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- (from the article "Even") ...mixed with the Yukaghirs created an Even-Yukaghir population that is bilingual. Other peoples related by similar ties include the Dolgan, who are a nomadic reindeer-breeding group, and the riverine Negidals, ...
- neglected acceleration
- (from the article "comet") ...change the osculating orbit. In spite of this fact, the deviation between the observed and the predicted positions usually grows (imperceptibly) with the square of time. This is the signature ...
- negligee
- informal gown, usually of a soft, sheer fabric, worn at home by women. When the corset was fashionable, the negligee was a loose-fitting gown worn during the rest period after ...
- negligence
- in law, the failure to meet a standard of behaviour established to protect society against unreasonable risk. Negligence is the cornerstone of tort liability and a key factor in most ... [9 Related Articles]
- Neglinnaya
- (from the article "Moscow") ...krem, meaning a conifer providing timber suitable for building. The Kremlin was sited on the relatively high spit of land between the Moscow River and a small tributary, the Neglinnaya. ...
- Negoiu, Mount
- (from the article "Fagaras Mountains") ...The mountains are heavily glaciated, with lakes, fretted peaks, and morainic deposits. The Olt breach defines the western end, the Bran Pass the eastern. Moldoveanu (8,346 feet [2,544 m]) and ...
- negotiable instrument
- (from the article "commercial transaction") The negotiable instrument, which is essentially a document embodying a right to the payment of money and which may be transferred from person to person, developed historically from efforts to ...
- negotiated management
- (from the article "police") ...in most countries that have not adopted Western-style democracy. Even in democracies, however, escalated force was the traditional way of controlling crowds until the 1970s, when the strategy of negotiated ...
- negotiated-contract buying
- (from the article "marketing") ...buying, the government disseminates very specific information about the products and services required and requests bids from suppliers. Contracts generally are awarded to the lowest bidder. In negotiated-contract buying, a ...
- negotiation
- (from the article "war, law of") Hostilities may be suspended pending negotiation between the parties. Negotiation may, or may not, be preceded by the display of a white flag, which merely means that one side wishes ...
- negotiorum gestio
- (from the article "Roman law") ...common feature save that they did not properly fall under contract, because there was no agreement, or under delict, because there was no wrongful act. The most noticeable examples were, ...
- Negra, Cordillera
- range of the Andes Mountains in west-central Peru. It extends for about 110 miles (180 km) southeast from the mouth of the Santa River and rises to an elevation of ... [2 Related Articles]
- Negre, Charles
- (from the article "photography, history of") ...commissioned several photographers to document historical buildings. Working with cameras making photographs as large as 20 by 29 inches (51 by 74 cm), Henri Le Secq, Charles Marville, and Charles ...
- Negrin Lopez, Juan
- Republican prime minister (1937-39) of Spain who held office during the last two years of the Spanish Civil War. He was a determined wartime leader but was forced to rely ... [1 Related Articles]
- Negrito
- (from the article "Philippines") Many smaller groups of indigenous and immigrant peoples account for the remainder of the Philippines' population. The aboriginal inhabitants of the islands were the Negritos, a term referring collectively to ...
- 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 ... [10 Related Articles]
- Negro American League
- (from the article "baseball") ...World War I. In the 1920s a Negro World Series was begun and was held annually until the Negro leagues failed in the 1930s. A second Negro National League was ...
- Negro Eastern League
- (from the article "baseball") Formed in 1920 and 1921, respectively, the Negro National League and the Negro Eastern League played in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City (Missouri), Detroit, and other cities ...
- Negro Experimental Theatre
- (from the article "Anderson, Regina M.") The Krigwa Players evolved into the Negro Experimental Theatre (also known as the Harlem Experimental Theatre), which in 1931 produced Anderson's one-act play Climbing Jacob's Ladder, about ...
