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- city, Westmoreland county, western Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Allegheny River, and near the Pennsylvania Turnpike, just northeast of Pittsburgh. Established in 1891 by a group of Pittsburgh merchants interested in ...
- New Kingdom
- (from the article "Egypt, ancient") The New Kingdomancient Near EastMiddle East, ancientNew states and peoplesBefore the close of the 16th century BC the native 18th ...
- New Kingdom
- (from the article "Anatolia") It is possible that the branch of the Hittite royal family that gained control in the 15th century BC may have originated in Kizzuwadna. Although the dynastic names remained Hittite, ...
- New Labour
- (from the article "United Kingdom") ...in 1981 effectively split the radical democratic left and disabled the possibility of an early riposte to Thatcher. It also, ironically enough, contributed to what became known as ''New Labour,'' ...
- New Lanark
- (from the article "Lanark") New Lanark, 1 mile (1.6 km) south, was founded in 1785 as a cotton-spinning centre, by David Dale with the support of Sir Richard Arkwright, inventor of the spinning frame. ...
- New Laura
- (from the article "Origen") In the 6th century the "New Laura" (monastic community) in Palestine became a centre for an Origenist movement among the monastic intelligentsia, hospitable to speculations about such matters as preexistent ...
- new law
- (from the article "Roman law") The new law, which consisted of the ordinances of the emperors promulgated during the middle and later stages of the empire, was in a similarly disorganized condition. These ordinances or ...
- New Laws
- (from the article "Wang Anshi") Chinese poet and prose writer, best known as a governmental reformer who implemented his unconventional idealism through the "New Laws," or "New Policies," of 1069-76. The academic controversy sparked by ...
- New Laws of the Indies
- (from the article "Las Casas, Bartolome de") Las Casas's work finally seemed to be crowned with success when King Charles signed the so-called New Laws (Leyes Nuevas). According to these laws, the encomienda was ...
- New Left
- (from the article "Thompson, E.P.") ...a dedicated Marxist, however, and cofounded a new journal, The New Left Review, around which thousands of other disaffected leftists united in forming a noncommunist political movement, the New Left. ...
- New Life Movement
- (from the article "Chiang Kai-shek") ...since a complete victory over the communists continued to elude him. To give the nation more moral cohesion, Chiang revived the state cult of Confucius and in 1934 launched a ...
- New Light Church
- (from the article "Backus, Isaac") A member of the New Light Church, a Separatist sect, Backus began preaching in 1746, traveling throughout Connecticut and Massachusetts. He was ordained in 1748 and established a congregation in ...
- New Lincoln School
- private experimental coeducational school in New York City enrolling students from kindergarten through grade 12. Its predecessor was founded as Lincoln School in 1917 by the Rockefeller-funded General Education Board ...
- new lira
- (from the article "Turkey") ...by 31% and 40% in the first 10 months; and the number of visitors from abroad rose by 28% in the first nine months. The stabilization of the economy was ...
- New London
- county, southeastern Connecticut, U.S. It is bordered by Long Island Sound (south), Rhode Island (east), and the Connecticut River (southwest). It comprises an upland region that is forested with hardwoods ...
- New London
- city, coextensive with the town (township) of New London, New London county, southeastern Connecticut, U.S. It is a port on Long Island Sound at the mouth of the Thames River. ... [1 Related Articles]
- New London Bridge
- (from the article "London Bridge") ...unsigned article "London" in the 3rd edition (1788-97) of Encyclopaedia Britannica. This account details the succession of structures known as London Bridge, including New London Bridge (which spanned the Thames ...
- New Look
- (from the article "Dior, Christian") In 1947, backed by French entrepreneur Marcel Boussac, Dior introduced the revolutionary New Look, spurring international controversy over its radically lowered hemline. The look featured small shoulders, a cinched waist, ...
- New Look
- (from the article "United States") As for military policy, Eisenhower instituted the "New Look," which entailed reducing the army from 1,500,000 men in 1953 to 900,000 in 1960. The navy experienced smaller reductions, while air ...
