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- lord chancellor of England (1675-82), called "the father of equity."
- Nottingham, University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") ...site west of the city in 1928. The land was given by Lord Trent, otherwise Jesse Boot, founder of Boots Company, Ltd., who subsequently financed much of its development. It was incorporated as the University of Nottingham in 1948. The ...
- Nottinghamshire
- administrative, geographic, and historic county of the East Midlands of England, bordered by the geographic counties of Leicestershire, Derbyshire, and Lincolnshire, and by the metropolitan county of South Yorkshire. The administrative, geographic, and historic counties cover slightly different areas. The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Noturus
- (from the article "madtom") any of several North American catfishes of the genus Noturus, of the family Ictaluridae. They are sometimes classified in two genera, Noturus and Schilbeodes. Generally about 5-7.5 cm (2-3 inches) long, madtoms are the smallest ictalurids and are characterized by ...
- Nouadhibou
- town, northwestern Mauritania, on Ras Nouadhibou (formerly Cape Blanc) peninsula facing a protective bay on the Atlantic coast. It has developed as a fishing centre, and fishing continues to be important; but, since 1964, with the completion of a special ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nouakchott
- city, capital of Mauritania, on a plateau near the West African Atlantic coast, about 270 miles (435 km) north-northeast of Dakar, Senegal. Originally a coastal village on the desert trail north from Dakar, it was developed after independence (1960) as ... [6 Related Articles]
- noucentisme
- (from the article "Ors y Rovira, Eugenio d'") ...he continued to write El nuevo glosario ("The New Glossary") in Castilian. He excelled in a short-essay genre, the glosa. In a column in 1906, he coined the term noucentisme ("1900-ism") to characterize Catalan culture of the 20th century. He ...
- Nouel, Adolfo
- (from the article "Dominican Republic") ...took over and were in turn forced out, including Juan Isidro Jimenez and Horacio Vasquez-two bitter rivals-and Caceres himself. Even the accession of the archbishop Adolfo Nouel to the presidency in 1912 failed to stem the disorder, and within four ...
- Nougaro, Claude
- French chanson singer and songwriter (b. Sept. 9, 1929, Toulouse, France-d. March 4, 2004, Paris, France), combined an interest in the traditional French chanson with an affection for American jazz and Brazilian and African music over the course of some ...
- nougat
- aerated confection made by mixing nuts and sometimes fruit pieces in a sugar paste whose composition is varied to give either a chewy or a brittle consistency. Nougat originated in Mediterranean countries, where honey, together with almonds or other nuts, ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nouge, Paul
- Belgian poet and intellectual theorist. He and Rene Magritte were the most important figures in the Brussels group of Belgian Surrealists.
- Nouhak Phoumsavan
- Laotian resistance leader and politician was (with Kaysone Phomvihan and Prince Souphanouvong) a member of the triumvirate of men at the centre of Laotian resistance to French rule in Indochina and, after independence from France (1954), to the government that ...
- Nouira, Hedi Amira
- Tunisian politician (b. April 6, 1911, Monastir, Tunisia--d. Jan. 25, 1993, La Marsa, Tunisia), was the hard-line prime minister of Tunisia for a decade (1970-80) and the designated successor of the president-for-life, Habib Bourguiba, until a stroke ended his political ... [1 Related Articles]
- Noumea
- city, port, and capital of the French overseas country of New Caledonia, southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the southwestern corner of the main island of New Caledonia. It was founded in 1854 as Port-de-France. It is situated on an excellent deepwater ... [1 Related Articles]
- noumenon
- in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, the thing-in-itself (das Ding an sich) as opposed to what Kant called the phenomenon-the thing as it appears to an observer. Though the noumenal holds the contents of the intelligible world, Kant claimed that ... [4 Related Articles]
- noun
- (from the article "Caucasian languages") The grammatical characteristics of the Abkhazo-Adyghian languages include an extremely simple noun system and a relatively complicated system of verb conjugation. There are no grammatical cases in Abkhaz and Abaza, and in the other languages only two principal cases occur: ...
- noun class system
- (from the article "Niger-Congo languages") The system of noun classes is probably the characteristic most widely found in Niger-Congo languages and best known to those interested in language phenomena. Though the extent to which the system operates varies greatly, it is nonetheless found in some ...
