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unusual facts about North American



47th Flying Training Wing

The 47th moved into the jet age in 1949, when the North American B-45 Tornado, bomber replaced the B-26s.

Area codes 215 and 267

215 and 267 are the North American telephone area codes for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania which serve its southeast corner, including the city of Philadelphia and its northern and eastern suburbs.

Briton-class corvette

Between them, they were assigned to the China, East Indies, African, North American, and the Pacific Stations.

CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid

The CSS Alabama's New England Expeditionary Raid commenced shortly after the CSS Alabama left the Azores and cruised west toward the northeastern seaboard of Newfoundland and New England along the North American coastline.

Kyle Krisiloff

In January 2007, a partnership including Carl Haas, Travis Carter, Mari Hulman George, and Michael T. Lanigan announced that it was purchasing ppc Racing and would field the #14 Ford Fusion in the Nationwide Series with Krisiloff as the driver.

Mark Mardell

Mardell left his post as Europe Editor to replace Justin Webb as now BBC North American Editor when Webb became a presenter on Radio 4's Today programme.

Mushfiqur Rahman

He is an active member of the Sigma Chi North American fraternity based out of Evanston, Illinois, and he is a Global Representative for the University of Waterloo.

Protosialis casca

They used the alderfly classification system put forth by Dr. Michael Whiting in his 1994 paper on the phylogeny of North American alderflies which treated Protosialis as a subgenus of Sialis.

Rob Kling

Rob Kling, PhD (born August 1944, died 15 May 2003 - age 58) was a North American professor of Information Systems and Information science at the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Indiana University, USA.

Robert L. Hall

Robert L. Hall (February 8, 1927 - March 16, 2012) was an American anthropologist specializing in the ethnohistory, ethnology, and archaeology of the Great Plains and Midwestern United States, the beliefs, rituals, and symbolisms of North American and Mesoamerican indigenous peoples, Mesoamerican calendar systems, and the history of Native American-European contacts.

Rubia

Rubia is a genus of the madder family Rubiaceae, which contains about 80 species of perennial scrambling or climbing herbs and sub-shrubs native to the Old World, Africa, temperate Asia and America.

Storm Bull

On March 2, 1939, he gave the first North American performance of Bartók's Second Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Frederick Stock.

The Halcyon Company

Warner Bros. acquired the North American distribution rights, allowing them to distribute the 4th Terminator film, Terminator Salvation.

Yu Guozhen

In 1894, the North American Presbyterian missionary John Farnham took holiday leave and returned home, handing over the pastoral responsibility of a Shanghai Presbyterian church congregation on Hanyang road to pastor Yu.


see also

2002–03 WCHL season

The 2002-03 West Coast Hockey League season was the eighth and last season of the West Coast Hockey League, a North American minor professional league.

2010 Men's World Floorball Championships Qualifying

The North American Qualifying rounds of the 2010 World Championships took place in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from February 5 to February 6, 2010.

Aberdeen Asset Management

The agreement has helped to keep the famous college rowing regatta in Philadelphia, the Group's North American headquarters.

Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions

It is also the founding North American Organizational Partner of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), a founding Partner of oneM2M, and a member of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL).

Anne Weightman

In May 1907, she commissioned Adolfo Müller-Ury to paint a portrait of Pope Pius X (now at the Graduate House at the North American College in Rome).

AOU Checklist of North American Birds

The AOU Checklist of North American Birds is a checklist of bird species found in North and Middle America published by the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU).

Baseball Ontario

On June 4, 1838, a year before Abner Doubleday was recognized with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York, two teams from Oxford and Zorra townships met in Beachville, Ontario in what is now known as the first documented game in North American history.

Betula populifolia

Like other North American birches, gray birch is highly resistant to the Bronze birch borer (Agrilus anxius).

Boyle Street, Edmonton

The area is ethnically diverse, with a large Chinese community (14.7% of the population in 2001), and Aboriginal descent (4.0% North American Indian, 1.2% Métis, 0.2% Inuit in 2001).