- New Madrid
- city, seat (1821) of New Madrid county, southeastern Missouri, U.S., on the Mississippi River, 35 miles (56 km) southwest of Cairo, Ill. It originated as a French Canadian trading post ... [1 Related Articles]
- New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12
- series of three large earthquakes that occurred near New Madrid in southern Missouri on Dec. 16, 1811 (magnitude from 8.0 to 8.5), and on Jan. 23 (magnitude 8.4) and Feb. ... [1 Related Articles]
- New Madrid Fault
- deep-seated fracture in the Earth's crust trending southwest-northeast through Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, and Kentucky, U.S. Lying in the central area of the North American Plate, the rift is about 45 ... [2 Related Articles]
- new man
- (from the article "fascism") Fascists aimed to transform the ordinary man into the "new man," a "virile" being who would put decadent bourgeoisie, cerebral Marxists, and "feminine" liberals to shame. The new man would ...
- new man
- (from the article "Christianity") Probably no idea and no sentiment in the early church dominated the Christian feeling for life so thoroughly and comprehensively as the consciousness of the newness of the life into ...
- New Market
- town, Shenandoah county, northwestern Virginia, U.S., in the Shenandoah Valley. Laid out in 1784 and early known as Crossroads, it was incorporated in 1796 and renamed for the famous English ...
- New Market, Battle of
- (from the article "New Market") ...in the Shenandoah Valley. Laid out in 1784 and early known as Crossroads, it was incorporated in 1796 and renamed for the famous English horseracing town. This small community gained ...
- New Martinsville
- city, seat (1846) of Wetzel county, northern West Virginia, U.S., on the Ohio River, about 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Wheeling. Settled by Edward Doolin in 1780, it was ...
- New Method school
- (from the article "Tajikistan") Early in the 20th century, Tajiks in those Central Asian communities where the Jadid reformist movement had installed its New Method schools received the rudiments of a modern, though still ...
- New Meuse River
- (from the article "Rotterdam") ...port and second largest city of The Netherlands. It lies about 19 miles (30 km) from the North Sea, to which it is linked by a canal called the New ...
- New Mexico
- constituent state of the United States of America. It became the 47th state of the union in 1912. New Mexico is the fifth largest U.S. state and is bounded by ... [16 Related Articles]
- New Mexico State University
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S. It anchors the New Mexico State University system, which also includes two-year branches at Alamogordo, Las Cruces (Dona ... [1 Related Articles]
- New Mexico State University system
- (from the article "New Mexico State University") public, coeducational institution of higher learning in Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S. It anchors the New Mexico State University system, which also includes two-year branches at Alamogordo, Las Cruces (Dona ...
- New Mexico, flag of
- U.S. state flag consisting of a yellow field (background) with a Zia Indian sun in red as its central symbol.
- New Mexico, Museum of
- (from the article "Santa Fe") ...and is growing rapidly as a commercial and residential centre. It is built on the site of a prehistoric Tiwa pueblo, and archaeological research is conducted in the surrounding Indian ...
- New Mexico, University of
- public, coeducational institution of higher learning, situated east of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. It offers a comprehensive array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- New Milford
- borough (town), Bergen county, northeastern New Jersey, U.S., immediately north of Hackensack on the east bank of the Hackensack River. Early Dutch settlers established a plantation-type farm called Vriesendael, which ...
- New Model Army
- army formed in February 1645 that won the English Civil War for Parliament and itself came to exercise important political power. When war broke out in 1642, Parliament had at ... [8 Related Articles]
- New Model Unionism
- (from the article "Europe, history of") ...the failures of the 1848 revolutions, the 1850s constituted a period of relative placidity in labour relations. Skilled workers in Britain formed a conservative craft union movement, known as New ...
- New Moon
- (Hebrew: "Head of the Month"), the start of the Hebrew month, a minor Jewish festival on which fasting and mourning are not allowed. The modern observance consists principally in preserving ... [2 Related Articles]
- New Moon
- (from the article "Dionysian period") in the Julian calendar, a period of 532 years covering a complete cycle of New Moons (19 years between occurrences on the same date) and of dominical letters-i.e., correspondences between ...