- noun phrase
- (from the article "linguistics") ..."output." The notion of phrase structure may be dealt with independently of its incorporation in the larger system. In the following system of rules, S stands for Sentence, NP for Noun Phrase, VP for Verb Phrase, Det for Determiner, Aux ...
- Nour, Ayman
- (from the article "Egypt") ...Association of Human Rights Legal Aid as well as the conviction and sentencing of several newspaper editors. Meanwhile, an Egyptian administrative court rejected the plea of jailed opposition leader Ayman Nour for release on the grounds of poor health.BRITANNICA ...
- Nourrit, Adolphe
- French dramatic tenor who created many new roles in French opera.
- Nourrit, Louis
- (from the article "Nourrit, Adolphe") His father, Louis Nourrit, was both a leading tenor at the Paris Opera and a diamond merchant. Adolphe studied voice with Manuel Garcia, a famous tenor of the time, and at 19 years of age he made his successful debut ...
- nous
- (from the article "pantheism") ...of God, occurring by means of intermediaries. God's absoluteness is thus preserved while a bridge to the world is provided as well. In Plotinus (3rd century AD), the foremost Neoplatonist, the Nous (Greek, "mind"), a realm of ideas or Platonic ...
- Nouveau, Germain
- (from the article "Rimbaud, Arthur") ...read as Rimbaud's farewell to creative writing. It was certainly a farewell to the visionary, apocalyptic writing of the voyant. In February 1874 Rimbaud returned to London in the company of Germain Nouveau, a fellow poet. There they copied out ...
- nouveaux romancier
- (from the article "French literature") In the mid-1950s, however, critical attention was focused on the group dubbed the nouveaux romanciers, or new novelists: Alain Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Nathalie Sarraute, Michel Butor, and Robert Pinget....
- Nouvel, Jean
- French architect Jean Nouvel's lack of a signature style was his trademark. Rather than making his buildings recognizably his own, he designed them to "create a visual landscape" that fits their context-sometimes by making them contrast with the surrounding area. ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nouvelle Amsterdam
- island in the southern Indian Ocean, administratively a part of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories (q.v.). An extinct volcano rises to 2,989 feet (911 m) above sea level on the island, which has an area of 18 square miles ...
- nouvelle artificial intelligence
- an approach to artificial intelligence (AI) pioneered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AI Laboratory by the Australian American scientist Rodney Brooks during the latter half of the 1980s. Nouvelle AI distances itself from strong AI, with its emphasis ... [1 Related Articles]
- nouvelle critique
- (from the article "French literature") The new and subversive critical tendencies of the 1960s demanded more of the reader, who was to become an active participant in decoding the text, not a passive recipient. The term New Criticism (not to be confused with the Anglo-American ...
- nouvelle cuisine
- eclectic style in international haute cuisine developed during the 1960s and '70s that stressed freshness, lightness, and clarity of flavour. In reaction to some of the richer and more calorie-laden extravagances of classic French haute cuisine, nouvelle cuisine sought to ... [1 Related Articles]
- Nouvelle Revue francaise, La
- leading French review of literature and the other arts. It was founded in February 1909 (after a false start in November 1908) by a group that included Andre Gide, Jacques Copeau, and Jean Schlumberger. The NRF's founders wished to emphasize ... [7 Related Articles]
- nova
- any of a class of exploding stars whose luminosity temporarily increases from several thousand to as much as 100,000 times its normal level. A nova reaches maximum luminosity within hours after its outburst and may shine intensely for several days ... [6 Related Articles]
- nova
- (from the article "Venus") ...the surface in a radial pattern. This results in a distinctive starburst of faults and fractures, often lying atop a broad, gently sloping topographic rise. (Such features are sometimes called novae, a name given to them when their evolutionary relationship ...
- Nova Arcadia
- (from the article "arcadia") In 1790 a Nova Arcadia ("New Arcadia") came into being, its two most distinguished members being the rival poets Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage, who is now remembered for a few outstanding sonnets, and Jose Agostinho de Macedo, known for ...
- Nova Constellatio
- (from the article "coin") Congressional efforts to establish a national mint had resulted in the issue of the historic 1783 Nova Constellatio silver patterns of 1,000, 500, and 100 units, from dies by the Englishman Benjamin Dudley, exemplifying the extraordinary Morris Plan, drawn up ...
