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unusual facts about United States and Canada


United States and Canada

Anglo-America, however that term is sometimes used to include all the English-speaking countries of the Americas.


Great Bend High School

Great Bend High School is a public high school located in Great Bend, Kansas, serving students in grades 9-12.


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ACTL

The American College of Trial Lawyers, a professional association of trial lawyers from the United States and Canada

American Men and Women of Science

American Men and Women of Science is a biographical reference on leading scientists in the United States and Canada published as a series of books and online by Gale, a unit of Cengage Learning.

Apertura and Clausura

The North American Soccer League (NASL), the second-level league in both the United States and Canada, adopted a split season in 2013; the season is divided into a "Spring Championship" and "Fall Championship".

APGA

American Public Gardens Association, an association of public-garden institutions and professionals primarily in the United States and Canada

Areas of Concern

Great Lakes Areas of Concern managed under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement between the United States and Canada

Befriended

The album was released on 25 August 2003 in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Agenda and on 2 September 2003 in the United States and Canada by Badman Recording Co. (see 2003 in music).

Certificate of Attendance

In the United States and Canada, a certificate of attendance is a certificate given to students who complete the K-12 (kindergarten through 12th grade) program but do not meet the requirements for the high school diploma or the modified diploma.

Christian Reformed Church

Christian Reformed Church in North America, a Protestant Christian denomination in the United States and Canada

Corinne Malvern

in the American premiere of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly in the role of the child "Dolore" ("Sorrow," or "Trouble" in English), Butterfly's son, in front of an audience that included the Viscount Aoki, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, and John Luther Long, author of the novella on which the opera was based, on October 15, 1907, and subsequently toured with the production across the United States and Canada.

Corner kick

Megan Rapinoe of the United States Women's National Soccer Team scored an Olympic goal direct from a corner kick in the semifinal match between the United States and Canada in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Dan Dotson

Dotson is also co-creator of and chief advisor to Storage Treasures, an internet portal focusing on providing self-storage auction listings throughout the United States and Canada.

Disney Store

From November 21, 2004 until May 1, 2008, Disney Stores in the United States and Canada were owned and operated by Hoop Retail Stores, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Children's Place, LLC.

Disney's Sequoia Lodge

Surrounding the hotel are thousands of trees which were imported from the West Coasts of the United States and Canada, among with hundreds of Sequoias.

Ed Donovan

He has lectured at venues including West Point, Harvard University, University of Notre Dame, FBI National Academy and several other local and state law enforcement agencies throughout the United States and Canada.

Eleanor Flexner

Eleanor’s father, Abraham Flexner (1866-1959), was a leader in several fields including, with his brother Simon Flexner at the Rockefeller Institute, the reform of early 20th-century medical education and medical research in the United States and Canada.

ExploraVision

ExploraVision is a scientific national contest held in the United States and Canada, a joint project by Toshiba Corporation and the National Science Teachers Association.

Ferdinand Piëch

Hahn's previous efforts to regain market share in the United States and Canada — which he had built up as the head of Volkswagen of America from 1958 to 1965 — were unsuccessful, but Piëch helped reverse VW's fortunes by the decision to manufacture the Volkswagen New Beetle, the introduction of which in 1998 gave Volkswagen of America a much needed impulse.

Give Your Heart a Break

In the video, it was revealed that the music video would premiere on April 2, 2012 on E! News in the United States and Canada, with the worldwide premiere on April 3, 2012 on VEVO.

Gwhyneth Chen

Ms Chen has collaborated with David Atherton and the Hong Kong Philharmonic on a tour of the United States and Canada, with Vladmir Fedoseyev and the Moscow Radio Symphony throughout North America and Mexico, and completed a tour of Taiwan with the Russian Philharmonic under Vladimir Ponkin.

Hershey bar

As a result, the Hershey flavor is widely recognized in the United States and Canada, but less so internationally, in particular in areas where European chocolates are more widely available.

Honorary title

Honorary title (academic), primarily exists in Britain as well as some universities and colleges in the United States and Canada

Kuniyoshi Obara

Once his multi-generation campus was completed, he opened additional Tamagawa Gakuen in Japan, the United States and Canada, with campuses in Los Angeles (1930), Kugenuma (1933), Kushi (1948) and Nanaimo (1976).

Leslie Marshall

After KLAC flipped to music, Marshall hosted her own show for a year on WWKB in Buffalo, New York, a 50,000 watt powerhouse heard throughout the northeastern United States and Canada.

