(Sept. 5-6, 1634), battle fought near Nordlingen in southern Germany in the Thirty Years' War. Ending in a decisive victory for the forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain ...
Norwegian composer perhaps best known as the composer of the music for the Norwegian national anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet" (1864; "Yes, We Love This Land").
sandbank in the Thames Estuary, extending between Shoeburyness (north) and Sheerness (south), county of Kent, southeastern England. The Nore Lightship, anchored 4 miles (6 km) southeast of Shoeburyness, was the ...
county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., southwest and south of Boston, bordered by Massachusetts Bay to the northeast and Rhode Island to the southwest. It consists of an upland region, including the ...
city, Madison county, northeastern Nebraska, U.S., on the north fork of the Elkhorn River. Settled in 1866 by German farmers from Xonia and Watertown, Wis., its name, originally proposed as ...
independent city and port, southeastern Virginia, U.S. It lies on the Elizabeth River in the Tidewater region, at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Norfolk is part of an urban complex ...
administrative and historic county of eastern England, bounded by Suffolk (south), Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire (west), and the North Sea (north and east). The administrative county comprises seven districts: Breckland, Broadland, ...
method of agricultural organization established in Norfolk county, England, and in several other counties before the end of the 17th century; it was characterized by an emphasis on fodder crops ...
external territory of Australia, in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, 1,041 miles (1,676 km) northeast of Sydney. The island, with an area of 13 square miles (35 square km), is about ...
(species Araucariaexcelsa, or A. heterophylla),evergreen timber and ornamental conifer of the family Araucariaceae, native to Norfolk Island, situated in the South Pacific Ocean between New Caledonia and New ...
powerful English noble who held a variety of high offices under King Henry VIII. Although he was valuable to the King as a military commander, he failed in his aspiration ...
English nobleman executed for his intrigues against Queen Elizabeth I on behalf of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, a Roman Catholic claimant to the English throne.
English lord whose quarrel with Henry of Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford (later King Henry IV, reigned 1399-1413), was a critical episode in the events leading to the overthrow of King ...
middle of three divisions in the Upper Triassic Series, representing those rocks deposited worldwide during Norian time (221 million to 210 million years ago) in the Triassic Period. The stage ...
segment of the Eastern Alps extending across southern Austria between the Hohe Tauern range and Katschberg Pass (west) and the city of Graz on the Mur River (east). With the ...
region of Europe north of what is now Italy, roughly comprising modern central Austria and parts of Bavaria, Ger. Noricum was originally a kingdom controlled by a Celtic confederacy that ...
Panamanian military leader, commander of the Panamanian Defense Forces (1983-89), who, for the years of his command, was the actual power behind the civilian president.
city, Krasnoyarsk kray (region), central Russia, in the Rybnaya Valley amid the Putoran Mountains. Founded in 1935, Norilsk lies north of the Arctic Circle and is one of the world's ...
in the Shinto religious practices of Japan, words, or prayer, addressed by worshipers to a deity. The efficacy of prayer is founded on the concept of koto-dama, the spiritual power ...
rule or standard of behaviour shared by members of a social group. Norms may be internalized-i.e., incorporated within the individual so that there is conformity without external rewards or punishments, ...
town, McLean county, central Illinois, U.S. At the junction of three interstate highways, Normal adjoins Bloomington (south) and is located about 65 miles (105 km) northeast of Springfield. It was ...
the most common distribution function for independent, randomly generated variables. Its familiar bell-shaped curve is ubiquitous in statistical reports, from survey analysis and quality control to resource allocation.
institution for the training of teachers. One of the first schools so named, the Ecole Normale Superieure ("Normal Superior School"), was established in Paris in 1794. Based on various German ...
city, seat (1907) of Cleveland county, central Oklahoma, U.S. The city is located on the South Canadian River, immediately southeast of Oklahoma City. Beginning as a tent city in April ...
member of those Vikings, or Norsemen, who settled in northern France (or the Frankish kingdom), together with their descendants. The Normans founded the duchy of Normandy and sent out expeditions ...
the military conquest of England by William, duke of Normandy, primarily effected by his decisive victory at the Battle of Hastings (Oct. 14, 1066), and resulting ultimately in profound political, ...
river rising in the Gregory Range of the Eastern Highlands of Queensland, Australia, and flowing for 260 miles (420 km) northwest through level country to the Gulf of Carpentaria at ...
Romanesque architecture that developed in Normandy and England between the 11th and 12th century and during the general adoption of Gothic architecture in both countries. Because only shortly before the ...
one of the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, 10 miles (16 km) across Goschen Strait from the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea, in the Solomon Sea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. Normanby Island lies ...
American film actress who was one of the greatest comedians of the silent era. Known for her gaiety and spontaneous spirit, Normand appeared in hundreds of films (and directed several ...
historic and cultural region encompassing the northern French departements of Manche, Calvados, Orne, Eure, and Seine-Maritime and coextensive with the former province of Normandy.
during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., ...
