In the successor states of continental Europe, on the other hand, anthropologists often joined with folklorists and linguists in building cultural perspectives on nationalism.

The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 40 < sub > hex </ sub > next to the letter A.

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.

The British railway network is connected with that of continental Europe by an undersea rail link, the Channel Tunnel, opened in 1994.

Napoleon turned the Grande Armée against every major European power and dominated continental Europe through a series of military victories.

Basel's airport is set up for airfreight ; heavy goods reach the city and the heart of continental Europe from the North Sea by ship along the Rhine.

Uniquely among U. S. states, Louisiana uses a codified system, the Louisiana Civil Code, based on principles of law from continental Europe instead of common law.

Many folk museums show examples of clothing decorated with cross-stitch, especially from continental Europe and Asia.

This continental collision resulted in the Hercynian orogeny in Europe, and the Alleghenian orogeny in North America ; it also extended the newly-uplifted Appalachians southwestward as the Ouachita Mountains.

Constitutional monarchy occurred first in continental Europe, briefly in the early years of the French revolution, but much more widely afterwards.

In continental Europe, Roman law persisted, but with a stronger influence from the Christian Church.

The most common definition of continental Europe excludes Cyprus, Iceland, Ireland, Malta and the United Kingdom and its dependencies.

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 ).

Derivatively, the adjective continental refers to the social practices or fashion of continental Europe, as opposed to those in Britain.

Kontinenten – the Continent – is a vernacular Swedish expression excluding Sweden, Norway and Finland, but including Denmark ( even the Danish archipelago ) and the rest of continental Europe.

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.

In continental Europe, this is sometimes also translated into English as social conservatism.

A second meaning of the term social conservatism developed in the Nordic countries and continental Europe.

" The re-election of a Conservative government in 1983 and the defeat of left-wing parties in continental Europe " made the deployment of Cruise missiles inevitable and the movement again began to lose steam.

Palmer noted the caste system prevalent amongst Polish people in the 20th century, in his essay on Austro-Hungarian life in comparison to life in continental Europe.

They played across the continental United States, Europe, Asia, South America, and Russia.

In 1642, when Lord Herbert of Cherbury's De Veritate was published, the Thirty Years War had been raging on continental Europe for nearly 25 years.

Wegener was the first to use the phrase " continental drift " ( 1912, 1915 ) ( in German " die Verschiebung der Kontinente " – translated into English in 1922 ) and formally publish the hypothesis that the continents had somehow " drifted " apart.

It was this temporary feature which inspired Wegener to study what he defined as continental drift, although he did not live to see his hypothesis become generally accepted.

He compares this situation to that of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, where there was initially great resistance to acceptance despite the strength of the evidence.

The " Zipper rift " hypothesis proposes two pulses of continental " unzipping " — first, the breakup of the supercontinent Rodinia, forming the proto-Pacific ocean ; then the splitting of the continent Baltica from Laurentia, forming the proto-Atlantic — coincided with the glaciated periods.

It was thought that the warmblood type, which originated in continental Europe, descended from wild, native proto-warmblood ancestors, called the Forest Horse, though modern DNA studies of early horses have disproven this hypothesis.

When Alfred Wegener first presented a hypothesis of continental drift in 1912, conservative geologists, especially in North America, demanded to know where the motive force could possibly lie.

In this last edition, Ortelius considers the possibility of continental drift, a hypothesis proved correct only centuries later ).

An alternative hypothesis to account for this biogeographical puzzle, based in part on an estimated divergence date of 50 million years ago, is that these species are the descendants of a more widespread but now extinct lineage of Old World iguanids that migrated overland from the New World to Asia or Australia, and then dispersed by some combination of continental drift, rafting and / or land bridges to their present remote location.

This has led to the hypothesis that mantle plumes contribute to continental rifting and the formation of ocean basins.

Details of the molecular genetic analysis support the hypothesis of rapid expansion of both coastal and continental populations.

He compared this situation to that of Alfred Wegener's hypothesis of continental drift, where he believed there was initially great resistance to acceptance despite the strength of the evidence.

His hypothesis was controversial and not widely accepted until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries such as palaeomagnetism provided strong support for continental drift, and thereby a substantial basis for today's model of Plate tectonics.

A competing hypothesis claims that no transform fault motion is involved in the displacement, but rather the trench is continuous up to the northeast continental margin of Taiwan.

A third hypothesis maintains that the trench is continuous through the continental margin right up to the northeastern Taiwan coastline, also without the existence of a dextral north-south trending fault.

This observation suggests definitive ( bird ) host activity is an important determinant of parasite distribution at the continental scale, but this hypothesis has yet to be rigorously tested.

The Morley – Vine – Matthews hypothesis was the first key scientific test of the seafloor spreading theory of continental drift.

The geosynclinal hypothesis was further developed in the late 19th century and early 20th century and at that time was widely accepted as an explanation for the origin of most mountain ranges until its replacement by the subduction zone and continental collision orogenies of plate tectonics in the 1960s.

There is no corresponding right to a writ in any pure or continental civil law legal systems, though some mixed systems such as Quebec recognize these prerogative writs.

The central plateau is characterized by a continental climate, with hot summers and cold snowy winters.

The drier and more continental climate is beneficial for steppe-forests dominated by deciduous oaks, with areas of shrubland, montane forest, and valley forest.

The climate is highland continental: hot summers and cold winters.

The Territory of the Ashmore and Cartier Islands is an external territory of Australia consisting of two groups of small low-lying uninhabited tropical islands in the Indian Ocean situated on the edge of the continental shelf north-west of Australia and south of the Indonesian island of Rote.

Averaging at least 1. 6 km thick, the ice is so massive that it has depressed the continental bedrock in some areas more than 2. 5 km below sea level ; subglacial lakes of liquid water also occur ( e. g., Lake Vostok ).

The climate is dry, temperate, and continental, with extreme variations between seasons.

The clipper route, which is the fastest sailing route around the world, follows the ACC around three continental capes-Cape Agulhas ( Africa ), South East Cape ( Australia ) and Cape Horn ( South America ).

Subsequently, a British leader named Vortigern is supposed to have invited continental mercenaries to help fight the Picts who were attacking from the north.

Berlin also serves as a continental hub for air and rail transport, and is a popular tourist destination.

Nearby on Tauentzienstraße is KaDeWe, claimed to be continental Europe's largest department store.

The Black Forest is part of the continental divide between the Atlantic Ocean drainage basin ( drained by the Rhine ) and the Black Sea drainage basin ( drained by the Danube ).

In continental Saxon and Anglo-Saxon tradition, the son of Woden is called not Bealdor but Baldag ( Sax.

From all the different names of the same Celtic people in literature and inscriptions it is possible to abstract a continental Celtic segment, boio -.

The Bailey system, based on climate, is divided into seven domains ( polar, humid temperate, dry, humid, and humid tropical ), with further divisions based on other climate characteristics ( subarctic, warm temperate, hot temperate, and subtropical ; marine and continental ; lowland and mountain ).

In any given year, the duration of each season is determined largely by the positions of two great air masses — a maritime mass over the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest and a much drier continental mass.

Napoleon Bonaparte is considered the first monarch proclaiming himself as an embodiment of the nation, rather than as a divinely-appointed ruler ; this interpretation of monarchy is germane to continental constitutional monarchies.

A severe regression would have greatly reduced the continental shelf area, which is the most species-rich part of the sea, and therefore could have been enough to cause a marine mass extinction.