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The hotel combines American comfort with continental elegance.
Articles 77 to 81 define the rights of a country over its continental shelf.
In 1204, Philip II of France had forced King John out of continental Normandy enforcing his 1202 claim that the lands were forfeit.
Glacial lakes are lakes created by the direct action of glaciers and continental ice sheets.
A narrow but productive continental shelf contains several demersal fish and crustacean species.
The Czech Republic has a temperate continental climate, with warm summers and cold, cloudy and snowy winters.
The Czech Republic has a civil law system based on the continental type, rooted in Germanic legal culture.
George was a German ruler, spoke poor English, and remained interested in governing his dominions in continental Europe rather than in Britain.
By the time the Old Pretender arrived in Scotland the rising was all but defeated and he returned to continental exile.
Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in Earth's continental crust, behind feldspar.
In doing so he introduced the continental European concept of an archaeological culture to the British archaeological community.
It claims to be the oldest European settlement in the continental United States.
The ADR itself stretched some hundreds of miles to the north, west and south of the country and almost to the continental coastline in the east.
Pleistocene climate was marked by repeated glacial cycles in which continental glaciers pushed to the 40th parallel in some places.
These also confirm the linkage between ice ages and continental crust phenomena such as glacial moraines, drumlins, and glacial erratics.
All that remains of the continental ice sheets are the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and smaller glaciers such as on Baffin Island.
Since the earth has significant continental glaciation in the Arctic and Antarctic, we are currently in a glacial minimum of a glaciation.
Volcanoes and movements in continental plates contributed to high amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere.
Most continental land was clustered in the Southern Hemisphere at this time, but was drifting north.
Increase in temperature is the most typical mechanism for formation of magma within continental crust.
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Temperatures can also exceed the solidus of a crustal rock in continental crust thickened by compression at a plate boundary.
On Earth, rifts can occur at all elevations, from the sea floor to plateaus and mountain ranges in continental crust or in oceanic crust.
Here the climate is colder and more continental than around the Mediterranean.
During the last ice age, the species was far more widespread in continental Europe.
Though the title of Earl was nominally equal to the continental duke, unlike them, earls were not de facto rulers in their own right.
It also heralded the introduction of new noble titles from continental Europe, which were to replace the old Norse titles.
The remaining twelve positions were filled by continental qualifying tournaments.
Belgium was the first continental European country to undergo the Industrial Revolution, in the early 19th century.
In the 19th century, the area began to industrialize, and Wallonia was the first fully industrialized area in continental Europe.
The relatively accessible continental shelf is the best understood part of the ocean floor.
Its subclades are also relatively rare and found in various parts of South West Asia, the Mediterranean basin and continental Europe.
Chicago rests on a continental divide at the site of the Chicago Portage, connecting the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes watersheds.
Sedgwick's subsequent investigations and discussions with continental geologists persuaded him that this was problematic.
Shallow clear waters over continental shelves encouraged the growth of organisms that deposit calcium carbonates in their shells and hard parts.
In North America and Europe, the Ordovician was a time of shallow continental seas rich in life.
The agent of change could be anything from competition from other organisms, continental drift, or climate change such as an ice age.
From medieval times Welsh harpists played with the harp placed on the left shoulder, contrary to continental practice.
The process that continually adds new material to the ocean floor is seafloor spreading and the continental slope.
The continental United States offers two major Pacific leatherback feeding areas.
Within their geographical range, the green sea turtles generally stay near continental and island coastlines.
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As of 2012, Denmark is claiming the continental shelf between Greenland and the North Pole.
Pinnipeds also use a number of terrestrial habitats and substrates, both continental and island.
The Triassic continental interior climate was generally hot and dry, so that typical deposits are red bed sandstones and evaporites.
The Carboniferous rainforest collapse left behind vast regions of desert within the continental interior.
Subduction zones are places where two plates, usually an oceanic plate and a continental plate, collide.
In this case, the oceanic plate subducts, or submerges, under the continental plate, forming a deep ocean trench just offshore.
Other familiar bodies of water that overlie continental shelves are the North Sea and the Persian Gulf.
Active continental margins have narrow, relatively steep shelves, due to frequent earthquakes that move sediment to the deep sea.
Below the slope is the continental rise, which finally merges into the deep ocean floor, the abyssal plain.
The character of the shelf changes dramatically at the shelf break, where the continental slope begins.
