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- (from the article "Literature") ...Tredje flykthastigheten, where her sharp and clear fragmentary style and sharp contrasts of rural poverty and high technology were employed to paint the fate of Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin. Mikael Niemi returned to the bookshops after his 2000 best seller ...
- Niemoller, Martin
- prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and pastor, founder of the Confessing Church (Bekennende Kirche) and a president of the World Council of Churches. [5 Related Articles]
- Nien Hsi-yao
- (from the article "arts, East Asian") Famille rose porcelain reached a climax of perfection at Ching-te-chen under the direction of Nien Hsi-yao (1726-36) and continued with scarcely diminishing delicacy through the Ch'ien-lung period. Meanwhile, the skill of the Ching-te-chen potters was being increasingly challenged by the ...
- Nienhuys, Jacobus
- Dutch businessman and planter, who was responsible for establishing the tobacco industry in Sumatra (now part of Indonesia).
- Niepce, Nicephore
- French inventor who was the first to make a permanent photographic image. [7 Related Articles]
- Nier double-focusing mass spectrometer
- (from the article "mass spectrometry") Nier's design is illustrated in Figure 5. In this instrument, Nier was able to achieve high sensitivity as well as high resolution. Using an electron-bombardment ion source, a resolving power of 2 × 105 has been attained in a commercial ...
- Nier, Alfred Otto Carl
- (from the article "Dunning, John R") ...to direct the construction of Columbia's first cyclotron. In 1939 Dunning led the American research team that verified German physicists' report of the fission of the uranium atom. With Alfred Nier and other colleagues, he then showed in 1940 that ...
- Nietoperek Bat Nature Reserve
- (from the article "Lubuskie") ...To the south of Miedzyrzecz stretches a 19-mile- (30-km-) long network of fortifications built by the Germans just prior to World War II. Part of the underground network is designated as the Nietoperek Bat Nature Reserve, central Europe's most important ...
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, ... [28 Related Articles]
- Nieuw Nickerie
- port, northwestern Suriname. It lies on the Nickerie River, near the mouth of the Courantyne (Dutch Corantijn) River, 3 miles (5 km) from the Atlantic coast. Rice is the principal crop grown in the area, and cocoa, baboen lumber, and ...
- Nieuwland, Julius Arthur
- Belgian-born American chemist whose studies of acetylene culminated in the discovery of lewisite, a chemical-warfare agent, and neoprene, the first commercially successful synthetic rubber.
- Nieuwpoort
- municipality, West Flanders province, western Belgium, on the Yser (IJzer) River. Established in the 12th century as a new port for Ypres (replacing Lombardsijde), it was besieged 10 times after it was first fortified in 1163. The scene of a ...
- nieve penitente
- (from the article "Hindu Kush") ...others are advancing. Some glacial regions have a striking feature known as ablated snow hummocks-called nieves penitentes or Busserschnee (literally, "penitent snow")-that give the illusion of kneeling human figures, sometimes two or three feet ...
- Nievo, Ippolito
- (from the article "Italian literature") ...political turncoats, and coarse parvenus; or the works of the republican Roman Catholic from Dalmatia, Niccolo Tommaseo. The undoubted masterpiece of Risorgimento narrative literature is Ippolito Nievo's Confessioni di un italiano (published posthumously in 1867; "Confessions of an Italian"; Eng. ...
- Nievre
- (from the article "Burgundy") region of France encompassing the central departements of Cote-d'Or, Saone-et-Loire, Nievre, and Yonne. Burgundy is bounded by the regions of Ile-de-France and Champagne-Ardenne to the north, Franche-Comte to the east,...
- Niffoi, Salvatore
- (from the article "Literature") ...natural landscape, which, in its full maturity, suggests the inevitable decline of a looming autumn. While Camilleri's signature style often resorted to the expressive richness of Sicilian dialect, Salvatore Niffoi obtained original results by combining standard Italian with Sardinian in ...
