American painter of the Abstract Expressionist school. He was one of the first to use the technique of staining the canvas with thinned paints and of deploying his colours in ...
river rising in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western North Carolina, U.S., and flowing northwest into Tennessee, then west to join the French Broad River after a course of 150 ...
in Anglo-American law, request by a prosecutor in a criminal action that the prosecution of the case cease, either on some or all of the counts or with respect to ...
Japanese novelist who wrote Shinku chitai (1952; Zone of Emptiness), which is considered to be one of the finest war novels produced after World War II.
way of life of peoples who do not live continually in the same place but move cyclically or periodically. It is distinguished from migration, which is noncyclic and involves a ...
administrative division of ancient Egypt. The system of dividing the country into nomes was definitely in force by the time of the Old Kingdom (c. 2575-c. 2130 BC) and persisted ...
city, western Alaska, U.S. A port on the Bering Sea's Norton Sound, the city is situated on the southern shore of Seward Peninsula. It is some 540 miles (870 km) ...
in biological classification, system of naming organisms. The species to which the organism belongs is indicated by two words, the genus and species names, which are Latinized words derived from ...
in philosophy, position taken in the dispute over universals-words that can be applied to individual things having something in common-that flourished especially in late medieval times. Nominalism denied the real ...
professional baseball player. In 1995 Nomo became the first Japanese citizen to join an American major league team after having played professionally in the Japanese major leagues. (The first player ...
Byzantine collection of ecclesiastical legislation (canons) and civil laws (Greek nomoi) related to the Christian church. The nomocanon in its various redactions served as legal text in the Eastern church ...
calculating chart with scales that contain values of three or more mathematical variables, widely used in engineering, industry, and the natural and physical sciences.
in law, the concept of law in ancient Greek philosophy. The problems of political authority and the rights and obligations of citizens were a major concern in the thought of ...
in music, class of traditional melodies used by ancient Greek epic singers, often with lyre accompaniment. The nomos was an important art form for professional soloists, especially in musical competitions. ...
(Latin: "it is not expedient"), a late 19th- and early 20th-century policy of the Roman Catholic church that prohibited its Italian members from participating in politics. The non expedit dramatically ...
literally any geometry that is not the same as Euclidean geometry. Although the term is frequently used to refer only to hyperbolic geometry, common usage includes those few geometries (hyperbolic ...
agreement of July 1, 1968, signed by the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and 59 other states, under which the 3 major signatories agreed not to assist ...
a word coined and used apparently to suit one particular occasion. Nonce words are sometimes used independently by different writers and speakers, but they are not adopted into general use. ...
any English Protestant who does not conform to the doctrines or practices of the established Church of England. The word Nonconformist was first used in the penal acts following the ...
(September 1920-February 1922), unsuccessful attempt, organized by Mohandas Gandhi, to induce the British government of India to grant self-government, or swaraj, to India. It arose from the outcry over the ...
an approach to the treatment of mental disorders that aims primarily toward fostering personality growth by helping individuals gain insight into and acceptance of their feelings, values, and behaviour. The ...
Spanish painter who was instrumental in the Catalan artistic revival of the early 20th century; he is considered a pioneer of modern painting in Spain.
story of actual people and actual events told with the dramatic techniques of a novel. The American writer Truman Capote claimed to have invented this genre with his book In ...
town, northeastern Thailand. Nong Khai is a Mekong River port and the main Thai port of entry for traffic to and from nearby Vientiane, the capital of Laos. In 1994 ...
(1593), in Southeast Asian history, military encounter between the Tai (Thai) kingdom of Ayutthaya and the Toungoo dynasty of Myanmar (Burma) which put an end to the aggression that had ...
voluntary group of individuals or organizations, usually not affiliated with any government, that is formed to provide services or to advocate a public policy. Although some NGOs are for-profit corporations, ...
(1765-75), in U.S. colonial history, attempts to force British recognition of political rights through application of economic pressure. In reaction to the Stamp Act (1765) and the Townshend Acts (1767), ...
in British history, any of the beneficed clergy of the Church of England and the Episcopal Church in Scotland who refused to take the oaths of allegiance to William III ...
a people or culture without a written language. The term nonliterate is distinguished from "illiterate," which indicates a member of a literate society who has not learned to read or ...
substance that does not exhibit such characteristic properties of metals as hardness, mechanical adaptability, or the ability to conduct electricity. This classification is generally applied to the chemical elements carbon, ...
in U.S. history, alliance of farmers to secure state control of marketing facilities by endorsing a pledged supporter from either major party. It was founded in North Dakota by a ...