The legal definition of a continental shelf differs significantly from the geological definition.
Coastal habitats are found in the area that extends from the shoreline to the edge of the continental shelf.
Open ocean habitats are found in the deep ocean beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
Seals, however, also use a number of terrestrial habitats, both continental and island.
Geologically the continents largely correspond to areas of continental crust that are found on the continental plates.
However some areas of continental crust are regions covered with water not usually included in the list of continents.
From this perspective the edge of the continental shelf is the true edge of the continent, as shorelines vary with changes in sea level.
As a cultural construct, the concept of a continent may go beyond the continental shelf to include oceanic islands and continental fragments.
When sea levels were lower during the Pleistocene ice ages, greater areas of continental shelf were exposed as dry land, forming land bridges.
This term is used in several different continental models instead of Australia.
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Supercontinents, largely in evidence earlier in the geological record, are landmasses that comprise more than one craton or continental core.
Some areas of continental crust are largely covered by the sea and may be considered submerged continents.
Some islands lie on sections of continental crust that have rifted and drifted apart from a main continental landmass.
This accounts for the great age of the rocks comprising the continental cratons.
There are many microcontinents, or continental fragments, that are built of continental crust but do not contain a craton.
There is some maritime moderation from the Atlantic which renders the Swedish continental climate less severe than that of nearby Russia.
The Portuguese legal system is part of the civil law legal system, also called the continental family legal system.
The present continental slope in the Norwegian Sea marks the border between Norway and Greenland as it stood approximately 250 million years ago.
This continental slope contains rich fishing grounds and numerous coral reefs.
Submarine thresholds and continental slopes mark the borders of these basins with the adjacent seas.
To the south lies the European continental shelf and the North Sea, to the east is the Eurasian continental shelf with the Barents Sea.
Throughout the Cenozoic Era, the large North American and South American continental plates moved westward from the Eurasian plate.
The reason is that a continental glacier completely disrupts the preglacial drainage system.
In oceanography and marine biology, the idea of the littoral zone is extended roughly to the edge of the continental shelf.
From here, it moves to the intertidal region between the high and low water marks, and then out as far as the edge of the continental shelf.
In practice, this typically extends to the edge of the continental shelf, with depths around 200 meters.
As in physical oceanography, this zone typically extends to the edge of the continental shelf.
The sedimentary rocks associated with continental rifts host important deposits of both minerals and hydrocarbons.
Crustal thickening has an upward component of motion and often occurs when continental crust is thrust onto continental crust.
Deformation of continental lithosphere can take place in several possible modes.
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In the second stage it subducted under the continental crust of the Karelian plate.
It is used for a part of continental Europe and main part of Africa as official sea level.
The high sea level in the Mesozoic era flooded most of these continental domains, forming shallow seas.
With the cold water concentrated around Antarctica, sea surface temperatures and, consequently, continental temperatures would have dropped.
One of the possible issues with this timing was the continental debris cluttering up the seaway between the two plates in question.
The climate was one of periodic glaciations with continental glaciers moving as far from the poles as 40 degrees latitude.
They live on rocky, sandy, or muddy bottoms from the shoreline to beyond the edge of the continental shelf.
Auks also tend to be restricted to continental shelf waters and breed on few oceanic islands.
Human impacts have occurred at all ocean depths, but are most significant on shallow continental shelf and slope habitats.
The three continental allies advanced on the Netherlands while the landing of English troops along the coast was only barely prevented.
In the late 18th century, Britain's naval supremacy faced a new challenge from Napoleonic France and her continental allies.
During the most recent glacial period, lowering of sea levels joined the British Isles once more to the continental mainland of Europe.
A volcanic arc is formed on the continental plate, above the location of the downgoing oceanic slab.
He refused William's request for the earldom of Northumbria, but did not intervene in Scotland itself and focused on his continental problems.
At the start of 1193, Prince John visited Philip in Paris, where he paid homage for Richard's continental lands.
Flanders was one of the first continental European areas to undergo the Industrial Revolution, in the 19th century.
Hitler believed that once Britain's troops left continental Europe, they would never return.
The northernmost zone, Hokkaido, has a humid continental climate with long, cold winters and very warm to cool summers.
James's policies during the 1470s revolved primarily around ambitious continental schemes for territorial expansion and alliance with England.
