Neagh
LOUGH, the largest lake of the British Islands, in the province of Ulster, Ireland, surrounded by Londonthe counties of Armagh, Tyrone, 16 derry, Antrim, and Down; length miles. It remiles; average breadth, 10 ceives the waters of numerous streams, of which the principal are the Upper Bann, the Blackwater, and the Callan; off and its surplus waters are carried the Lower N. to the North Channel by Bann. Communication by means of canals subsists between the Lough and coalfield Belfast, Newry, and the Tyrone .
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Neal
JOHN, an American poet and author; born in Falmouth, Mass., now was Portland, Me., Aug. 25, 1793. He a member of the Society of Friends, but as left it at 25. Later in life he figured novelist editor, lecturer, lawyer, poet, , his and teacher of gymnastics. Among numerous works are: "Keep Cool" (1817), a novel; "The Battle of Niagara" (1818), a poem: "Brother Jonathan" (1825); "Rachel Dyer" (1828), a novel; "Downeasters" (1833), a novel; "Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life" (1870). He died in Falmouth, Mass., June 21, 1876.
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Neanderthal
a wildly romantic valley between Düsseldorf and Elberfeld in Rhenish Prussia. In a limestone cave in this valley was found in 1857 the skeleton of a prehistoric man, and the peculiar formation of the skull induced anthropologists to regard it as typical of a separate race of ancient cave dwellers.
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Neap Tides
those tides which happen in the middle of the second and fourth quarters of the moon, taking place about four or five days before the new and full moons. They occur when the attractions of the sun and moon act on the waters of the ocean at right angles to each other.
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Nearchus
an officer of Alexander the Great; a native of Crete, who settled in Amphipolis during the reign of Philip, and became the companion and friend of the young Prince Alexander. In 330 he was governor of Lycia and other provinces in Asia Minor. In 329 B. C. he joined Alexander in Bactria with a body of Greek mercenaries, taking part in the Indian campaigns. Having built a fleet on the Hydaspes, Alexander gave Nearleft the chus the command of it. He , Indus toward the end of November, 325 and, skirting the coast all the way, ar- February, rived at Susa, in Persia, in 324. His own narrative of his voyage Indica" has been preserved in the " of Arrian.
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Neath
a parliamentary and municipal borough and river-port of Glamorgan, south Wales, on a navigable E. N. E. river of the same name, 8 miles stand on of Swansea. It is believed to the site of the Roman station Nidum; and near it are the remains of an ancient castle, burned in 1231, and ruins of Neath Abbey. There are at Neath, boroughs, which is one of the Swansea extensive copper and tin-plate works and iron foundries, and chemicals are . manufactured. Pop. about 18,000
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Nebraska City
a city and countyseat of Otoe co., Neb.; on the Missouri river and on the Burlington Route and the Missouri Pacific railroads: 60 miles E. by S. of Lincoln. Here are the State Institution for the Blind, a United States government building, public library, St. Bernard's Academy, high school, waterworks, street railroad, electric lights, several daily and weekly newspapers, and banks. The city has extensive stock yards, lumber and planing mills, cereal and flour mills, starch factory, foundry, plow factories, a meat-packing plant and brickyards. Pop. (1910) 5,488; (1920) 6,279. NEBRASKA, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational institution, founded at Lincoln, Neb., in 1869. There were in 1919 5,529 students with 200 teachers. The endowment fund amounted to $809,000,- 000 and the value of grounds and buildings to $4,500,000. There are 145,000 volumes in the library. The total income amounted to approximately $2,280,- 000. The president is Samuel Avery, Ph. D. NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVER- SITY, a coeducational institution in University Place, Neb.; founded in 1887 under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 45; students, 853; volumes in the library, 4,500; productive funds, $10,000; grounds and buildings valued at $150,000; benefactions, $1,579; income, $13,227; number of graduates, 895; president, I. B. Schreckengast, D. D. NABOPO-
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Nebuchadnezzar
neb-u-kad-nez'ar, an illustrious king of Babylon. His reign, lasting from 604 to 561 B. C., marks the highest point of the Chaldean kingdom. He overran Syria, carried the Hebrews into captivity, and subjected the Egyptians to the Chaldean yoke. He pushed his conquests far into the northeast, also, building an immense wall against the incursions of his enemies. He beautified Babylon. He dug what is known as the king's canal and a huge reservoir to retain the surplus water of the Euphrates. The so-called Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the world , were constructed during his reign to give pleasure to one of his wives, a Median princess. See Babylon
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Nebuchadnezzar
or LASSAR, a king of Babylon, who reigned from 626 to 605 B. C. He united with Astyages in the conquest of Syria, and founded the second Syrio-Babylonian empire.
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Nebuchadnezzar
or NEBUCH- ADREZZAR, surnamed THE GREAT, a king of Babylon, the son and successor of the preceding. He immediately entered on a war, by which he extended his empire over the greater part of Asia, and from the Caucasian Mountains in the N. to the Great Desert of Africa in the S. He defeated the Edomites and Ammonites, took Jerusalem, and led the inhabitants captive to Babylon. His vassal king of Judah, Jehoiakim, having revolted, he 13 years later deposed him, and put an end to the kingdom of Judah. He next turned his arms against Tyre, which after an obstinate resistance of more than 12 years, he finally took, and which, with Egypt and Persia, made his empire and power enormous. The celebrated hanging gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the world, were executed by this monarch, to please his beautiful wife, a Median princess. He died 562 b. c.
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Nebula
plural NEBULÆ, in astronomy, a slight cloudy patch of light, retaining its form unchanged except under keen and long-continued observation. More than 8,000 nebulæ, or star-clusters, closely resembling them, have been found in both hemispheres, and in nearly every constellation. A few, as the great nebulæ of Orion, Argo Navis, and Andromeda, Ar are visible on very clear nights to the naked eye; the rest are telescopic. When greatly magnified some are found to be composed of many thousand remote stars, others remain only as diffused masses of light. The great nebula of Orion surrounds a multiple star, Theta Orionis, consisting of six, apparently revolving round their common center of gravity. It has been found to alter its form very slightly. The spectroscope has shown that many of the nebulæ are merely gaseous. The nebulæ in Andromeda has a bright ball in the center and is spindle-shaped. In pathology, a slight speck on the cornea; also a mist or cloud suspended in the urine.
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