See American Sign Language family for an incomplete list of ASL varieties used outside North America.

Although most dialects of English used in the former British Empire outside of North America and Australasia are, to various extents, based on British English, most of the countries concerned have developed their own unique dialects, particularly with respect to pronunciation, idioms and vocabulary.

Television stations and networks, particularly in North America, traditionally begin their regular seasons in autumn, with new series and new episodes of existing series debuting mostly during late September ( series that debut outside the fall season are usually known as midseason replacements ).

Traditionally, the extinct family Viverravidae ( viverravids ) had been thought to be the earliest carnivorans, with fossil records first appearing in the Paleocene of North America about 60 mya, but recently described evidence from cranial morphology now places them outside the order Carnivora.

" Adams voiced concern that a country outside of North America would attempt to occupy Cuba upon its separation from Spain.

The North Side is the most densely populated section of the city outside of downtown and many high-rises line this side of the city along the lakefront.

The River North neighborhood features the nation's largest concentration of contemporary art galleries outside of New York City.

In English outside of North America, full dates are written as 7 December 1941 ( or 7th December 1941 ) and spoken as " the seventh of December, nineteen forty-one " ( exceedingly common usage of " the " and " of "), with the occasional usage of December 7, 1941 (" December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ").

In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit ; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings.

The Beja language, or North Cushitic, is sometimes placed outside Cushitic proper, though there is no evidence that the rest of Cushitic forms a valid group.

In 1957 – 1958, there was further reunion with the Suffolk Street Fellowship, which had already incorporated many of the Unamended Fellowship outside North America.

A third significant change, outside North America, has been the shrinking of the minority " fellowships " due to defection to the main group and natural causes.

In 2007 Don McLean signed with the Asgard Agency in London giving them responsibility for booking concert tours outside North America.

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples ( known as toffee apples outside North America ), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) became particularly interested in the establishment of a council when it had to deal with an increasing number of applications for membership from congregations outside North America.

James Knox Polk, the first of ten children, was born on November 2, 1795 in a farmhouse ( possibly a " log " cabin ) in what is now Pineville, North Carolina in Mecklenburg County, just outside Charlotte.

By the late 1960s, few major railroads in North America, Europe and Oceania continued to operate steam locomotives, although significant numbers still existed outside these areas.

The center of Mormon cultural influence is in Utah, and North America has more Mormons than any other continent, though the majority of Mormons live outside the United States.

While Mexican restaurants can be found in many parts of North America, Europe and in many cities around the world, restaurants outside of Mexico often feature non-traditional ingredients, such as grated American-style cheese, " nacho " cheese or tomato-based sauce substitutes for Mexican chile-based sauces or mole, or the common use in the United States of hard-shelled tacos instead of the Mexican style " soft " or fresh tortillas.

North Ockendon is the only settlement of Greater London situated outside the M25.

It was initially disputed by outside sources whether or not North Korea has nuclear weapons, and many Russian sources denied that North Korea has the technology necessary to build a nuclear weapon.

Although the figures given to the United Nations ( UN ) might have been purposely distorted, it appears that in line with other attempts to open itself to the outside world, the North Korean regime has also opened somewhat in the demographic realm.

The security forces so often interfere with the actions of the judiciary that the conclusion of most cases is foregone ; experts outside North Korea and numerous defectors confirm this to be a widespread problem.

Today, his descendants can be found in many places outside of Afghanistan, such as in America, France, Germany, and even in Scandinavian countries such as Denmark and carry the surname of Ziyaee, which is itself a derivative of the King's title.

In addition, ALADI is also open to all Latin American countries through agreements with other countries and integration areas of the continent, as well as to other developing countries or their respective integration areas outside Latin America.

However enough had been taken to England, Scandinavia, Western Europe, and America in the late 19th century for the breed to establish itself outside its native country.

Large communities of expatriate Druze also live outside the Middle East in Australia, Canada, Europe, Latin America, the United States, and West Africa.

They were given consistent radio support by Sydney-based noncommercial rock station Double Jay ( 2JJ ), one of the first rock stations outside America to play their recordings.

Within a year the book had sold some 200, 000 copies and by the end of the 19th Century it had sold more copies than any other book published in America outside of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Through links to research networks in other regions ( such as Internet2 and ESnet in the USA, TEIN in Asia-Pacific and RedCLARA in Latin America ), GÉANT allows collaboration between researchers on a global scale, reaching over 60 NRENs outside of Europe.

Although many English speakers from outside North America regard such terms as distinct Americanisms, they are often just as ubiquitous in Canada, mainly due to the effects of heavy cross-border trade and cultural penetration by the American mass media.

For the 2007 season, the NFL scheduled the Giants ' road game against the Miami Dolphins on October 28 in London's Wembley Stadium ; this was the first NFL regular-season game to be played outside of North America.

Ruby has been described as a multi-paradigm programming language: it allows procedural programming ( defining functions / variables outside classes makes them part of the root, ' self ' Object ), with object orientation ( everything is an object ) or functional programming ( it has anonymous functions, closures, and continuations ; statements all have values, and functions return the last evaluation ).

Neurosis is a class of functional mental disorders involving distress but neither delusions nor hallucinations, whereby behavior is not outside socially acceptable norms.

To gain registration in the Principal Register or common law protection under the Lanham Act, a trade dress must not be “ functional .” That is, the configuration of shapes, designs, colors, or materials that make up the trade dress in question must not serve a utility or function outside of creating recognition in the consumer ’ s mind.

A functional murmur or " physiologic murmur " is a heart murmur that is primarily due to physiologic conditions outside the heart, as opposed to structural defects in the heart itself.

They must make fraternal and functional contact with allies in labor, civil rights, and other liberal forces outside the campus.

Alvin now learns that the Master's ship is still functional, buried outside Diaspar.

On the outside, the SRT-4 also featured a unique front fascia and hood, featuring a functional hood scoop.

This functional console featured much brighter map lights, an outside temperature sensor and compass, and an infrared remote-controlled key-less entry system.

A variation of this is the insider-versus-expert authority conflict, where the uncredentaled, " non-expert " insider has a better functional knowledge of a situation, based on " how things really work ", than the outside experts, whose expertise is often embodied in a set of rules.

The Little Mermaid was the final Disney film to use a multiplane camera, though the work was done by an outside facility as Disney's cameras were not functional at the time.

TCP Interactive ( iTCP ) allows applications to subscribe to TCP events and respond accordingly enabling various functional extensions to TCP from outside TCP layer.

Their modern counterparts consist more likely of bricks or blocks of various materials, stucco, or even simple studwall framing, with a look-alike " frame " of thin boards added on the outside to mimic the earlier functional and structural weight-bearing heavy timbers.

The coordinate description of the interior of the sun is unaffected by the transformation, but the functional form of the metric for coordinate values outside the sun is changed.