- New Museum of Contemporary Art
- (from the article "Architecture") ...from sunlight, and it gave the interiors a beautiful, slightly snowstormlike feeling. On the Bowery in New York City, the Japanese firm SANAA, a partnership of two women architects, designed ...
- New National Gallery
- art museum in Berlin, Ger., featuring 20th-century European painting and sculpture. [2 Related Articles]
- New National Party
- (from the article "Grenada") ...to head a governing council until an election could be held, and constitutional government was restored. A peacekeeping force remained until 1985. The election, held in December 1984, was won ...
- New Nationalism
- in U.S. history, political philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt, an espousal of active federal intervention to promote social justice and the economic welfare of the underprivileged; its precepts were strongly influenced ... [2 Related Articles]
- New Norfolk
- town, southern Tasmania, Australia, on the Derwent River. From 1807 to 1808 inhabitants of Norfolk Island in the South Pacific Ocean were resettled in the area, and in 1811 the ...
- New Norwegian language
- (from the article "Norwegian language") North Germanic language of the West Scandinavian branch, existing in two distinct and rival norms-Bokmal (also called Dano-Norwegian, or Riksmal) and New Norwegian (Nynorsk).contribution byAasen
- New Novel
- avant-garde novel of the mid-20th century that marked a radical departure from the conventions of the traditional novel in that it ignores such elements as plot, dialogue, linear narrative, and ... [8 Related Articles]
- New Order
- (from the article "Joy Division/New Order") British rock group who, as Joy Division, refined the external chaos of 1970s punk into a disquieting inner turmoil, ushering in the postpunk era. They later, as New Order, pioneered ...
- New Order
- (from the article "Suharto") As president, Suharto instituted a policy he called the New Order, relying on the help of American-educated economists to reinvigorate the Indonesian economy. Western investment and foreign aid were encouraged, ...
- New Order
- (from the article "Italy") ...Socialist Party was dominated by its maximalist wing, a faction led by Giacinto Serrati that abandoned the Socialists' prewar and wartime reformist policy for a more radical approach, and by ...
- New Orleans
- city, southeastern Louisiana, U.S. Unquestionably one of the most distinctive cities of the New World, New Orleans was established at great cost in an environment of conflict. Its strategic position, ... [18 Related Articles]
- New Orleans Jazz Club
- (from the article "New Orleans") ...its nightclubs, where music (notably jazz) and risque floor shows are a specialty. Devotees of jazz may also visit Preservation Hall, where revivals of traditional styles may be heard. The ...
- New Orleans Race Riot
- (July 1866), after the American Civil War, incident of white violence directed against black urban dwellers in Louisiana; the event was influential in focusing public opinion in the North on ...
- New Orleans Rhythm Kings
- (from the article "jazz") ...Billie Holiday), and even pianists (such as Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson). Armstrong's influence was also absorbed by white musicians, including some of the better ensembles of the time, such ...
- New Orleans Saints
- (from the article "Football") NFC South winner New Orleans (10-6) was one of seven teams to reach the play-offs after missing them the previous year; the Saints returned home after Hurricane Katrina forced them ...
- New Orleans style
- in music, the first method of group jazz improvisation. Developed near the turn of the century, it was not recorded first in New Orleans but rather in Chicago, Los Angeles, ... [6 Related Articles]
- New Orleans, Battle of
- (Jan. 8, 1815), U.S. victory against Great Britain in the War of 1812. In the autumn of 1814 a British fleet of more than 50 ships commanded by General Edward ... [1 Related Articles]
- New Orleans, Battle of
- (April 24-25, 1862), naval action by Union forces seeking to capture the city during the American Civil War. A Union naval squadron of 43 ships under Admiral David G. Farragut ...
- New Orleans, Port of
- (from the article "New Orleans") The era of the modern Port of New Orleans began in 1879 with the construction of jetties in South Pass, one of three passes that flow from the river into ...
- New Paltz
- town (township), Ulster county, southeastern New York, U.S., on the Wallkill River, just northwest of Poughkeepsie; it includes the village of New Paltz. The site was settled by French Huguenots ...
