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- town, Primorsky kray (region), extreme eastern Russia. It lies at the head of Nakhodka Bay on the Sea of Japan. Nakhodka (its name means "find," or "godsend") is an important ...
- Nakhon Pathom
- town, western Thailand. It lies on the deltaic plain of the Chao Phraya River. A prosperous commercial centre, Nakhon Pathom is located 29 miles (47 km) west of Bangkok and ...
- Nakhon Phanom
- town, northeastern Thailand. Nakhon Phanom is a commercial centre lying along the Mekong River opposite Thakhek, Laos; it is linked by road to Udon Thani (west), Ubon Ratchathani (south), and ...
- Nakhon Ratchasima
- city, northeastern Thailand, in the southwestern portion of the Khorat Plateau. Nakhon Ratchasima is the largest city and is the transportation, commercial, financial, and governmental centre of northeastern Thailand. A ...
- Nakhon Sawan
- town, north-central Thailand. Nakhon Sawan ("Heavenly City") is located where the Ping and Nan rivers converge to form the Chao Phraya River. The town is the leading up-country river port ...
- Nakhon Si Thammarat
- town, southern Thailand, on the eastern side of the Malay Peninsula. The walled town of Nakhon Si Thammarat, one of Thailand's oldest cities, lies near the coast of the Gulf ... [1 Related Articles]
- Naki, Hamilton
- South African medical technician (b. June 1926, Ngcangane, Transkei region, S.Af.-d. May 29, 2005, Langa, S.Af.), was credited with having secretly assisted Christiaan Barnard in the first successful heart transplant ...
- Nakir
- (from the article "Munkar and Nakir") in Islamic eschatology, two angels who test the faith of the dead in their tombs. After death, the deceased is placed upright in the grave by Munkar and Nakir and ...
- Nakota
- (from the article "The Difference Between a Tribe and a Band") ...tribe encompassed a diverse group of linguistic and political entities; ironically, none of these ever used the ethnonym (self-name) Sioux. By the 19th century the speakers of Dakota, Lakota, and ...
- Nakskov
- city, Lolland island, Denmark, on Nakskov Fjord. Founded as a market centre in the early 13th century (chartered 1266), it burned down in 1420, was occupied by the forces of ...
- Naktong River
- river, in the Yongnam area of the provinces (do) of North Kyongsang and South Kyongsang, southeastern South Korea. Korea's second longest river (325 miles [523 km]), it flows generally southward ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nakuru
- town, west-central Kenya. It lies near the Mau Escarpment on the north shore of Lake Nakuru, 95 miles (153 km) northwest of Nairobi, near the heart of the Kikuyu people's ...
- Nakuru, Lake
- lake in west-central Kenya. It is one of the saline lakes of the lake system lying in the Great Rift Valley of eastern Africa. Primarily known for its many species ... [3 Related Articles]
- Nalanda
- celebrated Buddhist monastic centre, often spoken of as a university, southwest of Bihar city in northern Bihar state, India. Nalanda's traditional history dates to the time of the Buddha (6th-5th ... [3 Related Articles]
- Nalbandian, David
- (from the article "Tennis") Argentina's David Nalbandian-a former Wimbledon finalist but long an underachiever, celebrated the most significant win of his career when he halted Federer in a fifth-set tiebreaker to garner the Tennis ...
- Nalchik
- city and capital of Kabardino-Balkariya, southwestern Russia. The city lies along the Nalchik River where the latter leaves the Caucasian foothills. Founded as a Russian fortress in 1818, the town ... [1 Related Articles]
- nalidixic acid
- (from the article "drug") The fluoroquinolone antibiotics (e.g., norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin, enoxacin, trovafloxacin) are synthetic compounds based on the chemical structure of nalidixic acid, a quinolone that is used as a urinary tract antiseptic. Originally ...
- Nalkowska, Zofia
- (from the article "Polish literature") Prose writing reached its ascendancy in the second decade of independence. Early novels by Zofia Nalkowska showed the influence of the Young Poland movement and focused on exploring the feminine ...
- Nallamala Range
- range of parallel hills and valleys of the Eastern Ghats in eastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India. Located south of the Krishna River, the hills run north to south, parallel ...
