Water Window - Coventry Phoenix Initiativ
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Water window with a view of the steeple of Holy Trinity Church
Priory Place, Coventry, at night. As well as being the home of BBC Coventry & Warwickshire, Prior...
Priory Gardens is the site of bombing, as infact was so much of coventry. In the glass cases around t...
As a junior officer in the Royal Airforce in the late 1930s Frank Whittle got the idea for the turbo ...
Late afternoon at the Chapel of Christ The Servant - part of Coventry Cathedral. This quiet part of t...
Born in Coventry Air Commodor Sir Frank Whittle was the inventor of the turbo jet in the 1930s.A grea...
Early Sunday morning as the sun comes straming through the Baptistry window in Coventry Cathedral, cr...
St. Michael's with it's 295 feet spire, is just one of the three spires that dominate Coventry's skyl...
Early Sunday morning in Coventry on the steps between the old St Michaels Cathedral and the new Cathe...
Canterlevered out above Millennium Place is a walkway which takes you from this public space among th...
Europe is generally agreed to be the birthplace of western culture, including such legendary innovations as the democratic nation-state, football and tomato sauce.
The word Europe comes from the Greek goddess Europa, who was kidnapped by Zeus and plunked down on the island of Crete. Europa gradually changed from referring to mainland Greece until it extended finally to include Norway and Russia.
Don't be confused that Europe is called a continent without looking like an island, the way the other continents do. It's okay. The Ural mountains have steadily been there to divide Europe from Asia for the last 250 million years. Russia technically inhabits "Eurasia".
Europe is presently uniting into one political and economic zone with a common currency called the Euro. The European Union originated in 1993 and is now composed of 27 member states. Its headquarters is in Brussels, Belgium.
Do not confuse the EU with the Council of Europe, which has 47 member states and dates to 1949. These two bodies share the same flag, national anthem, and mission of integrating Europe. The headquarters of the Council are located in Strasbourg, France, and it is most famous for its European Court of Human Rights.
In spite of these two bodies, there is still no single Constitution or set of laws applying to all the countries of Europe. Debate rages over the role of the EU in regards to national sovereignty. As of January 2009, the Lisbon Treaty is the closest thing to a European Constitution, yet it has not been approved by all the EU states.
Text by Steve Smith.
