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New Comedy: Greek drama from about 320 BC to the mid-3rd century BC that offers a mildly satiric view of contemporary Athenian society, especially in its familiar and domestic aspects. Unlike Old ... [11 Related Articles]
new comet: (from the article "comet") ...perturbed near aphelia (either by stellar or dark interstellar-cloud passages or by galactic tides) in such a way that their perihelia were lowered into the planetary system. The first passage ...
New Covenant: (from the article "Jeremiah") Jeremiah's most important prophecy concerning the future is one regarding the New Covenant (Jer. 31:31-34). While the present literary form of the passage is probably not Jeremiah's, the thought is ...
New Covenanters: (from the article "Judaism") The Damascus sect (New Covenanters) was a group of Pharisees who went beyond the letter of the Pharisaic Halakha. Like the Essenes and the Dead Sea sects, they adopted a ...
New Criticism: post-World War I school of Anglo-American literary critical theory that insisted on the intrinsic value of a work of art and focused attention on the individual work alone as an ... [13 Related Articles]
New Crowned Hope: (from the article "Performing Arts") Not all the African musical experiments of the year related to rock music. Malian singer-songwriter Rokia Traore was invited by the opera director Peter Sellars to write a new work ...
New Culture Movement: (from the article "May Fourth Movement") ...qingnian), a monthly magazine edited by the iconoclastic intellectual revolutionary Chen Duxiu, began agitating for the reform and strengthening of Chinese society. As part of this New Culture Movement, they ...
New Deal: the domestic program of the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1939, which took action to bring about immediate economic relief as well as reforms in ... [25 Related Articles]
New Democracy: conservative political party in Greece. New Democracy was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis, who oversaw the country's transition from military dictatorship to democracy. It generally supports greater economic liberalization, ... [7 Related Articles]
New Democratic Party: Canadian democratic socialist political party favouring a mixed public-private economy, broadened social benefits, and an internationalist foreign policy. [10 Related Articles]
New Democratic Party: (from the article "Korea, South") ...the presidential candidate of the Civil Rule Party. In May 1967 Park was elected to his second term of office, and the DRP won a large majority in the National ...
New Development Policy: (from the article "Malaysia") Since the early 1970s the government has championed a social and economic restructuring strategy, first known as the New Economic Policy (NEP) and later as the New Development Policy (NDP), ...
New Directions: (from the article "Laughlin, James") American publisher and poet, founder of the New Directions press.
New Dispensation, Church of the: (from the article "Keshab Chunder Sen") ...maharaja of Cooch Behar, thus publicly repudiating his avowed opposition to child marriage. As a result, some of his followers broke away, and he organized a new society, Naba Bidhan, ...
New Drug Application: (from the article "pharmaceutical industry") The second important regulatory document required by the FDA is the New Drug Application (NDA). The NDA contains all of the information and data that the FDA requires for market ...
New Echota, Treaty of: (from the article "Cherokee") ...did not protect them against the land hunger of those they emulated. When gold was discovered on Cherokee land in Georgia, agitation for the removal of the tribe increased. In ...
New Economic Mechanism: (from the article "Hungary") In response to stagnating rates of economic growth, the government introduced the New Economic Mechanism (NEM) in 1968. The NEM implemented market-style reforms to rationalize the behaviour of Hungary's state-owned ...
New Economic Mechanism: (from the article "Laos") ...leaders consolidated their revolutionary victory by the end of the 1970s, they implemented limited policies of economic and social liberalization. In 1986 they inaugurated a major reform called the New ...
New Economic Policy: the economic policy of the government of the Soviet Union from 1921 to 1928, representing a temporary retreat from its previous policy of extreme centralization and doctrinaire socialism. The policy ... [15 Related Articles]
New Economic Policy: (from the article "Nixon, Richard M.") ...he initially tried to restrict federal spending, but beginning in 1971 his budget proposals contained deficits of several billion dollars, the largest in American history up to that time. Nixon's ...
