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National Museum of Modern Art: museum in Tokyo devoted to important Japanese works of art of the 20th century. The collection covers works of past artists outstanding in the history of Japanese art; outstanding works ...
National Museum of New Zealand: in Wellington, general museum of science and the natural history of New Zealand. A Maori section contains artifacts and carvings. The collections include relics of Captain James Cook, particularly the ...
National Museum of Western Art: Japanese national collection of European art, located in Ueno Park, Tokyo. The museum building, designed by Le Corbusier, was opened in 1959, and an annex by Maekawa Kunio was added ...
National Organization for Women: American activist organization (founded 1966) that promotes equal rights for women.
National Palace Museum: major art museum of China, at Taipei, that preserves many of the art holdings of the Chinese imperial collection. The museum houses more than 650,000 art objects and documents that ...
national park: an area set aside by a national government for the preservation of the natural environment. A national park may be set aside for purposes of public recreation and enjoyment or ...
National Party: an Australian political party that for most of its history has held office as a result of its customary alliance with the Liberal Party of Australia (q.v.). It often acted ...
National Portrait Gallery: museum in London that houses the national collection of portraits of British men and women. It is located adjacent to the National Gallery, north of Trafalgar Square, in Westminster.
National Postal Museum: philatelic museum and research centre in the City of London. It is located in a section of London's General Post Office, next to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The museum opened in ...
National Primitive Baptist Convention, Inc.: association of independent black Baptist churches in the United States that were joined in a national convention in 1907. The convention developed from black congregations formed after the American Civil ...
National Public Radio: the public radio network of the United States. Based in Washington, D.C., NPR offers a broad range of high-quality news and cultural programming to local public radio stations.
National Radio Astronomy Observatory: the national radio observatory of the United States. It is funded by the National Science Foundation and is managed by Associated Universities, Inc., a consortium of nine leading private universities. ...
National Recovery Administration: U.S. government agency established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to stimulate business recovery through fair-practice codes during the Great Depression. The NRA was an essential element in the National Industrial ...
National Republican Party: U.S. political party formed after what had been the Republican (or Jeffersonian Republican) party split in 1825. The Jeffersonian Republicans had been the only national political party following the demise ...
National Review: biweekly magazine of news and opinion published in New York City, and the leading conservative journal in the United States. It was founded in 1955 by William F. Buckley, Jr. ...
National Revolutionary Party: Mexico's major political party from 1929 to 1938, when it changed its name to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (q.v.).
National Rifle Association of America: governing organization for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols, formed in the United States in 1871. By the early 1990s it claimed a membership of about 3 million ...
National Roman Museum: in Rome, one of the world's greatest museums of ancient Greco-Roman art, founded in 1889 and housed in a monastery restored by Michelangelo on the site of the baths of ...
National Science Foundation: an independent agency of the U.S. government that supports basic research and education in a wide range of sciences and in mathematics and engineering. It was inspired by advances in ...
National Science Museum: museum in Tokyo, founded in 1872, concerned with the history of the physical sciences, natural history, and technology. The collections include models of Japanese flora in wax and other materials, ...
national seashore: in the United States, any of a number of coastal areas reserved by the federal government for recreational use by the public. Cape Hatteras in North Carolina was established as ...
National Security Agency: U.S. intelligence agency within the Department of Defense that is responsible for cryptographic and communications intelligence and security. The NSA grew out of the communications intelligence activities of U.S. military ...
National Security Council: U.S. agency within the Executive Office of the President, established by the National Security Act in 1947 to advise the president on domestic, foreign, and military policies related to national ...
National Socialism: totalitarian movement led by Adolf Hitler as head of the Nazi Party in Germany. In its intense nationalism, mass appeal, and dictatorial rule, National Socialism shared many elements with Italian ...
National Steel Corporation: U.S. iron- and steel-making company that in 1983 became a subsidiary of National Intergroup, Inc. (q.v.).
