maritime route along the northern coast of the Eurasian landmass, lying mainly off northern Russian Siberia. Early explorers of the area included Willem Barents and Olivier Brunel. Under the auspices ...
nature reserve established in 1973 by Norway in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. With an area of 7,350 square miles (19,030 square km) and an average elevation of ...
group of 20th-century Brazilian regional writers whose fiction dealt primarily with the culture and social problems of Brazil's hinterland Northeast. Stimulated by the Modernist-led revival of nationalism of the 1920s, ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, U.S. It comprises six colleges covering arts and letters; business and industry; social and behavioral sciences; education; mathematics, science, and nursing; ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. It comprises the School of Engineering Technology, the Bouve College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and Colleges of Arts and ...
town, Lower Saxony Land (state), north-central Germany. It lies on the Leine River, 12 miles (19 km) north of Gottingen, and is served by two autobahn access roads and a ...
province, northeastern South Africa. The northernmost South African province, it is bordered by Zimbabwe on the north; Mozambique on the east; the provinces of Mpumalanga, Gauteng, and North-West on the ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Flagstaff, Arizona, U.S. The university comprises colleges of business administration, ecosystem science and management, engineering and technology, health professions, social and behavioral sciences, ...
province, western South Africa. It is bordered to the north by Namibia and Botswana; to the east by North-West, Free State, and Eastern Cape provinces; to the south and southwest ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Greeley, Colorado, U.S. It includes colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Health and Human Sciences, and Performing and Visual Arts. The ...
river formed by the junction of the Sukhona and Yug rivers at the city of Velikiy Ustyug, in Vologod oblast (province) of Russia. The Northern Dvina is one of the ...
public, coeducational university in DeKalb, Illinois, U.S. The university was founded in 1895 as Northern Illinois State Normal (teacher-training) School. Instruction began in 1899. It became a four-year state teachers ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Cedar Falls, Iowa, U.S. It includes colleges of business administration, education, humanities and fine arts, natural sciences, and social and behavioral sciences. In ...
part of the United Kingdom, lying in the northeastern quadrant of the island of Ireland, on the western continental periphery often characterized as Atlantic Europe. Northern Ireland is sometimes referred ...
industrial region, east-central Japan, occupying portions of Gumma, Saitama, and Tochigi ken (prefectures). Situated just north of, and adjacent to, the Keihin (Tokyo-Yokohama) Industrial Zone, the area consists mostly of ...
industrial region of southwestern Japan, centring on the city and port of Kita-Kyushu and bounded by the Gen Sea to the northwest and the Inland Sea to the east. The ...
a self-governing commonwealth in political union with the United States. It is composed of 22 islands and islets in the western Pacific. The commonwealth is a part of the Mariana ...
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Marquette, Mich., U.S. It comprises the Walter L. Cisler College of Business and colleges of arts and sciences; behavioral sciences, human services, and ...
one of the northern transcontinental railroads of the United States, operating between St. Paul, Minn., and Seattle, Wash., and merged into the Burlington Northern in 1970.
group of four, later five or six, sarkars (districts into which the emperor Sher Shah of Sur divided his empire). They corresponded roughly to modern Srikakulam, Vishakhapatnam, and East and ...
(1655-60), final stage of the struggle over the Polish-Swedish succession. In 1665 the Swedish king Charles X Gustav declared war on Poland on the pretext that Poland's John II Casimir ...
(1700-21), military conflict in which Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland challenged the supremacy of Sweden in the Baltic area. The war resulted in the decline of Swedish influence and the emergence ...
Chinese sculpture, dating from the Northern Wei period (AD 386-534/535) of the Six Dynasties, that represents the first major Buddhist influence on Chinese art. Produced in the northern territory that ...
city, Rice county, southeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies along the Cannon River, in a mixed-farming area, 35 miles (55 km) south of St. Paul. Founded in 1855 by New England ...
local government region, the northernmost of North Island, New Zealand. It is coextensive with most of the North Auckland Peninsula. Northland extends about 96 miles (250 km) northwest from Kaipara ...
major American manufacturer specializing in defense and commercial aerospace, electronics, and information-technology products and services. The current company was formed in 1939 as Northrop Aircraft, Inc., and was renamed Northrop ...
American biochemist who received (with James B. Sumner and Wendell M. Stanley) the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1946 for successfully purifying and crystallizing certain enzymes, thus enabling him to ...
administrative and historic county of northeastern England. It is England's northernmost county, bounded to the north by Scotland, to the east by the North Sea, to the west by the ...
county, central Pennsylvania, U.S., consisting of a mountainous region in the Appalachian Ridge and Valley physiographic province bounded to the west by the Susquehanna and West Branch Susquehanna rivers. Other ...