- New Paphos
- (from the article "Paphos") ...of Cyprus. Paphos was also the name of two ancient cities that were the precursors of the modern town. The older ancient city (Greek: Palaipaphos) was located at modern Pirgos ...
- New Partnership for Development Act
- (from the article "Business Overview") American textile companies fought legislation introduced in the U.S. Congress in October that would extend liberalized trade benefits to impoverished countries. The New Partnership for Development Act would grant duty-free ...
- New Party
- (from the article "India") ...reflected broad tactical differences between the liberal evolutionary and militant revolutionary wings of the national organization and those aspiring to the presidency. Young militants of Tilak's New Party wanted to ...
- New Peace Party
- (from the article "Komeito, New") ...Komeito won 51 seats. In the following year it merged with several opposition parties as the New Frontier Party, which dissolved in 1997. In 1998 Komeito merged with the New ...
- new pence
- (from the article "coin") On Feb. 15, 1971, the U.K. currency was decimalized. With 100 "new pence" to the pound, the decimal coinage was based on denominations of these new pence (12 [since demonetized], ...
- New People's Army
- military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist-Leninist (CPP-ML), which is a Communist organization dedicated to achieving power in the Philippines by means of revolutionary insurrection. The CPP-ML ... [2 Related Articles]
- New People's Study Society
- (from the article "Mao Zedong") ...well as in Western ideas. While at the school, Mao also acquired his first experience in political activity by helping to establish several student organizations. The most important of these ...
- New Philadelphia
- city, seat (1808) of Tuscarawas county, east-central Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Tuscarawas River, adjacent to the city of Dover, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Canton. It ...
- New Philharmonic Pitch
- (from the article "pitch") ...a compromise pitch called diapason normal (known in the United States as "French pitch," or "international pitch") at a' = 435. England, in 1896, adopted the "New Philharmonic Pitch" at ...
- New Plymouth
- city ("district") and port, Taranaki local government region, western North Island, New Zealand. It lies along North Taranaki Bight at the base of Mount Taranaki (Egmont). The settlement was founded ...
- New Policy
- (from the article "Azerbaijan") ...parties and the progressive wing of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party formed the Liberty Bloc, and in mid-April Eldar Namazov, a former adviser to the late president Heydar Aliyev, formed ...
- New Procurators Offices
- (from the article "Venice") ...arcaded square. Napoleon called the piazza the finest drawing room in Europe. The northern and southern wings of the square are formed by two official buildings, the Old Procurators' Offices ...
- New Progressive Party
- (from the article "Puerto Rico") ...each of which advocates a different political status for the island. The two leading parties are the Popular Democratic Party, which supports the continuation of commonwealth status, and the New ...
- New Providence Island
- principal island of The Bahamas, located between Andros Island (west) and Eleuthera Island (east). It has a length of 21 miles (34 km) and a width of 7 miles (11 ... [3 Related Articles]
- New Rajagrha
- (from the article "Rajgir Hills") ...are 17 12 feet (about 5 m) thick, built of massive undressed stones without mortar. These ruined walls are generally dated to the 6th century BC. The remains of New ...
- New Realism
- (from the article "law, philosophy of") ...life and activities of groups and associations as sources of binding social norms. This opened up jurisprudence to some psychological issues. Gierke's work also contributed to the later American Neorealism ...
- New Religious Movement
- the generally accepted term for what is sometimes called, often with pejorative connotations, a "cult." The term New Religious Movement has been applied to all new faiths that have arisen ... [1 Related Articles]
- New Republic Party
- former South African political party founded in 1977 as the direct successor to the United Party.
- New Republic, The
- weekly journal of opinion that was one of the most influential liberal magazines in the United States from its founding in 1914. The magazine was begun by Willard Straight with ... [7 Related Articles]
- New River
- (from the article "Belize") The lowlands are drained by the navigable Belize River (on which stands Belize City), the New River, and the Hondo River (which forms the northern frontier with Mexico). Both the ...
- New River
- (from the article "Enfield") More than one-tenth of the borough's area is public open space. The New River, an early 17th-century canal, constructed to supply water from Hertfordshire to Clerkenwell, London, remains a scenic ...
