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.

One of these became the Latin alphabet, which was spread across Europe as the Romans expanded their empire.

It eventually became used for the descendant languages of Latin ( the Romance languages ) and then for most of the other languages of Europe.

Throughout Latin America the word Gringo is also used for any foreigner from the United States, Canada, or Europe, however the true sense of the word is any foreigner.

It has dominated French social history and influenced historiography in Europe and Latin America.

He wrote the grammatical rules for the Vulgate Latin spoken by some illiterates in Europe at his time.

Documents again began to be written in Sumerian, although Sumerian was becoming a purely literary or liturgical language, much as Latin later would be in Medieval Europe.

This collection of short Latin verse texts and accompanying woodcuts created an entire European genre, the emblem book, which attained enormous popularity in continental Europe and Great Britain.

Knowledge of Arabic texts started to become imported into Europe during the Latin translations of the 12th century, the effect of which was to help initiate the European Renaissance.

The biography of Anthony's life by Athanasius of Alexandria helped to spread the concept of monasticism, particularly in Western Europe through Latin translations.

The Bahamian Government also has adopted a proactive approach to courting foreign investors and has conducted major investment missions to the Far East, Europe, Latin America, and Canada.

Haley was soon eclipsed in the United States by the younger, sexier Elvis, but continued to enjoy great popularity in Latin America, Europe, and Australia through the 1960s.

27. 7 % of the population was foreign born, 51. 8 % came from Asia, 30. 8 % from Europe, 8. 2 % from Latin America and 9. 2 % from other ( mostly Canada ).

Their works became more widely known in Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, beginning with the Latin translation of Jābir ’ s Kitab al-Kimya in 1144.

It was especially important for preserving in its libraries manuscripts of Greek and Latin authors throughout a period when instability and disorder caused their mass-destruction in western Europe and north Africa: On the city's fall, thousands of these were brought by refugees to Italy, and played a key part in stimulating the Renaissance, and the transition to the modern world.

Edson Luiz Sampel, a Brazilian expert in canon law, says that canon law is contained in the genesis of various institutes of civil law, such as the law in continental Europe and Latin American countries.

For example, the Americas and Europe are considered part of Christendom, but this region is further subdivided into the West ( representing the North Atlantic ) and Latin America.

Citizenship granted in this fashion is referred to by the Latin phrase jus sanguinis meaning " right of blood " and means that citizenship is granted based on ancestry or ethnicity, and is related to the concept of a nation state common in Europe.

Large-scale population movements from rural to urban areas of Latin America and to other regions of the world have increased the geographic distribution of Chagas disease, and cases have been noted in many countries, particularly in Europe.

Chagas disease is a growing problem in Europe, because the majority of cases with chronic infection are asymptomatic and because of migration from Latin America.

The translation into Latin and dissemination of Geography in Europe, in the beginning of the 15th century, marked the rebirth of scientific Cartography, after more than a millennium of stagnation

He spoke Esperanto from childhood and used it in Japan, the People's Republic of China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, in Africa and Latin America, and in nearly all the countries of Europe.

In the 1920s democracy flourished, but the Great Depression brought disenchantment, and most of the countries of Europe, Latin America, and Asia turned to strong-man rule or dictatorships.

It is popular today in Europe, and was considered by some to be the European counterpart to East Coast Swing, a 6-count dance standardized for the American ballroom industry.

Electroswing is mainly popular in Europe, and electro swing artists incorporate influences such as Tango and Django Reinhardt's Gypsy Swing.

Major landmarks along its route include the Barton Swing Aqueduct, the only swing aqueduct in the world, and Trafford Park, the world's first planned industrial estate and still the largest in Europe.

It is mainly popular in Europe, and electro swing artists incorporate European influences such as Django Reinhardt's Gypsy Swing.

The name boogie-woogie is used mostly in Europe ; the closest thing in the US is probably East Coast Swing.

