Elements of historicism appear in the writings of Italian philosopher G. B. Vico and French essayist Michel de Montaigne, and became fully developed with the dialectic of G. W. F. Hegel, influential in 19th-century Europe.

In its modern usage, the idea that a part of the Americas has affinity with the Romance cultures as a whole can be traced back to the 1830s, in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas was inhabited by people of a " Latin race " and that it could, therefore, ally itself with " Latin Europe " in a struggle with " Teutonic Europe ", " Anglo-Saxon America " and " Slavic Europe ".

It was reported that Blatter had " cut an unofficial deal with UEFA head Michel Platini " to ensure Europe would receive the 2018 World Cup, such that if the non-European bids did not withdraw from 2018 " they will find themselves frozen out and not given any backing by the FIFA High Command, damaging their chances of being serious contenders for the second tournament.

She scored another Top 20 hit in Europe ( it went to No. 2 in France, earning a 2x platinum certification there ) with " The World Is Stone ", penned by Tim Rice, Michel Berger, and Luc Plamondon.

Sextus's " Outlines " were widely read in Europe during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, and had a profound effect on Michel de Montaigne, David Hume, and G. W. F.

In July 2012, UEFA president Michel Platini proposed that the 2020 tournament could be hosted in 12 cities across Europe.

Michel Rocard is known for his hostility for the proposed directives to allow software patents in Europe, and has been an outspoken opponent of what he considers to be sneaky manoeuvres to force the decision on this issue.

* Speech of Michel Rocard denouncing the methods of some who push for software patents in Europe ( in French )

The term " Arab socialism " was coined by Michel Aflaq, the principal founder of ba ' athism and the Ba ' ath Party, in order to distinguish his version of socialist ideology from the internationalist Marxist socialism in Eastern Europe and Eastern Asia, and the social democracy in Western Europe.

* The Suicide of Europe: Memoirs of Prince Michael Sturdza by Prince Michel Sturdza ( American Opinion Books, 1968, ISBN 0-88279-214-8 ).

The concert hall is the home of St. Michel Strings chamber orchestra, and also provides the main venue for the annual Mikkeli International Music Festival, which attracts musicians and audiences from across Europe.

His second, The New Adventures of Michel Courtemanche, first performed in 1992, filled theatres in both North America and Europe and spawned his second international hit video ( 1993 ).

In the run-up to the 1961 congress of the ISFI the supporters of the Argentine Juan Posadas, a leader of the Latin American Secretariat, found themselves in agreement with the supporters of Michel Pablo in stressing the primacy of the anti-colonial revolution: the majority in the ISFI placed a greater emphasis on developing activity in Europe.

Early contacts in the West included Swiss ethnomusicologist Laurent Aubert and Belgian musicians Stéphane Karo and Michel Winter, two fans who were so taken by the band's music that they turned into managers, brought the newly named " Taraf de Haïdouks " to Western Europe and helped launch their international career.

He was ranked amongst the best players in Europe, and his talent was exceptional, with the French three time European footballer of the year award winner Michel Platini describing him as one of the most talented players ever, only lamenting his lack of selfishness causing him to score too few goals.

* Michel Raymond ( Europe of Democracies and Diversities )

Rabbi Yechiel Michel Epstein, author of Aruch Hashulchan, postulates that the mourning period also memorializes Jews who were murdered during the Crusades, pogroms and blood libels that occurred in Europe 1, 000 years after the period of Rabbi Akiva.

There were “ foundational works underlying and facilitating the turn to cultural forms of analysis ;” they were: Hayden White ’ s Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe ( 1973 ), Clifford Geertz ’ s The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays ( 1973 ), Michel Foucault ’ s Discipline and Punish ( 1977 ), and Pierre Bourdieu ’ s Outline of a Theory of Practice ( 1977 ).

The idea that a part of the Americas has a cultural or racial affinity with all Romance cultures can be traced back to the 1830s, in particular in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas were inhabited by people of a " Latin race ," and that it could, therefore, ally itself with " Latin Europe " in a struggle with " Teutonic Europe ," " Anglo-Saxon America " and " Slavic Europe.

He was also a president of À gauche en Europe, a group founded by Strauss-Kahn and Michel Rocard.

Later on when Foucault went to Iran “ to be there at the birth of a new form of ideas ,” he wrote that the new “ Muslim ” style of politics could signal the beginning of a new form of “ political spirituality ,” not just for the Middle East, but also for Europe, which had adopted the practice of secular politics ever since the French Revolution.

