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neutron optics: branch of physics dealing with the theory and applications of the wave behaviour of neutrons, the electrically neutral subatomic particles that are present in all atomic nuclei except those of ...
neutron star: any of a class of extremely dense, compact stars thought to be composed primarily of neutrons. Neutron stars are typically about 20 km (12 miles) in diameter but have a ...
Neuwied: city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), western Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine (there bridged to Weissenthurm) near the Wied stream, just northwest of Koblenz. Founded in 1653 by the ...
Neva River: river in Leningrad oblast (province), northwestern Russia. The river issues from Lake Ladoga at Shlisselburg and flows 46 miles (74 km) west to the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic ...
Neva, Battle of the: (July 15, 1240), military engagement in which the Novgorod army defeated the Swedes on the banks of the Neva River; in honour of this battle the Novgorod commander, Prince Alexander ...
Nevada: constituent state of the United States of America. It borders California on the west, Oregon and Idaho on the north, Utah on the east, and Arizona on the southeast. It ...
Nevada Fall: waterfall located on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, east-central California, U.S. It is situated about 5 miles (8 km) above the confluence of the Merced River with Tenaya ...
Nevada, Emma: American opera singer, one of the finest coloratura sopranos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Nevada, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Nevada, U.S., comprising campuses in Reno and Las Vegas. It is part of the University and Community College System of Nevada. The Reno ...
Nevadan orogeny: a mountain-building event in the Sierra Nevada region of eastern California, believed to have taken place in the latest Jurassic time (about 144 million years ago). The term now is ...
Nevado de Toluca National Park: park in Mexico estado ("state"), central Mexico. It is situated in the municipality of Zinacantepec, on the Mexico-Toluca-Guadalajara highway west of Mexico City. Established in 1936, it has an area ...
Nevele Pride: (foaled 1965), American harness racehorse (Standardbred), the fastest trotter in history. He won 57 victories out of the 67 races he entered, earning more than $870,000 in his career of ...
Nevelson, Louise: American sculptor known for her large, monochromatic abstract sculptures and environments in wood and other materials.
Nevers: city, capital of Nievre departement, Bourgogne region, central France, south-southeast of Paris. Situated on the high right bank of the Loire River at its confluence with the Nievre River, it ...
Nevers faience: French tin-glazed earthenware introduced from Italy to Nevers in 1565, by two brothers named Corrado. As the Conrade family, they and their descendants dominated Nevers faience manufacture for more than ...
Nevers glass figure: any of the ornamental glassware made in Nevers, Fr., from the late 16th century through the early 19th. Only a few inches high, they have been mistaken for fine porcelain ...
Neves: city, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, on the eastern shore of the Baia de Guanabara opposite Rio de Janeiro city, just southwest of Sao Goncalo. Originally a Guarulhos Indian village, ...
Nevi'im: the second division of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, the other two being the Torah (the Law) and the Ketuvim (the Writings, or the Hagiographa). In the Hebrew canon ...
Neville's Cross, Battle of: (Oct. 17, 1346), English victory over the Scots-under David II-who, as allies of the French, had invaded England in an attempt to distract Edward III from the Siege of Calais ...
Nevin, Ethelbert Woodbridge: U.S. composer of light songs and piano pieces.
Nevin, John Williamson: U.S. Protestant theologian and educator who contributed to the "Mercersburg theology"-a movement that attempted to counter the popular Protestant revivalism of antebellum America.
Nevinnomyssk: city, Stavropol kray ("territory"), western Russia, on the Kuban River at the mouth of the Bolshoy (Great) Zelenchuk River. Until the mid-1950s it was an agricultural market ...
Nevins, Allan: American historian, author, and educator, known especially for his eight-volume history of the American Civil War and his biographies of American political and industrial figures. He also established the country's ...
Nevison, John: Yorkshire highwayman of Restoration England, made famous in ballads and folklore.
