In the Germanic pre-Migration Period ( i. e., before c. 300 AD ) the Chauci and the related Frisians, Saxons, and Angles inhabited the Continental European coast from the Zuyder Zee to south Jutland.

Yorke ( The Conversion of Britain c. 600 – 800, 2006 ), speaking of the 5th century, describes the ' Continental Saxons ' ( which then included the Chauci ) as having powerful local families and a dominant military leader.

In the Continental Germanic mythology of the Germans and Saxons, however, Muspell referred to the apocalypse itself.

The Franks, Lombards, Alamanni, Anglo-Saxons, Continental Saxons, and Frisians were Christianized between the 6th and the 10th century.

They allegedly found saxophonist Didier Malherbe living in a cave in Deià, before film director Jérôme Laperrousaz invited the band back to France to record the soundtrack of his movie Continental Circus.

Perhaps most importantly, eighty-eight year-old Captain James Jack was still living, and he confirmed that he had delivered to the Continental Congress a declaration of independence that had been adopted in May 1775.

Every Continental under the age of 40 — make that 60, if not 75 — is all but guaranteed to end his days living in an Islamified Europe.

Instead, her new home at in elevation meant scratching out a living in a barren gulch at the mouth of canyon near the Continental Divide.

Conshelf, short for Continental Shelf Station, was a series of undersea living and research stations undertaken by Jacques Cousteau's team in the 1960s.

After his release on bond, Jernigan returned to the room at the Continental Inn in Lexington where he had been living prior to his arrest.

John hoped to exploit this advantage by invading himself late in 1213, but baronial discontent again delayed his invasion plans until early 1214, in what would prove to be his final Continental campaign.

One goal of the expedition had been to locate the Buenaventura River, what was believed to be a major east-west river connecting the Continental Divide with the Pacific Ocean.

Most players change grips during a match depending on what shot they are hitting ; for example, slice shots and serves call for a Continental grip.

* July 26 – The Second Continental Congress appoints Benjamin Franklin to be the first Postmaster General of what later becomes the United States Post Office Department.

On June 27, 1905, in Chicago, Illinois, Debs and other influential union leaders including Big Bill Haywood, leader of the Western Federation of Miners, and Daniel De León, leader of the Socialist Labor Party, held what Haywood called the " Continental Congress of the working class ".

The Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Pacific Crest Trail form what is known as the Triple Crown of long distance hiking in the United States .< ref name =" internationalat. org ">

Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the Continental Congress opened what is now Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin to settlement.

The location of the camp was around what is now Continental Ranch, West of the Nogales Highway and the Quail Crossing Boulevard intersection.

The location of the camp was around what is now Continental Ranch, West of the Nogales Highway and the Quail Crossing Boulevard intersection.

Dodson was the birthplace of the Alexandria businessman Morgan W. Walker, Sr. ( 1893 – 1983 ), the founder of what became Continental Trailways and Walker-Roemer dairy and a director of the former Guaranty Bank and Trust Company.

In 1777, during the American Revolutionary War, the Continental Army under command of George Washington constructed two forts on the Delaware River to block the approach to Philadelphia: Fort Mifflin on the Pennsylvania side and Fort Mercer on the New Jersey side in what is now National Park.

On October 22 of that year, in what is known as the Battle of Red Bank, an attack by 900 Hessian troops, serving under British Major General William Howe, who then occupied Philadelphia, was repelled, with heavy losses on the Hessian side ( including the death of their commander, Colonel Carl Emil Kurt von Donop ) by the 600 Continental defenders under Colonel Christopher Greene.

Bedminster Township is noted for having one of the most historic revolutionary war sites in the United States at what is known as the Pluckemin Continental Artillery Cantonment Site, which has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

General Henry Knox, chief of the Continental Army artillery, was the leader responsible for building what was the country's first military artillery training academy, the forerunner to United States Military Academy at West Point.

Several served in the Revolutionary War, which brought the 1779 construction of Continental Road from Eagle Valley through the present-day village of Tuxedo Park to what is now Route 17 near Warwick Brook Road.