Thus continental shelves were exposed and many islands became connected with the continents through dry land.
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The model builds on the concept of continental drift, an idea developed during the first decades of the 20th century.
Tectonic plates are composed of oceanic lithosphere and thicker continental lithosphere, each topped by its own kind of crust.
As explained above, tectonic plates may include continental crust or oceanic crust, and most plates contain both.
The distinction between oceanic crust and continental crust is based on their modes of formation.
Oceanic crust is also denser than continental crust owing to their different compositions.
Distinguished scientists, such as Harold Jeffreys and Charles Schuchert, were outspoken critics of continental drift.
However, his ideas were not taken seriously by many geologists, who pointed out that there was no apparent mechanism for continental drift.
Specifically, they did not see how continental rock could plow through the much denser rock that makes up oceanic crust.
They also found that the oceanic crust was much thinner than continental crust.
These are essentially continental fragments whose boundaries are generally defined by faults.
However, a red colour does not necessarily mean the rock formed in a continental environment or arid climate.
Shallow marine environments exist adjacent to coastlines and can extend to the boundaries of the continental shelf.
In the Rocky Mountains and Andes, dry and continental climates are observed.
The Russian continental shelf consists of three separate, smaller shelves, the Barents Shelf, Chukchi Sea Shelf and Siberian Shelf.
This process leaves dense, salty waters in the sea that sink over the continental shelf into the western Arctic Ocean and create a halocline.
The Southern Ocean probably contains large, and possibly giant, oil and gas fields on the continental margin.
The deep continental shelf has a floor of glacial deposits varying widely over short distances.
Antarctica is home to more than 70 lakes that lie at the base of the continental ice sheet.
It is composed of a metamorphic and igneous platform which is the basis of the continental shield.
These are floating extensions of outflowing glaciers from the continental ice mass.
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Concerns have been raised that disruption of ice shelves may result in increased glacial outflow from the continental ice mass.
Most of the continental fragments, volcanic arcs, and ocean basins added to Laurentia this way contained faunas of Tethyan or Asian affinity.
It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago.
Second, as rifting progressed through Early and Middle Jurassic time, continental crust was stretched and thinned.
On March 13, 2009, the CLCS accepted Mexico's arguments for extending its continental shelf up to 350 NM into the Western Polygon.
The sea is flanked by continental shelves to the southwest, northwest, and northeast.
A sedimentary basin, which is now buried under the continental shelves, formed during the Cretaceous.
The interior of the main continental landmass includes an extensive granitic core called a craton.
Seafloor spreading helps explain continental drift in the theory of plate tectonics.
The process starts with heating at the base of the continental crust which causes it to become more plastic and less dense.
As the two active rifts continue to open, eventually the continental crust is attenuated as far as it will stretch.
At this point basaltic oceanic crust begins to form between the separating continental fragments.
The destruction of oceanic crust occurs at subduction zones where oceanic crust is forced under either continental crust or oceanic crust.
When Alfred Wegener first presented a hypothesis of continental drift in 1912, he suggested that continents ploughed through the ocean crust.
A passive margin is the transition between oceanic and continental lithosphere that is not an active plate margin.
The transition between the continental and oceanic lithosphere that was originally created by rifting is known as a passive margin.
This refers to whether a crustal boundary between oceanic lithosphere and continental lithosphere is a plate boundary or not.
These are often marked by uplift and volcanic mountain belts on the continental plate.
While a weld between oceanic and continental lithosphere is called a passive margin, it is not an inactive margin.
Coastal plains are often dominated by fluvial processes, while the continental shelf is dominated by deltaic and longshore current processes.
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Typically they consist of a continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, and abyssal plain.
The outer continental shelf and slope may be cut by great submarine canyons, which mark the offshore continuation of rivers.
Beneath passive margins the transition between the continental and oceanic crust is a broad transition known as transitional crust.
The subsided continental crust is marked by normal faults that dip seaward.
Volcanic passive margins they also are marked by numerous dykes and igneous intrusions within the subsided continental crust.
This is the typical way that passive margins form, as separated continental tracts move perpendicular to the coastline.
They also differ from rifted passive margins in structural style and thermal evolution during continental breakup.
Transitional crust, separating true oceanic and continental crusts, is the foundation of any passive margin.
In the continental domain, there are still open discussion on their real nature, chronology, geodynamic and petroleum implications.
