Portal:North America/Featured articles

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Contents

Art, architecture, and archaeology • Awards and decorations • Biology and medicine • Business, economics, and finance • Chemistry and mineralogy • Computing • Culture and society • Education • Engineering and technology • Food and drink • Geography and places • Geology, geophyics, and meteorology • History • Language and linguistics • Law • Literature • Mathematics • Media • Music • Philosophy • Physics and astronomy • Politics and government • Psychology • Religion and beliefs • Royalty, nobility, and heraldry • Sport and games • Transport • War

Art, architecture, and archaeology

Paul Kane • Michigan State Capitol • Sylvanus Morley • Shotgun house • Roman Vishniac • Xanadu House

Awards and decorations

Medal of Honor • Order of Canada

Business, economics, and finance

€2 commemorative coins • Demand Note • Economy of the Iroquois • Gold standard • Mercantilism • Octopus card • Supply and demand

Culture and society

• Black Seminoles • Cannabis rescheduling in the United States • Flag of Mexico • David Helvarg • History of merit badges (Boy Scouts of America) • Mandan • Metrication • Pet skunk

Education

Alpha Phi Alpha • Caulfield Grammar School • History of Michigan State University • Hopkins School • Michigan State University • Stuyvesant High School • University of Michigan

Food and drink

• Coca-Cola • Ina Garten

Geography and places

• Ann Arbor, Michigan • Boston, Massachusetts • Bryce Canyon National Park • Canada • Carlsbad Caverns National Park • Cleveland, Ohio • Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve • Dawson Creek, British Columbia • Death Valley National Park • Detroit, Michigan • Dogpatch USA • Glacier National Park (US) • Louisville, Kentucky • Marshall, Texas • Mount Rushmore • Mount St. Helens • Niagara Falls • Oakland Cemetery^{[disambiguation needed]} • San Jose, California • Seattle, Washington • Shoshone National Forest • Yellowstone National Park • Yosemite National Park • Zion National Park

Geology, geophysics, and meteorology

1928 Okeechobee Hurricane • 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens • 2005 Atlantic hurricane season • Galveston Hurricane of 1900 • Geology of the Bryce Canyon area • Geology of the Capitol Reef area • Geology of the Death Valley area • Geology of the Grand Canyon area • Geology of the Zion and Kolob canyons area • Hurricane Claudette (2003) • Hurricane Dennis • Hurricane Floyd • Hurricane Gloria • Hurricane Irene (2005) • Hurricane Iniki • Hurricane Mitch • Hurricane Nora (1997) • Silverpit crater

History

Ike Altgens • Anschluss • Mark Antony • Elias Ashmole • Attalus I • Attila the Hun • Athanasius Kircher • British East India Company • Isaac Brock • Bath School disaster • Byzantine Empire • Claudius • Chola dynasty • Congo Free State • Columbine High School massacre • John Dee • Adriaen van der Donck • Elagabalus • Éire • England expects that every man will do his duty • Epaminondas • Eureka Stockade • W. Mark Felt • First Crusade • Carl G. Fisher • George Fox • Anne Frank • Franks • Mahatma Gandhi • Helen Gandy • Franklin B. Gowen • Gettysburg Address • Great Lakes Storm of 1913 • Che Guevara • Habsburg Spain • History of Alaska • History of Arizona • History of the Australian Capital Territory • History of Burnside • History of Cape Colony from 1806 to 1870 • History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 • History of Central Asia • History of Greenland • History of Limerick • History of Miami, Florida • History of New Jersey • History of Poland (1945–1989) • History of Portugal (1777–1834) • History of post-Soviet Russia • History of Puerto Rico • History of the Netherlands • History of Russia • History of the Grand Canyon area • History of the Yosemite area • Indo-Greek Kingdom • Italian Renaissance • Muhammad Ali Jinnah • Joan of Arc • Katyn massacre • Stanisław Koniecpolski • Ku Klux Klan • Laika • Lothal • Makuria • Manuel I Comnenus • Marshall Plan • Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp • Old Swiss Confederacy • William N. Page • Rosa Parks • Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel • Penda of Mercia • Witold Pilecki • Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth • Political integration of India • Project MKULTRA • Radhanite • Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu • Russian constitutional crisis of 1993 • S. A. Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897 • Samantha Smith • Sassanid Empire • Scotland in the High Middle Ages • Second Crusade • Sino-German cooperation until 1941 • Space Race • Sydney Riot of 1879 • Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 • Treaty of Devol • Jonathan Wild • Ziad Jarrah

