European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the âlong 18th centuryâ (1685-1815) as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason, or simply the Enlightenment.
Best time to visit North America. The two warmest cities in North America are Puntarenas in Costa Rica and Acapulco in Mexico, both with a yearly average temperature of 27.9 Â°C. The coldest city is Iqaluit (Nunavut) in Canada, which averages -9.8 Â°C for the year.he wettest city in North America is Guapiles in Costa Rica, which has on average 381.4 mm rainfall for the year. The city with the least rainfall in a year is Yuma in United States of America in the state of Arizona, which averages 6.7 mm of rain per year.
1 The December 2008 â February 2009 average temperature was 33.49 degrees F, which is 0.53 degree F above normal. 2  On a regional basis, temperatures were warmer than average across the southern tier states and central Rockies, while the upper Midwest, Great Lakes, Maine, and Washington had a cooler-than-average winter.emperatures for winter, December 2008 â February 2009, across the contiguous United States were near average, based on records dating back to 1895, according to a preliminary analysis by scientists at NOAAâs National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.