Or else the North really believes that all Southerners except a few quaint old characters have come around to realizing the errors of their past, and are now at heart sharers of the American Dream, like everybody else.

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

BMEWS intelligence is simultaneously flashed to NORAD ( North American Air Defense Command ) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, for interpretation ; ;

If you really insist on knowing their names, an excellent book on the North American species is Bumblebees And Their Ways by O. E. Plath.

more doubtful, but possible, ( with an assist from the North ) was the neutralization of the Latin American countries ; ;

For he seemed to sense at once that before him was no South Sea, but the solid bulk of the North American continent.

Thus at the same time that William Henry Harrison was preparing to pacify the aborigines of Indiana Territory and winning fame at the battle of Tippecanoe, Anglo-Saxon settlement made a great leap into the center of the North American continent to the west of the American agricultural frontier.

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.

In other countries ( and in some, particularly smaller, British and North American universities ), anthropologists have also found themselves institutionally linked with scholars of folklore, museum studies, human geography, sociology, social relations, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and social work.

His first generation of students included Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict, who each produced richly detailed studies of indigenous North American cultures.

Some salamanders adopt defensive poses when faced by a potential predator such as the North American northern short-tailed shrew ( Blarina brevicauda ).

It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait.

* North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks

Some of the larger basins are the Blake, Guiana, North American, Cape Verde, and Canaries basins in the North Atlantic.

* In the year 1000, the Icelander Leif Ericson was the first European to set foot on North American soil, corresponding to today's Eastern coast of Canada, i. e. the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, including the area of land named " Vinland " by Ericson.

In contrast, the largest North American community north of the circle, Sisimiut ( Greenland ), has approximately 5, 000 inhabitants, while between Canada and the USA, Barrow, Alaska is the largest settlement with circa 4, 000 inhabitants.

The most notable example has been the objection of many provinces of the Communion ( particularly in Africa and Asia ) to the changing role of homosexuals in the North American churches ( e. g., by blessing same-sex unions and ordaining and consecrating gays and lesbians in same-sex relationships ), and to the process by which changes were undertaken.

* 1776 – American Revolution: With the Halifax Resolves, the North Carolina Provincial Congress authorizes its Congressional delegation to vote for independence from Britain.

The American Sign Language used in different regions across North America reflects the oral language around them.

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

The Spanish term norteamericano ( North American ), is frequently used to refer things and persons from the United States, but this term can also denote people and things from Canada, and the rest of North America.

Latin Americans also may employ the term norteamericano ( North American ), which conflates the United States, Canada and Mexico.

In 2005 he won the City Life Comedian of the Year Award, a stand-up competition in the North West of England.

It is also the second in North America ( along with the second designed specifically to be stand-up as well as the second with a loop ), and it is one of 16 currently operating roller coasters at the amusement park.

It opened only a year after the similar King Cobra at Kings Island did, which was North America's first stand-up roller coaster.

After the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe, as well as continuing her stand-up work, she was commissioned by the Scottish Health Board and several local Scottish councils ' social service departments to perform her play The Point of Yes to housing associations in ' problem areas ', to drug forums around southern Scotland and to the inmates of HMP Shotts ( prison ) in North Lanarkshire.

* Vortex ( Carowinds ), a stand-up roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Since 1999, Smith has appeared in the BBC dramas Two Thousand Acres of Sky and 55 Degrees North, performed alongside Helena Bonham Carter in the British film Women Talking Dirty, and toured Scotland with her stand-up comedy show.

Some historians credit Sennett's films with having been responsible for municipal police forces across North America altering their uniforms to include military style officers ' caps since by the 1920s tall, British-style hats had become so indelibly associated with slapstick comedy.

A number of other films have been made on or about Shetland including A Crofter's Life in Shetland ( 1932 ) A Shetland Lyric ( 1934 ), Devil's Gate ( 2003 ) and It's Nice Up North ( 2006 ), a comedy documentary by Graham Fellows.

At other times he is direct, famously in his review of the 1994 Rob Reiner comedy North, which he concluded by writing that:

In North America, contemporary sketch comedy is largely an outgrowth of the improvisational comedy scene that flourished during the 1970s, largely growing out of Chicago's The Second City.

Since 1999, the growing sketch comedy scene has precipitated the development of sketch comedy festivals in cities all around North America, including festivals in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Montreal, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Vancouver, and Philadelphia.

Clue is a 1985 comedy mystery film based on the board game of the same name ( Cluedo outside North America ).

In the Second City Television sketch comedy " The Great White North " featuring the fictional brothers Bob and Doug MacKenzie and in their film Strange Brew, doughnuts play a role in the duo's comedy.

In the 2003 dark comedy film Bad Santa, the character of Santa tells a child that Apache Junction is the suburb that most resembles the North Pole.

This borough was one of the filming locations for the Columbia Pictures 1994 comedy film North.

This town was one of the filming locations for the Columbia Pictures 1994 comedy film North.

Braindead ( New Zealand 1992 ), released as Dead Alive in North America, is a horror zombie comedy gore film directed by Peter Jackson.

Durang has appeared as an actor in the 1987 comedy The Secret of My Succe $ s, 1988's Mr. North, 1989's Penn & Teller Get Killed, and 1992's HouseSitter.

They included North to Alaska ( 1960 ), a comedy, as a prostitute who becomes the love interest of John Wayne, and Walk on the Wild Side ( 1962 ), in which she portrayed a redeemed hooker, before moving to Switzerland in 1962.

He soon was traveling as " The Eccentric Juggler ", and included amusing asides and increasing amounts of comedy into his act, becoming a headliner in North America and Europe.

The series, inspired by the 1965 slapstick comedy film The Great Race, features 11 different cars racing against each other in various road rallies throughout North America, with each driver hoping to win the title of the " World's Wackiest Racer.

He is a graduate of Harvard High School in North Hollywood, and Yale University, where he helped found the improv comedy group Purple Crayon.

This sleeper hit was the highest-grossing comedy of 1998 in North America as well as the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year.

Reiser starred for two years on television as one of two possible fathers of a teenage girl in the sitcom My Two Dads, and later rose to fame in North America as Paul Buchman on Mad About You, a long-running comedy series he helped create in which Helen Hunt co-starred as his wife.

Basingstoke ’ s North Hampshire Hospital was one of two hospitals used for the filming of Channel 4's hit comedy Green Wing.

Major touchstones for English-speaking Canadians include Canadian beer, promoted through advertising by brands such as Molson and Labatt, and comedies that poke fun at Canadian's love for beer, such as the 1980s " hoser " television comedy skit The Great White North ( from SCTV ) and the spin-off film Strange Brew.

He would make a rare North American film appearance as the Subaru mechanic / engineer with Jackie Chan in the Burt Reynolds comedy The Cannonball Run.