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nod swimming (animal behaviour)
...drake also has an elaborate display to announce a successful mating. Immediately after copulation, he flings his head up and back and whistles. Then he swims around the female in a gesture called nod-swimming while she bathes. After mating, drakes lose their flight feathers, becoming flightless for several weeks....
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Noda (Japan)
city, northwestern Chiba ken (prefecture), east-central Honshu, Japan, between the Edo and the Tone rivers. The city served as an important river port during the Edo (Tokugawa) era (1603–1867), when it first became known for its production of soy sauce. The central area of Noda now contains numer...
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Nodaʿ be-Yehuda (work by Landau)
...Jonathan Eybeschütz of dispensing heretical amulets). In 1755 he went to Prague as rabbi and remained there until his death. His Halakhic decisions (responsa), collected under the title Nodaʿ be-Yehuda (“Known in Judah”), reveal Landau’s fine analytical mind and careful scrutiny of sources....
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nodal plane (orbitals)
...in the internuclear region where the amplitude of one orbital is subtracted from the other. This destructive interference is complete on a plane midway between the nuclei, and hence there is a nodal plane—i.e., a plane of zero amplitude—between the nuclei. Any electron that occupies this orbital is excluded from the internuclear region, and its energy is higher than it......
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nodal point (physics)
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nodal region (anthropology)
Regions may be nodal, defined by the organization of activity about some central place (e.g., a town and its hinterland, or tributary area), or uniform, defined by the homogeneous distribution of some phenomena within it (e.g., a tropical rain forest)....
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nodding ladies’ tresses (plant)
Species of Spiranthes vary greatly in size and flower colour, but all have a spiral cluster of small whitish flowers borne at the top of a spike. Some species bloom in autumn, such as nodding ladies’ tresses, or autumn tresses (S. cernua), in North America and autumn.....
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noddy (bird)
There are five species of noddy terns, or noddies, belonging to the genus Anous. Noddies, named for their nodding displays, are tropical birds with wedge-shaped or only slightly forked tails. A distinct type of tern, the Inca tern (Larosterna inca), of Peru and northern Chile, bears distinctive white plumes on the side of the......
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Noddy (card game)
Though commonly credited to the invention of the 17th-century English poet Sir John Suckling, cribbage clearly developed from an earlier game called noddy, which also used a special scoring board, as did the related but more-complicated game of costly colours, described by Charles Cotton in The Compleat Gamester......
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node (plant)
...the terminal bud of the plant, and by the continued development of this bud and its adjacent tissues, the stem increases in height. Lateral buds and leaves grow out of the stem at intervals called nodes; the intervals on the stem between the nodes are called internodes. The number of leaves that appear at a node depends on the species of plant; one leaf per node is common, but two or or more......
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node (communications)
...and effect connections during dialing. The telephone system now is just a multilevel computer network with software switches in the network nodes to route calls to their destinations. The main advantage is that calls get through much more quickly and reliably than they did in the past. If one node through which a cross-country call would......
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node (physics)
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node (astronomy)
in astronomy, the intersection of the orbit plane of some celestial body, such as the Moon, a planet, or comet, with the plane of the ecliptic (the apparent path of the Sun among the stars) as projected on the celestial sphere. The ascending nod...
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node of Ranvier (axon part)
...and phospholipids. Concentric layers of these lipids separated by thin layers of protein give rise to a high-resistance, low-capacitance electrical insulator interrupted at intervals by gaps called nodes of Ranvier, where the nerve membrane is exposed to the external environment. (See the diagram.) In the central nervous system, the myelin sheath is formed from glial cells called......
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nodical month (astronomy)
...5 seconds), only 7 seconds shorter than the sidereal month, is the time between passages of the Moon through the same celestial longitude. The draconic, or nodical, month of 27.212220 days (i.e., 27 days 5 hours 5 minutes 35.8 seconds) is the time between the Moon’s passages through the same node, or intersection of its orbit ...
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Nodier, Charles (French writer)
writer more important for the influence he had on the French Romantic movement than for his own writings....
