The word "Americas" is correct and usable in written English
It is used to describe the continents of North and South America. For example, "The Americas are full of fascinating cultures and diversity."
"Elizabeth Taylor was the last great movie star, the queen of Hollywood," explained Jonathan Rendell, deputy chairman of Christie's Americas.
Erdogan, a pious Muslim who has been in power for more than a decade, stirred up controversy on Saturday when he claimed that Muslims discovered the Americas in the 12th century, nearly three centuries before Christopher Columbus.
This dovetails nicely with the observation that most of the evidence for tuberculosis in the pre-Columbian Americas seems, like these three skeletons, to come from the coasts of Peru and northern Chile, where seals are abundant and were hunted by the locals.Where the seals themselves picked up tuberculosis remains to be determined.
"If President Erdogan had not made the comments on the Americas' discovery, a big majority would have been unaware of the continent's discovery by the Muslims because western sources wrote that it was Columbus who first set foot on America," Mehmet Seker wrote in the Yeni Safak daily.
This episode is the first written by Richard Price, and kicks of with a demonstration of the two Americas – a favoured Simon thesis.
Sometimes a firm hand is needed for diplomacy to work in the defence of democracy and liberties.Jaime Bermúdez Former minister of foreign affairs Luis Guillermo Plata Former minister of trade Bogotá* SIR - Sometimes it is easier to ascribe actions to sinister purposes, even when the facts lead elsewhere ("Just collecting the rent, really", Americas view, December 22nd).
For those who want to dig deeper into some of the Americas stories that made this week's newspaper, a selection of background material:Latin America's constitutions: This excellent paper by Gabriel Negretto looks at the relationship between amending and replacing constitutions.
A tiny minority of Muslim scholars have recently suggested a prior Muslim presence in the Americas, although no pre-Columbian ruin of an Islamic structure has ever been found.
A strong conventional oil and gas performance across the board and more modest growth in the clean energy and environment and infrastructure markets in the Americas are expected to offset reduced oil sands revenue and softening demand in the mining market, and in Australia more generally.
Sábado Gigante's interracial sketches illustrate the stubborn inequity among Latinos in the Americas: although we share a geographic region, Latinos are not one race of people.
Whereas chytrid has decimated amphibians across the Americas, researchers have discovered that some species show resilience to chytrid – especially in parts of Asia and Africa – where they have probably lived with the disease for centuries.
