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Nelson, Gene (American actor and dancer)
(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, George (American gangster)
American gunman and bank robber noted for his vicious killings and youthful looks....
Nelson, Harriet (American actress)
(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 (daughter of Lord Nelson)
...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 became the mother of a large and sturdy family....
Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount (British naval commander)
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 private life he was known for his extended love affair with Emma, Lady Hamilton, while both were married....
Nelson, Jack (American journalist)
Oct. 11, 1929Talladega, Ala.Oct. 21, 2009Bethesda, Md.American journalist who was a shrewd investigative reporter and widely admired Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times who shed ample light on the...
Nelson, Jerry Earl (American telescope designer and astronomer)
American telescope designer and astronomer who originated the assembly of large telescope mirrors out of smaller segments....
Nelson, John Byron (American golfer)
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....
Nelson, John Howard (American journalist)
Oct. 11, 1929Talladega, Ala.Oct. 21, 2009Bethesda, Md.American journalist who was a shrewd investigative reporter and widely admired Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times who shed ample light on the...
Nelson, Ken (American record producer)
Jan. 19, 1911Caledonia, Minn.Jan. 6, 2008Somis, Calif.American record producer who helped define the smooth country-pop Nashville Sound and the twangy California-based Bakersfield Sound through his low-key approach in studio sessions. D...
Nelson, Kenneth F. (American record producer)
Jan. 19, 1911Caledonia, Minn.Jan. 6, 2008Somis, Calif.American record producer who helped define the smooth country-pop Nashville Sound and the twangy California-based Bakersfield Sound through his low-key approach in studio sessions. D...
Nelson, Lady (wife of Horatio Nelson)
...failed to enforce the law. Under the strain of his difficulties and of the loneliness of command, Nelson was at his most vulnerable when he visited the island of Nevis in March 1785. There he met Frances Nisbet, a widow, and her five-year-old son, Josiah. Nelson conducted his courtship with formality and charm, and in March 1787 the couple was married at Nevis....
Nelson Lakes National Park (park, New Zealand)
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 park is bounded by the Braeburn ...
Nelson, Leonard (German philosopher)
...Meyer in his Kants Psychologie (1870; “Kant’s Psychology”). Later, a more important contribution in this field was made by the Göttingen philosopher of ethics and law Leonard Nelson and published in the Abhandlungen der Fries’schen Schule (1904 ff.; “Acts of the Friesian School”). Even this title suggests ...
Nelson Mandela International Day (international memorial day)
Mandela Day, observed on Mandela’s birthday, was created to honour his legacy by promoting community service around the world. It was first observed on July 18, 2009, and was sponsored primarily by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the 46664 initiative (the foundation’s HIV/AIDS global awareness and prevention campaign); later that year the United Nations declared that the day would ...
Nelson Mandela National Museum (museum, Qunu, 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 work of Mandela, comprises three sites centred in or around Mandela’s home village in Qunu, Eastern Cape. The museum opened on Feb. 11,......
Nelson, Marjorie Jackson (Australian athlete)
Australian athlete who won two Olympic gold medals and tied or set 13 world records. During the early 1950s, when Australians dominated women’s sprint events, Jackson was the most outstanding Australian sprinter....
Nelson, O. F. (Samoan political leader)
...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 that Nelson and other “part-Europeans” were misleading the Samoans. New Zealand troops were sent in, and......
Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe, Baron (British naval commander)
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 private life he was known for his extended love affair with Emma, Lady Hamilton, while both were married....
Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe, Viscount (British naval commander)
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 private life he was known for his extended love affair with Emma, Lady Hamilton, while both were married....
Nelson, Prince Rogers (American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer)
singer, guitarist, songwriter, producer, dancer, and performer on keyboards, drums, and bass who was among the most talented American musicians of his generation. Like Stevie Wonder, he was a rare composer who could perform at a professional level on virtually all the instruments he required, and a considerable number of his recordings feature him in all the performing roles. Pr...
Nelson, Ralph (American director)
Studio: Cinerama Releasing Corp.Director and producer: Ralph NelsonWriter: Stirling SilliphantMusic: Ravi Shankar Running time: 103 minutes...
Nelson, Richard (American writer)
...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 Some Americans Abroad (1989) and Two Shakespearean Actors (1990)...
