• The southern continent of the Americas, South America is bordered on the east and north by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the northwest by the Caribbean Sea and North America. (answers.com)
  • South America may not have all the proper facilities for hosting. (answers.com)
  • Cortez and Pizarro claimed land in south america for spain in the 1500s. (answers.com)
  • The Sumu and Rama are indigenous people who probably originated in South America . (encyclopedia.com)
  • The term "indigenous" refers to people who not only have ancestors who came from Central or South America but who self-consciously identify themselves with a specific indigenous group or tribe, speak the language, and practice the customs of that group. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Adventure awaits the LGBTIQ+ traveler in South America: here are the 4 most LGBTIQ+ friendly cities to explore in 2022. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • Lonely Planet writers based in South America share their experiences as COVID-19 begins to impact the region. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • Native American Medicine , part of the Indians of North America series, describes how Native Americans established their own methods of treating illness and disease before the first Europeans landed in 1492. (gale.com)
  • Lotto America is an American multi-state lottery game that began in 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • each of the 13 members of Lotto America offered Hot Lotto when it ended on October 28, 2017. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2017, Global Network Perspectives found that Latin America was the second most enterprising region in the world , and that was before the explosion of tech-enabled startups, a category that tripled in the past four years and multiplied its value 32 times in the past decade to reach $221 billion in 2020 according to a study from IDB Lab . (forbes.com)
  • View some of our proudest moments in 2023, and help us continue our work in the North Texas Region in the new year. (redcross.org)
  • 20 November 2019 - OECD and INDECOPI launch new regional centre to provide capacity building assistance and policy advice for competition officials in Latin America. (oecd.org)
  • Many thousands of years after the first people arrived in North America between 5000 and 2000 b.c., the Mayan empire first began to develop along the Caribbean coast, and eventually its influence spread through a network of city-states that stretched from present-day southern Mexico into Honduras, just north of Nicaragua. (encyclopedia.com)
  • the film industries of Cuba is normally considered part of Latin American cinema. (wikipedia.org)
  • Check out these seven lesser-known Latin American cities that live and breathe art. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • This newsletter reports on the activities of the Centre and shares regional experiences and recent developments from the economies in the Latin American and Caribbean region. (oecd.org)
  • Most of these reviews were performed during the meetings of the Latin American Competition Forum which are held every year in a different country in Latin America and the Caribbean. (oecd.org)
  • Through the example of a existing psychoanalytic analysis, the article highlights part of the difficulties involved in the development of one's own thinking and, more specifically, of a psychology adjusted to Latin American reality. (bvsalud.org)
  • One of the original 13 colonies, North Carolina was the first state to instruct its delegates to vote for independence from the British crown during the Continental Congress . (history.com)
  • Following the Revolutionary War , North Carolina developed an extensive slave plantation system and became a major exporter of cotton and tobacco, although the enslaved population remained relatively small compared to other southern states. (history.com)
  • In 1861, North Carolina became one of 11 states to secede from the United States, beginning the American Civil War . (history.com)
  • Despite no major battles being fought in the state, North Carolina sent more recruits to fight for the Confederacy than any other rebel state. (history.com)
  • People began living in the area now known as North Carolina at least 12,000 years ago . (history.com)
  • Scores of Native Americans were displaced from North Carolina or killed by smallpox and other diseases brought by the settlers. (history.com)
  • Skirmishes between colonists and indigenous people eventually led to the Tuscarora War , which began in 1711 when the Tuscarora people attacked colonial settlements in North Carolina, attempting to drive out colonists backed by the Yamasee tribe. (history.com)
  • Starting in the early 1700s, the Cherokee people in North Carolina were forced to cede large portions of their land to American colonists. (history.com)
  • In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act , and five years later about 17,000 Cherokee were forcibly moved from North Carolina to present-day Oklahoma on what became known as the Trail of Tears . (history.com)
  • After several hundred Cherokee refused to leave North Carolina, the American government established a reservation for the Eastern Band of Cherokee. (history.com)
  • Today, there are eight federally-recognized Native American tribes in North Carolina, including the Coharie, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Haliwa-Saponi, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, the Meherrin, the Sappony, the Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation and the Waccamaw Siouan. (history.com)
  • Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto landed in North Carolina in the 1540s but left without staking a claim. (history.com)
  • In 1584, explorers traveling for the English adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh arrived at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and the first English settlement was established there in 1585. (history.com)
  • A northern colony was established in the county of Albemarle in 1664, followed by a southern colony with its own government at Charles Town (now Charlestown, South Carolina ) in 1670, and North Carolina and South Carolina were officially divided in 1712. (history.com)
  • In the 17th century, North Carolina residents became angered by the navigation acts, which imposed taxes on colonial goods. (history.com)
