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Naughton, Bill: Irish-born British playwright who is best remembered for a series of working-class comedies he wrote in the 1960s, most notably Alfie (1963; filmed 1966), an episodic, unsentimental tale of an ...
Naujan Lake: lake on the northeastern coastal plain of Mindoro, Philippines. It is the Philippines' fifth largest lake, with an area of 30 square miles (79 square km). The lake is 8.5 ...
Naukratis: ancient Greek settlement in the Nile River delta, on the Canopic (western) branch of the river. An emporion ("trading station") with exclusive trading rights in Egypt, Naukratis was the centre ...
naumachia: in ancient Rome, a mimic sea battle and the specially constructed basin in which such a battle sometimes took place. These entertainments also took place in flooded amphitheatres. The opposing ...
Naumann, Friedrich: political and social theorist, publicist, and reformer who became one of the most influential partisans of German liberalism combined with imperialism.
Naumburg: city, Saxony-Anhalt Land (state), east-central Germany. It lies along the Saale River, near the mouth of the Unstrut River, southwest of Halle. Founded by the margraves of ...
Nauplia: chief town of the nomos (department) of Argolis, in the Peloponnese, Greece, at the head of the Gulf of Argolis. The port, southeast of Argos, sits on the north slope ...
Nauru: country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of a solitary raised coral island located in southeastern Micronesia, 25 miles (41 kilometres) south of the Equator. The island is about ...
naus: prehistoric grave found in the Balearic Isles. The naus was built of closely fitting blocks of stone in the shape of an overturned boat with a rounded stern and a ...
nausea: (from Greek nausia, "seasickness"), feeling of discomfort in the pit of the stomach that is associated with a revulsion for food and an expectation that vomiting will ...
Nauset: an Algonquian-speaking Indian tribe that occupied most of what is now Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. The Nauset probably came into contact with whites at an early date because of their ...
Nautilus: any of at least three historic submarines (including the world's first nuclear-powered vessel) and a fourth submarine famous in science fiction.
nautilus: either of two genera of cephalopod mollusks: the pearly, or chambered, nautilus (Nautilus), to which the name properly applies; and the paper nautilus (Argonauta), a cosmopolitan genus related to the ...
Nauvoo: city, Hancock county, western Illinois, U.S. It lies along the Mississippi River, about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Burlington, Iowa. The area was long inhabited by Sauk and Fox ...
Nava'i, 'Ali Shir: Turkish poet and scholar who was the greatest representative of Chagatai Turkish literature (written in an eastern Turkic dialect).
Navadwlp: city, southeastern West Bengal state, northeastern India, at the confluence of the Bhagirathi and Jalangi rivers. The Bhagirathi River has shifted its course, cutting the city off from the rest ...
Navajo: the most populous of all Indian groups in the United States, with about 170,000 individuals in the late 20th century scattered throughout northwestern New Mexico, Arizona, and southeastern Utah. The ...
Navajo language: North American Indian language of the Athabascan family, spoken by the Navajo people of Arizona and New Mexico and closely related to Apache. Navajo is a tone language, meaning that ...
Navajo National Monument: a complex of three prehistoric cliff dwellings near the town of Tonalea in northeastern Arizona, U.S. Located in the Navajo Reservation, the three sites-Betatakin (Navajo: "Ledge House"), Keet Seel ("Broken ...
Navajo weaving: blankets and rugs made by the Navajo and thought to be some of the most colourful and best-made textiles produced by North American Indians. The Navajo, formerly a seminomadic tribe, ...
naval ship: the chief instrument by which a nation extends its military power onto the seas. Warships protect the movement over water of military forces to coastal areas where they may be ...
naval stores: products such as tar, pitch, turpentine, pine oil, rosin, and terpenes obtained from the pine and other coniferous trees, and originally used in maintaining wooden sailing ships. Naval stores are ...
naval warfare: the tactics of military operations conducted on, under, or over the sea.
Navan: urban district and county seat of County Meath, Ireland. It lies at the confluence of the Rivers Boyne and Blackwater. The Great Motte, an imposing earthwork 52 feet (16 m) ...
navaratra: ("nine nights"), in Hinduism, a festival of nine days occurring during the month of Asin, or Asvina (September-October). It usually ends with the dasehra, or dasahara, celebration on the 10th ...