New Economics Foundation: (from the article "Dominica") In July a study and advocacy group in the U.K. called the New Economics Foundation declared Dominica to be one of the five "happiest" countries in the world, on the ...
New Elamite language: (from the article "Elamite language") ...of Persia (6th to 4th century BC), who used Elamite, along with Akkadian and Old Persian, in their inscriptions. The language of this period, also written in the cuneiform script, ...
New Ellenton: (from the article "Aiken") ...was a centre of the slave trade, which was banned in Georgia. Aiken county was established in 1871 and named for the politician and railroad executive William Aiken. Race riots ...
New England: region, northeastern United States, including the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. [18 Related Articles]
New England Anti-Slavery Society: (from the article "Garrison, William Lloyd") ...Liberator, which circulated widely both in England and the United States, Garrison soon achieved recognition as the most radical of American antislavery advocates. In 1832 he founded the New England ...
New England Confederation: in British American colonial history, a federation of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Haven, and Plymouth established in May 1643 by delegates from those four Puritan colonies. Several factors influenced the formation ...
New England Conservatory of Music: private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Considered one of the leading music schools in the United States, it is also the oldest independent music conservatory in ... [1 Related Articles]
New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble: (from the article "Schuller, Gunther") ...he was affiliated with the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts. He worked as a guest conductor or as conductor in residence for several orchestras and music festivals. Schuller also formed ...
New England Glass Company: American glass company that was situated in East Cambridge, Mass., from about 1818 until 1888. In the latter year the company's owner, Edward D. Libbey, met a strike of his ... [3 Related Articles]
New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston: (from the article "heraldry") Endeavours have been made to establish American authorities who would not only record but also grant arms. The New England Historic Genealogical Society of Boston appointed a Committee on Heraldry ...
New England Hospital for Women and Children: (from the article "Zakrzewska, Marie Elizabeth") German-born American physician who founded the New England Hospital for Women and Children and contributed greatly to women's opportunities and acceptance as medical professionals.
New England National Park: (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...are mined. Major centres are Inverell, Armidale, Glen Innes, and Tenterfield, which are linked by the New England (north-south) and the Oxley, Gwydir, and Bruxner (east-west) highways. New England National ...
New England Patriots: (from the article "Football") The New England Patriots overshadowed the Colts in the 2007-08 season, becoming the first 16-0 team in NFL history. The Patriots were the first "perfect" team in the regular season ...
New England Range: section of the Eastern Highlands, or Great Dividing Range, northeastern New South Wales, Australia. The range extends 200 mi (320 km) north from the Moonbi Range (near Tamworth) to the ...
New England Theology: (from the article "Edwards, Jonathan") ...Newport, R.I.,), and Jonathan Edwards, Jr., developed some of his "improvements" into a distinct theological school; it was first called "Hopkinsianism" and later the "New England Theology." These men and ...
New England Upland: (from the article "North America") ...Mounts Washington and Monadnock, which are composed of highly resistant rock, rise above a broad mass of ridges at just above the 2,000-ft level; these ridges, in turn, rise above ...
New England, Council for: in British American colonial history, joint stock company organized in 1620 by a charter from the British crown with authority to colonize and govern the area now known as New ... [1 Related Articles]
New England, Dominion of: (from the article "United States") ...to a royal colony. The process of royal consolidation was accelerated when in 1688 the colony, along with the New England and New Jersey colonies, was made part of the ...
New English Bible: (from the article "textual criticism") ...Reliable principles of Shakespearean editing have begun to emerge only with modern developments in the techniques of analytical bibliography. The Revised Standard Version of the Bible (1952) and the New ...
New Equality Party: (from the article "Azerbaijan") The political stagnation in 2006 that followed the crushing defeat of the opposition in the November 2005 parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan persisted in 2007. Efforts by the opposition New Equality ...
new eugenics: (from the article "eugenics") Despite the dropping of the term eugenics, eugenic ideas remain prevalent in many issues surrounding human reproduction. Medical genetics, a post-World War II medical specialty, encompasses a wide range of ...