- Nova Delphini
- (from the article "star") ...probably include flare stars, possibly red supergiants such as Betelgeuse, the high-temperature dwarf companion to the red supergiant Antares, and the shells ejected from Nova Serpentis 1970 and Nova Delphini. The radio emission from the latter objects is consistent with ...
- Nova Dubnica
- (from the article "Slovakia") ...Slovakia's population lives in urban areas. In addition to Bratislava, regional centres include Nitra, Banska Bystrica, Zilina, Kosice, and Presov. Partizanske and Nova Dubnica, both in the west, are examples of new towns founded, respectively, just before and after World ...
- Nova Friburgo
- city, east-central Rio de Janeiro estado (state), in eastern Brazil, on the Rio Grande in the Serra de Nova Friburgo, 2,776 feet (846 m) above sea level.
- Nova Herculis
- one of the brightest novas of the 20th century, discovered Dec. 13, 1934, by the British amateur astronomer J.P.M. Prentice, in the northern constellation Hercules. It reached an apparent visual magnitude of 1.4 and remained visible to the unaided eye ...
- Nova Iguacu
- city and suburb of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro estado (state), Brazil. Formerly called Maxambamba, it lies in the Sarapui River valley, at 85 feet (26 metres) above sea level, about 20 miles ...
- Nova laser
- (from the article "fusion reactor") ...a product of density and energy-confinement time of 5 × 1014 seconds per cubic centimetre has been achieved employing the world's largest and most powerful laser, the Nova laser. (The Nova is a 10-beam neodymium-glass laser operated at an energy level of ...
- Nova Lima
- city, east-central Minas Gerais estado (state), southeastern Brazil. It lies along the Cristais River at 2,444 feet (745 metres) above sea level, just southeast of Belo Horizonte, the state capital. Nova Lima was made the seat of ...
- Nova Persei
- bright nova that attained an absolute magnitude of −9.2. Spectroscopic observations of the nova, which appeared in 1901, provided important information about interstellar gas. The shell thrown off by the exploding star was unusually asymmetrical, and a bright nebulosity near ...
- Nova Scotia
- Canadian province located on the eastern seaboard of North America, one of the four original provinces (along with New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec) that constituted the Dominion of Canada in 1867. Roughly 360 miles (580 km) long but not more ... [13 Related Articles]
- Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever
- breed of sporting dog developed in Canada in the 19th century to lure ducks within gunshot range. The dogs toll (entice) the ducks to approach by their antics onshore and retrieve the downed birds for the hunter. The smallest of ...
- Nova Scotia, flag of
- Canadian provincial flag consisting of a white field (background) with a blue saltire (diagonal cross) extending to the flag corners; a shield in the centre features a red lion on a golden field.
- Nova Serpentis 1970
- (from the article "star") ...recorded on occasion. These probably include flare stars, possibly red supergiants such as Betelgeuse, the high-temperature dwarf companion to the red supergiant Antares, and the shells ejected from Nova Serpentis 1970 and Nova Delphini. The radio emission from the latter ...
- Nova, Joao da
- Spanish navigator who in the service of Portugal discovered the islands of Ascension and St. Helena, both off the southwestern coast of Africa. [1 Related Articles]
- novaculite
- very dense, light-coloured, even-textured sedimentary rock, a bedded chert in which microcrystalline silica (silicon dioxide, SiO2) in the form of quartz predominates over silica in the form of chalcedony. Deposits of novaculite exhibit stratification. The name is applied chiefly to ...
- Novaes, Guiomar
- Brazilian pianist known especially for her interpretations of works by Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann.
- Novak, David
- (from the article "Judaism") The most important scholarship on the concept of "chosenness" was Michael Wyschogrod's The Body of Faith (1983) and David Novak's The Election of Israel (1995). Wyschogrod held that the people of Israel were ...
- Novak, Michael
- The modern state "is an overpromiser and an underachiever and ultimately a fraud. It is bound to disappoint, to embitter, to divide, to engender corrosive cynicism." These provocative remarks were made by Michael Novak, lay theologian, economist, and political philosopher, ...
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