It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework, finally and at last, to rationalize war -- to rationalize want and fear -- out of the world: the United Nations.

At age seventy-four, he became what he shyly terms a `` pupil '' of Andres Segovia, the great guitarist of the Western world.

They were in fact quietly laughing at him, for their King wished to have nothing to do with the Western world.

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

It may well be that the unification of Europe will prove inadequate, that the survival of free society will require nothing less than the confederation of the entire Western world.

Besides its historical significance as a break with the centuries-old tradition of British insularity, Britain's move, if successful, will constitute an historic landmark of the first importance in the movement toward the unification of Europe and the Western world.

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

The great advances made in recent years in Communist strength and in our own capacity to destroy require an educated citizenry in the Western world.

Nevertheless, Montgomery has stated courageously and wisely the crisis of the Western world.

This Greek abacus saw use in Achaemenid Persia, the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Rome and, until the French Revolution, the Western Christian world.

* 1903 – The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev ( Bessarabia ) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Israel and the Western world.

A distinctive West Arabic variant of the symbols begins to emerge around the 10th century in the Maghreb and Al-Andalus, called ghubar (" sand-table " or " dust-table ") numerals, which are the direct ancestor of the modern Western Arabic numerals used throughout the world.

Thus it was the Aeginetans who, within 30 or 40 years of the invention of coinage in Asia Minor by the Ionian Greeks or the Lydians ( c. 630 BC ), introduced coinage to the Western world.

Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and polyrhythms.

An early Western description of the practice appears in the journals of Captain James Cook, a British explorer, who encountered amok firsthand in 1770 during a voyage around the world.

In these final pieces he offered a critique of Western science in which he suggested that non-European languages often referred to physical phenomena in ways that more directly reflected aspects of reality than many European languages, and that science ought to pay attention to the effects of linguistic categorization in its efforts to describe the physical world.

Breton is spoken mainly in Western Brittany, but also in a more dispersed way in Eastern Brittany ( where Gallo is spoken alongside Breton and French ), and in areas around the world that have Breton immigrants.

* The most comprehensive collection of Japanese pre-20th century art in the Western world

Napoleon I is the most prominent name associated with the Bonaparte family because he conquered much of the Western world during the early part of the 19th century.

It is through Boethius that much of the thought of the Classical period was made available to the Western Medieval world.

As time progressed, English country dances were spread and reinterpreted throughout the Western world, and eventually the French form of the name came to be associated with the American folk dances, especially in New England ( this Gallicized name change may have followed a contemporary misbelief that the form was originally French ).

There is general agreement that capitalism became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism.

Many of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians, due to the predominance of the Christian faith in Western culture, as well as widely celebrated religious holidays such as Easter and Christmas.

Christmas in Poland is a major annual celebration, as in most countries of the Western world.

* The second day of Christmas ( Western Christianity )

* The third day of Christmas ( Western Christianity )

* The fifth day of Christmas ( Western Christianity )

* The ninth day of Christmas ( Western Christianity )

* The tenth day of Christmas ( Western Christianity )

At Western discovery, Christmas Island was uninhabited.

Some Muslim parents, residing in Western countries mimick modern Christmas celebration traditions, as a means of trying to make Ramadan a more enjoyable time for their children who are too young to fast and understand the spiritual significance of the holy month.

Christmas Day ( 25 December ) and New Year's Eve ( 31 December ) are major celebrations in Western culture.

* December 25 – Christmas in Western Christianity and most Eastern Orthodox Churches

* December 25 – Christmas ( Western Christianity )

This can be witnessed, for example, in the " Twelve Days of Christmas " of Western European tradition.

* December 25 – Christmas ( Western Christianity ).

* December 25 – Christmas – Western Christianity

* December 25 – Christmas ( Western Christianity )

New Year's Day postcards serve as greeting cards, similar to Western Christmas cards, while return postcards function similarly to a self-addressed stamped envelope, allowing one to receive a reply without burdening the addressee with postage fees.

Fusilier Richards was a Reservist recalled to the colours at the outbreak of World War I, and served on the Western Front 1914-1918 ( including being in the front line during the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 ).

Other likely influences were a visit made by Dickens to the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 20-22, 1842 ; the decade-long fascination on both sides of the Atlantic with spiritualism ; fairy tales and nursery stories ( which Dickens regarded as stories of conversion and transformation ); contemporary religious tracts about conversion ; and the works of Douglas Jerrold in general, but especially " The Beauties of the Police " ( 1843 ), a satirical and melodramatic essay about a father and his child forcibly separated in a workhouse, and another satirical essay by Jerrold which may have had a direct influence on Dickens ' conception of Scrooge called " How Mr. Chokepear keeps a merry Christmas " ( Punch, 1841 ).

In superimposing his secular vision of the holiday, Dickens influenced many aspects of Christmas that are celebrated today in Western culture, such as family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games, and a festive generosity of spirit.

Advent, anglicized from the Latin word meaning " coming ", is a season observed in many Western Christian churches, a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas.

These include the Gerbrandy Tower, a structure that could be considered the tallest tower in Western Europe and during Christmas time the world's largest Christmas tree.