Union Equity, Continental, Pillsbury, General Mills, and other grain companies operated mills and grain elevators in the area, creating what is now the Enid Terminal Grain Elevators Historic District, and earning Enid the titles of " Wheat Capital of Oklahoma ", " Queen Wheat City of Oklahoma ," and " Wheat Capital of the United States "

In what is believed by many to be the Continental Army's final armed action of the war, he was very nearly killed as his small force was soundly routed.

His motives for this are uncertain ; historian John Buchanan argues that Howe was determined to attempt to draw Washington into a major engagement while both were in northern New Jersey, writing that " Washington's shift in position had whetted Howe's appetite for a major action when, if everything went right, he would finally accomplish what he and his brother's policies had denied him the previous year: the destruction of the Continental Army ", but that Howe's underlying campaign goal for the season was Philadelphia.

Symmes represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress ( 1785 – 1786 ), then, in 1788, moved to the west, settling in what later became North Bend, Ohio.

The town saw fighting during the American Revolution when the Continental and British armies clashed briefly at what is now the junction of Garden Road and Mamaroneck Road.

From today's vantage point, it can be argued that the Continental Mark II was successful at being what it was intended to be: an American Rolls-Royce or Bentley, and a re-creation of the grand cars of the thirties.

Long was a classmate of Alexandria businessman Morgan W. Walker, Sr. ( 1893 – 1983 ), a co-founder of what became Continental Trailways.

In September 1775 the Continental Army began a two-pronged invasion, with one army capturing Montreal while another traveled through the wilderness of what is now Maine toward Quebec City.

On May 4, 1776, five months before the Continental Congress formally adopted the United States Declaration of Independence, Rhode Island became the first colony of what would soon be the future United States to legally leave the British Empire.

Commanding the Continental Army for six long years of the Revolution, he was the indispensable factor in the ultimate victory.

The headquarters of Morgan was on a farm, said to have been particularly well located so as to prevent the farmers nearby from trading with the British, a practice all too common to those who preferred to sell their produce for British gold rather than the virtually worthless Continental currency.

When Continental Airlines night-coach Flight 54 took off at 11:30 one night last week, there was no reason to think it would take any longer.

Still more time was consumed while the pilot, at the radioed suggestion of Continental president Robert Six, tried to persuade the armed pair to swap the Boeing jet for a propeller-driven Douglas Aj.

Its drafting by the Continental Congress began in mid 1776, and an approved version was sent to the states for ratification in late 1777.

Beyond improving their existing association, the records of the Second Continental Congress show that the need for a declaration of independence was intimately linked with the demands of international relations.

The final draft of the Articles was prepared in the summer of 1777 and the Second Continental Congress approved them for ratification by the individual states on November 15, 1777, after a year of debate.

The first Commandant was Samuel Nicholas, who took office as a captain, though there was no office titled " Commandant " at the time, and the Second Continental Congress had authorized that the senior-most Marine could take a rank up to Colonel.

Allen publicly announced that he was stepping down as commander, but remained hopeful that the Second Continental Congress was going to name " a commander for this department ...

At first his treatment was poor, but Allen wrote a letter, ostensibly to the Continental Congress, describing his conditions and suggesting that Congress treat the prisoners it held the same way.

On May 14, he was breveted a colonel in the Continental Army in " reward of his fortitude, firmness and zeal in the cause of his country, manifested during his long and cruel captivity, as well as on former occasions ," and given military pay of $ 75 per month.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

He was elected as the second president under the Articles of Confederation, and the President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783.

Boudinot was commissioned as a colonel in the Continental Army for this work.

In November 1782, he was elected as President of the Continental Congress for a one-year term.

When the Continental Congress was forced to leave Philadelphia in 1783 while he was president, he moved the meetings to Princeton, where they met in the College's Nassau Hall.

Gerry was elected to serve on the Massachusetts Provincial Congress when the American Revolutionary War broke out, where he used his merchant connections to see that the Continental Army besieging Boston was supplied.

Gerry was a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress from February 1776 to 1780.

His father John Ross Key was a lawyer, a judge, and an officer in the Continental Army.