Northwestern University
a coeducational institution in Evanston and Chicago, Ill., founded in 1851, under the auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church, reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 501; students, 4,750; president, T. F. Holgate. NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROV- INCE, a province of British India. Afghanistan bounds it on the W. and N., Kashmir and the Punjab on the E., and Baluchistan on the S. It has an area of 13,418 square miles, and the population is about 2,000,000. The capital is Peshawar.
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Northwich
a city of England in the district of Cheshire. Its chief industry is the mining of salt. It has several important public buildings. Its manufactures include bricks, chemicals, leather, brass, and iron. Pop. about 18,- 000.
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Norton Sound
an arm of the Bering Sea on the west coast of Alaska, south of Cape Prince of Wales. At its entrance it is 175 miles wide, and extends about 135 miles into Alaska. The Yukon river empties into it. It was discovered in 1778 by Captain Cook.
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Norton, Thomas
The exact date of this alchemist's birth is wrapped in mystery, while comparatively little is recorded about his life in general. But at least it is known that Bristol was his native place, and that, in the year 1436, he was elected to represent that town in Parliament. This points to his having been an upright and highly-esteemed person, and the conjecture is buttressed in some degree by the fact that Edward IV. made him a member of his privy council , and employed him repeatedly as an ambassador. At an early age Norton showed himself curious concerning alchemy and the like, demonstrating his predilection herein by attempting to make the personal acquaintance of George Ripley (q.v.), who, sometime Canon of Bridlington, Numbers, Magical (See Magic.) Oak Apples, as diviners. It is said that if one wishes to discover whether a child be bewitched, one may do so by following this procedure: drop three oak apples into a basin of water under the child's cradle, at the same time preserving the strictest silence; if they float the child is not fascinated, but if they sink it is.
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Norwalk
a town in Fairfield co., Conn.; on the Norwalk river, and on the New York, New Haven, and Hartford railroad; 60 miles S. W. of Hartford. Here are Norfolk and South Norwalk Public Libraries, high schools, Carnegie Library, Norwalk Hospital, State Armory, electric lights, electric street railroads, waterworks, National and savings banks, and several daily and weekly newspapers. The town has manufactures of paper boxes, stoves, earthenware, machinery, builders' hardware, air compressors, locks, cigars, elastic webbing, woolen goods, corsets, shirts, shoes, straw and fur hats, etc. It also has a large coast trade, and an extensive oyster industry. Pop. (1910) 24,211; (1920) 27,743.
a town and county-seat of Huron co., O.; on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Lake Shore Electric, and the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads; 56 miles W. S. W. of It has a public library, Cleveland. waterworks, electric street railroad, National banks, several daily and weekly newspapers, and manufactories of pianos, shoes, plows, sewing machines, automobile accessories, tobacco, besides railroad machine shops. Pop. (1910) 7,852; (1920) 7,379.
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Norway Spruce
a tree of the genus Abies, A. excelsa, which abounds uates have an in Norway: It is largely used for buildvictor of Manila Bay. ing purposes.
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Norwegian Literature
. See Literature
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Norwich University
an institution established in 1819 for the purpose of fitting college men, who are training for a purely civil career, for effective service as volunteers in time of It is now the military college of war. the State of Vermont. Originally the institution was settled in Middletown, Conn., and then later, in 1829, at Norwich It where it received its present name. removed to its present location at Northfield, Vt., in 1898. The college has an enrolment of 200 students and its gradenviable record in war and peace time pursuits. Among the graduates was Admiral Dewey, the
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Norwood
a city of Ohio in Hamilton co. It adjoins Cincinnati on the N. E. and is situated on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, and the Cincinnati, Lebanon, and Northern railroads. It is a residential suburb of Cincinnati. It has a library, city hall, and other important public buildings. The chief manare of playing-cards, bookufactures cases, pianos, washing machines, iron working machines, etc. Pop. (1910)
a town in Massachusetts in Norfolk co., 14 miles S. W. of Boston. It is on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. It is an important industrial center and has canneries, iron foundries, and manufactories of leather goods, ink, and glue. There are also printing shops and It has a hospital, a Memorial Library and other important Pop. ( 1910) 8,014;
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Nose
the organ of smell, consisting of two parts, one external, the nose, the other internal, the nasal fosse. The sense of smell is produced by the action of the olfactory nerve on the meatuses
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Nostradamus
MICHEL, a French astrologer; born in St. Remy, Provence, France, Dec. 14, 1503. After graduating in medicine at Montpelier, in 1529, he acquired the reputation of a skillful physician by successfully arresting the progress of a pestilential disease. But he aimed at the character of an astrologer and adept in the occult sciences, volume of obscure metrical rhapsodies in 1555, under the title of "Prophetical Centuries." Nostradamus was appointed first physician to Charles IX., who came himself in person to Salon, where Nostradamus then resided, for the purpose of visiting him. He died in Salon, France, July
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Notation and Numeration
. See Arithmetic
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Noto
a city of Sicily. It has a number of beautiful churches and palaces. It museum. There contains a library ry and is a considerable trade in corn, oil, and wine. Pop. about 33,000.
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Noue
FRANÇOIS DE LA, called BRAS DE FER (Iron Arm ), a French Huguenot commander ; born near Nantes, France , in 1531. His "Political and Military Discourses" (1587) are deemed masterpieces . He was killed at Lamballe, France, in 1591. NOUREDDIN, MALEK-AL-ADEL
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Nour-Ed-Deen Mahmoud
Sultan of Syria and Egypt; born in Damascus, Turkey, Feb. 21, 1116. He succeeded his father in 1145, and continued the war with the Christians; his success in which, and especially his complete conquest of Edessa , gave occasion to the second crusade, preached by St. Bernard, and led by Louis VII. and the Emperor Conrad III. Noureddin compelled the crusaders to raise the siege of Damascus, and in 1149 they retired. The Sultan immediately attacked and defeated Raïmond, prince who fell in the battle. The next year prince of Antioch , a dependency of Edessa held by Joscehe unsuccessfully besieged Tell-basher, line de Courtenay; but he soon after captured Josceline, and made himself master of Edessa. In 1154 he added Damascus to his dominions, and made the city his capital. The war continued, and in 1159, Noureddin was defeated by the Christians near the lake of Gennesareth, and was menaced by the Greek Emperor Manuel Comnenus. By giving up to Manuel all the Christian captives, 6,000 in number, he induced him to relinquish his enterprise. And soon after one of his generals defeated and made prisoner the famous Renaud de Chatillon. Noureddin being called in to support one of the rival claimants to the of it, and made it his own. He died at caliphate of Egypt, effected the conquest Damascus, May 15, 1174. anist, born in 1896. She studied with
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