Canada–France relations

While the gradual conquest of New France by the British, culminating in Wolfe's victory at the Plains of Abraham in 1759, deprived France of her North American empire, the 'French of Canada' - Québécois or habitants, Acadians, Métis, and others - remained.

Center for Justice and Peacebuilding

As urged by founding director John Paul Lederach, CJP has sought to avoid imposing North American models on conflict resolution on the rest of the world; instead it advocates strategies suggested by “cues and patterns elicited by the culture in question,” preferably by people intimately connected to that culture.

Christian Bauman

Following his honorable discharge in 1995, Bauman spent the next few years writing and playing guitar on the North American folk circuit, both alone and as part of the group Camp Hoboken (which also included folksingers Gregg Cagno and Linda Sharar in its ranks).

Cindy Elavsky

She began working for Reed Brennan Media Associates in Orlando (a subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation, also linked to King Features/North American Syndicate) in 2001, working her way up from Proofreader to Assistant Managing Editor to Syndicate Editor.

Congress of St. Louis

Despite the plans for a united North American church, the result was division into several Continuing Anglican churches: the Anglican Catholic Church, the Anglican Province of Christ the King and the Anglican Catholic Church of Canada.

David Schow

Schow has also been a frequent contributor to DVD extras content (liner notes) for horror film distributors Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars, notably on the upcoming North American DVD release of Italian horror filmmaker Lucio Fulci's Cat in the Brain.

Doug Arnot

In 2006, the U.S. began hosting the Churchill Cup and the North American Four Series, which pitted Canada and the U.S. in cross-border competition.

Drift Reservoir

Although generally hosting only small numbers of birds, the reservoir has attracted a considerable number of North American vagrant shorebirds and wildfowl, including a number of Lesser Scaup.

Fall webworm

In the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, the AI Colonel, while infected by a computer virus, mentions that he was a North American Fall Webworm in his past life, reminiscing about how "those were the good old days."

Franco Brienza

In 2005, Brienza was called up to the Italian national team by Marcello Lippi and has been subsequently been capped during a North-American tour with the Azzurri, marking his debut in a 1–1 draw with Serbia and Montenegro at Rogers Centre, Toronto on 8 June 2005, substituted Giorgio Chiellini in the 64th minutes.

Gene Salvay

Salvay partnered with a fellow North American Aviation engineer Stark to design the Salvay-Stark Skyhopper in 1944.

Generation NEX

The console takes both the Japanese Famicom 60-pin and North American/European NES 72-pin cartridges used by Nintendo.

Goupil

René Goupil (1608–1642), French missionary, one of the first North American martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church

Gypsy horse

All of the North American Gypsy Horse and Drum Horse registries employ the Animal Genetics Research Laboratory of the University of Kentucky to perform DNA analysis and maintain a database of registered horses' DNA markers.

I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter

Also in 2009 Cilmi's "Warm This Winter" appeared in a TV ad for Orange Romania while in 2011 the track was utilized by Virgin Mobile in their North American TV ad campaign.

John A. Oremus

In 2008 the Oremus family sold Prairie Material to VCNA, the North American division of Votorantim.

John Joseph Braham, Sr.

In the early teens Edward S. Curtis (ethnographer, photographer, and soon to be film maker whose major subject was the North American Indian) commissioned Braham to compose a score for In the Land of the Head Hunters.

Le dernier sorcier

The work was largely forgotten until January 2005 when the University of Calgary staged its North American premiere using the French libretto and the version of the score for chamber orchestra that had been used at the 1869 gala performance in the Théâtre du Thiergarten, which Žekulin reconstructed from Viardot's papers at Harvard University.

Lloyd Robertson

Robertson has outlasted Kirck, the late Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Tom Brokaw, and the late Peter Jennings to become the longest-serving network news anchor in television history; he is also one of the longest-serving news anchors on English-language North American television (network or local) along with KTRK-TV (Houston)'s Dave Ward, WNBC (New York)'s Chuck Scarborough and KING-TV (Seattle)'s Jean Enersen.

