Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish society, not just the remnants of the defeated clans.

North America can easily fragment quickly as did the Eastern Bloc in 1989.

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America.

I own a Ferrari race team, and we race all over North America.

The only continent where social movements have led to political parties that have pushed through serious social and political reforms is in South America.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.