New Forces Party: (from the article "Cote d'Ivoire") ...in 2007 toward unifying Cote d' Ivoire, which had been divided after nearly five years of civil war. On March 4 at a meeting in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Ivoirian Pres. ...
New Forest: district, administrative and historic county of Hampshire, England, comprising the New Forest and its urbanized coastal fringe flanking Southampton Water and The Solent, together with rural areas around Ringwood and ...
New Forest: (from the article "Romsey") ...of Southampton on the River Test. It is dominated by a massive Norman abbey, which replaced an earlier wooden church established for Benedictine nuns in 907 CE. Romsey lies on ...
New Foundations: (from the article "logic, history of") ...1920s and '30s, and the result is called von Neumann-Bernays-Godel set theory, or NBG. A more distinct alternative was proposed by the American logician Willard Van Orman Quine and is ...
New Fourth Army: (from the article "China") Early in the period of united resistance, the government permitted the New Fourth Army to be created from remnants of communist troops left in Jiangxi and Fujian at the time ...
New Fourth Army Incident: (from the article "China") ...Though both sides continued the war against Japan, each was fighting for its own ultimate advantage. Bitter anticommunist sentiment in government circles found its most violent expression in the New ...
New France: (1534-1763), the French colonies of continental North America, initially embracing the shores of the St. Lawrence River, Newfoundland, and Acadia (Nova Scotia) but gradually expanding to include much of the ... [9 Related Articles]
New France, Company of: (from the article "New France") The fort at Quebec, however, attracted few residents, and Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister of France, felt impelled to found in 1627 the Company of New France (Compagnie de la ...
New Freedom: in U.S. history, political ideology of Woodrow Wilson, enunciated during his successful 1912 presidential campaign, pledging to restore unfettered opportunity for individual action and to employ the power of government ... [1 Related Articles]
New Frontier: (from the article "Kennedy, John F.") ...he balanced the Democratic ticket by choosing Johnson as his running mate. In his acceptance speech Kennedy declared, "We stand on the edge of a New Frontier." Thereafter the phrase ...
New Frontier Party: (from the article "Democratic Socialist Party") ...was supported by organized labour. The Democratic Socialist Party participated in a short-lived governing coalition in 1993, and the following year, in opposition to the government, it joined the New ...
New Frontiers in Cheating: A number of high-profile instances involving plagiarism and resume padding that were reported in 2001 continued to capture headlines in 2002 and to bring increased scrutiny to the methodology of ... [1 Related Articles]
New Gate: (from the article "Jerusalem") ...walls dating chiefly to the period of the Crusades but in some places to Byzantine, Herodian, and even Hasmonean times. The Old City may be entered through any of seven ...
New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars: (NGC), basic reference list of star clusters, nebulas, and galaxies. It was compiled in 1888 by Danish astronomer Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer, who based his work on earlier lists made ... [4 Related Articles]
New Georgia: (from the article "New Georgia Islands") ...to southeast) are Vella Lavella; Kolombangara, largely consisting of a cone-shaped solfataric volcano (one that exudes only hot vapours and sulfuric gases) rising to 5,800 feet (1,768 metres); New Georgia, ...
New Georgia Islands: volcanic island group in the country of Solomon Islands, southwestern Pacific Ocean, 90 miles (145 km) northwest of Guadalcanal. The four main islands of the group (northwest to southeast) are ... [2 Related Articles]
New German Cinema: (from the article "Germany") ...collapse of its domestic film market. A group of young filmmakers, first organized at the Oberhausen Film Festival in 1962, established das neue Kino, or the New ...
New Glarus: village, Green county, southern Wisconsin, U.S. It lies on a branch of the Sugar River, about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Madison. Founded in 1845 by some 100 immigrants ...
New Granada, Viceroyalty of: in colonial Latin America, a Spanish viceroyalty-first established in1717, suppressed in 1723, and reestablished in 1739-that included present-day Colombia, Panama (after 1751), Ecuador, and Venezuela and had its capital at ... [7 Related Articles]
New Grand Alliance: (from the article "Spanish Succession, War of the") ...XIV of France. On November 1 he died, and on November 24 Louis XIV proclaimed his grandson king of Spain, as Philip V (the first Bourbon king of Spain), and ...
