She carried, besides her captain, a crew of twenty-one and provisions for a voyage of exploration of the Arctic waters of North America.

This time he turned westward, to the middle Atlantic coast of North America.

A century of exploration had established that a great land mass, North and South America, lay between Europe and the Indies.

In western Europe and North America, where the level of economic development is higher, grains and other seed products furnish less than one-third of the food consumed.

Next we imagine our blizzard raging over all the land areas of the entire globe -- North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, all covered with peas four feet deep ; ;

Their autumn tints are all fairly low keyed compared with the fiery stabs of crimson, gold, purple, bronze, blue and vermilion that flame up in North America.

Here the peoples spoke the tongue of Iceland because that island had gotten the jump on the Hawaiian-Americans who were busy resettling North America and the western half of South America after the Apocalyptic War.

Then there was North America, where American was the native speech of all except the twenty descendants of French-Canadians living on the Hudson Bay Preserve.

The cakes are marketed and can the found in cities either in Algeria or in Europe or North America.

A number of fossil cryptobranchids have been found but there are only three living species, the Chinese giant salamander ( Andrias davidianus ), the Japanese giant salamander ( Andrias japonicus ) and the hellbender ( Cryptobranchus alleganiensis ) from North America.

The rough-skinned newt ( Taricha granulosa ) from North America and other members of its genus contain the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin ( TTX ), the most toxic non-protein substance known and almost identical to that produced by pufferfish.

Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common in West Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, southwestern North America, Spain ( usually in the Mudéjar style ), Eastern Europe and East Anglia, particularly Norfolk, known as ' clay lump.

In more modern English usage, the term " adobe " has come to include a style of architecture popular in the desert climates of North America, especially in New Mexico.

The Atlantic Ocean is bounded on the west by North and South America.

In modern times, some idioms refer to the ocean in a humorously diminutive way as the Pond, describing both the geographical and cultural divide between North America and Europe, in particular between the English-speaking nations of both continents.

The third is between Japan and western North America.

* Around 1010, Thorfinnr Karlsefni led an attempted Viking settlement in North America with 160 settlers, but was later driven off by the natives.

The Arctic Circle passes through the Arctic Ocean, the Scandinavian Peninsula, North Asia, Northern America and Greenland.

After being wounded in a leg and suffering other injuries, he moved to North America in 1916 ( first to Canada, then the United States ) to coordinate the shipment of artillery to Russia.

Nobel travelled for much of his business life, maintaining companies in various countries in Europe and North America and keeping a permanent home in Paris from 1873 to 1891.

By the 1930s, instant pudding and custard were widely available to North Americans.

One theory suggests they were introduced into North America by Dutch settlers, who were responsible for popularizing other American desserts, including cookies, apple and cream pie, and cobbler.

Fruit pies may be served with a scoop of ice cream, a style known in North America as pie à la mode.

Karelian pasties ( karjalanpiirakat / karjalanpiirakka in the South Karelian dialect of Finnish and karjalanpiiraat / karjalanpiiras in the North Karelian dialect ) are a differently shaped pie popular in both Karelia and Finland.

By virtue of Canada's frontline position, the Canadian air defence command and control centre would be the most important piece of the NORAD ' pie ' -- its early warning of and reaction to a Soviet air attack, and survival in nuclear war were paramount for the survival of the U. S .- Canadian portion of the North American continent.

* Moon pie, a similar North American confection

It is used in North America as a dessert topping and in some no-bake pie recipes.

The reason the digits are more commonly known as " Arabic numerals " in Europe and the Americas is that they were introduced to Europe in the 10th century by Arabs of North Africa, who were then using the digits from Libya to Morocco.

For example, a temperate grassland or shrubland biome is known commonly as steppe in central Asia, prairie in North America, and pampas in South America.

In North America, Australia, and the United Kingdom, couscous is available most commonly as either plain or pre-flavoured, quick preparation boxes.

The only pre-Columbian North American rulers to be commonly called emperors were the Hueyi Tlatoani of the Aztec Empire ( 1375 – 1521 ).

Introductory educational psychology is a commonly required area of study in most North American teacher education programs.

Father Christmas is often said to reside at the North Pole or less commonly, in the mountains of Korvatunturi in Lapland, Finland.

In North America, the most common grape juice is purple and made from Concord grapes while white grape juice is commonly made from Niagara grapes, both of which are varieties of native American grapes, a different species from European wine grapes.

In North America, ISDN is now used mostly as an alternative to analog connections, most commonly for Internet access.

Compared to its use in rugby, laterals and backward passes are generally rare in North American football, due to a much greater focus on ball control in American football strategy ; it is most commonly used as a last-minute desperation strategy or as part of a trick play.

In North America macaroni is most associated with the " elbow " shape commonly found in American-style macaroni and cheese.

However, the government is still sometimes referred to as Marxist – Leninist — or, more commonly, Stalinist — due to its political and economic structure ( see History of North Korea ).

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( Chosŏn ' gŭl: ), abbreviated to DPRK or PRK, and commonly referred to as North Korea (), is a country in East Asia, located in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula.

The Earth's axis of rotation – and hence the position of the North Pole – was commonly believed to be fixed ( relative to the surface of the Earth ) until, in the 18th century, the mathematician Leonhard Euler predicted that the axis might " wobble " slightly.

* Colias, a genus of Coliadinae commonly called the Sulfurs ( in North America ) or Clouded Yellows ( elsewhere )

In North America most semi-tractors, commonly referred to as tractor-trailers, have two or three axles and for special purposes such as hauling heavy-duty commercial construction machinery, occasionally four or five.

This type of transformer is commonly used in North America to provide 120 / 240 volt " Split-phase electric power | split-phase " power for residential and light commercial use.

* Franchise, a term for a team in the type of professional sports league organization most commonly found in North America

It is commonly referred to by several different names which include North American timber, SPF ( spruce, pine, fir ) and whitewood.

The city is commonly divided by the people into three main zones: South Zone, Central Zone and North Zone.

After the passage of a cold front, winds tend to switch to the northwest, and a frequent pattern is for a long-lasting low-pressure area to form over the Canadian Maritimes, which may pull cold northwestern air across the Great Lakes for a week or more, commonly identified with the negative phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation ( NAO ).

Chondrus crispus — commonly called Irish moss or carrageen moss ( Irish carraigín, " little rock ") — is a species of red algae which grows abundantly along the rocky parts of the Atlantic coast of Europe and North America.

When describing the geology of Calabria it is commonly referred to " The Calabrian Arc ", the arc-shaped geographic domain extending from the southern part of the Basilicata Region up to the northeast of Sicily, the Peloritano Mountains ( although some authors extend this domain from Naples in the North up to Palermo in the Southwest ).

Chinese varieties are commonly shaped like a narrower, slightly pendulous cucumber, and were sometimes called Japanese eggplants in North America.

The Virginia opossum ( Didelphis virginiana ), commonly known as the North American opossum or tlacuache in Mexico, is the only marsupial found in North America north of Mexico.