit to the United Kingdom, where he was made a Knight of the Garter by Queen Victoria and shown a Royal Navy Fleet Review with Ismail of Egypt.

In the Middle Ages, regicide was rare in Western Europe, but it was a recurring theme in the Eastern Roman Empire.

The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

Along with revitalization came many changes, including the closing of the Great Western sugar factory in 1955, and a new city charter, adopting a council-manager form of government in 1954.

In 1955, the USSR declared the Soviet occupation zone – the historic middle portion of Germany – to be a sovereign state named the Deutsche Demokratische Republik ( German Democratic Republic, established in 1949 ), while the Red Army and the Western Allies ' occupation forces remained in place under the tripartite Potsdam Agreement ( 1945 ) which established the Allied Occupation of Germany.

*: 1955: Allen Kent joined Case Western Reserve University, and eventually became associate director of the Center for Documentation and Communications Research.

* Cyril Fox, Offa's Dyke: a Field Survey of the Western Frontier Works of Mercia in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries AD, ( London, 1955 )

Former Great Western Railway | GWR locomotive GWR 5600 Class | 6664 photographed near the engine shed at Slough, October 1955.

The end of denazification saw the ad-hoc creation initially of the Western Union ( not to be confused with the commercial operation of that name ) which would be institutionalised as the Western European Union in 1947 and 1955, with a broad socio-economic remit actually implemented in the strict domain of arms control.

When it became apparent that Western countries would not supply Egypt under financial and military terms acceptable to it, Nasser turned to the Soviet bloc and concluded a satisfactory armaments agreement with Czechoslovakia in September 1955.

In June 1955, Messina was the location of the Messina Conference of Western European foreign ministers which led to the creation of the European Economic Community.

* Santa Fe Passage, a 1955 Western film

USS Hancock deployed once to the Western Pacific with four missiles in 1955.

Then in late 1955 Western initiated Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club Magazine with content produced by Disney Studio staff members.

In modern times, the familiar Western layout of horizontal rows from left to right, read from the top of the page to the bottom, has become more popular, especially in the People's Republic of China ( mainland China ), where the government mandated left-to-right writing in 1955.

Skagway is featured in the 1955 Western The Far Country, directed by Anthony Mann.

Water in the Woodcrest area became more affordable after the voters of Riverside, Corona, Elsinore and surrounding unincorporated areas approved the formation of the Western Municipal Water District in 1955.

David Lindsey, writing in 1955, observes that " New England Yankees, moving into Ohio's Western Reserve in 1798, brought with them the name Andover from a township in Tolland County, Connecticut, birthplace of many of the migrants.

In 1955 at age 16, he began his only technical training at the Arts Appliqués art school, where he started producing Western comics.

Baldwin's essays, such as the collection Notes of a Native Son ( 1955 ), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions with personal identity, assumptions, uncertainties, yearning, and questing.

In 1955, following a stint as an economic advisor to the government of Burma, he published the short paper " Economics in a Buddhist Country ," his first known critique of the effects of Western economics on developing countries.

The school began granting Bachelor's and Master's degrees in arts in 1949, and was fully accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges in 1955.

The next major political demarche with which Nuri's name would be associated was the Baghdad Pact, a series of agreements concluded between 1954 and 1955 which tied Iraq politically and militarily with the Western powers and their regional allies, notably Turkey.

In 1955 the Milwaukee Road assumed the service, replacing the Chicago and North Western between Chicago and Omaha ; from January 1959 until 1967 the train ran via Denver.

Emblem used on 1955 Metropolitan Region SchemeAlthough no motto was granted as part of the Coat of Arms, earlier heraldic-like emblems of Western Australia sometimes used a motto of " Cygnis insignis ", which means " distinguished for swans ", being a Latin pun on the swan emblem ( cygnis being Latin for swan ).