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New Plymouth

(Encyclopedia)New Plymouth, city (1996 pop. 48,871), West Coast North Island, New Zealand, on the Tasman Sea. It is a port and a major center for dairying. Other industries include natural gas processing and metal ...

New Rochelle

(Encyclopedia)New Rochelle rōshĕlˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 67,625), Westchester co., SE N.Y., on Long Island Sound; settled by Huguenots 1688, inc. as a village 1858, as a city 1899. Although mainly a residential...

New Romney

(Encyclopedia)New Romney rŭmˈnē [key], town (1991 pop. 4,500), Kent, SE England, in Romney Marsh. Until the sea receded, New Romney lay on the coast and was one of the Cinque Ports. Numerous documents concerning...

New Sarum

(Encyclopedia)New Sarum, England: see Salisbury. ...

New Spain

(Encyclopedia)New Spain: see Mexico, country.

New Territories

(Encyclopedia)New Territories: see Hong Kong.

New Testament

(Encyclopedia)New Testament, the distinctively Christian portion of the Bible, consisting of 27 books of varying lengths dating from the earliest Christian period. The seven epistles whose authorship by St. Paul is...

New Thought

(Encyclopedia)New Thought, popular philosophical movement with religious implications; it affirms “the creative power of constructive thinking.” A successor of New England transcendentalism, New Thought grew ou...

New Toronto

(Encyclopedia)New Toronto tərŏnˈtō [key], part of metropolitan Toronto, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. ...

new towns

(Encyclopedia)new towns, planned urban communities in Great Britain, developed by long-term loans from the central government and first authorized by the New Towns Act of 1946. The chief purpose of the act was to r...