Meanwhile, Germany, Austria, France and other Western European nations experienced increased economic growth in the Wirtschaftswunder (" economic miracle ") Trente Glorieuses (" thirty glorious years ") and the post-war boom.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Pegaso kept pace with the impressive economic development of Spain ( the so-called " Spanish miracle "), and tens of thousands of Pegaso trucks and busses ran on Spanish roads and through Spanish cities and, more important, crossed borders in TIR sealed-container traffic to link the Spanish economy with the European Economic Community.

Sharp's miracle three-pointer to survive the Top 16 that year has become one of the classic shots in European basketball history, unforgettable for any Maccabi fan.

Of his brother, Stanislaus wrote, " It seems to me little short of a miracle that anyone should have striven to cultivate poetry or cared to get in touch with the current of European thought while living in a household such as ours, typical as it was of the squalor of a drunken generation.

This is a reflection of the tradition of secular humanism which culminated in the 18th century " Age of Enlightenment " and which allowed the great progress in science and technology which accompanied the " European miracle ".

He also spends a good deal of time in the effort to debunk claims that this miracle did not happen, was not significant, or was financed by European colonialism.

Following Daniel Bell, knowledge is the necessary link between ' The European miracle ' and the American post-industrial society.

Jones's book gave rise to the term European miracle.

Wallerstein's idea of a world-economy and world-system originating in Europe also comes through in European miracle theory.

The idea of a unique European family structure is also a central tenet of the European miracle theory.

* European miracle, entry at the wiktionary

Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

* 1991 – The European Community recognizes the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

During January – February 2007, Armenia ’ s trade with the European Union totaled $ 200 million.

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

European Ideologies: A Survey of 20th Century Political Ideas ( 1948 ) pp 391 – 481 online edition, on Russia and Bulgaria

* 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

* 1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L ' Aigle, France ; the event convinces European science that meteors exist.

* Haliotis tuberculata Linnaeus, 1758 – the green ormer, European edible abalone, tube abalone, or tuberculate ormer – synonyms: Haliotis varia, Variable abalone, Haliotis barbouri

Essays in European Economic History, 1500 – 1800, ( 1974 ), translated articles from Annales

* 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.

* 1945 – World War II: The Captain class frigate HMS Goodall K479 is torpedoed by U-286 outside the Kola Inlet becoming the last ship of the Royal Navy sunk in the European theatre of World War II.

In European Spain, or just " the Peninsula " in the jargon of the Spains, after economic and human ravages of the Napoleonic Invasion ( 1808 ) and the War of Liberation ( 1808 – 1814 ) there ensued the aforementioned Latinamerican conflicts, in addition to the Carlist wars, the liberal-conservative wars, and the bleeding of people and resources into Latin America.

Both European ( the coastal regions, such as the Basque Country, Catalonia, and Asturias ) and Overseas – Antilles and pacific were able to grow uninterruptedly.

* 1911 – Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

* 2003 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge and member of the European Parliament ( b. 1941 )

Well known armour types in European history include the lorica hamata, lorica squamata, and the lorica segmentata of the Roman legions, the mail hauberk of the early medieval age, and the full steel plate harness worn by later medieval and renaissance knights, and breast and back plates worn by heavy cavalry in several European countries until the first year of World War I ( 1914 – 15 ).

The club is one of the five teams that has earned the right to keep the European Cup and to wear a multiple-winner badge ; they won consecutively in 1971 – 1973.

Johan Cruijff played at Ajax between 1959 – 73 and 1981 – 83, winning 3 European Cups ; his # 14 is the only squad number Ajax has ever retired.

In some European countries, all cultural anthropology is known as ethnology ( a term coined and defined by Adam F. Kollár in 1783 ).

The term " Hamito-Semitic " remains in use in the academic traditions of some European countries.

A third use of the term pertains specifically to the indigenous peoples of the Americas, for instance, " In the 16th century, many Americans died from imported diseases during the European conquest ".

In the following century the term was extended to European settlers and their descendants in the Americas.

" She has also rejected an immigrant designation for African-Americans and instead prefers the term " black " or " white " to denote the African and European U. S. founding populations.

This migration was part of a series of major population movements in the European barbaricum ( the Roman term for regions outside their empire ).

Despite significant efforts, British control of Northern European waters rendered these ambitions impractical in the short term, and the Royal Navy remained firmly in control of the Atlantic Ocean.

Dr. Al-Kadi concluded that the Arabic word sifr, for the digit zero, developed into the European technical term for encryption.

It is widespread practice in the media in the UK ( and elsewhere ) to use the word Europe to mean continental Europe ; that is, " Europe " excludes Britain, Iceland and Ireland ( though the term is sometimes used to refer to the European Union ).

In 1964, Richard Kyle coined the term " graphic novel " to distinguish newly translated European works from genre-driven subject matter common in American comics.

The name " celery " retraces the plant's route of successive adoption in European cooking, as the English " celery " ( 1664 ) is derived from the French céleri coming from the Lombard term, seleri, from the Latin selinon, borrowed from Greek.

In European cities, the term " Citadel " and " City Castle " are often used interchangeably.

Mappa mundi is the general term used to describe Medieval European maps of the world.

The 2006 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy " uses the term ' colonialism ' to describe the process of European settlement and political control over the rest of the world, including Americas, Australia, and parts of Africa and Asia.

The literature of European archaeology, in general, avoids the use of ' chalcolithic ' ( the term ' Copper Age ' is preferred ), whereas Middle Eastern archaeologists regularly use it.

The term is also applied to American civilizations that already used copper and copper alloys thousands of years before European conquest.

Literary scholars first used this term in the 1960s and 1970s, and the term has only come into broad use since the 1980s, especially as theory used in literary studies has increasingly been influenced by European philosophy and social theory.

After the discovery of the West Indies by Christopher Columbus in 1492, the Spanish term Antillas was assigned to the lands ; stemming from this, " Sea of the Antilles " is a common alternative name for the Caribbean Sea in various European languages.

Over the years, the term ' dagger ' has been used to describe a wide variety of thrusting knives, including knives that feature only a single cutting edge, such as the European rondel dagger or the Persian pesh-kabz, or, in some instances, no cutting edge at all, such as the stiletto of the Renaissance.

The European Parliament stated in its report that the term ECHELON is used in a number of contexts, but that the evidence presented indicates that it was the name for a signals intelligence collection system.

The " European War " became known as " The Great War ", and it was not until 1920, in the book " The First World War 1914 – 1918 " by Charles à Court Repington, that the term " First World War " was used as the official name for the conflict.

* European Domestic Market in the automobile industry, A slang term used by some North Americans to describe the European Economic Area

The Communist Party of Britain and The Socialist Workers Party, neither of which have any considerable power or influence, with not one seat in Parliament nor in a local council, both criticise the European Union from an ultra-left perspective and their " scepticism " is a form of left-wing euroscepticism although its adherents may reject the term.