English royal dynasty that provided three kings of England: William I the Conqueror (reigned 1066-87) and his sons, William II Rufus (reigned 1087-1100) and Henry I Beauclerc (reigned 1100-35). During ...
that part of moral philosophy, or ethics, concerned with criteria of what is morally right and wrong. It includes the formulation of moral rules that have direct implications for what ...
in Germanic mythology, any of a group of supernatural beings who corresponded to the Greek Moirai; they were usually represented as three maidens who spun or wove the fate of ...
twice king of Cambodia (1941-55 and 1993-2004), who also served as prime minister, head of state, and president. He attempted to steer a neutral course for Cambodia in its civil ...
city, Anderson county, eastern Tennessee, U.S. It lies along the Clinch River, about 20 miles (30 km) northwest of Knoxville. Built in 1933-34 by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to ...
Anglican priest and philosopher remembered as an exponent of Cambridge Platonism, a 17th-century revival of Plato's ideas, and as the sole English follower of the French Cartesian philosopher Nicolas Malebranche ...
legislative act passed in 1932 that removed certain legal and judicial barriers against the activities of organized labour in the United States. The act declared that the members of labour ...
British chemist who was the corecipient, with fellow Englishman Sir George Porter and Manfred Eigen of West Germany, of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. All three were honoured for ...
borough (town), seat of Montgomery county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies on the north bank of the Schuylkill River, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Philadelphia and near the eastern ...
town and port, lan (county) of Ostergotland, Sweden. It lies along the Motala River southwest of Stockholm. Hallristningar, or rock carvings, from the Late Bronze Age are found in the ...
region, northern Sweden, encompassing the traditional landskap (provinces) of Gastrikland, Halsingland, Medelpad, Angermanland, Vasterbotten, Norrbotten, Harjedalen, Jamtland, and Lappland. Its land area constitutes about 60 percent of Sweden's total territory. ...
(1841-44; Eng. trans. Norwegian Folktales), collections of folktales and legends, by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Engebretsen Moe, that had survived and developed from Old Norse pagan mythology in the ...
U.S. Air Force general, commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in Europe during the Berlin crisis of 1961, when East Germany erected the Berlin Wall.
departamento, northeastern Colombia, bounded east by Venezuela and located where the Andean Cordillera Oriental bifurcate, one arm continuing northward as the Sierra de Ocana and Serrania (mountains) de los Motilones, ...
city, Berkshire county, northwestern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the Hoosic River at the western end of the Hoosac Tunnel (extending 5 miles [8 km] under the Hoosac Range) and ...
third in size among the world's continents, lying for the most part between the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer. It extends for more than 5,000 miles (8,000 kilometres) ...
vast, irregular belt of inhospitable terrain that stretches north to south down the western side of the North American continent from southern Oregon and Idaho to northern Mexico. It roughly ...
trade pact signed in 1992 that would gradually eliminate most tariffs and other trade barriers on products and services passing between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The pact would ...
those languages that are indigenous to the United States and subarctic Canada and that are spoken north of the Mexican border. A number of language groups within this area, however, ...
organization created in 1970 by Marie Cox and others to foster fellowship between American Indian women. NAIWA was the first organization established expressly to address the unique role of its ...
(catalog number NGC 7000), ionized-hydrogen region in the constellation Cygnus. The nebula is a cloud of interstellar gas ionized from within by young, hot stars. Interstellar dust particles in part ...
American magazine (1815-1940), one of the country's leading literary journals of the 19th and 20th centuries. It was founded in Boston, Mass., under the auspices of the Monthly Anthology (1803-11) ...
part of a clockwise-setting ocean-current system in the North Atlantic Ocean, extending from southeast of the Grand Bank, off Newfoundland, Canada, to the Norwegian Sea, off northwestern Europe. It constitutes ...
military alliance established by the North Atlantic Treaty (also called the Washington Treaty) of April 4, 1949, which sought to create a counterweight to Soviet armies stationed in central and ...
council area, southwestern Scotland, along the Firth of Clyde. It encompasses part of the historic region of Cunninghame on the Scottish mainland, in the historic county of Ayrshire, as well ...
city, seat of Nipissing district, southeastern Ontario, Canada. It lies some 205 miles (330 km) north of Toronto. Named for its location on the northern bay of Lake Nipissing, the ...
main tributary of the Canadian River in the south-central United States. It rises in a high plateau in Union county, New Mexico, and flows east through the Texas and Oklahoma ...
city, Stark county, immediately north of Canton, east-central Ohio, U.S. It was laid out in 1831, and, since most of its residents were of predominantly German ancestry, it was called ...
oceanic surface current, the northernmost extension of the Norway Current (a part of the North Atlantic Current), bathing the northern coasts of Norway, Finland, and Russia's Kola Peninsula. Characterized by ...
constituent state of the United States of America. Twelfth of the 13 original states, it lies on the Atlantic coast midway between New York and Florida. Bounded on the north ...
