Narino
coast department of Colombia, on S. W., with Ecuador on S. and Pacific on W. Is fertile in center, producing sugar-cane, cocoa, wheat, and barley. Pop. about 300,000.
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Each of these 13 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Narni
a city of Italy in the province of Perugia. It contains a number of interesting ruins of the time of Augustus. There is a cathedral dating from the 13th century, ury, together with other ancient buildings of interest. Pop. about 15,000.
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Narragansett Bay
an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the coast of Rhode Island; length about 28 miles (including the N. part called Providence Bay); width about 12 miles (at the N. part only 2 miles). It forms the E. boundary of the counties of Kent and Washington, and incloses several islands. The city of Newport is on the shore of this bay near its entrance or S. end. Large vessels can ascend it from the sea to Providence.
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Narragansett Pier
a summer resort in Washington co., R. I., on W. shore of Narragansett Bay; 7 miles S. W. of Newport. It has an excellent beach, and a number of large hotels and handsome residences. The facilities for fishing and boating are excellent, and there are some notably fine drives amid charming scenery. At a distance of 3 miles are Narragansett Heights, 400 feet above the bay. The Pier has regular steamboat connection with Providence.
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Narragansetts
a tribe of North American Indians which, in the early history of the United States, occupied the part of Rhode Island W. of Narragansett Bay. They were nearly destroyed during King Philip's war. TO
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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.
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Nasby
Petroleum V. See Locke ; David Ross
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Naseby
a parish of Northamptonshire, England, 7 miles S. W. of Market- Harborough. Here, on June 14, 1645, 7,500 royalists under Charles I. and Prince Rupert were totally defeated by 14,000 parliamentarians under Fairfax and Cromwell, the king losing cannon, baggage, and 5,000 prisoners. An obelisk was erected in 1823 on the Naseby ridge (648 feet).
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Nash
an English leader of fashion; born in Swansea, Wales, Oct. 18, 1674. He was the son of an impoverished Welsh gentleman and was educated at Carmarthen and Oxford; held for some time a commission in the army, and next entered at the Middle Temple, but found greater attractions in the dissipations of society than the pursuits of law. He made a shifty living by gambling, but in 1704 he found his true function as master of ceremonies at Bath, where he conducted the public balls with a splendor and decency never before witnessed. He died in poverty, Feb. 3, 1761.
THOMAS, an English satirist folk, England, in 1567. He graduated at Cambridge in 1584, but was afterward expelled for satirizing the authorities. In conjunction with Marlowe he wrote a drama, "Dido, Queen of Carthage," and in 1592 produced a comedy of his own, "Summer's Last Will and Testament," which was acted before Queen Elizabeth. He died in 1600 or 1601.
RICHARD, called BEAU
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Nashua
a city and one of the bunty-seats of Hillsboro co., N. H.; on the Nashua river and on the Boston and Maine railroad; 35 miles S. of Concord. It contains a public library, several public institutions, several daily papers, electric lights, electric street railroads, waterworks, and National and savings banks. It has manufactories of edge tools, iron and steel, engines, shoes, bob bins and shuttles, locks, cotton goods, furniture, carpets, etc. Pop. (1910) 26,005; (1920) 28,379.
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Nasik
a town of Bombay, British India, on the Godavari, 31 miles from its source, and 100 miles N. E. of Bombay. It ranks as one of the most sacred of Hindu places of pilgrimage, the banks and even the bed of the river being crowded with temples and shrines. Formerly it was a Mahratta capital; now it manufactures paper, cotton, and excellent brass and copper work. Pop. about 35,000.
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Nassau
formerly a German duchy, now a district of the Prussian province of HESSE-NASSAU (q. v.). The soil is fertile and produces some of the most esteemed Rhenish wines. The chief towns are WIESBADEN (q. v.), the capital of the district ; Schwalbach, Schlangenbad, Fachingen , Selters, and Geilnau. The family of Nassau, the elder branch of which reigned till 1866, dates from the 10th century . The younger branch inherited in 1544 the principality of ORANGE (q.v.), and as the princes of Orange took an important pla ropean history (see HOLLAND ). The reigning Duke of Nassau sided against Prussia in 1866 , and his duchy was incorporated with Prussia (see PRUSSIA: corpo GERMANY); and on the extraction of the male line of the Orange branch by the death of William III. of Holland, in 1890, the Duke of Nassau became Grand- Duke of Luxemburg. place in Eu-
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 .
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.
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Nastrond
The Scandinavian and Icelandic Hell , said to be of an icy temperature. It lies in the lowest depths of Niflheim; it is a "dark abode far from the sun;" its gates face "the cutting north;" "its walls are formed of wreathed snakes, and their venom is ever falling like rain." It is surrounded by dark and poisonous streams, and Nidhog, the great dragon, who dwells beneath the central root of Ygdrassil, torments and gnaws the dead. Here it is that Loki is chained to a splintered rock, where the venom of the snake Skada falls on him unceasingly; and it is believed that his shuddering is the cause of earthquakes.
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