American collegiate and professional gridiron football quarterback who was one of the best passers in football and a cultural sports icon of the 1960s.
town and promontory, north-coastal New South Wales, Australia. The name, derived from an Aboriginal term meaning "entrance to the waters," comes from the Nambucca River, which flows 70 miles (115 km) through heavily timbered country to enter the Pacific just ...
the dominant caste of the Indian state of Kerala. Orthodox in the extreme, its members regard themselves as the true repositories of the ancient Vedic religion and of the traditional Hindu code.
an austere sect within Sikhism, a religion of India. The Namdhari movement was founded by Balak Singh (1797-1862), who did not believe in any religious ritual other than the repetition of God's name (or nam, for which reason members of ...
a word or group of words used to refer to an individual entity (real or imaginary). A name singles out the entity by directly pointing to it, not by specifying it as a member of a class.
a cool coastal desert extending for 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometres) along the Atlantic coast from Namibe (formerly Mocamedes) in Angola southward across Namibia to the Olifants River in the Cape Province of South Africa. It reaches inland 80 to 100 ...
city and port, southwestern Angola. Founded by Brazilians in the mid-19th century and located on an arid coastal strip from which rises the steep Huila escarpment, Mocamedes was cut off from the Angolan interior until construction of the Mocamedes Railway ...
country located on the southwestern coast of Africa. It has an area of 318,580 square miles (825,118 square kilometres), nearly all of it empty land. It is bordered by Angola to the north, Zambia to the northeast, Botswana to the ...
city, southwestern North Korea. It is 30 miles (50 km) southwest of P'yongyang, on the estuary of the Taedong River. Formerly a fishing village, it developed rapidly after it became an open port in 1897. The harbour can accommodate ships ...
city, Canyon county, southwestern Idaho, U.S. It lies in the centre of the Boise Valley. Founded in 1886 on the main line of the Union Pacific Railroad at the junction of a branch to Boise (20 miles [32 km] east), ...
city, capital of Namur province, south-central Belgium. It lies at the junction of the Sambre and Meuse (Maas) rivers. A pre-Roman oppidum (fortified town), it was the seat of the counts of Namur from ...
province, southern Belgium. It is bounded on the north by Brabant, on the northeast by Liege, on the east by Luxembourg (province), on the south by France, and on the west by Hainaut. Namur ...
town, northern Thailand, in the Luang Phra Bang (Prabang) Range. Nan lies about 90 miles (145 km) northeast of Lampang along the Nan River and is a commercial centre for teak and agricultural products. An airport has scheduled flights to ...
series of mountain ranges in southern China that forms the divide and watershed between Hunan and Kiangsi provinces (sheng) and the Yangtze River basin to the north and Kwangtung province and the Chuang autonomous ch'u (region) of Kwangsi and the ...
river in northern Thailand, rising in the northern portion of the Luang Phra Bang Range on the Laotian border and flowing south for 390 miles (627 km). It receives the Yom River near Chum Saeng. Just above Nakhon Sawan the ...
city and provincial capital of Kiangsi sheng (province), China. The city is situated on the right bank of the Kan River just below its confluence with the Chin and some 25 miles (40 km) south of its discharge into P'o-yang ...
city in east-central Szechwan sheng (province), China. Nan-ch'ung is situated in the valley of the Chia-ling River, which is a northern tributary of the Yangtze River. Nan-ch'ung lies along the west bank of the Chia-ling, which provides easy water transport ...
("Literati Painting"), style of painting practiced by numerous Japanese painters of the 18th and 19th centuries. Some of the most original and creative painters of the middle and late Edo period belonged to the Nan-ga school. The style is based ...
city in south-central Chuang autonomous ch'u (region) of Kwangsi, China. Nan-ning is the provincial capital. The city is located on the north bank of the Yung River, the chief southern tributary of the Hsi River, and lies some 19 miles ...
city in north central Fukien sheng (province), China. Nan-p'ing occupies an important position in the communications of northern Fukien. It is situated on the northwest bank of the Min River at the place where that river is formed by the ...
shih (municipality) and seat of Nan-t'ou hsien (county), west-central Taiwan. It lies 26 miles (42 km) south of T'ai-chung city. Situated in a fertile alluvial plain on a tributary of the Wu River, the town flourished in the late 17th ...
hsien (county), central Taiwan. It has an area of 1,585 square miles (4,106 square km) and is bordered by the hsien of T'ai-chung (north), Chang-hua and Yun-lin (west), Chia-i and Kao-hsiung (south), and Hua-lien (east). The Chung-yang Mountain Range, with ...
city, eastern Kiangsu sheng (province), China. Nan-t'ung is situated on the northern shore of the head of the Yangtze River estuary. Northward, it is connected with the Yun-yen and T'ung-yu canal systems, which serve the coastal zone of Kiangsu north ...
city in southwestern Honan sheng (province), China. Nan-yang is situated on the Pai River, which is a tributary of the Han. It was from early times an important centre, commanding a major route between Sian (Hsi-an [Ch'ang-an]) in Shensi province ...
a prominent leader in the Indian Mutiny of 1857. Although he did not plan the outbreak, he assumed leadership of the sepoys (British-employed Indian soldiers).
city, southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on Vancouver Island and the Georgia Strait. Founded as Colvilletown around a Hudson's Bay Company trading post, it developed after 1849 when coalfields were discovered nearby by the Indians. In 1860 the settlement was renamed ...