Nelson, Rick (American musician and actor)
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....
Nelson, Ricky (American musician and actor)
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....
Nelson River (river, Manitoba, Canada)
river in northern Manitoba, Can., that begins by draining Lake Winnipeg, flows northward, and ends by discharging into Hudson Bay near York Factory...
Nelson, Samuel (United States jurist)
associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1845–72)....
Nelson, Sara (Canadian-American musician)
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 other music by Ernest Bloch. When...
Nelson, Sir Horatio (British naval commander)
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 private life he was known for his extended love affair with Emma, Lady Hamilton, while both were married....
Nelson, William Rockhill (American journalist, editor, and publisher)
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 exposés of nationally famed muckrakers...
Nelson, Willie (American musician)
American songwriter and guitarist, one of the most popular country music singers of the late 20th century....
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (museum, Kansas City, Missouri, United States)
art museum in Kansas City, Mo., that ranks among the 10 largest in the United States....
Nelson’s Column (monument, Westminster, London, United Kingdom)
...however, by anthropomorphism that lapsed into sentimentality. His “Shoeing” (1844) and “Rout of Comus” (1843) exhibit his best style. The four bronze lions at the base of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square, London (unveiled 1867), are his. He was elected to the Royal Academy (1831) and knighted (1850)....
Nelsova, Zara (Canadian-American musician)
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 other music by Ernest Bloch. When...
Nelspruit (South Africa)
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 fam...
neltemi (climatology)
remarkably steady southbound drift of the lower atmosphere over the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent lands in summer. From about mid-May to mid-September, it generally dominates the Adriatic, Ionian, and Aegean seas and the adjacent countries....
Nelumbo lutea (plant)
...was the dominant lotus in Egyptian art. The sacred lotus of the Hindus is an aquatic plant (Nelumbo nucifera) with white or delicate pink flowers; the lotus of eastern North America is Nelumbo pentapetala, a similar plant with yellow blossoms (see Nelumbonaceae). The lotus tree, known to the Romans as the Libyan lotus, was probably Celtis australis, the nettle......
Nelumbo nucifera (plant)
...is a white water lily, Nymphaea lotus (family Nymphaeaceae). The blue lotus (N. caerulea) was the dominant lotus in Egyptian art. The sacred lotus of the Hindus is an aquatic plant (Nelumbo nucifera) with white or delicate pink flowers; the lotus of eastern North America is Nelumbo pentapetala, a similar plant with yellow blossoms (see Nelumbonaceae). The lotu...
Nelumbo pentapetala (plant)
...was the dominant lotus in Egyptian art. The sacred lotus of the Hindus is an aquatic plant (Nelumbo nucifera) with white or delicate pink flowers; the lotus of eastern North America is Nelumbo pentapetala, a similar plant with yellow blossoms (see Nelumbonaceae). The lotus tree, known to the Romans as the Libyan lotus, was probably Celtis australis, the nettle......
Nelumbonaceae (plant family)
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 the American lotus, or ...
Nelumbonales (plant order)
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 seed coat but lack latex-bearing tubes; there are also chromosomal differences. The family is further characterized......
NEM (Laotian history)
...leaders consolidated their revolutionary victory by the end of the 1970s, they implemented limited policies of economic and social liberalization. In 1986 they inaugurated a major reform called the New Economic Mechanism (NEM), which followed the introduction of perestroika (“restructuring”), a similar economic reform program in the Soviet.....
NEM (Hungarian history)
In response to stagnating rates of economic growth, the government introduced the New Economic Mechanism (NEM) in 1968. The NEM implemented market-style reforms to rationalize the behaviour of Hungary’s state-owned enterprises, and it also allowed for the emergence of privately owned businesses. By the end of the 1980s, one-third of the gross domestic product (GDP)—nearly three-fifth...
Neman River (river, Europe)
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 then turns north into Lithuania, cutting through terminal moraines in a narrow, sinuous valley. Near Kaunas, where there is a hydroelectric plant, it turns west and crosses anothe...
Nemanja dynasty (Balkan history)
ruling Serbian family that from the late 12th to the mid-14th century developed the principality of Raška into a large empire....