Language and linguistics

• Aramaic language • Gbe languages • Ido (language) • Laal language • Nafaanra language • Portuguese language • Russian language • Split infinitive • Stuttering • Swedish language • Taiwanese (linguistics) • Tamil language • Thou • Vowel • Vulgar Latin

Law

Article 153 of the Constitution of Malaysia • Article One of the United States Constitution • Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms • Common scold • Dietrich v The Queen • Dred Scott v. Sandford • Equal Protection Clause • Federalist No. 10 • First Amendment to the United States Constitution • French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools • Whitey Bulger • Lawrence v. Texas • Paragraph 175 • Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791 • Roe v. Wade • Schabir Shaik trial • Section summary of the USA PATRIOT Act, Title II • Separation of powers under the United States Constitution • Supreme Court of the United States • Texas Ranger Division • Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution • United States Bill of Rights • United States Constitution • USA PATRIOT Act, Title III, Subtitle A

Literature

Douglas Adams • The Adventures of Tintin • African American literature • Alliterative verse • Mário de Andrade • Isaac Asimov • Augusta, Lady Gregory • Augustan drama • Augustan literature • Batman • Samuel Beckett • Book of Kells • The Brothers Karamazov • Cædmon • Calvin and Hobbes • The Cantos • Captain Marvel (DC Comics) • Colley Cibber • The Country Wife • Cyberpunk • John Day (printer) • H.D. • Du Fu • English poetry • The Giver • Robert A. Heinlein • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy • Hrafnkels saga • The Illuminatus! Trilogy • Imagism • Irish poetry • Irish theatre • Henry James • James Joyce • J. R. R. Tolkien • Rudyard Kipling • Krazy Kat • H. P. Lovecraft • Middle-earth • Modernist poetry in English • George Moore • Objectivist poets • The Old Man and the Sea • Ormulum • Oroonoko • Chuck Palahniuk • Peterborough Chronicle • Poetry of the United States • The Protocols of the Elders of Zion • Thomas Pynchon • The Relapse • Restoration comedy • Restoration literature • Restoration spectacular • Starship Troopers • Superman • John Millington Synge • Rabindranath Tagore • A Tale of a Tub • Theatre Royal, Drury Lane • Three Laws of Robotics • "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" • Turkish literature • Voynich manuscript • Watchmen • William Butler Yeats

Mathematics

Ackermann function • Eigenvalue, eigenvector and eigenspace • Game theory • Carl Friedrich Gauss • Infinite monkey theorem • Margin of error • Monty Hall problem • Blaise Pascal • Prisoner's dilemma • Regular polytope • Marian Rejewski • Trigonometric function

Media

Arrested Development • James T. Aubrey, Jr. • BBC television drama • Blackface • Blade Runner • Humphrey Bogart • Casablanca (film) • Cheers • Coronation Street • Dalek • Dawson's Creek • George Washington Dixon • Doctor Who • Doctor Who missing episodes • Dog Day Afternoon • Karen Dotrice • Felix the Cat • Henry Fonda • Gremlins • Halloween (film) • Halloween II • Halloween III: Season of the Witch • Jim Henson • Katie Holmes • Hong Kong action cinema • Diane Keaton • Vivien Leigh • Lindsay Lohan • Memory Alpha • Nineteen Eighty-Four (UK TV programme) • Sydney Newman • November (film) • The Office (US TV series) • Our Friends in the North • Our Gang • The Quatermass Experiment • Quatermass and the Pit • Ran (film) • Red vs Blue • Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith • Julia Stiles • KaDee Strickland • Sunset Boulevard (1950 film) • Sharon Tate • TARDIS • Thunderball (film) • Uma Thurman • Tenebrae (film) • Triumph of the Will • V for Vendetta (film) • The West Wing (TV series) • WGA screenwriting credit system

