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- (from the article "operations research") The first organized operations research activity in the United States began in 1942 in the Naval Ordnance Laboratory. This group, which dealt with mine warfare problems, was later transferred to ...
- naval ship
- the chief instrument by which a nation extends its military power onto the seas. Warships protect the movement over water of military forces to coastal areas where they may be ... [4 Related Articles]
- naval stores
- products such as tar, pitch, turpentine, pine oil, rosin, and terpenes obtained from the pine and other coniferous trees, and originally used in maintaining wooden sailing ships. Naval stores are ... [2 Related Articles]
- Naval Tactical Data System
- (from the article "warning system") ...and communications between the ships, are used. In the U.S. Navy the Airborne Tactical Data System, consisting of airborne radar, computers, and memory and data links, is connected with the ...
- Naval War College
- (from the article "Luce, Stephen Bleecker") principal founder and first president of the Naval War College for postgraduate studies, the world's first such institution.Rhode IslandRhode IslandResources...Navy ...
- Naval War with France
- (from the article "United States") ...president. (See primary source document: Right of Free Elections.) Wars in Europe and on the high seas, together with rampant opposition at home, gave the new administration little peace. Virtual ...
- naval warfare
- the tactics of military operations conducted on, under, or over the sea. [4 Related Articles]
- Navan
- urban district and county seat of County Meath, Ireland. It lies at the confluence of the Rivers Boyne and Blackwater. The Great Motte, an imposing earthwork 52 feet (16 m) ...
- navapada
- (from the article "siddha") In the Digambara sect the saint-wheel is called navapada ("nine dignities," or "nine virtues") and consists of the panca-paramesthin plus the Jina (saviour) image, temple, scriptures, and dharma-cakra (sacred wheel ...
- navaratra
- ("nine nights"), in Hinduism, a festival of nine days occurring during the month of Asin, or Asvina (September-October). It usually ends with the dasehra, or dasahara, celebration on the 10th ... [2 Related Articles]
- navarin a la printaniere
- (from the article "stew") The French ragout a brun is a brown stew that is flavoured with garlic, tomato, and herbs. A navarin is a ragout a brun made with lamb or mutton; navarin ...
- Navarin, Bay of
- small, deep, and almost landlocked bay of the Ionian Sea in the nomos (department) of Messenia, in the southwestern Peloponnese (Peloponnisos), Greece. Known also as Pylos (Pilos) Bay after Homeric ... [1 Related Articles]
- Navarino, Battle of
- (Oct. 20, 1827), decisive naval engagement of the War of Greek Independence against Turkey. The battle was fought in the Bay of Navarin in the southwestern Peloponnese, between an Egyptian-Turkish ... [3 Related Articles]
- Navarra
- comunidad autonoma (autonomous community) of northern Spain. It is roughly coextensive with the Spanish portion of the historical kingdom of Navarra and coextensive with the modern [10 Related Articles]
- Navarra, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...centres in various parts of the world, numerous high schools, schools of business administration, and charitable activities. Opus Dei also founded and endowed (with government assistance) the University of Navarra, ...
- Navarre, Pierre Freischutz
- (from the article "South Bend") ...sieur de La Salle, the French explorer, visited the locality in 1679, and under the old Council Oak Tree he parleyed in 1681 with the chiefs of the Miami and ...
- Navarrese Company
- (from the article "Greece, history of") ...Athens and Thebes, turning out their Latin lords. Under the protection of the Aragonese king Frederick II of Sicily (three sons of whom became dukes of Athens), they dominated the ...
- Navarro, Fats
- African-American jazz trumpet virtuoso, one of the founders of bebop, who was distinguished by the beauty and fertility of his melodic creations.
- Navarro, Guillermo
- (from the article "2006: Other Winners") Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt for Little Miss SunshineAdapted Screenplay: William Monahan for The DepartedCinematography: Guillermo Navarro for Pan's LabyrinthArt Direction: Eugenio Caballero (art direction) and Pilar Revuelta (set decoration) for ...
