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Newman, Randy: American composer, songwriter, singer, and pianist whose character-driven, ironic, and often humorous compositions won him a cult audience and praise from critics but were atypical of the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s that gave him his start as a performer.
Newmarket: town, Forest Heath district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England. It lies on chalk downland 70 miles (110 km) north of London. It is the home of the Jockey Club and has been celebrated for its horse races since ...
Newport: city, seat of Jackson county, northeastern Arkansas, U.S. It lies on the White River at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Jonesboro. Newport was founded in 1870 by the Cairo and Fulton (now ...
Newport: town, Isle of Wight, historic county of Hampshire, England. It lies near the centre of the diamond-shaped island at the head of the River Medina's estuary, 5 miles (8 km) from its mouth at Cowes. Newport was probably the Roman ...
Newport: city, Newport county, southeastern Rhode Island, U.S. It occupies the southern end of Rhode (Aquidneck) Island in Narragansett Bay (there bridged to Jamestown). From the harbour on the west, the city rises up a gentle hillside to a low plateau.
Newport: city, one of the seats (1796) of Campbell county (the other is Alexandria), Kentucky, U.S. It adjoins Covington (west) and lies opposite Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Ohio River near the mouth of the Licking River. The first settlement (about 1790) ...
Newport: city, seat of Orleans county, northern Vermont, U.S., at the south end of Lake Memphremagog, near the Canadian border. The first house in the settlement (originally called Duncansboro) was built in 1793 by Deacon Martin Adams. The name Newport was ...
Newport: city, seat (1954) of Lincoln county, western Oregon, U.S. It lies on the north shore of Yaquina Bay at the Pacific Ocean. Settled in 1855 as a fishing village, it was laid out in 1866 and developed as a seaside ...
Newport: county, southeastern Rhode Island, U.S. It lies between Massachusetts to the north and east and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and west and includes Conanicut, Prudence, and Rhode islands in Narragansett Bay. The county was created in 1703. There ...
Newport: town, industrial seaport, and county borough, historic county of Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy), Wales.
Newport Beach: city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. It lies along Newport Bay (Pacific inlet), south of Long Beach. Captain Samuel S. Dunnells sailed into the bay in 1870 looking for "new port" facilities; he developed Newport Landing, which in 1873 became ...
Newport News: independent city and port of entry, southeastern Virginia, U.S. It lies on the north side of Hampton Roads (harbour) and the mouth of the James River. With Portsmouth, Hampton, and Norfolk, it constitutes the Port of Hampton Roads. The site ...
Newquay: town on the Atlantic coast, Restormel borough, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. The town is almost entirely a modern seaside resort, having grown since the mid-19th century from a small fishing village. It stands on cliffs overlooking sandy ...
Newry: town and seat, Newry and Mourne district (established 1973), formerly in County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies along the River Clanrye and Newry Canal, near Carlingford Lough (inlet of the sea) and the Mourne Mountains. The town developed around a ...
Newry and Mourne: district, Northern Ireland. Formerly astride Counties Armagh and Down, Newry and Mourne was established as a district in 1973. It is bordered by the districts of Armagh and Banbridge to the north and Down to the northeast, by the Irish ...
news agency: organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news from around a nation or the world to newspapers, periodicals, radio and television broadcasters, government agencies, and other users. It does not generally publish news itself but supplies news to its subscribers, who, ...
newscast: radio or television summary of news events read by a newscaster or produced with a combination of reading and audio tape for radio or a combination of reading and film or video tape for television. It ranges from the one-minute ...
Newsday: evening daily tabloid newspaper published in Long Island, N.Y., to serve residents of suburban Nassau and Suffolk counties, east of New York City.
newsletter: informal publication, often simple in format and crisp in style, that provides special information, advice, opinions, and forecasts for a defined audience. Newsletters are ordinarily but not always issued regularly. Common topics covered in newsletters include business and the professions, ...
newspaper: publication usually issued daily, weekly, or at other regular times that provides news, views, features, and other information of public interest and that often carries advertising.
newspaper syndicate: agency that sells to newspapers and other media special writing and artwork, often written by a noted journalist or eminent authority or drawn by a well-known cartoonist, that cannot be classified as spot coverage of the news. Its fundamental service ...
newspeak: propagandistic language that is characterized by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. The term was coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four (1949). Newspeak, "designed to diminish the range of thought," was the language preferred by ...
newsreel: short motion picture of current events introduced in England about 1897 by the Frenchman Charles Pathe. Newsreels were shown regularly, first in music halls between entertainment acts and later between the featured films in motion-picture theatres. Because spot news was ...
Newsweek: weekly newsmagazine published in New York City, one of the highly influential "big three" of American newsweeklies. It was founded in 1933 by Thomas J.C. Martyn, a former foreign-news editor of Time, as News-Week. ...
newt: any of more than 40 species and 10 genera of salamanders constituting the widely distributed family Salamandridae of the order Caudata. They are called newts when aquatic and have moist skin, but are called efts when terrestrial and have rough ...
