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unusual facts about American Continent



Americana

In some Romance languages (including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan and Italian), Americana is the feminine noun or adjective referring to women or objects from the American Continent declined in the feminine gender.

Canal Vasco

Canal Vasco is one of the channels that broadcast Euskal Telebista in the Americas.

Iberoamerican Trilogy

The films are about a future period of human civilization defined as the Iberoamerican Era when Latin America becomes the central cultural power of the World after Hollywood collapsed, till the rising of Bolivia as a Confederation taking the all American Continent as its own territory.

International Congress of Americanists

The International Congress of Americanists (ICA) is an international academic conference for research in multidisciplinary studies of the American Continent.

Prehistoric technology

Domestication of plants and animals with early stages in the Old World (Afro-Eurasia) Mesolithic and New World (American continent) Archaic periods led to significant changes and reliance on agriculture in the Old World Neolithic and New World Formative stage.


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Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum

The fourth book describes the geography of Scandinavia and the Baltic region as well as Iceland, Greenland and Vinland (North America), being the oldest book mentioning (in chapter 38) a part of the North American continent.

Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania

The earliest records of any Masonic lodge on the North American continent are the records for the Lodge at the Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, officially known as the St. John's No. 1 Lodge.

Jon Lugbill

In 1979, Jon won the C-1 men's individual World Championship in canoe slalom at the first World Championships to be held on the North American continent at Jonquière (Canada).

Miss United Continent

This annual beauty pageant, which began in 2006 as Miss Continente Americano (Miss American Continent), and is based in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

N. marginatus

Nannostomus marginatus, the dwarf pencilfish, a freshwater fish species found on the South American continent

SCADTA

After Avianca was purchased by Brazilian entrepreneur German Efromovich's company Sinergy in 2004, the name of the company was changed to Airline of the American Continent (Aerovías del Continente Americano) - Avianca).

The Lost Missile

With the missile blazing its path of destruction, a radar station on the DEW Line picks up its approach to the North American continent.

White Rim Sandstone

The coeval Toroweap Formation was laid down under marine conditions along the southwest margin of the North American continent and is found in northwest Arizona layered between Coconino Sandstone and the Kaibab Formation.

William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton

Arriving in Quebec City in July 1862, Milton and Dr Walter Butler Cheadle traveled across the North American continent, wintering near Fort Carlton.