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New Flyer Xcelsior

The New Flyer Xcelsior is a family of heavy-duty transit buses built by New Flyer in Winnipeg, launched in 2008 and offered in diesel, hybrid, CNG, electric, and hydrogen versions.

New Forest

The New Forest is a 220-square-mile landscape in Hampshire, England, made a royal hunting reserve by William the Conqueror and a National Park in 2005, with commoners' ponies, cattle, and pigs grazing its heathland and woodland.

New Formalism

New Formalism, also called Neo-formalism, was a late twentieth-century American poetry movement championing a return to meter, rhyme, and traditional forms against free verse, led by poets including Dana Gioia and Mark Jarman.

New Fortress Altamira LNG Terminal

The New Fortress Altamira LNG Terminal, known as Altamira Fast LNG or FLNG 1, is a floating facility offshore Altamira, Mexico, that began LNG production in 2024.

New Fortress Barcarena FSRU

The New Fortress Barcarena FSRU is a liquefied natural gas import terminal operated by New Fortress Energy in Pará, Brazil, and serves as the sole LNG terminal in that state.

New Fortress Energy

New Fortress Energy is an American energy infrastructure company founded in 2014 by Wes Edens that supplies natural gas and LNG to markets in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe.

New Found Glory

New Found Glory: American pop-punk band formed 1997 in Coral Springs, Florida, also early name A New Found Glory. Gold/platinum albums New Found Glory (2000), Sticks and Stones (2002), Catalyst (2004); easycore pioneers; guitarist Chad Gilbert died 2026.

New Foundations

New Foundations, also called typed set theory, is an axiomatic set theory proposed by W. V. Quine in 1937, known for admitting a universal set.

New Fourth Army

The New Fourth Army (中国国民革命军陆军新编第四军) was a Communist-led force formed in 1937 from southern guerrilla units, nominally part of the National Revolutionary Army but controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, fighting in central China until 1947.

New Fourth Army Incident

The New Fourth Army Incident (皖南事变) was the destruction of the Communist New Fourth Army headquarters by Nationalist troops in southern Anhui in January 1941.

New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was France's North American colonial empire, 1534–1763, from Cartier's landing to the Treaty of Paris. Centered on Quebec (founded 1608), it stretched from Hudson Bay to Louisiana but held only about 70,000 colonists by 1750.

New Frontier

The New Frontier was John F. Kennedy's 1960 campaign slogan and domestic reform program, partly enacted before his 1963 assassination and completed by Johnson's Great Society.

New Frontier Theater

The New Frontier Theater, also known as the Kia Theater, is a roughly 2,325-seat venue in Araneta City, Cubao, Quezon City, Philippines, hosting concerts, musicals, and awards shows.

New Frontiers program

The New Frontiers program is a NASA planetary science program of medium-sized, PI-led spacecraft missions, initiated in 2003; its missions include New Horizons, Juno, and OSIRIS-REx.

New Game Plus

New Game Plus (NG+, New Game+), a video game replay mode first named in Chrono Trigger (1995) that lets players restart a completed game carrying over character progress, equipment, and abilities, with difficulty and content variations per game.

New Game! (ニューゲーム!)

New Game! (ニューゲーム!) is Shotaro Tokuno's four-panel manga about character designer Aoba Suzukaze at the game studio Eagle Jump, serialized in Manga Time Kirara Carat 2013–2021, 13 volumes, with a two-season anime in 2016 and 2017.

New General Catalogue

The New General Catalogue (NGC) is a catalog of 7,840 non-stellar astronomical objects, chiefly galaxies, compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer and published in 1888 by the Royal Astronomical Society.

New Georgia

New Georgia: largest island of the New Georgia Islands group in Western Province, Solomon Islands, in New Georgia Sound. Includes Marovo Lagoon, Roviana culture, Munda, Gizo, and 1942-43 WWII fighting.

New Georgia campaign

The New Georgia campaign was a series of land and naval battles in the central Solomon Islands from June to October 1943, in which Allied forces captured the Japanese airfield at Munda Point.

New Girl

New Girl: Fox sitcom created by Liz Meriwether, 2011-2018, seven seasons. Zooey Deschanel as Jess Day moves in with three male roommates (Nick, Schmidt, Winston) in Los Angeles; five Emmy nominations, near-cancellation in 2017, later a streaming comfort-rewatch hit.

New Glarus Brewing Company

New Glarus Brewing Company is an independent craft brewery founded in New Glarus, Wisconsin, in 1993 by Deb and Dan Carey, whose flagship Spotted Cow is Wisconsin's best-selling beer.

New Glenn

New Glenn, also known as Blue Origin New Glenn, is a heavy-lift rocket by Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin that first reached orbit in January 2025.

New Gods

New Gods: DC Comics race of super-beings created by Jack Kirby, debuting in The New Gods #1 (1971) within the Fourth World saga, set on twin planets New Genesis and Apokolips, at war over the Anti-Life Equation.

New Gods: Nezha Reborn (新神榜:哪吒重生)

New Gods: Nezha Reborn (新神榜:哪吒重生) is a 2021 Light Chaser Animation 3D film directed by Zhao Ji, reimagining Nezha as biker Li Yunxiang in a cyberpunk East Sea City 3,000 years after the Investiture of the Gods; released 12 February 2021, grossed about 456 million yuan, streamed on Netflix.

New Granada campaign of 1819

The New Granada campaign of 1819, or Campaña Libertadora de Nueva Granada, was Simón Bolívar's march from Venezuela over the Andes into New Granada, ending with victory at Boyacá on 7 August 1819.

New Grub Street

New Grub Street is an 1891 novel by George Gissing, named for the old London street of hack writers, following journalists and novelists competing in the harsh late-Victorian literary marketplace.

New Guinea

New Guinea, the world's second-largest island after Greenland, lies north of Australia, split between Indonesian Papua and Papua New Guinea; known for its central mountain range, Puncak Jaya, extreme biodiversity, and over 800 languages.

New Guinea campaign

The New Guinea campaign (1942-1945) was the Second World War series of Allied-Japanese operations on New Guinea and Papua, including Kokoda, Milne Bay, Buna-Gona, Lae, and Aitape-Wewak, ending with about 123,000 Japanese killed.

New Guinea Central Mountains

New Guinea Central Mountains (FEOW ecoregion 814) is a montane freshwater ecoregion along New Guinea's Central Highlands from Cenderwasih Bay to the Huon Gulf, with over 20 endemic fish species including Lake Kutubu Mogurnda gudgeons.

New Guinea Highlands

New Guinea Highlands: the Central Range mountain spine of New Guinea, ~1,300-2,000 km long with over 20 summits above 4,000 m, formed by Miocene arc-continent collision, home to endemic montane biodiversity and independent agriculture at Kuk Swamp.