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- American orchestra created in 1937 by the National Broadcasting Company expressly for the internationally renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini. Based in New York City, the orchestra gave weekly concerts that were ... [1 Related Articles]
- NC
- (from the article "distress signal") ...signals, such as a gun or rocket fired at regular intervals, or a continuous sounding of a fog-signal apparatus; and (3) radio signals such as the Morse group SOS, the ...
- Nchare
- (from the article "Bamum") The first mfon, Nchare, and his followers are believed to have come from the territory of the neighbouring Tikar people early in the 18th century. Settling among the Bamileke people ...
- NCR Corporation
- ., American manufacturer of cash registers, computers, and information-processing systems, based in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. [4 Related Articles]
- Ncube, Pius
- (from the article "Religion") ...general secretary, the Rev. Ishmael Noko of Zimbabwe, that asked the African Union to intervene. The World Alliance of Reformed Churches issued a similar appeal. In June, Roman Catholic Archbishop ...
- Ndadaye, Melchior
- Burundian banker and politician (b. March 28, 1953, Nyabihanga, Muramvya, Burundi--d. Oct. 21, 1993, Near Bujumbura, Burundi), became Burundi's president and the first member of the Hutu ethnic majority to ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ndaka
- (from the article "Ituri Forest") People practicing shifting cultivation have been present in the Ituri for 2,000 years or more. Most of these peoples, including the Bila, Budu, and Ndaka, speak one of the numerous ...
- ndako gboya
- (from the article "art, African") ...(sometimes a human figure) rising above it, flanked with stylized horns. The gugu masquerader wears a cloth mask decorated with cowrie shells, but sometimes Yoruba masks are used. The ndako ...
- Ndayizeye, Domitien
- (from the article "Burundi") Peace and stability, however, appeared tenuous as political crises overshadowed the truce. On August 21 Domitien Ndayizeye, Burundi's immediate past president, and other high-profile leaders were arrested on charges of ...
- Ndebele
- any of several Bantu-speaking African peoples who live primarily in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces in South Africa. The Ndebele are ancient offshoots of the main Nguni-speaking peoples and began ... [6 Related Articles]
- Ndebele
- Bantu-speaking people of southwestern Zimbabwe who now live primarily around the city of Bulawayo. They originated early in the 19th century as an offshoot of the Nguni of Natal. [9 Related Articles]
- Ndembu
- (from the article "African religions") ...week of the child's life. Among the Asante of Ghana, twins are assigned a status akin to that of living shrines; a sign of abundant fertility, they are deemed repositories ...
- Ndereba, Catherine
- (from the article "Kenya") ...Olympic Games in Mexico City, at which Kip Keino, Naftali Temu, and Amos Biwott all won gold medals, Kenyan distance runners have continually won Olympic medals and major races throughout ...
- NDiaye, Marie
- (from the article "Literature") ...the growing sense of tedium with which they were met. During the year three established novelists published autobiofictions instead of novels. One of the previous decade's most celebrated writers, Marie ...
- Ndlamba
- (from the article "Xhosa") ...of related peoples living primarily in Eastern Cape province, South Africa, and forming part of the southern Nguni group of Bantu-speaking peoples. The main Xhosa groups are the Gcaleka, Ngika, ...
- ndlovukazi
- (from the article "Swaziland") The traditional centres of Swazi life are the royal villages of the ngwenyama (the king) at Ludzidzini and of the ndlovukazi (the queen mother) at Phondvo, both of which are ...
- Ndola
- second largest town in Zambia, located on the Congo (Kinshasa) border near Kitwe. It is linked by road and rail to the capital, Lusaka, and to Livingstone and thus to ...
- Ndondakasuka, Battle of
- (from the article "South Africa") In 1856 the primary conflict in the Zulu civil war (the Battle of Ndondakasuka on the lower Tugela River, close to the sea) elevated Mpande's younger son, Cetshwayo, over Mpande's ...
- Ndong, Jean Eyeghe
- (from the article "Gabon") Area: 267,667 sq km (103,347 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 1,331,000 | Capital: Libreville | Chief of state: President Omar Bongo Ondimba | Head of government: Prime Minister ...
