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- French-Canadian poet who was a major figure in the Ecole Litteraire de Montreal ("Montreal Literary School"). [2 Related Articles]
- Nellis Air Force Base
- (from the article "Las Vegas") ...government to establish two major installations near Las Vegas in 1941: a magnesium-processing plant southeast of the city in Henderson and a military airfield just to the northeast. The latter, now Nellis Air Force Base, eventually grew to occupy an ...
- Nelly
- (from the article "Performing Arts") ...artist Kanye West released an explicitly Christian single, "Jesus Walks," that reached Billboard's all-genre Top 20. More blurring occurred when St. Louis, Mo.-based rapper Nelly recruited country superstar Tim McGraw for vocal assistance on "Over and Over," a track from ...
- Nelson
- city, southeastern British Columbia, Canada, on the western arm of Kootenay Lake, a few miles south of Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park and 408 miles (657 km) east of Vancouver. The discovery of gold at nearby Fortynine Creek in 1867 led ...
- Nelson
- port city and unitary authority, northern South Island, New Zealand, on an inlet at the head of Tasman Bay, at the mouth of the Matai River. Settled by the New Zealand Company in 1842 and named for British admiral Lord ...
- Nelson Lakes National Park
- park in northern South Island, New Zealand. The park was established in 1956 and has an area of 393 square miles (1,018 square km). It is named after its chief focal points, the scenic lakes of Rotoiti and Rotoroa. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson Mandela National Museum
- (from the article "South Africa") ...of South Africa, the national reference and preservation repository formed in 1999 by the merger of the South African Library and the State Library, has campuses in Cape Town and Pretoria. The Nelson Mandela National Museum, honouring the life and ...
- Nelson River
- river in northern Manitoba, Can., that begins by draining Lake Winnipeg, flows northward, and ends by discharging into Hudson Bay near York Factory. Its 400-mile (644-km) course is the ultimate outlet for a basin of 444,000 square miles (1,150,000 square ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson's Column
- (from the article "Trafalgar Square") ...the most famous of all London squares, Trafalgar Square has always been public and has had no garden. Seven major arteries pump automobiles around the great paved space, which is dominated by Nelson's Column (1839-43), a 185-foot- (56-metre-) high monument ...
- Nelson, Adam
- (from the article "Track and Field Sports") ...took the World Athletics Final, the year's premier IAAF outdoor event, but fellow American Christian Cantwell had the longest throw of the year (22.45 m [73 ft 8 in]) and won 14 of 17 outdoor meets. Adam Nelson, the reigning ...
- Nelson, Baby Face
- American gunman and bank robber noted for his vicious killings and youthful looks.
- Nelson, Brendan
- (from the article "Australia") Newly appointed Minister for Defence Brendan Nelson had the difficult task of presiding over the political damage that followed the death in April of Private Jake Kovco, who died in Baghdad from a single bullet to the head. As one ...
- Nelson, Byron
- American professional golfer, who dominated the sport in the late 1930s and '40s. Known for his fluid swing, he won a record 11 consecutive professional tournaments in 1945. [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Gaylord Anton
- American politician and conservationist (b. June 4, 1916, Clear Lake, Wis.-d. July 3, 2005, Kensington, Md.), was the founder of Earth Day-first celebrated on April 22, 1970, to focus attention on the preservation of the planet's natural resources. The inaugural ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Gene
- (EUGENE LEANDER BERG), U.S. actor-dancer best remembered for his role as Will Parker in the motion picture musical Oklahoma! (b. March 24, 1920--d. Sept. 16, 1996).
- Nelson, Harriet
- (PEGGY LOU SNYDER) U.S. singer and actress (b. July 18, 1909, Des Moines, Iowa--d. Oct. 2, 1994, Laguna Beach, Calif.), became an American icon of motherhood as the radio and television matriarch who starred with her real-life family--husband Ozzie and ...
- Nelson, Horatia
- (from the article "Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount") ...after him and, eventually, in the preservation at Portsmouth of the Victory. Emma Hamilton and his daughter, however, were ignored. Emma died, almost destitute, in Calais nine years later. Horatia, showing her father's resilience, married a clergyman in Norfolk and ...
- Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount
- British naval commander in the wars with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, who won crucial victories in such battles as those of the Nile (1798) and of Trafalgar (1805), where he was killed by enemy fire on the HMS Victory. In ... [17 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Ken
- American record producer helped define the smooth country-pop Nashville Sound and the twangy California-based Bakersfield Sound through his low-key approach in studio sessions. During the 1930s Nelson began his career as music director at Chicago's WJJD radio station, where he ...
- Nelson, Leonard
- (from the article "Kantianism") ...the Friesian Empiricist Jurgen Bona Meyer in his Kants Psychologie (1870). Later, a more important contribution in this field was made by the Gottingen philosopher of ethics and law Leonard Nelson and published in the Abhandlungen der Fries'schen Schule (1904 ...
- Nelson, O. F.
- (from the article "Samoa") ...leadership and that of the local business community; in response, an organized political movement called the Mau ("Strongly Held View") emerged. The Mau was led by Olaf Frederick Nelson, whose mother was Samoan, but New Zealand outlawed the movement, claiming ...
- Nelson, Richard
- (from the article "American literature") ...several Off-Broadway plays about Chinese Americans, David Henry Hwang achieved critical and commercial success on Broadway with his gender-bending drama M. Butterfly (1988). Richard Nelson found an enthusiastic following in London for literate plays such as
- Nelson, Rick
- American singer and actor, one of rock music's first teen idols. Nelson gained fame on his parents' television series, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, which embodied middle-American values in the 1950s and early 1960s. [2 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Samuel
- associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1845-72).
- Nelson, William Rockhill
- American journalist, editor, and publisher who helped found The Kansas City Star (1880). Among American publishers he was a pioneering advocate of focusing investigative reporting on local municipal corruption instead of merely printing the exposes of nationally ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson, Willie
- American songwriter and guitarist, one of the most popular country music singers of the late 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- art museum in Kansas City, Mo., that ranks among the 10 largest in the United States. [3 Related Articles]
- Nelsova, Zara
- Canadian-born American cellist (b. Dec. 24, 1917, Winnipeg, Man.-d. Oct. 10, 2002, New York, N.Y.), had a long career, beginning as a child prodigy. Called the "queen of cellists," she was known particularly for performing contemporary works, including Schelomo and ...
- Nelspruit
- city, capital of Mpumalanga province, South Africa. It lies along the Krokodil (Crocodile) River, among domed granite hills. In 1891 the railway from Delagoa Bay (site of modern Maputo, Mozambique) reached a farm owned by the Nel family known as ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nelumbonaceae
- the lotus-lily family of the order Proteales, consisting of two species of attractive aquatic plants. One of these species is the sacred lotus of the Orient (Nelumbo nucifera) and is found in tropical and subtropical Asia. The other species is ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nelumbonales
- (from the article "Nelumbonaceae") Some authorities consider the two species to constitute a separate order (Nelumbonales) because of important botanical characteristics that suggest a different evolutionary origin from the other water lilies. Unlike other water lilies, the plants of Nelumbonaceae have pores in the ...
- Neman River
- river in Belarus and Lithuania. The Neman River is 582 miles (937 km) long and drains about 38,000 square miles (98,000 square km). It rises near Minsk in the Minsk Upland and flows west through a broad, swampy basin; it ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nemanjic Dynasty
- ruling Serbian family that from the late 12th to the mid-14th century developed the principality of Raska into a large empire. [3 Related Articles]
- nematic director
- (from the article "liquid crystal") ...Their orientations are all alike, however, so that the rotational symmetry remains discrete. The orientation of the long axis of a nematic molecule is called its director. In Figure 1C the nematic director is vertical.
- nematic phase
- (from the article "liquid crystal display") ...ordered patterns. In common with solid crystals, liquid crystals can exhibit polymorphism; i.e., they can take on different structural patterns, each with unique properties. LCDs utilize either nematic or smectic liquid crystals. The molecules of nematic liquid crystals align themselves ...
