• New Novel (literature)

    New Novel, avant-garde novel of the mid-20th century that marked a radical departure from the conventions of the traditional novel in that it ignores such elements as plot, dialogue, linear narrative, and human interest. Starting from the premise that the potential of the traditional novel had been

  • New Nyaya (Indian philosophical school)

    Indian philosophy: The ultralogical period: …foundations of the school of Navya-Nyaya (“New Nyaya”). Four great members of this school were Pakshadhara Mishra of Mithila, Vasudeva Sarvabhauma (16th century), his disciple Raghunatha Shiromani (both of Bengal), and Gadadhara Bhattacharyya.

  • New Objectivity (German art movement)

    Neue Sachlichkeit, (German: New Objectivity), a group of German artists in the 1920s whose works were executed in a realistic style (in contrast to the prevailing styles of Expressionism and Abstraction) and who reflected what was characterized as the resignation and cynicism of the post-World War

  • New Orange (New York, United States)

    New York City, city and port located at the mouth of the Hudson River, southeastern New York state, northeastern U.S. It is the largest and most influential American metropolis, encompassing Manhattan and Staten islands, the western sections of Long Island, and a small portion of the New York state

  • New Order (British rock group)

    Joy Division/New Order: /New Order, British rock group who, as Joy Division, refined the external chaos of 1970s punk into a disquieting inner turmoil, ushering in the postpunk era. After vocalist Ian Curtis’s death in 1980, the band continued as New Order and pioneered the successful fusion of…

  • New Order (Indonesian history)

    Suharto: …a policy he called the New Order, relying on the help of American-educated economists to reinvigorate the Indonesian economy. Western investment and foreign aid were encouraged, and Indonesia’s domestic oil production was greatly expanded, with the resulting revenues used to fund infrastructure and development projects. By 1972 Suharto had succeeded…

  • New Order (Italian intellectual group)

    Italy: Economic and political crisis: the two red years: …radical approach, and by the New Order (Ordine Nuovo) group of intellectuals based in Turin around Antonio Gramsci. These Socialists continually proclaimed the need for revolution and their desire to “do as in Russia.” Reformist leaders, such as Turati, were isolated and vilified. However, the party did little to actually…

  • New Orleans (Louisiana, United States)

    New Orleans, city, southeastern Louisiana, U.S. Unquestionably one of the most distinctive cities of the New World, New Orleans was established at great cost in an environment of conflict. Its strategic position, commanding the mouth of the great Mississippi-Missouri river system, which drains the

  • New Orleans (steamboat)

    Cincinnati: History: …of the Allegheny Mountains, the New Orleans, arrived on its downriver voyage from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Miami and Erie Canal was completed to Dayton in 1829, and the first section of the Little Miami Railway was laid in 1843. River commerce, which reached its height in 1852, stimulated steamboat building…

  • New Orleans Buccaneers (American basketball team)

    Larry Brown: …as a member of the New Orleans Buccaneers of the American Basketball Association (ABA). Brown was one of the league’s early stars. Over five seasons with five teams, he established himself as a scrappy, cerebral point guard. He was the Most Valuable Player of the 1968 ABA All-Star Game and…

  • New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (training center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States)

    Marsalis family: Ellis Marsalis: Pianist and family patriarch: …he began teaching at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, where his pupils included Harry Connick, Jr., Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Nicholas Payton, and Kent and Marlon Jordan, as well as his own six sons, four of whom became celebrated musicians. The success of his sons resulted in Ellis’s…

  • New Orleans Hornets (American basketball team)

    New Orleans Pelicans, American professional basketball team based in New Orleans that plays in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Pelicans, founded in 1988, were originally located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and were known as the Hornets. Early teams

  • New Orleans Jazz Club (music organization)

    New Orleans: Cultural life: The New Orleans Jazz Club established a Jazz Museum and later donated the collection to the Louisiana State Museum system. The jazz collection is displayed in the Old U.S. Mint. Each spring the city puts on the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

  • New Orleans lynching of 1891 (mass lynching, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States)

    New Orleans lynching of 1891, the largest mass lynching of Italian Americans to take place in the United States. The occurrence happened on March 14, 1891, at Orleans Parish Prison in New Orleans. Following the acquittal and mistrial of several Italian immigrants accused of murdering New Orleans