New Guard: (from the article "New South Wales") ...in 1925, threatened to repudiate payment on overseas debts. He clashed with the Commonwealth government and alarmed wealthy propertied groups, which gave support to a semimilitaristic movement, the New Guard. ...
New Guinea: island of the eastern Malay Archipelago, in the western Pacific Ocean, north of Australia. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the north, the Bismarck and Solomon seas to ... [20 Related Articles]
New Guinea harpy eagle: (from the article "eagle") ...bears a crest of dark feathers on its head. Its body is black above and white below except for a black chest band. It is becoming increasingly rare, particularly in ...
New Guinea native cat: (from the article "native cat") ...of southwestern and central Australia is almost the same size but has a relatively longer tail. The northern native cat (D. hallucatus) of tropical regions is generally smaller, as is ...
New Gymnastics: (from the article "physical culture") ...from corsets and other restrictive garments. Lewis introduced a system of stretching exercises that utilized rubber balls, beanbags, hoops, and rings to develop eye-hand coordination. His "New Gymnastics" also employed ...
New Hall porcelain: (from the article "pottery") ...Champion acquired the patent for hard porcelain in 1772 and manufactured tableware Neoclassical in style and excellent in quality. The patent was bought by a syndicate that established a factory ...
New Hampshire: constituent state of the United States of America. One of the 13 original U.S. states, it is located in New England at the extreme northeastern corner of the country. It ... [15 Related Articles]
New Hampshire: (from the article "poultry farming") The New Hampshire, developed in the U.S. in 1930 from Rhode Island Red stock, is a meaty, early maturing breed with light-red feathers and lays large brown eggs. The only ...
New Hampshire Grants: in the period before the American Revolution, the territory that subsequently became the state of Vermont. The area was initially claimed by New Hampshire, and the first land grant there ...
New Hampshire v. Louisiana: (108 U.S. 76 [1883]), U.S. Supreme Court case (combined with New York v. Louisiana) concerning an attempt by the states of New Hampshire and New York to force Louisiana to ...
New Hampshire, flag of: U.S. state flag consisting of a dark blue field (background) with the state seal in the centre.
New Hampshire, University of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Durham, N.H., U.S. The only university in the state, the University of New Hampshire has land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant status. It anchors the ...
New Hanover: (from the article "Pacific Islands") ...Indonesia, entered the Pacific. They too looked for a southern continent. In 1615-16 the Dutch navigator Jakob Le Maire traveled from the east through the Tuamotus to Tonga and New ...
New Harmony: town, Posey county, southwestern Indiana, U.S. It is located on the Wabash River at the Illinois border, 28 miles (45 km) northwest of Evansville. The site was first occupied by ... [6 Related Articles]
New Haven: county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It is bordered to the south by Long Island Sound, to the southwest by the Housatonic River, and to the southeast by the Hammonasset River. The ...
New Haven: city, coextensive with the town (township) of New Haven, New Haven county, south-central Connecticut, U.S. It is a port on Long Island Sound at the Quinnipiac River mouth. Originally settled ... [2 Related Articles]
New High German language: (from the article "West Germanic languages") ...the long vowels i, u, and u (IPA y) came to be diphthongized to ei, ou, and ou (IPA oy); this feature is known as the New High German diphthongization. ...
New Historicism: (from the article "Shakespeare, William") A number of the so-called New Historicists (among them Stephen Greenblatt, Stephen Orgel, and Richard Helgerson) read avidly in cultural anthropology, learning from Clifford Geertz and others how to analyze ...
New Hope: borough (town) and artists' colony, Bucks county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies in a scenic wooded region along the west bank of the Delaware River (there bridged to Lambertville, New ...