Marcelo Bonevardi

Bonevardi's work has been collected by many leading North American and Latin American museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes and the Museo de Arte Moderno in Buenos Aires; the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade in São Paulo; and the Museo Rufino Tamayo in Mexico City.

Mark Kayser

Mark continues to write a Whitetail Bowhunting column for Bowhunt America, and remains the Whitetail columnist and the conservation editor for North American Hunter to this day.

Matt Iorio

2005 saw Matt Iorio winning the Rally America Open Class Championship as well as the North American Rally Cup (NARC).

Melville, New York

Around 2002 Swiss International Air Lines's North American headquarters moved from Melville to Uniondale in the town of Hempstead.

Michael Hui

He would make a rare North American film appearance as the Subaru mechanic/engineer with Jackie Chan in the Burt Reynolds comedy The Cannonball Run.

NABL

North American League, official name North American Baseball League, American organisation

Nikolay Rumyantsev

As a result, his name came to be attached to such exotic things as Spiranthes romanzoffiana, a North American orchid, Papilio rumanzovia, a large butterfly from the Philippines, and was, between 1812 and 1842 the Russian name (залив Румянцева) for present day Bodega Bay, California.

No Joy

The rest of 2011 saw more North American touring, supporting Vivian Girls, and then a co-headline with Marnie Stern, with whom the band released a split single (No Joy contributing "He Cried", a Shangri-Las cover).

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.

North American Light and Power Company

The North American Light and Power Company was a utility holding company formed in South Bend, Indiana and run since 1916 by its President, Clement Studebaker, Jr., of the family famous for the Studebaker automobiles.

Official Live Bootleg/The Beard Is out There

The original North American release consisted of the four tracks from the band's debut album The Light, with the fifth song, "Thoughts" coming from their second album, Beware of Darkness.

Orion Electric

For the North American market, Orion used to manufacture many televisions and VCRs for Emerson Radio during the 80s and 90s for 10 years, but Emerson Radio went bankrupt, and it was brought up by Funai in 2000, which Funai still owns today.

Pacific herring

Along the North American Pacific Coast, some of the principal areas are San Francisco Bay, Richardson Bay, Tomales Bay and Humboldt Bay.

Pecan Grove Press

Other notable poets include Vince Gotera, editor of North American Review; Marian Haddad; Edward Byrne, well known for his "One Poet's Notes" blog; Olga Samples Davis; Wendy Barker, winner of two Violet Crown awards from the Texas League of Writers; Gwyn McVay; award-winning poet, essayist and dramatist David Brendan Hopes; Cyra S. Dumitru; Colin Morton, award-winning Canadian poet; Bonnie Lyons; and Joel Peckham.

Populus tremula

It can be distinguished from the closely related North American Populus tremuloides by the leaves being more coarsely toothed.

Project Shangri-La

On the North American and European releases, the bonus track is a song called, "Romeo and Juliet", a song which was recorded during the sessions for Lane's 2000 album, Secrets of Astrology and already appeared as the bonus track on the North American and Japanese release for that album.

Puff adder

Heterodon, a genus of harmless North American colubrid snakes

Sampson Simson

In 1888, the New York State Supreme Court decided that the sum, plus thirty years' interest, was to be paid to the North American Relief Society for Indigent Jews in Jerusalem.

Spoonwood

Kalmia latifolia, a North American plant known as mountain laurel and numerous other names emphasizing its poisonous nature, such as lambkill, kill-kid, and calf-kill.

Spotted cutworm

Xestia dolosa, also known as Woodland Spotted Cutworm, of the North American Greater Black-letter Dart moth

Vicki Noon

Noon departed S.F. on March 7, 2010, and replaced Marcie Dodd as the lead Elphaba on the second North American Tour from April 6, 2010.

Worthless United

In 2003 Worthless United released "A Nation Under" on Now Or Never Records and followed the release by touring across all of North American with bands such as The Bouncing Souls, Hot Water Music, Bigwig, Catch 22, and River City Rebels.