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North Carolina, University of: state system of higher education in North Carolina, U.S., consisting of a main campus in Chapel Hill and branches in Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, Pembroke, and Wilmington. The system also includes ...
North Cascades National Park: wilderness area in northwestern Washington, U.S. The park was established in 1968 to preserve majestic mountain scenery, snowfields, more than 300 glaciers, alpine meadows, cascading waterfalls, and other unique natural ...
North Celebes: (Indonesia): see Sulawesi Utara.
North Channel: strait linking the Irish Sea with the North Atlantic Ocean and reaching a minimum width of 13 miles (21 km) between the Mull of Kintyre (Scotland) and Torr Head (Northern ...
North Channel: northern arm of Lake Huron in south-central Ontario, Canada, lying between the Ontario mainland (north) and the islands of Manitoulin, Cockburn, and Drummond (south). It is 120 miles (195 km) ...
North Chicago: city, Lake county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. North Chicago lies on Lake Michigan, about 35 miles (55 km) north of Chicago. The area was primarily agricultural until the establishment of a ...
North China Plain: large alluvial plain of eastern Asia, built into the Yellow Sea by deposits of the Huang Ho (Yellow River) and a few other, comparatively minor rivers of eastern China. Covering ...
North College Hill: city, Hamilton county, extreme southwest Ohio, U.S., residential northern suburb of Cincinnati. The first settler, probably Gershom Gard, arrived in 1795. In 1916 three subdivisions in the "Clovernook" area east ...
North Cornwall: district, administrative county of Cornwall, southwestern England, in the northeastern part of the county. Most of the district lies within the historic county of Cornwall, but an area extending west ...
North Dakota: constituent state of the United States of America. It is bounded by Canada on the north, Minnesota on the east, South Dakota on the south, and Montana on the west. ...
North Dakota State University: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Fargo, southeastern North Dakota, U.S. North Dakota State University was founded in 1890 as the state's land-grant institution. Initially, it was primarily an ...
North Dakota, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S. The University of North Dakota was established in 1883, and instruction began a year later. Its original mission ...
North Devon: district, administrative and historic county of Devon, southwestern England, bordering the Bristol Channel on the north and west. North Devon's northern cliff-lined coast is especially popular with tourists. The district ...
North Dorset: district, administrative and historic county of Dorset, south-central England. North Dorset is an area of rolling countryside diagonally split by chalk downs 400 to 900 feet (120 to 275 metres) ...
North Down: district, Northern Ireland. Formerly within County Down, North Down was established in 1973 and consists of gently undulating lowland on the southern shores of Belfast Lough (inlet of the sea). ...
North East Derbyshire: district, administrative and historic county of Derbyshire, England. The district surrounds Chesterfield on three sides. The east and north are part of a major coalfield, though less important than formerly. ...
North East Lincolnshire: unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Lincolnshire, England, centred on the town of Grimsby on the River Humber estuary of the North Sea. Grimsby is the country's premier fishing ...
North Frisian Islands: part of the Frisian Islands (q.v.), lying in the North Sea just off the coast of northern Europe. They are divided between Germany and Denmark.
North German Confederation: union of the German states north of the Main River formed in 1867 under Prussian hegemony after Prussia's victory over Austria in the Seven Weeks' War (1866). Berlin was its ...
North German Plain: lowland region of northern Germany extending from the North and Baltic seas southward to the foreland of the Central German Uplands. It is a portion of the Great European Plain ...
North Germanic languages: group of Germanic languages consisting of modern standard Danish, Swedish, Norwegian (Dano-Norwegian and New Norwegian), Icelandic, and Faroese. These languages are usually divided into East Scandinavian (Danish and Swedish) and ...
North Haven: urban town (township), just northeast of New Haven, New Haven county, south-central Connecticut, U.S., on the Quinnipiac River. First settled about 1650 by William Bradley, it became a parish in ...
North Hempstead: town (township), Nassau county, New York, U.S. It lies on western Long Island and includes 30 incorporated villages and several large unincorporated communities.
North Hertfordshire: district, administrative and historic county of Hertfordshire, southeastern England. The 400-foot- (120-metre-) high plateau area of North Hertfordshire district is a northeasterly extension of the chalky Chiltern Hills. The district ...
North India, Church of: merger in 1970 of six Christian denominations, including the United Church of Northern India; the Anglican Church of India, Pakistan, Burma (Myanmar) and Ceylon; the British and Australian Methodist churches; ...
