island in the Bering Sea off the southwestern coast of Alaska, U.S. It is 55 miles (90 km) long and 40 miles (65 km) wide and is the second largest ...
city, capital of Nuoro provincia, east-central Sardinia, Italy, at the foot of Monte Ortobene. Although the site has been inhabited since prehistoric times, the city was first recorded, as Nugorus, ...
people living near the confluence of the Niger and Kaduna rivers in west-central Nigeria. They speak a language of the Nupoid group in the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language ...
one of the world's highest dams, located on the Vakhsh River in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan. An earth-fill dam, it was completed in 1980 and rises 984 feet ...
historic region in eastern Afghanistan, about 5,000 square miles (13,000 square km) in area and comprising the upper valleys of the Alingar, Pich, and Landay Sind rivers and the intervening ...
ballet dancer whose suspended leaps and fast turns were often compared to Vaslav Nijinsky's legendary feats. He was a flamboyant performer and a charismatic celebrity who revived the prominence of ...
chieftain of the Chien-chou Juchen, a Manchurian tribe, and one of the founders of the Manchu, or Ch'ing, dynasty. His first attack on China (1618) presaged his son Dorgon's conquest ...
(Arabic: Infidel), people of the Hindu Kush mountain area of Afghanistan and the Chitral area of Pakistan. Their territory, formerly called Kafiristan, was renamed Nuristan, "Land of Light" or "Enlightenment," ...
Finnish track athlete who dominated long-distance running in the 1920s, capturing nine gold medals in three Olympic Games (1920, 1924, 1928), as well as three silvers. For eight years (1923-31) ...
city, Bavaria Land (state), southern Germany. Bavaria's second largest city (after Munich), Nurnberg is located on the Pegnitz River where it emerges from the uplands of Franconia ...
German tin-glazed earthenware made at Nurnberg between 1712 and 1840. It is among the earliest German faience produced, since Nurnberg was a centre of pottery manufacture as early as the ...
two race-based measures depriving Jews of rights, designed by Adolf Hitler and approved by the Nazi Party at a convention in Nurnberg on September 15, 1935. One, the Reichsburgergesetz (German: ...
any of the massive Nazi Party rallies held in 1923, 1927, and 1929 and annually from 1933 through 1938 in Nurnberg (Nuremberg) in Bavaria. The rallies were primarily propaganda events, ...
series of trials held in Nurnberg, Germany, in 1945-46, in which former Nazi leaders were indicted and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal. The indictment lodged against ...
(Ginglymostoma cirratum), Atlantic shark of the family Orectolobidae. The nurse shark is yellow-brown or gray-brown, sometimes with dark spots, and may grow to over 4 m (13 feet) in length. ...
British scientist who, with Leland H. Hartwell and R. Timothy Hunt, won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 2001 for discovering key regulators of the cell cycle.
verse customarily told or sung to small children. The oral tradition of nursery rhymes is ancient, but new verses have steadily entered the stream. A French poem numbering the days ...
any member of the family Pisauridae (order Araneida), noted for the female spider's habit of making webs for the young and standing guard near the "nursery" web. Most species are ...
health care profession concerned with providing care to the sick and disabled and with promoting, maintaining, and restoring health. Nurses perform many different services, including research, education, and patient consultation. ...
provinsi (province) of Indonesia, comprising the western Lesser Sunda Islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Moyo, and Sangeang. Nusa Tenggara is Indonesian for "southeast islands." The province fronts the Indian Ocean to ...
provinsi (province) of Indonesia that includes the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands of Sumba, Flores, Solor, Alor, Sawu, Roti, Semau, Adonora, Komodo, Rinca, Lomblen, and Pantar and the western half of ...
town, southeastern Turkey. The town is situated on the Gorgarbonizra River where it passes through a narrow canyon and enters the plain. Nusaybin faces the Syrian town of Al-Qamishli and ...
in Mesopotamian religion, Sumero-Akkadian god of light and fire. His father was Sin (Sumerian: Nanna), the moon god. Semitic texts describe Nusku as the king of the night, who illuminates ...
German developmental geneticist who was jointly awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with geneticists Eric F. Wieschaus and Edward B. Lewis (qq.v.) for their research concerning the ...
in botany, dry, hard fruit that does not split open at maturity to release its single seed. A nut resembles an achene but develops from more than one carpel (female ...
in Egyptian religion, a goddess of the sky, vault of the heavens, often depicted as a woman arched over the earth god Geb (see ). Most cultures of regions where ...
in technology, fastening device consisting of a square or hexagonal block, usually of metal, with a hole in the centre having internal, or female, threads that fit on the male ...
in astronomy, a small irregularity in the precession of the equinoxes. Precession is the slow, toplike wobbling of the spinning Earth, with a period of about 26,000 years. Nutation (Latin ...
either of two sharp-billed, short-tailed birds belonging to the family Corvidae (q.v.; order Passeriformes), found in coniferous forests. The Eurasian nutcracker (Nucifraga caryocatactes) ranges from Scandinavia to Japan and has ...
family name Sittidae, any of about 22 species of the genus Sitta. They are bob-tailed, short-necked little birds that search tree trunks and rocks for food, often descending headfirst. ...