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Nodosaurus (dinosaur genus)
armoured dinosaurs found as fossils in North America dating from 95 million to 90 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous Period. A heavy animal about 5.5 metres (18 feet) long, Nodosaurus had a long tail but a very small head and a minuscule brain. For protection against ...
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nodular chert (geology)
Two major varieties of chert deposits exist—namely, bedded chert and nodular chert. Bedded cherts occur in individual bands or layers ranging in thickness from one to several centimetres or even tens of metres. They are intimately associated with volcanic rocks, commonly submarine volcanic flows as well as deep-water mudrocks. Classic examples include the Miocene Monterey Formation of the.....
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nodular phosphorite (geology)
...calcium phosphate), but rocks composed predominantly of phosphate are rare. Nevertheless, three principal types exist: (1) regionally extensive, crystalline nodular, and bedded phosphorites, (2) localized concentrations of phosphate-rich clastic deposits (bone beds), and (3) guano deposits....
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nodule (geology)
rounded mineral concretion that is distinct from, and may be separated from, the formation in which it occurs. Nodules commonly are elongate with a knobby irregular surface; they usually are oriented parallel to the bedding....
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Noe (biblical figure)
the hero of the biblical Flood story in the Old Testament book of Genesis, the originator of vineyard cultivation, and, as the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the representative head of a Semitic genealogical line. A synthesis of at least three biblical source tradition...
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NOEL (nutrition)
...chemistry, organs, reproduction, offspring, and tumour development in the test animals over a 90-day to two-year period. The lowest level of additive producing no toxicological effects is termed the no-effect level (NOEL). The NOEL is generally divided by 100 to determine a maximum acceptable daily intake (ADI)....
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noel (music)
broadly, a song, characteristically of religious joy, associated with a given season, especially Christmas; more strictly, a late medieval English song on any subject, in which uniform stanzas, or verses (V), alternate with a refrain, or burden (B), in the pattern B, V1, B, V2 . . . B. The medieval words carol and carole (French and Anglo-Nor...
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Noël, Alexandre (French theologian and historian)
controversial theologian and ecclesiastical historian who clashed with Rome for expressing Gallicanism, a French position advocating restriction of papal power, and for defending Jansenism, a religious movement of nonorthodox tendencies in France....
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Noël, Francine (Canadian author)
...the tragic fate of the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland. Quebec and French Canadian writers have come to examine the implications of cultural diversity; a notable example is Montreal novelist Francine Noël’s Babel, prise deux; ou, nous avons tous découvert l’Amérique (1990; “Babel, Take Two; or, We All Discovered America”). Contempora...
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Noel, J. B. L. (British officer)
...to mount an Everest expedition beginning in the early 1900s, but political tensions and bureaucratic difficulties made it impossible. Though Tibet was closed to Westerners, British officer John (J.B.L.) Noel disguised himself and entered it in 1913; he eventually got within 40 miles (65 km) of Everest and was able to see the summit. His lecture to the RGS in 1919 once again generated......
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Noel, John (British officer)
...to mount an Everest expedition beginning in the early 1900s, but political tensions and bureaucratic difficulties made it impossible. Though Tibet was closed to Westerners, British officer John (J.B.L.) Noel disguised himself and entered it in 1913; he eventually got within 40 miles (65 km) of Everest and was able to see the summit. His lecture to the RGS in 1919 once again generated......
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Noel-Baker of the City of Derby, Philip John Noel-Baker, Baron (British statesman)
British statesman and advocate of international disarmament who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1959. Fluent in seven languages, he campaigned widely for 40 years for peace through multilateral disarmament....
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Noether, Amalie Emmy (German mathematician)
German mathematician whose innovations in higher algebra gained her recognition as the most creative abstract algebraist of modern times....
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Noether, Emmy (German mathematician)
German mathematician whose innovations in higher algebra gained her recognition as the most creative abstract algebraist of modern times....