  • To retaliate against the taxes and abuse of power flaunted by the customs collector and deputy governor, Thomas Miller, a group of about 40 North Carolina rebels imprisoned Miller and seized control of the local government in 1677. (history.com)
  • The Bank of America Merit Scholarship is available to students at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. (fastweb.com)
  • The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of North Carolina, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and Southern Coalition for Social Justice are suing the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) for indefinitely revoking driver's licenses of people who cannot afford to pay traffic tickets. (aclu.org)
  • More than 15 percent of North Carolina residents live in poverty. (aclu.org)
  • Yet, North Carolina routinely subjects impoverished people to indefinite revocation of their driver's licenses for no reason other than nonpayment of fines and costs imposed for traffic offenses without ensuring ability to pay. (aclu.org)
  • North Carolina statute requires the automatic revocation of licenses for nonpayment of a traffic ticket 40 days after a court judgment. (aclu.org)
  • The lawsuit was filed in in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. (aclu.org)
  • December 2022 - The latest release of the newsletter of the OECD Regional Centre for Competition in Latin America is out. (oecd.org)
  • Bordered on the north by Honduras , on the south by Costa Rica , on the east by the Caribbean Sea , and on the west by the Pacific Ocean , Nicaragua is Central America 's largest nation. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The Gar í funa, known historically as the "Black Karibs," are the descendants of escaped African slaves and Karib Indians who intermarried on the island of St. Vincent, where they lived until the British transported them forcibly to the Caribbean coast of Central America in 1796. (encyclopedia.com)
  • More than 50 countries across the world host Carnival, but it's in Latin America and the Caribbean that you will find its beating heart. (lonelyplanet.com)
  • However, the North American terminal automation market is likely to witness a slow compound annual growth of 5.5 percent from 2013-2020 as capital expenditure for automation is lower than for upstream exploration and downstream refinery operations. (prnewswire.com)
  • New analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Analysis of the North American Terminal Automation Market , finds that the market earned revenues of $110.5 million in 2013 and estimates this to reach $160.4 million in 2020. (prnewswire.com)
  • As of 2020, IDB Lab found that two sectors represented 72% of the ecosystem value in Latin America: fintech and e-commerce. (forbes.com)
  • Published in Poem-a-Day on February 25, 2020 by the Academy of American Poets. (poets.org)
  • In 2020, she was the John G. Winant Visiting Professor of American Government at the Rothermere Institute at the University of Oxford. (lu.se)
  • In 2020 she received the Norton Long Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association's Urban and Local Politics Section. (lu.se)
  • Eight European/Palaearctic species (Oligella foveolata (Allibert), Ptiliolum fuscum (Erichson), Ptiliola kunzei (Heer), Ptinella aptera (Guerin-Meneville), P. britannica Matthews, P. Johnsoni Rutanen, Acrotrichis parva Rosskothen, A. silvatica Rosskothen) were previously not recorded on the North American continent. (lu.se)
  • This volume explores how that contact lead to lethal epidemics for the Native American population. (gale.com)
  • In addition to physical cures, Native American Medicine delves into traditional techniques for restoring emotional and spiritual well-being. (gale.com)
  • He has made several trips to North America, where he has documented impressions with his camera, including Native American culture. (lu.se)
  • His trips have taken him to old Native American territories in the American Mid-West and western Canada and to places like the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone, sites that have long been sacred to Native Americans. (lu.se)
  • Place plays an important role in Native American spirituality. (lu.se)
  • He was deeply moved by a number of Native American sacred sites, which are often in inaccessible locations off the usual tourist trail. (lu.se)
  • Modern Native American spirituality is reflected in the major festivities that are often organised around the Fourth of July, known as pow-wows. (lu.se)
  • The resource also examines how Native Americans adapted European methods for fighting disease and how they also imparted their age-old natural remedies to explorers and settlers. (gale.com)
  • Originally published in Poem-a-Day on April 5, 2021, by the Academy of American Poets. (poets.org)
  • The population grows 3.4 percent each year, according to the Inter-American Development Bank. (encyclopedia.com)
  • The Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD have collaborated on a series of reviews of competition law and policy regimes in Latin America since 2003. (oecd.org)
  • Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi . (medscape.com)
  • Among the three top destinations in each subregion, Gambia and Ghana, both in West Africa, saw the greatest one-year increases in American students' studying abroad. (chronicle.com)
  • US 'Arab American News' newspaper said that US hard-line radio stations are some of the main platforms to attack Muslims in the US. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Native Americans attacked settlements, while colonists enslaved indigenous people, seized their lands and took advantage of them in trading negotiations. (history.com)
  • The American Red Cross North Florida Region serves approximately 3.8 million residents in 35 counties. (redcross.org)
  • In the United States, Chagas disease is primarily a disease of immigrants from endemic areas of Latin America. (cdc.gov)
  • Christer Lindberg has taken an interest in contact between the Native Americans and European immigrants as well as in American Indian religious myths. (lu.se)
  • Anthologies on Poets.org may not be curated by the Academy of American Poets staff. (poets.org)
  • Today, the Academy of American Poets sponsors over two hundred annual poetry prizes at colleges and universities across the U.S, and has awarded cash prizes to nearly ten thousand student poets since the program's inception. (poets.org)
  • She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Social Insurance. (lu.se)
