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North America

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Jan 2000Miles that Leif Eriksson sailed from his father's home in Greenland before “discovering” North America in 985: 230
Source:

James Reston Jr., The Last Apocalypse: Europe at the Year 1000 A.D., Random House (N.Y.C.)

Jan 2000Years by which new evidence suggests that the age of the first human migration to the Americas should be increased: 20,000
Source:

Prof. Robson Bonnichsen, Oregon State University (Corvallis)

Jan 2000Number of years after North America's first library opened in 1638 that it published a subject guide: 152
Source:

The Printed Catalogues of the Harvard College Library: 1723-1790, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts (Boston)/Kenneth E. Carpenter, The First 350 Years of the Harvard University Library, Harvard University Library (Cambridge, Mass.)

Jan 2000Estimated number of non-native species that have entered the North American ecosystem since 1500: 50,000
Source:

Prof. David Pimentel, Cornell University, (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Dec 1998Square miles by which the size of the ozone hole exceeds the size of North America: 1,129,000
Source:

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (Boulder, Colo.)

September 5, 2000European earthworms continued their relentless invasion of North America.

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