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Nanticoke – Nassau

Nanticoke

a borough in Luzerne co., Pa.; on the Susquehanna river, and on the Lackawanna, the Central of New Jersey and the Pennsylvania railroads; 8 miles S. W. of Wilkes-Barre. It has daily and weekly newspapers, silk mills , canning factory, and several coal mines.

Pop. (1910) 18,877; (1920) 22,614 .

Napoleon

PRINCE (NAPOLEON EUGÈNE LOUIS JEAN JOSEPH вo- NAPARTE), Prince Imperial of France, son of Napoleon III.; born in Paris, France, March 16, 1856. He joined the British army in South Africa as a volunteer and was killed by the Zulus, June 2, 1879.

Narcissus

in Greek mythology, the beautiful son of Cephisus and the nymph Liriope. The story of his metamorphosis into the flower so called (see NARCISSUS) is given only in the version adopted by NARCISSUS Ovid; and this version says that he killed himself, and that the flower sprang from his blood.

Narcotine

in chemistry, C22H23-

Narino

coast department of Colomducing sugar-cane, cocoa, wheat, and bar- Pacific on W. Is fertile in center, proley. Pop. about 300,000. Pacific on W. Is fertile in center, proince of Perugia. It contains a number

Narragansetts

a tribe of North history of the United States, occupied American Indians which, in the early stroyed during King Philip's war.

Narragansetts

a tribe of North gansett Bay. They were nearly de- NARVA

Narva

a town of Russia; 101 miles W. S. W. of Petrograd, on the Narova, 10 miles from its mouth in the Gulf of Finland. The navigation of the Narova is impeded by a waterfall near Narva, 14 feet high, which is taken advantage of for driving cotton mills, sawmills, etc. Charles XII. won a great victory here in 1700.

Naseby

a parish of Northamptonshire, England, 7 miles S. W. of Market- Harborough. Here, on June 14, 1645, Prince Rupert were totally defeated by 14,000 parliamentarians under Fairfax 7,500 royalists under Charles I. and and Cromwell, the king losing cannon, baggage, and 5,000 prisoners. An obelisk was erected in 1823 on the Naseby ridge (648 feet).

Nash

RICHARD, called BEAU

Nassau

FORT, an old fort on the Islands and the center of the trade and seat of government of the BAHAMA ISLANDS (q.v.), and a bishop's see. Pop. about 12,000.

Nassau

FORT, an old fort on the Delaware river, near the site of the present city of Gloucester, N. J., memorable as the first settlement on the shores of the Delaware, and built by Capt. Jacobus May, in 1631 .

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