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of or pertaining to or characteristic of the continent or countries of North America and their peoples...
Redskin
A common appellation for a North American Indian so called from the color of the skin It is now considered pejorative by some persons of North American Indian heritage...
Federal Government
Federal Government. When two or more sovereign or independent states mutually agree not to exercise certain powers incident to their several sovereignties, but to delegate the exercise of those powers to some person or body chosen by them jointly, there is said to be a federal union of those states, and the person or body to whom the exercise of such powers is delegated is called the Federal Government. The Swiss Confederation, and the United States of North America, are instances of Federal Governments.A (English) Federal Council of Australasia Act (48 & 49 Vict. c. 60), passed in 1885 (see AUSTRALASIA), is now superseded by the federating (English) Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act (63 & 64 Vict. c. 12) (see AUSTRALIA), which has repealed it.An effective federation of the British North American Colonies was provided in 1867 by (English) the British North America Act, 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 3) (see BRITISH AMERICA), and in 1909 of the Colonies of Cape of Good Hope, Natal, Tra...
Culex
A genus of mosquitoes of the family Culicidae to which most of the North American species belong Some members of this genus are exceedingly annoying as Culex sollicitans which breeds in enormous numbers in the salt marshes of the Atlantic coast and Culex pipiens the common house mosquito breeding very widely in the fresh waters of North America For characters distinguishing these from the malaria mosquitoes see Anopheles above The yellow fever mosquito is now placed in another genus Stegomyia...
Catalpa
A genus of American and East Indian trees of which the best known species are the Catalpa bignonioides a large ornamental North American tree with spotted white flowers and long cylindrical pods and the Catalpa speciosa of the Mississipi valley called also Indian bean...
Kitchen middens
Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark consisting of shell mounds some of which are ten feet high one thousand feet long and two hundred feet wide The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida made by the North American Indians...
nafta
nafta North American Free-Trade Agreement. Source: Department of State. March 2007. ...
Baptisia
A genus of North American plants with showy pealike flowers and an inflated pod...
beggar lice
any of various Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing...
Besseya
a genus of North American spring wildflowers...
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