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17 unusual facts about North America


Andersen Escarpment

Andersen made extensive studies of Ice movements and Climatic changes at the Antarctia, and was all his life a central Quarternery geologist with studies in Norway, North and South America (Chile), Antartica (1979, 1980 and 1985), and New Zealand.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse consists of members based in Europe, North America and Asia.

Carnatic Wars

In the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748), Madras was given back to the British in exchange for the French fortress of Louisbourg in North America, which the British had captured.

Colliers International

FirstService REA subsequently invested in several North American-based firms whose operations focused on various commercial real estate service specialties.

Diesel cycle

In North America, Diesel engines are primarily used in large trucks, where the low-stress, high-efficiency cycle leads to much longer engine life and lower operational costs.

Digital cinema

On January 19, 2000, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, in North America, initiated the first standards group dedicated towards developing Digital Cinema.

Earl Howe

He was a noted soldier and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in North America during the American Revolutionary War.

Features of Skype

In January 2007, Skype launched a prepaid unlimited call subscription for North American customers.

Francisco Barnés de Castro

Overseas, he has worked as an international consultant for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy and in the Joint Public Consultative Committee of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation of North America.

G1 Jockey 3

Although the G1 Jockey series had been gaining popularity in Japan, this was the first game in the series to be released in North America.

James H. Madole

Madole also wrote that the Aryans originated in the Garden of Eden located in North America.

Maurice Zilber

Maurice Zilber also regularly brought horses to North America to compete in major grass races such as the Canadian International Championship Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack in Canada and the Washington, D.C. International Stakes at Laurel Park Racecourse in the United States.

Morgan Clark

Sheridan and his forces, however, were able to destroy the defense platforms before they fired; Sheridan was prepared to ram the final platform (targeting North America's eastern seaboard) with his badly damaged ship, but the EAS Apollo (previously fighting against Sheridan) appeared, then destroyed the platform and save Sheridan's life ("Endgame").

Picaroons Traditional Ales

Brewing is done with malted barley imported from England and Germany, as well as whole hops from England, New Zealand and the North American west coast.

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

The institute has its own library with over 100,000 volumes, one of the largest collections of medieval documentation in North America.

Taiwan ROCSAUT

Taiwan Republic of China Student Association at University of Toronto (Taiwan ROCSAUT or simply ROCSAUT) is the Taiwanese cultural group in University of Toronto, and is the largest student organization with Taiwanese background in Eastern North America.

Utah Sucker

The Utah Sucker, Catostomus ardens, is a sucker of the family Catostomidae found in the upper Snake River and the Lake Bonneville areas of western North America.


Adelaide Gay

In 2009, Gay played for the Pali Blues in the W-League and helped the team win the 2009 W-League Championship.

Affix

The Wakashan, Salishan, and Chimakuan languages all have lexical suffixes — the presence of these is an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest of the North America.

Air operator's certificate

This has occurred with FLYi airline's AOC being bought by Northwest Airlines to start Compass Airlines, now a feeder airline for Delta Air Lines marketed as Delta Connection), and also with Strategic Airlines purchasing the AOC, staff and routes of the failed OzJet airlines.

Air Serbia

On October 22, 2013, Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić said that the possibility of Air Serbia transatlantic flights were discussed, claiming the first flight could be in three years time or earlier, to two destinations in North America, referring to Chicago and Toronto, or possibly New York City specifically.

AOU Checklist of North American Birds

The AOU Checklist of North American Birds is a checklist of bird species found in North and Middle America published by the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU).

Big Momma's House

The film was released on 2 June 2000, and was a surprise hit as it opened as the number two movie in North America, and almost overtook Mission: Impossible II for the top spot that weekend.

Big year

In 1953, Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher took a 30,000 mile road trip visiting the wild places of North America.

Blonde dans la Casbah

In 2008 the songs were performed in North America, where Une Blonde Platine dans la Casbah, Ta'ali and Tsaabli ouetmili were well received.