Nemanja, Stefan (Serbian ruler)
founder of the Serbian state....
Nemanja, Stephen (Serbian ruler)
founder of the Serbian state....
Nemanja, Stephen II (king of Serbia)
...area only under Stefan Nemanja. Stefan assumed the throne of Raška in 1168, but he continued to acknowledge the supremacy of Byzantium until 1185. In 1196 he abdicated in favour of his son Stefan (known as Prvovenčani, or the “First-Crowned”), who in 1217 secured from Pope Honorius III the title of “King of Serbia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia.” Under the......
Nemanjić dynasty (Balkan history)
ruling Serbian family that from the late 12th to the mid-14th century developed the principality of Raška into a large empire....
Nemata (animal)
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, fresh water, marine environments, and even such unusual places as vinegar, beer malts...
nemathelminth (former invertebrate phylum)
a name referring to an obsolete phylum of wormlike invertebrates, mostly of microscopic size. Previously, phylum Aschelminthes included seven diverse classes of animals: Nematoda (or Nemata), Rotifera, Acanthocephala, Gastrotricha, Kinorhyncha (or Echinodera), Nematomorpha, and Gnathostomulida. (According to some authorities, Gnathostomulida was replaced by Priapula in this list.) At present, each...
Nemathelminthes (former invertebrate phylum)
a name referring to an obsolete phylum of wormlike invertebrates, mostly of microscopic size. Previously, phylum Aschelminthes included seven diverse classes of animals: Nematoda (or Nemata), Rotifera, Acanthocephala, Gastrotricha, Kinorhyncha (or Echinodera), Nematomorpha, and Gnathostomulida. (According to some authorities, Gnathostomulida was replaced by Priapula in this list.) At present, each...
nematic director (chemistry)
...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 (physics)
...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 with their axes in parallel, as shown in the figure. Smectic liquid crystals, on......
Nematistius pectoralis (fish)
(Nematistius pectoralis), popular game fish of the family Nematistiidae, related to the jack family, Carangidae (order Perciformes). In the Gulf of California roosterfish commonly reach weights of 9 kilograms (20 pounds) and occasional specimens weigh as much as 32 kg. They are ferocious fighters when hooked on ...
Nematocera (insect group)
...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), Brachycera (e.g., horse flies, robber flies, bee flies), and Cyclorrhapha (e.g., flies that breed in vegetable or......
nematocide (chemistry)
any volatile, poisonous substance used to kill insects, nematodes, and other animals or plants that damage stored foods or seeds, human dwellings, clothing, and nursery stock. Soil fumigants are sprayed or spread over an area to be cultivated and are worked into the soil to control disease-causing fungi, nematodes, and weeds....
nematocyst (biology)
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, hollow, usually barbed thread, which quickly turns outward (i.e., is everted) from the capsule upon proper stimulation. The...
Nematoda (animal)
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, fresh water, marine environments, and even such unusual places as vinegar, beer malts...
nematode (animal)
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, fresh water, marine environments, and even such unusual places as vinegar, beer malts...
nematodesmata (biology)
...of various animals; the genus Bütschlia, for example, lives in cattle. Free-living genera that feed on animal matter often have stiff rods (known as nematodesmata, sometimes called trichites) embedded in the gullet wall; the plant feeders (e.g., Chilodonella) have trichites fused into pharyngeal baskets. The genus Didinium, a predator of the protozoan ciliate......
nematogen phase (biology)
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 the same host, thus increasing the parasite population within the host’s kidney. In the next phase, known as the rhombogen phase, a ...
nematomorph (aschelminths class)
any of the approximately 250 to 300 species of the class Nematomorpha, or Gordiacea (phylum Aschelminthes). The young of these long, thin worms are parasitic in arthropods. The adults are free-living in the sea or in freshwater. The hairlike body sometimes grows to a length of 1 m (about 39 inches)....
Nematomorpha (aschelminths class)
any of the approximately 250 to 300 species of the class Nematomorpha, or Gordiacea (phylum Aschelminthes). The young of these long, thin worms are parasitic in arthropods. The adults are free-living in the sea or in freshwater. The hairlike body sometimes grows to a length of 1 m (about 39 inches)....