North Indian temple architecture: style of architecture produced throughout northern India and as far south as Bijapur district, characterized by its distinctive sikhara, a superstructure, tower, or spire. The style is sometimes referred to ...
North Island: island, the smaller of the two principal islands of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean, separated from South Island by Cook Strait. It rises to a central mountain range ...
North Kesteven: district, administrative and historic county of Lincolnshire, east-central England, south of the city of Lincoln. North Kesteven district is partly low-lying alluvial plain and partly reclaimed marshland, both usually lower ...
North Kingstown: town (township), Washington county, south-central Rhode Island, U.S., on Narragansett Bay. The area, settled in 1641 as Kings Towne, was incorporated in 1674; in 1686-89 it was called Rochester. In ...
North Lanarkshire: council area, west-central Scotland, on the eastern periphery of the Glasgow metropolitan area. It lies mostly within the historic county of Lanarkshire, but the area around Cumbernauld in the north ...
North Las Vegas: city, Clark county, southeastern Nevada, U.S. A part of the Las Vegas metropolitan area, the city was settled in the early 1920s by pioneers attracted by the water supply; it ...
North Lincolnshire: unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Lincolnshire, England, comprising a low plain on the south shore of the River Humber estuary that extends inland to the northernmost Lincolnshire Wolds ...
North Little Rock: city, Pulaski county, central Arkansas, U.S., on the Arkansas River opposite Little Rock. It was settled in 1812 as De Cantillon, became Huntersville in 1853, and was later renamed Argenta ...
North Norfolk: district, administrative and historic county of Norfolk, eastern England, bordering the North Sea for about 55 miles (89 km) on the north and northeast. Inland North Norfolk contains fertile agricultural ...
North Ossetia-Alania: respublika (republic) in southwestern Russia, on the northern flank of the Greater Caucasus range. It is bordered on the south by Georgia and on the north by ...
North Platte River: one of the two main arms of the Platte River, rising in north-central Colorado, U.S. It rises in several headstreams in the Medicine Bow and Park ranges and the Rabbit ...
North Polar Basin: vast and deep submarine depression in the Arctic Ocean defined by the continental shelves of Eurasia and North America. The basin is divided into two main parts, the Central Polar ...
north polar sequence: group of 96 stars near the north celestial pole, used from about 1900 to 1950 as standards of magnitude and colour by which other stars are measured. First proposed by ...
North Pole: northern end of the Earth's axis, lying in the Arctic Ocean, about 450 miles (725 km) north of Greenland. This geographic North Pole does not coincide with the magnetic North ...
North Rhine-Westphalia: constituent Land (state) of western Germany. It is bordered by The Netherlands and Belgium (west) and by the Lander (states) of Lower Saxony (north), Hesse (east), and Rhineland-Palatinate (south). North ...
North Sea: shallow, northeastern arm of the Atlantic Ocean located between the British Isles and the mainland of northwestern Europe and covering an area of 220,000 square miles (570,000 square kilometres). The ...
North Sea Canal: waterway in The Netherlands that extends in an east-west direction from Amsterdam to IJmuiden on the North Sea coast. Navigable by oceangoing vessels, the canal is 15 miles (24 km) ...
North Semitic alphabet: the earliest fully developed alphabetic writing system. It was used in Syria as early as the 11th century BC and is probably ancestral, either directly or indirectly, to all subsequent ...
North Shore: city in the Northern Auckland urban area, northern North Island, New Zealand. It is located on a peninsula about 2 miles (3 km) north of Auckland city across Stanley Bay, ...
North Shropshire: district, administrative county of Shropshire, west-central England. Nearly all of North Shropshire lies within the historic county of Shropshire, except for a small area south of Market Drayton, which lies ...
North Siberian Lowland: low-lying region, east-central Russia. It is situated between the lower Yenisey River in the west and the lower Kolyma River in the east. To the south lies the Central Siberian ...
North Somerset: unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Somerset, southwestern England. It lies along the Bristol Channel west of the city of Bristol. The unitary authority is a low-lying area of ...
North Texas, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Denton, Texas, U.S. It comprises colleges of arts and sciences, business administration, education, and music; the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies; ...
North Tyneside: metropolitan borough, metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, historic county of Northumberland, northeastern England. The borough lies just east of the city of Newcastle upon Tyne and is bordered by ...
North Uist: island of the Outer Hebrides, Western Isles council area, historic county of Inverness-shire, Scotland, lying off the northwest coast of the Scottish mainland. North Uist measures 17 miles (27 km) ...