English statesman, leading figure during the reigns of England's Richard II and Henry IV. He and his son Sir Henry Percy, the celebrated "Hotspur," are commemorated in William Shakespeare's play ...
English politician and soldier who was virtual ruler of England from 1549 to 1553, during the minority of King Edward VI. Almost all historical sources regard him as an unscrupulous ...
leading partisan in the English Wars of the Roses. He was the son of Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury, and the brother of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the "Kingmaker."
English conspirator during the reign of Elizabeth I, seeking the release of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the free exercise of the Roman Catholic religion.
one of the most important kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, lying north of the Humber River. During its most flourishing period it extended from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, ...
American airline founded in 1926 as Northwest Airways, Inc., and incorporated on April 16, 1934, under its current name. Originally flying a mail route between Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., ...
member of any of the aboriginal North American peoples inhabiting a narrow belt of Pacific coastland and offshore islands from the southern border of Alaska to northwestern California.
public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Maryville, Mo., U.S., 90 miles (145 km) north of Kansas City. It comprises colleges of arts and sciences, education and human services, and ...
several ordinances enacted by the U.S. Congress for the purpose of establishing orderly and equitable procedures for the settlement and political incorporation of the Northwest Territory-i.e., that part of the ...
historical sea passage of the North American continent, representing centuries of effort to find a route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic archipelago of what ...
national park and bird sanctuary established in 1973 by Norway on the northwestern corner of the island of Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. With an area ...
region of northern and northwestern Canada, encompassing a vast area of forests and tundra. Throughout most of the 20th century the territories constituted more than a third of the area ...
U.S. territory created by Congress in 1787 encompassing the region lying west of Pennsylvania, north of the Ohio River, east of the Mississippi River, and south of the Great Lakes. ...
private, coeducational university in Evanston, Illinois, U.S. Northwestern University is a comprehensive research institution and a member of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The university was founded in ...
town ("parish"), Vale Royal borough, administrative and historic county of Cheshire, England. Local brine springs have been used to produce salt since Roman times, but their exploitation has caused severe ...
English glassmaker, a technical innovator who sparked a resurgence of British interest in classical Greek and Roman glassworking methods, particularly in the art of cameo glass.
town (township), Bristol county, southeastern Massachusetts, U.S., 14 miles (23 km) southwest of Brockton and about 30 miles (50 km) south of Boston. It was settled in 1669 by a ...
town, north-central Zimbabwe. It was named after a farm family murdered (1896) in the Shona uprisings. Developed in the 1960s as a planned industrial township, it is located 29 miles ...
arm of the Bering Sea, indenting for 125 miles (200 km) the west coast of Alaska, U.S., with a width of 70 miles (115 km) between the Seward Peninsula (north) ...
English poet and novelist whose matrimonial difficulties and her resultant efforts to secure legal protection for married women made her a notorious figure in mid-Victorian society.
American lawyer and politician who broke several gender and racial barriers during her career, in which she defended the rights of others for equal opportunity.
British children's writer most famous for her series on the Borrowers, a resourceful race of beings only 6 inches (15 cm) tall, who secretly share houses with humans and "borrow" ...
the New Year festival often associated with Zoroastrianism and Parsiism. The festival is celebrated in many countries, including Iran, Iraq, India, and Afghanistan. It usually begins on March 21, which ...
city, seat (1818) of Huron county, northern Ohio, U.S., 59 miles (95 km) west-southwest of Cleveland. It was originally part of the Western Reserve known as the Sufferers' Lands, or ...
city, coextensive with the town (township) of Norwalk, Fairfield county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S., on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Norwalk River. Roger Ludlow purchased the land from ...
city, Los Angeles county, southwestern California, U.S. Located 17 miles (27 km) southeast of Los Angeles, the city was originally inhabited by Chumash Indians. The area was once a part ...
country of northern Europe that occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. Nearly half of the inhabitants of the country live in the far south, in the region around ...
branch of the North Atlantic Current, sometimes considered a continuation of the Gulf Stream (issuing from the Gulf of Mexico). The Norway Current enters the Norwegian Sea north of Scotland ...
breed of dog that originated thousands of years ago in western Norway, where it was used as an all-purpose hunter, shepherd, guard, and companion. It generally excels in tracking European ...
North Germanic language of the West Scandinavian branch, existing in two distinct and rival norms-Dano-Norwegian (Bokmal, or Riksmal) and New Norwegian (Nynorsk). Dano-Norwegian stems from the written Danish introduced during ...