- Ndongo
- (from the article "Mbundu") ...Mbundu were organized into groups that had loose political connections. In response to pressure from the Kongo Kingdom to the north, the Mbundu leadership centred on the ngola (ruler) of ...
- Ndongo
- historical African kingdom of the Mbundu people. The original core of the kingdom was in the highlands east of Luanda, Angola, between the Cuanza and Lucala rivers. At its height ... [2 Related Articles]
- Ndutu
- site in northern Tanzania known for a 400,000-year-old human cranium and associated Stone Age tools discovered there in 1973. The skull displays traits of both Homo erectus and H. sapiens, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nduye
- (from the article "Ituri Forest") ...the Ituri is the colour of strong tea. Besides the Ituri River itself, there are many broad streams that flow generally from east to west. The most notable are the ...
- Ne Win, U
- Burmese general who was the leader of Burma (Myanmar) from 1962 to 1988. [3 Related Articles]
- Ne'eman, Yuval
- Israeli nuclear physicist and politician (b. May 14, 1925, Tel Aviv, British Palestine-d. April 26, 2006, Tel Aviv, Israel), was at the centre of Israel's space program as the founder ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nea Psara
- (from the article "Eretria") The modern village Nea Psara, which occupies the site, was populated by inhabitants of Psara, off Khios, in 1821.
- Neagh, Lough
- lake in east-central Northern Ireland, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Belfast. It is the largest lake in the British Isles, covering 153 square miles (396 square km), with ... [3 Related Articles]
- Neagle, Dame Anna
- British actress and dancer, known for her work in stage plays, musicals, and films. Her motion-picture career was guided by her husband, producer-director Herbert Wilcox.
- Neal Blaisdell Center
- (from the article "Hawaii") ...has several theatre organizations, professional and amateur. The Honolulu Symphony Orchestra (1900) and the Hawaii Opera Theatre perform in Honolulu and on the other major islands. Their home is the ...
- Neal, Larry
- (from the article "African American literature") ...up small presses. In 1968 poetry, fiction, essays, and drama from writers associated with the movement appeared in the landmark anthology Black Fire, edited by Baraka and ...
- Neal, Patricia
- American motion picture actress known for her deeply intelligent performances and for her rehabilitation and triumphant return to films following a series of strokes. [1 Related Articles]
- Neale, Earle
- U.S. collegiate and professional football coach and professional baseball player, who as a football coach was a great innovator. He was one of the first to use the five-man and ...
- Neale, Leonard
- (from the article "Lalor, Mother Teresa") ...Pennsylvania, in January 1795, she had formed close friendships with two fellow passengers, both widows, with whom she soon established an informal religious community under the guidance of Father Leonard ...
- Neamt
- judet (county), northeastern Romania. The Eastern Carpathian and sub-Carpathian mountains rise above settlement areas situated in the valleys of the county. Neamt is drained to the southeast by the Bistrita ...
- Neamt Monastery
- (from the article "Neamt") ...Lake Rosu, another natural monument, contains a forest that was inundated during a landslide in 1938. Treetops rise from the lake. The Fortress of Neamt (14th century) and the Neamt ...
- Neander Valley
- (from the article "Neanderthal") ...research, they are better known than any other archaic human group. Consequently, they have become the archetypal "cavemen." The name Neanderthal (or Neandertal) derives from the Neander Valley near Dusseldorf, ...
- Neanderthal
- the most recent archaic humans, who emerged between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago and were replaced by early modern humans between 35,000 and 28,000 years ago. Neanderthals inhabited Eurasia from ... [36 Related Articles]
- neap tide
- tide of minimal range occurring near the time when the Moon and the Sun are in quadrature. This condition is geometrically defined as the time at which the line from ... [2 Related Articles]
- Neapolis
- (from the article "Syracuse") ...by the southward-projecting island of Ortygia, which half-encloses the bay known as the Great Harbour. The remains of antiquity on the continuously inhabited Ortygia are less striking than those in ...
- Neapolis
- (from the article "Simferopol") ...administrative centre of Crimea, in southern Ukraine. The city lies along the Salhyr (Salgir) River where it emerges from the Crimean Mountains. On the present outskirts of the city is ...
