Just imagine what Americans experienced when they fanned out from 13 colonies to settle a continent.
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It calls to mind mosquitoes on a continent tragically ravaged by those malaria-bearing insects.
Denounced by a drunk teenager, the Golovins are resettled a continent away in Augean conditions.
In a continent chronically unhappy about foreign ownership of land, this is an astonishing concession.
The return journey between New York and Los Angeles takes you across a continent.
If anything, we are now beginning to focus on Africa as a continent, not as a country.
First, it is a continent rich in the high-value, natural resources necessary to propel China's maturing economy.
It can no longer seem merely a continent which is a bit backward but will soon catch up.
This is remarkable for a continent that has generally provided limited opportunities for training in the engineering fields.
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But to many onlookers, withholding relief seems callous when a continent is suffering as much as Africa is.
"Game of Thrones" revolves around the contested monarchy of a continent called Westeros.
Not only for Namibia, but for a continent whose fragile legacy is usually ravaged by the inadequacies of man.
The Beatus map of 1109, a copy of one from 776, includes such a continent beyond the Red Sea.
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It has, but Antarctica is a continent isolated by an ocean with its own unique and incredibly cold weather.
Such a union, bureaucratically run from Brussels, is ultimately a nonstarter on a continent so utterly diverse as this one.
On a continent where population growth outstrips food supply growth by 1% a year, Wambugu's modified sweet potato offers tangible hope.
True, the two Germanies reunited, but Europe as a whole went from a continent of 32 countries to one of 48.
When the two were freed in 2011 after four years in prison, they set about trying to rebuild their lives, a continent apart.
The Chicago Tribune raves, It's craftsmanship and ambitions put it a continent ahead of nearly every other animated feature of the last couple years.
It will give priority to the Roma during its presidency, says Mr Navracsics, as an example of an issue that needs a continent-wide strategy.
The Council of Europe, a continent-wide talking-shop that is the guardian of many international legal conventions, has a treaty on cybercrime dating from 2001.
And he describes the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an enormous expanse of the Pacific Ocean where currents concentrate the trash over a continent-sized area.
The stabilizing part played by the EU has helped to transform most of Europe from a continent of war to a continent of peace.
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She recently got back from two and a half weeks along the California beaches, a continent away from her family home in Annapolis, Md.
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So the citizens, many feeling completely isolated on the eastern edge of a continent that remained largely unexplored, might be excused for fearing the worst.
But I think, as we've all been saying, you can't polish over the fact that this is a continent with a lot of different problems.
And on a continent burdened with rutted roads and dilapidated railways, airlines are starting to offer direct flights between African cities, instead of through Europe.
In a continent that glories in political, linguistic and gastronomic diversity, there are almost as many forms of social policy as there are national drinks.
Africans say correctly that theirs is a continent of wide-open spaces.
On a continent where being very rich still carries faint implications of impropriety, many Europeans feel uneasy with the idea of competing to demonstrate public generosity.
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