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18 unusual facts about North America


AmeriPride Services

AmeriPride Services is a uniform rental and linen supply company in North America.

Araucana

The current North American standard calls for a chicken that is rumpless (missing their last vertebrae and lacking a tail), possesses ear-tufts (feathers that grow out from near the birds' ears), and lays blue eggs.

Avatar Orchestra Metaverse

The Avatar Orchestra Metaverse consists of members based in Europe, North America and Asia.

Baron Seaton

He fought at the Battle of Waterloo and was Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1828 to 1836, acting Governor General of British North America from 1837 to 1838 and Commander-in-Chief of North America from 1838 to 1839.

CentiMark

CentiMark is North America's largest commercial roofing contractor with $502 million in net revenue in 2012.

Colliers International

FirstService REA subsequently invested in several North American-based firms whose operations focused on various commercial real estate service specialties.

Diesel cycle

In North America, Diesel engines are primarily used in large trucks, where the low-stress, high-efficiency cycle leads to much longer engine life and lower operational costs.

Digital cinema

On January 19, 2000, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, in North America, initiated the first standards group dedicated towards developing Digital Cinema.

On June 18, 1999, DLP CINEMA projector technology was publicly demonstrated for the second time on four screens in North America (Los Angeles and New York) for the release of Lucasfilm's Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.

Features of Skype

In January 2007, Skype launched a prepaid unlimited call subscription for North American customers.

G1 Jockey 3

Although the G1 Jockey series had been gaining popularity in Japan, this was the first game in the series to be released in North America.

James H. Madole

Madole also wrote that the Aryans originated in the Garden of Eden located in North America.

Kontinental Hockey League

Players not from Russia represent a minority of about 40% of the KHL players, and are mostly Central European, Nordic, and North American.

Michigan State University Men's Club Volleyball

Former Club members can also be found working in business throughout Europe, pursuing volunteer missionary work in Africa, and spearheading agricultural, medical, technological and entrepreneurial efforts in China, the Middle East and throughout North America.

Romanization of Russian

American Library Association and Library of Congress (ALA-LC) romanization tables for Slavic alphabets (updated 1997) are used in North American libraries and in the British Library since 1975.

Stone Crabs

The stone crab refers to a crustacean native to North American coastal waters.

Taiwan ROCSAUT

Taiwan Republic of China Student Association at University of Toronto (Taiwan ROCSAUT or simply ROCSAUT) is the Taiwanese cultural group in University of Toronto, and is the largest student organization with Taiwanese background in Eastern North America.

Utah Sucker

The Utah Sucker, Catostomus ardens, is a sucker of the family Catostomidae found in the upper Snake River and the Lake Bonneville areas of western North America.


Adelaide Gay

In 2009, Gay played for the Pali Blues in the W-League and helped the team win the 2009 W-League Championship.

Air operator's certificate

This has occurred with FLYi airline's AOC being bought by Northwest Airlines to start Compass Airlines, now a feeder airline for Delta Air Lines marketed as Delta Connection), and also with Strategic Airlines purchasing the AOC, staff and routes of the failed OzJet airlines.

Amanda Richards

Amanda is the granddaughter of Rusty Richards, who was a member of the legendary Western singing group The Sons of the Pioneers, and began writing songs herself when only 12 years old.

Big Momma's House

The film was released on 2 June 2000, and was a surprise hit as it opened as the number two movie in North America, and almost overtook Mission: Impossible II for the top spot that weekend.

Big year

In 1953, Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher took a 30,000 mile road trip visiting the wild places of North America.

Blonde dans la Casbah

In 2008 the songs were performed in North America, where Une Blonde Platine dans la Casbah, Ta'ali and Tsaabli ouetmili were well received.

British currency in the Middle East

The 1825 order-in-council was limited largely to the remnants of the old Empire in North America and the West Indies, along with New South Wales, Gibraltar, and some spoils of the Napoleonic wars such as the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Mauritius.

Cameronian

In 1712 they publicly renewed their covenants at Auchensaugh Hill in Lanarkshire, and in 1713 their first presbytery was founded at Braehead, while a presbytery was formed in North America in 1774.

