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.

Under the North American Numbering Plan, almost all North American area codes reserve telephone numbers beginning with 958 and 959 for internal local and long distance testing ( respectively ), sometimes called plant testing.

In North America, Australia and Europe many cable operators have already introduced cable telephone service, which operates just like existing fixed line operators.

* Analogue mobile phone service ( 1983 – 2008 ) assigned bandwidth for just two carriers ( A / B ); in much of North America these effectively were " Alternate " and " Bell " ( or the incumbent regional telephone landline monopoly in the area ).

A 56 kbit / s line is a digital connection capable of carrying 56 kilobits per second ( kbit / s ), or 56, 000 bit / s, the data rate of a classical single channel digital telephone line in North America.

* The Telsur Project Homepage of the telephone survey of North American English accents

This method was also used in North American telephone Multi-frequency and crossbar switching systems.

TAT-9 was AT & T's 9th transatlantic telephone cable system, in operation from 1992 to 2004, initially carrying 80, 000 telephone circuits between North America and Europe.

Late in the 20th century, communications satellites lost most of their North Atlantic telephone traffic to these low cost, high capacity, low latency cables.

Beginning in the early 1990s in North America, use of X. 25 networks ( predominated by Telenet and Tymnet ) began being replaced with Frame Relay service offered by national telephone companies.

Bermuda's telephone system is part of the North American Numbering Plan -- calls between Bermuda, the USA, Canada and most of the Caribbean requires the caller dialing " 1 ", then the 3-digit area code, then the 7-digit number.

In 1946 the first Telex service was offered, and in 1976 satellite telephone connections to oil platforms in the North Sea were installed.

Some students may also have North Bloomfield, Lenox, Rock Creek, or New Lyme zip codes or telephone exchanges.

9-1-1 is the emergency telephone number for the North American Numbering Plan ( NANP ), one of eight N11 codes.

The system only works in North America if the emergency telephone number 911 is called.

He was also criticized for creating a toll free telephone number to the premier's office which had the number 1-800-MCKENNA, the number was functional throughout North America and was used for both New Brunswick constituents and business interests that were considering moving to the province.

Additionally, Alexander Graham Bell's family's first home in North America was a farmhouse on Tutela Heights ( named after the First Nations tribe which settled the area, and later absorbed into Brantford ) where Bell invented the electric telephone in July, 1874 — although he built his first working model in Boston — and then developed early improvements to it in 1876.

The North American Numbering Plan ( NANP ) is an integrated telephone numbering plan administered by NeuStar ( formerly Lockheed Martin IMS ) which encompasses 24 countries and territories, including the United States and its territories, Canada, Bermuda, and 17 nations of the Caribbean .< ref >

The ringing signal sent to a customer's telephone is 90 volts AC at a frequency of 20 hertz in North America.

Therefore in contrast to North America where customer service numbers are typically free of charge to the caller, consumers in Europe often pay a premium above the cost of a normal telephone call.

A network of ground gateway stations provides connectivity from the 40 satellites to the public switched telephone network and Internet ; users are assigned telephone numbers on the North American Numbering Plan in North America or the appropriate telephone numbering plan for the country that the overseas gateway is located in, except for Brazil, where the official Globalstar country code (+ 8818 ) is used.