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Negritude: literary movement of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of ...
Negro league: any of the associations of African American baseball teams active largely between 1920 and the late 1940s, when black players were at last contracted to play major and minor league ...
Negro River: major tributary of the Amazon. It originates in several headstreams, including the Vaupes (Mapes) and the Guainia, which rise in the rain forest of eastern Colombia. The Guainia flows east ...
Negro River: river, southern Argentina, whose major headstreams, the Neuquen and the Limay, rise in the Andes Mountains near the Chilean border. At Neuquen city they meet to form the Negro, which ...
Negro River: river in Uruguay, rising in the southern highlands of Brazil just east of Bage. The Negro flows southwestward into Uruguay, where it is dammed near Paso de los Toros to ...
Negros: island, one of the Visayan group, central Philippines. It is separated from the island of Panay to the northwest by the Guimaras Strait and from Cebu island to the east ...
Nehemiah: Jewish leader who supervised the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the mid-5th century BC after his release from captivity by the Persian king Artaxerxes I. He also instituted extensive moral and ...
Neher, Erwin: German physicist, winner with Bert Sakmann in 1991 of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their research into basic cell function and for the development of the patch-clamp ...
Nehru, Jawaharlal: first prime minister of independent India (1947-64), who established parliamentary government and became noted for his "neutralist" policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of ...
Nehru, Motilal: a leader of the Indian independence movement, cofounder of the Swaraj ("Self-rule") Party, and the father of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Nei-chiang: city in central Szechwan sheng (province), China. Situated on the T'o River, it is also at the junction of the Ch'eng-tu-Chungking railway and the southern branch line to I-pin. These ...
Neidhart Von Reuenthal: late medieval German knightly poet who, in the period of the decline of the courtly love lyric, introduced a new genre called hofische Dorfpoesie ("courtly village poetry"). It celebrated, in ...
Neihardt, John Gneisenau: American poet, novelist, and short-story writer who described the history of American Indians, especially the Sioux.
neilah: in Judaism, the last of the five Yom Kippur services. As the concluding rite of Yom Kippur, the service is the most sacred of the yearly liturgy and is expressed ...
Neill, A.S.: British educator and author who founded the Summerhill School and championed free self-development in the education of children.
Neilson, James Beaumont: Scottish inventor who introduced the use of a hot-air blast instead of a cold-air blast for the smelting of iron, thus greatly advancing the technology of iron production.
Neiman Marcus: prestigious department-store chain. It was founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1907, and from the beginning its owners featured unusual merchandise. It caters to the opulently wealthy, supplying unique and extravagant ...
Neisse River: either of two rivers now in southwestern Poland (until 1945, in Germany). The better-known Nysa Luzycka, or Lusatian Neisse, is the longer (157 miles [252 km]) and more westerly; it ...
Neith: ancient Egyptian goddess who was the patroness of the city of Sais in the Nile River delta. Neith was worshiped as early as predynastic times (c. 3000 BC), and several ...
Neiva: city and capital of Huila departamento, south-central Colombia, on the upper Magdalena River. After unsuccessful attempts by Juan de Cabrera in 1539 and by Juan Alonso in 1550 to establish ...
Nekhbet: in Egyptian religion, vulture goddess who was the protector of Upper Egypt and especially its rulers.
Nekrasov, Nikolay Alekseyevich: Russian poet and journalist whose work centred on the theme of compassion for the sufferings of the peasantry. Nekrasov also sought to express the racy charm and vitality of peasant ...
nekton: the assemblage of pelagic animals that swim freely, independent of water motion or wind. Only three phyla are represented by adult forms. Chordate nekton include numerous species of bony fishes, ...
Nelligan, Emile: French-Canadian poet who was a major figure in the Ecole Litteraire de Montreal ("Montreal Literary School").
Nelson: city, southeastern British Columbia, Canada, on the western arm of Kootenay Lake, a few miles south of Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park and 408 miles (657 km) east of Vancouver. The ...
Nelson: port city and unitary authority, northern South Island, New Zealand, on an inlet at the head of Tasman Bay, at the mouth of the Matai River. Settled by the New ...
