Nyaya-Vaisheshika (from the article "Vaisheshika") ...of independence, the Vaisheshika school fused entirely with the Nyaya (q.v. ) school, a process that ...
Nyayanusarino Vijnanavadinah (from the article "Yogacara") ...divided into two branches, the Agamanusarino Vijnanavadinah ("Vijnanavada School of the Scriptural Tradition") and the ...
Nyblom, Helena (from the article "children's literature") ...of the Finnish-born but basically Swedish Topelius, of Hans Christian Andersen, and of the romantic ...
Nyborg city and port, eastern Funen island, Denmark, on the Great Belt and Nyborg Fjord. Named ...
nyckelharpa (from the article "stringed instrument") ...motion, thus giving a fuller resonance. Examples, in addition to the sarangi , ...
Nyctaginaceae the four-o'clock family of flowering plants, in the pink, or carnation, order (Caryophyllales), containing about ... [2 Related Articles]
Nycticebus coucang (from the article "loris") ...They are found in Indonesia and on the Malay Peninsula. The smallest species (N. pygmaeus ), ...
Nycticebus pygmaeus (from the article "loris") ...are more robust and have shorter, stouter limbs, more-rounded snouts, and smaller eyes and ears. ...
Nye, Bill journalist and one of the major American humorists in the last half of the 19th ... [1 Related Articles]
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Nyembzi, C. L. S. (from the article "African literature") ...shows the disastrous effects of urban life on people from the village. J.K. Ngubane's Uvalo ...
Nyerere, Julius first prime minister of independent Tanganyika (1961), who became the first president of the new ... [6 Related Articles]
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Nyers, Rezso (from the article "Hungary") ...economy under the pretext of protecting the relative earnings of industrial workers compared with those ...
Nygaard, Jens American pianist and conductor (b. Oct. 26, 1931, Stephens, Ark.-d. Sept. 24, 2001, New York, ...
Nygaard, Kristen Norwegian mathematician and computer scientist (b. Aug. 27, 1926, Oslo, Nor.-d. Aug. 10, 2002, Oslo), ...
Nyika any of several Northeast Bantu-speaking peoples including the Digo, who live along the coast of ...
Nyika Plateau high grassy tableland in northern Malawi. It is a tilted block extending from the Mzimba ... [2 Related Articles]
Nyikang (from the article "Shilluk") ...the sons of previous kings. The king's physical and ritual well-being was held to ensure ...
Nyima language (from the article "Designations and classification of the Nilo-Saharan languages") ...accompanying such morphological processes. A widespread and rather permanent distinction is that between perfective/imperfective aspect ...
Nyiragongo, Mount active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of east-central Africa. It lies in the volcano region ... [1 Related Articles]
Nyirbator (from the article "Hajdu-Bihar") ...(gulyas ). Hajduszoboszlo, located in the centre of a natural gas field, is ...
Nyiregyhaza city of county status and seat of Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg megye (county), northeastern Hungary. It is a ... [1 Related Articles]
Nyiri Desert desert, south-central Kenya. It lies about 50 miles (80 km) east of Lake Magadi and ...
Nyirseg (from the article "Nyiregyhaza") ...seat of Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg megye (county), northeastern Hungary. It is a principal settlement of the upper ...
Nyishi tribal people of eastern Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh (formerly North East Frontier Agency), a mountainous ... [1 Related Articles]
Nykanen, Matti Finnish ski jumper who was arguably the finest performer in the history of his sport. ... [2 Related Articles]
Nykobing Falster city, western Falster island, Denmark, on Guldborg Sound. It was founded around a 12th-century castle ...
Nykoping town and port, capital of the administrative lan (county) of Sodermanland, southeastern Sweden. It lies ...
Nykvist, Sven Swedish cinematographer best known for his subtle, luminous camera work in the films of Ingmar ... [3 Related Articles]
Nylander Museum (from the article "Caribou") ...produce potato-packing bags, automotive electronic control devices, and custom steel products. It serves as a ...
Nylen, Carl (from the article "otolaryngology") In 1921 Carl Nylen pioneered in the use of a high-powered binocular microscope to perform ...
nylon any synthetic plastic material composed of polyamides of high molecular weight and usually, but not ... [15 Related Articles]
nylon 6 (from the article "industrial polymers, major") ...of the new fibre began in 1939 at DuPont's plant in Seaford, Del., U.S., which ...
Nym (from the article "Merry Wives of Windsor, The") ...of the Henry IV plays. Along with him, Shakespeare also imports some ...
Nyman, Michael (from the article "Performing Arts") ...conductor John Eliot Gardiner started his own label, Soli Deo Gloria, which issued its first ...
nymph in entomology, sexually immature form usually similar to the adult and found in such insects ... [5 Related Articles]
nymph in Greek mythology, any of a large class of inferior female divinities. The nymphs were ... [1 Related Articles]
nymph (from the article "fishing") ...a fish, usually trout, as possible. Artificial flies came into use early, however, and live ...
Nymphaea (from the article "Nymphaeales") ...submerged, floating, or standing above the water varies. They range in size from the small, ...