Blue Lotus Assembly

Blue Lotus Assembly (Sho-Ren Ko) is a form of esoteric Buddhism established in North America by Stephen K. Hayes.

Botanischer Garten der Universität Hohenheim

Other collections include Gymnocalycium (65 species), Peperomia (41 species), Viscum (40 species), and Maranthes (14 species), as well as collections of useful plants and North American trees and shrubs.

Cohousing

The Danish term bofællesskab (living community) was introduced to North America as cohousing by two American architects, Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, who visited several cohousing communities and wrote a book about it.

Counting coup

Counting coup refers to the winning of prestige in battle by the Plains Indians of North America.

Dr. Futurity

To resolve this situation, Parsons travels with Corith's relatives back to Corith's previous assignment in 1579 on the Pacific Coast of North America, where Corith was to kill Sir Francis Drake in order to change history and preserve the Native American way of life, avoiding their subjugation by European colonial powers.

Eduniversal

The International Scientific Committee is composed of 12 members; 9 members coming from nine different geographic zones (Africa, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Eurasia and Middle East, Far East Asia, Latin America, North America, Oceania and Western Europe), and 2 members from the Eduniversal Company (The CEO and the International Coordinator).

Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

The work of the Sisters continued to spread through the continent of Africa, expanding to West Africa, and then to both North America and to South America as well as to Asia.

Franco Brienza

In 2005, Brienza was called up to the Italian national team by Marcello Lippi and has been subsequently been capped during a North-American tour with the Azzurri, marking his debut in a 1–1 draw with Serbia and Montenegro at Rogers Centre, Toronto on 8 June 2005, substituted Giorgio Chiellini in the 64th minutes.

Genesis flood narrative

In 1646, Sir Thomas Browne wondered why the natives of North America had taken rattlesnakes with them, but not horses: "How America abounded with Beasts of prey and noxious Animals, yet contained not in that necessary Creature, a Horse, is very strange".

George A. Drew

Drew's government insisted on spending $400 million in a ten-year program to convert Ontario's electricity system from 25-cycles (Hertz) to 60-cycles, standardizing it with the rest of North America.

George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award

The George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award has been presented by Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, California, annually since 1950 to the thoroughbred horse racing jockey in North America who demonstrates high standards of personal and professional conduct, on and off the racetrack.

Habitat fragmentation

In the wheat belt of central western New South Wales, Australia, 90% of the native vegetation has been cleared and over 99% of the tall grass prairie of North America has been cleared, resulting in extreme habitat fragmentation.

Haplogroup R-M173

In Indigenous Americans groups, R-M173 is the most common haplogroup after the various Q-M242, especially in North America in Ojibwe people at 79%, Chipewyan 62%, Seminole 50%, Cherokee 47%, Dogrib 40% and Papago 38%.

Henry Frederick Stephenson

On 30 March 1866 Stephenson was the lieutenant-in-command of HMS Heron, serving in North America and the West Indies, and becoming the commanding officer of a gun-boat on the Canadian lakes during the Fenian raids of 1866.

John Charles Fields

Disillusioned with the state of mathematical research in North America at the time, he left for Europe in 1891, locating primarily in Berlin, Göttingen and Paris, where he associated with some of the greatest mathematical minds of the time, including Karl Weierstrass, Felix Klein, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius and Max Planck.

KB Toys

It was also the second-oldest operating toy retailer in North America (behind FAO Schwarz) before its demise.

Komatsu Airport

Its runway surface has been completed strengthening upgrades to enable non-stop freighter flights to and from Europe and North America in late 2006.

KUOK

Prior to affiliating with Univision, KOKT-LP operated as an independent station from 1994 to 1995, before becoming the UPN affiliate for the Ada, Oklahoma-Sherman, Texas television market between 1995 and 2004; however Oklahoma City area and North Texas editions of TV Guide (during the magazine's local listings era) claimed that the market's NBC affiliate KTEN ran select UPN programs as an additional affiliation from 1995 to 2002.

