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New Brunswick, province, Canada
(Encyclopedia)CE5 New Brunswick, province (2001 pop. 729,498), 28,345 sq mi (73,433 sq km), including 519 sq mi (1,345 sq km) of water surface, E Canada. The Mi'kmaq, an indigenous people whose settlements s...New Brunswick, University of
(Encyclopedia)New Brunswick, University of, at Fredericton, N.B., Canada; nondenominational; provincially supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1800 as the College of New Brunswick, called King's College b...New Forest National Park
(Encyclopedia)New Forest National Park, c.220 sq mi (570 sq km), Hampshire and Wiltshire, S England. Lying mainly in the New Forest dist., SW Hampshire, between the cities of Bournemouth and Southampton, it is roug...New Guinea, Territory of
(Encyclopedia)New Guinea, Territory of: see Papua New Guinea. ...New Hampshire, University of
(Encyclopedia)New Hampshire, University of, main campus at Durham; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1866, opened 1868 as the state college of agriculture and mechanic arts, a division of Dar...New Madrid Fault System
(Encyclopedia)New Madrid Fault System: see under New Madrid, Mo. ...Nelson, city, New Zealand
(Encyclopedia)Nelson, city (1996 pop. 40,242), N South Island, New Zealand, at the head of Tasman Bay. It is a center of fruit production, with other light industries. The Cawthron Institute for scientific research...Sable Island, New Caledonia
(Encyclopedia)Sable Island, New Caledonia: see Sandy Island. ...Herriman, George
(Encyclopedia)Herriman, George, 1880–1944, American cartoonist, b. New Orleans into a prominent mixed-race Creole family. He created the fanciful, abstractly drawn comic strip Krazy Kat (1913–44), which feature...Loiret
(Encyclopedia)Loiret lwärāˈ [key], department (1990 pop. 580,612), N central France, partly in Orléanais. Orléans is the capital. ...Browse by Subject
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