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“Noeud de vipères, Le” (work by Mauriac)
...Desqueyroux (1927; Thérèse), whose heroine is driven to attempt the murder of her husband to escape her suffocating life. Le Noeud de vipères (1932; Vipers’ Tangle) is often considered Mauriac’s masterpiece. It is a marital drama, depicting an old lawyer’s rancour toward his family, his passion for money, and his final conver...
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Nofziger, Franklyn Curran (American journalist and political adviser)
American journalist and political adviser (b. June 8, 1924, Bakersfield, Calif.—d. March 27, 2006, Falls Church, Va.), was a gritty hard-core Republican partisan under a colourful and irreverent exterior. A former journalist and Washington, D.C., correspondent for the California-based Copley Press newspapers, Nofziger joined Ronald Reagan’s successful campaign for governor of Califor...
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Nofziger, Lyn (American journalist and political adviser)
American journalist and political adviser (b. June 8, 1924, Bakersfield, Calif.—d. March 27, 2006, Falls Church, Va.), was a gritty hard-core Republican partisan under a colourful and irreverent exterior. A former journalist and Washington, D.C., correspondent for the California-based Copley Press newspapers, Nofziger joined Ronald Reagan’s successful campaign for governor of Califor...
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“Nog pas gisteren” (novel by Dermoût)
Her work was not published until she was in her 60s. Her first two novels, Nog pas gisteren (1951; Yesterday) and De tienduizend dingen (1955; The Ten Thousand Things), are fictionalized accounts of her youth. Although written in an economic style, the two novels are rich in details of island life as experienced by both the colonials and the native people. Among......
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Nogai (people)
...Muslim. Their language was for some three centuries the lingua franca of the region, but in the 20th century it was supplanted by Russian. The Nogay are thought to have become a distinct group formed after the disintegration of the Golden Horde. Most were nomads until the early 20th......
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Nogal Valley (river valley, Somalia)
river valley, northeastern Somalia. It is a shallow valley, long and broad, with an extensive network of seasonal watercourses. The valley’s principal watercourses, the Nugaaleed and the more westerly Dheere, fill briefly during and after rainstorms (April to June) and drain into the Indian Ocean. The Nugaaleed Valley is bounded by grad...
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Nogales (Arizona, United States)
city, seat (1899) of Santa Cruz county, southern Arizona, U.S. A port of entry on the Mexican border, it adjoins Heroica Nogales in Sonora, Mexico. Divided by International Avenue, the two communities are together known as Ambos Nogales (Spanish: “Both Nogales”). The city was founded in 1880 by a San Francisco merchant, Jacob Isaacson and called ...
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Nogales (Mexico)
city and port of entry, north-central Sonora estado (state), northern Mexico, contiguous with the city of Nogales, in Santa Cruz county, Ariz. It is an important transportation hub and warehouse centre, especially for agricultural products from the irrigated farmlands of Sonora and Sinaloa destined for U.S. markets, and a commercial centre serving regional livestock and mining operations. N...
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Nogaret de La Valette, Jean-Louis de, Duke d’Épernon (French duke)
one of the most powerful new magnates in French politics at the turn of the 17th century....
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Nogaret, Guillaume de (French minister)
magistrate under King Philip IV the Fair of France, who became one of the most vigorous of the légistes, or expositors, of the royal power, especially in ecclesiastical affairs; in the conflict between Philip and Pope Boniface VIII, he played a direct role in carrying out the king’s retribution against the pope....
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Nogat River (river, Poland)
In the past the Vistula crossed its delta and entered the sea by two or more branch channels, notably the Nogat, which issued into the Vistula Lagoon, and the Leniwka (now called the Martwa̦ Vistula), which followed the true Vistula channel to the Gulf of Gdańsk. Improvements, the ultimate aim of which was to control the......
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Nōgata (Japan)
city, Fukuoka ken (prefecture), Kyushu, Japan, at the confluence of the Onga River and the Hikosan River. Formed as a castle town in 1626, it declined about 100 years later, barely maintaining its importance as a trade and distribution centre of agricultural produ...