- Neapolitan opera
- (from the article "Neapolitan opera") style of Italian opera written chiefly by 18th-century composers working in Naples. See opera seria.contributions of LeoLeo, Leonardocomposer who was ...
- Neapolitan school
- (from the article "painting, Western") ...18th-century style by his pupil Benedetto Luti, while Francesco Trevisani abandoned the dramatic lighting of his early paintings in favour of a glossy Rococo classicism. In the early 18th century, ...
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous Shoemaker
- first spacecraft to orbit and then land on an asteroid (Eros, on Feb. 12, 2001). [2 Related Articles]
- Near East
- usually the lands around the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, including northeastern Africa, southwestern Asia, and, occasionally, the Balkan Peninsula. The term Near East was used by the first ... [14 Related Articles]
- near infrared interactance
- (from the article "nutrition, human") ...in which subcutaneous fat at various sites is measured using skinfold calipers; bioelectrical impedance, in which resistance to a low-intensity electrical current is used to estimate body fat; and near ...
- Near Islands
- westernmost group of the Aleutian Islands, southwestern Alaska, U.S. The islands lie about 1,500 miles (2,400 km) west of the tip of the Alaska Peninsula. The two largest islands in ...
- near-Earth asteroid
- (from the article "asteroid") Asteroids that can come close to Earth are called near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), although only some NEAs actually cross Earth's orbit. NEAs are divided into several classes. Asteroids belonging to the ...
- near-Earth object
- (from the article "Earth impact hazard") ...whose paths may change over time in a way that would make them cross Earth's orbit. The objects that fall into this category are asteroids and comets in short-period orbits-together ...
- near-infrared spectroscopy
- (from the article "spectroscopy") ...For the infrared region, the wavenumber (&nubar;, the reciprocal of the wavelength) is commonly used to measure energy. Infrared spectroscopy historically has been divided into three regions, the near infrared ...
- Nearchus
- officer in the Macedonian army under Alexander the Great who, on Alexander's orders, sailed from the Hydaspes River in western India to the Persian Gulf and up the Euphrates River ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nearctic region
- (from the article "biogeographic region") This region is the boreal tundra zone, extending from Spitsbergen (an island in the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway) around the shores of the Arctic Ocean through Siberia ...
- Nearer Land Island
- (from the article "Juan Fernandez Islands") ...of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, situated about 400 miles (650 km) west of and administratively part of Chile. They consist of the 36-square-mile (93-square-km) Isla Mas a Tierra ...
- Nearer Spain
- (from the article "ancient Rome") As a result of the Second Punic War, Roman legions had marched into Spain against the Carthaginians and remained there after 201. The Romans formalized their rule in 197 by ...
- Nearing, Helen
- U.S. author who with her husband, Scott, turned out at least 50 books that glorified the back-to-the-land movement (b. Feb. 23, 1904--Sept. 17, 1995).
- nearshore zone
- (from the article "coastal landforms") The nearshore zone is where waves steepen and break, and then re-form in their passage to the beach, where they break for the last time and surge up the foreshore. ...
- neat soap
- (from the article "liquid crystal") Liquid-crystal-forming compounds are widespread and quite diverse. Soap can form a type of smectic known as a lamellar phase, also called neat soap. In this case it is important to ...
- neat's-foot oil
- pale yellow fatty oil made by boiling the feet (excluding hooves), skin, and shinbones of cattle and used chiefly for dressing and waterproofing leather and as a lubricant. After the ...
- Neath
- town, Neath Port Talbot county borough, historic county of Glamorgan (Morgannwg), Wales. About 75 CE the Romans chose the site, on the River Neath (Nedd), for a fort, Nidum, to ...
- Neath Port Talbot
- county borough, southern Wales. Encompassing the Swansea Bay coast from the Kenfig Burrows in the south to the eastern outskirts of Swansea in the north, it extends inland across an ...
- Nebbia v. New York
- (from the article "Roberts, Owen Josephus") ...of an African American communist organizer convicted under a law that provided no clear standard of guilt. In the area of economic and commerce law, Roberts's opinion in NebbiaNew York ...