spice consisting of the seed of the Myristica fragrans, a tropical, dioecious evergreen tree native to the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, of Indonesia. Nutmeg has a distinctive, pungent fragrance and ...
a large amphibious South American rodent with webbed hind feet. The nutria has a robust body, short limbs, small eyes and ears, long whiskers, and a cylindrical, scaly tail. It ...
substance that an organism must obtain from its surroundings for growth and the sustenance of life. So-called nonessential nutrients are those that can be synthesized by the cell if they ...
process by which substances in food are transformed into body tissues and provide energy for the full range of physical and mental activities that make up human life.
any of the nutrient-related diseases and conditions that cause illness in humans. They may include deficiencies or excesses in the diet, obesity and eating disorders, and chronic diseases such as ...
in foods, any vitamin or mineral added during processing to improve nutritive value and sometimes to provide specific nutrients in which populations are deficient. Flour and bread products are often ...
American-born British biologist and physician who contributed substantially to many branches of biology and founded the Molteno Institute of Biology and Parasitology (1921) at the University of Cambridge.
American nurse and educator, remembered for her influential role in raising the quality of higher education in nursing, hospital administration, and related fields.
capital and main port of Greenland, on the southwestern coast, near the mouth of the Godthab Gulf, an inlet of the Davis Strait, and the Hjortetakken ("Deer Antlers"), a mountain ...
town, south-central Sri Lanka. It lies at an elevation of 6,199 feet (1,889 metres) above sea level, immediately south of the island's highest summit, Mount Pidurutalagala (8,281 feet [2,524 metres]), ...
ancient Mesopotamian city, located southwest of Kirkuk, Iraq. Excavations undertaken there by American archaeologists in 1925-31 revealed material extending from the prehistoric period to Roman, Parthian, and Sasanian periods. In ...
village in the towns (townships) of Clarkstown and Orangetown, Rockland county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies on the west bank of the Hudson River (there known as the Tappan ...
, Bantu-speaking people living in Mbeya region, Tanzania, immediately north of Lake Nyasa, and in Malawi. Their country comprises alluvial flats near the lake and the mountainous country beyond for ...
city, western Sudan, located at an elevation of 2,208 feet (673 metres) in the Darfur historical region. The city's industries produce textiles, processed food, and leather goods. Nyala is a ...
(species Tragelaphus angasi), slender antelope, family Bovidae (order Artiodactyla), found in southeastern Africa and distinguished by vertical white stripes on the sides of the body. Nyalas are found alone or ...
volcano in the Virunga Mountains of east-central Africa, 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Sake, in the volcano region of Virunga National Park, Congo (Kinshasa). It is about 10,023 feet ...
Bantu-speaking inhabitants of a wide area of the western region of Tanzania. Their language and culture are closely related to those of the Sukuma (q.v.).
province, southwestern Kenya, East Africa, including 1,403 square miles (3,636 square km) of Lake Victoria, and with a population density of nearly 440 per square mile. The principal cash crop ...
(Sanskrit: Rule, or Method), one of the six orthodox systems (darsana) of Indian philosophy, important for its analysis of logic and epistemology. The major contribution of the Nyaya system is ...
the four-o'clock family of flowering plants, in the pink order (Caryophyllales), containing about 30 genera with 300 species of herbs, shrubs, and trees, native to tropical and warm temperate areas ...
first prime minister of independent Tanganyika (1961), who became the first president of the new state of Tanzania (1964). Nyerere was also the major force behind the Organization of African ...
town, south-central Kenya. Nyeri lies at an elevation of about 5,750 feet (1,750 m) and is linked by road and rail with Nanyuki, about 36 miles (58 km) to the ...
any of several Northeast Bantu-speaking peoples including the Digo, who live along the coast of Kenya and Tanzania south from Mombasa to Pangani; the Giryama, who live north of Mombasa; ...
high grassy tableland in northern Malawi. It is a tilted block extending from the Mzimba Plain northeast to the edge of the Great Rift Valley and Lake Nyasa. Its undulating ...
active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of east-central Africa. It lies in the volcano region of Virunga National Park, Congo (Kinshasa), near the border with Rwanda, 12 miles (19 km) ...
town and county seat of Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg megye (county), northeastern Hungary. It is a principal settlement of the upper Tisza River region, which coincides approximately with the traditional Nyirseg, an area ...
desert, south-central Kenya. It lies about 50 miles (80 km) east of Lake Magadi and near the northern border of Tanzania. The desert encompasses the Amboseli National Park, including the ...
Finnish ski jumper who was arguably the finest performer in the history of his sport. He was not exceptionally fast down the ski ramp, and he had an unorthdox manner ...
city, seat of Storstrom amtskommune (county commune), western Falster Island, Denmark, on Guldborg Sound. It was founded around a 12th-century castle where Christopher II died (1332) and where Christian V ...
town and port, capital of the administrative lan (county) of Sodermanland, southeastern Sweden. It lies along the Baltic Sea, at the mouth of the Nykoping River. The town originated before ...
any synthetic plastic material composed of polyamides of high molecular weight and usually, but not always, manufactured as a fibre. Nylons were developed in the 1930s by a research team ...
