He conducted it with less diplomacy and more spontaneous violence than the Sicilians, but he had his huge North Side portion to exploit and he made a great deal of money.

In the 1820s, the Russian-American Company, which administered a large portion of the North Pacific during a Russian led expansion of the fur trade, resettled many families to the Commander Islands ( currently, within the Aleutsky District of the Kamchatka Krai in Russia ) and to the Pribilof Islands ( currently in Alaska ), where there are currently established majority Aleut communities.

It is the southernmost, isthmian portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast.

A portion of his relics are enshrined at the St. Ignatius Chapel at the Antiochan Village in Pennsylvania, the headquarters of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, where he is regarded as one of their patron saints.

Large modifications to the plan were devised by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council in late 1985, in which a portion of the proceeds from the weapon sales was diverted to fund anti-Sandinista and anti-communist rebels, or Contras, in Nicaragua.

This portion of the meridian was to serve as the basis for the length of the half meridian, connecting the North Pole with the equator.

The history of Mexico, a country located in the southern portion of North America, covers a period of more than two millennia.

There are 6 such areas in the northern and northeastern portion of North Korea. Factionalists or enemies of class, whoever they are, their seed must be eliminated through three generations.

North Dakota was created from the northern portion of the Dakota Territory and admitted to the Union on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with South Dakota.

Support for Peary came again in 2005, however, when British explorer Tom Avery and four companions recreated the outward portion of Peary's journey with replica wooden sleds and Canadian Eskimo Dog teams, reaching the North Pole in 36 days, 22 hours – nearly five hours faster than Peary.

Situated in the northeastern portion of the Balkan Peninsula, the country is halfway between the equator and the North Pole and equidistant from the westernmost part of Europe — the Atlantic Coast — and the most easterly — the Ural Mountains.

Before the All-Channel Receiver Act of 1962 required US television receivers to be able to tune the entire VHF and UHF range ( which in North America was NTSC-M channels 2 through 83 on 54 to 890 MHz ), a set-top box known as a UHF converter would be installed at the receiver to shift a portion of the UHF-TV spectrum onto low-VHF channels for viewing.

* The Royal Colony of North Carolina establishes a new county from the eastern portion of Granville County and names it Bute County for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who had recently resigned his post as Prime Minister of Great Britain.

In 1779 the State of North Carolina abolishes the county when it forms Warren County from the northern portion and Franklin County from the southern portion.

* January – Cary's Rebellion: The Lords Proprietors appoint Edward Hyde to replace Thomas Cary as the governor of the North Carolina portion of the Province of Carolina.

* May 27 – Cary's Rebellion: Edward Hyde, Governor of the North Carolina portion of the Province of Carolina, leads a force across the Albemarle Sound to gather additional troops in order to capture former governor Thomas Cary.

* January 29 – After a second petition for partition from its residents, the North Carolina General Assembly abolishes Bute County, North Carolina ( established 1764 ) by dividing it and naming the northern portion Warren County ( for Revolutionary War hero Joseph Warren ) and the southern portion Franklin County ( for Benjamin Franklin ).

* February 1 – The Royal Colony of North Carolina officially creates Mecklenburg County from the western portion of Anson County.

Believing that de Grasse would return a portion of his fleet to Europe, Rodney detached Rear Admiral Sir Samuel Hood with 14 ships of the line and orders to find de Grasse's destination in North America.

The name refers either to the constellation Ursa Major, the " Great Bear ", which is prominent in the northern portion of the celestial sphere, or to the constellation Ursa Minor, the " Little Bear ", which contains Polaris, the Pole Star, also known as the North Star .< ref >

Meanwhile the British Eighth Army, commanded by General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, simultaneously pushed them westward, effectively squeezing the Germans and Italians into a smaller and smaller portion of Tunisia and out of North Africa altogether by mid-May.

Lake Shore Drive runs adjacent to a large portion of Chicago's lakefront.

The Chesapeake Bay separates the contiguous portion of the Commonwealth from the two-county peninsula of Virginia's Eastern Shore.

