The similarly named Ford Galaxy is a large car / minivan available in the European market.

The Chevrolet Venture minivan was sold as the Opel / Vauxhall Sintra in the late-1990s, but was not only not to European tastes, but also gained a bad reputation due to poor results in safety tests.

The early European calicoes ( 1680 ) would thus be a cheap equal weft and warp plain weave cotton fabric in white, cream or unbleached cotton, with a block printed design using a single alizarin dye, fixed with two mordants giving a red and black pattern.

However, all other bodies and agencies, except for the European Agency for Reconstruction, have their own emblem, albeit often inspired by the flag's design and colours.

The design of the European flag was displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris to celebrate the French presidency of the EU in the second half of 2008.

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Notable names in mid-century modern design include Adrian Frutiger, designer of the typefaces Univers and Frutiger ; Paul Rand, who, from the late 1930s until his death in 1996, took the principles of the Bauhaus and applied them to popular advertising and logo design, helping to create a uniquely American approach to European minimalism while becoming one of the principal pioneers of the subset of graphic design known as corporate identity ; and Josef Müller-Brockmann, who designed posters in a severe yet accessible manner typical of the 1950s and 1970s era.

At the center were members of the Bauhaus, a European architectural movement that had advanced the cause of modernist design.

Wherever it came from, and whatever it represented, it was clear that a European style had come to influence Mughal art, otherwise the slave would not have claimed it as his own design, nor would he have been believed by Jahangir.

This is a thermal neutron reactor design, the newest of which are the VVER-1200, Advanced Pressurized Water Reactor and the European Pressurized Reactor.

But in the 1980s, the pendulum swung to witness a period of European design dominance.

Porsche's design and development efforts paid off during the 1978 European Car of the Year competition where the 928 won ahead of the BMW 7-series and the Ford Granada.

A broader European project called " Architecture and design for the future Internet " known as 4WARD had a budgest estimated at 23. 4 million Euro and was funded from January 2008 through June 2010.

In October 2008 Rem Koolhaas was invited for a European " group of the wise " under the chairmanship of former Spanish prime minister Felipe González to help ' design ' the future European Union.

Koolhaas's design won the Architekturpreis Berlin in 2003 and the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 2005.

Aeronautics is also partner in the European joint UAV-project Dassault nEUROn, where Saab develop Avionics and is responsible for the overall architecture and design.

Volkswagen AG chairman Ferdinand Piëch personally choose Dirk van Braeckel as head of design, and the subsequent Octavia and Fabia models made their way to the demanding European Union markets.

The Single European Sky is a European Commission initiative by which the design, management and regulation of airspace will be coordinated throughout the European Union ( ECAA area ).

In the film the world of Gaea has a more Asian design than the heavily European influenced television series.

The most common 60 ° V6s were built by General Motors ( the heavy duty commercial models, as well as a design used in many GM front-wheel-drive cars ) and Ford European subsidiaries ( Essex V6, Cologne V6 and the more recent Duratec V6 ).

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

He dabbled in verse, could get along well among most of the European languages, and was fluent in French and German.

the pope was playing a dangerous game, with so many balls in the air at once that a misstep would bring them all about his ears, and his only hope was to temporize so that he could take advantage of every change in the delicate balance of European affairs.

To do so, something was necessary beyond volunteering because there was little glamour or romance in the European war ; ;

Another powerful factor in the European movement was the threat of Soviet aggression.

In 1952, the European Coal and Steel Community was launched, placing the coal and steel production of France, West Germany, Italy and Benelux under a supranational High Authority.

For a time it appeared that a common European army might be created, but the project for a European Defense Community was rejected by the French National Assembly in 1954.

In 1957 the social-economic approach to European integration was capped by the formation among `` the Six '' of a tariff-free European Common Market, and Euratom for cooperation in the development of atomic energy.

Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.

Wheaton stated that the public law was essentially `` limited to the civilized and Christian peoples of Europe or to those of European origin ''.

Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.

The European customs on which international law was based were to become, by force and fiat, the customs that others were to accept as law if they were to join this community as sovereign states.