- Nebela
- (from the article "testacean") ...sand or solid particles glued together (as in Difflugia), or siliceous plates that are secreted by cytoplasm, pushed out, and cemented in place (as in Euglypha). The genus Nebela forms ...
- Nebelwerfer
- (from the article "rocket and missile system") ...for massive bombardments, even from their packing crates. Mobile German rocket batteries were able to lay down heavy and unexpected concentrations of fire on Allied positions. The 150-millimetre Nebelwerfer, a ...
- Nebiolo, Primo
- Italian sports administrator who, as the ambitious head (1969-89) of the Italian Athletics Federation and the powerful and autocratic president (from 1981) of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF), weathered ...
- Nebitdag
- city and administrative centre of Balkan oblast (province), western Turkmenistan, at the southern foot of the Bolshoy (Great) Balkhan Ridge. Its name means "oil mountain," and it ...
- Neblina Peak
- peak in the Imeri Mountains, Amazonas estado (state), northern Brazil, near the Venezuelan border. Reaching 9,888 feet (3,014 m) above sea level, it is the highest point in Brazil. Until ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nebo, Mount
- mountain rising 11,877 feet (3,620 metres) in Juab county, north-central Utah, U.S. It is the highest peak in the Wasatch Range. Named after the mountain in Jordan where Moses is ...
- Nebraska
- constituent state of the United States of America. The Missouri River forms the eastern boundary with Iowa and Missouri and about a fourth of the northern boundary with South Dakota. ... [13 Related Articles]
- Nebraska City
- city, seat (1854) of Otoe county, southeastern Nebraska, U.S., on the Missouri River at the Iowa border, about 40 miles (65 km) south of Omaha. Oto Indians were early inhabitants. ...
- Nebraska, flag of
- U.S. state flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with the state seal in the centre.
- Nebraska, University of
- state university system of Nebraska, U.S., composed of four coeducational campuses. It is a land-grant university with a comprehensive academic program; it is also a research institution. The main campus ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nebraskan Glacial Stage
- major division of Pleistocene time and deposits in North America (the Pleistocene Epoch occurred from 1,600,000 to 10,000 years ago). The Nebraskan Glacial Stage is the oldest generally recognized Pleistocene ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nebrija, Antonio de
- (from the article "Romance languages") ...its peak, however, until the 16th century. In the Spain of 1492 the completion of the reconquest of Spain from the Arabs and the so-called discovery of America were accompanied ...
- Nebuchadrezzar I
- most famous Babylonian king (reigned c. 1119-c. 1098 BC) of the 2nd dynasty of the Isin. [8 Related Articles]
- Nebuchadrezzar II
- the second and greatest king of the Chaldean dynasty of Babylonia (reigned c. 605-c. 561 BC). He was known for his military might, the splendour of his capital, Babylon, and ... [20 Related Articles]
- nebula
- any of the various tenous clouds of gas and dust that occur in interstellar space. The term was formerly applied to any object outside the solar system that had a ... [7 Related Articles]
- nebulium
- hypothetical chemical element whose existence was suggested in 1868 by the English astronomer Sir William Huggins as one possible explanation for the presence of unidentified (forbidden) lines (at 3,726, 3,729, ...
- NEC Corporation
- major Japanese multinational corporation, producer of semiconductors, computers, telecommunications equipment, and related software and services. Headquarters are in Tokyo.
- Necati, Isa
- the first great lyric poet of Ottoman Turkish literature.
- Necatigil, Behcet
- (from the article "Turkish literature") Behcet Necatigil chose a distinct poetic path, eventually creating poems that are models of brevity and wit; they occasionally refer obliquely to the Ottoman culture of the past. Sevgilerde (1976; ...
- Necator americanus
- (from the article "hookworm disease") ...and Asia. A. ceylanicum, normally parasitic in dogs, is sometimes found in man in South America and Asia. A. duodenale, possesses four hooklike teeth in its adult stage, and N. ...
- necessary condition
- (from the article "condition") ...a corresponding instance of some other property Q, but not necessarily vice versa, then P is said to be a sufficient condition for Q and, equivalently, Q is said to ...
