His chief discovery was important -- the Great North ( later, the Hudson ) River -- but it produced no northwest passage.

In fact, Hudson's sail up the Great North River had disposed of one of the last hopes.

The most brilliant displays are along the Skyline Drive above Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and throughout the Great Smokies between North Carolina and Tennessee.

The largest roads, constructed at the same time as many of the great house sites ( between 1000 and 1125 CE ), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road, the Chacra Face Road, Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road, the West Road and the shorter Pintado-Chaco Road.

The longest and most famous of these roads is the Great North Road.

The Great North Road originates from different routes close to Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl.

Furthermore, considering that some of these roads seem to go nowhere, experts suggest that they can be linked — especially the Great North Road — to astronomical observations, solstice marking, and agricultural cycles.

After approximately 1150, North America experienced significant climatic change in the form of a 300-year drought called the Great Drought.

The Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and North America, but perhaps most especially in Great Britain and in New England, led to a proliferation of manufacturing and invention.

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

* 1959 – The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping.

Consensus once held that today's baseball is a North American development from the older game rounders, popular in Great Britain and Ireland.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

* Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888, North American Great Plains

1880 saw the Great North Western Telegraph Company established to connect Ontario and Manitoba but within a year it was taken over by Western Union, leading briefly to that company's control of almost all telegraphy in Canada.

Great North Western Telegraph, facing bankruptcy, was taken over in 1915 by Canadian Northern.

However, according to Justinus, 38. 3. 6, more than a decade later, at some time in 90-88 BCE, Mithridates the Great sent ambassadors to the Cimbri to request military aid ; judging from the context they must have been living in North Eastern Europe at the time.

There is also some co-operation between the Central ( Amended ) and Unamended Fellowships in North America – most recently in the Great Lakes region, where numerous Amended & Unamended ecclesias have opened fellowship to one another despite the failure of wider attempts at re-union under the North American Statement of Understanding ( NASU ) in recent years.

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

After graduating from the Great Neck North High School, he entered Hofstra University in 1955 majoring in theater arts.

It would seem that the lineages of the Maned Wolf and the Falkland Islands Wolf separated in North America ; canids did not appear in South America until roughly 3 million years ago in a paleozoogeographical event called the Great American Biotic Interchange, in which the continents of North and South America were newly connected by the formation of the Isthmus of Panama.

As the 18th century advanced, global competition with Great Britain led to the Seven Years ' War, where France lost its North American holdings.

He becomes the first person to ever complete the Trinity Great Court Run – running around the college courtyard in the time it takes for the clock to strike 12.

The speculators, organized into the Los Angeles Suburban Home Association, including Harry Chandler and Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, Moses Sherman, a streetcar line owner, and Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a real estate promoter with ties as far back as the " Land Run of 1889 " ( the Great Oklahoma Land Rush ), bought Mr. Van Nuys out and prepared to " sell " the San Fernando Valley.

* The informal distance was used for an exhibition race during the Manchester Great CityGames in as part of the 2009 Great Manchester Run ( UK ).

Virginia Beach has many distinctive communities and neighborhoods within its boundaries, including: Acredale, Alanton, Aragona Village, Arrowhead, Bay Colony, Bayside, Blackwater, Brigadoon, Brighton on the Bay, Buckner Farms, Carolanne Farm, Castleton, Chesapeake Beach, College Park, Croatan Beach, Glenwood, Great Neck, Green Run, Greenwich, Heritage Park, Hilltop, Indian Lakes, Indian River Plantation, Kempsville, Kings Grant, Lago Mar, Landstown, Little Neck, London Bridge, Lynnhaven, Magic Hollow, Middle Plantation, Munden, the North End, Oceana, Ocean Lakes, Ocean Park, Oceanfront, Old Beach, Pembroke Manor, Pembroke Meadows, Pembroke Shores, Pine Meadows, Princess Anne, Pungo, Redwing, Salem, Sandbridge, Seatack, Thalia, Strawbridge, Thalia Shores, Thoroughgood, Windsor Woods, and Witchduck Point.

Birch Run was the home of the Great Lakes Storm, a defunct member of the Continental Basketball Association.

The annual " Petrels of Fire " race, an homage to Trinity College's Great Court Run portrayed in the movie Chariots of Fire, features students attempting to run the perimeter of the Academic Quad before the Lupton Hall belltower finishes its noon chimes.

) His 1951 novel, The Great Idea ( reissued in 1966 as Time Will Run Back ) depicts rulers of a centrally-planned socialist dystopia discovering, amid the resulting economic chaos, the need to restore market pricing system, private ownership of capital goods and competitive markets.

* The Great Idea, 1951 ( titled Time Will Run Back in Great Britain, revised and rereleased with this title in 1966.

He became a familiar face as a supporting actor in many 1980s Hollywood comedies, including Midnight Run, Taking Care of Business, Seems Like Old Times, The Great Muppet Caper, The Woman in Red, The Lonely Guy, Ishtar and The Couch Trip.

Other gaps of note in the Blue Ridge of Virginia, connecting the Piedmont region with the Great Valley include Thornton Gap, Swift Run Gap, and Rockfish Gap.

Elite level road running series include the World Marathon Majors, the Great Run series, and IAAF Road Race Label Events.

On 30 October 2011, Dennis completed the Great South Run in Portsmouth for the Alzheimers Society.

The Great North Run is the world's biggest half marathon which takes place every September / October, starting in Newcastle and finishing on The Leas in South Shields.

South Shields plays host to an annual free summer festival and each autumn the town is the seaside finish to the world-famous Great North Run.

* Great Midlands Fun Run ( June )

He is perhaps best known for making the decision to use dog sleds to transport diphtheria antitoxin 674 miles rather than use a plane in the now famous 1925 Serum Run, ( also known as the " Great Race of Mercy ") from which the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race stems.

Known as the Great Court Run, students traditionally attempt to complete the circuit on the evening of the matriculation dinner.

He is an occasional jogger and has raised funds for charities by taking part in the Oxford 5K and the Great Brook Run.

* Paice, Edward Tip and Run: The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, ISBN 978-0-297-84709-0 – Has some details of S-D's involvement with the East African campaign

* Longest Home Run: Outfielder Adam Dunn hits the longest home run in Great American Ball Park history on August 10th, 2004 against Jose Lima and the Dodgers.

Outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, other areas with known remaining virgin stands as confirmed by the Eastern Native Tree Society include Algonquin Provincial Park, Quetico Provincial Park in Ontario ; Algoma Highlands, Ontario ; Huron Mountains, Estivant Pines, Porcupine Mountains State Park, and the Sylvania Wilderness Area in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ; Hartwick Pines State Park in Michigan's Lower Peninsula ; Menominee Indian Reservation, northeastern Wisconsin ; Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Minnesota ; the Lost 40 Scientific and Natural Area ( SNA ) near Blackduck, Minnesota ; and White Pines State Park, Illinois, Cook Forest State Park, Hearts Content Natural Area, and Anders Run, all in Pennsylvania ; Linville Gorge, North Carolina.

Other bands to hail from the area include Eat Me Alice, The Molotovs, Great White Line, Black Gang Chine, The Mayflys, The Freebasing Floorboards, Straight to Video, Partario's Music Therapy and solo artists Rory Flynn, and Them, Run Young Lovers, Tom Eveleigh, Rob Worel, Lorenzo Cavendish and Stuart Cochrane.

In September 2011, Floella participated in the Great North Run.