National Symphony Orchestra: American symphony orchestra based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1931 by Hans Kindler, who served as its first music director (1931-49). Subsequent directors have been Howard Mitchell (1949-69), ...
National Trust: British organization founded in 1895 and incorporated by the National Trust Act (1907) for the purpose of promoting the preservation of-and public access to-buildings of historic or architectural interest and ...
National Union for the Total Independence of Angola: Angolan political party that was originally founded to free the nation from Portuguese colonial rule.
National University of Ireland: state-supported institution in Dublin, composed of three constituent and five recognized colleges, established in 1908 to foster Irish culture and values.
National Urban League: American service agency founded for the purpose of eliminating racial segregation and discrimination and helping African Americans and other minorities to participate in all phases of American life. By the ...
National Westminster Bank: former British bank holding company with branches and subbranches in the United Kingdom and operations across the world. It was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2000.
National Woman Suffrage Association: American organization, founded in 1869 and based in New York City, that was created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton when the women's rights movement split into two ...
National Woman's Party: American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
National Women's Hall of Fame: not-for-profit educational institution founded in 1969 to honour the accomplishments of outstanding American women. The Hall of Fame is located in Seneca Falls, New York, the site of the first ...
National Women's History Month: honorary observance of the month of March, as designated in 1987 by the U.S. Congress, in recognition of women's many accomplishments throughout history. A variety of agencies, schools, and organizations ...
National Women's History Project: not-for-profit American organization founded in 1980 to "promote multicultural women's history awareness."
National Women's Political Caucus: nonpartisan American political organization formed in 1971 to identify, recruit, train, endorse, and support women seeking public office. The organization endeavours to improve the status of women by amplifying the ...
National Zoological Gardens of South Africa: zoo near Pretoria, S.Af., that is noted for its wildlife conservation programs. It was opened in 1899 by the State Museum of the South African Republic on a small stretch ...
National Zoological Park: zoo in Washington, D.C., that was established under the Smithsonian Institution by acts of the U.S. Congress in 1889 and 1890, when a site in the wooded valley of Rock ...
nationalism: ideology based on the premise that the individual's loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group interests.
Nationalist Party: political party that governed all or part of mainland China from 1928 to 1949 and subsequently ruled Taiwan under Chiang Kai-shek and his successors for the remainder of the 20th ...
nationality: in law, membership in a nation or sovereign state. It is to be distinguished from citizenship (q.v.), a somewhat narrower term that is sometimes used to denote the status of ...
nationalization: alteration or assumption of control or ownership of private property by the state. It is historically a more recent development than and differs in motive and degree from "expropriation" or ...
Nations, League of: an organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I.
Native American: member of any of the aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimo, or Inuit, and Aleuts.
Native American Church: most widespread indigenous religious movement among North American Indians and one of the most influential forms of Pan-Indianism. The term peyote derives from the Nahuatl name peyotl for a cactus. ...
Native American religions: religious beliefs and sacramental practices of the indigenous peoples of North and South America. Until the 1950s it was commonly assumed that the religions of the surviving Native Americans were ...
Native Dancer: (foaled 1950), U.S. racehorse (Thoroughbred) who won 21 of 22 starts and achieved widespread popularity as the first outstanding horse whose major victories were seen on national television. Sired by ...
native element: any of a number of chemical elements that may occur in nature uncombined with other elements. The elements that occur as atmospheric gasses are ...
Nativity: a theme in Christian art depicting the newborn Jesus with the Virgin Mary and other figures, following descriptions of Christ's birth in the Gospels and Apocrypha. An old and popular ...
natrolite: hydrated sodium aluminosilicate mineral, Na₂(Al₂Si₃O₁₀)·2H₂O, in the zeolite family. It has been found in the form of colourless or white, glassy, slender crystals or fibrous masses filling cavities or fissures ...
Natron, Lake: lake in northern Tanzania on the border with Kenya, lying in the East African Rift System, 70 miles (113 km) northwest of Arusha. The lake is 35 miles (56 km) ...