Navarin, Bay of: small, deep, and almost landlocked bay of the Ionian Sea in the nomos (department) of Messenia, in the southwestern Peloponnese (Peloponnisos), Greece. Known also as Pylos (Pilos) Bay after Homeric ...
Navarino, Battle of: (Oct. 20, 1827), decisive naval engagement of the War of Greek Independence against Turkey. The battle was fought in the Bay of Navarin in the southwestern Peloponnese, between an Egyptian-Turkish ...
Navarre: comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of northern Spain. It is roughly coextensive with the Spanish portion of the historical kingdom of Navarre and encompasses the modern provincia of Navarra. The autonomous ...
Navarro, Fats: African-American jazz trumpet virtuoso, one of the founders of bebop, who was distinguished by the beauty and fertility of his melodic creations.
Navarro, Pedro, Conde De Olivetto: Spanish military engineer and general who fought for various countries and city-states in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Navas de Tolosa, Battle of Las: (July 16, 1212), major battle of the Christian reconquest of Spain in which the Almohads (a Muslim dynasty of North Africa and Spain) were severely defeated by the combined armies ...
nave: central and principal part of a Christian church, extending from the entrance (the narthex) to the transepts (transverse aisle crossing the nave in front of the sanctuary in a cruciform ...
navel: in anatomy, a small depression in the abdominal wall at the point of attachment of the umbilical cord (q.v.). It indicates the point through which the mammalian fetus obtained nourishment ...
navigation: science of directing a craft by determining its position, course, and distance traveled. Navigation is concerned with finding the way to the desired destination, avoiding collisions, conserving fuel, and meeting ...
Navigation Acts: in English history, a series of laws designed to restrict England's carrying trade to English ships, effective chiefly in the 17th and 18th centuries. The measures, originally framed to encourage ...
navigation chart: map designed and used primarily for navigation. A nautical chart presents most of the information used by the marine navigator, including latitude and longitude scales, topographical features, navigation aids such ...
Navistar International Corporation: leading American producer of medium- and heavy-duty trucks and for many years a major manufacturer of farm and construction equipment. The company is a direct descendant of the business activities ...
Navojoa: city, southern Sonora estado ("state"), northwestern Mexico. Lying along the Gulf of California coastal plain near the Mayo River, Navojoa is the commercial and manufacturing centre for a large area ...
Navotas: town, central Luzon, Philippines. The town lies between Manila Bay and Dagatdagatan Lagoon opposite Caloocan City, just north of Manila. It is an important fishing centre for the metropolis and ...
Navratilova, Martina: Czech-born American tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and '80s.
Navsari: city, southeastern Gujarat state, west-central India. It is situated in the coastal lowland along the Purna River. It is the home of the Parsis, descendants of Zoroastrians who emigrated from ...
navy: a nation's warships and craft of every kind maintained for fighting on, under, or over the sea. A large modern navy includes aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, frigates, submarines, minesweepers and ...
nawab: deputy ruler, or viceroy, under the Mughal rule of India. The title was later adopted by the independent rulers of Bengal, Oudh, and Arcot.
Nawabshah: town, Sindh province, southern Pakistan. The town, originally called Nasrat, is connected by road and rail with Karachi, Hyderabad, and Sukkur. A growing industrial centre, it manufactures small boats, refined ...
Nawanagar, Sir Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, Maharaja Jam Sahib of: one of the world's greatest cricket players and, later, a ruler of his native state in India.
nawbah: in Islamic music, a suite of several movements, usually 8 to 10 but varying in form and duration depending on regional origin. The nawbah contains both instrumental and vocal pieces ...
Nawoiy: city, central Uzbekistan. Nawoiy is a natural-gas-based industrial city and a major chemical centre with industries that produce fertilizer and chemical fibres. There are also a large cement plant and ...
Naxi: ethnic group of China who live mainly in Yunnan and Sichuan provinces; some live in Tibet. They speak a Tibeto-Burman language that is closely related to that of the Yi ...
Naxos: the earliest Greek colony in Sicily, founded by Chalcidians under Theocles (or Thucles) about 734 BC. It lay on the east coast, south of Tauromenium (modern Taormina), just north of ...
Naxos: island, the largest of the Greek Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea. The island's highest point is Mount Zeus (Zia Oros), which is about 3,290 feet (1,003 m) in elevation. ...
