The use of this term illustrates a past trend towards referring to the whole continent of Africa by the name Aethiopia.

At no great distance east of this rift-valley is Mount Kilimanjaro-with its two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi, the latter being, and the culminating point of the whole continent — and Mount Kenya, which is.

The third division of the higher region of Africa is formed by the Ethiopian Highlands, a rugged mass of mountains forming the largest continuous area of its altitude in the whole continent, little of its surface falling below, while the summits reach heights of 4600 m to 4900 m ( 15, 000 to 16, 000 ft ).

The area between the east and west coast highlands, which north of 17 ° N is mainly desert, is divided into separate basins by other bands of high ground, one of which runs nearly centrally through North Africa in a line corresponding roughly with the curved axis of the continent as a whole.

Problems which Latin America faced as a whole had to do with many of the nations in the continent being underdeveloped.

The scope of the Department of Asia is extremely broad, its collections of over 75, 000 objects covers the material culture of the whole Asian continent ( from East, South, Central and South-East Asia ) and from the Neolithic up to the present day.

That is used from the perspective of the island residents of each country to describe the continental portion of their country or the continent ( or mainland ) as a whole.

Wonders typically affect either the city in which they are built ( for example, the Colossus ), every city on the continent ( for example, the Hanging Gardens ), or the civilization as a whole ( for example, Darwin's Voyage ).

Yet another Spanish / English false friend is " America / América ", where the word " America " in English, and singular, is usually used to talk about the United States of America, and the word " América " in Spanish is used to talk about the whole American continent.

In this sense, Libya was the whole known African continent to the west of the Nile Valley and extended south of Egypt.

Seward surmised that the whole North American continent " shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American Union.

The first person to realize that he had actually discovered a whole continent was Charles Wilkes, the commander of a United States Navy expedition .< ref name =" antarcticchronology ">

The design still retains all elements of the original designs, including the twelve stars, however the map of the fifteen states is replaced by one showing the whole of Europe as a continent, without borders.

The sadness and the shock from the loss of a whole continent lived ever after in the hearts of kings of Númenórean descent.

Fort Hare is one of the oldest universities in southern Africa, and was the first Western-style tertiary education institution in the whole continent to be open to non-white students.

Harris said of him :" At a time when European archaeologists were preoccupied with regional sites and sequences, it was he who had the vision, the knowledge and the skill to construct the first prehistory of the whole continent ( 1925 ) and the first ordered and comprehensive account of the ancient Near East ( 1928 ).

And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government entrusted to us.

Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to James Monroe, wrote that " it is impossible not to look forward to distant times when our rapid multiplication will expand itself beyond those limits, and cover the whole northern, if not the southern continent ".

The whole continent of North America appears to be destined by Divine Providence to be peopled by one nation, speaking one language, professing one general system of religious and political principles, and accustomed to one general tenor of social usages and customs.

The Ottoman empire had once been the foremost military power in Europe, reaching its apogee in the 16th and 17th centuries, when it threatened the whole continent.

The British Empire expanded across the whole continent and established six colonies.

The Camarin of the Immaculate in the church of San Diego is considered by historians to be the last Baroque building in the world ; it links the Baroque and Neoclassical styles ; it is the largest of the fewer than ten of these type of structures built in the whole continent.

" If a nation ambitious for universal conquest gets off to a flying start in a war of the future ," he said, " it may be able to control the whole world more easily than a nation has controlled a continent in the past.

‘ The sentiments of the English people would be totally averse to any troops being landed by England on the continent under any circumstances .’ Clemenceau looks upon this as undoing the whole result of the entente cordiale and says that if that represents the final mind of the British Government, he has done with us.

Soddy wrote in popular magazines that radioactivity was a potentially “ inexhaustible ” source of energy, and offered a vision of an atomic future where it would be possible to “ transform a desert continent, thaw the frozen poles, and make the whole earth one smiling Garden of Eden .” The promise of an “ atomic age ,” with nuclear energy as the global, utopian technology for the satisfaction of human needs, has been a recurring theme ever since.