- Niflheim
- in Norse mythology, the cold, dark, misty world of the dead, ruled by the goddess Hel. In some accounts it was the last of nine worlds, a place into which evil men passed after reaching the region of death (Hel). ... [6 Related Articles]
- Nifo, Agostino
- Renaissance philosopher noted for his development from an anti-Christian interpreter of Aristotelian philosophy into an influential Christian apologist for the immortality of the individual soul. [1 Related Articles]
- NIFTY Corporation
- (from the article "Fujitsu Limited") In 1986 Fujitsu extended its telecommunications activities by launching the NIFTY Corporation in equal partnership with the Nissho Iwai Corporation. In 1999 Fujitsu acquired all of Nissho Iwai's shares in NIFTY, which by then had expanded from corporate communications and ...
- Nigantha Nataputta
- (from the article "Indian philosophy") ...who denied sin and freedom of will; and by materialists, such as Ajita Kesakambalin, who, besides denying virtue, vice, and afterlife, resolved man's being into material elements, Nigantha Nataputta, who believed in salvation by an ascetic life of self-discipline and ...
- Nigde
- city, south-central Turkey; it lies at an elevation of 4,100 feet (1,250 metres) below a hill crowned by a ruined 11th-century Seljuq fortress on the road between Kayseri and the Cilician Gates, north-northwest of Adana. The city is thought by ...
- Niger
- landlocked western African country. It is bounded on the northwest by Algeria, on the northeast by Libya, on the east by Chad, on the south by Nigeria and Benin, and on the west by Burkina Faso and Mali. The capital ... [32 Related Articles]
- Niger
- state, west-central Nigeria, bounded to the south by the Niger River. It is also bounded by the states of Kebbi and Sokoto to the north, Kaduna to the north and northeast, Kogi to the southeast, and Kwara to the south. ...
- Niger basin
- (from the article "Africa") The Niger basin is the largest river basin of western Africa. The Niger River, which rises in the mountains of Guinea, enters the sea through its delta in southern Nigeria; it is about 2,600 miles in length. Rapids interrupt its ...
- Niger Bend
- (from the article "Mali") ...nonexistent. The river breaks down into a network of branches and lakes as it continues northward and, at Kabara, eastward. At Bourem the Niger makes a great turn to the southeast, known as the Niger Bend, and flows past Gao ...
- Niger Delta
- (from the article "Nigeria") In the Niger Delta, the source of 90% of Nigeria's wealth, the security situation deteriorated. Local armed militia, backed by local inhabitants, seemed dangerously close to turning into an insurgency. In February the Movement for the...BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE ...
- Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force
- (from the article "Nigeria") ...violence and targeted attacks on oil-production sites. Fighting between ethnic militias left more than 12 people dead in January, and at least 5 persons were killed in March. In September the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF) threatened war on ...
- Niger plains
- (from the article "Benin") The Niger plains, in the northeast of Benin, slope down to the Niger River valley. They consist of clayey sandstones.
- Niger River
- principal river of West Africa. With a length of 2,600 miles (4,200 kilometres), it is the third longest river in Africa, after the Nile and the Congo. The Niger is believed to have been named by the Greeks. Along its ... [15 Related Articles]
- Niger River Commission
- (from the article "Niger River") The coordination of multinational efforts to develop the Niger and its tributaries is the responsibility of the Niger River Commission, formed in 1963. The Commission has sponsored a study of the navigational possibilities of the middle Niger from Gao (Mali) ...
- Niger, flag of
- horizontally striped orange-white-green national flag with an orange sun on the centre stripe. The flag's width-to-length ratio is approximately 6 to 7.
- Niger, history of
- (from the article "Niger") One of the central themes of the history of Niger is the interaction between the Tuareg (and also Tubu) nomads of the vast Saharan north and the sedentary agriculturalists of the south-that is, the interaction between opposed yet complementary ways ...
- Niger, Office du
- (from the article "Segou") ...Tukulor jihad (holy war), al-Hajj 'Umar, seized Segou. Segou is in a densely populated region and has always been an important trading centre. It is the headquarters of the Office du Niger, an extensive irrigation system begun in 1932. A ...