Nembutal (pharmacology)
...throughout the first half of the 20th century. Among the most commonly prescribed kinds were phenobarbital, secobarbital (marketed under Seconal and other trade names), amobarbital (Amytal), and pentobarbital (Nembutal). When taken in high enough doses, these drugs are capable of producing a deep unconsciousness that makes them useful as general anesthetics. In still higher doses, however,......
nembutsu (Buddhist belief)
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, the so-called “latter days of the law” in which Buddhist doctrines were unclea...
Němcová, Božena (Czech author)
...of poetic vision and perfection of language. In the 1840s there was a reaction against the Romantic vision. The political journalist Karel Havlíček Borovský and the novelist Božena Němcová were both concerned with practical issues and did much to emancipate Czech prose from the older classical manner, bringing it nearer to everyday speech.......
Nemea, Battle of (394 BC)
(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 (ancient Greek 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 fourth years of e...
Nemean lion (Greek mythology)
...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; (2) the slaying of the nine-headed Hydra of Lerna; (3) the capture of the elusive hind (or stag) of Arcadia; (4) the capture of the wild boar of Mt.......
Nemerov, Diane (American photographer)
American photographer, best known for her compelling, often disturbing, portraits of people from the edges of society....
Nemerov, Howard (American writer)
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 ...
Nemertea (invertebrate)
any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea (sometimes called Nemertinea, or Rhynchocoela), which includes mainly free-living forms but also a few parasites of crustaceans, mollusks, and sea squirts. The majority of the approximately 900 known nemertean species are found in marine habitats. Some, however, live in freshwat...
nemertean (invertebrate)
any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea (sometimes called Nemertinea, or Rhynchocoela), which includes mainly free-living forms but also a few parasites of crustaceans, mollusks, and sea squirts. The majority of the approximately 900 known nemertean species are found in marine habitats. Some, however, live in freshwat...
nemertine (invertebrate)
any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea (sometimes called Nemertinea, or Rhynchocoela), which includes mainly free-living forms but also a few parasites of crustaceans, mollusks, and sea squirts. The majority of the approximately 900 known nemertean species are found in marine habitats. Some, however, live in freshwat...
Nemertinea (invertebrate)
any member of the invertebrate phylum Nemertea (sometimes called Nemertinea, or Rhynchocoela), which includes mainly free-living forms but also a few parasites of crustaceans, mollusks, and sea squirts. The majority of the approximately 900 known nemertean species are found in marine habitats. Some, however, live in freshwat...
Nemery, Gaafar Mohamed el- (president of The Sudan)
major general, commander of the armed forces, and president of The Sudan (1971–85)....
Nemesianus, Marcus Aurelius Olympius (Roman poet)
Roman poet born in Carthage who wrote pastoral and didactic poetry....
Nemésio, Vitorino (Portuguese author)
...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 Nemésio received acclaim for his novel Mau tempo no canal (1944; “Bad Weather in the Channel”; Eng. trans. Stormy Isles: An Azorean Tale)....
Nemesis (novel by Roth)
Philip Roth mined the history of his New Jersey hometown in Nemesis, the story of the 1940s polio epidemic and its immediate effect during that time on (mostly) Jewish life. First-time novelist Karl Marlantes portrayed the Vietnam War with power, if some awkwardness, in Matterhorn. In Driving on the Rim, which focused on the moral struggles faced by a small-town Montana......
Nemesis (Greek religion)
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 very similar to Artemis (a goddess of wild animals, vegetation,...
Nemesis Campestris (Roman religion)
...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)....
Nemesis of Faith, The (work by Froude)
...influenced also by John Henry Newman, the future cardinal, who was one of his fellow students at Oriel College. After graduating in 1842, he broke with the movement and, with the appearance of The Nemesis of Faith in 1849, the third of his novels, which was in effect an attack on the established church, he was obliged to resign his fellowship at Exeter College. He thereafter made his......
Nemesius of Emesa (Christian bishop and philosopher)
Christian philosopher, apologist, and bishop of Emesa (now Ḥimṣ, Syria) who was the author of Peri physeōs anthrōpou (Greek: “On the Nature of Man”), the first known compendium of theological anthropology with a Christian orientation. The treatise considerably influenced later Byzantine and medieval Latin philosophical theology....
