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.

On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

James Robert Wills ( March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975 ), better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader.

The sons of Robert the Strong were Odo and Robert, who both ruled as king of Western Francia.

***** Robert, king of Western Francia

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

*" The Problem of Feudalism: An Historiographical Essay ", by Robert Harbison, 1996, Western Kentucky University.

However, with the beginning of civil war in France upon the coronation of King Robert I, Henry sought to wrest the Duchy of Lorraine from the Western Kingdom.

Next Marvin performed in the hit Western The Professionals ( 1966 ), in which he played the leader of a small band of skilled mercenaries ( Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode ) rescuing a kidnap victim ( Claudia Cardinale ) shortly after the Mexican Revolution.

Robert, a militant cleric who had succeeded Albornoz as commander of the papal troops, took the title of Clement VII, beginning the Western Schism, which divided Catholic Christendom until 1417.

* Connelly, Thomas L., " Robert E. Lee and the Western Confederacy: A Criticism of Lee's Strategic Ability.

More nuanced versions of this general view are to be found in the works of other Western historians, such as Robert Service, who notes that " institutionally and ideologically, Lenin laid the foundations for a Stalin ... but the passage from Leninism to the worse terrors of Stalinism was not smooth and inevitable.

The DQDB Medium Access Control ( MAC ) algorithm is generally credited to Robert Newman who developed this algorithm in his PhD thesis in the 1980s at the University of Western Australia.

* Resolution ( novel ), a 2008 novel by Robert B. Parker, a Western, sequel to Appaloosa

" Sound editor Ben Burtt added the sound of jangling spurs, created and performed by the Foley artist team of Robert Rutledge and Edward Steidele, to Fett's appearance in Cloud City, intending to make the character menacing and the scene reminiscent of similar gunfighter appearances in Western films.

Joseph Mankiewicz ' 1949 House of Strangers is often considered a Lear adaptation, but the parallels are more striking in its 1954 Western remake Broken Lance in which a cattle baron played by Spencer Tracy tyrannises over his three sons, of whom only the youngest, Joe, played by Robert Wagner, remains loyal.

: Film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum refers to a makeshift 1960s and 1970s genre called the acid Western, associated with Dennis Hopper, Jim McBride, and Rudy Wurlitzer, as well as films like Monte Hellman's The Shooting, Alejandro Jodorowsky's bizarre experimental film El Topo ( The Mole ), and Robert Downey Sr .' s Greaser's Palace.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman.

With the later additions of center Nazr Mohammed from New York ( acquired in a midseason trade of Malik Rose ), and veteran forward Glenn Robinson from free agency, alongside regulars Bruce Bowen, Robert Horry, Tony Parker, Manu Ginóbili, and Tim Duncan, the Spurs would be near the top in the Western Conference all season, battling the Phoenix Suns for the best record in the NBA.

According to Sinologist Robert K. G. Temple, the well temperament was first invented by the Chinese prince of the Ming dynasty Chu Tsai-Yü in 1584 and came in contact with Western culture during exchange fairs organized by the Cantonese viceroy in that time.

The string of notable successes continued as Princess Charlotte in The First Gentleman ( Savoy, 1945 ) opposite Robert Morley as the Prince Regent, Pegeen in Playboy of the Western World ( Bristol Old Vic, 1946 ) and Tess of the d ' Urbervilles ( Bristol Old Vic, 1946, transferring to the Piccadilly Theatre in the West End in 1947 ), which was adapted for the stage by her husband.

* The One Earth Herbal Sourcebook: Everything You Need to Know About Chinese, Western, and Ayurvedic Herbal Treatments by Ph. D., A. H. G., D. Ay, Alan Keith Tillotson, O. M. D., L. Ac., Nai-shing Hu Tillotson, and M. D., Robert Abel Jr.

Beauregard also proposed a grand strategy — submitted anonymously through his political allies so that it was not tainted by his reputation — to reinforce the Western armies at the expense of Robert E. Lee's army in Virginia, destroy the Federal army in Tennessee, which would induce Ulysses S. Grant to relieve pressure on Vicksburg and maneuver his army into a place where it could be destroyed.

References: Palazzo, Robert P. Darwin, California, Lake Grove, OR: Western Places, 1996.