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Narsinghgarh: town, Rajgarh district, Madhya Pradesh state, central India. A major road and rail junction, it is an agricultural market centre. Cloth weaving is the chief industry. Founded in 1681, it ...
narthex: long, narrow, enclosed porch, usually colonnaded or arcaded, crossing the entire width of a church at its entrance. The narthex is usually separated from the nave by columns or a ...
Naruszewicz, Adam: Polish poet and historian who was the first Polish historian to use modern methods of scholarship.
Naruto: city, Tokushima ken (prefecture), eastern Shikoku, Japan. The city lies along the Naruto Strait (Naruto-kaikyo), which connects the Inland Sea with the Pacific Ocean. The narrow strait ...
Narva: city, Estonia. It lies along the Narva River, 9 miles (14 km) above the river's outflow into the Gulf of Finland. It was founded in the 13th century and quickly ...
Narvaez, Panfilo de: Spanish conquistador, colonial official, and explorer.
Narvaez, Ramon Maria, duque de Valencia: Spanish general and conservative political leader, who supported Queen Isabella II and served six times as prime minister of Spain from 1844-66.
Narvik: town and ice-free seaport, northern Norway, near the head of Ofotfjorden. It is a major transshipment point for iron ore from the rich Kiruna-Gallivare mines in northern Sweden, since the ...
Narwar: historic town, northern Madhya Pradesh state, central India, just east of the Sind River. Traditionally said to have been the capital of Raja Nala of the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, the ...
narwhal: a small, toothed whale found along coasts and in rivers throughout the Arctic. Males possess a long, straight tusk that projects forward from above the mouth.
Naryan-Mar: inland port and capital of the Nenets autonomous okrug ("district"), Arkhangelsk oblast ("region"), northwestern Russia. It lies on the Pechora River 68 miles (110 km) from its mouth on the ...
Naryn: oblasty (province), southeastern Kyrgyzstan, with an area of 19,700 square miles (51,100 square km). The least accessible part of the republic, inhabited mainly by Kyrgyz people, it occupies the inner ...
Naryn: city and administrative centre of Naryn oblasty (province), Kyrgyzstan. It lies along the Naryn River at an elevation of 6,725 feet (2,050 m). Founded as a fortified point on the ...
Naryn River: river in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan that is fed by the glaciers and snows of the central Tien Shan (mountains). It becomes the Syr Darya (river) after merging with the Karadarya ...
Naryshkina, Natalya Kirillovna: second wife of Tsar Alexis of Russia and mother of Peter I the Great. After Alexis' death she became the centre of a political faction devoted to placing Peter on ...
nasal: in phonetics, speech sound in which the airstream passes through the nose as a result of the lowering of the soft palate (velum) at the back of the mouth. In ...
nasal concha: any of several thin, scroll-shaped bony elements forming the upper chambers of the nasal cavities. They increase the surface area of these cavities, thus providing for rapid warming and humidification ...
nasal gland: in marine birds and reptiles that drink saltwater, gland that extracts the salt and removes it from the animal's body. Its function was unknown until 1957, when K. Schmidt-Nielsen and ...
nasal polyp: lump of tissue that protrudes into the nasal cavity and sometimes obstructs it. Polyps can form as the result of allergic conditions or of inflammation and infection. Allergic polyps are ...
nasal tumour: abnormal growth in the nose. Tumours may be malignant or may remain localized and nonrecurrent. The nose is a common site for tumour growth in the upper respiratory tract because ...
Nasarawa: town and traditional emirate, western Plateau state, central Nigeria. The town lies just north of a fork in the Okwa River, which is a tributary of the Benue River. Nasarawa ...
Nasby, Petroleum V.: American humorist who had considerable influence on public issues during and after the American Civil War.
Nascimento, Francisco Manuel do: the last of the Portuguese Neoclassical poets, whose conversion late in life to Romanticism helped prepare the way for that movement's triumph in his country.
NASDAQ: an American stock market that handles electronic securities trading around the world. It was developed by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) and is monitored by the Securities and ...
Naseby, Battle of: (June 14, 1645), battle fought about 20 miles (32 km) south of Leicester, Eng., between the Parliamentary New Model Army under Oliver Cromwell and Sir Thomas Fairfax and the royalists ...