Passive margins of this type show a simple progression through the transitional crust, from normal continental to normal oceanic crusts.
During collisions between two continental plates, large mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas are formed.
When buoyant continental crust enters a trench, subduction eventually stops and the area becomes a zone of continental collision.
While the ocean is wide, the trench may be far from continental sources of sediment and so may be deep.
As continents approach each other, the trench can fill with continental sediments and become shallower.
The process of seafloor spreading helps to explain the concept of continental drift in the theory of plate tectonics.
The small particle flux can be augmented by the fall of larger carcasses and downslope transport of organic material near continental margins.
Igneous oceanic plateaus have a ratio intermediate between continental and oceanic crust, although they are more mafic than felsic.
This represents a step toward creating crust which is increasingly continental in character, being less dense and more buoyant.
Some may extend seawards across continental shelves for hundreds of kilometres before reaching the abyssal plain.
Canyons are steeper, shorter, more dendritic and more closely spaced on active than on passive continental margins.
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Agulhas Rings have also been observed as removing larval and juvenile fish from the continental shelf.
Due to its increased density, it flows down the Antarctic continental margin and continues north along the bottom.
As they enter coastal waters, the animals essentially transform from a pelagic oceanic organism to a benthic continental organism.
The basaltic flows occur on top of continental fluvial and lacustrine sedimentary units of Triassic age.
The hotspot pairs include a large igneous province with continental volcanism opposite an oceanic hotspot.
It is composed of continental flood basalts, oceanic flood basalts, and diffuse provinces.
Most paleomagnetic research in the late 1950s included an examination of the wandering of the poles and continental drift.
The remarkable cooling period in the ocean is correlated with pronounced mammalian faunal replacement within continental Asia as well.
Increasing sea level will flood the continents, while decreasing sea level will expose continental shelves.
Icehouse is characterized by frequent continental glaciations and severe desert environments.
On 14 August, he landed on the continental mainland at Puerto Castilla, near Trujillo, Honduras.
Wild fisheries exist primarily in the oceans, and particularly around coasts and continental shelves.
While the paper dealt only with areas from Vancouver to northern California, other continental shelf areas may be experiencing similar effects.
Oceanic fish can be contrasted with coastal fish, who do live above the continental shelf.
Most of these species migrate back and forth across open oceans, rarely venturing over continental shelves.
Benthic fishes are likely to be found, and are more diverse, on the continental slope, where there is habitat diversity and often food supplies.
Blue whiting are found in the open ocean and above the continental slope at depths between 100 and 1000 meters.
Vagrants could be found as far south as Gambia and the Cape Verde islands, and as far north as continental Portugal and Atlantic France.
It lives close to the bottom in muddy areas on the continental shelf and slope.
After the end of the late Middle Ages period, the Renaissance spread unevenly over continental Europe from the southern European region.
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Granite containing rock is widely distributed throughout the continental crust.
The ascent and emplacement of large volumes of granite within the upper continental crust is a source of much debate amongst geologists.
They quickly spread to other cities in the United Kingdom, as well as continental European cities, particularly Paris, Berlin, and St Petersburg.
The seabed under the Celtic Sea is called the Celtic Shelf, part of the continental shelf of Europe.
Derivatively, the adjective continental refers to the social practices or fashion of continental Europe.
Especially in Germanic studies, continental refers to the European continent excluding the Scandinavian peninsula, Britain, Ireland, and Iceland.
The North Sea receives freshwater from a number of European continental watersheds, as well as the British Isles.
The North Sea located on the continental shelf has different waves from those in deep ocean water.
The Storegga Slides were a series of underwater landslides, in which a piece of the Norwegian continental shelf slid into the Norwegian Sea.
Shallow epicontinental seas like the current North Sea have since long existed on the European continental shelf.
Great Britain, also known as Britain, is a large island in the north Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe.
Great Britain lies on the European continental shelf, part of the Eurasian Plate.
In a similar sense to fauna, and for similar reasons, the flora is impoverished compared to that of continental Europe.
This final stage, nevertheless, coincided with or resulted in the end of continental extension in Africa.
The opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 connected London directly to the continental rail network, allowing Eurostar services to begin.
Continents sit on continental lithosphere which is part of tectonic plates floating high on Earth's mantle.
Oceanic crust is also part of tectonic plates, but it is denser than continental lithosphere, so it floats low on the mantle.