- Niger, Pescennius
- rival Roman emperor from 193 to 194. [2 Related Articles]
- Niger-Congo languages
- a family of languages of Africa, which in terms of the number of languages spoken, their geographic extent, and the number of speakers is by far the largest language family in Africa. The area in which these languages are spoken ... [6 Related Articles]
- Niger-Kordofanian languages
- (from the article "Africa") ...used for Indo-European languages rather than on geographic, ethnic, or other nonlinguistic criteria. The four main language families, or phyla, of the continent are now considered to be Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afro-Asiatic, and Khoisan.Kordofanian languagesNiger-Congo ...
- Nigeria
- country located on the western coast of Africa. Nigeria has a diverse geography, with climates ranging from arid to humid equatorial. However, Nigeria's most diverse feature is its people. Hundreds of languages are spoken in the country, including Yoruba, Igbo, ... [64 Related Articles]
- Nigeria, flag of
- vertically striped green-white-green national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2.
- Nigeria, history of
- (from the article "Nigeria") HistoryBritish West AfricaBritish West AfricaThe British policy of indirect rule was most clearly formulated by Frederick J.D. Lugard in Nigeria. In the early 1900s, long after Britain annexed Lagos as ...
- Nigerian literature
- (from the article "Literature") Nigeria's Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel laureate in literature, brought out You Must Set Forth at Dawn, a sequel to his highly acclaimed childhood memoir Ake (1981). Compatriot Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, ...
- Nigerian Oil Mining License 130
- (from the article "China") ...Wen Jiabao later traveled to seven other African countries, including Angola, the continent's second largest oil producer. The China National Offshore Oil Corp. took a 45% stake in the Nigerian Oil Mining License (OML) 130 oil field near the Niger ...
- Nigerian scam
- (from the article "cybercrime") Schemes to defraud consumers abound on the Internet. Among the most famous is the Nigerian, or "419," scam; the number is a reference to the section of Nigerian law that the scam violates. Although this con has been used with ...
- Nigerian theatre
- variety of folk opera of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria that emerged in the early 1940s. It combined a brilliant sense of mime, colourful costumes, and traditional drumming, music, and folklore. Directed toward a local audience, it uses Nigerian ... [3 Related Articles]
- Nigetti, Matteo
- (from the article "Cosimo II") ...of the grand duke of Tuscany in 1610, after Galileo discovered four satellites of Jupiter and named them the Sidera Medicea ("Medicean Stars"). Under Cosimo also the architect Matteo Nigetti worked on the funeral chapel of the Medici (according to ...
- Nigg
- village, Highland council area, historic county of Ross-shire, historic region of Ross and Cromarty, northeast coast of Scotland. It is closely associated with and heavily dependent on the offshore petroleum industry. Construction of a huge dry dock began at Nigg ...
- Niggli, Paul
- Swiss mineralogist who originated the idea of a systematic deduction of the space group (one of 230 possible three-dimensional patterns) of crystals by means of X-ray data and supplied a complete outline of methods that have since been used to ...
- night adder
- (from the article "adder") Night adders (Causus) are small relatively slender vipers found south of the Sahara and are typically less than 1 metre (3 feet) long. They are active at night and feed nearly exclusively on frogs and toads.
- Night and Fog Decree
- secret order issued by Adolf Hitler on December 7, 1941, under which "persons endangering German security" in the German-occupied territories of western Europe were to be arrested and either shot or spirited away under cover of "night and fog" (that ...
- night baseball
- (from the article "baseball") ...dissuade fans from attending the games in person, especially during the Great Depression. However, the opposite proved to be true; radio created new fans and brought more of them to the ballpark. Night baseball, which had already been used by ...
- night blindness
- failure of the eye to adapt promptly from light to darkness that is characterized by a reduced ability to see in dim light or at night. It occurs as a symptom of numerous congenital and inherited retinal diseases or as ... [2 Related Articles]
- night crawler
- (from the article "oligochaete") any worm of the subclass Oligochaeta (class Clitellata, phylum Annelida). About 3,500 living species are known, the most familiar of which is the earthworm (q.v.), Lumbricus terrestris. Oligochaetes are common all over the world. They live in the sea, in ...
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