Of the 23 counties in Maryland, nine are on the Eastern Shore: Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester, Wicomico, Somerset, and Worcester, as well as a portion of Cecil County.

The North – South Freeway portion of Route 42 is a major route for daily commuters from southern New Jersey to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania via the Walt Whitman Bridge and Ben Franklin Bridge and weekend commuters from southeastern Pennsylvania to the southern Jersey Shore via Route 55 and the Atlantic City Expressway.

In 2010, New Preston's main commercial thoroughfare, East Shore Road ( also known as Connecticut Route 45 ), was designated a state scenic road, together with a portion of Route 202 extending northeast from the junction with Route 45 to Rabbit Hill Road.

The village of Brightwaters is west and south of a portion of the Bay Shore CDP ; the hamlet of Islip is to its east, and the Great South Bay is to the south.

The route runs for only as North Shore Road from an intersection with U. S. Route 30, County Route 585 and Atlantic County Route 601 in the center of Absecon to an intersection with U. S. Route 9 in the northern portion of the city.

It is considered a standard railroad line, but only freight service along the western portion of the North Shore Branch is connected to the national railway system.

Freight service along the Travis Branch and the western most portion of the North Shore Branch was restored by 2007.

In 2001, a small section of the eastern most portion of the North Shore Branch ( a few hundred feet ) was reopened to provide passenger service to the new Richmond County Bank Ballpark, home of the Staten Island Yankees minor-league baseball team ; however, this service was discontinued in 2009.

Except for the portion north of Foster Avenue ( 5200 North ), Lake Shore Drive is designated as part of U. S. Highway 41.

The Link Bridge is the official name of the bridge carrying the Lake Shore Drive portion of U. S. Route 41 over the main branch of the Chicago River.

A portion to the north was known as Bayside, but came to be known as Bay Shore.

Prior to 1867, the Quebec North Shore portion of the " Labrador coast " had shuttled back and forth between the colonies of Lower Canada and Newfoundland.

The northwest portion of Staten Island ( which includes Mariners ' Harbor ) as well as the Far South Shore are the fastest growing area of Staten Island.

Presently, Chicago Lakeside Development proposed plans call for the completion of this southern portion of lakefront with the development of new parklands, beaches, and a continuous waterfront bicycle and jogging path that will link Calumet Park and Beach in the East Side neighborhood to the South Shore Cultural Center in South Shore.

The bay itself was originally the easterly entrance to Coney Island Creek, but filling of the central part of this waterway during the 1930s in conjunction with construction of the Shore Parkway portion of the Belt Parkway eliminated access to the creek.

Points of interest located on the East Shore include Historic Richmond Town, the nearby Tibetan Museum on Lighthouse Hill, Moravian Cemetery ( where members of the Vanderbilt family are buried ) and a significant portion of the Staten Island Greenbelt.

This roadway, which was the only portion of the " Shore Front Drive " proposed by Robert Moses to be actually built, was later renamed Father Capodanno Boulevard, after a Roman Catholic chaplain who was killed in action during the Vietnam War, and runs from near the Verrazano Bridge to Midland Beach.

" Kecoughtan ( soon renamed Elizabeth Cittie ) included the eastern portion of the Virginia Peninsula, as well as the entire area known in modern times as the Eastern Shore as well as most of today's South Hampton Roads.

The southern portion of the Ocean Shore Railroad operated between Davenport and Santa Cruz from 1907 to 1920.

The North Shore Unitarian Universalist Society, received a portion adjacent to Shelter Rock Road and has built a large Worship Hall on the site of the former Apple Orchard.

It includes several unincorporated areas in the GVRD: the University Endowment Lands and the University of British Columbia, west of the City of Vancouver ; Bowyer, Passage, and Barnston Islands ; the west side of Pitt Lake ; the northern portion of Indian Arm ; and a large area to the north of the North Shore that is mostly mountainous and sparsely populated except for certain subdivisions between Horseshoe Bay and the Village of Lions Bay.