  • New Orleans massacre of 1866 (United States history)

    New Orleans massacre of 1866, incident of white violence directed against newly freed African Americans in urban New Orleans, Louisiana, after the end of the American Civil War. On July 30, 1866, a mob of white men—acting with the compliance and even aid of local civilian authorities and the

  • New Orleans Pelicans (American basketball team)

    New Orleans Pelicans, American professional basketball team based in New Orleans that plays in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Pelicans, founded in 1988, were originally located in Charlotte, North Carolina, and were known as the Hornets. Early teams

  • New Orleans Picayune (American newspaper)

    Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson: …New Orleans Times, and the New Orleans Picayune. Over family objections, she accepted the post of literary editor of the Picayune in 1870. In May 1872 she married Alva M. Holbrook, who until the preceding January had been owner and editor of the paper. She published Lyrics, a volume of…

  • New Orleans Rhythm Kings (American jazz band)

    jazz: The cornetist breaks away: Louis Armstrong and the invention of swing: …the time, such as the New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Red Nichols and his Five Pennies, and, above all, the outstandingly gifted Bix Beiderbecke. Inheriting a lyrical, romantic bent from his German background, Beiderbecke presented another view of the Armstrong revolution, not only in his superb recorded improvisations of “I’m Coming…

  • New Orleans Saints (American football team)

    New Orleans Saints, American professional football team based in New Orleans that plays in the National Football Conference (NFC) of the NFL. The Saints have won one Super Bowl championship (2010). (Read Walter Camp’s 1903 Britannica essay on inventing American football.) The Saints began play in

  • New Orleans style (jazz)

    New Orleans style, in music, the first method of group jazz improvisation. Developed near the turn of the 20th century, it was not recorded first in New Orleans but rather in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Richmond, Indiana. Divided by many experts into white (the Original Dixieland Jazz Band and the

  • New Orleans Village (Connecticut, United States)

    Torrington, city, coextensive with the town (township) of Torrington, Litchfield county, northwestern Connecticut, U.S., on the Naugatuck River. The town was named in 1732 for Great Torrington, England, but the area was not settled until 1737. The town was incorporated in 1740. The village went by

  • New Orleans, Battle of (American Civil War [1862])

    Battle of New Orleans, (April 24–25, 1862), naval action by Union forces seeking to capture the city during the American Civil War. A Union naval squadron of 43 ships under Admiral David G. Farragut entered the lower Mississippi near New Orleans and soon breached the heavy chain cables that were

  • New Orleans, Battle of (United States-United Kingdom [1815])

    Battle of New Orleans, (January 8, 1815), U.S. victory against Great Britain in the War of 1812 and the final major battle of that conflict. Both the British and American troops were unaware of the peace treaty that had been signed between the two countries in Ghent, Belgium, a few weeks prior, and

  • New Orleans, Port of (area, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States)

    New Orleans: The port: The era of the modern Port of New Orleans began in 1879 with the construction of jetties in South Pass, one of three passes that flow from the river into the gulf. Sandbars had formed at intervals in these passes and had hindered ships entering the river since the city’s…

  • New Orleans, University of (university, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States)

    New Orleans: Education: …Loyola University New Orleans, the University of New Orleans, Delgado Community College, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, Dillard University, Xavier University of Louisiana, and Southern University at New Orleans. The city has many private, parochial, and business schools. The public school system began in 1841 with 83 pupils and…

  • New Pacific, The (work by Bancroft)

    Hubert Howe Bancroft: His other writings include The New Pacific (1898), in which he argued in favour of U.S. imperialism in the West.

  • New Paltz (New York, United States)

    New Paltz, town (township), Ulster county, southeastern New York, U.S., on the Wallkill River, just northwest of Poughkeepsie; it includes the village of New Paltz. The site was settled by French Huguenots in 1677 who named it for an earlier European refuge, the Rhenish Palatinate (German Pfalz).

  • New Paphos (historical city, Cyprus)

    Paphos: …located at modern Pírgos (Kouklia); New Paphos, which had superseded Old Paphos by Roman times, was 10 miles (16 km) farther west. New Paphos and Ktima together form modern Paphos.

