Necessitas
Called Ananke by the Greeks, the personification of Necessity, is represented as a powerful goddess, whom neither gods nor men can resist. She carries in her hand brazen nails, with which she fixes the decrees of fate. 2026 Editor's Note: In Roman mythology, Necessitas is the counterpart to the Greek goddess Ananke , the personification of inevitability and compulsion. While this text describes her holding brazen nails, she is customarily depicted in Greek tradition holding a spindle, representing her role as the mother of the Fates. Her union with Chronos (Time) was believed to mark the beginning of the cosmos, separating it from the preceding eon of Chaos. (Ed: BR 2026-07-05)
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Neches
a river of eastern Texas. It rises in Van Zandt co. and flows in a S. E. direction into Sabine Lake. It is about 350 miles in length.
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Necho
King of Egypt, called in Scripture Pharaoh-Necho. He succeeded his father Psammetichus in 617 B. C. He planned a canal from the Nile to the Arabian Gulf, which undertaking he was forced to abandon, after losing a great number of men. This monarch invaded Assyria, and, on his march, was attacked by Josiah, King of Judah, who was slain in the battle. Necho was turn defeated by Nebuchadnezzar, and obliged to return to his own country, where he died in 601 b. c.
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Neckar
one of the largest tributaries of the Rhine, and the principal river of Württemberg, rising on the E. declivity of the Black Forest, near the village of Schwenningen. It has a winding course of 250 miles, and joins the Rhine at Mannheim-the other towns on its banks being Tübingen, Heilbronn, and Heidelberg. From Cannstadt, about midway in its course, the Neckar is navigable. Fair wines are grown on its banks.
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Necker
JACQUES, a French statesman; born in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 30, 1732. He went to an early age, obtained employment in a banking house, in which he rose to a partnership, and in 13 years, having made a number of successful speculations, retired from business with a large fortune. The Revolution, which all his efforts were unable to check, obliged him to retire to Switzerland. Necker wrote three volumes on the finances of France, a book on the influence of religious opinions, and other works. He married the daughter of a Protestant clergyman, by whom he had a daughter, Madame de Staël- Holstein, the wife of the Swedish ambassador. She afterward became celebrated by the name of Madame de Staël. He died in Coppet, Switzerland, April 9, 1804.
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Necker, Jacques
Jacques (1732-1804), a French minister of finance. He was a native of Geneva. He became a member of his uncle's banking house in Paris and acquired a fortune. He married a gifted Swiss lady, the same whom the historian Gibbon desired to wed. Madam Necker's salon, that is to say, parlor, was the resort of the literary people of the day. Buffon was a constant visitor. Franklin was a frequent caller. When Gibbon visited Paris, he did not hesitate to renew an old-time acquaintance. Necker was a writer of no mean caliber, especially on subjects of finance. Madame Necker was celebrated as a beauty, wit, and woman of learning. The famous Madame de Stael was their daughter. Madame Necker was ambitious and urged her husband to sell his banking interests for a chance at the game of politics. In 1777, during our Revolutionary War, Necker was made minister of finance. He discharged the duties of the position with fidelity, gaining the favor of the people rather than that of the king. Marie Antoinette disliked him. He was twice dismissed and as often recalled. He tendered his resignation finally in 1790, in the early years of the French Revolution , and retired to his country home near Geneva. See French Revolution
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Necrosis
a word used as synonymous with mortification or gangrene; but it is more commonly used in surgery to denote the death or mortification of a part or the whole of a bone. Necrosis differs from caries of a bone, inasmuch as in the latter case the vitality of the bone is only impaired, not destroyed, as in the former; in the same way as ulceration of the soft parts differs from gangrene. Necrosis is found in either , and at all periods of life, and may sex be occasioned either by external causes, as fractures, contusions, etc., or by internal or constitutional causes, as a debilitated or deranged habit of body. When a portion of a bone becomes dead, it is regarded as an extraneous substance.
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Nectarine
a fruit which differs from the peach only in having a smoother rind and firmer pulp, being indeed a mere variety of peach.
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Needham
a town of Massachusetts in Norfolk co., about 10 miles S. W. of Boston. It is situated on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It contains a town hall and public library. Its chief industry is knit goods. Pop. (1910) 5,026; (1920) 7,012.
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Needles
THE, a cluster of insulated chalk rocks in the English Channel, off the W. extremity of the Isle of Wight. They owe their name to their pyramidal and pointed shape. The Needles Lighthouse, or the most W. of the group, has an occulting light 80 feet above highwater, visible for 14 miles . NEELY, THOMAS BENJAMIN, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church; born in 1841 at Philadelphia . Entered the ministry of the Methodist Church in 1865 in the Philadelphia Conference. In 1900 he was elected Corresponding Secretary of the Sunday School Union and Tract Society and in 1904 was elected bishop. His episcopal home for the years 1904-1908 was in Buenos Aires where he had charge of the work of the Methodist Church in South America . He was retired from active service in May, 1912. Author of numerous works on Methodist law and doctrine.
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Neenah
a city in Winnebago co., Wis., on the Fox river, and on the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul, the Chiand No Northwestern , and the Minnecago apolis, St. Paul, and Saulte Ste. Marie railroads; 14 miles N. of Oshkosh. The river is navigable for steamboats to Fond du Lac. Here are National banks, a public library, electric lights, and daily and weekly newspapers. The city is widely known as an important lumber mart and as a popular summer resort. It has manufactures of stoves , machines , woolen goods and brick and saw, lumber, and paper mills. Pop. (1910) 5,734; (1920) 7,171.
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