Nelson Lakes National Park: park in northern South Island, New Zealand. The park was established in 1956 and has an area of 393 square miles (1,018 square km). It is named after its chief ...
Nelson River: river in northern Manitoba, Canada, that begins by draining Lake Winnipeg, flows northward, and ends by discharging into Hudson Bay near York Factory. Its 400-mile (644-kilometre) course is the ultimate ...
Nelson, Baby Face: American gunman and bank robber noted for his vicious killings and youthful looks.
Nelson, Byron: one of a long line of outstanding Texas professional golfers. Nelson set several records in a career that he was obliged to shorten for reasons of health.
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount: British naval commander in the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, who won crucial victories in such battles as those of the Nile (1798) and of Trafalgar (1805), where he ...
Nelson, Rick: American singer and actor, one of rock music's first teen idols. Nelson gained fame on his parents' television series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which embodied middle-American values in ...
Nelson, Samuel: associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1845-72).
Nelson, William Rockhill: American journalist, editor, and publisher who helped found The Kansas City Star (1880). Among American publishers he was a pioneering advocate of focusing investigative reporting on local ...
Nelson, Willie: American songwriter and guitarist, one of the most popular country music singers of the late 20th century.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: art museum in Kansas City, Mo., that ranks among the 10 largest in the United States.
Nelspruit: town, capital of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It lies along the Krokodil (Crocodile) River, among domed granite hills. In 1891 the railway from Delagoa Bay (site of modern Maputo, Mozambique) ...
Nelumbonaceae: the lotus-lily family of the water-lily order (Nymphaeales), consisting of two species of attractive aquatic plants. One of these species is the sacred lotus of the Orient (Nelumbo nucifera) and ...
Neman River: river in Belarus and Lithuania. The Neman River is 582 miles (937 km) long and drains about 38,000 square miles (98,000 square km). It rises near Minsk in the Minsk ...
Nemanjic Dynasty: ruling Serbian family that from the late 12th to the mid-14th century developed the principality of Raska into a large empire.
nematocyst: minute, elongated or spherical capsule that is found chiefly in members of the phylum Cnidaria (e.g., jellyfish, corals, sea anemones). The capsule, which occurs on the body surface, is produced ...
nematode: any worm of the class Nematoda (phylum Aschelminthes, though many authorities consider the Nematoda to be a distinct phylum). Nematodes are among the most abundant animals, occurring as parasites in ...
Nemea, Battle of: (394 BC), battle in the Corinthian War (395-387 BC) in which a coalition of Greek city-states sought to destroy the ascendancy of Sparta after its victory in the Peloponnesian War. ...
Nemean Games: in ancient Greece, athletic and musical competitions held in honour of Zeus, in July, at the great Temple of Zeus at Nemea, in Argolis. They occurred biennially, in the same ...
Nemerov, Howard: American poet, novelist, and critic whose poetry, marked by irony and self-deprecatory wit, is often about nature. In 1978 Nemerov received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for ...
Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius: Roman poet born in Carthage who wrote pastoral and didactic poetry.
Nemesis: in Greek religion, two divine conceptions, the first an Attic goddess and the second an abstraction of indignant disapproval, later personified. Nemesis the goddess (perhaps of fertility) was worshiped at ...
Nemesius Of Emesa: Christian philosopher, apologist, and bishop of Emesa (now Hims, Syria) who was the author of Peri physeos anthropou (Greek: "On the Nature of Man"), the first known compendium of theological ...
Nemi, Lake: crater lake in Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. It lies in the outer ring of the ancient Alban crater, in the Alban Hills, east of Lake Albano and 15 miles ...
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir Ivanovich: Russian playwright, novelist, producer, and cofounder of the famous Moscow Art Theatre.
Nemophila: genus of annual herbs of the family Hydrophyllaceae. The about 13 species, most of which bear blue or white, bell-like blooms, are North American, mostly Pacific coast in origin. Baby ...
Nemours: town, Seine-et-Marne departement, Ile-de-France region, north central France, south of Fontainebleau, and south-southeast of Paris. Called Nemoracum in Roman times, the locality, pleasantly situated on the Loing River, derived its ...