Nevsehir: city, central Turkey. It lies on the lower slopes of a hill crowned by a ruined citadel dating from the Seljuq period. Other monuments include the mosque Kursunlu Cami, with ...
nevus: congenital skin lesion, or birthmark, caused by abnormal pigmentation or by proliferation of blood vessels and other dermal or epidermal structures. Nevi may be raised or may spread along the ...
New Age movement: movement that spread through the occult and metaphysical religious communities in the 1970s and '80s. It looked forward to a "New Age" of love and light and offered a foretaste ...
New Albany: city, seat (1819) of Floyd county, southeastern Indiana, U.S. It lies along the Ohio River (bridged) opposite Louisville, Ky. It was founded in 1813 by Joel, Abner, and Nathaniel Scribner, ...
New Amsterdam: town, northeastern Guyana. It lies along the Berbice River near the point at which the latter empties into the Atlantic Ocean. Built in 1740 by the Dutch and first named ...
New Apostolic Church: church organized in Germany in 1863 as the Universal Catholic Church, by members of the Catholic Apostolic Church who believed that new apostles must be appointed to replace deceased apostles ...
New Bedford: city, Bristol county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies at the mouth of the Acushnet River on Buzzards Bay, 54 miles (87 km) south of Boston.
New Bern: city, seat (1722) of Craven county, eastern North Carolina, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Neuse and Trent Rivers, about 35 miles (55 km) northeast of Jacksonville. The ...
New Braunfels: city, seat (1846) of Comal county and also partly in Guadalupe county, south-central Texas, U.S. It lies on the Balcones Escarpment at a point where the Comal River (3 miles ...
New Britain: largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in Papua New Guinea. It is situated 55 miles (88 km) east of the Huon Peninsula of eastern mainland ...
New Britain: city, coextensive with the town (township) of New Britain, Hartford county, central Connecticut, U.S. Settled as the Stanley Quarter to the north in 1686 and followed later by the Great ...
New Brunswick: Canadian province located on the eastern seaboard of the North American continent. It is Canada's only officially bilingual province, French and English having equal status. It was one of the ...
New Brunswick: city, seat of Middlesex county, eastern New Jersey, U.S. It lies on the Raritan River, at the terminus of the old Delaware and Raritan Canal, 21 miles (33 km) south-southwest ...
New Brutalism: one aspect of the International Style of architecture that was created by Le Corbusier and his leading fellow architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright and that ...
New Caledonia: French overseas territory in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about 900 miles (1,500 kilometres) east of Australia. It includes the island of New Caledonia (the Grande Terre, or mainland), where the ...
New Castile: historic provincial region, central upland Spain. It generally includes the area of the Moorish kingdom of Toledo annexed to the former kingdom of Castile in the 11th century AD. In ...
New Castle: city, New Castle county, northern Delaware, U.S. It is just south of Wilmington on the Delaware River, there linked to New Jersey by the twin spans of the Delaware Memorial ...
New Castle: county, northern Delaware, U.S., bounded by Pennsylvania to the north, New Jersey to the east (the Delaware River constituting the border), the Smyrna River to the south, and Maryland to ...
New Castle: city, seat (1849) of Lawrence county, western Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies at the juncture of the Shenango and Mahoning rivers and Neshannock Creek and in the foothills of the Allegheny ...
New Castle: city, seat (1821) of Henry county, eastern Indiana, U.S. It lies along the Blue River, 50 miles (80 km) east of Indianapolis. Founded in 1820 and named by Ezekiel Leavell ...
New China News Agency: news agency of China, founded in 1931 as the press outlet of the Chinese Communist Party. It was first set up in the Red Army-controlled area in Jiangxi province and ...
New Church: church organized in the General Conference of the New Church, the General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the U.S.A., and the General Church of the New Jerusalem. Its members ...
New Clean Government Party: Japanese political party that was founded in 1964 as the political wing of the Buddhist lay movement Soka-gakkai.
New Comedy: to the mid-3rd century BC that offers a mildly satiric view of contemporary Athenian society, especially in its familiar and domestic aspects. Unlike Old Comedy, which parodied public figures and ...
New Criticism: post-World War I school of Anglo-American literary critical theory that insisted on the intrinsic value of a work of art and focused attention on the individual work alone as an ...