  • New Party (Indian political group)

    India: Moderate and militant nationalism: Young militants of Tilak’s New Party wanted to extend the boycott movement to the entire British government, while moderate leaders like Gokhale cautioned against such “extreme” action, fearing it might lead to violence. Those moderates were attacked by the militants as “traitors” to the “motherland,” and the Congress split…

  • New Patriotic Party (political party, Ghana)

    Ghana: Democratic stability: …John Agyekum Kufuor of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the first peaceful transfer of power between democratically elected governments since Ghanaian independence in 1957; Kufuor was reelected in 2004.

  • New Peace Party (political party, Japan)

    New Kōmeitō: …1998 Kōmeitō merged with the New Peace Party to become New Kōmeitō. In the lower-house elections of 2000, New Kōmeitō captured only 31 seats. Subsequent elections to that chamber in 2003 and 2005 yielded about the same level of support for the party—34 and 31 seats, respectively—and it solidified itself…

  • New Penacook Plantation (Maine, United States)

    Rumford, town, Oxford county, western Maine, U.S., in the Oxford Hills where the Ellis, Swift, and Concord rivers enter the Androscoggin River to form spectacular Pennacook Falls, 75 miles (121 km) north-northwest of Portland. The town includes the communities of Rumford, Rumford Center, and

  • new pence (coin)

    coin: Modern coinage: With 100 “new pence” to the pound, the decimal coinage was based on denominations of these new pence ( 1 2 [since demonetized], one, two, five, 10, 50); the sixpence coin continued briefly as a 2 1 2 -pence coin before being phased out, as were the…

  • New People’s Army (political organization, Philippines)

    New People’s Army (NPA), military arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist-Leninist (CPP-ML), which is a Communist organization dedicated to achieving power in the Philippines by means of revolutionary insurrection. The CPP-ML was originally a Maoist faction that broke away from the

  • New Persian

    Persian language, member of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian language family. It is the official language of Iran, and two varieties of Persian known as Dari and Tajik are official languages in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, respectively. Modern Persian is most closely related to Middle and Old

  • New Persian literature

    Persian literature, body of writings in New Persian (also called Modern Persian), the form of the Persian language written since the 9th century with a slightly extended form of the Arabic alphabet and with many Arabic loanwords. The literary form of New Persian is known as Farsi in Iran, where it

  • New Philadelphia (Ohio, United States)

    New Philadelphia, city, seat (1808) of Tuscarawas county, east-central Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Tuscarawas River, adjacent to the city of Dover, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Canton. It was founded in 1804 by John Knisely, a tavern keeper from York, Pa. Named for Philadelphia, Pa., the

  • New Philharmonic Pitch (music)

    pitch: …in 1896, adopted the “New Philharmonic Pitch” at a′ = 439 and, in 1939, adopted the U.S. standard pitch of a′ = 440. In the mid-20th century, pitch again tended to creep upward as some European woodwind builders used the pitch a′ = 444.

  • New Philosophers (French group)

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: …that became known as the New Philosophers (Nouveaux Philosophes). They launched a severe critique of the Marxism and socialism that had dominated French intellectual life since World War II and to which Lévy himself had previously subscribed. His principal contribution to that movement was La Barbarie à visage humain (1977;…

  • New Picture Gallery (museum, Munich, Germany)

    Bavarian State Picture Galleries: The Neue Pinakothek (New Pinakothek), based on private picture collections of the Bavarian kings, is a collection noted for its works of European painting from the 18th through the 20th century and for its sculpture of the 19th–20th centuries. It is housed with the New State…

  • New Pien Canal (canal, China [605])

    Bian Canal: … (581–618) began construction of the New Bian Canal in 605. It followed the old canal as far as Shangqiu but then flowed southeastward through Yongcheng (Henan) and Suxian (Anhui) to Sihong (Jiangsu), where it joined the Huai above Hongze Lake in Jiangsu, which was considerably smaller in the 7th century.…

  • New Pittsburgh Courier (American newspaper)

    New Pittsburgh Courier, newspaper based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that is known for promoting economic and political power for African Americans. For many years it published both local and national print editions, which allowed its editors and writers to bring attention to events and influence