- Navarro, Pedro, conde de Olivetto
- Spanish military engineer and general who fought for various countries and city-states in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
- Navas de Tolosa, Battle of Las
- (July 16, 1212), major battle of the Christian reconquest of Spain in which the Almohads (a Muslim dynasty of North Africa and Spain) were severely defeated by the combined armies ... [7 Related Articles]
- Navasky, Victor
- (from the article "Nation, The") In 1995 Victor Navasky, who had been The Nation's editor since 1978, became its publisher. He held the position until 2005, when he was succeeded by Katrina ...
- nave
- central and principal part of a Christian church, extending from the entrance (the narthex) to the transepts (transverse aisle crossing the nave in front of the sanctuary in a cruciform ... [3 Related Articles]
- navel
- in anatomy, a small depression in the abdominal wall at the point of attachment of the umbilical cord (q.v.). It indicates the point through which the mammalian fetus obtained nourishment ... [2 Related Articles]
- navi'
- (from the article "prophecy") The Hebrew word for prophet is navi', usually considered to be a loan word from Akkadian nabu, naba'um, "to proclaim, mention, call, summon." Also occurring in Hebrew are hoze and ...
- Navia Velasco, Carmina
- (from the article "Literature") ...of the Mona Lisa in 1911 from the Louvre and was able to hang on to it for two years. Casa de las Americas awarded its Extraordinary Prize for essays ...
- navicert system
- (from the article "visit and search") ...States, however, protested on the ground that international law did not permit diversion of the vessel unless search at sea showed probable cause for capture. As a result, the British ...
- Navicula
- (from the article "algae") ...tens of thousands more species described from fossil diatomite deposits; Cyclotella and Thalassiosira (centrics) and Navicula and Nitzschia ...
- navicularius
- (from the article "Byzantine Empire") ...the soil, which was the work of the peasant, or colonus; the transport of cheap bulky goods to the metropolitan centres of Rome or Constantinople, which was the work of ...
- Navidad, La
- (from the article "Columbus, Christopher") ...to save him from ridicule on his return to Spain. With the help of a Taino cacique, or Indian chief, named Guacanagari, he set up a stockade on the northern ...
- Navier, Claude-Louis-Marie
- (from the article "building construction") ...Euler's theory of column buckling (1757), were worked out earlier, the real development began with the English scientist Thomas Young's modern definition of the modulus of elasticity in 1807. Louis ...
- Navier-Stokes equation
- (from the article "fluid mechanics") One may have a situation where sigma11 increases with x1. The force that this component of stress exerts on the right-hand side of the cubic element of fluid sketched in ...
- navigation
- (from the article "migration") Migrants often return to breed in the exact locality where they were hatched or born. This journey homeward, particularly that of birds, may cover thousands of miles.
- navigation
- science of directing a craft by determining its position, course, and distance traveled. Navigation is concerned with finding the way to the desired destination, avoiding collisions, conserving fuel, and meeting ... [22 Related Articles]
- Navigation Acts
- in English history, a series of laws designed to restrict England's carrying trade to English ships, effective chiefly in the 17th and 18th centuries. The measures, originally framed to encourage ... [12 Related Articles]
- navigation chart
- map designed and used primarily for navigation. A nautical chart presents most of the information used by the marine navigator, including latitude and longitude scales, topographical features, navigation aids such ... [4 Related Articles]
- navigation satellite
- (from the article "navigation") Artificial satellites can be equipped to transmit electromagnetic radiation at precisely controlled times and frequencies. The frequencies are chosen to avoid interference with other services, to minimize attenuation or delay ...
- Naviglio Grande Canal
- (from the article "Bereguardo Canal") ...around Milan in the 15th century that resulted in important improvements in lock design. A single lock (also known as a staunch lock) with vertically lifting gates had been built ...
- Navistar International Corporation
- leading American producer of medium- and heavy-duty trucks and for many years a major manufacturer of farm and construction equipment. The company is a direct descendant of the business activities ... [3 Related Articles]
- Navka, Tatyana
- (from the article "Ice Skating") Russia scored another pair of Olympic gold medals when Tatyana Totmyanina and Maksim Marinin beat their rivals in the pairs competition, and Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov were judged best ...