In 17th century Europe, in a movement Foucault famously calls the " Great Confinement ," " unreasonable " members of the population were institutionalised.

The experiment caused a sensation in both the learned and popular worlds, and " Foucault pendulums " were suspended in major cities across Europe and America and attracted crowds.

A Cholera pandemic devastated Europe between 1829 and 1851, and was first fought by the use of what Foucault called " social medicine ", which focused on flux, circulation of air, location of cemeteries, etc.

Foucault then briefly touches on B F Skinner ; ( the founder of radical behaviorism ), and Robert Castel but unfortunately it is very brief however, in Foucault's defence, he himself does admit ' there is little literature ' available in France on these techniques, however, to be critical, Foucault did belong to the most prestigious academic institutions in Europe ( Collège de France ) with unprecedented access to many journals in France and it would be unlikely that they would be unavailable to him.

Foucault then considers these great upheavals of Medieval Europe as nothing else but the translation of the continuum from god to men, political institutions and the political order.

Foucault reads into this that the philosophy of raison d ' état having found its way into Europe through the Peace of Westphalia ( known as the Balance of power ); this can be found in the works of Italian political philosopher Giovanni Botero where Botero concluded that the state is a firm domination over peoples and to keep hold of its preservation one was expected to have knowledge of the appropriate means for founding preserving, and expanding such a domination.

Foucault then notices a point of departure pointing out the idea of sedition and revolt starts to enter texts, but ' the people ' proved elusive to define all around Europe, and never entered popular discussion, at first point of juncture was the privileged titled nobles appointed and rewarded through the honors system created by the monarch and sanctioned through the legal system of the day ; the entire nobility: Knights, Lords, count's, barons, dukes, earl's and their rivals began to become seen and known as ' the people '.

Originally from Germany, this system spread right throughout Europe from the middle of the 17th century and most crucially, this Polizeiwissenschaft grow a substantial bibliography of this system ‘ science of police ’ by the 19th century. Foucault ’ s research shows that some 4000 different pamphlets and articles had emerged from 1520-1850 under the titles of “ science of police in the broad sense ” and “ science of the police in the strict sense ”.

The theory of international law, which in the nineteenth century became common to virtually all writers in Europe and America, broke this unity and this universality.

After the months in Europe, she returned to Boston and became active in church and community life.

Due to Pope Sylvester II's reintroduction of the abacus with very useful modifications, it became widely used in Europe once again during the 11th century

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.

As a result, the Atlantic became and remains the major artery between Europe and the Americas ( known as transatlantic trade ).

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America.

From Cluny the custom spread to the other houses of the Cluniac order, which became the largest and most extensive network of monasteries in Europe.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

With this title and its lands, he became the most powerful man in Portugal and one of the richest men in Europe.

Amalric became alarmed and sent Frederick de la Roche, Archbishop of Tyre, to seek help from the kings and nobles of Europe, but no assistance was forthcoming.

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.

Gifted and industrious, Adalbert soon became well-known all over Europe.

Shortly after Napoleon became First Consul and then emperor, using the office to spread the revolution throughout Europe.

These early print advertisements were used mainly to promote books and newspapers, which became increasingly affordable with advances in the printing press ; and medicines, which were increasingly sought after as disease ravaged Europe.

With the Renaissance, tyrannicide — or assassination for personal or political reasons — became more common again in Western Europe.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, at which time Belarus gained its independence, Belarus became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ), the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ), NATO's Partnership for Peace, the North Atlantic Cooperation Council, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank.

Bardot pleaded with Gainsbourg not to release this duet and he complied with her wishes ; the following year, he re-recorded a version with British-born model and actress Jane Birkin, which became a massive hit all over Europe.

His reputation so increased the fame of the University of Leiden, especially as a school of medicine, that it became popular with visitors from every part of Europe.

Because it was extraordinarily expensive the Pascaline became little more than a toy, and status symbol, for the very rich both in France and throughout Europe.

In 1989 Jonathan Hellyer became lead singer, and the band extensively toured the U. S. and Europe with back-up vocalist Annie Conway and had one minor hit with the song " Cha Cha Heels ", a one-off collaboration sung by American actress and singer Eartha Kitt.

By the 18th century an increasing number of new plants had arrived in Europe from newly discovered countries and the European colonies worldwide and a larger number of plants became available for study.

" Rock Around the Clock " was the first record ever to sell over one million copies in both Britain and Germany and, in 1957, Haley became the first major American rock singer to tour Europe.

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.

As the Turkish incursion into Europe started, Croatia once again became a border area.