WSCF was formed at a meeting of student leaders from ten North American and European countries in 1895 at Vadstena Castle, Sweden.

In 1895, leaders from North American and European countries established and united national SCMs within the first international student organization, the World Student Christian Federation ( WSCF ).

SCM Canada is currently the only student-led affiliate of WSCF in North America, although a North America Regional office was founded in 2007, and SCM-USA is currently being founded by a steering committee, following a regional conference held in San Francisco in January 2009.

SCM Canada is part of the North American Region of the WSCF.

The World Student Christian Federation ( WSCF ) is a federation of autonomous national Student Christian Movements ( SCM ) forming the youth and student arm of the global ecumenical movement.

Together the WSCF and SCM provide a context for young Christians from all churches and nations to meet.

John Raleigh Mott ( May 25, 1865 – January 31, 1955 ) was a long-serving leader of the YMCA and the World Student Christian Federation ( WSCF ).

The WSCF journal Student World was begun in 1908.

* The WSCF is a global community of Student Christian Movements committed to dialogue, ecumenism, social justice and peace.

The IRO administers WSCF's income, salaries and fundraising and co-ordinates global WSCF programmes, the IRO administers the Ecumenical Assistance Programme, the Universal Day of Prayer for Students, produces Federation News and Student World maintains contact with national movements and some Senior Friends and organises WSCF representation at meetings of the United Nations, UNESCO, World Council of Churches and other organisations.

From 1895 until 1920 Mott was the General Secretary of the WSCF.

From 1920 until 1928 he was the Chairperson of the WSCF.

For over a century WSCF has supplied leaders to the Church, the ecumenical movement and the Christian left, governments and social movements.

WSCF was the first international student organisation.

The WSCF newsletter Federation News started in 1921 and is published twice a year.

In 2004 it was re-started after a hiatus of several years ; both these publications can be found on the WSCF website www. wscfglobal. org

* Through the work of the Holy Spirit, the WSCF is called to be a prophetic witness in church and society.

The Assembly elected new WSCF leaders: Mr. Horacio Mesones ( Uruguay ) was elected WSCF Chairperson, Ms. Janejinda Pawadee ( Thailand ) Vice-Chairperson.

The regions nominate students to participate in global WSCF programmes and other activities.

* WSCF / FUMEC / FUACE global website – http :// www. wscfglobal. org

The Canada-wide body of the movement is associated with regional bodies of the WSCF.

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.