Mennonite Publication Board

It served as the overseeing board for the printing and sale of denominational texts, operating the Mennonite Publishing House in Scottdale along with several bookstores throughout the United States and Canada, until 2002.

Muslim Interscholastic Tournament

The Muslim Inter-Scholastic Tournament (MIST) consists of annual Regional Tournaments for high school students in the United States and Canada that take place in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, DC, Philadelphia, New York City, Florida, Houston, Southern California, and Toronto.

NEC Corporation of America

In October 1986 NEC formed a joint venture with Honeywell, HNSX Supercomputers, to sell NEC's supercomputers in the United States and Canada.

Neustar

Within the United States and Canada, Neustar administrates the North American Numbering Plan, the authoritative directories that manage virtually all telephone area codes and numbers, and enables the routing of calls among thousands of competing communications service providers (CSPs).

Niagara Region

Buffalo Niagara Region, including area in both the United States and Canada

Nissan 300ZX

In 1995 and 1996, Steve Millen Motorsports (Stillen), co-developed a number of limited production Nissan 300zx Twin Turbo vehicles with Nissan North America that were sold throughout the United States and Canada through designated Nissan dealerships.

Opel Antara

GM in the United States and Canada introduced the Opel Antara as part of the Saturn division under the name "Saturn Vue" in 2007 for the 2008 model year.

Paddy Wallace

Over the summer he played in the United States and Canada in the Barclays Churchill Cup with the Ireland A team playing at out-half in all three of Ireland's games, the wins over USA and England Saxons and the defeat to the New Zealand Māori.

Picard, Dominica

The Ross University School of Medicine, part of DeVry University, is located in Picard and has over 1,000 students mainly from the United States and Canada.

Pig and Bear

Created while at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University, the film is being distributed across the United States and Canada as part of North Country Cinema's TELEGRAMS from the New Canadian Cinema.

Rick Mofina

As a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, the International Crime Writers Association, the Crime Writers' Association and Crime Writers of Canada, Rick continues to be a featured panelist at mystery conferences across the United States and Canada.

Sam Boulmetis, Sr.

The winner of numerous important races, Boulmetis won the Arlington Classic twice and the prestigious Washington, D.C. International Stakes and Canadian International Stakes, forerunners to the Breeders' Cup races which drew the best horses to the United States and Canada from around the world.

SEAC

Student Environmental Action Coalition, a coalition of environmental groups in the United States and Canada

Security and safety features new to Windows Vista

An administrator may choose from only one of different game rating services: ESRB (United States and Canada).

Serbian Orthodox Diocese v. Milivojevich

The bishop of the Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the United States and Canada was defrocked after being investigated for claims of misconduct.

Shabu-shabu

Together with sukiyaki, shabu-shabu is a common dish in tourist hot-spots, especially in Tokyo, but also in local Japanese neighborhoods (colloquially called "Little Tokyos") in countries such as the United States and Canada.

SIOR

Over 200 brokers from across the United States and Canada surveyed suitable facilities and reported their findings to the War Department (now the Department of Defense).

Sioux language

Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and Canada, making it the fifth most spoken indigenous language in the United States or Canada, behind Navajo, Cree, Inuit and Ojibwe.

Theodore William Dwight

Dwight was particularly interested in prison reform; he collaborated on A Report on Prisons and Reformatories in the United States and Canada (1867), served as president of the New York Prison Association, and was a delegate to the International Prison Congress at Stockholm in 1878.

Thrangu Rinpoche

He founded Thrangu House in Oxford, England, in 1981, then in the United States and Canada, he established centres in Crestone, Colorado, Maine, California, Vancouver and Edmonton.

TJ Galiardi

Galiardi, a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, chose to represent Team USA and initially attended USA Hockey's 2007 evaluation camp in Lake Placid, New York but was unable to gain selection to the 2007 World Junior Championships.

U-boat

Later, when the United States entered the war, the U-boats ranged from the Atlantic coast of the United States and Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Arctic to the west and southern African coasts and even as far east as Penang.

United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps

Additionally, their bugles are two-valved models similar to those used by drum corps in the United States and Canada prior to 1990.

University Health Network

Parking is provided through a private company Standard Parking Corporation (NASDAQ: STAN) that provides parking facility management for more than one million parking spaces in hundreds of cities across the United States and Canada.

Vodou Adjae

It is distributed in the United States and Canada by Mango, a division of Island Records.