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	South America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South America is a continent situated in the western hemisphere and, mostly, the southern hemisphere, bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by the Atlantic Ocean; North America and the Caribbean Sea lie to the northwest.
		South America is generally considered a continent forming the southern portion of the American landmass, south and east of the Panama Canal transecting the Isthmus of Panama.
		The Andes, likewise a comparatively young and seismically restless mountain range, run down the western edge of the continent; the land to the east of the Andes is largely tropical rain forest, the vast Amazon River basin.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South-American (2551 words)

	North America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		North America is a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost fully in the western hemisphere.
		It is the third-largest continent in area, after Asia and Africa, and is fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.
		The Central American nations, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and the other South American countries where Romance languages prevail, namely Spanish, Portuguese and French, are referred to as Latin America.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_America (1491 words)

	Toward a Common Destiny on the American Continent
		an infusion of the soil of this continent.
		Not surprisingly, the Pan Americanism that had begun to flourish during her youth — that is, the ideal of political and cultural unity between Latin America and Anglo America — appealed to her, and moved her to champion this dream throughout her life.
		Reiterating the theme of continental community articulated in her 1931 Pan American pledge, Mistral used the Lord's Prayer as an example of proper collective plurality, because it "begins and ends in a plural as round and unqualified as the blow of a hammer or the piercing phrases of the litanies" (303).
	www.uhmc.sunysb.edu /surgery/mistral.html (3212 words)

	American Imperialism in the Philippines
		A. The American administration of the Philippines was a completely new experience for the nation that was once itself colonized by another nation.
		Americans believed that it was their destiny to encompass the entire North American continent (Lubbrage 1).
		He envisioned in America’s future, the “defence of humanity, of the oppressed of all nations, of the rights of conscience, the rights of personal enfranchisement.” He believed that America was the chosen country to do this, as it did not have a history of conflict except in the defense of its freedom (O’Sullivan paragraph 4).
	www.solowey.net /american_imperialism_in_the_phil.htm (3589 words)

	The secret of the symbol American
		American aristocracy cries that we need illegal immigrants to do the jobs that Americans are will not do.
		Americans have become their own worst enemies by swallowing the bait - hook, line and sinker - of the bait and switch shenanigans of American aristocracy, thus allowing corporate and government institutions to dictate the mode, manner and way in which each individual American life is to be lived.
		American heads are buried so deep in the muck that Americans do not even see that all we espouse, compared to our actions, makes us hypocritical fools with the pedal to the metal driving at breakneck speed toward a chasm of abysmal depth and spirtual darkness.
	www.unique-design.net /library/word/american.html (929 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: America
		The distribution of the American population at the time of Columbus is, of course, not known from personal observation, but it may be approximately reconstructed from information gathered after America began to be visited by Europeans.
		For nearly a century after Columbus, the Spaniards who had first right to baptize the continent, having been its first European occupants, persisted in calling their vast American possessions the "Western Indies." That name was justifiable in so far as the discovery occurred when they were in search of Asia.
		The European nations which settled the continent of America after its discovery by Columbus, and exerted the greatest influence on the civilization of the New World, were principally five.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01409c.htm (8250 words)

	American Chronicle: Saint Patricks Batallion: Mexican War Heros (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Of 8,497 Americans engaged in the almost continuous battles of Contreras and Churubusco, 131 were killed, 865 wounded, and about 40 missing.
		American losses were 138 killed and 673 wounded during the siege of the fortress.
		American Chronicle is a trademark of Ultio LLC.
	www.americanchronicle.com /articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=6987 (2889 words)

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		April 14 - Pan American Day is celebrated annually as a "commemorative symbol of the American nations and the voluntary union of all in one continental community" marking the anniversary of the day in 1890 when this union was established.
		Each year Pan American Day and Pan American Week are designated by official proclamations throughout the Western Hemisphere as the occasion on which Americans of all ages and nationalities can strengthen the bonds of friendship and understanding that unite the peoples of the 24 American nations.
		The observance of Pan American Day by government leaders, as well as by educational institutions, clubs, commercial associations and other groups, and its recognition by the press and radio, convey its message of solidarity to young and old throughout the Continent.
	www.oas.org /columbus/PanAmericanDay.asp (482 words)

	North American continent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The brown area shows the part of the North American continent that has been stable for over 600 million years.
		Continents also grow when oceanic crust is scraped off oceanic plates as they sink in subduction zones.
		The purple area fringing the stable continental core is made up of older Precambrian basement that was deformed during plate collisions that occurred within the last 600 million years.
	www2.nature.nps.gov /geology/usgsnps/pltec/nacraton.html (206 words)