Naser od-Din Shah: Qajar shah of Iran (1848-96) who began his reign as a reformer but became increasingly conservative, failing to understand the accelerating need for change or for a response to the ...
Nash, John: English architect and city planner best known for his development of Regent's Park and Regent Street, a royal estate in northern London that he partly converted into a varied residential ...
Nash, John F., Jr.: American mathematician who was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics for his landmark work, first begun in the 1950s, on the mathematics of game theory. He shared the Nobel ...
Nash, Ogden: American writer of humorous poetry who won a large following for his audacious verse.
Nash, Paul: British painter, printmaker, illustrator, and photographer who achieved recognition for the war landscapes he painted during both world wars.
Nash, Sir Walter: New Zealand statesman who was prime minister in 1957-60 and who earlier, as finance minister during the Great Depression and through World War II, guided the Labour Party's economic recovery ...
Nashe, Thomas: pamphleteer, poet, dramatist, and author of The Unfortunate Traveller; or, The Life of Jacke Wilton (1594), the first picaresque novel in English.
nashiji: in Japanese lacquerwork, form of maki-e (q.v.) that is frequently employed for the background of a pattern. Gold or silver flakes called nashiji-ko are sprinkled onto the surface of the ...
Nashim: (Hebrew: "Women"), the third of the six major divisions, or orders (sedarim), of the Mishna (codification of Jewish oral laws), which was given its final form early in the 3rd ...
Nashua: city, seat of Hillsborough county, southern New Hampshire, U.S., lying along the Merrimack and Nashua rivers. It was settled about 1656 and was chartered in 1673 as Dunstable. It was ...
Nashville: city, capital (1843) of Tennessee, U.S., and seat (1784-1963) of Davidson county. Nashville lies on the Cumberland River in the north-central part of the state. It is the centre of ...
Nashville: town, seat of Brown county, south-central Indiana, U.S., 40 miles (64 km) south of Indianapolis. Founded in 1836 as the county seat, it was called Jacksonburg but was renamed in ...
Nashville Convention: (1850), two-session meeting of proslavery Southerners in the United States. John C. Calhoun initiated the drive for a meeting when he urged Mississippi to call for a convention. The resulting ...
Nashville Dome: southward geologic extension of the Cincinnati Arch that is prominent in central Tennessee, U.S. Ordovician rocks (about 490 to 443 million years in age) constitute the oldest strata exposed in ...
Nashville, Battle of: (December 15-16, 1864), in the American Civil War, decisive Union victory over the Confederates that ended organized Southern resistance in Tennessee for the remainder of the war. Hoping to cut ...
Nasik: town, northwestern Maharashtra state, western India. It lies along the Godavari River and is situated along major road and rail routes at a point about 110 miles (180 km) northeast ...
Nasir, an-: 34th 'Abbasid caliph (reigned 1180-1225), the last strong 'Abbasid caliph before the destruction of the dynasty by the Mongols.
Nasir-i Khusraw: poet, theologian, and religious propagandist, one of the greatest writers in Persian literature.
Nasiriyyah, Al-: city, capital of Dhi Qar muhafazah (governorate), southeastern Iraq. It lies along the Euphrates River in a flat, date-growing area. Built largely of sun-dried brick and enclosed ...
naskhi script: Islamic style of handwritten alphabet developed in the 4th century of the Islamic era (i.e., the 10th century AD). From the beginning of Islamic writing, two kinds of scripts existed ...
Nasmyth, James: British engineer known primarily for his invention of the steam hammer.
Nasr ibn Sayyar: governor of Khorasan (now part of Iran) and other eastern provinces from 738 to 748, under the last of the Umayyad caliphs.
Nasrid dynasty: last of the Muslim dynasties in Spain, rising to power following the defeat of the Almohads at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, in 1212. They ruled Granada from ...
Nassau: capital of The Bahamas, a port on the northeastern coast of New Providence Island and one of the world's chief pleasure resorts. It took its present name in the 1690s ...
Nassau: county, southeastern New York state, U.S., on central Long Island just east of the borough (and county) of Queens, New York City. It consists of a coastal lowland region bordered ...