Nymphaeales the water-lily order of flowering plants, a basal branch of angiosperms, or flowering plants, containing ... [1 Related Articles]
nymphaeum ancient Greek and Roman sanctuary consecrated to water nymphs. The name-though originally denoting a natural ... [1 Related Articles]
Nymphaeum, Treaty of (from the article "Boccanegra Family") ...the government of the old aristocracy made him captain of the people. The major accomplishment ...
Nymphalinae (from the article "lepidopteran") ...Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterflies) Approximately 6,000 species, often split into several families that here are considered subfamilies; ...
Nymphenburg (from the article "pottery") There is much interest in the figure modelling of Franz Anton Bustelli, who worked at ...
Nymphenburg palace, formerly the summer residence outside Munich of the Wittelsbachs, the former ruling family of ... [1 Related Articles]
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Nymphs, Hill of the (from the article "Athens") Across Apostolou Pavlou (Apostle Paul Avenue) are the Hill of the Nymphs, where an Austro-Greek, ...
Nymphulinae (from the article "lepidopteran") ...6,130 species of small moths, mostly plain, often abundant, with many important pest species; differentiated ...
nymphus (from the article "mystery religion") In the Mithraic ceremonies, there were seven degrees of initiations: Corax (Raven), Nymphus (Bridegroom), Miles ...
Nyo languages (from the article "Kwa languages") The Kwa languages are divided into two groups. The larger Nyo group comprises 35 languages ...
Nyong River stream in southwestern Cameroon, west central Africa. It rises 25 mi (40 km) east of ...
Nyoro an Interlacustrine Bantu people living just east of Lake Albert (also called Lake Mobutu Sese ... [2 Related Articles]
Nyos, Lake (from the article "volcano") ...(volcanic gas vents) or from the sudden overturn of a crater lake may contain suffocating ...
nyout ancient Korean cross-and-circle board game. The nyout board, usually made of paper, consists of 29 ...
Nypa (from the article "palm") In the eastern tropics, Nypa fruticans may form dense colonies on estuarine muds; these pure ...
Nyquist interval (from the article "Nyquist, Harry") ...paper "Certain Topics in Telegraph Transmission Theory" refined his earlier results and established the principles ...
Nyquist stability theorem (from the article "Nyquist, Harry") In 1932 Nyquist discovered how to determine when negative feedback amplifiers are stable. His criterion, ...
Nyquist, Harry American physicist and electrical and communications engineer, a prolific inventor who made fundamental theoretical and ... [1 Related Articles]
Nyro, Laura American singer-songwriter who during the 1960s and '70s welded urban folk blues to the gospel ... [1 Related Articles]
Nyrop, Martin (from the article "Western architecture") The emergence of National Romanticism in Scandinavia in the 1880s gave rise to buildings such ...
NYSE Group, Inc. (from the article "New York Stock Exchange") The ownership structure of the NYSE changed in March 2006 with the formation of the ...
Nysius vinitor (from the article "lygaeid bug") ...chinch bug (q.v. ), feeds on the sap of plants. Other important members of the family ...
Nyssaceae (from the article "Cornales") Nyssaceae, or the tupelo family, contains 5 genera and 22 species, including Nyssa (tupelo), which ...
Nystad, Peace of (from the article "Estonia") ...XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava (1709), Russian armies seized Livonia. The barons ...
nystagmus involuntary back and forth, up and down, or circular movements of the eyes that are ... [6 Related Articles]
nystatin (from the article "drug") Amphotericin B and nystatin are antimicrobial drugs that interact with ergosterol, a type of steroid ...
Nyswander, Marie E. (from the article "chemical dependency") The individual dependent on opiate drugs such as heroin or morphine may be permanently dependent. ...
Nyungu (from the article "eastern Africa, history of") ...state was built up; then among the Nyamwezi, where between 1870 and 1884 the warrior ...
Nyuya River (from the article "Lena River") ...In the Lena's middle section, the river receives several of its largest tributaries: in addition ...
Nyx in Greek mythology, female personification of night but also a great cosmogonical figure, feared even ... [2 Related Articles]
Nzapali, Sebastien (from the article "Law, Crime, and Law Enforcement") In The Netherlands, Sebastien Nzapali, an army officer under Mobutu Sese Seko, former president of ...
Nzaukwu Nabi (from the article "African dance") ...pattern leads into a cartwheel; Iza requires an upright carriage with high kicks; Nkpopi is ...
Nzekwu, Onuora Nigerian teacher, writer, and editor who explored the internal conflicts inherent in the relationship of ... [1 Related Articles]
Nzerekore town, southeastern Guinea, western Africa. It lies at the intersection of roads from Ganta (in ... [1 Related Articles]
Nzo, Alfred Baphethuxolo South African black nationalist and statesman (b. June 19, 1925, Benoni, S.Af.-d. Jan. 13, 2000, ...
Nzwani (from the article "Comoros") The recent stability enjoyed in Comoros was interrupted in 2007 when the country faced a ...
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