  • New Plymouth (New Zealand)

    New Plymouth, city (“district”) and port, Taranaki local government region, western North Island, New Zealand. It lies along North Taranaki Bight at the base of Mount Taranaki (Egmont). The settlement was founded in 1841 by the New Plymouth Company under the auspices of the New Zealand Company. In

  • New Poems (work by Heine)

    Heinrich Heine: Later life and works: …of poems, Neue Gedichte (1844; New Poems), illustrates the change. The first group, “Neuer Frühling” (“New Spring,” written mostly in 1830/31), is a more mannered reprise of the love poems of Buch der Lieder, and the volume also contains some ballad poetry, a genre in which Heine worked all his…

  • New Poems 1956–73 (poetry by Kinsella)

    Thomas Kinsella: New Poems 1956–73 (1973) and One, and Other Poems (1979) skillfully extend the themes of love, death, and rejuvenation.

  • New Poetry (Vietnamese poetry movement)

    Vietnamese literature: …and Nhat Linh, and the Tho Moi (“New Poetry”) school, which included important writers such as Xuan Dieu, Che Lan Vien, Cu Huy Can, Bang Ba Lan, and Luu Trong Lu. Both groups succeeded in throwing off antiquated Chinese literary habits, creating a new and lively literature in Quoc-ngu, the…

  • New Poets movement (classical literature)

    neōteros, any of a group of poets who sought to break away from the didactic-patriotic tradition of Latin poetry by consciously emulating the forms and content of Alexandrian Greek models. The neōteroi deplored the excesses of alliteration and onomatopoeia and the ponderous metres that

  • New Policies (Chinese history)

    Wang Anshi: …unconventional idealism through the “New Laws,” or “New Policies,” of 1069–76. The academic controversy sparked by his reforms continued for centuries.

  • New Pope, The (television series)

    Jude Law: Streaming career and activism: The New Pope, a continuation of The Young Pope, also caused controversy with scenes depicting Law’s character as transgressive, including one in which he wears the briefest of swimming trunks. Law also served as a producer on both shows. In 2025 he teamed up with…

  • New Pornographers, the (Canadian rock group)

    the Cars: Reunion and legacy: outfits, including Weezer, the Strokes, the New Pornographers, and the Killers. In 2024 the U.S. Library of Congress added the album The Cars to the National Recording Registry, a list of audio recordings deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

  • New Principles of Gunnery (work by Robins)

    Benjamin Robins: …theory and practice with his New Principles of Gunnery (1742), which invalidated old suppositions about the nature and action of gunpowder and the flight of projectiles and formed the basis of all later scientific studies in these fields. His invention of the ballistic pendulum, a device allowing the determination of…

  • New Procurators Offices (building, Venice, Italy)

    Venice: The Piazza San Marco: …Old Procurators’ Offices and the New Procurators’ Offices. The buildings now house fashionable shops and elegant cafés, whose string ensembles compete with each other in summer months to attract customers to their open-air tables. At the basilica end of the Old Procurators’ building stands the Clock Tower, a late 14th-century…

  • New Progressive Party (political party, Puerto Rico)

    Puerto Rico: Government: …of commonwealth status, and the New Progressive Party, which favours U.S. statehood. Together these two parties have commanded virtually all the vote in elections since the late 20th century. The Puerto Rican Independence Party, which won one-fifth of the vote in 1952, is supported by about 5 percent of the…

  • New Prophecy (religion)

    Montanism, a schismatic movement founded by the prophet Montanus that arose in the Christian church in Phrygia, Asia Minor (modern Turkey), in the 2nd century. Subsequently it flourished in the West, principally in Carthage under the leadership of Tertullian in the 3rd century. It almost died out

  • New Providence Island (island, The Bahamas)

    New Providence Island, principal island of The Bahamas, West Indies. It is located between Andros Island (west) and Eleuthera Island (east). The island has a length of 21 miles (34 km) and a width of 7 miles (11 km) and is mostly flat, with swamps and several shallow lakes. Nassau is the island’s