Music

• Louis Armstrong • The Beatles • Blues • Mariah Carey • Phil Collins • "Cool" (song) • Rebecca Helferich Clarke • Miles Davis • "A Day in the Life" • Celine Dion • "Dixie" (song) • Dream Theater • Duran Duran • Bob Dylan • Genesis (band) • "Get Back" (song) • Gramophone record • Grunge music • Guqin • "A Hard Day's Night" (song) • Heavy metal music • Heavy metal umlaut • "Hey Jude" • "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" • "I Want to Hold Your Hand" • Illmatic • Iron Maiden • Charles Ives • The Jackson 5 • "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" • The KLF • "Layla" • "The Long and Winding Road" • Witold Lutosławski • Marilyn Manson (band) • Olivier Messiaen • "Mexicanos, al grito de guerra" • Mor lam • Kylie Minogue • Music of Athens, Georgia • Music of Maryland • Music of Minnesota • Music of Nigeria • Music of the United States • "My Belarusy" • National Anthem of Russia • New Radicals • Nightwish • Nirvana (band) • Pink Floyd • Porgy and Bess • Punk rock • "Real Love" (John Lennon song) • Rush (band) • Salsa music • Saxophone • "She Loves You" • Sex Pistols • Dmitri Shostakovich • Sly & the Family Stone • "Something" • Igor Stravinsky • The Supremes • Sylvia (ballet) • The Temptations • Timpani • Vanilla Ninja • The Waterboys • "Yesterday" (Beatles song)

Philosophy

Michel Foucault • Free will • Eric A. Havelock • Søren Kierkegaard • Philosophy of mind • Omnipotence paradox • Transhumanism • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Bernard Williams

Physics and astronomy

Apollo 8 • Astrophysics Data System • ATLAS experiment • Big Bang • Binary star • Black hole • Cat's Eye Nebula • Comet • Comet Hale–Bopp • Comet Hyakutake • Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 • Crab Nebula • Definition of planet • Enceladus (moon) • Albert Einstein • Galileo Galilei • H II region • Herbig-Haro object • Hubble Deep Field • Hubble Space Telescope • Kreutz Sungrazers • Mercury (planet) • Isaac Newton • Open cluster • Planetary habitability • Planetary nebula • J. Robert Oppenheimer • Rainbow • Roche limit • Carl Sagan • Soap bubble • Solar eclipse • Speed of light • Sun • Edward Teller • Transit of Venus

Politics and government

1968 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election • 1996 United States campaign finance controversy • 1993 Canadian federal election • 2004 Washington gubernatorial election • 2006 Liberal Democrats leadership election • Anarcho-capitalism • Tony Blair • Tom Brinkman • George Brown, Baron George-Brown • Hugo Chávez • Commonwealth of Nations • Convention on Psychotropic Substances • Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago) • Gerald Ford • Governor-General of India • Government of Maryland • House of Commons of Canada • House of Commons of the United Kingdom • House of Lords • Irish Houses of Parliament • Bruce Johnson (Ohio politician) • George F. Kennan • League of Nations • Liberal Party (Utah) • Libertarianism • Abraham Lincoln • Lord Chancellor • John Major • Sid McMath • Reginald Maudling • Bob McEwen • Military career of Hugo Chávez • Yoweri Museveni • Barack Obama • Parliament Act • Parliament of Canada • Parliament of the United Kingdom • James K. Polk • President of Ireland • Prime Minister of the United Kingdom • Privy Council of the United Kingdom • Propaganda • Louis Riel • Read my lips: no new taxes • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt • Royal Assent • Senate of Canada • Władysław Sikorski • Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs • Single Transferable Vote • Jean Schmidt • Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom) • Speaker of the United States House of Representatives • Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner • Margaret Thatcher • Tynwald Day • United States Congress • United States House of Representatives • United States Senate • United States Electoral College • Mordechai Vanunu • Voting system • Voter turnout

Psychology

Autism • Milgram experiment • Psychosis • Schizophrenia

Religion and beliefs

Angkor Wat • Anno Domini • Baháʼí Faith • Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. • End times • Father Damien • Greek mythology • Hinduism • History of Buddhism • History of the Jews in Poland • Hebrew calendar • Holy Prepuce • King James Version of the Bible • Mosque • Names of God in Judaism • Noah's Ark • Nostradamus • Operation Auca • Papal conclave • Papal Tiara • Fred Phelps • Presuppositional apologetics • Revised Standard Version • Shakers • Shroud of Turin • Space opera in Scientology doctrine • Xenu

