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EUROPA (or rather, EUROPE), in Greek mythology, according to Homer (Iliad, xiv. 321), the daughter of Phoenix or, in a later story, of Agenor, king of Phoenicia. The beauty of Europa fired the love of Zeus, who approached her in the form of a white bull and ca ...

... graphie,* and the same limit is adopted in Kirchhoff's LUnderkunde des Erdteils Europa* and Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel. In favour of this limit it appears that much weight ought to be given to the consideration put forward by Wagner, that fr ...

... els may exist at any age, from causes which are fully explained in the article NEUROPATHOLOGY, no period of life is exempt; consequently cases of true apoplexy are not wanting even in very young children. Recognizing that there are two causes of apoplexy in ad ...

... published Cher die Freiheit der alien ReptMiken. In 1803 appeared Germanien und Europa, " a fragmentary ebullition." as he himself called it, of his views on the French aggression. This was followed by one of the most remarkable of his books, Versuch finer Ges ...

... I A- Supan, " Osterreich-Ungarn " (Vienna, 1889, in Kirchhoff's Landerkunde von Europa, vol. ii.); Auerbach, Les Races el les nalionalites en Autriche-Hongrie (Paris, 1897); Mayerhofer, Osterreich-ungarisches Ortslexikon (Vienna, 1896). For geology see C. Dien ...

... uvions et des cavenies (Musee de St Germain) ; Hoernes, Der diluviale Mensch in Europa ; Sir John Evans, Stone Implements of Great Britain, and Bronze Implements of Great Britain; Boyd Dawkins, Cave-hunting, and Early Man in Britain; Greenwell, British Barrows ...

... irst time during British naval manoeuvres, and the two cruisers, " Juno " and " Europa," were fitted with the new means of communication. The important results obtained showed that a weapon of great power had been provided for assisting naval warfare. From and ...