humorous or whimsical verse that differs from other comic verse in its resistance to any rational or allegorical interpretation. Though it often makes use of coined, meaningless words, it is ...
any solid chemical compound in which the numbers of atoms of the elements present cannot be expressed as a ratio of small whole numbers; sometimes called berthollide compounds in distinction ...
city, south-central Thailand, just north of Bangkok. The city, a northern, fast-growing suburb of Bangkok, lies on the east (left) bank of the Chao Phraya River and is linked to ...
a cooked egg-and-flour paste prominent in European and Oriental cuisine, generally distinguished from other pasta (q.v.) by its elongated, ribbonlike form. Noodles are commonly used to add body and flavour ...
black American jazz clarinetist noted for his lyricism and refinement of technique. He is one of the three principal clarinetists of early jazz, the other two being Johnny Dodds and ...
provincie (province), second largest of The Netherlands, extending northward from the Belgium border, between the provinces of Zeeland (west) and Limburg (east), to the Maas (Meuse) and Merwede rivers. It ...
coastal provincie (province), northwestern Netherlands, comprising a peninsula (area 1,030 square miles [2,667 square km]) surrounded by the North Sea (west), the Waddenzee (north), and the IJsselmeer (Lake IJssel; east). ...
(from Greek noos, "mind"), in theoretical biology, that part of the world of life that is strongly affected by man's conceptual thought; regarded by some as coextensive with the anthroposphere. ...
Belgian lawyer and political activist who, along with Jean-Francois Vonck, led the Belgian revolt of 1789 against the regime of the Austrian Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Joseph II. He failed ...
Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast of North America, located on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island and on Cape Flattery, the northwest tip of the state of Washington. The ...
an inlet of the Pacific Ocean, on the western coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, some 168 miles (270 km) northwest of Victoria. The sound, which forms a good ...
(1790), dispute over the seizure of vessels at Nootka Sound, an inlet on the western coast of Vancouver Island, that nearly caused a war between Great Britain and Spain. Its ...
ancient site about 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Cagliari (Caralis) on the island of Sardinia. Although tradition ascribes its foundation to Iberians from Tartessus, the site, which lies on ...
administrative region constituting the northern half of Quebec province, Canada. The name Nouveau-Quebec ("New Quebec") once was used synonymously with Ungava for that part of the Labrador-Ungava peninsula between Hudson ...
geographic region of Norway. It reaches from Nordland about 575 miles (925 km) northward to the North Cape (Nordkapp), the northernmost point in Europe. It includes the fylker (counties) of ...
region of France encompassing the northernmost departements of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Nord-Pas-de-Calais is bounded by the region of Picardy (Picardie) to ...
fylke (county), central Norway. It extends from the Norwegian Sea (west) to the Swedish border (east), with the southern boundary running in a general northwest-southeast direction south of Trondheims Fjord. ...
physician, writer, and early Jewish nationalist who was instrumental in establishing recognition of Palestine as a potential Jewish homeland to be gained by colonization.
Swedish poet considered to be Sweden's first feminist and remembered for her sensitive love poems. Though influenced by Enlightenment ideas, she was largely self-educated and had a distinct pietistic and ...
Swedish geologist, mineralogist, geographer, and explorer who sailed from Norway to the Pacific across the Asiatic Arctic, completing the first successful navigation of the Northeast Passage.
Swedish ethnologist, archaeologist, and a foremost student of South American Indian culture. As professor of American and comparative ethnology at the University of Goteborg, Sweden (1924-32), he had a marked ...
city, Thuringia Land (state), central Germany. It lies on the Zorge River, at the southern slopes of the Harz Mountains, in the fertile lowland known as the ...
town, Lower Saxony Land (state), northwestern Germany, on the Vechte River at the junction of the Almelo-Nordhorn, Ems-Vechte, and Sud-Nord canals, 4 miles (6 km) from the Dutch border. First ...
organization of the Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden for the purpose of consultation and cooperation on matters of common interest. The Council was established in February ...
techniques and events that evolved in the hilly terrain of Norway and the other Scandinavian countries. The modern Nordic events are the cross-country races (including a relay race) and ski-jumping ...
amtskommune (county commune), northern Jutland, Denmark, created in 1970 from the former counties of Alborg and Hjorring, with an area of 2,383 square miles (6,173 square km). It comprises most ...
fylke (county), northern Norway, bordering the Norwegian Sea. Its many offshore islands include most of the Lofoten Islands and the Vesteralen archipelago. With an area of 14,798 square miles (38,327 ...
city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. It lies on the Eger River, northwest of Augsburg. A seat of the bishop of Regensburg in 898, it became a ...