North Vancouver: city, southwestern British Columbia, Can. It lies along Burrard Inlet of the Strait of Georgia and is linked to Vancouver by the Lions Gate and Second Narrows bridges. The community, ...
North Warwickshire: borough (district), administrative and historic county of Warwickshire, central England. It is a largely rural borough adjoining the West Midlands metropolitan county northeast of Birmingham and northwest of Coventry. Central ...
North West Company: Canadian fur-trading company, once the chief rival of the powerful Hudson's Bay Company. The company was founded in 1783 and enjoyed a rapid growth. It originally confined its operations to ...
North West Leicestershire: district, administrative and historic county of Leicestershire, south-central England, incorporating one of the oldest (13th century) coal-mining areas in Great Britain. It is essentially an upland area of undulating meadows, ...
North Wiltshire: district, administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England, located in the northwestern part of the county some 20 miles (32 km) east of Bristol. North Wiltshire bestrides the upper ...
North York: former city (1979-98), southeastern Ontario, Canada. In 1998 it amalgamated with the cities of Toronto, Scarborough, York, and Etobicoke and the borough of East York to become the City of ...
North Yorkshire: administrative and geographic county in northern England, part of the historic county of Yorkshire. The administrative county of North Yorkshire comprises seven districts: Craven, Hambleton, Richmondshire, Ryedale, Selby, and the ...
North, Douglass C.: American economist, recipient, with Robert W. Fogel, of the 1993 Nobel Prize for Economics. The two were recognized for their pioneering work in cliometrics-also called "new economic history"-the application of ...
North, Frederick North, Lord: prime minister from 1770 to 1782, whose vacillating leadership contributed to the loss of Great Britain's American colonies in the American Revolution (1775-83).
North, Roger: English lawyer, historian, and biographer, known primarily for his biographies of three of his brothers, Francis, Dudley, and John, and for his own autobiography.
North, Simeon: American pistol and rifle manufacturer who, about the same time that the American inventor Eli Whitney was doing so, developed the use of interchangeable parts in manufacturing.
North, Sir Dudley: English merchant, civil servant, and economist, an early advocate of what later came to be called laissez-faire.
North, Sir Thomas: English translator whose version of Plutarch's Bioi paralleloi (Parallel Lives) was the source for many of William Shakespeare's plays.
North, the: region, northern United States, historically identified as the free states that opposed slavery and the Confederacy during the American Civil War. This struggle against slavery and secession obscured the reality ...
North-West: province, north-central South Africa. It was created in 1994 from portions of Transvaal and Cape of Good Hope provinces. North-West is bordered by Botswana to the north and northwest, Northern ...
North-West Frontier Province: northernmost province of Pakistan. It is bounded by Afghanistan to the west and north, Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas (the Pakistani-administered areas of the Kashmir region) to the east ...
Northam: town, southwestern Western Australia. It lies at the confluence of the Avon (upper course of the Swan) and Mortlock rivers. One of the state's oldest settlements, it was founded in ...
Northampton: city, seat (1662) of Hampshire county, west-central Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the Connecticut River, 17 miles (27 km) north-northwest of Springfield. The site, originally known as Nonotuck (an Algonquian ...
Northampton: county, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S., bounded by Blue Mountain to the northwest, New Jersey to the east (the Delaware River constituting the border), and the Lehigh River to the southwest. The ...
Northampton: town and borough (district), administrative and historic county of Northamptonshire, in the Midlands region of England. Originating around 1100 as a walled town with a castle on the River Nene, ...
Northampton, Assize of: (1176), group of ordinances agreed upon by King Henry II of England and the magnates in council at Northampton. The ordinances were issued as instructions to six committees of three ...
Northampton, Henry Howard, Earl of, Baron Of Marnhull: Roman Catholic intriguer during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I of England, known for his unscrupulousness and treachery.
Northampton, Spencer Compton, 2nd earl of, Lord Compton: Royalist commander during the English Civil Wars.
Northampton, William Parr, Marquess of, Earl Of Essex, Baron Parr: brother of Henry VIII's queen Catherine Parr, and Protestant supporter of Lady Jane Grey and Queen Elizabeth I.
Northamptonshire: administrative and historic county of the East Midlands region in England. The administrative county comprises seven districts: Daventry, East Northamptonshire, South Northamptonshire, and the boroughs of Corby, Kettering, Northampton, and ...
Northbrook, Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of, Viscount Baring Of Lee, Baron Northbrook Of Stratton: British statesman who served as viceroy of India.