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.

Note that by Western standards this plan was `` upside down '', as it put North at the bottom and South at the top, with the other directions correspondingly altered ; ;

PAL is used with a variety of 625-line standards ( B, G, D, K, I, N ) but also with the North American 525-line standard, accordingly named PAL-M.

The North American agencies will only require these standards for new device submissions, while the EU will take the more severe approach of requiring all applicable devices being placed on the market to consider the home healthcare standard.

Comparison of compost standards within the EU, North America, and Australasia.

DECT has almost universally replaced other standards in most countries where it is used, with the exception of North America.

Unfortunately the structures for the creation of standards in North America seemed to prevent manufacturer collaboration as a route forward and ANSI were not interested in creating PBX interworking standards.

Though most economists agree that it is difficult to assess the direct impact of the NAALC, it is agreed that there has been a convergence of labor standards in North America.

A Certified Professional Midwife ( CPM ) is a knowledgeable, skilled and professional independent midwifery practitioner who has met the standards for certification set by the North American Registry of Midwives ( NARM ) and is qualified to provide the midwives model of care.

Created in 1987 by the Midwives Alliance of North America, NARM is committed to identifying standards and practices that reflect the excellence and diversity of the independent midwifery community in order to set the standard for North American midwifery.

The Japanese parent company was concerned that it may be viewed as a " Japanese Invasion " by forcing Japanese community standards on North American and European children.

In the 1970s, expansion of North Korea's economy, with the accompanying rise in living standards, came to an end and a few decades later went into reverse.

North America, parts of Central America, and South Korea are adopting the ATSC standards, while other countries are adopting or have adopted other standards.

The sale and consumption of liquor, wine, and beer are still controlled by some of the most extreme laws in North America to ensure that strict community standards and revenue generation from the alcohol retail monopoly are upheld.

In United States of America v. Extreme Associates a pornography distributor from North Hollywood, California, was judged to be held accountable to the community standards applying in western Pennsylvania, where the Third Circuit made its ruling, because the materials were available via Internet in that area.

* January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America.

where μ = 255 ( 8 bits ) in the North American and Japanese standards.

According to DoD documents, “ The MIL-STD-188 series may be based on, or make reference to, Joint Technical Architecture, American National Standards Institute ( ANSI ) standards, International Telecommunications Union-Telecommunication Standardization Sector ( ITU-T ) recommendations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) Standardization Agreements ( STANAG ), and other standards wherever applicable .”

Mainland Portugal's literacy rate by the 1940s and early 1950s was low for North American and Western European standards at the time.

Despite this careful planning and intensive training ( by Civil War standards ), the day before the attack, Meade, who lacked confidence in the operation, ordered Burnside not to use the black troops in the lead assault, claiming that if the attack failed black soldiers would be killed needlessly, creating political repercussions in the North.

In Germany as well as North America, its performance standards are its most important trait.

The portion from Mars Hill, North Carolina, east ( compass south ) to Interstate 240 in Asheville, North Carolina, has signs indicating I-26 because the highway does not yet meet all of the Interstate Highway standards.