This holds true for Australia, which sits on its own continental lithosphere and tectonic plate.
Continental islands are bodies of land that lie on the continental shelf of a continent.
A special type of continental island is the microcontinental island, which is created when a continent is rifted.
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Situated north of mainland Europe, it is about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole.
Later kings expanded their domain to cover over half of modern continental France, including most of the north, centre and west of France.
With charismatic leaders, such as Joan of Arc and La Hire, strong French counterattacks won back English continental territories.
In most of the inland northern and central regions, the climate ranges from humid subtropical to humid continental and oceanic.
The continental breakfast may also include sliced cold meats, such as salami or ham, and yogurt or cereal.
On the island of Malta, breakfast integrates both British and continental elements.
Hotels usually serve both a continental as well as a full English breakfast.
A sedimentary rock formed on land has a continental sedimentary environment.
Examples of continental environments are lagoons, lakes, swamps, floodplains and alluvial fans.
Besides transport by water, sediment can in continental environments also be transported by wind or glaciers.
Apart from continental sediments, rift basins normally also have part of their infill consisting of volcanic deposits.
Examples of sag basins are the regions along passive continental margins, but sag basins can also be found in the interior of continents.
When the convergent movement of the two plates results in continental collision, the basin becomes shallower and develops into a foreland basin.
Such erosional material of a growing mountain chain is called molasse and has either a shallow marine or a continental facies.
In continental Europe, and elsewhere, nesting colonies sometimes include nests of the purple heron and other heron species.
There is some research suggesting that early agriculture patterns supported the spread of beech in continental Europe.
She also worked to conform the practices of the Scottish Church to those of the continental Church, which she experienced in her childhood.
The continental crust consists of lower density material such as the igneous rocks granite and andesite.
The pedosphere is the outermost layer of Earth's continental surface and is composed of soil and subject to soil formation processes.
There are more continental contemporary sources that mention Britain, though these are highly problematic.
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In the second half of the 18th century, Britain, and later continental Europe and the United States, experienced the Industrial Revolution.
At the continental shelf edge, usually about 200 meters deep, the gradient greatly increases and is known as the continental slope.
Richard paid homage to Philip for the continental lands his father held then they attacked Henry together.
No former king had involved himself so frequently in the labyrinth of continental alliances.
As along the eastern United States, continental shelves commonly acquire a prism of sediments as the continental margin downflexes.
England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south.
Unlike Great Britain, Ireland has no tunnel or bridge connection to continental Europe.
Others depend on the milder climate as a refuge when continental Europe is in the grip of winter.
The southern and western boundaries are delimited by the continental shelf, which drops away sharply.
The Wars of Independence largely closed English universities to Scots, and consequently continental universities became more significant.
The Stewarts also adopted major innovations in continental warfare, such as longer pikes and the extensive use of artillery.
The continental Saxons were evangelised largely by English missionaries in the late 7th and early 8th centuries.
Sea levels were lower and Ireland, like Great Britain, formed part of continental Europe.
Later, around 5600 BC, Great Britain itself became separated from continental Europe.
It marks the point where Great Britain most closely approaches continental Europe.
The tribes of southeastern Britain were actively engaged in commerce with continental Europe, urbanising their societies, and minting coinage.
The ice covered all land areas and extended into the ocean onto the middle and outer continental shelf.
The Wisconsin Glacial Episode was the last major advance of continental glaciers in the North American Laurentide ice sheet.
Slightly later, the woolly mammoths also disappeared from continental northern Siberia.
Trade links developed in the Bronze Age and beforehand provided Great Britain with numerous examples of continental craftsmanship.
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During the Late Roman period it is likely that the shore forts played some role in continental trade alongside their defensive functions.
One reason for this is that the English legal system was more developed than its continental counterparts by the time Roman law was rediscovered.
Therefore, the practical advantages of Roman law were less obvious to English practitioners than to continental lawyers.
By this time Celtic styles seem to have been in decline in continental Europe, even before Roman invasions.
Once established they had the advantage of easy communication with continental territories in Europe via the North Sea or the Channel.
In 407, the Roman legions left Britain in order to deal with incursions into the Empire's continental heartlands.
William systematically dispossessed English landowners and conferred their property on his continental followers.
Most Normans continued to contract marriages with other Normans or other continental families rather than with the English.