Nemetes (Germany)
city, Rhineland-Palatinate Land (state), southwestern Germany. Speyer is a port on the left bank of the Rhine River at the mouth of the Speyer River, south of Ludwigshafen....
Nemeth Code of Braille Mathematics and Scientific Notation (Braille code)
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 special symbols used in advanced mathematical and technical material. There are also special Braille codes or modifications for......
Németh, Miklós (Hungarian statesman)
...to replace Kádár with Grósz and also to replace several of Kádár’s supporters within the Politburo and the Central Committee. In November 1988 a young economist, Miklós Németh, became the prime minister, and in June 1989 a quadrumvirate composed of Imre Pozsgay, Grósz, Németh, and Nyers—chaired by the latter—tem...
Nemetodor (France)
town, Hauts-de-Seine département, Île-de-France région. Located on the east bank of a loop of the meandering Seine River and separated from Paris by the suburbs of Puteaux and Neuilly-sur-Seine, Nanterre was formerly a heavily industrialized, inner-city suburb with automo...
Nemetodorum (France)
town, Hauts-de-Seine département, Île-de-France région. Located on the east bank of a loop of the meandering Seine River and separated from Paris by the suburbs of Puteaux and Neuilly-sur-Seine, Nanterre was formerly a heavily industrialized, inner-city suburb with automo...
Nemi, Lago di (lake, Italy)
crater lake in Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. It lies in the outer ring of the ancient Alban crater, in the Alban Hills, east of Lake Albano and 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Rome. About 3.5 miles (5.5 km) in circumference and 110 feet (34...
Nemi, Lake (lake, Italy)
crater lake in Lazio (Latium) regione, central Italy. It lies in the outer ring of the ancient Alban crater, in the Alban Hills, east of Lake Albano and 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Rome. About 3.5 miles (5.5 km) in circumference and 110 feet (34...
Nemichthyidae
...bones paired or fused, supraoccipital present or absent, paired nostrils close in front of eye.Family Nemichthyidae (snipe eels)Jaws greatly extended, minute teeth. 3 genera with about 9 species. Bathypelagic (deepwater), worldwide.Family......
Neminātha (Jaina saint)
the 22nd of the 24 Tirthankaras (“Ford-maker,” i.e., saviour) of Jainism, a traditional religion of India....
neminem captivabimus (Polish law)
...Władysław II, who had no children with Jadwiga, granted new privileges to the szlachta (all those of noble rank). Called neminem captivabimus (comparable to habeas corpus), the measure guarded against arbitrary arrest or confiscation of property and distinguished between the executive and the judiciary. Th...
Nemipteridae (fish family)
...longer than soft fin and joined to it; anal fin short-based; caudal fin usually truncate. About 105 species; marine and brackish water in all warm seas.Families Nemipteridae and Lethrinidae (breams)Resemble Lutjanidae; some with wider preorbital area under which upper jaw slips; others (Nemipterid...
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir Ivanovich (Russian author and theatrical director)
Russian playwright, novelist, producer, and cofounder of the famous Moscow Art Theatre....
Nemo, Captain (fictional character)
fictional character, the megalomaniacal captain of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne’s novel Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers (1869–70; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea), and also a character in the subsequent L’Île mystérieuse (1874; The Mysterious Island)....
Nemobiinae (insect)
Ground crickets (subfamily Nemobiinae, or sometimes Gryllinae), approximately 12 mm long, are commonly found in pastures and wooded areas. Their song is a series of soft, high-pitched trills. The striped ground cricket (Nemobius vittatus) has three dark stripes on its abdomen....
Nemobius vittatus (insect)
Ground crickets (subfamily Nemobiinae, or sometimes Gryllinae), approximately 12 mm long, are commonly found in pastures and wooded areas. Their song is a series of soft, high-pitched trills. The striped ground cricket (Nemobius vittatus) has three dark stripes on its abdomen....
nemontemi (Mesoamerican almanac)
...believe that the combinations of ruling deities were used for divination. The civil year was divided into 18 months of 20 days each, plus an additional 5 days called nemontemi and considered to be very unlucky. Again as in the Mayan calendar, the Aztec ritual and civil cycles returned to the same positions relative to each other every 52 years, an......