- naltrexone
- (from the article "alcoholism") Most recently, naltrexone (an opiate antagonist) and acamprosate, or calcium acetylhomotaurinate (a modulator of gamma-aminobutyric acid [GABA] and N-methyl-D-aspartate [NMDA] receptors), have, like disulfiram, been effective in reducing relapse over ...
- Nalubaale Dam
- (from the article "World's largest dams") Another important resource at Lake Victoria is hydroelectric power. The Nalubaale and Kiira power stations, located at Owen Falls at Jinja, provide electricity for use in Uganda and Kenya. In ...
- nam
- (from the article "Sikhism") ...means of liberation from the cycle of rebirth is meditation on the divine nam (Persian: "name"). According to Nanak, the nam encompasses the whole ...
- Nam Dinh
- municipality, northern Vietnam. It lies on a canal linking the Day and the Red rivers and has road and railway links with Hanoi, 50 miles (80 km) northwest. Manufactures include ...
- Nam Ngum II
- (from the article "Laos") ...projects and electricity sales to neighbouring countries (especially Thailand) constituted a major vector of the government's export and development strategy. In May the construction of the 615-MW Nam Ngum II ...
- nam simaran
- (from the article "Sikhism") ...shabad) through a grace bestowed by God, or Akal Purakh (one of Nanak's names for God), and having chosen to accept the word, the believer undertakes nam ...
- Nam Theun 2
- (from the article "Laos") ...was driven to a large extent by foreign direct investment (FDI), particularly in the natural resource and industry sectors through the ongoing construction of a number of large hydropower dams ...
- Nam Viet
- ancient kingdom occupying much of what is now northern Vietnam and the southern Chinese provinces of Kwangtung and Kwangsi. [2 Related Articles]
- Nama
- any member of a people of southern Namibia who constitute by far the largest Khoekhoe ethnic group, perhaps larger than all the others combined. They represent about one-eighth of the ... [6 Related Articles]
- Nama
- (from the article "art, African") ...The Kore, concerned with the sky and with the bringing of rain to make the crops grow, employs masks representing the hyena, lion, monkey, antelope, and horse. In addition there ...
- Nama
- (from the article "Khoekhoe languages") ...the first includes the extinct South African languages !Ora and Gri (click here for an audio clip of !Ora) and the dialects that were spoken along the southern Cape coast; ...
- nama-rupa
- (from the article "Buddhism") ...karmic predispositions (sankharas), consciousness (vinnana), form and body (nama-rupa), the five sense organs and the mind (salayatana), contact ...
- Namadgi National Park
- (from the article "Principal national parks of the world") ...an Aboriginal settlement at Wreck Bay, and at the Royal Australian Naval College. Just across the New South Wales border from Canberra, and part of the metropolitan area, is the ...
- Namaesti
- (from the article "Arges") ...17th-century manor that was owned by the Goleseu family. A 16th-century sandstone church and hermitage and the house of the poet George (or Gheorghe) Toparceanu (1886-1937) are found in Namaesti. ...
- Namaka
- (from the article "Haumea") ...of Haumea were discovered and were subsequently named after daughters of Haumea. The larger moon, Hi'iaka, is named after the goddess of the island of Hawaii and of the hula; ...
- naman
- in Vedism and Hinduism, the characteristic sign or mark, most frequently used in the sense of the "name," of an individual, or the word that stands for an object. The ...
- Namangan
- oblasti (province), eastern Uzbekistan, with an area of 3,100 square miles (7,900 square km), in the northern part of the Fergana Valley. It is traversed by the Syr Darya, the ...
- Namangan
- city and administrative centre of Namangan oblasti (province), Uzbekistan, in the northern Fergana Valley. The first mention of the settlement dates from the end of the 15th century. By the ...
- Namath, Joe
- American collegiate and professional gridiron football quarterback who was one of the best passers in football and a cultural sports icon of the 1960s.
- Namatjira, Albert
- Australian Aborigine painter noted for his watercolour landscapes of desertlike central Australia.
- Namazga-Tepe
- (from the article "Central Asian arts") Annau, six miles (10 kilometres) southeast of Ashgabat and Namazga-Tepe, situated in the same region and occupying an area of some 145 acres (60 hectares), are important Bronze Age sites. ...