Indian spiritual teacher who was the first guru of the Sikhs, a monotheistic religious group that combines Hindu and Muslim influences. His teachings, expressed through devotional hymns, many of which still survive, stressed salvation from rebirth through meditation on the ...
city, Ishikawa ken (prefecture), Honshu, Japan, on the Noto Peninsula, facing Nanao Bay. During the Tokugawa Era (1603-1867), the castle town served as a naval base for the Maeda daimyo family, who possessed several European ships, while Japan isolated itself ...
Tai kingdom that arose in the 8th century in western Yunnan Province in southern China, a region to which the Tai peoples trace their origin. Many fragmented Tai kingdoms had occupied this region, centred at Lake Tali between the Mekong, ...
city, capital, Meurthe-et-Moselle departement, Lorraine region, eastern France, in what was formerly the province of Lorraine, west of Strasbourg, near the left bank of the Meurthe River.
family that ruled Magadha, in northern India, between c. 343 and 321 BC. The Nanda dynasty immediately preceded the dynasty of the Mauryas, and, as with all pre-Maurya dynasties, what is known about it is a mixture of fact and ...
town, east-central Maharashtra state, western India. It lies on the banks of the Godavari River. Its name is derived from Nanda tat ("Nanda border"), a term that refers to the boundary of the Magadha kingdom during the 7th century BC. ...
bull vahana (mount) of the Hindu god Siva. Some scholars suggest that the bull was originally the zoomorphic form of Siva, but from the Kusana (Kushan) age onward (c. 1st century AD), he is identified as the god's vehicle.
Kalenjin-speaking people who inhabit the western part of the highlands of Kenya. Their dialect of Kalenjin is classified in the Nilotic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family; they are distinct from the Nandi of Congo (Kinshasa), whose language is classified ...
(Guarani Indian: "spider web"), type of lace introduced into Paraguay by the Spaniards. It is generally characterized by a spoke-like structure of foundation threads upon which many basic patterns are embroidered. This structure, resembling a spider web or the rays ...
in Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies, pleasurable sense perceptions presented to honour tranquil deities. The offerings include a mirror (to please the sense of form, or sight); a bell or stringed musical instrument (hearing); incense, nutmeg, or scented flower (smell); sugar, a ...
one of the world's tallest mountains, 26,660 feet (8,126 metres) high, situated in the western Himalayas 17 miles (27 km) west-southwest of Astor, in the Pakistani-administered sector of the Kashmir region. The mountain's steep south wall rises nearly 15,000 feet ...
one of four colonies (Nangnang, Chinbon, Imdun, and Hyonto) established in 108 BC by Emperor Wu Ti of the Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) of China when he conquered the ancient Korean state of Wiman (later named Choson). Nangnang, which ...
mountain range stretching from north to south, west of the Kaema Highlands (q.v.), in central North Korea. The Nangnim Mountains form the watershed between Kwanbuk (the northeastern part of the Korean Peninsula) and Kwanso (the northwestern part). With average heights ...
(1831-32), disastrous attempt by the British to exact tribute from the Minangkabau people of the Malay state of Naning, near Malacca. Claiming to have inherited a right formerly held by the Dutch, British officials at Malacca demanded one-tenth of Naning's ...
durable, firm-textured cotton cloth originally made in China and now imitated in various countries. The name is derived from Nanking, the city in which the cloth is said to have been originally manufactured.
city, capital of Kiangsu sheng (province) in east-central China. It is a port on the Yangtze River and a major industrial and communications centre. Rich in history, it served seven times as the capital of regional empires, ...
(December 1937-January 1938), mass killing and ravaging of Chinese citizens and capitulated soldiers by soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army after its seizure of Nanking, China, on Dec. 13, 1937, during the Sino-Japanese War that preceded World War II. The ...
Chinese blue-and-white porcelain made for export during the Qing dynasty (especially in the reign of Kangxi, 1661-1722) at Jingdezhen. It was shipped to Europe in great quantity from the port of Nanking (Nanjing); as a result, Western dealers in the ...