- Negro Fellowship League
- (from the article "Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell") From 1898 to 1902 Wells-Barnett served as secretary of the National Afro-American Council, and in 1910 she founded and became first president of the Negro Fellowship League, which aided newly ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- Negro National League
- (from the article "baseball") Formed in 1920 and 1921, respectively, the Negro National League and the Negro Eastern League played in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City (Missouri), Detroit, and other cities ...
- Negro People's Theatre
- (from the article "Welles, Orson") ...He made his New York debut as Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet in December 1934. Welles was the director of an all-black cast in
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Negro River
- (from the article "Nicaragua") ...country's main watershed. The rivers that flow to the west empty into the Pacific Ocean or Lakes Managua and Nicaragua. They are short and carry a small volume of water; ...
- 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Negro Southern League
- (from the article "Negro league") ...the Indianapolis ABCs, Chicago Giants, Kansas City (Missouri) Monarchs, Detroit Stars, St. Louis Giants, Dayton (Ohio) Marcos, and the Cuban Stars, who had no home city. A few weeks later ...
- Negro World Series
- (from the article "baseball") ...New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City (Missouri), Detroit, and other cities that had absorbed a large influx of African Americans from the South during and after World War ...
- Negroponte, John
- American diplomat, who served as ambassador to a number of countries, including Honduras (1981-85) and Iraq (2004-05), and was the U.S. representative to the United Nations (UN; 2001-04) before being ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Negundo
- (from the article "Sapindales") ...where half the maple species occur; about three-quarters of the species are Asian. There are eight species of Acer with compound leaves that are sometimes placed in a separate genus, ...
- Nehardea
- (from the article "Mesopotamia, history of") ...in the north changed the composition of the local population. After the fall of the Temple of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70, many Jews fled to Mesopotamia, where they ...
- 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 ... [5 Related Articles]
- Nehemiah, Book of
- (from the article "Books of the Bible") two Old Testament books that together with the books of Chronicles formed a single history of Israel from the time of Adam. Ezra and Nehemiah are a single book in ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nehru family
- (from the article "Allahabad") ...Mutiny against British rule. From 1904 to 1949 the city was the capital of the United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh). It was a centre of the Indian independence movement and ...
- Nehru Report
- (from the article "Nehru, Motilal") ...found the Swaraj Party (1923-27), the policy of which was to win election to the Central Legislative Assembly and obstruct its proceedings from within. In 1928 he wrote the Congress ...
- 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 ... [11 Related Articles]
- 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. [2 Related Articles]
- nei-tan
- (from the article "Daoism") While learned specialists continued to refine alchemical theory, the period witnessed increasing interest in internal alchemy (neidan), in which the language of the laboratory was used to describe operations realized ...
- Neiba
- city, southwestern Dominican Republic, in the lowlands between the eastern shore of Lake Enriquillo and the Yaque del Sur River. It was founded about the beginning of the 18th century. ...
- 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"). ...
- Neidpath Castle
- (from the article "Peeblesshire") ...The Romans left traces of their military rule in the camp at Lyne, locally known as Randal's Walls. In medieval times a series of peels (fortified towers) were erected; the ...
- Neige, Mount
- (from the article "Jura Mountains") ...Rhone River to the Rhine. It lies mostly in Switzerland, but a good part of the western sector lies in France. The highest peaks of the Jura are in the ...
- Neiges, Piton des
- (from the article "Reunion") ...rugged mountains in an advanced state of dissection by short torrential rivers. The west-central area contains a mountain massif with three summits exceeding 9,000 feet (2,740 metres), including the Piton ...
- Neighborhood Union
- (from the article "Hope, Lugenia Burns") American social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for blacks in Atlanta, Ga., and served as a model for the future Civil ...
- neighbour-joining
- (from the article "evolution") ...figure of the 20-organism phylogeny) relax the condition of uniform rate and allow for unequal rates of evolution along the branches. One of the most extensively used methods of this ...
