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.

Marconi's contributions to Cape Breton Island were also quite significant as he used the island's geography to his advantage in transmitting the first North American trans-Atlantic radio message from a station constructed at Table Head in Glace Bay to a receiving station at Poldhu in Cornwall, England.

The Getica sets off with a geography / ethnography of the North, especially of Scandza ( 16-24 ).

They determined that all the land in the Great Basin ( centered on modern-day Nevada ) was land-locked, which contributed greatly to the understanding of North American geography at the time.

* North, a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography

The geography of Puerto Rico describes an archipelago located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.

The geography of the western region of Thailand, like the North, is characterised by high mountains and steep river valleys.

The geography and ruling Imams of North Yemen kept the country isolated from foreign influence before 1962.

* Meridian ( geography ), an imaginary arc on the Earth's surface from the North Pole to the South Pole

North is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.

It had been a long and expensive expedition, costing 15 men and souring relations between Russia and her native peoples: but it had provided useful new ( though not perfect ) insights into the geography of Eastern Siberia, and presented useful evidence that Asia and North America were separated by sea.

Though Bering seems to have been primarily interested in landing in North America, his recognised the importance of secondary objectives: the list of which expanded rapidly under the guidance of planners Nikolai Fedorovich Golovin ( head of the Admiralty ); Ivan Kirilov, a highly-ranked politician with an interest in geography, and Andrey Osterman, a close adviser of the new Empress, Anna Ivanovna.

" French dialect geography in North America.

South Island ( political geography ), in relation to North Island ; includes South Island and surrounding islands

The geography of Iceland entails the geographic features of Iceland, an island country at the confluence of the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries there was a great debate in the United States about the authenticity of the letters he wrote to Francis I describing the geography, flora, fauna and native population of the east coast of North America.

Northern Canada, colloquially the North, is the vast northernmost region of Canada variously defined by geography and politics.

The Shepard Point Land Company's objective was to take advantage of the natural deep channel ( geography ) of Topsail Inlet known today as the Beaufort Inlet which splits Bogue Banks and Shackleford Banks providing access to both Morehead City, Beaufort, North Carolina, the Newport River and the Intra-Coastal Waterway.

The geography of the North China Plain has had profound cultural and political implications.

* Inventio Fortunata-a 14th century description of the geography of the North Pole.

(" high ") in the term for the standard language refers to " high " in a cultural or educational sense, while in the linguistic term it simply refers to the geography of the German speaking regions in Central Europe ; High German of the southern uplands and the Alps ( including Austria, Switzerland and parts of northern Italy as well as southern Germany ) contrasting with Low German spoken in the lowlands stretching towards the North Sea.

The real geography of North America turned out not to match the details given in the Canadian boundary descriptions.

Starting in 1989, he also acted as a guest professor at universities around North America and Europe, lecturing on matters relating to resource geography, energy economics, and environmental impact.

The Getica begins with a geography / ethnography of the North, especially of Scandza ( 16-24 ).

) ( or al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi, Arabic: حسن ابن محمد الوزان الفاسي ) was a Moorish diplomat and author who is best known for his book Descrittione dell ’ Africa ( Description of Africa ) describing the geography of North Africa.

The North Carolina native was also the professor of moral science and belles lettres and taught geography and mineralogy.

The exhibit galleries cover a wide range of topics such as North Carolina geography and geology, the human body, physics ( featuring a Foucault pendulum ), sound, and technology.

The geography of Iraq is diverse and falls into four main regions: the desert ( west of the Euphrates ), Upper Mesopotamia ( between the upper Tigris and Euphratesh rivers ), the northern highlands of Iraqi Kurdistan, and Lower Mesopotamia, the alluvial plain extending from around Tikrit to the Persian Gulf.

Thus, a federal district court that falls within the geographic boundaries of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals is bound by rulings of the Third Circuit Court, but not by rulings in the Ninth Circuit, since the Circuit Courts of Appeals have jurisdiction defined by geography.

Herodian also occasionally falls short in his descriptions of geography.

The remainder of the province's geography is dominated by the Sepik River, which is one of the largest rivers in the world in terms of water flow and is known for flooding -- the river's level can alter by as much as five metres in the course of the year as it rises and falls.

There is some dispute about the dangers, that the geography of the place is naturally risky with the rocks and fast moving currents — yet an Aboriginal legend exists giving it the context of a historic curse.