- necessary existence
- (from the article "Christianity") ...the 20th century several Christian philosophers (notably Charles Hartshorne, Norman Malcolm, and Alvin Plantinga) asserted the validity of a second form of Anselm's argument. This hinges upon "necessary existence," a ...
- Necessidades Palace
- (from the article "Lisbon") ...of Bairro Alto is the Palace of the National Assembly, also known as the Palace of Sao Bento. Nearby is the official residence of Portugal's prime minister. Farther west, toward ...
- necessity
- (from the article "criminal law") The use of force may also be excused if the defendant reasonably believed himself to be acting under necessity. The doctrine of necessity in Anglo-American law relates to situations in ...
- necessity
- (from the article "applied logic") ...is wholly analogous to the already well-developed field of alethic modal logic, which deals with statements of the form "It is possible that . . ." (symbolized M), "It is ...
- necessity implies actuality
- (from the article "applied logic") ...is possible that . . ." (symbolized M), "It is necessary that . . ." (symbolized L), and so on, with P in the role of possibility ( M) and ...
- necessity implies permissibility
- (from the article "applied logic") ...theses ad impossibile nemo obligatur-"no one is obliged to do the impossible" (i.e., &implies; ~Mp ⊃ ~O p)-and "necessity implies permissibility" (i.e., &implies;Lp ⊃ P p). Although ...
- Necessity, Fort
- (from the article "Washington, George") ...body of Virginia and North Carolina troops, with Indian auxiliaries. But his attack soon brought the whole French force down upon him. They drove his 350 men into the Great ...
- Nechako River
- major tributary of the Fraser River, in central British Columbia, Canada. It originates at Kenney Dam and flows eastward for nearly 150 miles (240 km), draining the Nechako Plateau into ...
- Nechayev, Sergey Gennadiyevich
- Russian revolutionary known for his organizational scheme for a professional revolutionary party and for his ruthless murder of one of the members of his organization. [2 Related Articles]
- Necho I
- governor of Sais, a city of the Egyptian Nile delta, under the Assyrians and ancestor of the 26th dynasty; he survived the frequent changes of political fortune in Lower Egypt ... [1 Related Articles]
- Necho II
- king of Egypt (reigned 610-595 BC), and a member of the 26th dynasty, who unsuccessfully attempted to aid Assyria against the Neo-Babylonians and later sponsored an expedition that circumnavigated Africa. [3 Related Articles]
- Nechung oracle
- oracle-priest of Tibet who, until the conquest of Tibet in 1959 by the People's Republic of China, was consulted on all important occasions. The priest chosen to be the Nechung ... [1 Related Articles]
- neck
- in land vertebrates, the portion of the body joining the head to the shoulders and chest. Some important structures contained in or passing through the neck include the seven cervical ... [4 Related Articles]
- neck
- (from the article "stringed instrument") ...of the master craftsman. The front face of the neck is flat, and to this is glued the curved fingerboard, which projects beyond the shoulder and over the belly toward ...
- neck verse
- (from the article "capital punishment") ...51 of the Bible-"Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions"-which came to be known as the "neck ...
- Neckam, Alexander
- English schoolman and scientist, who was a theology instructor at Oxford, and, from 1213, was Augustinian abbot at Cirencester, Gloucestershire. [1 Related Articles]
- Neckar River
- river, a right-bank tributary of the Rhine in southwestern Germany; it is 228 miles (367 km) long, rising in the Black Forest (Schwarzwald) near Schwenningen am Neckar, near the headwaters ... [3 Related Articles]
- Neckarland
- (from the article "Baden-Wurttemberg") ...Alb) covers the area between the Black Forest and the Franconian Alp (Frankische Alb). In the north its mountains fall abruptly into the valley of the Neckar River. The fertile ...
- Necker cube
- (from the article "illusion") Another example of ambiguity and object reversibility is the Necker cube (see Figure 2, example A), which may seem to flip-flop. Some studies have suggested that younger people tend to ...
- Necker de Saussure, Albertine-Adrienne
- Swiss woman of letters and author of a long-influential study on the education of women.
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