primarily majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware, made in Nove, Italy, in the 18th century. The factory was founded by Giovanni Battista Antonibon in 1728, and in the latter part of the ...
an invented prose narrative of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with human experience, usually through a connected sequence of events involving a group of persons in ...
short and well-structured narrative, often realistic and satiric in tone, that influenced the development of the short story and the novel throughout Europe. Originating in Italy during the Middle Ages, ...
popular song that is either written and performed as a novelty or that becomes a novelty when removed from its original context. Regardless of which of these two categories applies, ...
11th month of the Gregorian calendar. Its name is derived from novem, Latin for "nine," an indication of its position in the early Roman calendar. See month ...
(1830-31), Polish rebellion that unsuccessfully tried to overthrow Russian rule in the Congress Kingdom of Poland as well as in the Polish provinces of western Russia.
distinguished French choreographer whose revolutionary treatise, Lettres sur la danse et sur les ballets (1760), still valid, brought about major reforms in ballet production, stressing the importance of dramatic motivation, ...
oblast (province), northwestern Russia, occupying an area of 21,300 square miles (55,300 square km) and extending across the morainic Valdai Hills, which rise to 971 ft (296 m); the lowland ...
city and administrative centre of Novgorod oblast ("region"), northwestern Russia, on the Volkhov River just below its outflow from Lake Ilmen. Novgorod is one of the oldest Russian cities, first ...
important school of Russian medieval icon and mural painting that flourished around the northwestern city of Novgorod from the 12th through the 16th century. A thriving merchant city, Novgorod was ...
(June 3, 1326), the peace treaty ending decades of Russo-Norwegian hostilities in the extreme northern area of present-day Norway and Russia's Kola Peninsula-then generally known as Finnmark (including the present ...
city, northern Ukraine. The city, now a tourist centre, is believed to date from the early 11th century. From 1098 it was the capital of Novhorod-Siverskyy principality, which defended the ...
town, Piedmont regione (region), northwestern Italy, north of Genoa. A free commune until 1192, it then fell successively to Tortona and Milan before passing to Genoa in ...
town, southern Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro. It lies in the Raska River valley, in rough and hilly country near the site of Ras, which was the capital city of the ...
city and administrative capital of the ethnically mixed autonomous region of Vojvodina, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro. It is a transit port on the heavily trafficked Danube River northwest of Belgrade ...
artificial language constructed in 1928 by the Danish philologist Otto Jespersen, intended for use as an international auxiliary language, but little used today. Its grammar is similar in type to ...
Russian writer, philanthropist, and Freemason whose activities were intended to raise the educational and cultural level of the Russian people and included the production of social satires as well as ...
city, eastern Rio Grande do Sul estado ("state"), southern Brazil. It was founded by Germans in 1927 and named for Hamburg, Germany. Novo Hamburgo lies at 115 feet (35 m) ...
city, southern Slovenia, on the Krka River. Novo Mesto was founded in 1365 by Rudolf IV of Austria and became an important military base on the Ottoman frontier in the ...
city, Rostov oblast (province), southwestern Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Tuzlov and the Aksay rivers. The original 16th-century town of Starocherkasskaya stood along the Don River, but ...
city, Zhytomyr oblast (province), western Ukraine. It lies at the confluence of the Sluch and Smilka rivers. Documents first record the existence of the town in 1257. It was incorporated ...
city, Samara oblast (province), western Russia, near the Volga River. It was founded in 1948 in connection with the development of the oil industry and received city status in 1952. ...
city, Kemerovo oblast (province), south-central Russia. The city lies along the Tom River just below its confluence with the Kondoma, in the Kuznetsk Coal Basin. Originally the small village of ...
city, Tula oblast (province), western Russia, situated on the upper Don River. Founded in 1930 as Bobriki, the town developed as a major chemical centre, making fertilizers and plastics and ...
city, Dnipropetrovsk oblast (province), east-central Ukraine. The city lies along the Samara River a few miles above its confluence with the Dnieper River, and on the Kharkiv-Dnipropetrovsk railway and the ...
city, Krasnodar kray (region), southwestern Russia. It lies at the head of Tsemes Bay on the northeastern coast of the Black Sea. Founded as a fortress in 1838, it developed ...
city, Rostov oblast (province), southwestern Russia, on the Maly Nesvetay River. It developed as a major anthracite coal-mining centre, achieving city status in 1939. The city's dependence on the coal ...
oblast (province), south-central Russia, in western Siberia. It lies across an extremely level plain known as the Baraba Steppe in the north and Kulunda Steppe in the south, most of ...
city, administrative centre of Novosibirsk oblast ("region") and the chief city of western Siberia, in south-central Russia. It lies along the Ob River where the latter is crossed by the ...
Russian statesman and confidant of Tsar Alexander I, who made him a member of the Secret Committee (1801-03) for the planning of reforms. Under Alexander and his successor, Nicholas I, ...
city, Orenburg oblast (province), west-central Russia. It lies along the Ural River, in the Orsk-Khalilovo industrial district of the southern Urals. The centre of ferrous metallurgy in the area, the ...