  • new public management (government)

    governance: The new governance: …first wave consisted of the new public management (NPM), as advocated by neoliberals; these reforms were attempts to increase the role of markets and of corporate management techniques in the public sector. The second wave of reforms consisted of attempts to develop and manage a joined-up series of networks informed…

  • New Quebec (administrative region, Quebec, Canada)

    Nord-du-Québec, administrative region constituting the northern half of Quebec province, Canada. The name Nouveau-Québec (“New Quebec”) once was used synonymously with Ungava for that part of the Labrador-Ungava peninsula between Hudson Bay and the Labrador Sea, north of the Eastmain and Churchill

  • New Quebec Crater (crater, Quebec, Canada)

    Ungava-Quebec Crater, geologically young crater, produced by an impact event involving a meteorite, located in the northwestern part of the Ungava Peninsula, northern Quebec province, Canada. First recognized as an impact structure in 1950, the crater is 3.4 km (2.1 miles) in diameter and has a rim

  • New Rajagrha (ancient city, India)

    Rajgir Hills: The remains of New Rajagriha, the reputed capital of King Bimbisara (c. 520–491 bce), lie north of the valley.

  • new realism (philosophy)

    new realism, early 20th-century movement in metaphysics and epistemology that opposed the idealism dominant in British and U.S. universities. Early leaders included William James, Bertrand Russell, and G.E. Moore, who adopted the term realism to signal their opposition to idealism. In 1910 William

  • New Realism (art)

    César: …at the forefront of the New Realism movement with his radical compressions (compacted automobiles, discarded metal, or rubbish), expansions (polyurethane foam sculptures), and fantastic representations of animals and insects.

  • new regionalism

    new regionalism, shift in national systems of administration and cultural, economic, and political organization following the Cold War. New regionalist projects, which began about the mid-1980s, differed in substance from the earlier rise in regionalist developments, which had begun about the 1950s

  • new religious movement

    new religious movement (NRM), the generally accepted term for what is sometimes called, often with pejorative connotations, a “cult.” The term new religious movement has been applied to all new faiths that have arisen worldwide over the past several centuries. NRMs are characterized by a number of

  • New Republic Party (political party, South Africa)

    New Republic Party, former South African political party founded in 1977 as the direct successor to the United Party. The majority faction of the United Party, seeing its party disintegrating by defections to other new parties and to the ruling National Party, decided formally to disband the party

  • New Republic, The (American magazine)

    The New Republic (TNR), journal of opinion edited in Washington, D.C. and later New York City, that remained one of the most influential magazines in the United States from its founding in 1914. The magazine was begun by Willard Straight with Herbert David Croly as its editor. The New Republic

  • New Review, The (American magazine)

    Samuel Putnam: …and edited a critical magazine, The New Review (1931–32), which had an eclectic mix of contributors ranging from Ezra Pound to James T. Farrell.

  • New Right (political movement)

    New Right, grassroots coalition of American conservatives that collectively led what scholars often refer to as the “conservative ascendancy” or “Republican ascendancy” of the late 20th century. Dubbed the New Right partly in contrast to the New Left counterculture of the 1960s, the New Right

  • New River (river, United States)

    New River, river formed by the junction of North and South forks in Ashe county, northwestern North Carolina, U.S. It flows north across Virginia into West Virginia and joins the Gauley River, there dammed for hydropower, after a course of 255 miles (410 km), to form the Kanawha River in

  • New River (river, Central America)

    Belize: Drainage and soils: …which stands Belize City), the New River, and the Hondo River (which forms the northern frontier with Mexico). Both the New and the Hondo rivers drain into Chetumal Bay to the north. South of Belize City the coastal plain is crossed by short river valleys. Along the coast is the…

  • New River (river, England, United Kingdom)

    Enfield: The New River, an early 17th-century canal, constructed to supply water from Hertfordshire to Clerkenwell, London, remains a scenic element in the district, and landscaping, footpaths, and recreation sites have transformed the Lea valley into a green corridor extending deep into the East End of London.…

  • New River Gorge Bridge (bridge, Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States)

    bridge: Truss bridges: In 1977 the New River Gorge Bridge, the world’s longest-spanning steel arch, was completed in Fayette county, West Virginia, U.S. Designed by Michael Baker, the two-hinged arch truss carries four lanes of traffic 263 meters (876 feet) above the river and has a span of 510 meters (1,700…

  • New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (national park, West Virginia, United States)

    New River: New River Gorge National Park and Preserve covers more than 70,000 acres (28,300 hectares) along some 50 miles (80 km) of the river.