Newton: city, Middlesex county, eastern Massachusetts, U.S. It lies along the Charles River just west of Boston and comprises several villages, including Auburndale, Newton Centre, Newton Upper Falls, Newtonville, Nonantum, Waban, and the northern part of Chestnut Hill (shared with Brookline).
newton: the absolute unit of force in the International System of Units (SI units). It is defined as that force necessary to provide a mass of one kilogram with an acceleration of one metre per second per second. One newton is ...
Newton: city, seat (1872) of Harvey county, central Kansas, U.S. Founded in 1871 and named for Newton, Massachusetts, it was a railhead for the Chisholm Trail cattle drives from 1871 to 1873, when it was designated a division point of the ...
Newton: city, seat (1846) of Jasper county, central Iowa, U.S., about 30 miles (50 km) east of Des Moines. It was settled in 1846 as the county seat and was named for John Newton, a soldier of the American Revolution. The ...
Newton Abbot: town ("parish"), Teignbridge district, administrative and historic county of Devon, England. It lies near the head of the Teign estuary. Bradley Manor (15th century) is now a National Trust property. The Jacobean Forde House (1610) was visited by William, prince ...
Newton's law of gravitation: statement that any particle of matter in the universe attracts any other with a force varying directly as the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. In symbols, the magnitude of the attractive ...
Newton's laws of motion: relations between the forces acting on a body and the motion of the body, which, although formulated for the first time in usable form by Isaac Newton, had been discovered experimentally by Galileo about four years before Newton was born. ...
Newton's rings: in optics, a series of concentric light- and dark-coloured bands observed between two pieces of glass when one is convex and rests on its convex side on another piece having a flat surface. Thus, a layer of air exists between ...
Newton, Alfred: British zoologist, one of the foremost ornithologists of his day.
Newton, Huey P.: American political activist, cofounder (with Bobby Seale) of the Black Panther Party (originally called Black Panther Party for Self-Defense).
Newton, Sir Charles Thomas: British archaeologist who excavated sites in southwestern Turkey and disinterred the remains of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (at present-day Bodrum, Turkey). He also helped to establish systematic methods for archaeology and, ...
Newton, Sir Isaac: English physicist and mathematician, who was the culminating figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century. In optics, his discovery of the composition of white light integrated the phenomena of colours into the science of light and laid the ...
Newtown: "new town," Powys county, historic county of Montgomeryshire (Sir Drefaldwyn), Wales, located on the River Severn 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Welshpool. In 1967 Newtown was designated the second new town in Wales, in an effort to create additional ...
Newtown Saint Boswells: village, Scottish Borders council area, historic county of Roxburghshire, Scotland, lying in the Tweed basin southeast of Edinburgh on the Edinburgh-Newcastle road. Before 1929 its population consisted mainly of railway employees. Since then its main function has changed to local ...
Newtownabbey: town and district (established 1973), formerly in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The town of Newtownabbey was formed in 1958 by the amalgamation of seven villages, and it is a residential continuation of the city of Belfast on the shores of ...
Newtownards: town and seat, Ards district (established 1973), formerly in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the northern end of Strangford Lough (inlet of the sea), just east of Belfast. It was founded by Sir Hugh Montgomery in 1608 at the site ...
nexum: in very early Roman law, a type of formal contract involving the loan of money under such oppressive conditions that it might result in the debtor's complete subjection to the creditor. The transaction was accomplished by means of a ritual ...
Ney, Elisabet: sculptor remembered for her statues and busts of European and Texas personages of the mid- to late 19th century.
Ney, Michel, Duc D'elchingen, Prince De La Moskowa: one of the best known of Napoleon's marshals (from 1804), who pledged his allegiance to the restored Bourbon monarchy when Napoleon abdicated in 1814. Upon Napoleon's return in 1815, Ney rejoined him and commanded the Old Guard at the Battle ...
Neyagawa: city, Osaka Urban Prefecture (fu), Honshu, Japan, in the northern part of the Kochi-gawa (Kochi River) plain. Many ancient relics attest to prehistoric settlement in the area. With the construction of a railway line to Osaka in 1910, Neyagawa grew ...
Neyman, Jerzy: Russian-U.S. mathematician and statistician who helped to establish the statistical theory of hypothesis testing. Neyman was a principal founder of modern theoretical statistics. In 1968 he was awarded the prestigious National Medal of Science.
Neyshabur: town, northeastern Iran. Neyshabur is situated 46 miles (74 km) west of Meshed. The town, which has shifted its position repeatedly in historical times, lies at an elevation of 3,980 feet (1,213 m) in a wide, well-watered, and fertile plain ...
Nez Perce: Sahaptian-speaking North American Indian people centring on the lower Snake River and such tributaries as the Salmon and Clearwater rivers in what is now central Idaho and adjacent areas of Oregon and Washington. They were the largest, most powerful, and ...
Nezahualcoyotl: municipality northeast of Mexico City, Mexico estado ("state"), central Mexico. Situated at the northeastern end of the Valle de Mexico just outside of Mexico City, Nezahualcoyotl has become Mexico's third largest locality (after the Federal District and Guadalajara). Settlement began ...
Nezami: greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic.
Neziqin: (Hebrew: "Damages"), the fourth 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 century AD by Judah ha-Nasi. Neziqin deals principally with legally ...