  • The American Red Cross North Texas Region serves a population of more than nine million people in 121 counties and is made up of six local chapters including DFW Metro East, DFW Metro West, Texas Panhandle Plains, East Texas, Northeast Texas and Texas Big Country. (redcross.org)
  • The North Texas Region collects life-saving blood donations as well as provides disaster support, health and safety training, Service to the Armed Forces and International Services. (redcross.org)
  • Britain, Italy, and Spain were the top destinations for American students who received credit for study abroad in 2015-16. (chronicle.com)
  • North Korea says it will not invite any prominent U.S. figure to seek the release of an imprisoned American, and will not use him as a bargaining chip in any political negotiations. (voanews.com)
  • The Multi-State Lottery Associations' rapidly growing population base resulted in the replacement of Lotto America in April 1992 with Powerball . (wikipedia.org)
  • to beat it Brooks recruited college players who were superior skaters and put them through an arduous six-month training regimen that included 60 exhibition games in Europe and North America. (chicagoreader.com)
  • A tabulated summary of ptiliid species common to North America and either Europe or the Palaearctic is presented. (lu.se)
  • North Carolina's wealth-based license revocation system impacts hundreds of thousands of people each year, preventing them from driving legally to support themselves and their families. (aclu.org)
  • People feel themselves to be Native Americans, but are not officially regarded as such. (lu.se)
  • Several states joined the Multi-State Lottery Association during the era of Lotto America. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the founding members of the Multi-State Lottery Association composed the original lineup for Lotto America. (wikipedia.org)
  • Korean-American tour operator Kenneth Bae was arrested in the North Korean city of Rason in November and charged with plotting to overthrow the state. (voanews.com)
  • A spokesman for the North Korean foreign ministry told the state-run Korean Central News Agency Sunday that American media had been speculating that Pyongyang would use the prisoner for political gain. (voanews.com)
  • New continental, national, provincial and state records of 34 species of Ptiliidae reported from North America are briefly listed, 20 of which belong to Acrotrichis Motschulsky. (lu.se)
  • [1] He coached 44 Academic All-Americans and 84 first team All-Americans in his 27 years as Dayton's head coach. (wikipedia.org)
  • Several Americans have been held in the North in recent years and then freed after visits by high-profile Americans such as former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. (voanews.com)
  • In 2009, two television journalists were detained and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor after crossing into the North from China. (voanews.com)
  • The Associated Press Economic Stress Index shows they make up a "safe zone" that covers a long swath of middle America, from the Great Plains south to Texas. (foxnews.com)
  • The IDB Lab study shows Latin America invests $7 per capita in startups per year - far from what leading countries are investing: Israel invests 117 times more, Estonia 42 times more and China seven times more. (forbes.com)
  • The inventory data used in the study represents a total of 112,113 desktops from 472 North American organizations in the financial, health care, technology, education and manufacturing sectors. (eweek.com)
  • Weir has served on a number of editorial boards, including Politics and Society, American Political Science Review, and Urban Affairs Review. (lu.se)
  • The original version of Lotto America held its first drawing on February 13, 1988. (wikipedia.org)
  • Today, American Humane is recognized as the largest certifier of animal welfare in the world, verifying the humane treatment of animals on farms and ranches, in filmed media through our iconic No Animals Were Harmed® program, and in zoos, aquariums, and conservation parks, setting the standard for humane treatment for approximately one billion animals annually. (iucn.org)
  • The 3,000-square-mile Lake Nicaragua is the largest lake in Central America , and because it was once part of the Pacific Ocean , it is the only place in the world where freshwater sharks, swordfish, and sea horses live. (encyclopedia.com)
  • Founded in 1877 as the United States' first national humane organization, American Humane is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals everywhere through life-saving programs that are rooted in science and evidence-based practices. (iucn.org)
  • The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the health and quality of life of all women during midlife and beyond through an understanding of menopause and healthy aging. (medscape.com)
  • there was never a cash option, even though a few games did offer one when Lotto America ended. (wikipedia.org)
  • I believe the boom of the tech ecosystem was accelerated by a widespread change in the mindset of millions of Latin Americans. (forbes.com)
  • MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM is at once a soaring tribute to owning your voice and a searing step back in time to expose the challenges of driving change in America. (afi.com)
  • Whether sharing a story about an experience you or someone else had, Red Cross stories help to show how the Red Cross is making a positive impact across North Texas. (redcross.org)
  • About half of the average business PCs in North America are unable to meet the minimum requirements for Microsofts Windows Vista operating system, while 94 percent do not meet the system requirements for Vista Premium. (eweek.com)
  • Analysis of the North American Terminal Automation Market is part of the Industrial Automation & Process Control ( http://www.industrialautomation.frost.com ) Growth Partnership Service program. (prnewswire.com)
  • In the interest of improving disability measures for the American Community Survey (ACS), the work group was established to consider possible modifications to the existing set of questions. (cdc.gov)
  • Sharpton elevates it into a major attack on his honor, and he then converts it -- here's the real trick -- into an attack on all African Americans everywhere, whom he of course represents. (prospect.org)
  • Prayers are said for the many Native Americans who are serving in the Army in Afghanistan or other regions of the world. (lu.se)
  • These myths are visually expressed in totem poles and handicrafts from the north-western coast of America, where craftsmen were skilled in wood carving. (lu.se)