  • New Rochelle (New York, United States)

    New Rochelle, city, Westchester county, southeastern New York, U.S. It lies along Long Island Sound, just northeast of New York City. Founded in 1688 by a group of Huguenot refugees, it was named for La Rochelle, a seaport on the Atlantic coast of France. Its modern suburban-residential character

  • New Romantic (British culture)

    new wave: …of Seagulls; and the so-called New Romantics, including the cosmetics-wearing Duran Duran, Adam and the Ants, and Culture Club. As the mid-1980s approached, the line separating new wave from the corporate mainstream blurred, especially for bands such as the Pretenders (fronted by former rock journalist Chrissie Hynde), the

  • New Rome (Turkey)

    Istanbul, largest city and principal seaport of Turkey. It was the capital of both the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The old walled city of Istanbul stands on a triangular peninsula between Europe and Asia. Sometimes as a bridge, sometimes as a barrier, Istanbul for more than 2,500 years

  • New Romney (England, United Kingdom)

    New Romney, town (parish), Shepway district, administrative and historic county of Kent, southeastern England. It was formerly one of the medieval Cinque Ports of the English Channel coast but is now more than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the sea. The town is surrounded by Romney Marsh, a level tract built

  • New Ross (Ireland)

    New Ross, port town, County Wexford, Ireland. It lies along the River Barrow, just below the latter’s junction with the Nore. In the 6th century St. Abban founded the abbey of Rossmactreoin, which gave rise to the ancient city Rossglas, or Rossponte. By 1269 the town, which stands on a steep hill

  • New Russia (historical region, Ukraine)

    Ukraine: Ukraine under direct imperial Russian rule: …sparsely settled southern lands (named Novorossiya, or New Russia) were colonized by migrants from other parts of Ukraine, as well as smaller numbers from Russia, the Balkans, and Germany. This colonization movement greatly expanded Ukrainian ethnic territory. The new Black Sea port of Odessa (Odesa) grew into a large and…

  • New Saint Peter’s Basilica (church, Vatican City)

    St. Peter’s Basilica, present basilica of St. Peter in Vatican City (an enclave in Rome), begun by Pope Julius II in 1506 and completed in 1615 under Paul V. It is designed as a three-aisled Latin cross with a dome at the crossing, directly above the high altar, which covers the shrine of St. Peter

  • New Sarai (Russia)

    Russia: Tatar rule: (It was moved to New Sarai, near the site of Tsaritsyn, modern Volgograd, about 1260.) These towns became the commercial and administrative centres of what was later to be called the “Golden Horde” (the term is probably a Western invention). Its East Slavic territories were tributaries of an extensive…

  • New Sarum (England, United Kingdom)

    Salisbury, city in the administrative and historic county of Wiltshire, southern England. It is situated at the confluence of the Rivers Avon (East, or Hampshire, Avon) and Wiley. It functioned historically as the principal town of Wiltshire and is the seat of an Anglican bishop. The origins of

  • New School for Social Research (university, New York City, New York, United States)

    The New School, private coeducational institution of higher learning in New York, New York, U.S. The New School for Social Research was established in 1919 as an informal centre for adult education by a group of independent-minded scholars that included economist Thorstein Veblen, historian Charles

  • New School of Poetry (Greek literary school)

    Kóstas Kariotákis: …show the influence of the New School of Poetry of Athens, founded in about 1880 by Kostís Palamás, which revolted against Katharevusa, the stilted and archaic official language of Greece, and against the emotionalism of the Romantics. His poetry also reveals the Symbolist influence in addition to the loneliness and…

  • New School Presbyterian Church

    Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.): History: …in the North, added “New School” and the other added “Old School.” Both groups continued to grow, but, during the Civil War, the Old School Presbyterians in the South seceded and formed the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. After the war the North-South groups of the…

  • New School, The (university, New York City, New York, United States)

