The following season, Ajax lost to Juventus on penalties in the European Cup final.

Charlton was an established player by the time the next season was fully underway, which saw United, as current League champions, become the first English team to compete in the European Cup.

A successful ( though trophyless ) season with Manchester United had seen him take the honours of Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year and European Footballer Of The Year into the competition.

The first known European gambling house, not called a casino although meeting the modern definition, was the Ridotto, established in Venice, Italy in 1638 to provide controlled gambling during the carnival season.

The following season saw UEFA create the European Champions ' Cup, but after objections from The Football League and the FA Chelsea were persuaded to withdraw from the competition before it started.

By the end of his first season with Liverpool, Dalglish had played 62 times and scored 31 goals, including the winning goal in the 1978 European Cup Final final at Wembley against Bruges.

He did not miss a league game for Liverpool until the 1980 – 81 season, when he appeared in 34 out of 42 league games and scored only eight goals as Liverpool finished fifth in the league, but still won the European Cup and Football League Cup.

The following season, the club retained the League title and won the European Cup for the first time, but it lost in the 1977 FA Cup Final.

Liverpool won the League, League Cup and European Cup in Fagan's first season, becoming the first English side to win three trophies in a season.

In 1957, Manchester United became the first English team to compete in the European Cup, despite objections from The Football League, who had denied Chelsea the same opportunity the previous season.

The following season, on the way home from a European Cup quarter-final victory against Red Star Belgrade, the aircraft carrying the Manchester United players, officials and journalists crashed while attempting to take off after refuelling in Munich, Germany.

The following season, Manchester United claimed its first Cup Winners ' Cup title and competed in the 1991 UEFA Super Cup, beating European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1 – 0 in the final at Old Trafford.

This was most recently the case during the 2008 – 09 season, to celebrate 40 years since it was worn for the club's first European Cup win in 1968.

As an example, in many European countries serfs and peasants were obliged to perform around 45 days of military service per year without pay, usually during this campaign season when they were not required for agriculture.

After the 1972 season, European long track skaters founded a professional league, International Speedskating League, which included Ard Schenk, three-time Olympic gold medallist in 1972, as well as five Norwegians, four other Dutchmen, three Swedes, and a few other skaters.

The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in the 1992 / 93 season and gathers the top 1-4 teams of each country's league ( the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded ); this competition was re-structured from a previous one that only gathered the top team of each country ( and thus less competitive, held from 1955 – 1992 and known as the European Champion Clubs Cup or just European Cup ).

This was the third consecutive win of AFC Ajax over AC Milan that season, ranking AFC Ajax on the 4th place on the list of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners.

At the time, the European Grand Prix was considered the most important race of the motorcycling season and the winners in each category were designated European Champions.

The 1933 season was the first year of a two year hiatus for the European Championship, and saw Alfa Romeo stop their official involvement in Grand Prix racing.

By now, the Championship had been moved back to January in the middle of the European handball season.

1985 was a poor season for Lauda, with eleven retirements from the fourteen races he started, he did not start the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps after crashing and breaking his wrist during practice, he also later missed the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch ; John Watson replaced him for that race.

The result of this attitude has been the domination of many orthography conferences by such considerations as typographic ' esthetics ', which usually turns out to be nothing more than certain prejudices carried over from European languages.

Unlike some of their continental European counterparts, the Monarch and her Governors-General in the Commonwealth realms hold significant " reserve " or " prerogative " powers, to be wielded in times of extreme emergency or constitutional crises usually to uphold parliamentary government.

Major metropolitan areas in most European countries are usually served by extensive commuter / suburban rail systems.

Mexican wolves in particular resemble some European wolves in stature, though their heads are usually broader, their necks thicker, their ears longer and their tails shorter.

During European Middle Ages, citizenship was usually associated with cities, see burgher, Grand Burgher ( German Großbürger ) and Bourgeoisie.

In most western countries, to become a qualified dentist one must usually complete at least four years of postgraduate study ; within the European Union the education has to be at least five years.

Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications ( Digital European Cordless Telecommunications ), usually known by the acronym DECT, is a digital communication standard, which is primarily used for creating cordless phone systems.

In national usage, national protocol usually demands the national flag takes precedence over the European flag ( which is usually displayed to the right of the national flag from the observer's perspective ).

Feudalism usually emerged as a result of the decentralization of an empire: especially in the Japanese and Carolingian ( European ) empires which both lacked the bureaucratic infrastructure necessary to support cavalry without the ability to allocate land to these mounted troops.

Actual, which in English is usually a synonym of " real ", has a different meaning in other European languages, in which it means " current " or " up-to-date ", and has the logical derivative as a verb, meaning " to make current " or " to update ".

The others usually begin with the world rushing to catastrophe, until people realise a better way of living: whether by mysterious gases from a comet causing people to behave rationally and abandoning a European war ( In the Days of the Comet ( 1906 )), or a world council of scientists taking over, as in The Shape of Things to Come ( 1933, which he later adapted for the 1936 Alexander Korda film, Things to Come ).

European harps in medieval and Renaissance times usually had a bray pin fitted to make a buzzing sound when a string was plucked.

They are chromatic instruments and are usually played in an East Asian harmonica orchestra instead of the " push-button " chromatic harmonica that is more common in the European / American tradition.

The Secretariat of the European Parliament is located in Luxembourg, but the Parliament usually meets in nearby Strasbourg.

Despite the European origin of the liberal arts college, the term liberal arts college usually denotes liberal arts colleges in the United States.

Also, under influence from orthography of European languages, transliterating of borrowed words into Arabic is usually done using vowels in place of diacritics, even when the latter is more suitable, and even when transliterating words from another Semitic language, such as Hebrew, a phenomenon augmented by the neglect of diacritics in most printed forms since the beginning of mechanical printing.

While phrenologist usually claimed the superiority of the European race, they were often sympathetic to liberal causes including the antislavery movement, this sowed skepticism over phrenology among those who were pro-slavery.

Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche () or Porsche SE, a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German holding company with investments in the automotive industry.

* In the European Union, thinkers such as Habermas have advocated a Euro-patriotism, but patriotism in Europe is usually directed at the nation-state and often coincides with Euroscepticism.

Adventures, Monsters and Story of the games are usually drawn from legends of the respective mirrored region, although there are several cross-over exceptions, like the eastern European Baba Yaga that also appears in the first game.

While many Latin American countries have long since rendered the system officially illegal through legislation, usually at the time of their independence, prejudice based on degrees of perceived racial distance from European ancestry combined with one ’ s socioeconomic status remain, an echo of the colonial caste system.