(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 of Leon, Castile, Aragon, Navarre, and Portugal. The battle was ...
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 church; see ) or, in the absence of transepts, to ...
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 from its mother through the blood vessels of the umbilical ...
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 schedules.
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 the development of English shipping so that adequate auxiliary vessels ...
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 as lighthouses and radio beacons, magnetic information, indications of reefs ...
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 of Cyrus McCormick, particularly his invention of the mechanical reaper ...
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 in which population and production have grown markedly since the ...
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 accounts for a large portion of the total Philippine commercial ...
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 Persia, and contains their most venerated fire temples. The city ...
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 minelayers, gunboats, and various types of support, supply, and repair ...
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 sugar, soap, and cotton and silk textiles. A government college ...
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 that are performed solo or by a group. Instrumental movements ...
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 a large district power station in the city. Pop. (1991 ...
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 the mouth of the Alcantara River, on what is now ...
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. The 165-square-mile (428-square-kilometre) island forms an eparkhia ("eparchy"). The capital ...
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 poets Nanacampantar, Appar, and Cuntaramurtti (often called "the three") are ...
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 militia, and most land managers were drawn from the Nayars ...
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 the narrow Pacific littoral and, running southeast, cuts the state's ...
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 extending along the beach. A pilgrimage chapel overlooks the town ...
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: the simple form, Nazarenos, meaning "of Nazareth," and the peculiar ...
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 the first effective antiacademic movement in European painting. The Nazarenes ...
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 in 1895) with the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America ...
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, and in its synagogue he preached the sermon that led ...
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 and meet at El Palmito, the Nazas flows first southeast ...
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, Ica, Palpa, and Acari valleys. Nazca pottery is polychrome. Modeling ...
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 of the city of Nazca in southern Peru. They extend ...
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 methods until 1945.
(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 abstinence from wine. Originally, the Nazirite was endowed with special ...
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 in the 1950s, economic development brought rapid population growth to ...
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 broadcast worldwide over NBC radio. Often billed as the Toscanini ...
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.
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 to the Transvaal region in the 17th century.
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 Zimbabwe, as well as to Congo and Tanzania. Industries include ...
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 River to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the ...
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, with a brain size intermediate between the two species. Like ...
lake in east-central Northern Ireland, about 20 miles (32 km) west of Belfast. It is the largest lake in the British Isles, covering 153 square miles (396 square km), with a catchment area of 2,200 square miles (5,700 square km). ...
British actress and dancer, known for her work in stage plays, musicals, and films. Her motion-picture career was guided by her husband, producer-director Herbert Wilcox.
American motion picture actress known for her deeply intelligent performances and for her rehabilitation and triumphant return to films following a series of strokes.