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Nogay (people)
...Muslim. Their language was for some three centuries the lingua franca of the region, but in the 20th century it was supplanted by Russian. The Nogay are thought to have become a distinct group formed after the disintegration of the Golden Horde. Most were nomads until the early 20th......
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Nogay Steppe (region, Russia)
...consisting of the broad valleys of the Terek and Sunzha rivers, which cross the republic from the west to the east, where they unite. Third, in the north, are the level, rolling plains of the Nogay Steppe....
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Nogent-le-Rotrou (France)
...consisting of the broad valleys of the Terek and Sunzha rivers, which cross the republic from the west to the east, where they unite. Third, in the north, are the level, rolling plains of the Nogay Steppe.......
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Noginsk (Russia)
city, Moscow oblast (region), western Russia, on the Klyazma River east of Moscow. Originally Yamskaya village, it became the town of Bogorodsk in 1781 and was renamed Noginsk in 1930. It is one of the largest Russian textile centres; cotton forms most of its production. Pop. (2006 est.) 116,277....
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Nógrád (county, Hungary)
megye (county), northern Hungary. It is bounded by Slovakia to the north and by the counties of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén to the northeast, Heves to the east and southeast, and Pest to the southwest and west. Salgótarján is the county seat....
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Nōgrūz (Zoroastrianism and Parsiism)
the New Year festival often associated with Zoroastrianism and Parsiism. The festival is celebrated in many countries, including Iran, Iraq, India, and Afghanistan. It usually begins on March 21, which in many of these countries is the first day of the new year....
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Noguchi, Hideyo (Japanese bacteriologist)
Japanese bacteriologist who first discovered Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis, in the brains of persons suffering from paresis. He also proved that both Oroya fever and verruga peruana could be produced by ...
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Noguchi, Isamu (American sculptor)
American sculptor and designer, one of the strongest advocates of the expressive power of organic abstract shapes in 20th-century American sculpture....
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Noguchi Seisaku (Japanese bacteriologist)
Japanese bacteriologist who first discovered Treponema pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis, in the brains of persons suffering from paresis. He also proved that both Oroya fever and verruga peruana could be produced by ...
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Nogueira (Brazil)
city and river port, central Amazonas estado (state), northwestern Brazil. Founded by missionaries as Nogueira in the 17th century and also called Ega at one time, Tefé lies on the left (north) bank of the portion of the Amazon River known as the Solimões...
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Noguera, Pedro de (Spanish sculptor)
The sculpture is marginally less provincial than the paintings, and, for example, the choir stalls carved by Pedro de Noguera and his assistants for Lima cathedral (1624–26) are of distinguished quality. The Baroque tradition tended to last until well into the 19th century in sculptures such as the robust figures of António......
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Nogun-ri (South Korea)
...increased the threat of guerrilla infiltration. These conditions produced unfortunate attacks on Korean civilians, such as the firing on hundreds of refugees at a railroad viaduct near the hamlet of Nogun-ri, west of the Naktong River, during the last week in July....
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noh mask (disguise)
The borrowings of nō from other arts are many. The exquisite masks for which nō theatre is famous have a quality of serenity, a neutrality of expression that places them in a rank perhaps unmatched in the world. Yet, historically there is no doubt that they are derived from earlier bugaku and gigaku masks and hence are related, if distantly, to the masks of Korea,......
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Noh theatre (Japanese drama)
traditional Japanese theatrical form and one of the oldest extant theatrical forms in the world....
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“noia, La” (work by Moravia)
...The Conformist), all on themes of isolation and alienation. La ciociara (1957; Two Women) tells of an adaptation to post-World War II Italian life. La noia (1960; The Empty Canvas) is the story of a painter unable to find meaning either in love or work. Many of Moravia’s books were made into motion pictures....
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noiade (Scandinavian shaman)
in Sami religion, a shaman who mediated between the people that he served and the supernatural beings and forces that he either confronted or made use of for the benefit of his clients....