New Deal: the domestic program of the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939, which took action to bring about immediate economic relief as well as reforms in ...
New Delhi: the capital of India, constituting part of the city and union territory of Delhi (q.v.).
New Democratic Party: Canadian democratic socialist political party favouring a mixed public-private economy, broadened social benefits, and an internationalist foreign policy.
New Economic Policy: the economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928, representing a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism. The policy ...
New England: region, northeastern United States, including the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
New England Confederation: in British American colonial history, a federation of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth established in May 1643 by delegates from those four Puritan colonies. Several factors influenced the formation ...
New England Conservatory of Music: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Considered one of the leading music schools in the United States, it is also the oldest independent music conservatory in ...
New England Glass Company: American glass company that was situated in East Cambridge, Mass., from about 1818 until 1888. In the latter year the company's owner, Edward D. Libbey, met a strike of his ...
New England Range: section of the Eastern Highlands, or Great Dividing Range, northeastern New South Wales, Australia. The range extends 200 mi (320 km) north from the Moonbi Range (near Tamworth) to the ...
New England, Council for: in British American colonial history, joint stock company organized in 1620 by a charter from the British crown with authority to colonize and govern the area now known as New ...
New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, A: (NED), the title of the original edition (1884-1928) of The Oxford English Dictionary (q.v.), which was the revised and corrected edition published in 1933.
New Forest: district, administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England, comprising the New Forest and its urbanized coastal fringe flanking Southampton Water and The Solent, together with rural areas around Ringwood and ...
New France: (1534-1763), the French colonies of continental North America, initially embracing the shores of the St. Lawrence River, Newfoundland, and Acadia (Nova Scotia) but gradually expanding to include much of the ...
New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars: (NGC), basic reference list of star clusters, nebulas, and galaxies. It was compiled in 1888 by Danish astronomer Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer, who based his work on earlier lists made ...
New Georgia Group: volcanic island group in the Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean, 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Guadalcanal. The four main islands (northwest to southeast) are Vella Lavella; Kolombangara, largely consisting ...
New Glarus: village, Green county, southern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on a branch of the Sugar River, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Madison. Founded in 1845 by some 100 immigrants ...
New Glasgow: town, Pictou county, northern Nova Scotia, Canada. It lies along the East River, 104 miles (167 km) northeast of Halifax. Founded in 1809, following the discovery of local coal deposits ...
New Granada, Viceroyalty of: in colonial Latin America, a Spanish viceroyalty, established temporarily between 1717 and 1724 and permanently in 1740, that included present Colombia, Panama (after 1751), Ecuador, and Venezuela and had its ...
New Guinea: island of the eastern Malay Archipelago, in the western Pacific Ocean, north of Australia. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the north, the Bismarck and Solomon seas to ...
New Hampshire: constituent state of the United States of America. One of the 13 original U.S. states, it is located in New England at the extreme northeastern corner of the nation. With ...
New Hampshire Grants: in the period before the American Revolution, the territory that subsequently became the state of Vermont. The area was initially claimed by New Hampshire, and the first land grant there ...
New Hampshire v. Louisiana: (108 U.S. 76 [1883]), U.S. Supreme Court case (combined with New York v. Louisiana) concerning an attempt by the states of New Hampshire and New York to force Louisiana to ...
New Hampshire, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Durham, N.H., U.S. The only university in the state, the University of New Hampshire has land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant status. It anchors the ...
New Harmony: town, Posey county, southwestern Indiana, U.S. It is located on the Wabash River at the Illinois border, 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Evansville. The site was first occupied by ...
New Haven: city, coextensive with the town (township) of New Haven, New Haven county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It is a port on Long Island Sound at the Quinnipiac River mouth. Originally settled ...
New Haven: county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It is bordered to the south by Long Island Sound, to the southwest by the Housatonic River, and to the southeast by the Hammonasset River. The ...
New Hope: borough (town) and artists' colony, Bucks county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies in a scenic wooded region along the west bank of the Delaware River (there bridged to Lambertville, New ...