- neighbourhood shopping centre
- (from the article "shopping centre") Shopping centres are generally of neighbourhood, community, or regional scope. The smallest type, the neighbourhood centre, usually has a supermarket as a focus, with daily convenience shops such as a ...
- Neihardt, John Gneisenau
- American poet, novelist, and short-story writer who described the history of American Indians, especially the Sioux. [1 Related Articles]
- Neijiang
- city, southeastern Sichuan sheng (province), south-central China. Situated on the Tuo River, it is also at the junction of the Chengdu-Chongqing railway and the southern branchline to ...
- 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. [1 Related Articles]
- Neilson, John Shaw
- (from the article "Australian literature") ...in the realm of Australian pastoral in such novels as Up the Country (1928), though she is mostly remembered by her early pseudoautobiographical My Brilliant Career (1901). John Shaw Neilson, ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- 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 ...
- Neisse River
- (from the article "Neisse River") ...better-known Nysa Luzycka, or Lusatian Neisse, is the longer (157 miles [252 km]) and more westerly; it forms part of the German-Polish frontier (see Oder-Neisse Line). The Nysa Klodzka (Glatzer ...
- Neisser, Albert
- (from the article "Wassermann, August von") Working at the Robert Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin (1890-1913), Wassermann and the German dermatologist Albert Neisser developed (1906) a test for the antibody produced by persons infected ...
- Neith
- ancient Egyptian goddess who was the patroness of the city of Sais in the Nile River delta. Neith was worshipped as early as predynastic times (c. 3000 BCE), 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 ...
- Neizvestny, Ernst
- (from the article "Russia") ...recover from the Stalinist years than did literature. It was not until the 1960s and '70s that a new group of artists, all of whom worked "underground," appeared. Major artists ...
- Nejapa, Lake
- (from the article "Nicaragua") ...of drinking water, and Lake Jiloa, which is slightly alkaline and is a favourite bathing resort. Lake Masaya is prized for its swimming and fishing facilities; the sulfurous waters of ...
- Nekemte
- (from the article "Ethiopia") Modern urban centres in Ethiopia include the national capital of Addis Ababa and such regional centres as Dire Dawa (in the east), Jima (south), Nekemte (west), Dese (north-central), Gonder (northwest), ...
- 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 ... [3 Related Articles]
- 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, ... [5 Related Articles]
- Neleus
- (from the article "Pelias") in Greek mythology, a king of Iolcus in Thessaly who imposed on his half-nephew Jason the task of bearing off the Golden Fleece. According to Homer, Pelias and Neleus were ...
- Neleus of Scepsis
- (from the article "Aristotle") ...According to ancient tradition-passed on by Plutarch (AD 46-c. 119) and Strabo (c. 64 BC-AD 23?)-the writings of Aristotle and Theophrastus were bequeathed to Neleus of Scepsis, whose heirs hid ...
- Nelion
- (from the article "East African mountains") ...highest mountain in Africa, Mount Kenya has a girth of about 95 miles at 8,000 feet, from which it rises boldly to its restricted summit zone. The craggy twin peaks ...
- Nelligan, Emile
- French-Canadian poet who was a major figure in the Ecole Litteraire de Montreal ("Montreal Literary School"). [2 Related Articles]
- Nellis Air Force Base
- (from the article "Las Vegas") ...government to establish two major installations near Las Vegas in 1941: a magnesium-processing plant southeast of the city in Henderson and a military airfield just to the northeast. The latter, ...
- Nelly
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...artist Kanye West released an explicitly Christian single, "Jesus Walks," that reached Billboard's all-genre Top 20. More blurring occurred when St. Louis, Mo.-based rapper Nelly recruited country superstar Tim McGraw ...
- 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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson Mandela National Museum
- (from the article "South Africa") ...of South Africa, the national reference and preservation repository formed in 1999 by the merger of the South African Library and the State Library, has campuses in Cape Town and ...
