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The North America Portal

North America is a continent located in the Earth's Western Hemisphere, bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Gulf of Mexico, and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean. It is linked to South America by Central America. It covers an area of about 24.5 million km² (9.46 million square miles), or about 4.8 percent of the planet's surface. As of July 2002, its population was estimated at more than 514.6 million. It is the 3rd largest continent in area, after Asia and Africa, and is 4th in population, after Asia, Africa, and Europe. edit

Selected biography

Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States. He had been the 25th Vice President before becoming President upon the assassination of President William McKinley. Inaugurated at the age of 42, Roosevelt became the youngest President in U.S. history. Within the Republican Party, he was a reformer who sought to bring the party's conservative ideals into the 20th century. He broke with his friend and successor William Howard Taft and ran as a third party candidate in 1912 on the Progressive Party ticket. Before his presidency, Roosevelt served as a New York State assemblyman, Police Commissioner of New York City, U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy. As a colonel, he commanded his famous all-volunteer First U.S. National Cavalry regiment, the "Rough Riders" during the Spanish-American War. Roosevelt also served a successful term as Governor of New York. He was a famous historian and naturalist; his 15 books include works on outdoor life, natural history, U.S. Western and political history, an autobiography and a host of other topics. In his lifetime, he was considered a foremost authority on North American big game animals and Eastern birds. (read more...)