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New Guinea North Coast

New Guinea North Coast (FEOW ecoregion 813) is a freshwater ecoregion spanning northern New Guinea from the Schouten Islands to the Huon Peninsula, with the Mamberamo, Sepik, Ramu, and Markham rivers and 50 endemic fish species including rainbowfish genera Glossolepis and Chilatherina.

New Guinea singing dog

New Guinea singing dog (Canis hallstromi), also called Highland Wild Dog, a rare highland canid known for its whale-song-like howl; thought extinct in the wild since the 1970s until 2020 genomic studies matched it to rediscovered wild dogs.

New half (ニューハーフ)

New half (ニューハーフ) is wasei-eigo for men who live or present as women, especially in Japanese entertainment, show pubs, and the adult industry. Coined around 1980-81 via Betty and Matsubara Rumiko; Japan-specific, not an international term.

New Hall (near Chelmsford)

New Hall (Palace of Beaulieu), Boreham near Chelmsford, Essex: grade I listed surviving north wing of Henry VIII's c 1518 quadrangular palace, with grade II registered park, home of New Hall School since 1799.

New Hall (near Halifax)

New Hall, Elland, near Halifax, West Yorkshire: Grade I listed late-15th-century timber-framed gentry house built for Nicholas Savile, refronted in stone c.1640 by John Foxcroft, home of Royal Society founder member Dr Henry Power.

New Hall (near Sutton Coldfield)

New Hall, Walmley Road, Sutton Coldfield: a moated Grade I listed manor house with a 13th-14th century core, Elizabethan wing, 1796 tower, home of the Sacheverell and Chadwick families, now a hotel.

New Hamburg, Ontario

New Hamburg, Ontario: a community in Wilmot Township, Waterloo Region, on the Nith River; originally Cassel, founded on milling water privileges about 1820, renamed for Hamburg by German settlers, with a 1992 Heritage Conservation District downtown.

New Hampshire

New Hampshire is a northeastern U.S. state, capital Concord, population about 1.42 million (2025). First colony to adopt its own constitution (January 5, 1776), ninth state (1788), second-oldest state constitution (1784), no sales or broad-based income tax.

New Hampshire Biden deepfake robocall

The New Hampshire Biden deepfake robocall was a January 2024 campaign using an AI-cloned voice of Joe Biden to urge voters to skip the primary, commissioned by Steve Kramer.

New Hampshire Democratic Party

New Hampshire Democratic Party (NHDP), the state Democratic Party affiliate chaired by Ray Buckley since 2007; known for defending the first-in-the-nation presidential primary against the DNC's 2024 calendar and for strong federal but weaker state-level results.

New Hampshire Department of Transportation

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) is the New Hampshire state agency responsible for planning and maintaining highways, bridges, railroads, air service, and mass transit.

New Hampshire Fisher Cats

New Hampshire Fisher Cats, Double-A Eastern League affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays in Manchester, New Hampshire. Founded 1994 in New Haven, relocated 2003; Eastern League titles in 2004, 2011, 2014, and 2018 at Delta Dental Stadium.

New Hampshire House of Representatives

New Hampshire House of Representatives, lower chamber of the General Court: 400 members, largest US state legislative body, $200 per two-year term, 203 districts with 39 floterial districts, Republican-controlled since 2020.

New Hanover County

New Hanover County, North Carolina: coastal county formed 1729, seat Wilmington, second smallest in area, population about 246,000 (2025), five-municipation county manager government, 30.6-cent tax rate.

New Harmony, Indiana

New Harmony, Indiana: small Wabash River town (population 690) in Posey County, site of the Harmonist commune under George Rapp (1814-1825) and Robert Owen's secular Owenite experiment (1825-1827), now a National Historic Landmark District.

New Haven telephone exchange (1878)

The New Haven telephone exchange, opened by the District Telephone Company in January 1878, was the world's first commercial telephone exchange, connecting subscribers through a central switchboard in New Haven, Connecticut.

New Haven, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut: coastal city of about 138,000 (2025 est.), founded 1638 by Eaton and Davenport, co-capital 1701-1873, home of Yale University since 1716, its largest employer, and the state's housing-permit leader.

New Hebrides

New Hebrides, Pacific archipelago named by Cook in 1774, jointly ruled by Britain and France as an Anglo-French Condominium from 1906 to 1980 under parallel administrations and four legal systems, until independence as Vanuatu on 30 July 1980.

New Heights

New Heights is a weekly sports and pop culture podcast hosted by NFL brothers Jason and Travis Kelce, launched September 2022 with Wave Sports + Entertainment. Known for its $100M+ three-year Wondery/Amazon deal (August 2024) and the record 1.3 million concurrent-viewer Taylor Swift episode of August 13, 2025.

New Historians

The New Historians (ההיסטוריונים החדשים) are Israeli historians, including Benny Morris, Avi Shlaim, Ilan Pappé, and Simha Flapan, who from the late 1980s used newly opened Israeli archives to challenge the traditional Zionist narrative of the 1948 war and the Palestinian exodus.

New Historicism

New historicism is an American approach to literary criticism from the early 1980s, led by Stephen Greenblatt, that reads literary works as products of their historical circumstances.

New History of the Five Dynasties

The New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai Shi, 新五代史) is a Chinese official history of the Five Dynasties period written by Ouyang Xiu.

New History of the Yuan

The New History of the Yuan (新元史) is a 257-juan history of the Yuan dynasty by Ke Shaomin, added to the standard dynastic histories in 1919.

New Holland (Australia)

New Holland (Hollandia Nova, Nieuw Holland) was the Dutch-derived European name for Australia from Abel Tasman's 1644 voyage until "Australia" replaced it officially by 1824 and in popular use by the 1850s.

New Holland Agriculture

New Holland Agriculture, part of CNH Industrial since 1999, is a global agricultural equipment brand founded in 1895 in New Holland, Pennsylvania, making tractors and combine harvesters.

New Hollywood

New Hollywood, also called the Hollywood Renaissance or American New Wave, is the 1967–1980 era of character-driven, European-influenced American films by young auteur directors, ending when Jaws and Star Wars blockbusters ushered in Postclassical Hollywood.

New Hope Club

New Hope Club (NHC), British pop trio formed 2015: Reece Bibby, Blake Richardson, George Smith. Vamps' Steady Records act; debut album hit UK No. 5 in 2020; second album Getting Better 2024; large Asian fanbase.

New Hope Holding Group

New Hope Holding Group (新希望控股集团) is the holding company at the center of New Hope Group, a private Chinese agribusiness conglomerate founded in 1982 by Liu Yonghao and his three brothers.

New Hope Liuhe

New Hope Liuhe Co., Ltd. is a Chinese agribusiness listed in Shenzhen that spans animal feed, pig breeding, slaughtering, and food processing for the Liu family's New Hope Group.

New Hope, Pennsylvania

New Hope, Pennsylvania is a Bucks County borough of about 2,622 on the Delaware River across from Lambertville, NJ, known for the Delaware Canal, Bucks County Playhouse, arts scene, LGBTQ friendliness, and high incomes.