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.

( After graduation from the University of Chicago, Paula taught for two years in the normal school at Valley City, North Dakota, then two years at Princeton ( Illinois ) Township High School.

Tom had received four years of education at the University of North Carolina and two at Harvard, and Fred had been in and out of Georgia Tech and Carneigie Tech and part of the time had been a self-help student.

They are two sides of the same coin and the South will not change -- cannot change -- until the North changes.

The hell it isn't dinnertime, two waving tails told Pam North.

About 70 North Providence taxpayers made appeals to the board of tax assessors for a review of their 1961 tax assessments during the last two days at the town hall in Centredale.

Winning entirely on the strength of his support in the North and West, no ballots were cast for him in 10 of the 15 Southern slave states, and he won only two of 996 counties in all the Southern states.

North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas also voted for secession over the next two months.

In terms of war strategy, Lincoln articulated two priorities: to ensure that Washington was well-defended, and to conduct an aggressive war effort that would satisfy the demand in the North for prompt, decisive victory ; major Northern newspaper editors expected victory within 90 days.

An alternative classification, though one with much less currency among Altaicists, was proposed by John C. Street ( 1962 ), according to which Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic forms one grouping and Korean-Japanese-Ainu another, the two being linked in a common family that Street designated as " North Asiatic ".

* 1912 – The British passenger liner sinks in the North Atlantic at 2: 20 a. m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

The mission's specific landing site was located between two young impact craters, North and South Ray craters — and in diameter, respectively — which provided " natural drill holes " which penetrated through the lunar regolith at the site, thus leaving exposed bedrock that could be sampled by the crew.

The death penalty was the automatic sentence by North Carolina law at the time, if two requisites in the case were satisfied.

In 2009, Clinton travelled to North Korea on behalf of two American journalists imprisoned in North Korea.

All Belarus ground forces were now grouped within these two commands, the Western Operational Command at Grodno, former from the previous 28th Army Corps, the former Soviet 28th Army, and the North Western Operational Command, the former 65th Army Corps, at Borisov.

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

Castor includes two extant species, North American Beaver ( Castor canadensis ) ( native to North America ) and Eurasian Beaver ( Castor fiber ) ( Eurasia ).

Hume reinforced his crew with musket-armed soldiers and joined up with HMS Seaford to track the two ships, to no avail, though they discerned that the two ships had sunk a French vessel off St Christopher Island, and reported also that they had last been seen " gone down the North side of Hispaniola ".

Schooner Carroll A. Deering, as seen from the Cape Lookout ( North Carolina ) | Cape Lookout lightvessel on January 29, 1921, two days before she was found deserted in North Carolina.

* Taepodong ( disambiguation ) and Rodong-1, types of North Korean missiles

Various types of harps are found in Africa, Europe, North and South America and in Asia.

Elsewhere in the world, two liquids of the types mentioned above remains the most common attribute of a language's consonant inventory, except in North America and Australia.

In the early stages of European colonization in northeastern North America, indigenous peoples showed the arriving colonists how to tap the trunks of certain types of maples during the spring thaw to harvest the sap.

Red wolves re-introduced into northeastern North Carolina have utilized habitat types ranging from agricultural lands to forest / wetland mosaics characterized by an over story of pine and an understory of evergreen shrubs.

Another study revealed there are three major types of lions, one North African – Asian, one southern African and one middle African.

There are a few common types of services in North America.

One of the types found in the United States is the North American " Polish-style polka ," which has roots in Chicago ; two sub-styles are " The Chicago Honky " ( using clarinet and one trumpet ) and " Chicago Push " featuring the accordion, Chemnitzer & Star concertinas, upright bass or bass guitar, drums, and ( almost always ) two trumpets.

There are three main types of water masses in the Barents Sea: Warm, salty Atlantic water ( temperature > 3 ° C, salinity > 35 ) from the North Atlantic drift, cold Arctic water ( temperature < 0 ° C, salinity < 35 ) from the north, and warm, but not very salty coastal water ( temperature > 3 ° C, salinity < 34. 7 ).

Two satellite types are used for North American television and radio: Direct broadcast satellite ( DBS ), and Fixed Service Satellite ( FSS )

Its great biological diversity can be attributed to the presence of five of the seven life zones and three of the four desert types in North America.

Called " the heart of American show business ," vaudeville was one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America for several decades.

Southern European and North African varieties are often known as " intermediate day " types, requiring only 12 – 13 hours of daylight to stimulate bulb formation.

Cashmere, the hair of the Indian cashmere goat, and mohair, the hair of the North African angora goat, are types of wool known for their softness.

Twenty four states ( Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine ( Maine's new law became effective January 1, 2012 ), Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming ) permit the sale of all or most types of consumer fireworks to residents.

While not used in the generic sense of North America, the term candy is used in the UK for specific types of foods such as candy floss ( cotton candy in North America and fairy floss in Australia ), and certain other sugar based products such as candied fruit.

Some local and state governments in North America have banned or restricted rodeos, certain rodeo events, or types of equipment.

: Uses two types of North Korean missiles – the Hwasong-6 and Rodong-1.

Because Fertile is located near the geographic center of North America, the area can experience many types of weather.

These missions were generally of two types — MiG-CAP patrols to protect strike aircraft from attack by marauding North Vietnamese fighters and fighter-bomber strikes carried out with iron bombs against ground targets.

Established in 1957, the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament draws large crowds of sporting enthusiasts of all types to Morehead City each year to witness some of the largest Atlantic Blue Marlin catches in North America.

Since 1941, the advanced pressurised Lockheed Constellation had been under development, and in 1946 BOAC was permitted to use dollars to purchase an initial fleet of five for the prestigious North Atlantic route ( there were no equivalent British types available ).