Nemours, Charles-Amedee de Savoie, Duke de: son of Henri I de Savoie and ducal successor to his short-lived brother, Louis de Savoie.
Nemours, Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie, duc de, Prince De Genevois: eldest son of the former duke, Jacques de Savoie.
Nemours, Henri I de Savoie, duc de: brother and successor of the former duke, Charles-Emmanuel.
Nemours, Henri II de Savoie, Duke de: younger brother of Charles-Amedee de Savoie, whom he succeeded as duke in 1652.
Nemours, Jacques d'Armagnac, duc de: peer of France who engaged in conspiracies against Louis XI. He was the first of the great dukes of Nemours.
Nemours, Jacques de Savoie, duc de,, Comte De Genevois, Marquis De Saint-sorlin: noted soldier and courtier during the French wars of religion.
Nemours, Louis d'Armagnac, duc de: third son of Jacques d'Armagnac, duc de Nemours, and last of the ducal House of Armagnac.
Nemours, Louis-Charles-Philippe-Raphael d'Orleans, Duke de: second son of King Louis-Philippe. After the abdication of his father in 1848 he tried until 1871 to unite exiled royalists and restore the monarchy.
Nemours, Marie d'Orleans-Longueville, Duchess de: sovereign princess of Neuchatel (from 1699), best known for her Memoires (1709).
Nemuro: city, eastern Hokkaido, Japan. It was founded as a post town in 1869 by a resident commissioner with 130 administrative staff members and their families. In 1880 it gained municipal ...
Nen River: river in northeastern China. The Nen River is the principal tributary of the Sungari River, which is itself a tributary of the Amur River. The Nen River proper rises in ...
Nenadovic, Matija: Serbian priest and patriot, the first diplomatic agent of his country in modern times. He is often called Prota Matija, because, as a boy of 16, he was made a ...
nene: (Branta sandvicensis), endangered species of goose of the family Anatidae (order Anseriformes). The nene is a relative of the Canada goose that evolved in the Hawaiian Islands into a nonmigratory, ...
Nenets: autonomous okrug (district), Arkhangelsk oblast (province), northwestern Russia. The okrug extends along the northern coast of European Russia, from Mezen Bay ...
Nenets: ethnolinguistic group inhabiting northwestern Russia, from the White Sea on the west to the base of the Taymyr Peninsula on the east and from the Sayan Mountains on the south ...
Nenni, Pietro Sandro: journalist and politician who was leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), twice foreign minister, and several times vice-premier of Italy.
Nennius: Welsh antiquary who between 796 and about 830 compiled or revised the Historia Brittonum, a miscellaneous collection of historical and topographical information including a description of the inhabitants and invaders ...
Neo-Confucianism: in China, a rationalistic revival of Confucian philosophy in the 11th century AD that exercised profound influence on Chinese thought for the next 800 years. See Confucianism.
Neo-Confucianism: in Japan, the official guiding philosophy of the Tokugawa period (1603-1867). This philosophy profoundly influenced the thought and behaviour of the educated class. The tradition, introduced into Japan from China ...
Neo-Expressionism: diverse art movement (chiefly of painters) that dominated the art market in Europe and the United States during the early and mid-1980s. Neo-Expressionism comprised a varied assemblage of young artists ...
Neo-Hegelianism: the doctrines of an idealist school of philosophers that was prominent in Great Britain and in the United States between 1870 and 1920. The name is also sometimes applied to ...
Neo-Impressionism: movement in French painting of the late 19th century that reacted against the empirical realism of Impressionism by relying on systematic calculation and scientific theory to achieve predetermined visual effects. ...
Neo-Paganism: any of several spiritual movements that attempt to revive the ancient polytheistic religions of Europe and the Middle East. These movements have a close relationship to ritual magic and modern ...
neo-Sinaitic alphabet: writing system used in many short rock inscriptions in the Sinai Peninsula, not to be confused with the Sinaitic inscriptions, which are of much earlier date and not directly related. ...