North America and Caribbean
- Canada
- Monarch - Victoria, Queen of Canada (1837–1901)
- Governor General - Lord Lisgar, Governor-General of Canada (1869–1872)
- Prime Minister - John A. Macdonald, Prime Minister of Canada (1867–1891)
- Costa Rica - Tomás Guardia Gutiérrez, President of Costa Rica (1870–1876)
- Haiti - Nissage Saget, President of Haiti (1869-1874)
- Mexico - Benito Juárez, President of Mexico (1867–1872)
- United States - Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States (1869–1877)
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“The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the greater portion of the Red race. Civilization is gradually sweeping from the earth the lingering vestiges of Paganism, and at the same time the shrinking forms of its unhappy worshippers.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
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The sea drifts through the winter air.
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The sea is in the falling snow.
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—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)