- Navojoa
- city, southern Sonora estado (state), northwestern Mexico. Lying along the Gulf of California coastal plain near the Mayo River, Navojoa is the commercial and manufacturing centre for ...
- Navona, Piazza
- (from the article "Rome") At the same hour, less glittering Romans can be found in the Piazza Navona, on the flat plain in the bend of the Tiber that was the Campus Martius of ...
- Navotas
- town, central Luzon, Philippines. The town lies between Manila Bay and Dagatdagatan Lagoon opposite Caloocan City, just north of Manila. It is an important fishing centre for the metropolis and ...
- Navratilova, Martina
- Czech-born American tennis player, who dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and '80s. [4 Related Articles]
- Navsari
- city, southeastern Gujarat state, west-central India. It is situated in the coastal lowland along the Purna River. It is the home of the Parsis, descendants of Zoroastrians who emigrated from ...
- Navstar Global Positioning System
- (from the article "GPS") The Navstar GPS system consists of three major segments: the space segment, the control segment, and the user segment. The space component is made up of the Navstar constellation in ...
- Navteq
- (from the article "Finland") Finnish cellular phone giant Nokia agreed in October to buy the American company Navteq, a maker of digital maps for mobile systems, for euro5.7 billion (about $8.1 billion). The move ...
- navy
- a nation's warships and craft of every kind maintained for fighting on, under, or over the sea. A large modern navy includes aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, minesweepers and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Navy Day Speech
- (from the article "international relations") Truman enumerated the principles of American foreign policy in his Navy Day speech of October 27. Its 12 points echoed the Fourteen Points of Woodrow Wilson, including national self-determination; nonrecognition ...
- Navy Pier
- (from the article "Chicago") ...and power boaters on Lake Michigan. In addition, crowds of runners, walkers, and cyclists take advantage of the paths that wind their way through the city's lakefront parkland. Two newer ...
- Navya-Nyaya
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...Bengal. The 12th-13th-century philosopher Gangesa's Tattvacintamani ("The Jewel of Thought on the Nature of Things") laid the foundations of the school of Navya-Nyaya ("New-Nyaya"). Four great members of this school ...
- nawab
- deputy ruler, or viceroy, under the Mughal rule of India. The title was later adopted by the independent rulers of Bengal, Oudh, and Arcot. [2 Related Articles]
- Nawabganj
- (from the article "Bara Banki") town, east-central Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It lies northeast of Lucknow and includes the larger town of Nawabganj. Nawabganj is an agricultural market and cotton-weaving centre. The two towns ...
- Nawabshah
- town, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. The town, originally called Nasrat, is connected by road and rail with Karachi, Hyderabad, and Sukkur. A growing industrial centre, it manufactures small boats, refined ...
- Nawanagar, Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of
- one of the world's greatest cricket players and, later, a ruler of his native state in India.
- Nawang Gombu
- (from the article "Everest, Mount") ...led by Lieutenant Commander M.S. Kohli, succeeded in putting nine men on the summit of Everest. India thus became the fourth country to scale the world's highest mountain. One of ...
- nawbah
- in Middle Eastern music, particularly the traditions of North Africa, an elaborate suite of movements that constitutes the main form of classical Arabic music in that region. It consists of ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nawoiy
- city, central Uzbekistan. Nawoiy is a natural-gas-based industrial city and a major chemical centre with industries that produce fertilizer and chemical fibres. There are also a large cement plant and ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nawruz
- (from the article "Ghazan, Mahmud") ...viceroy of the provinces of northeastern Persia, where he resided for the next 10 years and defended the frontier against the Chagatai Mongols of Central Asia and then against his ...
- Naxalism
- (from the article "India") ...was combating terrorism both at home and abroad. Along with the growth of terror by Muslim extremists, India experienced a rise in violence among communist (mostly Maoist) groups known as ...