- Nambicuara
- South American Indian people of the northern Mato Grosso. Once estimated at more than 20,000, the population was devastated by introduced diseases; it had grown to more than 1,000 individuals ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nambu, Yoichiro
- Japanese-born American physicist who was awarded, with Kobayashi Makoto and Maskawa Toshihide, the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics. Nambu received half of the prize for his discovery of spontaneous broken ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nambucca Heads
- town and promontory, north-coastal New South Wales, Australia. The name, derived from an Aboriginal term meaning "entrance to the waters," comes from the Nambucca River, which flows 70 miles (115 ...
- Nambudiri
- the dominant caste of the Indian state of Kerala. Orthodox in the extreme, its members regard themselves as the true repositories of the ancient Vedic religion and of the traditional ... [1 Related Articles]
- Namcha Barwa
- (from the article "Himalayas") ...The Himalayas themselves stretch uninterruptedly for about 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometres) from west to east between Nanga Parbat (26,660 feet), in the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir, and Namcha ...
- Namco Limited
- (from the article "Pac-Man") In 1980 the Japanese arcade game manufacturer Namco Limited introduced the world to Pac-Man. The lead designer was Iwatani Tohru, who intended to create a game that ...
- Namdaemun
- (from the article "Seoul") ...and buildings stretch out in all directions from the old city wall's four major gates that still stand: Bukdaemun ("Great North Gate"); Tongdaemun ("Great East Gate"); Namdaemun ("Great South Gate"), ...
- Namdev
- leading poet-saint of the Indian medieval period, who wrote in the Marathi language. [2 Related Articles]
- Namdhari
- an austere sect within Sikhism, a religion of India. The Namdhari movement was founded by Balak Singh (1797-1862), who did not believe in any religious ritual other than the repetition ... [2 Related Articles]
- name
- a word or group of words used to refer to an individual entity (real or imaginary). A name singles out the entity by directly pointing to it, not by specifying ... [12 Related Articles]
- name day
- (from the article "Christianity") ...a Christian generally received the name of the saint on whose holiday (day of death) he is baptized. The believer was thus joined for life with the patron of his ...
- named-peril
- (from the article "insurance") ...insurance on any peril except those later excluded in the policy. The advantage of these contracts is that if property is destroyed by a peril not specifically excluded the insurance ...
- names, doctrine of
- (from the article "China") ...importance of social duties, ritual, law, and the study of human characteristics. This mixture of Confucian and Legalist notions was called mingjiao, "the doctrine of names" ("names" ...
- Namest' na Hane
- (from the article "Hana Valley") ...centre manufacturing iron and steel, agricultural machinery, clothing, food and dairy products, and Hanachka Rezna (a regional liquor resembling bourbon whiskey); Namest' na Hane, where the annual Hanacke Dozinky ("Hana ...
- namghar
- (from the article "Assam") ...cultural institutions and religious centres, such as the satra (seat of a religious head known as the satradhikar) and namghar (prayer ...
- Namgyal, Rinzin
- (from the article "Kanchenjunga") The first map known of Kanchenjunga was made by Rinzin Namgyal, one of the pandit ("learned") explorers of the mid-19th century, who made a circuital sketch. In 1848 and 1849 ...
- Namias, Jerome
- American meteorological researcher most noted for having pioneered the development of extended weather forecasts and who also studied the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and the El Nino phenomenon (b. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Namib
- a cool coastal desert extending for 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometres) along the Atlantic coast from Namibe (formerly Mocamedes) in Angola southward across Namibia to the Olifants River in the Cape ... [4 Related Articles]
- Namibe
- city and port, southwestern Angola. Founded by Brazilians in the mid-19th century and located on an arid coastal strip from which rises the steep Huila escarpment, Mocamedes was cut off ... [1 Related Articles]
- Namibe Railway
- (from the article "Namibe") ...coastal strip from which rises the steep Huila escarpment, Mocamedes was cut off from the Angolan interior until construction of the Mocamedes Railway (now known as Namibe Railway) was begun ...
- Namibia
- country located on the southwestern coast of Africa. It is bordered by Angola to the north, Zambia to the northeast, Botswana to the east, South Africa to the southeast and ... [29 Related Articles]
- Namibia, flag of
- national flag consisting of diagonal stripes of blue, red, and green separated by narrower white stripes. In the upper hoist corner is a golden sun. The flag has a width-to-length ...
