Northern America is the northernmost subregion of North America.The boundaries may be drawn slightly differently. In one definition, it lies directly north of Middle America (including the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico). Northern America's land frontier with the rest of North America then coincides with the Mexico–United States border. ...

History. Before 19th-century westward expansion, the "Northern United States" corresponded to the present day New England region. By the 1830s it corresponded to the present day Northeast and Great Lakes region.. Before 1865, the North was distinguished from the South on the issue of slavery.In Southern states, slavery was legal until the ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865.

The Nearctic realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting the Earth's land surface.. The Nearctic realm covers most of North America, including Greenland, Central Florida, and the highlands of Mexico.The parts of North America that are not in the Nearctic realm are Eastern Mexico, Southern Florida, coastal Central Florida, Central America, and the Caribbean islands, …

Description. The northern parula is one of the smaller North American migratory warblers, often being one of the smallest birds in a mixed feeding flock besides kinglets or gnatcatchers.Length is 10.8 to 12.4 cm (4.3 to 4.9 in), wingspan is 16 to 18 cm (6.3 to 7.1 in) and body mass is 5 to 11 g (0.18 to 0.39 oz). Among standard measurements, the wing chord is 5.1 to 6.5 cm (2.0 to 2.6 …

Northern American English or Northern U.S. English (also, Northern AmE) is a class of historically related American English dialects, spoken by predominantly white Americans, best documented in the greater metropolitan areas of Connecticut, Western Massachusetts, Western and Central New York, Northern Ohio, Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, the Lower Peninsula of Michigan, and Eastern …

Nineveh (/ ˈ n ɪ n ɪ v ə /; Arabic: نَيْنَوَىٰ Naynawā; Syriac: ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, romanized: Nīnwē; Akkadian: ???????????????? URU NI.NU.A Ninua) was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq.It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and was the capital and largest city of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, as ...

Etymology. The word north is related to the Old High German nord, both descending from the Proto-Indo-European unit *ner-, meaning "left; below" as north is to left when facing the rising sun. Similarly, the other cardinal directions are also related to the sun's position. The Latin word borealis comes from the Greek boreas "north wind, north", which, according to Ovid, was …

On November 3, 2009, Berkshire Hathaway made a $26 billion offer to buy the remaining 77.4% of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation it did not already own, valuing the purchase at $34 billion. The deal, which including Berkshire's previous investment and the assumption of $10 billion in Burlington Northern debt brings the total value to $44 ...

Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn.At or centred on the summer solstice, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset occurs, daylight hours are longest and dark hours are shortest, with day length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The date of the beginning of summer varies according to climate, …

Arts, entertainment, and media Films. Live!, 2007 American film; Live, a 2014 Japanese film; Live (Apocalyptica DVD); Music. Live (band), American alternative rock band List of albums titled Live; Extended plays. Live EP (Anal Cunt album); Live EP (Breaking Benjamin EP); Live; Live (The Smithereens EP); CeCe Peniston (EP Live)