Edgar was proclaimed king by his supporters, but William responded swiftly, ignoring a continental revolt in Maine.
They both overran much of Henry's remaining continental lands, further eroding the Angevins' power on the continent.
John lost control of all his continental possessions, apart from Gascony in southern Aquitaine.
Louis would not interfere since Henry paid homage to him for his continental possessions.
Historians have always compared Henry VII with his continental contemporaries, especially Louis XI of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon.
To that extent, they are in the company of the continental reformer Martin Luther rather than Ulrich Zwingli.
England in this era had some positive aspects that set it apart from contemporaneous continental European societies.
Across continental Europe, but in France especially, booksellers and publishers had to negotiate censorship laws of varying strictness.
They did not regard England as their primary home until most of their continental domains were lost by John.
In Sweden, for instance, case law arguably plays a more important role than in some of the continental civil law systems.
These querns, or stones used for grinding cereals into flour, were traded for continental exports such as pottery and wine.
As plants took hold on the continental margins, oxygen levels increased and carbon dioxide dropped, although much less dramatically.
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At any event, the far southern continental margins of Antarctica and West Gondwana became increasingly less barren.
Special Palmerston Forts were built in 1859 in anticipation of another invasion from continental Europe.
The following year he was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship, which allowed him to study and research at a university in continental Europe.
Wilkins travelled to continental Europe, and according to Anthony Wood visited Heidelberg.
Glycerine was sometimes used simply as a diluent by some continental vaccine producers.
Then we indicate some of the more pertinent characteristics of oceanic and continental lithospheres.
Coinage was developed, based on continental types but bearing the names of local chieftains.
Under Norman influence, the continental Carolingian script replaced the insular that had been used for Old English.
Changes in alphabet and spelling were heavily influenced by the advent of printing and continental printing practices.
Irish monks also founded monasteries across the continent, exerting influence greater than many more ancient continental centres.
Nonconforming Protestants along with the Protestant refugees from continental Europe were the primary founders of the United States of America.
This statement has confused later translators into thinking that Edmund was of continental Old Saxon origin.
Becoming king in 1603, James I Brought to England and Scotland continental explanations of witchcraft.
English Gothic was to develop along lines that sometimes paralleled and sometimes diverged from those of continental Europe.
People came to the town from every part of the country, and from continental Europe.
Many specialise in ale, whilst others brew continental styles such as lager and wheatbeer.
Such hagiographical calendars were important in establishing lists of native Irish saints, in imitation of continental calendars.
Somewhat ironically, the text contains many features that distinguish insular from continental French.
Many of his other works were very loose translations of, or simply based on, works from continental Europe.
Afterwards, from the middle of 1642 onwards, Marvell probably travelled in continental Europe.
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In just over a year, it received a hundred performances in Britain, America and continental Europe.
Acid house spread to the United Kingdom and continental Europe, where it was played by DJs in the acid house and later rave scenes.
Great Britain, however, did not emulate the continental model, and the British Royal Collection remains in the sovereign's possession today.
The winners of each continental competition contest the FIFA Club World Cup.
For most of the 20th century, the backhand was performed with one hand, using either an eastern or a continental grip.
The continental confederations are provided for in FIFA's statutes, and membership of a confederation is a prerequisite to FIFA membership.
From 1979 players from continental Europe have been eligible to join what is now known as Team Europe.
Winners of continental championships can call themselves the official champion of their own areas.
During the Second World War, following the armistice of 22 June 1940, continental Normandy was part of the German occupied zone of France.
French is the only official language in continental Normandy and English is also an official language in the Channel Islands.
The Inland Northwest has a continental climate of warm to hot summers and cold to bitter cold winters.
The continental territory of Denmark, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland form the three constituent countries of the Kingdom.
The British and US Virgin Islands sit at the axis of a major drugs transshipment point between Latin America and the continental United States.
The percentage of island countries that are democratic is higher than that of continental countries.
Historically they have been more prone to political stability than their continental counterparts.
Around 5,600 BC, continuing rises in sea level led Great Britain to become separated from continental Europe.
Indeed, the Gaelic world had never been closed off from its neighbours in England or continental Europe.
The English Reformation followed a different course from the Reformation in continental Europe.
Under Edward VI the Church of England moved closer to continental Protestantism.
By the middle of the 18th century, Bermuda was sending twice as many privateers to sea as any of the continental colonies.

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