- New River
- river formed by the junction of North and South forks in Ashe county, northwestern North Carolina, U.S. It flows north across Virginia into West Virginia and joins the Gauley River, ... [1 Related Articles]
- New River Gorge Bridge
- (from the article "bridge") In 1977 the New River Gorge Bridge, the world's longest-spanning steel arch, was completed in Fayette county, West Virginia, U.S. Designed by Michael Baker, the two-hinged arch truss carries four ...
- New Rochelle
- city, Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies along Long Island Sound, just northeast of New York City. Founded in 1688 by a group of Huguenot refugees, it was ...
- New Romney
- town (parish), Shepway district, administrative and historic county of Kent, England. It was formerly one of the medieval Cinque Ports of the English Channel coast but is now more than ... [1 Related Articles]
- New Ross
- port town, County Wexford, Ireland. It lies along the River Barrow, just below the latter's junction with the Nore. In the 6th century St. Abban founded the abbey of Rossmactreoin, ...
- New Salem
- (from the article "Anthropology and Archaeology") ...discoveries came from sites for which historical documents amplified the archaeological finds. A recently discovered 1830s document indicated that Abraham Lincoln owned his first property in New Salem, Ill., the ...
- New Sarai
- (from the article "Russia") ...centres of Bulgar and the Crimea, the Jucids (the family of Jochi, son of Genghis Khan, who inherited the western portion of his empire) established a new capital, Itil. (It ...
- New School of Poetry
- (from the article "Kariotakis, Kostas") Karyotakis' two volumes of poetry show the influence of the New School of Poetry of Athens, founded in about 1880 by Kostis Palamas, which revolted against Katharevusa, the stilted and ...
- New School Presbyterian Church
- (from the article "Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)") ...question, and theological disputes led to a schism in 1837. Both groups continued to call themselves the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., but one group, located primarily in the North, ...
- New School University
- private coeducational institution of higher learning in New York, New York, U.S. The New School was established in 1919 as an informal centre for adult education by a group of ... [5 Related Articles]
- New Sculpture
- (from the article "Brock, Sir Thomas") He is associated with the New Sculpture movement that reinvigorated the classicizing British sculpture with a new elegance and vitality drawn from Renaissance and Baroque models.
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- New Sensationalist school
- (from the article "Yokomitsu Riichi") Japanese writer who, with Kawabata Yasunari, was one of the mainstays of the New Sensationalist school (Shinkankaku-ha) of Japanese writers, influenced by the avant-garde trends in European literature of the ...
- New Shoreham
- (from the article "New Shoreham") town, Rhode Island, U.S., coextensive with Block Island (q.v.).
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- New Siberian Islands
- archipelago, northeastern Russia, lying north of eastern Siberia in the Arctic Ocean and dividing the Laptev Sea to the west from the East Siberian Sea to the east. Dmitry Laptev ...
- New Slovenia-Christian People's Party
- (from the article "Slovenia") ...Party dominated the parliament at the head of various coalitions until 2004, when the centre-right Slovenian Democratic Party gained a majority in the 2004 elections and formed a coalition with ...
- New Smyrna Beach
- city, Volusia county, northeastern Florida, U.S. It lies 15 miles (25 km) south of Daytona Beach, on the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River (a lagoon separated from the Atlantic ... [1 Related Articles]
- new social movement theory
- (from the article "social movement") The second theory is the new social movement theory. It derives from an intellectual dissatisfaction with the predominantly Marxist view that treats social movements as reflecting a fundamental struggle among ...
- New Society Movement
- (from the article "Philippines") ...activity was vigorous until 1972, when martial law restrictions under Marcos all but eliminated partisan politics. Where the principal rivals had been the Nacionalista and Liberal parties, Marcos's New Society ...
- New Song movement
- (from the article "Nicaragua") ...the country in the 1930s. Many contemporary Nicaraguan folk artists work from Cardenal's songbook, remaking songs that were popular in the first half of the 20th century. In the 1970s ...
- New South Wales
- state of southeastern Australia, occupying both coastal mountains and interior tablelands. It is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the east and the states of Victoria to the south, South ... [9 Related Articles]
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