* ( Western Marsh Harrier = ) European Marsh Harrier-Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds

Thomas Bros. building in Irvine Thomas Guide is the title of a series of paperback, spiral-bound atlases featuring detailed street maps of various large metropolitan areas in the United States, in the metro areas of Boise, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Oakland, Phoenix, Portland, Reno-Tahoe, Sacramento, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, and Washington, D. C. Road Atlas titles are Arizona including Las Vegas, California Including portions of Nevada, and Pacific Northwest covering Washington, Oregon, Western Idaho, Southwestern British Columbia.

On February 21, 2009 International Mother Language Day has been marked with the publication of a new edition of the " Atlas of the World ’ s Languages in Danger " by UNESCO where the Western Armenian language in Turkey is defined as a definitely endangered language.

In the Atlas of North American English ( 2006 ), he and his co-authors find three major divergent chain shifts taking place today: a Southern Shift ( in Appalachia and southern coastal regions ), a Northern Cities Shift affecting a region from Madison, Wisconsin, east to Utica, New York, and a Canadian Shift affecting most of Canada, as well as some areas in the Western and Midwestern ( Midland ) United States, in addition to several minor chain shifts in smaller regions.

In the early 1950s the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory ( later to become the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc .) was chosen by the Air Force Western Development Division to provide a self-contained guidance system backup to Convair in San Diego for the new Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile.

* Allan W. Atlas, Renaissance Music: Music in Western Europe, 1400 – 1600.

The traditional definition as being the region including the Atlas Mountains and the coastal plains of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, was later superseded, especially since the 1989 formation of the Arab Maghreb Union, by the inclusion of a fifth nation, Mauritania, and of the disputed territory of Western Sahara ( mostly controlled by Morocco ).

Partially isolated from the rest of the continent by the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara desert, inhabitants of the northern parts of the Maghreb have long had commercial and cultural ties to the inhabitants of the Mediterranean countries of Southern Europe and Western Asia, going back at least to the Phoenicians in the 1st millenium BC ( the Phoenician colony of Carthage having been founded, according to tradition, in what is now Tunisia circa 800 BC ).

* ( Western ) Red-footed Falcon-Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

Atlas Pied Flycatcher or Atlas Flycatcher ( Ficedula speculigera ) is a bird in the an Old World flycatcher family, one of the four species of Western Palearctic black-and-white flycatchers ; it is endemic as a breeding species to North-west Africa.

To comply with federal antitrust regulations, Dresser sold off its interest in M-I Drilling Fluids Company and Western Atlas International.

His most valuable works include the Bengal Atlas ( 1779 ), the first approximately correct map of India ( 1783 ), the Geographical System of Herodotus ( 1800 ), the Comparative Geography of Western Asia ( 1831 ), and important studies on the geography of northern Africa — apparent in introductions to the Travels of Mungo Park and Hornemann.

The main inhabited areas of Tamazgha are northern Libya and the Atlas Mountains chain from Tunisia to Western Sahara.

The US $ 2 billion commercial business, which included Litton's oilfield services, business and automated assembly line operations, was named Western Atlas, Inc.

* Western Atlas, a joint venture formed with Dresser Industries, including former Litton subsidiary Western Geophysical.

*; 1990: Geological Atlas of Western and Central Europe, Shell Internationale Petroleum Maatschappij BV ( 2nd ed.

Western Atlas was formed in 1987 through the merger of Western Geophysical ( owned by Litton Industries ) and Dresser Atlas.

Phage therapy was in use in the 1920s and 1930s in the US, Western Europe, and Eastern Europe.

As well as being the westernmost province of Western Canada, British Columbia is also a component of the Pacific Northwest, along with the US states of Oregon and Washington.

Further deterioration occurred as a result of the Sept. 1, 1983 Soviet shoot down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 near Moneron Island carrying 269 people including a sitting US congressman, Larry McDonald, and over Reagan's stationing of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe.

In modern Microsoft Windows and Linux operating systems, the keyboard layouts US International and UK International feature dead keys that allow one to type Latin letters with the acute, grave, circumflex, diæresis, tilde, and cedilla found in Western European languages ( specifically, those combinations found in the ISO Latin-1 character set ) directly: "+ e gives ë, ~+ o gives õ, etc.

