Continental
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Continental may refer to:
- The adjective of "continent," such as in continental Europe, continental breakfast, or continental climate, or Continental Glacier;
- The culture of the continental nation states of Europe, inasmuch as it contrasts with the culture of Anglo-Saxon England;
- The Lincoln Continental, a car made by Lincoln division of the Ford Motor Company.
- Continental Motors, an aircraft engine manufacturer in the United States;
- Continental AG, an automobile part manufacturer in Germany;
- An album by UK band Saint Etienne;
- The Continental Army, the unified command structure of the 13 colonies fighting Great Britain during the American Revolution.
- Continental is a brand of dried and pre-packaged foods used by Unilever in Australia.
- Continentals were paper money issued by the US government during the American Revolution.
- Continental Glaciers, the type of glacier that occurs in and on moderately sloped land at lower (non-mountain) elevations during a moderate to severe Glacial Period (i.e. during an Ice-Age such as the current one (technically we are in glacial minima known as an Interglacial) but where Antarctica and Greenland are covered by Continental Glaciers, extending the last Ice age).
- Continental Empire refers to rigidly structured Iberian societies, colonizers such as Spain and Portugal, the most transformed of all forms of European Colonialism, establishment of plantation agriculture, native languages and religions destroyed, Mestizo populations and a future of hierarchy.
- A continental breakfast is a light breakfast including a selection of coffees, teas, fruits, rolls, pastries and cereals.
- Continental philosophy is a 20th century school of philosophy based mostly on texts by French and German philosophers, and especially Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx and Freud. Often used (and possibly only meaninful at all) in contrast to the Anglo-American school of Analytic philosophy.
- Continental stitch, a needlepoint embroidery (tent) stitch worked on canvas.
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