Link TV

In October 2012, Link TV announced that it was merging with KCET, an independent public television station in Los Angeles, to form a new nonprofit entity, to be called KCETLink.

Lubricity

Diesel fuel naturally contains sulfur compounds that provide good lubricity, but because of regulations in many countries (such as the US and the EU) sulphur must be removed.

Madison International Speedway

Other divisions that race on selected nights include Super Late Models, Super Trucks, Super Stocks, Ford Focus, Midgets, and Bandoleros.

Mariee Sioux

Since the debut of her first album, she has drawn comparisons from Joanna Newsom to Joni Mitchell, and she has toured through North America and Europe.

Max Lenderman

Before, he was executive creative director at GMR Marketing LLC, the largest “live” marketing company in North America, where his work has won numerous industry awards, the latest including the 2006 & 2007 Pro Award, the 2006 MAA Worldwide Globes Award and the 2007 & 2008 Ex Award.

Miguel Mateos

Outside of Argentina, he is considered one of the most important exponents of Rock en Español, specially in the 1980s when he along with Charly Garcia, Soda Stereo, Enanitos Verdes, Virus, Sumo, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Rata Blanca, and many more bands became international stars in the so-called "Argentine Invasion" ("La Ola Argentina") of rock music that swept Latin America and parts of North America and Europe.

Moose River Gold Mines, Nova Scotia

The event was broadcast by J. Frank Willis of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission (CRBC) to over 650 radio stations throughout North America, and was picked up by the BBC and broadcast to Europe.

New Zealand response to Hurricane Katrina

On 30 August 2005 NZST (29 August UTC-6/-5) Prime Minister Helen Clark sent condolences by phone and in a letter with an offer of help to United States President George W. Bush and Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff also sent a message of sympathy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

North American Defence College

The North American Defence College is the name given to a periodic meeting of top military, industrial, and government leaders in North America, particularly Canada and The United States.

Pacer Stacktrain

Pacer Stacktrain is a provider of wholesale intermodal transportation services in North America.

Prestressed concrete

The first prestressed concrete bridge in North America was the Walnut Lane Memorial Bridge in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Ptolemaic Terrascope

In March 2005, editor Phil McMullen announced that the magazine would be coming under new management and relocating from Britain to North America.

Richard Bass

Together with Frank Wells, one-time president of Walt Disney, Bass conceived of the adventure challenge of summiting each of the seven continents: Denali (Mt. McKinley), North America; Aconcagua, South America; Mt. Elbrus, Europe; Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa; Vinson Massif, Antarctica; Mount Kosciuszko, Australia; and Mt. Everest, Asia.

Siberian Jay

It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, the others being the Sichuan Jay, P. internigrans, restricted to the mountains of eastern Tibet and northwestern Sichuan, and the Gray Jay, P. canadensis, restricted to the boreal forest and western montane regions of North America.

Still Alive: The Remixes

It was released by Artwerk on 11 November 2008 to coincide with the North American release date of Mirror's Edge, an action-adventure video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) for which "Still Alive" had been chosen as the main theme.

Territorialism

The Jewish Colonization Association, created in 1891 by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch, was aimed at facilitating mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural colonies on lands purchased by the committee, particularly in North and South America (especially Argentina).

The Renaissance Society of America

Its headquarters are in New York; the annual meeting takes place in changing cities within North America and in Europe.

Ulmus 'Lobel'

'Lobel' was introduced to North America in 1991 when Heybroek donated material to the North Central Regional PI Station, Iowa State University, but the tree is not known to have been commercially released there.

Växjö Lakers

Sensationally, during their debut season in HockeyAllsvenskan, the club acquired Shjon Podein, an NHL-merited North American player who played 699 NHL games and won the Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche in 2001.