He took a small but pivotal role as Andy Warhol in Basquiat, artist / director Julian Schnabel's 1996 biopic of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and co-starred in Giovanni Veronesi's Spaghetti Western Il Mio West ( 1998, released as Gunslinger's Revenge in the US in 2005 ) as the most feared gunfighter in the region.

Yet, seven years after the Allies ’ Potsdam Agreement to a unified Germany, the USSR via the Stalin Note ( 10 March 1952 ) proposed German reunification and superpower disengagement from Central Europe, which the three Western Allies ( US, France, UK ) rejected.

Saddles are seats for the rider, fastened to the horse's back by means of a girth ( English-style riding ), known as a cinch in the Western US, a wide strap that goes around the horse at a point about four inches behind the forelegs.

However, the new geopolitical logic of the Cold War made possible that the former enemy Italy, a hinge-country between Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and now a new, fragile democracy threatened by the proximity of the Iron Curtain and the presence of a strong Communist party, was considered by the USA as an important ally for the Free World, and received under the Marshall Plan US $ 1, 204 million from 1947 to 1951.

In 1804 Haiti declared independence but, fearing a slave revolt at home, Jefferson and the US Congress refused to recognize the new republic, the second in the Western Hemisphere, and imposed a trade embargo against it.

Intense attacks against U. S. and Western interests, including two truck bombings of the US Embassy in 1983 and 1984 and the landmark attacks on the U. S. Marine and French parachute regiment barracks on October 23, 1983, led to an American withdrawal, while the virtual collapse of the Lebanese Army in February 1984 was a major blow to the government.

During the World War II era William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes were recruited by the Special Operations Executive ( SOE ) to teach their martial art of defendu ( itself drawing on jujutsu and Western boxing ) and pistol shooting to UK, US, and Canadian special forces.

Worldwide revenues for MMORPGs exceeded half a billion dollars in 2005, and Western revenues exceeded US $ 1 billion in 2006.

Moreover, towards concluding the Pacific Theatre of War, the Potsdam Conference issued the Potsdam Declaration, the Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender ( 26 July 1945 ) wherein the Western Allies ( UK, US, USSR ) and the Nationalist China of General Chiang Kai-shek asked Japan to surrender or be destroyed.

*" The problem of slavery in Western culture ", David Brion Davis, Oxford University Press US, 1988, ISBN 0-19-505639-6

This is an " SF satire on the Middle East crisis and the War on Terrorism, and concerns what happens when the liberal Western Galactic Empire relocates the oppressed Minervan sect to their ancient homeland of Kennewick, Washington, in the midst of a US ruled by Christian fundamentalist fanatics .".

Cities visited by the tour included Columbia, SC, Annapolis, MD, Pittsburgh, PA, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, NY, into Canada, and through the mid Western US ending in Texas.

In the beginning some films mixed some of these new devices ( more or less uneasily ) with the borrowed US Western devices typical for most of the 1963 – 64 Spaghetti Westerns.

Further developing the analogy, there is in A-Io an oppositional left-wing party which is closely linked to and supporting the rival Thu, as were Communist parties in the US and other Western countries at the time of writing.

In Western, Northern and Central Europe ( France, Norway, Denmark, the Low Countries, and the annexed portions of Czechoslovakia ) Germany established economic policies through which it collected roughly 69. 5 billion reichmarks ( 27. 8 billion US Dollars ) by the end of the war ; this figure does not include the sizable plunder of industrial products, military equipment, raw materials and other goods.

While much smaller than the arsenals of the US and the USSR, Western Europe's nuclear reserves were nevertheless a significant factor in strategic planning during the Cold War.

The site is accessible from Central Florida's Interstate 4 via Exits 62B ( World Drive ), 64B ( US 192 West ), 65B ( Osceola Parkway West ), 67B ( SR 536 West ), and 68 ( SR 535 North ), and Exit 8 on State Road 429 ( Florida ), the Western Expressway.

The phonology of West / Central Canadian English, also called General Canadian, is broadly identical to that of the Western US, except for the following features:

North La Veta Pass, through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is used by US Highway 160 and by the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad ( formerly a branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western ) tracks.

He became one of the founders of socialist humanism, promoting the early writings of Marx and his humanist messages to the US and Western European public.