He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.

Hans' student days were at a time when Europe was in a new intellectual ferment following the revolutions in America and in France, Germany and Italy were rising from divisive nationalisms and a strong wave of intellectual awareness was sweeping the Continent.

Both Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrith had acquired books from the Continent, and in Bede's day the monastery was a renowned centre of learning.

There was a real hope throughout the Continent that the Investiture controversy might be settled once and for all.

He was also unsuccessful on the Continent, where he endeavoured to re-establish English control over Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine.

Calais, the last English outpost on the Continent, was then taken by France.

In the Victorian Era Africa was known as " The Dark Continent " and Europeans attributed many negative connotations to Africans.

Before railway construction on the Continent demanded huge quantities of maleable iron mainly for rails, for which low quality iron sufficed, Wallonia was the only Continental region to follow the British model successfully.

John's only remaining possession on the Continent was now the Duchy of Aquitaine.

In Britain, government control over the domestic economy was far less extensive than on the Continent, limited by common law and the steadily increasing power of Parliament.

In the seventeenth century it was in England that Machiavelli's ideas were most substantially developed and adapted, and that republicanism came once more to life ; and out of seventeenth-century English republicanism there were to emerge in the next century not only a theme of English political and historical reflection-of the writings of the Bolingbroke circle and of Gibbon and of early parliamentary radicals-but a stimulus to the Enlightenment in Scotland, on the Continent, and in America.

Nonetheless, in the 18th Century, rhetoric was the structure and crown of secondary education, with works such as Rollin's Treatise of Studies achieving a wide and enduring fame across the Continent.

In 1899 he was Knighted in England, only the eighth artist from the Continent to receive the honor.

Several unsuccessful rebellions followed, but by 1075 William's hold on England was mostly secure, allowing him to spend the majority of the rest of his reign on the Continent.

It developed in 16th century England, and was quickly adopted on the Continent where it eventually became the final movement of the mature Baroque dance suite ( the French gigue ; Italian and Spanish giga ).

Blood River was an attempt to retrace Henry Morton Stanley's trip down the Congo River, documented in Through the Dark Continent ( first published, 1878 ), and was shortlisted for the 2008 British Book Awards.

The regency council at home was frustrated by the mounting national debt, while the king and his commanders on the Continent were angered by the government in England's failure to provide sufficient funds.

It was not until the mid-1350s that military operations on the Continent were resumed on a large scale.

He was also unsuccessful on the Continent, where he endeavoured to re-establish English control over Normandy, Anjou, and Aquitaine.

The persecution of witches began in 1563, and hundreds were executed, although there was nothing like the frenzy on the Continent Mary had tried her hand at an aggressive anti-Protestant Inquisition and was hated for it ; it was not to be repeated.

While at Springfield College, a student's question about the Lost Continent of Mu prompted a class project to investigate the lost continent of Atlantis, leading Hapgood to investigate possible ways that massive earth changes could occur and exposing him to the literature of Hugh Auchincloss Brown.

Mu, as a lost Pacific Ocean continent, was later popularised by James Churchward ( 1851 – 1936 ) in a series of books, beginning with Lost Continent of Mu, the Motherland of Man ( 1926 ), re-edited later as The Lost Continent Mu ( 1931 ).

* Nan Madol was one of the sites James Churchward identified as being part of the lost continent of Mu, starting in his 1926 book The Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of Man.

Given the almost complete elimination of 15th century music manuscripts in England, largely by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s, it is not surprising that most of Morton's music survives in sources from the Continent, and if he was ever active as a musician in his native land, all trace is lost.

In 1926, at the age of 75, he published The Lost Continent of Mu: Motherland of Man, which he claimed proved the existence of a lost continent, called Mu, in the Pacific Ocean.

They were assigned to protect the Kanohi Ignika on Voya Nui, unfortunately, Brutaka lost faith within their mission, as Voya Nui separated itself from the Southern Continent and the Great Cataclysm.

His family lost their ancestral homes and his wife, Jane Howard, also fled to the Continent.

The stable variety was discovered on the beaches of the Southern Continent soon after Landing, by observation of the native fire lizards ( in Dragonsdawn ).

It follows, then, provided the possibilities have been exhausted, that the only real alternative is the general viewpoint of the `` left '', which has been represented on the Continent by Fritz Buri and, to some extent at least, is found in much that is significant in American and English theology.

Personally, I prefer straight hair like yours, but as they say on the Continent, ' What can one do ' ''??

Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

In the English Reformation, all monasteries were dissolved and their lands confiscated by the Crown, forcing their Catholic members to flee into exile on the Continent, although during the 19th century they were able to return to England, including to Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, one of the few great monastic churches to survive the Dissolution.

His subsequent decision to spend a year travelling on the Continent incurred a delay in his machines ' construction.

The Continent, to Britain, has different electrical plugs, a different timezone, a different currency, drives on the right, uses the Metric system exclusively, etc.

Grouse, if not destroyed at some period of their lives, would increase in countless numbers ; they are known to suffer largely from birds of prey ; and hawks are guided by eyesight to their prey, so much so, that on parts of the Continent persons are warned not to keep white pigeons, as being the most liable to destruction.

Category: Medieval Irish saints on the Continent

The Citadel of the Time Lords stands on the Continent of Wild Endeavour, in the Mountains of Solace and Solitude (" The Sound of Drums "), where the capital is also located.

* Nordgren, I .: The Well Spring of the Goths: About the Gothic peoples in the Nordic Countries and on the Continent ( 2004 ).

The port is famous for the phrase " Harwich for the Continent " seen on road signs and in London & North Eastern Railway ( LNER ) advertisements.

' In a 2003 study about changes in environmental activism in the Crown of the Continent ( Flathead ) Ecosystem, Pedynowski noted that junk science can undermine the credibility of science over a much broader scale because misrepresentation by special interests casts doubt on more defensible claims and undermines the credibility of all research.

However, he had long periods of separation from his family, as his wife stayed in England while he worked on the Continent.

Analogous jurisdiction existed in medieval times on the European Continent.

" Runes around the North Sea and on the Continent AD150-700: Texts and Contexts.

There is clear evidence for a knowledge of Arthur and Arthurian tales on the Continent before Geoffrey's work became widely known ( see for example, the Modena Archivolt ), as well as for the use of " Celtic " names and stories not found in Geoffrey's Historia in the Arthurian romances.

In a story in the same issue, he is also shown to have created a city on the sunken Lost Continent of Pacifo and to have recreated prehistoric monsters, which he plans to unleash upon the world after draining oil wells dry.