Natsume Soseki: outstanding Japanese novelist of the Meiji period and the first to ably depict the plight of the alienated modern Japanese intellectual.
Natta, Giulio: Italian chemist who contributed to the development of high polymers useful in the manufacture of films, plastics, fibres, and synthetic rubber. Along with Karl Ziegler of Germany, he was honoured ...
Nattier, Jean-Marc: French Rococo painter noted for his portraits of the ladies of King Louis XV's court in classical mythological attire.
Natufian culture: Mesolithic culture of Palestine and southern Syria dating from about 9000 BC. Mainly hunters, the Natufians supplemented their diet by gathering wild grain; they likely did not cultivate it. They ...
natural bridge: naturally created arch formation resembling a bridge. Most natural bridges are erosion features that occur in massive, horizontally bedded sandstone or limestone. Some bridges, such as the Natural Bridge near ...
Natural Bridge: natural limestone arch, Rockbridge county, western Virginia, U.S., 20 miles (32 km) south of Lexington near the village of Natural Bridge and the northern portion of Jefferson National Forest. The ...
Natural Bridges National Monument: scenic area in southeastern Utah, U.S., containing three natural sandstone bridges. The bridges were carved by two winding streams that formed on the western slopes of Elk Ridge, a formation ...
natural childbirth: any of the systems of managing parturition in which the need for anesthesia, sedation, or surgery is largely eliminated by physical and psychological conditioning. Until the early 20th century, the ...
natural fibre: any hairlike raw material directly obtainable from an animal, vegetable, or mineral source and convertible into nonwoven fabrics such as felt or paper or, after spinning into yarns, into woven ...
natural gas: colourless, highly flammable gaseous hydrocarbon consisting primarily of methane and ethane. It is a type of petroleum that commonly occurs in association with crude oil. Natural gas is often found ...
Natural History Museum: British natural science museum that has national and international responsibilities for taxonomic and associated research based on its outstanding collection of specimens and its extensive libraries. It is located near ...
natural law: in philosophy, a system of right or justice held to be common to all humans and derived from nature rather than from the rules of society, or positive law.
natural selection: process that results in the adaptation of an organism to its environment by means of selectively reproducing changes in its genotype, or genetic constitution.
naturalism: in philosophy, a theory that relates scientific method to philosophy by affirming that all beings and events in the universe (whatever their inherent character may be) are natural. Consequently, all ...
naturalism: in literature and the visual arts, late 19th- and early 20th-century movement that was inspired by adaptation of the principles and methods of natural science, especially the Darwinian view of ...
naturalization: the act of investing an alien with the status of a national in a given state; it may be accomplished as the result of voluntary application, special legislative direction, marriage ...
nature reserve: area set aside by a government for the purpose of preserving certain animals, plants, or both. A nature reserve differs from a national park (q.v.) in that the latter protects ...
nature worship: system of religion based on the veneration of natural phenomena-for example, celestial objects such as the sun and moon and terrestrial objects such as water and fire.
nature, law of: in logic, a stated regularity in the relations or order of phenomena in the world that holds, under a stipulated set of conditions, either universally or in a stated proportion ...
nature, philosophy of: the discipline that investigates substantive issues regarding the actual features of nature as a reality. The discussion here is divided into two parts: the philosophy of physics and the philosophy ...
Natya-sastra: detailed treatise and handbook on dramatic art that deals with all aspects of the classical Sanskrit theatre. It is believed to have been written before the 3rd century by the ...
nauarch: in ancient Greece, an admiral or supreme commander of the navy, used as an official title primarily in Sparta in the late 5th and early 4th centuries BC. The Spartan ...
Naude, Gabriel: French physician and librarian, considered the first important theoretician of modern library organization. His treatise, Advis pour dresser une bibliotheque (1627; Advice on Establishing a Library), was the first important ...
Naugatuck: town (township) and borough, New Haven county, southwestern Connecticut, U.S. It lies along the Naugatuck River just south of Waterbury.