Hall, for example, was quite explicit on this point when he said states outside European civilization must formally enter into the circle of law-governed countries.

In some ways, studying the language, culture, physiology, and artifacts of European colonies was not unlike studying the flora and fauna of those places.

It is a popular belief that alchemists made contributions to the " chemical " industries of the day — ore testing and refining, metalworking, production of gunpowder, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, leather tanning, ceramics, glass manufacture, preparation of extracts, liquors, and so on ( it seems that the preparation of aqua vitae, the " water of life ", was a fairly popular " experiment " among European alchemists ).

Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

His son Snorri Thorfinnsson was the first American born ( somewhere between 1010 and 1013 ) to European ( Icelandic ) immigrant parents.

The road between Lubango and Namibe, for example, was completed recently with funding from the European Union, and is comparable to many European main routes.

:" It was indeed nothing short of a summary, in sequential and numbered paragraphs, of everything that the mind of European man had yet conceived or discovered.

The Barton Government therefore conceived of the " language dictation test ", which would allow the government, at the discretion of the minister, to block unwanted migrants by forcing them to sit a test in " any European language ".

The Otago Association's plan for the European settlement of southern New Zealand, conceived under the principles of Edward Gibbon Wakefield in the 1840s, envisaged a university.

Petrarch, who conceived the idea of a European " Dark Age ".

The unit was promoted " as a thoroughly volunteer unit, conceived and created by British subjects from all parts of the empire who have taken up arms and pledged their lives in the common European struggle against Soviet Russia ".

So too, many of the spirits especially concerned with the operations of nature are conceived as neutral or even benevolent ; the European peasant fears the corn-spirit only when he irritates him by trenching on his domain and taking his property by cutting the corn ; similarly, there is no reason why the more insignificant personages of the pantheon should be conceived as malevolent, and we find that the Petara of the Dyaks are far from indiscriminating and malignant, being viewed as invisible guardians of mankind.

The European Capital of Culture programme was initially called the European City of Culture and was conceived in 1983, by Melina Mercouri, then serving as Greek Minister of Culture.

Mercouri was the person who, in 1983, conceived and proposed the programme of the European Capital of Culture, which has been established by the European Union since 1985.

Monnet and his associates conceived the idea of a European Community.

Eurobarometer was originally conceived as a way to track and analyse public opinion in all European Member States ( later, in candidate and third countries as well ) and to improve the information and communication policy of European decision makers.

It was conceived in 1996 by Diego Marani ( a journalist, author and translator for the European Council of Ministers in Brussels ) based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many EU Languages.

One concept, that of Christian Western Europe, conceived of the races as constituting a hierarchical chain of life known as the Great Chain of Being, which was believed to have been created by God, in which the people thought the Christian European races were closest to God in perfection.

At the same time, it is alleged that he conceived a plan for a march on Constantinople, planning to drive the Ottomans out of Europe, counting on support from major European states.

The project was conceived by Chris McKinstry, a computer scientist and former Very Large Telescope operator for the European Southern Observatory in Chile, as MISTIC ( Minimum Intelligent Signal Test Item Corpus ) in 1996.

The convicts specifically denounce the French Republic which claimed, in accordance with the " advises of the European Council ", that the " enforcing of prison sentences ... has been conceived not only in order to protect society and assure the punishment of the convict, but also to favour his amendement and prepare his rehabilitation ".

Historically, the concept of an American was conceived in the U. S. as a person of European ancestry to the exclusion of African Americans and Native Americans.

This team of 2003 – 04 and 2004 – 05 is generally conceived as the best basketball team in European history and certainly one of the most fun to watch ever in basketball history.

Among the many projects conceived in connection with Bradford's bid to be European Capital of Culture for 2008 ( which competition was actually won by Liverpool ), one was a scheme to recreate Bradford Canal.

In contrast, African-American artisans like the New England – based engraver Scipio Moorhead and the Baltimore portrait painter Joshua Johnson created art that was conceived in a thoroughly western European fashion.

Learning from his cousin about the success of the French Grand Prix and the rapid expansion of Grand Prix racing in other European countries, William Vanderbilt conceived a way to solve the safety issue as well as improve attendance to his race.