North Carolina
North Carolina, Popularly Known As The "tar Heel State," Is One Of The Atlantic Coast States Of The United States Of America, Situated Between 33° 51' 37" And 36° 34' 25.5" N., And Between 27' And 84° 20' W. It Is Bounded North By Virginia, East And South-east By The ...
North Dakota
North Dakota, The "flickertail State," Is One Of The North-central Group Of The United States, And Lies Between 55' And 49° N. And 96° 25' And 104° 3' West. It Is Bounded North By The Provinces Of Saskatchewan And Manitoba In Canada, East By Minnesota, From Which It Is Separated ...
North Dwina Province
North Dwina Province, A Unit Of The North East Ern Region Of European Russia, Bordered On The West And North By Archangel, On The East And North By The Autonomous Komi (zirian) Area, On The South-east By Vyatka, On The South By Nizhniy-novgorod, On The South-west By Kostroma And On ...
North Holland
North Holland, A Netherlands Province, Lying Between The North Sea And The Zuider Zee, And Bounded Southward By The Provinces Of South Holland And Utrecht. Three Of The Great New Polders (see Netherlands : Impoldering) Will Extend Into The Zuider Zee From Its Eastern Shore. The Present Area, Including The ...
North Pacific Coast Indians
North Pacific Coast Indians. The Indians Of The Coast Of Southern Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Ore Gon And Northern California Form A Unit Which Has Been Recog Nized As Distinct From Other Natives Of North America. The Principal Tribes And Stocks Comprised Are The Tlingit, Haida, Tsim Shian, Kwakiutl, Nutka, ...
North Sea
North Sea, A Sea Bounded East By The Continent Of Europe And West By Great Britain. Its Area Was Given By Murray (1888) As 162,600 Sq.m., And By Kossinna (1921) As 575,00o Sq.km., Or 222,000 Sq. Statute Miles. Murray Estimated The Volume Of The North Sea At 11,200 Cu.m., And ...
North West Frontier Province
North-west Frontier Province, The Most Northerly Province Of British India, Created On Oct. 25, 1901. Roughly It May Be Defined As The Tract Of Country North Of Baluch Istan, Lying Between The Indus And Afghanistan. More Exactly It Consists Of (i) The Cis-indus District Of Hazara; (2) The Com Paratively ...
Northallerton
Northallerton, An Urban District, Market Town And Administrative Capital Of The North Riding Of Yorkshire, England, 3o M. N.n.w. Of York By The L.n.e. Railway, On Which It Is An Important Junction. Pop. 4,787. It Is Situated On A Slight .eminence At The Foot Of The Cleveland And Hambleton Hills, ...
Northampton
Northampton, County Town Of Northamptonshire, Eng Land, 66 M. N.w. By N. From London By L.m.s.r. Pop. (1931) 92,314. British And Roman Remains Have Been Discovered Near Nor Thampton And It Became The Chief Settlement Of The Angle Tribes Early In The 6th Century. It Was Occupied By The Danes ...
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire, An East Midland County Of Eng Land, Bounded North By Lincolnshire, North-west By Rutland And Leicestershire, West By Warwickshire, South-west And South By Oxfordshire, South-east By Buckinghamshire, And East By Bedford Shire, Huntingdonshire And Cambridgeshire. The Area Is 1,003.1 Sq.miles. Uplands And In The East Of The County, And ...
Northern Australia
Northern Australia, A Term Indefinite But Applied Generally To That Portion Of The Continent Which Lies North Of The Tropic Of Capricorn (c. 1,150,000 Sq. Miles= 0.386 Or About Of The Whole Territory), Comprises The Northern Portions Of Western Australia (364,00o Sq. Miles= 0.373 Of The State), Of The (former) ...
Northumberland
Northumberland, The Northernmost County Of Eng Land. The Area, Included In The North Of England Basin, Is 2,018 Square Miles. The Higher Land, Including The North Pennines And The Cheviots, Lies In The West And North. The Cheviot Hills, Rising To 2,676 Ft., Are Formed By The Intrusion Of An ...
Northumbria
Northumbria, One Of The Most Important Of The Anglo Saxon Kingdoms, Extended From The Humber To The Forth (regnum Northanhymbrorum). Originally It Comprised Two Independent Kingdoms, Bernicia And Deira (q.v.), Each Of Which Had A Dynasty Of Its Own. The First Known King Of The Former Was Ida, Who, According ...