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Noin Ula (tomb, Mongolia)
...the same latitude as the Pazyryk mounds and were subjected to similar conditions of freezing, which helped preserve their contents. The richest of the excavated burial sites, however, are those of Noin Ula, to the north of Ulaanbaatar, on the Selenge River. Like those at Pazyryk, they included horse burials. The furnishings of one tomb were especially lavish. The prince for whom it was made......
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Noir, Victor (French journalist)
journalist whose death at the hands of Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, a first cousin of Emperor Napoleon III, led to an increase in the already mounting revival of republican and radical agitation that plagued the Second Empire in its final months....
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“Noire de…, La” (film by Sembène)
...films, all reflecting a strong social commitment. His 1966 feature film, La Noire de…(Black Girl), was considered the first major film produced by an African filmmaker. It depicts the virtual enslavement of an illiterate girl from Dakar employed as a servant by a French family.......
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Noires Mountains (mountains, France)
...and is generally low-lying, with a mean elevation of 341 feet (104 metres). The Aulne Basin separates the heights of the Arrée Mountains (1,260 feet [384 metres]) in the north and the Noires Mountains (1,001 feet [305 metres]) in the south. Both run east-west. Belle-Île-en-Mer, Ouessant, and several other small islands are part of the ......
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Noiret, Philippe (French actor)
French character actor (b. Oct. 1, 1930, Lille, France—d. Nov. 23, 2006, Paris, France), was a successful stage and screen actor in France for more than five decades; equally adept at drama and comedy, he appeared in some 150 films and was a two-time winner of the César Award for best actor—for Le Vieux Fusil (1975) and La Vie et rien d’autre (1989). Outsi...
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noise (acoustics)
in acoustics, any undesired sound, either one that is intrinsically objectionable or one that interferes with other sounds that are being listened to. In electronics and information theory, noise refers to those random, unpredictable, and undesirable signals, or changes in signals, that mask the desired information content. ...
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noise (telecommunications)
...that is intrinsically objectionable or one that interferes with other sounds that are being listened to. In electronics and information theory, noise refers to those random, unpredictable, and undesirable signals, or changes in signals, that mask the desired information content. Noise in radio transmission appears as static and in televisio...
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noise (radiation)
The sensitivity of a radar receiver is determined by the unavoidable noise that appears at its input. At microwave radar frequencies, the noise that limits detectability is usually generated by the receiver itself (i.e., by the random motion of electrons at the input of the receiver) rather than by external noise that enters the receiver via the antenna. A radar engineer often employs a......
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noise barrier
...relatively loud sounds can be introduced into an area from a rather distant highway, airport, or railroad. One interesting technique for control of highway noise is the erection of noise barriers alongside the highway, separating the highway from adjacent residential areas. The effectiveness of such barriers is limited by the diffraction of sound, which is greater at the lower......
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Noise Control Act of 1972 (United States legislation)
...U.S. naval exercises, Calderón vowed immediately after her inauguration to accelerate efforts to end the bombing of the island. In April 2001 she sued the U.S. government on the basis of the Noise Control Act of 1972, but the suit was dismissed the following year. In a nonbinding referendum held in July 2001—despite the announcement by U.S. President George W. Bush that the bombin...
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noise criteria curve (acoustics)
...in three sets of specifications that have been derived by collecting subjective judgments from a large sampling of people in a variety of specific situations. These have developed into the noise criteria (NC) and preferred noise criteria (PNC) curves, which provide limits on the level of noise introduced into the environment. The NC curves, developed in 1957, aim to provide a......
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noise jamming (radar)
The purpose of hostile electronic countermeasures (ECM) is to degrade the effectiveness of military radar deliberately. ECM can consist of (1) noise jamming that enters the receiver via the antenna and increases the noise level at the input of the receiver, (2) false target generation, or repeater jamming, by which hostile jammers introduce......
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noise pollution
Many forms of noise in the urban environment, including traffic and airplane noise, industrial noise, and noise from electronically amplified music performed at high audio levels in confined rooms, may contribute to hearing damage. Even when the noise level in a working environment may not be dangerous, it can be distracting for those who work in that environment and therefore lead to reduced......
