Native Iron
Native iron is of rare occurrence; it almost always forms part of meteoric stones. When found it is malleable, and may be worked like manufactured iron. See METEORIC IRON.
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Single-source entries: N (8)
These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Native Iron, Natsaw, Natuna Islands.
Natsaw
Burmese wizards. (See Burma .) Nature Spirits or Elementals, according to theosophy, have bodies composed of the finer kinds of matter. There are countless hosts of them, divided into seven classes, which allowing for two unmanifested, belong to the ether, air, fire, water, and earth, -the last four being called by the Kabalists, sylphs, salamanders, undines, and gnomes respectively; and at the head of each class is a deva or inferior god. Nature spirits work in unsuspected ways, sometimes lending their aid to human beings in the form of certain faculties, and those in the astral world are engaged in the creation of form out of the matter which the outpouring of the Logos has quickened, hence it is they who form minerals, flowers, and so on. These nature spirits of the astral worlds of course have bodies of astral matter, and they frequently from mischievous or other impulses, change the appearance of these bodies. They are just without the powers of ordinary vision, and many people of more acute vision can see them, while the action of drugs also may make them visible.
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Natuna Islands
three groups of islands extending from the W. coast of Borneo a great way to the N. W. The largest, Great Natuna, is about 30 miles long N. to S., and 20 miles broad E. to W. They are densely wooded.
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Natural History
in the widest sense, and as used by the ancients, that branch of knowledge which included all natural science, and had the Cosmos for its subject. In more recent times its ⚫ range was limited to zoology; now again, its bounds are extended, and it may be defined as the science which deals with the earth's crust and its productions. Thus it includes geology, mineralogy, palæobotany, and palæontology, treating respectively of the inorganic world and organic remains of past ages. To these succeed biology, or the science of life, in its widest science (see BIOLOGY). Popularly, natural history is synonymous with ZOOLOGY (q. v.), and some writers of authority use it in that sense.
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Natural Selection
a phrase frequently employed in connection with Darwin's theory of the origin of species, to indicate the process in nature by which plants and animals best fitted for the conditions in which they are placed survive, propagate, and spread, while the less fitted die out and disappear; this process being combined with the preservation by their descendants of useful variations arising in animals or plants.
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Naturalism
in theology, the name given to all forms of belief or speculation which deny or ignore the doctrine of a personal God as the author and governor of the universe. It is opposed to Theism.
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Naucratis
Egypt, in the Nile delta, near the modern village of Nebireh; 47 miles S. E. of Alexandria; existed in the 7th century B. C. It was the only city in Egypt at which the Greeks were allowed to trade; was celebrated for its artistic pottery; and was a center for the worship of Aphrodite. The site was discovered by Flinders Petrie in 1884, and excavated by him in that and the following year.
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Naugatuck
a town and borough of Connecticut in New Haven co. It is 5 miles S. of Waterbury and on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad. an important industrial The city is center and has manufactures of indiarubber goods, underwear, iron and copper goods, and paper boxes. It contains the Whittemore Memorial Library and the Whittemore Memorial Bridge. It has a handsome high school and other public institutions. Pop. (1910) 12,722; (1920) 15,051.
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Naugatuck River
a river of Connecticut, rises in Litchfield county, S. through New Haven county, and S. runs enters the Housatonic river at Derby. It is nearly 65 miles long. The chief city on its bank is Waterbury.
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Naumburg
a quaint old town of Prussian Saxony, on the Saale, 30 miles S. W. of Leipsic. Of its six churches, the triple-towered cathedral (1207-1242) is a noble Romanesque and Gothic structure. Prior to the World War the manufactures included ivory carvings, combs, hosiery, toys, wine, etc. The seat of a bishopric (1059-1564), Naumburg suffered much in the Thirty Years' War; in 1814 it came to Prussia. Pop. about 27,500.
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Nausicaa
nau-sic'a-a, in the Odyssey, the daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians. After leaving Calypso's Isle on the raft which the nymph had aided him to build, Ulysses was overtaken by storm. His raft went to pieces, but he swam to shore. It happened that he reached land in the country of the Phaeacians. Athene had sent a dream to Nausicaa--a dream reminding her that the family washing needed to be done. So the princess accompanied by her maidens, and with the soiled clothing heaped in a wagon, which carried also a hearty luncheon for the party, set off for the river. After the washing was completed and spread to dry the maidens ate their luncheon and then indulged in a game of ball. This, by Athene's guidance, took place near the spot where Ulysses was resting from his long swim. And--still by Athene's plan--Nausicaa threw the ball into the water. All the maidens screamed at this and Ulysses was awakened. Then, of course, Nausicaa gave him food and clothing and led him to her father, who aided him to reach Ithaca, his own island, and thus ended his wanderings.
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Nautch Girl
or NAUTCHEE, a professional dancing and singing-girl India. They are selected for their beauty, generally from the middle class under strict training in physical exercises and taught all the arts of their profession.
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Nautilus
in ordinary language, a name popularly applied to two very different animals: the paper nautilus-the nautilus of poets, hich belongs to the ① ② ④ © **** *** *** 1. Admiral of the Navy 5. Commodore 2. Admiral 6. Captain 3. Vice-Admiral 7. Commander (Silver Leaf) 4. Rear-Admiral 8. Lieutenant-Commander (Gold Leaf) genus Argonauta (see ARGONAUT), and not to nautilus; and to the pearly nautilus (N. pompilius), for a long period the only known species. In zoölogy, the typical and only recent genus of the family 1 Nautilidæ. The shell is involute, with an outer porcellaneous and an inner nacreous layer.
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