Norway
Norway (norge), A Kingdom Of Northern Europe, Occupy Ing The West And Smaller Part Of The Scandinavian Peninsula. Its East Frontier Marches With That Of Sweden, Except In The Extreme North, Where Norway Abuts On Finland. On The North, North West, West, The Boundaries Are The Arctic Ocean, Norwegian Sea ...
Norway Independent
Norway Independent The Consular Crisis.—in Jan. 1902, On The Initiative Of The Swedish Foreign Minister, Another Joint Committee On The Consular Question Was Appointed. It Unanimously Reported That "it Was Possible To Appoint Separate Norwegian Consuls Exclusively Re Sponsible To Norwegian Authority And Separate Swedish Consuls Exclusively Responsible To Swedish ...
Norwegian Language And Literature
Norwegian Language And Literature. The Language Used In Almost All Great Newspapers, In Commerce And By The Best Known Authors Differs In' Many Ways From The Spoken Language Even Of People Of Literary Education, Still More From That Of Less Educated Classes In The Towns And Of The Rural Population. ...
Norwich
Norwich (nor'rij), George Goring, Earl Of (1583 ?-1663), English Soldier, Son Of George Goring Of Hurstpier Point And Ovingdean, Sussex. He Was Knighted In 16°8, And Be Came A Favourite At Court, Benefiting Largely From Monopolies Granted By Charles I. He Became Baron Goring In 1628, And Privy Councillor In ...
Norwich
Norwich, City And County Town Of Norfolk, England,ii4m. N.e. By N. From London. Pop. (1931) 126,207. It Is Served By The L.n.e., The L.m.s., And The M. And G.n. Railways. Caistor-by Norwich, 4 M. S. Of Norwich, Is On The Site Of What Was Probably A Romano-british Town. According To ...
Norwich_2
Norwich, A City Of South-eastern Connecticut, U.s.a., Situated At The Confluence Of The Yantic And The Shetucket Rivers To Form The Thames. It Is Served By The Central Vermont Ana The New York, New Haven And Hartford Railways And Steamers To New York. Pop. (1920) 22,304 (26% Foreign-born White) ; ...
Notary Or Notary Public
Notary Or Notary Public. In Roman Law The Notaries Was Originally A Slave Or Freedman Who Took Notes (notae) Of Judicial Proceedings In Shorthand. The Modern Notary Corresponds Rather To The Tabellio Or Tabularius Than To The Notaries. In Canon Law It Was A Maxim That His Evidence Was Worth ...
Notice
Notice, A Term Primarily Meaning Knowledge As In "judicial Notice"; Thence It Comes To Signify The Means Of Bringing To Knowl Edge, As In "notice To Quit"; At Last It May Be Used Even For The Actual Writing By Which Notice Is Given. The Most Important Legal Uses Of The ...
Nottingham
Nottingham, A City And County Of A City, Municipal And County Town Of Nottinghamshire, England. Pop. (1931) 268.801. The Highly Advantageous Position Of Nottingham (snoten Gaham, Notingeham) On The Trent, Where It Was Crossed By An Ancient Highway, Accounts For Its Origin. The Saxon Form Of The Name Is Taken ...
Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire, A County Of England, Area Square Miles. The Highest Land, In Places Exceeding 600 Ft., Is Found In The West Between Nottingham And Mansfield. The Hills Die Away Eastward Towards The Basin Of The Trent And Idle. In The Dukeries Portions Of The Sherwood Forest Are Still Preserved. Early ...
Noumenon
Noumenon, A Philosophical Term Put Into Currency By Kant And Not Much Used Except In Definite Reference To His Doc Trine. In The Kantian System The Term "noiimena" Means Things In-themselves As Opposed To "phenomena" Or Things As They Appear To Us. According To Kant The Human Mind Is Such ...
Nova
Nova. A Nova May Be Defined As A Variable Star Which Brightens Up For A Short Time To A Luminosity Far Exceeding That Of Its Normal Condition, And Does So Only Once Over A Long Interval Of Time. The Facts Observed Are (i) A Very Rapid Brightening (frequently Many Thousandfold ...
Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia, A Province Of The Dominion Of Canada, Lying Between 43° 25' And 47° N. And 59° 40' And 66° 25' W., And Composed Of The Peninsula Proper And The Adjoining Island Of Cape Breton (q.v.), Which Is Separated From The Mainland By The Strait Of Canso. The Extreme ...
Novalis
Novalis, Pseudonym Of Friedrich Leopold, Freiherr Von Hardenberg (1772-1801), German Poet And Novelist, One Of The Pioneers Of The Romantic Movement, Was Born On May 2, 1772, On His Father's Estate At Oberwiederstedt In Prussian Saxony. He Studied Philosophy At Jena, And Law At Leipzig And Wittenberg. At Tennstedt, Near ...
Novara
Novara, Town And Episcopal See, Piedmont, Italy, Capital Of The Province Of Novara, 31 M. By Rail W. Of Milan, 538 F T. Above Sea-level. Pop. (1931) 55,021 (town), 63,211 (commune). Till 1839 Surrounded By Spanish Ramparts, Novara Is Now An Open, Modern Town. The Cathedral, Except For The Octagonal ...
Novara_2
Novara Was The Scene Of A Battle On March 23, 1849, Between The Austrians, 70.000 Strong With 182 Guns, Under Radetsky And King Charles Albert, Who Led The Sardinian Forces, 65,00o Men With 140 Guns. Chzarnowski, A Pole, Virtually Directed The Army. Armistice, Concluded Aug. 9, 1848, Was To Terminate ...
Novatianus
Novatianus, Roman Presbyter, And One Of The Earliest Antipopes, Founder Of The Sect Of The Novatiani Or Novatians, Was Born About The Beginning Of The 3rd Century. On The Authority Of Philostorgius (h.e. Viii. 15) He Has Been Called A Native Of Phrygia. He Was Ordained At Rome By Fabian, ...
Novaya Zemlya
Novaya Zemlya. An Arctic Land Off The Coast Of European Russia, To Which It Belongs, Consists Of Two Large Islands Separated By A Narrow Winding Channel 56 M. Long, The Matoch Kin Shar. It Lies Between 70° 31' And 77° N., And Between 51° 35' And 69° 2' E. And ...
Novel
Novel, The Name Given In Literature To A Sustained Story Which Is Not Historically True, But Might Very Easily Be So. The Novel Has Been Made The Vehicle For Satire, For Instruction, For Political Or Religious Exhortation, For Technical Information ; But These Are Side Issues. Its Plain And Direct ...
Novgorod
Novgorod (formerly Known As Velikiy-novgorod, Great Novgorod), A Town Of Russia, In The Leningrad Area, In 58° 33' N., 31° 20' E., On The Navigable Volkhov, 2 M. Below The Point Where It Issues From Lake Ilmen. Pop. (1926) 31,120. The Town Has Saw-mills And Manufactures Boots And Shoes, Candles, ...
Nubar Pasha 1825 1899
Nubar Pasha (1825-1899), Egyptian Statesman, Was Born At Smyrna In January 1825, The Son Of An Armenian Mer Chant Named Moghreditch, Who Had Married A Relative Of Boghos Bey, An Influential Minister Of Mehemet Ali. He Was Educated At Vevey And By The Jesuits At Toulouse. After Some Eighteen Months' ...
Nubia
Nubia, A Region Of North-east Africa, Bounded By Egypt, The Red Sea And The Libyan Desert, And Extending South In Definitely To About Khartoum. It Includes The Nile Valley From Aswan Near The First Cataract To The Confluence Of The White And Blue Niles, Stretching For About 56o M. Between ...
Nubian Language And Writing
Nubian Language And Writing. Nubian Is The Name Given To The Language Of The Barabra Or Nubians In The Nile Valley, Between Merawi, A Few Miles Below The Ancient Napata, And The First Cataract At Aswan. It Has Here Two Prin Cipal Dialects, The Mahass-fadija Being Spoken In The Central ...
Nucleus
Nucleus. Modern Physical Research Has Led To The Theory That An Atom Of Any Given Element, Far From Being The Minute, Impenetrable Solid Entity Which It Was Supposed To Be Before The Discovery Of The Electron, Is A Very Open Structure. It Consists Of A Small, Relatively Compact Particle At ...