In other places, such as Alaska, borough designates a whole region ; Alaska's largest borough, the North Slope Borough, is comparable in area to the entire United Kingdom.

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples ( known as toffee apples outside North America ), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

In 1513 Waldseemüller appears to have had second thoughts about the name, probably due to contemporary protests about Vespucci ’ s role in the discovery and naming of America, or just carefully waiting for the official discovery of the whole northwestern coast of what is now called North America, as separated from East Asia.

Several major Māori tracks were known, such as the western coastal track was used along the whole length of the North Island, and the track on the East Coast, which however left the coast near Castlepoint and rejoined it near Napier.

The whole land mass encompassing North and South Korea is a peninsula, surrounded by the Dong Hae ( aka.

Lord North, for example, who had said the office was " unknown to the constitution ", reversed himself in 1783 when he said, " In this country some one man or some body of men like a Cabinet should govern the whole and direct every measure.

), so allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers, and ultimately the whole of French North Africa.

* c. 1200 BC: The proto-Scythian Srubna ( Timber-grave ) culture expands from the lower Volga region to cover the whole of the North Pontic area.

* c. 1200 BC: The proto-Scythian Srubna ( Timber-grave ) culture expands from the lower Volga region to cover the whole of the North Pontic area.

Bodies that accredit institutions as a whole include the Council for Higher Education Accreditation ( CHEA ): Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools ( MSA ), New England Association of Schools and Colleges ( NEASCSC ), Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools ( HLC ), Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities ( NWCCU ), Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ), and Western Association of Schools and Colleges ( WASC ).

In 1199 he captured the important castle of Mold and was apparently using the title " prince of the whole of North Wales " ().

Shortly after crossing the Czech-German frontier, and passing through the sandstone defiles of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, the stream assumes a north-westerly direction, which on the whole it preserves right to the North Sea.

The ancient principality of Tír Eoghain, the inheritance of the O ' Neills, included the whole of the present counties of Tyrone and Londonderry, and the four baronies of West Inishowen, East Inishowen, Raphoe North and Raphoe South in County Donegal.

Christopher Wise in his book Derrida, Africa, and the Middle East ( 2009 ) places Derrida's work in the historical context of his North African origins, an argument first briefly made by Robert J. C. Young in White Mythologies: Writing History and the West ( 1990 ) and extended in his Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction ( 2001 ) where Young surveys the writings of numerous theorists and situates the whole framework of Derrida's thinking in relation to the impact of growing up in the colonial conditions of French Algeria.

The better positioned Kirilov oversaw developments, eyeing up not only the chance of discovering North America, but of mapping the whole Arctic coast, finding a good route south to Japan, landing on the Shantar Islands and even making contact with Spanish America.

In pre-colonial times Maori were thought to not have a commonly-used name for the whole New Zealand archipelago, but in the 19th century, ' Aotearoa ' was used to refer both to the whole country, and to the North Island only.

But he did not immediately call Johnson to tell him that the whole premise of his decision at lunch to approve McNamara ’ s recommendation for retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam was now highly questionable.

Its navy was as internally divided as the country as a whole ; the Dutch, as superior on land as they were at sea, even took over much of England's maritime trade with her North American colonies.

Blake, recovering from an injury, rethought, together with George Monck, the whole system of naval tactics, and after the winter of 1653 used the line of battle, first to drive the Dutch navy out of the English Channel in the Battle of Portland and then out of the North Sea in the Battle of the Gabbard.

As the war progressed, the government at Vichy collaborated with the Germans, who in 1942 finally occupied the whole of metropolitan France because of the threat from North Africa.

Various developments and upgrades were implemented over the years and in 1992 the lower terraces of the south and east stand were converted to seating and the whole of the North stand followed to become all-seater the following season.

It contains ten to twenty species that are native to Africa and Eurasia from the Canary Islands, whole Africa, and southern Europe, warm and semi-desert areas across Asia, and also North America from Mexico to warm and semi-desert United States, like Texas or California.