- Naxi
- ethnic group of China who live mainly in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces; some live in Tibet. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language that is closely related to that of the Yi ... [1 Related Articles]
- Naxi language
- (from the article "Sino-Tibetan languages") ...in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi; Hani (Akha) with about 500,000 speakers in Yunnan; Lisu, with approximately 610,000 speakers in Yunnan; Lahu, with about 440,000 speakers in Yunnan; and Naxi, ...
- Naxos
- island, the largest of the Greek Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea. The island's highest point is Mount Zeus (Zia Oros), which is about 3,290 feet (1,003 m) in elevation. ... [3 Related Articles]
- Naxos
- the earliest Greek colony in Sicily, founded by Chalcidians under Theocles (or Thucles) about 734 BC. It lay on the east coast, south of Tauromenium (modern Taormina), just north of ...
- naya
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...(ajiva); the doctrine of anekantavaha, or nonabsolutism (the thesis that things have infinite aspects that no determination can exhaust); the doctrine of naya (the thesis that there are many partial ...
- Nayaka
- (from the article "India") The Qutb Shahis steadily expanded the area under their control during the 16th century at the expense of the politically fragmented Telugu kings and Nayakas and held their own against ...
- Nayakama Miki
- (from the article "Japan") ...were Kurozumikyo, founded by Kurozumi Munetada, Konkokyo of Kawate Bunjiro, and Tenrikyo of Nakayama Miki, all of which remain active in present-day Japan. People like Nakayama Miki, for example, reflected ...
- Nayanar
- any of the Tamil poet-musicians of the 7th and 8th centuries AD who composed devotional hymns of great beauty in honour of the Hindu god Siva. The images of the ... [3 Related Articles]
- nayankara
- (from the article "India") ...governors and determined the number of troops that were to be supplied from the revenues of each province. This administrative plan led to the development of the
- Nayar
- Hindu caste of the Indian state of Kerala. Before the British conquest in 1792, the region contained small, feudal kingdoms, in each of which the royal and noble lineages, the ...
- Nayarit
- estado (state), west-central Mexico. It is bounded by the states of Sinaloa to the northwest, Durango and Zacatecas to the north and northeast, and Jalisco to the ...
- Nayif, 'Abd ar-Razzaq al-
- (from the article "Iraq") Four officers agreed to cooperate with the Ba'th Party. These were Colonel 'Abd al-Razzaq al-Nayif, head of military intelligence, Colonel Ibrahim 'Abd al-Rahman al-Da'ud, chief of the Republican Guard, Colonel ...
- Nayin
- (from the article "Buyid Dynasty") The major cultural centres of the Buyids were the cities of Rayy and Nayin, in Iran, and Baghdad, in Iraq. The Persian character of Buyid art was deep enough to ...
- Nayler, James
- one of the most prominent early English Quakers.
- Naylor, Gloria
- African-American novelist, known for her strong depictions of black women. [1 Related Articles]
- Naypyidaw
- city and capital of Myanmar (Burma). Naypyidaw (Burmese: "Abode of Kings") was built in the central basin of Myanmar in the early 21st century to serve as the country's new ... [3 Related Articles]
- Nayramadlin Peak
- (from the article "Mongolia") ...with dry, lake-dotted basins. Mongolia is highland country, with an average altitude of 5,200 feet (1,585 metres) above sea level. The highest peaks are in the Mongol Altai Mountains, of ...
- Nayyar, O(mkar) P(rasad)
- Indian composer and music director made extensive use of vibrant Punjabi rhythms in scores of Bollywood motion pictures, especially during the 1950s and '60s. He worked on dozens of ...
- Nazarbayev, Nursultan
- president of Kazakhstan (from 1990), a reformist who sought regional autonomy for his Central Asian republic. [6 Related Articles]
- Nazarbayeva, Dariga
- (from the article "Kazakhstan") ...Nursultan Nazarbayev, winning the largest number of seats (42) in the new Parliament. A bloc formed by two pro-presidential parties obtained 11 seats; Asar, the party of the president's daughter ...