New Horizons: (from the article "Physical Sciences") The New Horizons spacecraft, which was to rendezvous with the dwarf planet Pluto in the year 2015, flew past Jupiter on Feb. 28, 2007, for a gravitational boost on its ...
New Humanism: critical movement in the United States between 1910 and 1930, based on the literary and social theories of the English poet and critic Matthew Arnold, who sought to recapture the ... [3 Related Articles]
New Iberia: city, seat (1868) of Iberia parish, southern Louisiana, U.S., on Bayou Teche (connected via canal with the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway), 23 miles (37 km) southeast of Lafayette. Founded in the ...
New Imperialism: (from the article "Indonesia") The "new imperialism" of the late 19th century may be seen as part of a worldwide movement whereby the industrial countries of western Europe partitioned among themselves the hitherto undeveloped ...
New Ireland: island of the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, southwestern Pacific Ocean. The island, lying just north of New Britain, from which it is separated by St. George's Channel, has an ... [4 Related Articles]
New Ireland Forum: (from the article "Ireland") ...At the end of the year, the Irish and British governments set up an Anglo-Irish intergovernmental council to discuss matters of common concern, especially security. In 1984 the report of ...
New Israeli Shekel: (from the article "Israel") ...as the government's sole fiscal and banking agent. Its major function is to regulate the money supply and short-term banking. The Israeli currency was devalued numerous times after 1948, and ...
new jack swing: (from the article "New jack swing") New jack swing (also known as swingbeat) was the most pop-oriented rhythm-and-blues music since 1960s Motown. Its performers were unabashed entertainers, free of artistic pretensions; its songwriters and producers were ...
New Jersey: constituent state of the United States of America. One of the original 13 states, it is bounded by New York to the north and northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the ... [18 Related Articles]
New Jersey Devils: (from the article "The Stanley Cup") ...member of Canada's 1956 bronze-medal Olympic team and a longtime photographer for the Montreal Canadiens. The younger Brodeur was a first-round choice of the 1990 NHL entry draft and signed ...
New Jersey Performing Arts Center: (from the article "Newark") ...House (1710); and the First Presbyterian Church (1790). Adjacent to and part of the Newark Museum (which has a variety of exhibits) is the Ballantine House (1880s), a restored Victorian ...
New Jersey plan: (from the article "Constitutional Convention") ...a plan known as the Virginia, or large state, plan, which provided for a bicameral legislature with representation of each state based on its population or wealth. William Paterson proposed ...
New Jersey tea: (from the article "Ceanothus") Ceanothus americanus, commonly called New Jersey tea, occurs from Canada to Florida. During the American Revolutionary War, its leaves were used as a tea substitute. The plant grows about 1 ...
New Jersey, College of: public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Ewing township, near Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. It comprises schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Nursing, and Engineering. More than 20 graduate ...
New Jersey, flag of: U.S. state flag consisting of a background of buff (light tan) with the state coat of arms in the centre.
New Jerusalem: (from the article "Low Countries, history of") ...church had been rejected, to organize itself into communities, which soon formed close ties with each other. Prophesies by the social-revolutionary branch of the imminent coming of Christ and of ...
New Jerusalem in the U.S.A., General Convention of the: (from the article "New Church") church organized in the General Conference of the New Church, the General Convention of the New Jerusalem in the U.S.A., and the General Church of the New Jerusalem. Its members ...
New Jewel Movement: (from the article "international relations") ...had won independence from Britain in 1974, initially came under the control of Sir Eric Gairy, whose policies and conduct verged on the bizarre. In March 1979, Gairy was overthrown ...
New Journalism: (from the article "American literature") ...published In Cold Blood (1966), a cold but impressive piece of documentary realism that contributed, along with the work of Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer, to the emergence of a ...
New Julfa: (from the article "Armenia") In New Julfa the Armenian merchants played an important role in the economic life of Iran, serving as links between Europe (including England, Spain, and Russia) and the East, exporting ...
New Kabuki: (from the article "Okamoto Kido") In 1937 Okamoto became the first dramatist to be made a member of the Art Academy and has since been considered the representative writer of what has been called the ...