Nassau: historical region of Germany, and the noble family that provided its hereditary rulers for many centuries. The present-day royal heads of The Netherlands and Luxembourg are descended from this family, ...
Nasser, Gamal Abdel: army officer, prime minister (1954-56), and then president (1956-70) of Egypt, who became a controversial leader of the Arab world, creating the short-lived United Arab Republic (1958-61), twice fighting wars ...
Nasser, Lake: reservoir on the Nile River, in Upper Egypt and northern Sudan. It was created by the impounding of the Nile's waters by the Aswan High Dam, which was built in ...
Nast, Thomas: American cartoonist, best known for his attack on the political machine of William M. Tweed in New York City in the 1870s.
nasta'liq script: predominant style of Persian calligraphy during the 15th and 16th centuries. The inventor was Mir 'Ali of Tabriz, the most famous calligrapher of the Timurid period (1402-1502).
Nastase, Ilie: Romanian tennis player known for his on-court histrionics and outstanding Davis Cup play. He was the first European to surpass $1 million in career prize money and was ranked number ...
nasturtium: any of various annual plants of the genus Tropaeolum, in the family Tropaeolaceae, native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America and introduced into other regions as cultivated garden ...
nat: in Burmese folk religion, any of a group of spirits that are the objects of an extensive, probably pre-Buddhist cult; in Thailand a similar spirit is called phi. Most important ...
Natal: former province of South Africa. It was the smallest of the four traditional provinces and occupied the southeastern part of the country.
Natal: city, capital of Rio Grande do Norte estado (state), northeastern Brazil, situated near the mouth of the Potengi River, or Rio Grande do Norte, on the Atlantic ...
Natal grass: any of several southern African grasses of the family Poaceae, and species Rhynchelytrum repens (formerly Tricholaena rosea), which in some areas is known as Natal red top. It is a ...
Natalis, Alexander: controversial theologian and ecclesiastical historian who clashed with Rome for expressing Gallicanism, a French position advocating restriction of papal power, and for defending Jansenism, a religious movement of nonorthodox tendencies ...
Nataraja: (Sanskrit: "Lord of Dance"), the Hindu god Siva (Shiva) in his form as the cosmic dancer, represented in metal or stone in most Saiva temples of South India.
Natchez: city, seat (1817) of Adams county, southwestern Mississippi, U.S., on the Mississippi River (there bridged to Vidalia, Louisiana), about 70 miles (110 km) southwest of Vicksburg. Established in 1716 as ...
Natchez: North American Indian tribe of the Macro-Algonquian linguistic phylum that inhabited the east side of the lower Mississippi River. In the early 18th century at the time of the first ...
Natchez Trace Parkway: scenic and historic roadway, extending 444 miles (715 km) through Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, U.S. It begins in Natchez, Mississippi, and, generally following a Native American trail in a northeasterly ...
Natchitoches: city, seat (1807) of Natchitoches parish, west-central Louisiana, U.S., on Cane River Lake, 68 miles (109 km) southeast of Shreveport. The oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase territory, it ...
Natha: religious movement of India whose members strive for immortality by transforming the human body into an imperishable divine body. It combines esoteric traditions drawn from Buddhism, Saivism (worship of the ...
Nathan, George Jean: U.S. author, editor, and drama critic, who is credited with raising the standards of play producers and playgoers alike.
Nathan, Maud: American social welfare leader who helped to found the National Consumers League.
Nathans, Daniel: American microbiologist who was corecipient, with Hamilton Othanel Smith of the United States and Werner Arber of Switzerland, of the 1978 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The three scientists ...
Nathdwara: town, southern Rajasthan state, northwestern India, just south of the Banas River. Connected by road with Udaipur and close to the Malvi rail junction, Nathdwara is a place of Hindu ...
Natick: town (township), Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S., 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Boston. The first recorded settlement there was made in 1650, when the missionary John Eliot was granted ...
nation: in medieval education, the basic organizational form of early European universities. A nation was formed when groups of students from a particular region or country banded together for mutual protection ...
Nation of Islam: African American movement and organization, founded in 1930 and known for its teachings combining elements of traditional Islam with black nationalist ideas. The Nation also promotes racial unity and self-help ...
Nation, Carry: American temperance advocate famous for using a hatchet to demolish barrooms.