- Nazarene
- in the New Testament, a title applied to Jesus and, later, to those who followed his teachings (Acts 24:5). In the Greek text there appear two forms of the word: ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nazarene
- one of an association formed by a number of young German painters in 1809 to return to the medieval spirit in art. Reacting particularly against 18th-century Neoclassicism, the brotherhood was ... [5 Related Articles]
- Nazarene, Church of the
- U.S. Protestant church, the product of several mergers stemming from the 19th-century Holiness movement. The first major merger occurred in 1907, uniting the Church of the Nazarene (organized in California ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nazaret 'Illit
- (from the article "Nazareth") Beginning in 1957, the Jewish suburb called Nazerat 'Illit ("Upper Nazareth") was built on the hills to the east of the city. It has auto-assembly, food-processing, and textile plants; some ...
- Nazareth
- historic city of Lower Galilee, in northern Israel; it is the largest Arab city of the country. In the New Testament Nazareth is associated with Jesus as his boyhood home, ...
- Nazareth
- (from the article "Moravian church") ...in the Americas was among black slaves in the West Indies (1732). Later, in 1735, Moravian missionaries moved into Georgia but were unsuccessful. In 1740 the group went to Pennsylvania ...
- Nazario, Juan
- (from the article "Whitaker, Pernell") ...on Feb. 18, 1989, and he added the WBC title by winning a 12-round decision in a rematch with Ramirez on Aug. 20, 1989. Following several successful title defenses, Whitaker ...
- Nazas River
- river in Durango and Coahuila states, northern Mexico. Formed in Durango by the confluence of the Oro (or Sestin) and Ramos rivers, which descend inland from the Sierra Madre Occidental ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nazca
- culture located on the southern coast of present-day Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (c. 200 BC-AD 600), so called from the Nazca Valley but including also the Pisco, Chincha, ... [7 Related Articles]
- Nazca Lines
- groups of large line drawings and figures that appear, from a distance, to be etched into the earth's surface on the arid Pampa Colorada ("Coloured Plain," or "Red Plain"), northwest ...
- Nazca Plate
- (from the article "Andes Mountains") ...where they began to take the form and position of the present-day continents. The collision (or convergence) of two of these plates-the continental South American Plate and the oceanic Nazca ...
- Nazi Party
- political party of the mass movement known as National Socialism (q.v.). Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the party came to power in Germany in 1933 and governed by totalitarian ... [74 Related Articles]
- Nazif, Ahmad
- (from the article "Egypt") Area: 997,739 sq km (385,229 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 73,358,000 | Capital: Cairo | Chief of state: President Hosni Mubarak | Head of government: Prime Minister Ahmad ...
- Nazimova, Alla
- Russian-born and Russian-trained actress who won fame on the American stage and screen.
- Nazimuddin, Khwaja
- (from the article "Pakistan") When Jinnah died, a power vacuum was created that his successors in the Muslim League had great difficulty filling. Khwaja Nazimuddin, the chief minister of East Bengal, was called on ...
- Nazir Akbarabadi
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...of the most significant of their practitioners up to 1857. There is one poet, however, who cannot be described as a practitioner of the classical Perso-Arabic traditions adopted by his ...
- Nazirite
- (from Hebrew nazar, "to abstain from," or "to consecrate oneself to"), among the ancient Hebrews, a sacred person whose separation was most commonly marked by his uncut hair and his ... [3 Related Articles]
- Nazor, Vladimir
- (from the article "Croatian literature") ...by specifically Croatian concerns with the country's lack of development and political subjugation (to Hungary at that time). Well-known writers of that time include Vladimir Vidric and Vladimir Nazor. The ...
- Nazret
- town, central Ethiopia, 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Addis Ababa. It is a road junction and rail station on the main route between Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. Beginning ...
- Nazym
- (from the article "Ob River") ...middle Ob changes its course from northwesterly to westerly and receives more tributaries: the Tromyegan (right), the Great (Bolshoy) Yugan (left), the Lyamin (right), the Great Salym (left), the Nazym ...
- Nazzam, Ibrahim an-
- brilliant Muslim theologian, a man of letters, and a poet, historian, and jurist.
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