- Namibia, history of
- (from the article "Namibia") The history of Namibia is not well chronicled. Its isolated geographic position limited contact with the outside world until the 19th century. Explorer, missionary, trader, conqueror, and settler sources are ...
- Namibian Defense Force
- (from the article "Namibia") ...National Stadium; Namibia subsequently joined the Commonwealth, the UN, and the Organization of African Unity (now the African Union). Diplomatic relations were established with many countries. The Namibian Defense Force-which ...
- Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein
- British historian, who was most noted for his work on 18th- and 19th-century Europe. [1 Related Articles]
- Namikawa Sosuke
- (from the article "enamelwork") ...clear and brilliant painted enamels. The effect was achieved by taking off the cloisons before each firing, the process being repeated at least three times. The artists working for the ...
- Namiki Gohei I
- playwright of Kabuki kyogen (farces) who left more than 100 plays written during a 40-year career.
- Nammalvar
- (from the article "South Asian arts") ...Hinduism) to the Pallava kings, and poet of more than 1,000 verses, was apparently responsible for the building of many Vaisnava temples. The last of the Alvars, Nammalvar (Our Alvara, ...
- Namora, Fernando Goncalves
- Portuguese writer who wrote neorealist poetry and fiction, much of it inspired by his experience as a doctor in a remote mountainous area of Portugal.
- Namp'o
- city, southwestern North Korea. It is 30 miles (50 km) southwest of P'yongyang, on the estuary of the Taedong River. Formerly a fishing village, it developed rapidly after it became ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nampa
- city, Canyon county, southwestern Idaho, U.S. It lies in the centre of the Boise Valley. Founded in 1886 on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad at the junction ...
- Namphy, Henri
- (from the article "Haiti") After Duvalier's departure, a five-member civilian-military council led by Lieutenant General Henri Namphy took charge, promising elections and democratic reforms. The first attempt at elections, in November 1987, ended when ...
- Namsos
- (from the article "World War II") Allied troops began to land at Narvik on April 14. Shortly afterward, British troops were landed also at Namsos and at Andalsnes, to attack Trondheim from the north and from ...
- Namtar
- (from the article "Mesopotamian religion") ...to go free. But after Enki and the birth goddess Nintur (another name for Ninmah) had created humans, they multiplied at such a rate that the din they made kept ...
- Namuli, Mount
- (from the article "Mozambique") ...and east of Malawi's protrusion into Mozambique. Mount Binga, the country's highest elevation at 7,992 feet (2,436 metres), is part of the Chimoio highlands. The 7,936-foot (2,419-metre) peak at Mount ...
- Namur
- (from the article "Low Countries, history of") About 1100 such other territories as Brabant, Hainaut, Namur, and Holland began to expand and form principalities, helped by the weakening of the German crown during the Investiture Contest (a ...
- Namur
- city, capital of Namur province, south-central Belgium. It lies at the junction of the Sambre and Meuse (Maas) rivers. A pre-Roman oppidum (fortified town), ... [6 Related Articles]
- Namwan Tract
- (from the article "Bhamo") ...chiefly by Kachin hill tribes. The Shan Plateau is east of the river. To the west several ranges enclose the basins of the Kawkkwe and Indaw streams, which are used ...
- Nan
- town, northern Thailand, in the Luang Phra Bang (Prabang) Range. Nan lies about 90 miles (145 km) northeast of Lampang along the Nan River and is a commercial centre for ...
- Nan Chen dynasty
- (from the article "China") ...constantly plagued by internal feuds and revolts. (The six were actually five-Dong Jin, 317-420; Liu-Song, 420-479; Nan [Southern] Qi, 479-502; Nan Liang, 502-557; and Nan Chen, 557-589-and all but Dong ...
- Nan Han
- (from the article "China") ...Nan Ping (924-963), the Chu (927-951), the Qian (Former) Shu (907-925), the Hou (Later) Shu (934-965), the Min (909-945), the Bei (Northern) Han (951-979), the Nan Han (917-971), and the ...