(Russian: "New World"), literary journal, a highly influential monthly published in Moscow. Founded in 1925, it was an official organ of the Writers' Union of the U.S.S.R. Its pages carried ...
industrial section of Krakow (Cracow), southern Poland, on the Vistula River. The original medieval village settlements of Mogila and Pleszow grew up around a 13th-century Cistercian monastery. The population of ...
city, Lubuskie wojewodztwo (province), west-central Poland, on the Oder River. A railroad junction and port on the Oder, Nowa Sol has metalworks, paper and textile mills, and ...
English scholar, Anglican priest, and dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London whose tactless preaching brought him into disfavour with Queen Elizabeth I. He was the author of the catechism ...
city, northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. Nowgong is connected by road with other centres and is a major agricultural distribution centre. Chemical and pharmaceutical works and a distillery are ...
urban area in Illawarra district, southeastern New South Wales, Australia. It lies along the Shoalhaven River delta. Nowra was proclaimed a town in 1857 and given as a name the ...
town, North-West Frontier Province, northern Pakistan. Lying on a sandy plain surrounded by hills, on the banks of the Kabul River (there bridged), Nowshera is a commercial and industrial centre ...
city, Malopolskie wojewodztwo (province), southern Poland. It lies along the Dunajec River, a tributary of the Vistula River. Nowy Sacz is situated in the fertile Kotlina Sadecka ...
town, Oise departement, Picardie region, northern France. It lies north-northeast of Paris. The town, on the lower slopes and at the foot of a hill, occupies both banks of the ...
Japanese chemist who, with K. Barry Sharpless and William S. Knowles, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2001 for developing the first chiral catalysts.
American philosopher, best known for his rigorous defense of libertarianism in his first major work, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974). A wide-ranging thinker, Nozick also made important ...
any of a class of computational problems for which no efficient solution algorithm has been found. Many significant computer-science problems belong to this class-e.g., the traveling salesman problem, satisfiability problems, ...
town, southern Malawi. It lies along the west bank of the Shire River and is situated north of the Ndindi Marsh. The nation's southernmost town, it serves as a customs ...
a Bantu-speaking people inhabiting the Luangwa River valley area of southeastern Zambia. It is difficult to differentiate the Nsenga from other eastern Zambian peoples, since they share many social customs ...
lake in southwestern Finland. It extends northward from the city of Tampere, northwest of Helsinki. Approximately 20 mi (32 km) long and 2 to 8 mi (3.2 to 13 km) ...
university town, Enugu state, southern Nigeria. It lies in the Udi Hills at an elevation of 1,300 feet (396 m). Nsukka is an agricultural-trade centre for the yams, cassava, corn ...
in Chinese mythology, the patroness of matchmakers; as wife or sister of the legendary emperor Fu Hsi, she helped establish norms for marriage (that included go-betweens) and regulated conduct between ...
inhabitants of the Nuba hills in the Kordofan region of the central part of The Sudan. This region is studded with rugged granite hills that rise sharply from a wide ...
Egyptian statesman of Armenian descent who was instrumental in the negotiation of important treaties with the European powers and in the division of authority between Egyptian and British administrators.
ancient region in northeastern Africa, extending approximately from the Nile River valley (near the first cataract in Upper Egypt) eastward to the shores of the Red Sea, southward to about ...
desert in northeastern Sudan. It is separated from the Libyan Desert by the Nile River valley to the west, while to the north is Egypt; eastward, the Red Sea; and ...
group of languages spoken in The Sudan and southern Egypt, chiefly along the banks of the Nile River (where Nobiin and Kenzi [Kenuzi] are spoken) but also in enclaves in ...
frequency standard (not useful for ordinary timekeeping) based on the extremely sharp frequency of the gamma emission (electromagnetic radiation arising from radioactive decay) and absorption in certain atomic nuclei, such ...
energy that is released in significant amounts in processes that affect atomic nuclei, the dense cores of atoms. It is distinct from the energy of other atomic phenomena such as ...
the field of engineering that deals with the control and use of energy and radiation released from nuclear reactions. It encompasses the development, design, and construction of power reactors, naval-propulsion ...
in sociology and anthropology, a group of persons united by ties of marriage and parenthood or adoption and consisting of a man, a woman, and their socially recognized children. This ...
subdivision of a heavy atomic nucleus, such as that of uranium or plutonium, into two fragments of roughly equal mass. The process is accompanied by the release of a large ...
process by which nuclear reactions between light elements form heavier ones (up to iron). Substantial amounts of energy are released in cases where the interacting nuclei belong to elements with ...
selective absorption of very high-frequency radio waves by certain atomic nuclei that are subjected to an appropriately strong stationary magnetic field. This phenomenon was first observed in 1946 by the ...
medical specialty that involves the use of radioactive isotopes in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Nuclear medicine began only after the discovery by Enrico Fermi in 1935 that stable ...
any of several theoretical descriptions of the structure and function of atomic nuclei (the positively charged, dense cores of atoms). Each of the models is based on a plausible analogy ...
radiation detector generally in the form of a glass plate thinly coated with a transparent medium containing a silver halide compound. Passage of charged subatomic particles is recorded in the ...