Possibly inspired by the earlier example of the American Tennessee Valley Authority initiative of the New Deal administration of President Franklin D Roosevelt, but undoubtedly determined to address the very strong popular sentiment of the immediate post-war period for a more equitable distribution of the resources and benefits of a modern economy, Johnston strove hard and successfully to win over all interested parties, including generally reluctant landowners, to the goal of harnessing the ( then ) scarcely developed but naturally well-suited geography and climate of the Scottish Highlands to the generation of electricity by water power.

Its mineral wealth ( as well as a mountainous geography naturally favouring hydroelectric power ) has made it a natural target for industrialisation and it is probably the Concourse's industrial heartland, though there are significant works on the nearby planets of Tantamount and Lyonesse.

When populations within a species become isolated by geography, feeding strategy, mate selection, or other means, they may start to differ from other populations through genetic drift and natural selection, and over time may evolve into new species.

A third grade project growing out of the day to day life of the nearby Hudson river became one of the most celebrated units of the school, a unit on boats, which under the guidance of its legendary teacher Miss Curtis, became an entrée into history, geography, reading, writing, arithmetic, science, art and literature.

The goal of regional geography, through regionalization, was to delineate space into regions and then understand and describe the unique characteristics of each region, in both human and physical aspects.

The region is not an official administrative unit, but has been traditionally used as the regional division of Japan in a number of contexts: for example, maps and geography textbooks divide Japan into the eight regions, weather reports usually give the weather by region, and many businesses and institutions use their home region as part of their name ( Kinki Nippon Railway, Chūgoku Bank, Tohoku University, etc .).

Within the body of physical geography, the Earth is often split either into several spheres or environments, the main spheres being the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere and pedosphere.

The area's geography remained one of the least understood in the region, with various Spanish maps containing errors in the naming of the Sabine and Neches, and sometimes showed them flowing independently into the Gulf of Mexico.

Jean Brunhes, one of Vidal's most influential disciples, included a level of ( spatial ) interactions among groups into his fourfold structure of human geography.

The geography of the region is characterised by short mountain ranges alternating with small basins of short rivers which drain into the Gulf of Thailand.

Kronborg Castle and the Øresund from the 1580s geography book Civitates Orbis Terrarum. From 1574 to 1585 Frederick II had the medieval fortress rebuilt into a magnificent Renaissance castle, unique in its appearance and size throughout Europe.

This subfamily of around 30 languages is divided into three groups according to geography: Plains, Central, and Eastern Algonquian.

Regions of human geography can be divided into many broad categories, such as:

Lomonosov's observation of iceberg formation led into his pioneering work in geography.

Greece was divided into many small self-governing communities, a pattern largely dictated by Greek geography, where every island, valley and plain is cut off from its neighbours by the sea or mountain ranges.

The valley averages 9 miles in width, but variations on the basic geography exist, including narrows and occasional widenings into lakes with islands.

2, detailed much of the geography of the League's world, the third volume, The Black Dossier, set out an extensive history of the world of the League and each of its various incarnations, threading together hundreds of disparate works of fiction into a cohesive timeline.

Its six charter members were Holy Cross, Lehigh, Bucknell, Colgate, Lafayette and Davidson, which dropped out after the 1988 season for reasons related to geography and a reluctance to relinquish its basketball scholarships in case the conference expanded into other sports.

" Val d ' Aran " itself can be considered a pleonasm, as it would mean Valley of the Valley if one took into account its etymology ( val in Gascon and aran from Basque haran ), a combination that reflects its unique geography.

The physical geography can be broken into roughly three sections: the highlands, the rainforest, and the coastal areas

With the splitting of the lands into the facets of Trammel and Felucca, players could choose their geography based on their play style.

Since its founding, the Mennonite denomination has split into a number of smaller Mennonite denominations, due to geography, social and theological differences.

Joint Communications is specifically responsible for receiving incoming 9-1-1 emergency telephone calls, and dispatching the appropriate personnel ; receiving other non-emergency telephone calls and dispatching, routing, or messaging those calls to the correct personnel ; entering information into, and inquiring information from the Missouri Uniform Law Enforcement System ( MULES ) and the National Crime Information Center ( NCIC ) crime databases ; maintaining a detailed computerized log of requests received and dispatched ; and keeping current on city and county geography, so that members may assist responding personnel in locating addresses.

* Europe's geography favored balkanization into smaller, closer, nation-states, as its many natural barriers ( mountains, rivers ) provide defensible borders.

In the mid-to-late 19th century, the population of the town and the land decreased as parts were annexed by the neighboring town of Woodbridge and the new town of Beacon Falls was incorporated into the general geography of Connecticut.