	Nature and the American Identity
		From Jamestown and Plymouth Plantation to the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and the subsequent expedition of Lewis and Clark, to Turner's "Frontier Thesis" at the Columbian Exposition of 1893, the geography and ecology of the American continent was the center of debate among Americans.
		In an essay entitled "The Cultural Significance of the American Wilderness," Roderick Nash notes that early settlers in the New World were not Americans at all, but transplanted Europeans who regarded the land as a spiritual and physical void which had to conquered and civilized in the name of Christianity and progress.
		American Romantics also drew their inspiration from painter John Turner and authors such as William Wordsworth, each of whom involved the spectator or reader as a participant in the dynamic experience of nature instead of maintaining an objective distance to the natural world in their portrayals.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/NATURE/cap2.html (2709 words)

	BUFFALO / BISON
		Their number being so great that the early explorers could not count them, describing them as "number-numberless," and "the country was one fl robe" and the "plains were fl and appeared as if in motion" with the herds of bison.
		On December 8, 1905, the American Bison Society was formed with William Hornaday as president and Theodore Roosevelt as honorary president.
		The legendary strength and endurance of the Native Plains American are perhaps testimony to the extraordinary nutritional values acquired from a diet that depended upon a constant supply of bison meat.
	www.americanwest.com /critters/buffindx.htm (2455 words)

	Ancient American: Archaeology of the Americas before Columbus
		The purpose of Ancient American magazine is to describe the prehistory of the American Continent, regardless of presently fashionable beliefs--- to provide a public forum for certified experts and nonprofessionals alike to freely express their views without fear nor favor.
		The purpose of Ancient American magazine is to describe the prehistory of the American Continent, regardless of presently fashionable belief-systems, and provide a public forum for certified experts and nonprofessionals alike to freely express their views without fear nor favor.
		Ancient American writers and artists appeal as much to the imagination as to the intellect in the conviction that mankind's past belongs to all inhabitants of the Earth; it is not the exclusive property of establishment academics.
	www.ancientamerican.com (783 words)

	About the U.S.
		During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the original 13 as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions.
		American Association of Museums - AAM is the only organization representing the entire scope of museums and professionals and nonpaid staff who work for and with museums.
		The central role of information in American society harks back to a fundamental belief held by the framers of the U.S. Constitution: that a well-informed people is the strongest guardian of its own liberties.
	www.american-embassy.pt /AboutTheUS.html (1507 words)

	Collections \| American Continent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Many American artists of the first half of the 20th century determined that the defining feature of the American experience was the relationship of the individual to the vast and varied landscape of the North American continent.
		Inspired by such American poets of nature as Emerson and Whitman, American artists began to explore the regional divisions of the country.
		The decade of the 1930s witnessed the dispersal of artists across the country to celebrate the rural precincts where they had grown up, to discover primitive parts of the country where old ways were preserved, and to record the distinctive flavor of local customs, folklore and landscape.
	www.wichitaartmuseum.org /miab/continent.html (597 words)

	Civil Rights - Law and History/American Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		American Indians are those peoples who were on the North American continent before the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492.
		American Indians are also a racial group who sometimes face discrimination the same as African Americans do.
		American Indians are citizens of the United States and of the States where they live.
	www.usdoj.gov /kidspage/crt/indian.htm (712 words)

	Reading American Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Students of American Studies are keen to know more about America and to consider the influence of the most powerful nation in the world.
		American Studies is the study of the culture and history of the North American continent and this programme offers the opportunity to understand the nature of America, its cultural, historical and literary traditions.
		American Studies students are encouraged to take up the opportunities available at UCW to experience America first hand by studying for a semester in the United States.
	www.americansc.org.uk /Eccles/worcester.htm (522 words)

	The Buffalo Harvest
		Between the gold rush and the Civil War, Americans in growing numbers filled the Mississippi River valley, Texas, the southwest territories, and the new states of Kansas and Nebraska.
		The North American Plains Indians were essentially big-game hunters, the buffalo being a primary source of food and material which was used for clothing, shelter, tools and religious icons.
		By the 1860s, American Indian policy included several key principles, such as the treaty system with its recognition of the "red man's" rights to land, regulation of trade through various Indian Trade and Intercourse Acts, and promotion of civilization and education.
	www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/ice/buffalo.htm (3024 words)

	Immigration...Native American: Destroying Cultures
		When European settlers arrived on the North American continent at the end of the fifteenth century, they encountered diverse Native American cultures—as many as 900,000 inhabitants with over 300 different languages.
		These people, whose ancestors crossed the land bridge from Asia in what may be considered the first North American immigration, were virtually destroyed by the subsequent immigration that created the United States.
		Congress passes the Removal Act, forcing Native Americans to leave the United States and settle in the Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/immig/native_american.html (562 words)