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noise storm (physics)
The decametre noise storms are greatly affected by the position of Jupiter’s moon Io in its orbit. For one source, events are much more likely to occur when Io is 90° from the position in which Earth, Jupiter, and Io are in a straight line (known as superior geocentric conjunction) than otherwise. The noise sources appear to be regions that lie in the line of sight toward the visible...
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Noises Off (work by Frayn)
...to that of Anton Chekhov for its focus on humorous family situations and its insights into society. Frayn is perhaps best known for his long-running, internationally successful stage farce Noises Off (1982; filmed 1992), a frenetic play-within-a-play about the antics of an English theatrical company touring the provinces and its inept attempts at performing a typically English sex......
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noisy scrub-bird
...brown thrasher of the United States. The 22-centimetre (9-inch) western, or noisy, scrub-bird (Atrichornis clamosus), discovered in dry brushlands of Western Australia in the 1840s, was believed extinct after 1889 but was rediscovered......
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Noite de São João (holiday)
In addition to Carnival, there are various official and church holidays during the year, including Independence Day, on September 7, and St. John’s Night (Noite de São João) in June. The latter is celebrated with bonfires, fireworks, and the launching of small paper hot-air balloons. Along the coast on New Year’s Day...
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Noite de vento (work by Gonçalves)
...de Nhá Candinha Sena (1957; “The Burial of Mrs. Candinha Sena”) delves into the narrator’s childhood relationship with a childless woman of great kindness and character. Noite de vento (1970; “Night of Wind”) and Virgens loucas (1971; “Crazy Virgins”) also have female protagonists. In the former, he created an extreme...
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Nok (people)
...de Nhá Candinha Sena (1957; “The Burial of Mrs. Candinha Sena”) delves into the narrator’s childhood relationship with a childless woman of great kindness and character. Noite de vento (1970; “Night of Wind”) and Virgens loucas (1971; “Crazy Virgins”) also have female protagonists. In the former, he created an extreme...
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Nok culture (Iron Age culture)
ancient Iron Age culture that existed on the Benue Plateau of Nigeria between about 500 bc and ad 200....
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Nok figurine culture (Iron Age culture)
ancient Iron Age culture that existed on the Benue Plateau of Nigeria between about 500 bc and ad 200....
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nōkan (flute)
...the tsuzumi drums play a style called chirikara after the mnemonics with which the part is learned. The patterns of this style follow closely the rhythm of the samisen part. If the nō flute is used as well, it is restricted to cadence signals; if a simple bamboo flute (takebue or shinobue) is substituted, it plays an ornamented (ashirai) version of......
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Nokhai (Mongolian ruler)
...by the tribal princes of the west, whose control of the Danube, Bug, and Dnieper routes and of the access to the Crimea gave them considerable political and economic power. As early as 1260, Nokhai, one of these western chieftains, showed his independence of Sarai by establishing his own foreign policy, and toward the end of the 13th......
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nökhör (Mongolian term)
...from a largely sedentary population. They were assisted by Khitan and Chinese and even Juchen renegades; these defectors were treated as “companions” (nökör) of the Mongols and were given positions similar to the higher ranks of the steppe aristocracy. Their privileges included the administration and exploitation of fiefs......
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Nokkeushi (Japan)
city, northeastern Hokkaido, Japan, facing the Sea of Okhotsk at the confluence of the Tokoro-gawa (Tokoro River) and the Muka-gawa. It occupies 163 sq mi (421 sq km) on the railway between Asahigawa and Abashiri. Originally an Ainu settlement known as Nokkeushi (Edge of...
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nökör (Mongolian term)
...from a largely sedentary population. They were assisted by Khitan and Chinese and even Juchen renegades; these defectors were treated as “companions” (nökör) of the Mongols and were given positions similar to the higher ranks of the steppe aristocracy. Their privileges included the administration and exploitation of fiefs......
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Nokrashy, Mahmoud Fahmy (prime minister of Egypt)
Egyptian politician who was prime minister of Egypt (1945–46, 1946–48)....