- Nematocera
- (from the article "dipteran") ...soil, beneath bark or stones, in decaying plant and animal matter, even in pools of crude petroleum). Adults feed on plant or animal juices or other insects. Diptera fall into three large groups: Nematocera (e.g., crane flies, midges, gnats, mosquitoes), ...
- nematocyst
- minute, elongated, or spherical capsule produced exclusively by members of the phylum Cnidaria (e.g., jellyfish, corals, sea anemones). Several such capsules occur on the body surface. Each is produced by a special cell called a cnidoblast and contains a coiled, ... [2 Related Articles]
- nematode
- any worm of the phylum Nematoda. Nematodes are among the most abundant animals on Earth. They occur as parasites in animals and plants or as free-living forms in soil, freshwater, marine environments, and even in such unusual places as vinegar ... [17 Related Articles]
- nematogen phase
- (from the article "mesozoan") Rhombozoans have an even more complex life cycle. Two reproductive phases occur in the cephalopod host. During a phase called the nematogen phase, axoblast cells (also called agametes) give rise to wormlike individuals similar to their parents. These remain in ...
- nembutsu
- (from the article "Buddhism") These doctrines and the practice of invoking the name Amitabha-called nembutsu in Japanese and nianfo in Chinese-became popular in China and Japan, where it was believed that the world had reached the decadent age, ...
- Nemcova, Bozena
- (from the article "Czech literature") ...of poetic vision and perfection of language. In the 1840s there was a reaction against the Romantic vision. The political journalist Karel Havlicek Borovsky and the novelist Bozena Nemcova were both concerned with practical issues and did much to emancipate ...
- Nemea, Battle of
- (394 BC), battle in the Corinthian War (395-387 BC) in which a coalition of Greek city-states sought to destroy the ascendancy of Sparta after its victory in the Peloponnesian War. The Spartans' defeat of the troops from Thebes, Corinth, Athens, ...
- Nemean Games
- in ancient Greece, athletic and musical competitions held in honour of Zeus, in July, at the great Temple of Zeus at Nemea, in Argolis. They occurred biennially, in the same years as the Isthmian Games, i.e., in the second and ...
- Nemean lion
- (from the article "Heracles") ...was obliged to become the servant of Eurystheus. It was Eurystheus who imposed upon Heracles the famous Labours, later arranged in a cycle of 12, usually as follows: (1) the slaying of the Nemean lion, whose skin he thereafter wore; ...
- Nemerov, Howard
- American poet, novelist, and critic whose poetry, marked by irony and self-deprecatory wit, is often about nature. In 1978 Nemerov received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, which appeared in 1977.
- Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius
- Roman poet born in Carthage who wrote pastoral and didactic poetry.
- Nemesio, Vitorino
- (from the article "Portugal") ...Castro was a notable realist and author of A selva (1930; The Jungle) and Os emigrantes (1928; "The Emigrants"). The novelist, essayist, and poet Vitorino Nemesio received acclaim for his novel Mau tempo no canal (1944; "Bad Weather in the ...
- Nemesis
- in Greek religion, two divine conceptions, the first an Attic goddess, the daughter of Nyx (Night), and the second an abstraction of indignant disapproval, later personified. Nemesis the goddess (perhaps of fertility) was worshipped at Rhamnus in Attica and was ... [2 Related Articles]
- Nemesis Campestris
- (from the article "Nemesis") ...in Boeotia by Adrastus, leader of the Seven Against Thebes. In Rome, especially, her cult was very popular, particularly among soldiers, by whom she was worshipped as patroness of the drill ground (Nemesis Campestris).
- Nemesius Of Emesa
- Christian philosopher, apologist, and bishop of Emesa (now Hims, Syria) who was the author of Peri physeos anthropou (Greek: "On the Nature of Man"), the first known compendium of theological anthropology with a Christian orientation. The treatise considerably influenced later ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nemeth Code of Braille Mathematics and Scientific Notation
- (from the article "Braille") In addition to the literary Braille code, there are other codes utilizing the Braille cell but with other meanings assigned to each configuration. The Nemeth Code of Braille Mathematics and Scientific Notation (1965) provides for Braille representation of the many ...
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