	Book Reviews - Here: A Biography of the New American Continent.
		Canada and Mexico, though still distinctive, are becoming more American and the United States is beginning to pay more attention to its northern and southern neighbours.
		He reports to Americans on their neighbours and informs them that the three countries can no longer exist as islands.
		George W. Bush, the first president during the new North American age, is far less popular among Canadians than Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy who were in office when Canada, according to DePalma, spent much of its energy opposing continental integration and distinguishing itself from the United States.
	www.quasar.ualberta.ca /css/Css_38_2/BRnew_american_continent.htm (1060 words)

	Our Changing Continent
		Examinations of older and older rocks show that in the earlier periods, the land areas of the North American Continent were much smaller and were largely confined to central and northern Canada.
		Such spectacular actions by nature in building continents are combined with the less noticeable processes of erosion and deposition that have gradually shaped and changed the face of the North American Continent and the entire planet throughout geologic time.
		As these thin plates of oceanic and continental crust move, they change the positions of the continent; the theory that describes their formation, movement, and destruction is called plate tectonics.
	pubs.usgs.gov /gip/continents/index.html (2805 words)

	Atlantic floor destined to slip under North American continent
		MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL--It won't happen overnight, but eventually, the floor of the Atlantic Ocean will plunge beneath the North American continent, forming a deep trench about 2,000 miles long and possibly generating volcanoes, according to research at the University of Minnesota and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
		The push comes from the middle of the Atlantic, where undersea mountains are rising and exerting pressure on the rock, driving it toward North America.
		Yuen's colleagues in the study were Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, a research assistant at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Joy Branlund, who at the time was a graduate student at the University of Minnesota.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2001-10/uom-afd101701.php (547 words)

	Human Rights Brief - Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law - Washington College of Law
		In the American continent, the Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, proclaimed in Bogotá in 1948, eight months before the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, clearly stipulates a link between human rights and democracy.
		When the General Assembly met in 1991 in Santiago, Chile, it was the first time in the history of the continent that all Latin American countries, with the exception of Cuba, had democratically-elected presidents.
		Indigenous peoples and Afro-Latin Americans increasingly lack a sense of belonging, and women are faced with a negligible level of political representation.
	www.wcl.american.edu /hrbrief/11/3picado.cfm (3310 words)

	The History Guy: The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848)
		First, the desire of the U.S. to expand across the North American continent to the Pacific Ocean caused conflict with all of its neighbors; from the British in Canada and Oregon to the Mexicans in the southwest and, of course, with the Native Americans.
		By the time President Polk came to office in 1845, an idea called "Manifest Destiny" had taken root among the American people, and the new occupant of the White House was a firm believer in the idea of expansion.
		As American forces penetrated into the Mexican heartland, some of the defending forces resorted to guerrilla tactics to harass the invaders, but these irregular forces did not greatly influence the outcome of the war.
	www.historyguy.com /Mexican-American_War.html (2331 words)

	Thermal and compositional anomalies beneath the North American continent
		The thermal and compositional structure of the upper mantle beneath the North American continent is investigated using a joint inversion of seismic velocities and density perturbations.
		The density data are estimated using a relative density-to-shear velocity scaling factor computed for continents by combining regionally filtered seismic and gravity data.
		Below the North American craton, the mantle is colder than average and depleted in iron.
	www.agu.org /pubs/crossref/2004/2002JB002263.shtml (326 words)

	Online NewsHour: North America - September 4, 2001
		We don't usually write biographies of places, and the new American continent is still so new that maybe its biography should be a pamphlet instead of a full-length book.
		This North American identity, or this Americanization, is...
		It's not by accident that all of the other nations, all of the other Democratic nations, with the exception of Cuba, which is not a democratic nation, want desperately to have the same access to the market in the United States that Mexico has.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/conversation/july-dec01/depalma_9-04.html (1180 words)

	Summary of Native American Religions
		The history of American religions is dominated by the presence of Christianity brought to the New World by European settlers.
		Armed with technologically advanced weapons, diseases which were foreign to the continent, and a concept known as Manifest Destiny, European settlers began an assault on the North American Continent the result of which was nothing short of genocide.
		While the Iroquois Nation was the strongest Native American civilization east of the Mississippi river, their integration into the dominant white culture went relatively smooth compared to most other instances of integration among the native tribes of North America.
	are.as.wvu.edu /ruvolo.htm (3148 words)

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