The theme of this show changes every week, but a few examples include: songs about chickens, music from Mexico, Swing music from occupied Europe, the northern England electronic scene, batucada, music performed by convicted criminals, and Carolina Soul of the 1960s through 1980s.

George Rudé ’ s most notable works include The Crowd in the French Revolution, The Crowd in History, Revolutionary Europe: 1783-1815, Ideology and Popular Protest, Paris and London in the Eighteenth Century, Debate on Europe: 1815-1850 and Captain Swing: A Social History of the great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830 ( co-authored by Eric Hobsbawn ).

True Swing Golf ( known as Nintendo Touch Golf: Birdie Challenge in Europe and as Otona no DS Golf in Japan ) is a golf video game published by Nintendo and released for the Nintendo DS handheld video game system.

The third event was a concerted effort to transform some of the dance crazes into dances which could be taught to a wider dance public in the US and Europe.

Sources for an understanding of dance in Europe in the Middle Ages are limited and fragmentary, being composed of some interesting depictions in paintings and illuminations, a few musical examples of what may be dances, and scattered allusions in literary texts.

Circle or line dances also existed in other parts of Europe outside of England, France and Italy where the term carol was best known.

Square dances were first documented in 17th century England but were also quite common in France and throughout Europe.

Keywords: cowboy dance, frontier, folk dances from Europe, new developments

In Europe, there are a number of folk dances or folk performances in which the black face appears to represent the night, or the coming of the longer nights associated with winter.

A strong tradition of social and competitive boogie woogie and Rock ' n ' Roll in Europe add these dances to their local swing dance cultures.

At the same time, new dances and tunes were imported from Europe, including the fandango, reinlender, waltz, polka and mazurka.

These groups usually focus on European dances, but the international folk dance repertoire may include dances from every part of the world: Europe, Africa, North and South America, the Middle East, the Far East, Australia and the South Pacific.

In Europe, most notably in Denmark, there have been recognized a series of partial dance levels with corresponding dances available at those partway points ( Mainstream 23, 45, 53, 69 ).

From the earliest days, the dances and the music that accompanied them were brought to America by the people of the British Isles, continental Europe, and Africa.

It was Bernhard Wosien who first brought to the Findhorn Community in Scotland the traditional circle dances that he had gathered from across Eastern Europe.

He so inspired people there that teachers such as Colin Harrison and David Roberts took the dances ( sometimes calling their dance ' sacred circle dance ') to other parts of the UK and started regular groups particularly in the south east of England and Somerset, then across Europe, the US and elsewhere until now the network extends also to Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and South America.

Popular Dances like Choliya from the Kumaon region of India, and khukri dances from Nepal are prominent in the sub-continent, while all known linked (" hilt-and-point ") sword dances are from Europe.

The dance is related to the Long Sword dance of Yorkshire, as well as other sword dances in Europe.

As with so many traditional dances in England and Europe, these characters are integral to the tradition, and their role was documented in all of the earliest published descriptions of the Northumbrian dance – descriptions which pre-date the introduction of the flexible rapper sword which so fundamentally changed the dance.

In October 1938 one of its leaders read " While dictators rage and statesmen talk, all Europe dances — to ' The Lambeth Walk '.

According to George Reid Andrews, the historian of Montevideo Black communities, after the middle of the 19th century younger blacks in particular abandoned the candombe in favor of dances from Europe such as the mazurka.

Their shows feature an ensemble of talented young folk artists dedicated to the performance and preservation of the music, songs, and dances of Eastern Europe and neighboring folk cultures.

The show stopper, “ The Lambeth Walk ”, was the subject of a news story in The Times of October 1938: “ While dictators rage and statesmen talk, all Europe dances — to The Lambeth Walk .”

Tanney Johnson said of his death, “ Before Jim Europe came to New York, the colored man knew nothing but Negro dances and porter ’ s work.

The music of Saint Lucia is based on elements derived from the music of Africa, especially rhythmically, and Western Europe, dances like the quadrille, polka and waltz.