From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

The westernmost islands of the archipelago ( Corvo and Flores ) are located in the North American Plate, while the remaining islands are located within the boundary that divides the Eurasian and African Plates.

The trough is the deepest point in the Caribbean Sea and forms part of the tectonic boundary between the North American Plate and the Caribbean Plate.

North of El Salvador, Mexico and most of Guatemala are riding on the westward-moving North American Plate that butts against the northern edge of the stationary Caribbean Plate in southern Guatemala.

* John Baptiste Ford ( 1811 – 1903 ), American business leader who, in 1883, founded the industrial concern Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company ( renamed PPG Industries in 1968 )

The islands have according to most geologists been carried eastward off the hot spot forming the Juan Fernández Ridge as the Nazca Plate subducts under the South American continent.

Rather, Trinidad was once part of the South American mainland and is situated on its continental shelf, and Tobago is part of a sunken island arc chain related to the Pacific-derived Caribbean Plate.

The U. S. Virgin Islands lie on the boundary of the North American plate and the Caribbean Plate.

Earthquakes are rarely above 4. 5 on the Richter magnitude scale because Virginia is located away from the edges of the North American Plate.

* Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement

* Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement

The Baja California peninsula was once a part of the North American Plate, the tectonic plate of which mainland Mexico remains a part.

About 12 to 15 million years ago the East Pacific Rise began cutting into the margin of the North American Plate, initiating the separation of the peninsula from it.

It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

The westward component of the motion of the North American Plate creates compressional forces which are expressed as uplift in the Coast Ranges.

Likewise, the northwest motion of the Pacific Plate creates significant compressional forces where the North American Plate stands in its way, creating the Transverse Ranges in Southern California, and to a lesser, but still significant, extent the Santa Cruz Mountains, site of the Loma Prieta Earthquake of 1989.

" Dresden Plate " and " Sunbonnet Sue " are two examples of traditional American quilt blocks that are constructed with both patchwork and appliqué.

Bolinas and the Point Reyes peninsula are on the Pacific Plate, moving north relative to Stinson Beach and the North American Plate at an average rate of about per year.

* 1945 – Ron Glass, American actor

* 1981 – Caitlin Glass, American voice actress

* 1880 – Herman Glass, American gymnast ( d. 1961 )

Talking Music: Conversations With John Cage, Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, and Five Generations of American Experimental Composers.

In 2009, Sarah Glass, curator of red pandas and special exhibits at the Knoxville Zoo in Knoxville, Tennessee, was appointed as coordinator for the North American Red Panda Species Survival Plan.

** George Glass, American film producer and publicist ( b. 1910 )

* July 10 – Ron Glass, American actor

** Philip Glass, American composer

In December 1970, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ( AAAS ), its retiring president, geneticist H. Bentley Glass, cheered by the legalization of abortion in New York, envisioned a future where pregnant women would be required by the government to abort XYY " sex deviants ".

* The American Maid ( 1909 ), also known as The Glass Blowers.

Akhnaten is an opera in three acts based on the life and religious convictions of the pharaoh Akhenaten ( Amenhotep IV ), written by the American minimalist composer Philip Glass in 1983.

The modern American composer Phillip Glass also found the story fascinating, and composed an opera, The Photographer, with a libretto based in part on court transcripts from the case.

The American composer Philip Glass has also written a symphonic cantata named Itaipu, in honour of the structure.

The album is a recording of a benefit concert that Glass Harp headlined for Roots of American Music ( www. rootsofamericanmusic. org ), " an organization dedicated to the preservation, performance and education about traditional American music in our schools.

* Margo Jones: Influential American stage director who launched the careers of Tennessee Williams and Ray Walston and directed Williams ' The Glass Menagerie on Broadway

" The album is a recording of a benefit concert that Glass Harp headlined for Roots of American Music ( www. rootsofamericanmusic. org ), " an organization dedicated to the preservation, performance and education about traditional American music in our schools.

The county's two largest employers were glass factories: American Window Glass and Sneath Glass Company.

Adding to the county's problems, machines made the labor – intensive method originally used for producing window glass obsolete, causing many of the county's skilled glass workers at the large American Window Glass plant to lose their jobs.

Its second largest business was the American Plate Glass Works.

What followed was an enthusiastic pursuit of development, and The American Plate Glass Company was founded by Captain Ebenezer B.

: The American style is used by most American newspapers, publishing houses and style guides in the United States and Canada ( including the Modern Language Association's MLA Style Manual, the American Psychological Association's APA Publication Manual, the University of Chicago's The Chicago Manual of Style, the American Institute of Physics's AIP Style Manual, the American Medical Association's AMA Manual of Style, the American Political Science Association's APSA Style Manual, the Associated Press ' The AP Guide to Punctuation and the Canadian Public Works ' The Canadian Style ).

*" Poor Paddy Works on the Railway " is a popular Irish and American folk song.

" Bombardier acquired the assets and designs of Budd Company, Pullman Company, and American Locomotive Company / Montreal Locomotive Works, the latter of which continued in the locomotive business until 1985.

Alston was active in the Harlem Renaissance ; Alston was the first African American supervisor for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project.

* Etna Iron Works, a New York marine engine manufacturer active during the American Civil War

Works such as Marjorie Rosen ’ s Popcorn Venus: Women, Movies, and the American Dream ( 1973 ) and Molly Haskell ’ s From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in Movies ( 1974 ) analyze how the women portrayed in film related to the broader historical context, the stereotypes depicted, the extent to which the women were shown as active or passive, and the amount of screen time given to women.

* 1977 – Sean Watkins, American guitarist and songwriter ( Nickel Creek, Fiction Family and Works Progress Administration )

He signed a treaty that made Haiti a de jure US protectorate, with American officials assuming control over the Financial Adviser, Customs Receivership, the Constabulary, the Public Works Service, and the Public Health Service for a period of ten years.

* 1981 – Sara Watkins, American singer-songwriter and fiddler ( Nickel Creek, The Decemberists, and Works Progress Administration )

Savage was able to secure Lawrence a scholarship to the American Artists School and a paid position with the Works Progress Administration.

" Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams ", American Music Vol.

Works are being written for 20-and 25-stringed kotos and 17-string bass kotos, and a new generation of players such as Japanese master Kazue Sawai, her students including Michiyo Yagi, and American performers Reiko Obata and Miya Masaoka, are finding places for the koto in today's jazz, experimental music and even pop.

In 2008, NCS joined over 60 other art licensing businesses ( including the Artists Rights Society, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, the Stock Artists Alliance, Illustrator's Partnership of America and the Advertising Photographers of America ) in opposing both The Orphan Works Act of 2008 and The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008.

Construction began in 1998, and the Southside Works is now open for business with many store, restaurants, offices, and the world headquarters for American Eagle Outfitters.

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* September 29 – Gerald J. Cox, speaking at an American Water Works Association meeting, becomes the first person to publicly propose the fluoridation of public water supplies in the United States.

The facility that later became Oak Ridge National Laboratory was established as part of the Clinton Engineer Works for the Manhattan Project in 1943 during World War II, when American scientists feared that Nazi Germany was rapidly developing an atomic bomb.

He then became an instructor and doctoral student at the University of Minnesota from 1940 to 1941 ( joining the American Federation of Teachers ), and was a supervisor for the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ).

* Ferdinand Thun, American industrialist ( Textile Machine Works of Wyomissing PA ), born in Barmen