Edmund H. North won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay.
  Some examples include:"North of X" is a phrase often used by Americans to mean "more than X" or "greater than X" in relation to the conventional direction of north being upwards, i
 In Hungarian, the word for north is szak, which is derived from jszaka ("night"), since above the Tropic of Cancer, the Sun never shines from the north, except inside the Arctic Circle during the summer midnight sun