Caspian Tern

Their breeding habitat is large lakes and ocean coasts in North America (including the Great Lakes), and locally in Europe (mainly around the Baltic Sea and Black Sea), Asia, Africa, and Australasia (Australia and New Zealand).

Cohousing

The Danish term bofællesskab (living community) was introduced to North America as cohousing by two American architects, Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett, who visited several cohousing communities and wrote a book about it.

Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec

Founded by the Quebec government in 1944, it became the second North American music institution of higher learning to be entirely state-subsidized.

Convention du Lac

Convention du Lac is a North American multi-genre convention, held annually in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and now operating under the name BayouCon, presented by the non-profit Southwest Louisiana Science Education Foundation.

Deathstars

They have released three full-length studio albums; Synthetic Generation (2002 in Europe and 2003 in North and South America), Termination Bliss (2006) and Night Electric Night (2009).

Émile Allais

After a spell in North and South America (Squaw Valley, California and Portillo, Chile) Allais held the post of technical director at Courchevel from 1954 to 1964, where he introduced many ideas from the U.S. regarding slope preparation and piste security.

Esperanza TV

Esperanza TV (Hope TV) is a Spanish Christian TV channel for North and Central America.

Federico Macheda

On 28 July 2010, Macheda scored his first goals of United's pre-season tour of North America as he netted twice in the 2010 MLS All-Star Game.

Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

The work of the Sisters continued to spread through the continent of Africa, expanding to West Africa, and then to both North America and to South America as well as to Asia.

Genesis flood narrative

In 1646, Sir Thomas Browne wondered why the natives of North America had taken rattlesnakes with them, but not horses: "How America abounded with Beasts of prey and noxious Animals, yet contained not in that necessary Creature, a Horse, is very strange".

George R. Gardiner

Among his notable runners was St. Vincent who raced in the U.S. and who in 1955 set or equaled four course records, including a North American and World record, and was voted that year's American Champion Male Turf Horse.

Gibraltar Hardware

It was part of the company Kaman, which is also a manufacturer of aircraft structures and components and a distributor of parts and equipment to the North American industry.

Global change game

Each participant is randomly assigned to one of the 10 regions in the world: North America, Latin America, Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Africa, The Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, China and the Pacific Rim.

Haplogroup R-M173

In Indigenous Americans groups, R-M173 is the most common haplogroup after the various Q-M242, especially in North America in Ojibwe people at 79%, Chipewyan 62%, Seminole 50%, Cherokee 47%, Dogrib 40% and Papago 38%.

Jack A. Wolfe

Jack Albert Wolfe (1936–2005) was an American paleontologist best known for his studies of Tertiary climate in western North America through analysis of fossil angiosperm leaves.

John Charles Fields

Disillusioned with the state of mathematical research in North America at the time, he left for Europe in 1891, locating primarily in Berlin, Göttingen and Paris, where he associated with some of the greatest mathematical minds of the time, including Karl Weierstrass, Felix Klein, Ferdinand Georg Frobenius and Max Planck.

John Coletti

He was responsible, as manager of that company's Special Vehicle Team (SVT) group, for a number of special performance cars in the 1990s and 2000s, including the Ford Focus SVT, SVT Contour, Ford F-150 Lightning, and the Ford Mustang Cobra.

Karnataka College of Percussion

The college features a percussion ensemble called Tala Tarangini, which has performed throughout Asia, Europe, North America, and Australia, and which has collaborated with numerous jazz rock musicians, including Charlie Mariano, Okay Temiz, Iain Ballamy, Dissidenten, and Embryo.

Late-night news

In the United States, late-night local news is traditionally broadcast at 11:00 pm local time on stations affiliated with the Big Three television networks (CBS, NBC, and ABC) as well as those owned and operated by CTV and Global in Canada that are in the Eastern Time Zone or the Pacific Time Zone.

Link TV

In October 2012, Link TV announced that it was merging with KCET, an independent public television station in Los Angeles, to form a new nonprofit entity, to be called KCETLink.

Live MCMXCIII

Nevertheless, an impromptu one-song reunion in Jouy-en-Josas, France, later that year for an Andy Warhol exhibition set the scene and by 1993, the band had started to rehearse for European and American tours.

