The public appeal by the new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, for renewed efforts toward Eastern and Western reunion was still another remarkable act.

At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.

A few newer homes have Western flush toilets, but even with running water, they are usually Eastern style.

`` They are determined '', Montgomery writes, `` not to be surprised again, and now insist on a state of readiness for war which is not only unnecessary, but also creates nervousness among other nations in the Western Alliance -- not to mention such great suspicions among the nations of the Eastern bloc that any progress towards peaceful coexistence or disarmament is not possible ''.

** This is, on the whole, an informed and good account of the life and accomplishments of one of the greatest influences on the development of thought both Eastern and Western.

In Western philosophy, the spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire marked the ending of Hellenistic philosophy and ushered in the beginnings of Medieval philosophy, whereas in Eastern philosophy, the spread of Islam through the Arab Empire marked the end of Old Iranian philosophy and ushered in the beginnings of early Islamic philosophy.

Trinitarianism remained the dominant doctrine in all major branches of the Eastern and Western Church and later within Protestantism until modern times.

These contacts and the common plight subsequently led to a rapprochement between the Western supporters of the Nicene creed and the homoousios and the Eastern semi-Arians.

Western Antarctica and Eastern Antarctica correspond roughly to the eastern and western hemispheres relative to the Greenwich meridian.

The state is sectioned into three fishing zones, Eastern, Central and Western with each fisher required a zone allocated licence.

The Arians appealed to many high level leaders and clergy in both the Western and Eastern empires.

He likewise supported the pope at Ferrara and Florence, and worked hard in the attempt to reconcile the Eastern and Western Churches.

Modern-day Arab telephone keypad with two forms of Arabic numerals: Western Arabic / European numerals on the left and Eastern Arabic numerals on the right

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

As well Alberta is connected to the TasnCanada pipeline system ( natural gas ) to Eastern Canada, the Northern Border Pipeline ( gas ), Alliance Pipeline ( gas ) and Enbridge Pipeline System ( oil ) to the Eastern United States, the Gas Transmission Northwest and Northwest Pipeline ( gas ) to the Western United States, and the McNeill HVDC Back-to-back station ( electric power ) to Saskatchewan.

Furthermore, in many Western and Eastern cultures alike, traits such as body hair are rarely depicted in art that addresses physical beauty.

The Western suffix-e is from the Classical singular and the Eastern suffix-its is from the Classical plural ; both have been generalized for singular and plural in the dialects that use them.

Liturgical rites of the Catholic Church, both Western and Eastern, other than the Roman, have a variety of other forms for celebrating the sacrament.

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

Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

His other important works include his Letters to Serapion, which dealt with the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and his classic Life of St Anthony, which was translated into several languages and played an important role in the spreading of the ascetic ideal in Eastern and Western Christianity.

Most forest areas are in Central, Eastern and Western parts of Bosnia.

For a significant portion of its history, Yiddish was the primary spoken language of the Ashkenazi Jews and once spanned a broad dialect continuum from Western Yiddish to three major groups within Eastern Yiddish, namely Litvish, Poylish and Ukrainish.

While Western Yiddish has few remaining speakers, Eastern dialects remain in wide use.

In Central and Eastern Europe horseradish is called khreyn ( in various spellings like kren ) in many Slavic languages, in Austria, in parts of Germany ( where the other German name Meerrettich isn't used ), in North-East Italy, and in Yiddish ( כריין translitered as khreyn ).

However, the " Yeshivish " dialect of Yiddish has existed for quite a few centuries among Yeshiva-educated Jews in Eastern and Central Europe.

Klezmer ( Yiddish כליזמר or קלעזמער, pl כליזמר, כליזמרים, from Hebrew כלי זמר — instruments of music ) is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe.

Instrumental songs often follow the type of chord progressions found in Middle Eastern and Greek music, whereas vocal Yiddish songs are often much simpler, and follow a style and chord progressions similar to Russian folk songs.

The most common transliterations are DovBer or Dov Ber ; rarely used forms are Dob Baer or Dobh Baer which often depend on the region in Eastern Europe where Jews resided and hence the influence of the local Yiddish dialects.

The Ashkenazi expellees and their High German Yiddish language left a significant imprint on Eastern Central Europe, in towns like Lviv ( Lemberg ), Lublin, Minsk and Chernivtsi ( Czernowitz ), but also in the Bohemian capital Prague as well as in numerous shtetls.

The name " Bialer rebbe " was immortalized in the consciousness of Eastern European Jewry, in a story by the secular Yiddish writer Isaac Leib Peretz, Tsvishn Tsvei Berg (" Between Two Mountains ").

Eighteen students are selected for a seven-week program during which they study the Yiddish language and the Jewish culture and history of Central and Eastern Europe and America.

An Unfinished Trial in 1961, White Night, 1963, and Meeting on the Mountain in 1969 ), and Bruckstein became, before his 1972 emigration to Israel, the most important Yiddish playwright of post-war Romania, as mentioned in the Encyclopaedia Judaica, see also YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe on Romanian literature.

However, according to a table from the " Population of the Eastern Galicia in 1931 ", the locality of Lubaczów had a total population of 51, 885, from where 23, 686 ( 43. 7 %) were Polish, 24, 470 ( 47. 2 %) were Ukrainian, 3, 503 ( 6. 8 %) were Yiddish ( probably referring to Jews ) and 226 ( 0. 4 %) were of other descent.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Yiddish was the main language of Jews in Eastern Europe ( thus making it the language spoken by the majority of Jews in the world ), while Ladino was widespread in the Maghreb, Turkey, Bulgaria and Greece ; smaller groups in Europe spoke such languages as Judeo-Italian, Yevanic, or Karaim.

This phenomenon may be compared to cases such as different forms of Yiddish ( Judeo-German ) such as Western Yiddish and Eastern Yiddish, or forms of Ladino ( Judeo-Spanish ) in areas such as the Balkans, Thessaloníki / Istanbul, Morocco, etc.

Yiddish was historically a common language of Ashkenazi ( Central and Eastern European ) Jews.

From the late 1880s through the mid-1950s, there was a range of Jewish left newspapers ( and other publications ) in Yiddish that covered the spectrum of Jewish left-wing political and cultural expression in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as both North and South America, and in Mandate Palestine's Yishuv, as well as the early years of the State of Israel.

Throughout Eastern Europe, Jews spoke Yiddish, a language closely related to German, and Jewish intellectuals often took up German as " The Language of Culture ".

After the founding of Israel in 1948, the Yiddish language and the art associated with it were marginalized by many Jews for whom Yiddish represented the ghettos of Eastern Europe and the holocaust.