Nayanar: any of the Tamil poet-musicians of the 7th and 8th centuries AD who composed devotional hymns of great beauty in honour of the Hindu god Siva. The images of the ...
Nayar: Hindu caste of the Indian state of Kerala. Before the British conquest in 1792, the region contained small, feudal kingdoms, in each of which the royal and noble lineages, the ...
Nayarit: estado ("state"), west-central Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. It is bounded northwest by Sinaloa, northeast and east by Durango, and south by Jalisco. The Sierra Madre Occidental rises steeply from ...
Nayler, James: one of the most prominent early English Quakers.
Naylor, Gloria: African-American novelist, known for her strong depictions of black women.
Nazarbayev, Nursultan: president of Kazakhstan (from 1990), a reformist who sought regional autonomy for his Central Asian republic.
Nazare: town and concelho (township), Leiria distrito ("district"), Portugal, north of Lisbon. Named for Christ's childhood home of Nazareth, this Atlantic fishing port and resort occupies two levels, the lower one ...
Nazarene: one of an association formed by a number of young German painters in 1809 to return to the medieval spirit in art. Reacting particularly against 18th-century Neoclassicism, the brotherhood was ...
Nazarene: in the New Testament, a title applied to Jesus and, later, to those who followed his teachings (Acts 24:5). In the Greek text there appear two forms of the word: ...
Nazarene, Church of the: U.S. Protestant church, the product of several mergers stemming from the 19th-century Holiness movement. The first major merger occurred in 1907, uniting the Church of the Nazarene (organized in California ...
Nazareth: historic city of Lower Galilee, in northern Israel; it is the largest Arab city of the country. In the New Testament Nazareth is associated with Jesus as his boyhood home, ...
Nazas River: river in Durango and Coahuila states, northern Mexico. Formed in Durango by the confluence of the Oro (or Sestin) and Ramos rivers, which descend inland from the Sierra Madre Occidental ...
Nazca: culture located on the southern coast of present-day Peru during the Early Intermediate Period (c. 200 BC-AD 600), so called from the Nazca Valley but including also the Pisco, Chincha, ...
Nazca Lines: groups of large line drawings and figures that appear, from a distance, to be etched into the earth's surface on the arid Pampa Colorada ("Coloured Plain," or "Red Plain"), northwest ...
Nazi Party: political party of the mass movement known as National Socialism (q.v.). Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the party came to power in Germany in 1933 and governed by totalitarian ...
Nazimova, Alla: Russian-born and Russian-trained actress who won fame on the American stage and screen.
Nazirite: (from Hebrew nazar, "to abstain from," or "to consecrate oneself to"), among the ancient Hebrews, a sacred person whose separation was most commonly marked by his uncut hair and his ...
Nazret: town, central Ethiopia, 62 miles (100 km) southeast of Addis Ababa. It is a road junction and rail station on the main route between Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. Beginning ...
Nazzam, Ibrahim an-: brilliant Muslim theologian, a man of letters, and a poet, historian, and jurist.
NBC Symphony: American orchestra created in 1937 by the National Broadcasting Company expressly for the internationally renowned conductor Arturo Toscanini. Based in New York City, the orchestra gave weekly concerts that were ...
NCR Corporation: ., American manufacturer of cash registers, computers, and information-processing systems, based in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Ndebele: Bantu-speaking people of southwestern Zimbabwe who live primarily around the city of Bulawayo. They originated early in the 19th century as an offshoot of the Nguni of Natal.
Ndebele: any of several Bantu-speaking African peoples who live primarily in Northern and Mpumalanga provinces in South Africa. The Ndebele are ancient offshoots of the main Nguni stock and began migrations ...
Ndola: second largest town in Zambia, located on the Congo (Kinshasa) border near Kitwe. It is linked by road and rail to the capital, Lusaka, and to Livingstone and thus to ...
Ndongo: historical African kingdom of Mbundu people that extended inland from Luanda, Angola. It was bounded by the Dande River to the north, the Lucala River to the east, the Kwanza ...
Ndutu: site in northern Tanzania known for a 400,000-year-old human cranium and associated Stone Age tools discovered there in 1973. The skull displays traits of both Homo erectus and H. sapiens, ...