His heroes were Lewis and Clark, the intrepid explorers of the new American continent, and the field-trip grants he founded in later life were named after them.
Even in the present, on this vast new continent, the lives they made (and taught to their sons) had the clammy jumbled intimacy of the village.
It is too early to tell what the impact of the new leaders will have on the continent.
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The problem of how to define the continent's new geography testifies to the pluralism of the new order.
The Pilgrims preferred to risk their lives taming a new continent than obey the Church of England.
Britain, hitherto the skunk of Europe, smells as sweet on the continent as a New Labour rose.
With the upward economic, social and political trajectory of the continent, a new breed of African women continues to emerge.
Using Africa as one example, Jones said that the continent dominated new gold discoveries over the past 10 years.
Across the continent in New Jersey, Collins has a similar setup.
And modern communications instantly span every continent The new frontier is that there is no frontier, the new shared truth is that global problems need global solutions.
The papacy ended on a very low key after Benedict promised during a final meeting with the cardinals - who will shortly elect his successor - to show "reverence and obedience" to the new head of the Church, from whichever continent or nation he may come.
If so, two founding member nations of the European Community would have rejected the constitution as a new political basis to unite the European continent, and it would be seen as a dead letter .
Although Asia's big banks may be shunning New York, the continent's technology companies keep coming.
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Darius Mans: As I noted, there are a few countries which are really developing a new relationship with the Continent, and Brazil is one of those.
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In the wake of those events, race organizers decided to relocate the rally for the following year, so the Dakar moved to a new continent in 2009.
The band played one gig as guests of British compatriots, Queen, that was broadcast live across the continent winning them new fans, many of whom have stayed loyal over the years.
In the absence of new discoveries or breakthroughs in alternative energy, the continent will need to import more and more oil to meet the demand, an expensive and politically treacherous path.
Ministers and industry bosses have planned for this, approving an upgrade to the big Zeebrugge-Bacton pipeline that links Britain to the continent, and the construction of new lines from Norway and Holland.
South Africa's 2010 Local Organising Committee chairman Danny Jordaan has said he sees the competition as nothing less than a chance to "construct a new economic and business environment for the continent", using South Africa as a catalyst.
The interest-rate cut in Europe was widely expected given the economic climate there, with new strains becoming apparent even in Germany, the continent's economic powerhouse.
Plymouth endured, the English prevailed in the contest for the continent, and Anglo-American Protestants New Englanders, in particular molded the new nation's memory.
For much of the nineteenth century, the Zulus had been the continent's archetypal warriors, famous for inventing new weapons and adopting innovative battlefield tactics.
Mahiga has lengthy and pertinent experience in the Horn of Africa and other parts of the continent, which will be invaluable in his new position.
Prof Kowalski named the new fungal species Chalara fraxinea - but as the disease spread across the continent, he realised that something was not quite right.
It starts with explaining to Russia and our European friends and allies, that Russia is not the enemy of the United States ... that the attitude of mutually assured destruction is a relic of the cold war and that we must address the new threats of the 21st century if we are to have a peaceful continent and a peaceful world.
Out of the ashes of Europe's broken banking system, a new, sounder system better able to finance the Continent's economic recovery may yet emerge but it is not superstar central bankers that are needed but far-sighted politicians.
But they're just determined to do their jobs, and I just think that is part of the new news out of Africa that says that there is hope for the continent.
But in some ways Willian epitomizes the current state of flux at the highest level of the game: new money flowing in from the edges of Europe, most of the continent's nobility hunkering down in anticipation of Financial Fair Play, the rest knowing they can pick and choose in what's now a buyer's market of falling transfer prices.
CEOs from across New England gathered to discuss The Hopeful Continent: Africa Rising, as The Economist Magazine put it recently.
They are able to open up vast new markets in the Indian and Asian continent, as anyone who has been in those airports in the middle of the night can see.
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