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nokrom (kinship)
...is in such cases the husband’s father’s sister, actual or classificatory. Such a wife takes precedence over her daughter, to whom the husband is already married. A man’s sister’s son, called his nokrom, stands therefore in intimate relationship to him, as the husband of one of his daughters and ultimately of his widow and the vehicle through which his family...
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Nola (Italy)
town and episcopal see, Campania regione, southern Italy. It lies in the fertile and highly cultivated Campanian plain, just east-northeast of Naples. It originated as a city of the Aurunci, Oscans, Etruscans, and Samnites (ancient Italic peoples) and was known as Novla (“New Town”) before it passed to the Romans in 313 bc. The emperor Augustus...
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Nola, Gian Domenico da (Italian composer)
...the second half of the 16th century, and it maintained its popularity until about 1700. The earliest master of the genre was Giovan Tommaso di Maio (died c. 1550); its most important composer was Gian Domenico da Nola (died 1592). Although the villanella was a reaction against the madrigal, some of the best examples were written by such composers of madrigals as Adriaan Willaert, Orlando di......
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Nolan, Jeannette (American actress)
American actress whose 70-year career encompassed numerous radio performances on such shows as "The March of Time" and "Mercury Theatre on the Air," roles in more than 20 films, including that of Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles’s 1948 Macbeth, and more than 300 television appearances; she was especially noted for her roles in motion-picture and television westerns (b. Dec. 30, 1911, Los...
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Nolan, Sir Sidney (Australian artist)
artist known for his paintings based on Australian folklore....
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Nolan, Sir Sidney Robert (Australian artist)
artist known for his paintings based on Australian folklore....
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Noland, Kenneth (American artist)
American painter of the Abstract Expressionist school. He was one of the first to use the technique of staining the canvas with thinned paints and of deploying his colours in concentric rings and parallels, shaped and proportioned in relation to the shape of the canvas....
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Nolano, Il (Italian philosopher)
Italian philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, and occultist whose theories anticipated modern science. The most notable of these were his theories of the infinite universe and the multiplicity of worlds, in which he rejected the traditional geocentric (or Earth-centred) astronomy and intuitively went beyond the Copernican heliocentric (Sun-centred) theory, which still maintained a finite univers...
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Nolascan order (religious order)
religious order founded by St. Peter Nolasco in Spain in 1218, for the purpose of ransoming Christian captives from the Moors. It was originally a military order....
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Nolasco, Saint Peter (French saint)
founder of the order of Our Lady of Ransom (Mercedarians, or Nolascans), a religious institute originally designed to ransom Christian captives from the Moors; today, the Mercedarians, whose numbers have declined, are engaged mostly in hospital work....
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Nolde, Emil (German artist)
German expressionist painter, printmaker, and watercolourist known for his violent religious works and his foreboding landscapes....
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Nöldeke, Theodor (German linguist)
German Orientalist noted for his Semitic and Islāmic studies, which included a history of the Qurʾān (1859)....
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Nolens, Leonard (Belgian poet)
In the last decades of the 20th century, the most singular poetic voice in Flanders was that of Leonard Nolens, whose work evolved from experimental to classical, as his earlier obsessive self-definition gave way to more serene reflections on relations with loved ones and others. His introverted diaries offer a sustained reflection on poetic creation. Nolens’s high seriousness contrasts wit...
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Noli, Fan S. (prime minister of Albania)
...criticism. As the publisher of the review Albania (1897–1909), he exerted great influence on aspiring writers and the development of Albanian culture. Noli is esteemed as a poet, critic, and historian and is known in particular for his translations of William Shakespeare, ......
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“Noli me tangere” (work by Rizal)
In 1886 Rizal published his first novel, Noli me tangere (The Social Cancer), a passionate exposure of the evils of Spanish rule in the Philippines. A sequel, El filibusterismo (1891; The Reign of Greed), established his reputation as the leading spokesman of the Philippine reform movement. He published an......
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