- Nelson River
- river in northern Manitoba, Can., that begins by draining Lake Winnipeg, flows northward, and ends by discharging into Hudson Bay near York Factory. Its 400-mile (644-km) course is the ultimate ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson's Column
- (from the article "Trafalgar Square") ...the most famous of all London squares, Trafalgar Square has always been public and has had no garden. Seven major arteries pump automobiles around the great paved space, which is ...
- Nelson, Adam
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...took the World Athletics Final, the year's premier IAAF outdoor event, but fellow American Christian Cantwell had the longest throw of the year (22.45 m [73 ft 8 in]) and ...
- Nelson, Baby Face
- American gunman and bank robber noted for his vicious killings and youthful looks.
- Nelson, Brendan
- (from the article "Australia") Newly appointed Minister for Defence Brendan Nelson had the difficult task of presiding over the political damage that followed the death in April of Private Jake Kovco, who died in ...
- Nelson, Byron
- American professional golfer, who dominated the sport in the late 1930s and '40s. Known for his fluid swing, he won a record 11 consecutive professional tournaments in 1945. [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Gaylord Anton
- American politician and conservationist (b. June 4, 1916, Clear Lake, Wis.-d. July 3, 2005, Kensington, Md.), was the founder of Earth Day-first celebrated on April 22, 1970, to focus attention ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Gene
- (EUGENE LEANDER BERG), U.S. actor-dancer best remembered for his role as Will Parker in the motion picture musical Oklahoma! (b. March 24, 1920--d. Sept. 16, 1996).
- Nelson, Harriet
- (PEGGY LOU SNYDER) U.S. singer and actress (b. July 18, 1909, Des Moines, Iowa--d. Oct. 2, 1994, Laguna Beach, Calif.), became an American icon of motherhood as the radio and ...
- Nelson, Horatia
- (from the article "Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount") ...after him and, eventually, in the preservation at Portsmouth of the Victory. Emma Hamilton and his daughter, however, were ignored. Emma died, almost destitute, in Calais nine years later. Horatia, ...
- 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 ... [17 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Ken
- American record producer helped define the smooth country-pop Nashville Sound and the twangy California-based Bakersfield Sound through his low-key approach in studio sessions. During the 1930s Nelson began his career ...
- Nelson, Leonard
- (from the article "Kantianism") ...the Friesian Empiricist Jurgen Bona Meyer in his Kants Psychologie (1870). Later, a more important contribution in this field was made by the Gottingen philosopher of ethics and law Leonard ...
- Nelson, O. F.
- (from the article "Samoa") ...leadership and that of the local business community; in response, an organized political movement called the Mau ("Strongly Held View") emerged. The Mau was led by Olaf Frederick Nelson, whose ...
- Nelson, Richard
- (from the article "American literature") ...several Off-Broadway plays about Chinese Americans, David Henry Hwang achieved critical and commercial success on Broadway with his gender-bending drama M. Butterfly (1988). Richard Nelson found an ...
- 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 ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Samuel
- associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (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 ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Willie
- American songwriter and guitarist, one of the most popular country music singers of the late 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- art museum in Kansas City, Mo., that ranks among the 10 largest in the United States. [3 Related Articles]
- Nelsova, Zara
- Canadian-born American cellist (b. Dec. 24, 1917, Winnipeg, Man.-d. Oct. 10, 2002, New York, N.Y.), had a long career, beginning as a child prodigy. Called the "queen of cellists," she ...
- Nelspruit
- city, 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) ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nelumbonaceae
- the lotus-lily family of the order Proteales, consisting of two species of attractive aquatic plants. One of these species is the sacred lotus of the Orient (Nelumbo nucifera) and is ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nelumbonales
- (from the article "Nelumbonaceae") Some authorities consider the two species to constitute a separate order (Nelumbonales) because of important botanical characteristics that suggest a different evolutionary origin from the other water lilies. Unlike other ...
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