Finally, the registration of births and deaths by nearest relatives was made compulsory in most regions.

The family has a worldwide distribution, and is most common in the arid and semi-arid regions of subtropical and lower temperate latitudes.

Similar wooden horns were used for communication in most mountainous regions of Europe, from the French Alps to the Carpathians.

Rhoticity was further supported by Hiberno-English, West Country English and Scottish English as well as the fact most regions of England at this time also had rhotic accents.

Although colour change in leaves occurs wherever deciduous trees are found, coloured autumn foliage is noted in various regions of the world: most of Anglo-America, Eastern Asia ( including China, Korea, and Japan ), Europe, parts of Australia and New Zealand.

Due to the rich mining history dating from medieval times ( the Black Forest was one of the most important mining regions of Europe circa 1100 ) there are many mines re-opened to the public.

* Domestic: a fairly modern digital cable trunk line now connects switching centers in most of the regions ; the others are connected by digital microwave radio relay

In primitive regions today and in all pre-development ( lacking highways or railways ) regions worldwide in times before industrial development and highways, barges were the predominant and most efficient means of inland transportation in many regions of the world.

** dry summer, wet winter: Most regions of the earth receive most of their rainfall during the summer months ; Mediterranean climate regions receive their rainfall during the winter months.

Apart from the far north, most regions are characterized by a cycle of alternating rainy and dry seasons.

The most advanced groups lived along the coast and in the lower Mekong River valley and delta regions in houses constructed on stilts where they cultivated rice, fished and kept domesticated animals.

In well-explored regions ( such as most developed nations ), the most accessible caves have already been explored, and gaining access to new caves often requires digging or diving.

Currently, the Convention's priority activities include review and possible revision of its most recent protocols, implementation of the Convention and its protocols across the entire UNECE region ( with special focus on Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and South-East Europe ) and sharing its knowledge and information with other regions of the world.

The phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and lexicon for most of Canada are similar to that of the Western and Midland regions of the United States.

Widely considered to be one of the most beautiful galaxies visible, M51 has many star-forming regions and nebulae in its arms, coloring them pink and blue in contrast to the older yellow core.

Crete ( ; ) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece.

Today, most countries, cities and regions have access to their traditional cuisines and many other global cuisines, and new cuisines continue to evolve in contemporary times.

It should also be noted that, during mitosis, while most of the chromatin is tightly compacted, there are small regions that are not as tightly compacted.

The most common use in North America and Northern Europe is to mark mountain bike and hiking trails and other cross-country trail blazing, especially in mountain regions at or above the tree line.

In most English-speaking countries outside North America, the most common word for this is biscuit ; in many regions both terms are used, while in others the two words have different meanings.

The continued expeditions against the Hafsunids did not distract Abd ad-Rahman III from the situation of other regions in al-Andalus, which recognized him only nominally, if not being in open revolt.

" In addition to the lack of evidence, scientists cite the fact that Bigfoot is alleged to live in regions unusual for a large, nonhuman primate, i. e., temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere ; all recognized nonhuman apes are found in the tropics of Africa and Asia ( although some smaller primates, such as Japanese macaques, are found in Asia up to the latitude of Northern California, and can cope with air temperatures to-20 ° C (- 4 ° F )).

In temperate and subpolar regions, generally four seasons are recognized: spring, summer, autumn and winter, astronomically marked by the Sun reaching the points of equinox and solstice, although the climatic seasons lag behind their astronomical markers.

By the end of the 1880s, France had established what passed for effective control over the coastal regions of Côte d ' Ivoire, and in 1889 Britain recognized French sovereignty in the area.

Here, a number of its constituent sovereign nations have legalized traditional authority as manifested in the recognized hereditary transmission of chieftaincy in historically relevant regions of the continent ( e. g. the Asantehene of Ghana ).

* Occupied territories in general are regions distinct from the recognized territory of a sovereign state but which it controls, especially with military forces.

He also expressed concerns about the fair value emphasis of IFRS and the influence of accountants from non-common-law regions, where losses have been recognized in a less timely manner.

Seiji Ogawa at AT & T Bell labs recognized that this could be used to augment MRI, which could study just the static structure of the brain, since the differing magnetic properties of dHb and Hb caused by blood flow to activated brain regions would cause measurable changes in the MRI signal.

Similar creatures have been recognized for centuries in alpine regions of Europe ( Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland ), including the following: Wolpertinger ( Bayern, Germany ), Blutschink ( Tirol, Austria ), Dahu ( Switzerland, France ), Dilldapp ( some specific regions ), Elwetritsch ( Pfalz, Germany ), Hanghuhn ( Thüringen, Germany ), and Rasselbock ( Thüringen and Sachsen, Germany ).

On March 1, 1799, Slimane of Morocco signed an accord with Charles IV, in which he recognized that the Saguia el Hamra and Cape Juby regions were not part of his dominions ( Art.

Due to this comparatively late unification, and the historical autonomy of the regions that comprise the Italian peninsula, many traditions and customs that are now recognized as distinctly Italian can be identified by their regions of origin.

The same happened with Braničevo and Kučevo, the Empire's north-eastern regions controlled by the Rastislalić family, who recognized the suzerainty of King Louis I of Hungary.

The Gaxian Cave, currently Khabarovsk and Amur regions in the Russian Far East, which had stone inscriptions of the Northern Wei emperor dated 443, was recognized to be the sacred ancestral shrine of the Xianbei.

Due to this comparatively late unification, and the historical autonomy of the regions that comprise the Italian peninsula, many traditions and customs of the Italians that are now recognized as distinctly Italian can be identified by their regions of origin.

While in Philadelphia he also established a close collaboration with cartographer Lewis Evans, both of whom recognized the need for accurate maps of the inland regions of North America then being disputed with New France in the French and Indian War.

This was the first official recognition of the diversity of the country, and in the King's Testamento do Reino de Portugal he recognized the five " regions " of the nation: Antre Douro e Minho ; Antre Douro e Mondego ; Beira, Estremadura and Antre Tejo e Odiana.

The Midwestern United States ( in the U. S. generally referred to as the Midwest ) is one of the four geographic regions within the United States of America that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau.

Within the Cistaceae, eight genera are recognized, including five in the Mediterranean ( Cistus, Fumana, Halimium, Helianthemum, Tuberaria ) and three in the temperate regions of North America ( Crocanthemum, Hudsonia, Lechea ).

Its tourist industry and reference in many works has made it one of the most recognized regions of Haiti.

The fact that intraplate regions may also present seismic hazards has only recently been recognized.

The initial mandate of the UNPROFOR was to ensure conditions for peace talks, and security in three demilitarized " safe-haven " enclaves designated as United Nations Protected Areas ( UNPAs ) located in various regions of what was at the time the internationally recognized Republic of Croatia but were controlled by the self-styled Republic of Serbian Krajina.