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New Azerbaijan Party
New Azerbaijan Party (Yeni Azərbaycan Partiyası, YAP), Azerbaijan's ruling center-right party, founded November 21, 1992 in Nakhchivan by Heydar Aliyev; chaired by Ilham Aliyev since 2005, it holds 68 of 125 parliamentary seats.
New Balance
New Balance: Boston-based athletic footwear and apparel company founded in 1906 by William Riley, privately held by the Davis family since 1972; $9.2 billion 2025 sales, US and UK factories, wide width range, 990 heritage line.
New Balance 574
The New Balance 574 is a lifestyle sneaker released by New Balance in 1988 as a value version of the 500 series, designed by Steven Smith with ENCAP cushioning.
New Bauhaus
The New Bauhaus was an American design school founded in Chicago in 1937 by former Bauhaus master László Moholy-Nagy to carry the Bauhaus program to the United States.
New beat
New beat is a Belgian electronic dance music genre of the late 1980s, built on slowed-down beats around 111 BPM and most popular in 1988 and 1989.
New Bedford Inlet
New Bedford Inlet is a large ice-filled embayment between Cape Kidson and Cape Brooks on the Lassiter Coast, Palmer Land, Antarctica; discovered by USAS air photography in December 1940 and named after New Bedford, Massachusetts.
New Bedford, Massachusetts
New Bedford, Massachusetts, is a southeastern Massachusetts city on Buzzards Bay, once the world's leading whaling port and today the highest-valued fishing port in the United States.
New Belgium Brewing Company
New Belgium Brewing Company, Fort Collins craft brewery founded in 1991 by Jeff Lebesch and Kim Jordan after a Belgian bike trip; maker of Fat Tire and Voodoo Ranger, once employee-owned, now owned by Lion/Kirin since 2019.
New Belgrade
New Belgrade (Novi Beograd, Нови Београд) is Belgrade's planned left-bank municipality, begun 11 April 1948 on drained marshland as socialist Yugoslavia's showcase capital, known for numbered modernist and brutalist blocks and its protected Central Zone.
New Bern, North Carolina
New Bern, North Carolina: Craven County seat founded 1710 by Swiss and Palatine settlers under Baron Christoph von Graffenried at the Neuse-Trent confluence; colonial capital 1766-1788, home of Tryon Palace, hit by Hurricane Florence 2018.
New Bilibid Prison
New Bilibid Prison (NBP) is the Philippine national penitentiary in Muntinlupa City, run by the Bureau of Corrections. Opened 1940, overcrowded maximum-security compound, gang-controlled drug trade, slated for closure and redevelopment by 2028.
New biotechnology
New Biotechnology (N Biotechnol) is a bimonthly, open-access Elsevier journal for the European Federation of Biotechnology, published in Amsterdam since 2008, continuing Biomolecular Engineering, ISSN 1871-6784, merged with the EFB Bioeconomy Journal in January 2025.
New Birmingham City Stadium
Birmingham City Powerhouse, also called the Powerhouse Stadium: planned 62,000-seat Birmingham City FC ground in Bordesley Green, East Birmingham, on the former Birmingham Wheels site, designed by Heatherwick Studio and MANICA with 12 chimney towers, opening for the 2030-31 season.
New Black Panther Party
The New Black Panther Party is an American Black militant organization founded in Dallas in the early 1990s and designated a hate group by the SPLC.
New Blue Sun
New Blue Sun is André 3000's debut solo album, released November 17, 2023 on Epic Records: an eight-track, 87-minute instrumental record of flute-led ambient jazz co-produced with Carlos Niño, his first album in 17 years, later nominated for three Grammys.
New Book of Tang
The New Book of Tang (新唐书) is a history of the Tang dynasty compiled under Ouyang Xiu and Song Qi, known for its tables and treatises.
New Bouleuterion
New Bouleuterion (Νέον Βουλευτήριον): late 5th-century BC council house west of the Old Bouleuterion in the Athenian Agora, housing the Council of 500; about 21.5 × 16.9 m, four interior columns, wooden amphitheater seating, in use into the Roman period.
New Boyz
New Boyz: Hesperia, California rap duo of Ben J (Earl Benjamin) and Legacy (Dominic Thomas), formed 2008 as Swagger Boyz; "You're a Jerk" (2009, No. 24, platinum) popularized the jerkin' dance movement; albums Skinny Jeanz and a Mic and Too Cool to Care; split 2013, reunited 2022.
New Braunfels, Texas
New Braunfels, Texas: Comal County seat city founded March 21, 1845 by Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels' Adelsverein colonists on the Comal and Guadalupe rivers; about 122,500 residents (2025), tubing on the 2.5-mile Comal, Wurstfest, Schlitterbahn, $1.3 billion hospitality economy.
New Bridge (near Harrogate)
New Bridge (near Harrogate): Grade II listed 1822 packhorse bridge over the River Nidd at Birstwith, North Yorkshire, on the Otley-to-Ripon packhorse track; single round arch, 20 m span; distinct from New Bridges at Ripon, Studley Royal, and Harewood.
New Bridge (near Oxford, 1004851)
New Bridge (scheduled monument 1004851) is a 14th-century six-arch limestone bridge over the Thames at Newbridge between Northmoor and Kingston Bagpuize near Oxford, Grade I listed and the most complete medieval bridge in Oxfordshire.
New Bridge (near Oxford, 1368023)
New Bridge (Historic England list entry 1368023) is a Grade I listed 1773 road bridge by Sir William Chambers over the River Glynne at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire; limestone ashlar, three semi-circular arches, distinct from medieval Newbridge on the Thames.
New Bridge (near Plymouth)
New Bridge (Gunnislake Bridge), Grade I listed circa 1520 granite bridge of six arches, 55 m long, over the River Tamar between Gunnislake, Cornwall and Gulworthy, Devon near Plymouth; lowest Tamar bridge before 1859.
New brighton
New Brighton (Merseyside) football: New Brighton Tower FC (1896-1901), Towerites, Division Two 1898-1901, folded over low gates; successor New Brighton AFC, Football League 1923-1951.
New Brighton Reef
New Brighton Reef: proposed artificial surf reef at New Brighton Beach, Christchurch, NZ, from the 2002 Pegasus Bay Artificial Reef Trust proposal; also the pier-shaped beach break with east/south swells, 3-5 ft optimum.
New Britain
New Britain, formerly Neu-Pommern under German rule, is the largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago in Papua New Guinea, about 610 kilometers long and home to over 500,000 people.
New Britain Rock Cats
New Britain Rock Cats, Double-A Eastern League team in New Britain, Connecticut (1997-2015), Twins then Rockies affiliate, played at 6,146-seat New Britain Stadium, 2001 co-champions, became Hartford Yard Goats.
New Britain Trench
New Britain Trench: oceanic trench in the Solomon Sea, Papua New Guinea, also called Bougainville-New Britain Trench. Solomon Sea Plate subducts northward at 80-150 mm/yr; ~840 km long, up to 9,103 m deep, PNG's most seismically active source.
New Britain, Connecticut
New Britain, Connecticut: the "Hardware City" of central Connecticut, home of Stanley Works (founded 1843) and Stanley Black & Decker; parish from 1754, city since 1871, population about 74,000.
New Broncos Stadium
New Broncos Stadium: planned privately funded retractable-roof NFL stadium for the Denver Broncos at Burnham Yard, Denver, announced 2025, targeting the 2031 season with a mixed-use district.