- Nan Liang dynasty
- (from the article "China") ...and militarily weak and constantly plagued by internal feuds and revolts. (The six were actually five-Dong Jin, 317-420; Liu-Song, 420-479; Nan [Southern] Qi, 479-502; Nan Liang, 502-557; and Nan Chen, ...
- Nan Madol
- (from the article "Pohnpei") In the lagoon on the eastern coast of Pohnpei is Nan Madol, or Nanmadol, a group of 92 prehistoric, artificial platform islands built in the lagoon and surrounded by man-made ...
- Nan Ming dynasty
- (from the article "China") Ming loyalists ineffectively resisted the Qing (Manchu) dynasty from various refuges in the south for a generation. Their so-called Nan (Southern) Ming dynasty principally included the prince of Fu (Zhu ...
- Nan Mountains
- series of mountain ranges in southern China that forms the divide and watershed between Hunan and Jiangxi provinces and the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) basin to the north and Guangdong ... [3 Related Articles]
- Nan Ping
- (from the article "China") ...and culturally wealthy south. Between 907 and 960, 10 independent kingdoms emerged in China, mainly in the south: the Wu (902-937), the Nan (Southern) Tang (937-975/976), the Nan Ping (924-963), ...
- Nan River
- river in northern Thailand, rising in the northern portion of the Luang Phra Bang Range on the Laotian border and flowing south for 390 miles (627 km). It receives the ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nan-ga
- ("Literati Painting"), style of painting practiced by numerous Japanese painters of the 18th and 19th centuries. Some of the most original and creative painters of the middle and late Edo ... [5 Related Articles]
- Nan-k'ai University
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...Tsinghua (Qinghua) University, which is oriented primarily toward science and engineering; and People's University of China, the only one of the six founded after 1949. The three outside Beijing are ...
- Nan-t'ou
- hsien (county), central Taiwan. It has an area of 1,585 square miles (4,106 square km) and is bordered by the hsien of T'ai-chung (north), Chang-hua and Yun-lin (west), Chia-i and ...
- Nan-t'ou
- shih (municipality) and seat of Nan-t'ou hsien (county), west-central Taiwan. It lies 26 miles (42 km) south of T'ai-chung city. Situated in a fertile alluvial plain on a tributary of ...
- Nan-tu
- (from the article "Hainan") The major rivers are the Nan-tu (208 miles [334 km] long), flowing northeastward; the Wan, flowing eastward; and the Ch'ang-hua, flowing westward. There is no real winter, the average temperature ...
- Nan-wen-ch'uan Park
- (from the article "Chungking") ...large numbers of visitors. Of particular appeal are the hot springs, which are open year-round. South of the city, among well-kept gardens with lakes and pavilions, are the sulfurous springs ...
- Nan-wu Ch'eng
- (from the article "Canton") ...inhabitants of the Canton area were the Pai Yueh, a Tai, or Shan, people. At the beginning of the Western Chou dynasty (c. 1111-771 BC), their chief built a walled ...
- Nana
- Chiricahua Apache Indian warrior who was one of the leaders in the Apaches' final resistance against white domination.
- Nana Ghat inscriptions
- (from the article "numerals and numeral systems") ...is known, the country that first used the largest number of these numeral forms is India. The 1, 4, and 6 are found in the Ashoka inscriptions (3rd century BC); ...
- Nana Sahib
- a prominent leader in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Although he did not plan the outbreak, he assumed leadership of the sepoys (British-employed Indian soldiers).
- Nanacampantar
- (from the article "South Asian arts") The most important Nayanars were Appar and Campantar, in the 7th century, and Cuntarar, in the 8th. Appar, a self-mortifying Jain ascetic before he became a Saiva saint, sings of ...
- Nanai
- (from the article "Amur River") The Amur River basin originally was populated by hunting and cattle-breeding nomadic people. North of the river these peoples included the Buryat, Sakha (Yakut), Nanai, Nivkh (Gilyak), Udegey, and Orok, ...
- Nanaimo
- city, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on Vancouver Island and the Georgia Strait. Founded as Colvilletown around a Hudson's Bay Company trading post, it developed after 1849 when coalfields were discovered ...
- Nanak
- Indian spiritual teacher who was the first guru of the Sikhs, a monotheistic religious group that combines Hindu and Muslim influences. His teachings, expressed through devotional hymns, many of which ... [11 Related Articles]
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