Royalty, nobility, and heraldry

Anne, Queen of Great Britain • British monarchy • Canadian Heraldic Authority • Charles I of England • Charles II of England • Coronation of the British monarch • Edward VI of England • Elizabeth I of England • George I of Great Britain • George II of Great Britain • George III of the United Kingdom • George IV of the United Kingdom • Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava • Henry VIII of England • Hereditary peer • History of the Peerage • James I of England • James II of England • Joshua A. Norton • Louis XIV of France • Mary I of England • Mary II of England • Peerage • Prince-elector • Privilege of Peerage • Representative peer • Sverre of Norway • Victoria of the United Kingdom • William I of Orange (William the Silent) • William III of England • William IV of the United Kingdom

Sport and games

1896 Summer Olympics • 3D Monster Maze • Amateur Radio Direction Finding • Arsenal F.C. • The Ashes • Australia at the Winter Olympics • Baseball • Moe Berg • Bishōjo game • Blackjack • Fanny Blankers-Koen • Bodyline • Bullfighting • Bulbasaur • Simon Byrne • BZFlag • Chariot racing • Chess • Brian Close • A. E. J. Collins • Cricket • Steve Dalkowski • Lottie Dod • Donkey Kong (arcade game) • FIFA World Cup • Final Fantasy X • Football (soccer) • Formula One • Go (board game) • Wayne Gretzky • Half-Life 2 • History of Test cricket (to 1883) • History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889) • IFK Göteborg • Katamari Damacy • Nellie Kim • Sandy Koufax • Cynna Kydd • Lakitu • Denis Law • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker • Lego • Suzanne Lenglen • Link (Legend of Zelda) • Manchester City F.C. • Monopoly (game) • New England Patriots • Olympic Flame • Olympic Games • Perfect Dark • Ted Radcliffe • Seabiscuit • StarCraft • Sudoku • Sunday Times Golden Globe Race • Super Mario 64 • Jim Thorpe • Torchic • Wario • Weight training • Xiangqi

Transport

• Air Force One • BC Rail • Bicycle • Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport • Isambard Kingdom Brunel • Căile Ferate Române • Canadian Pacific Railway • Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern Railway • Civil Air Patrol • DMC DeLorean • Ford Mustang • Indian Railways • John Bull (locomotive) • London Underground • Manila Light Rail Transit System • Mass Rapid Transit (Singapore) • Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 • Mini • Montréal-Mirabel International Airport • MTR • Panama Canal • Pan American World Airways • Pioneer Zephyr • Pulaski Skyway • Rail transport in India • Ridge Route • RMS Titanic • Rogers Locomotive and Machine Works • Ryanair • San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge • Space elevator • SS Andrea Doria • TGV • Volkswagen Type 2 • Warren County Canal • Wigwag^{[disambiguation needed]} • Zeppelin

War

Algerian Civil War • Attack on Pearl Harbor • Battle of Alesia • Battle of Austerlitz • Battle of Badr • Battle of Cannae • Battle of Hampton Roads • Battle of Inchon • Battle of Jutland • Battle of Leyte Gulf • Battle of Midway • Battle of Normandy • Battle of the Bulge • Battle of Smolensk (1943) • Battle of the Somme (1916) • Battle of Warsaw (1920) • Blitzkrieg • Chemical warfare • Convair B-36 • Corinthian War • Cristero War • Defense of Sihang Warehouse • Karl Dönitz • F-4 Phantom II • F-35 Joint Strike Fighter • First Battle of the Stronghold • Husein Gradaščević • Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson • Imperial Japanese Navy • Invasion • Iowa-class battleship • Kargil War • Lord's Resistance Army • Military history of Canada • Military history of France • Military history of Puerto Rico • Military history of the Soviet Union • Richard O'Connor • Arthur Ernest Percival • Operation Downfall • Operation Ten-Go • Poison gas in World War I • Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618) • Polish-Soviet War • Polish September Campaign • Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima • S-mine • William Tecumseh Sherman • Siege • Swedish allotment system • Tank • Thrasybulus • Trench warfare • USS Missouri (BB-63) • USS Wisconsin (BB-64) • War elephant • War of the League of Cambrai • War of the Spanish Succession • Warsaw Uprising • Western Front (World War I) • World War I • Yom Kippur War