    The New School, private coeducational institution of higher learning in New York, New York, U.S. The New School for Social Research was established in 1919 as an informal centre for adult education by a group of independent-minded scholars that included economist Thorstein Veblen, historian Charles

  • New Science, The (work by Vico)

    Giambattista Vico: Period of the Scienza nuova of Giambattista Vico: The outline of the work that he planned to call Scienza nuova first appeared in 1720–21 in a two-volume legal treatise on the “Universal Law.” The outline was written in Latin and appeared in a chapter entitled “Nova Scientia Tentatur” (“The…

  • New Scotland Yard (British police)

    Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police and, by association, a name often used to denote that force. It is located on the River Thames at Victoria Embankment just north of Westminster Bridge in the City of Westminster. The London police force was created in 1829 by an act

  • New Sculpture (art movement)

    Sir Thomas Brock: He is associated with the New Sculpture movement that reinvigorated the classicizing British sculpture with a new elegance and vitality drawn from Renaissance and Baroque models.

  • New Sensationalist school (Japanese literature)

    Yokomitsu Riichi: …of the mainstays of the New Sensationalist school (Shinkankaku-ha) of Japanese writers, influenced by the avant-garde trends in European literature of the 1920s.

  • New Seven Wonders of the World

    In 2000 a Swiss foundation launched a campaign to determine the New Seven Wonders of the World. Given that the original Seven Wonders list was compiled in the 2nd century BCE—and that only one entrant is still standing (the Pyramids of Giza)—it seemed time for an update. And people around the world

  • New Severn River (river, Canada)

    Severn River, river, northwestern Ontario, Canada. It rises in the Finger Lake region of western Ontario and flows northeast for about 610 miles (980 km) through Severn Lake to Hudson Bay. Discovered in 1631, it was originally named New Severn (after the River Severn in England) by Capt. Thomas

  • New Shepard (spacecraft)

    Jeff Bezos: Other activities: …introduce a crewed suborbital spacecraft, New Shepard, in 2018 and an orbital launch vehicle, New Glenn, in 2020. Bezos bought The Washington Post and affiliated publications for $250 million in 2013. Bezos’s net worth was calculated in 2026 at $224 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world.

  • New Shoreham (Rhode Island, United States)

    New Shoreham, town, Rhode Island, U.S., coextensive with Block Island

  • New Siberian Islands (islands, Russia)

    New Siberian Islands, archipelago, northeastern Russia, lying north of eastern Siberia in the Arctic Ocean and dividing the Laptev Sea to the west from the East Siberian Sea to the east. Dmitry Laptev Strait separates the New Siberian Islands from the Siberian mainland. The archipelago is

  • New Silk Road (Chinese-led infrastructure project)

    Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Chinese-led massive infrastructure investment project aimed at improving connectivity, trade, and communication across Eurasia, Latin America, and Africa. Among the infrastructure projects it has supported are airports, ports, power plants, bridges, railways, roads,

  • New Site (Alabama, United States)

    Andalusia, city, seat (1841) of Covington county, southern Alabama, U.S., near the Conecuh River, about 85 miles (135 km) south of Montgomery. It originated in 1841 as New Site, when the county seat of Montezuma relocated to higher ground because of floods, at a point along the Three Notch Trail

  • New Slovenia–Christian People’s Party (political party, Slovenia)

    Slovenia: Political process: …formed a coalition with the New Slovenia–Christian People’s Party, the Slovenian Democratic Party of Pensioners, and the Slovenian People’s Party. In the 2008 parliamentary elections the centre-left Social Democrats narrowly edged out the Slovenian Democratic Party.

  • New Smyrna (Florida, United States)

    New Smyrna Beach, city, Volusia county, northeastern Florida, U.S. It lies 15 miles (25 km) south of Daytona Beach, on the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River (a lagoon separated from the Atlantic by barrier islands). Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León landed at an inlet just north of the city

  • New Smyrna Beach (Florida, United States)

    New Smyrna Beach, city, Volusia county, northeastern Florida, U.S. It lies 15 miles (25 km) south of Daytona Beach, on the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River (a lagoon separated from the Atlantic by barrier islands). Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León landed at an inlet just north of the city

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