Madison International Speedway

Other divisions that race on selected nights include Super Late Models, Super Trucks, Super Stocks, Ford Focus, Midgets, and Bandoleros.

Max Lenderman

Before, he was executive creative director at GMR Marketing LLC, the largest “live” marketing company in North America, where his work has won numerous industry awards, the latest including the 2006 & 2007 Pro Award, the 2006 MAA Worldwide Globes Award and the 2007 & 2008 Ex Award.

Miguel Mateos

Outside of Argentina, he is considered one of the most important exponents of Rock en Español, specially in the 1980s when he along with Charly Garcia, Soda Stereo, Enanitos Verdes, Virus, Sumo, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Rata Blanca, and many more bands became international stars in the so-called "Argentine Invasion" ("La Ola Argentina") of rock music that swept Latin America and parts of North America and Europe.

Montreal Laboratory

While he maintained that he did not divulge any nuclear secrets to his previous boss (although he had discussed patent rights), Halban was not allowed to work or to leave North America for a year, by General Groves, head of the Manhattan Project.

Morgan Clark

Sheridan and his forces, however, were able to destroy the defense platforms before they fired; Sheridan was prepared to ram the final platform (targeting North America's eastern seaboard) with his badly damaged ship, but the EAS Apollo (previously fighting against Sheridan) appeared, then destroyed the platform and save Sheridan's life ("Endgame").

New Zealand response to Hurricane Katrina

On 30 August 2005 NZST (29 August UTC-6/-5) Prime Minister Helen Clark sent condolences by phone and in a letter with an offer of help to United States President George W. Bush and Foreign Affairs Minister Phil Goff also sent a message of sympathy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

North American Defence College

The North American Defence College is the name given to a periodic meeting of top military, industrial, and government leaders in North America, particularly Canada and The United States.

Old Crow, Yukon

A large number of apparently human modified animal bones have been discovered in the Old Crow area, notably at Bluefish Caves, located near the shores of the Arctic Ocean, that have been dated to 25,000-40,000 years ago by carbon dating, several thousand years earlier than generally accepted human habitation of North America.

Pacer Stacktrain

Pacer Stacktrain is a provider of wholesale intermodal transportation services in North America.

Paradip

Paradip has been identified for development as one of the six major petroleum, chemicals and petrochemical investment regions (PCPIRs) in India, along the lines of Pudong in China, Rotterdam in Europe and Houston in North America.

Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal

It is primarily served by GO Transit buses running along the Lakeshore East and Highway 407/York University corridors, with longer distance connections outside the Greater Toronto Area by Greyhound, Coach Canada, Megabus and Can-ar, and additional casino services.

Sesto ed Uniti

It is also the home town of chef Massimo Capra, famous for television appearances on the Food Network in North America, particularly on the series Restaurant Makeover.

Siberian Jay

It is one of three members of the genus Perisoreus, the others being the Sichuan Jay, P. internigrans, restricted to the mountains of eastern Tibet and northwestern Sichuan, and the Gray Jay, P. canadensis, restricted to the boreal forest and western montane regions of North America.

Still Alive: The Remixes

It was released by Artwerk on 11 November 2008 to coincide with the North American release date of Mirror's Edge, an action-adventure video game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE (DICE) for which "Still Alive" had been chosen as the main theme.

Territorialism

The Jewish Colonization Association, created in 1891 by the Baron Maurice de Hirsch, was aimed at facilitating mass emigration of Jews from Russia and other Eastern European countries, by settling them in agricultural colonies on lands purchased by the committee, particularly in North and South America (especially Argentina).

Thayer's Gull

Thayer's Gull (Larus thayeri) is a large gull native to North America that breeds in the Arctic islands of Canada and winters primarily on the Pacific coast, from southern Alaska to the Gulf of California, though there are also wintering populations on the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi River.

Tunnel Through the Deeps

Captain Washington and Sir Isambard Brassey-Brunel (descendant of Isambard Kingdom Brunel) get together to link the heart of the British Empire with its far-flung Atlantic colony in North America, although they fall out over Augustine's wooing of Isabard's young daughter, Iris, and as a result of disputes over engineering techniques.

WNYJ-TV

WNYJ-TV is a non-commercial educational, independent television station licensed to West Milford, New Jersey, USA.