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New Jersey Plan
The New Jersey Plan, also called the Paterson or Small State Plan, was William Paterson's June 15, 1787 proposal for a unicameral Congress with equal state votes, rejected June 19 but shaping the Senate compromise.
New Jersey single-municipality school districts
A New Jersey single-municipality school district is a school district serving one municipality, not a regional or countywide district; New Jersey has roughly 600 districts for 1.3 million students.
New Jersey Turnpike
The New Jersey Turnpike is a 148-mile toll highway running the length of New Jersey between the New York metropolitan area and Philadelphia, opened in 1951.
New Jersey v. T. L. O.
New Jersey v. T. L. O., 469 U.S. 325 (1985), Supreme Court case holding the Fourth Amendment applies to public school officials, who may search students without a warrant or probable cause under a two-prong reasonableness standard.
New Jersey zero-emission certificates
New Jersey zero-emission certificates, created by the state in 2018, paid the Salem and Hope Creek nuclear plants for their emission-free attributes until the program ended in 2025.
New Jerusalem
The New Jerusalem, also called the heavenly Jerusalem, is the holy city described in Revelation 21–22, which descends from God onto a renewed earth after the first heaven and earth pass away.
New Jerusalem Bible
The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) is a Catholic English Bible translation published in 1985, edited by Henry Wansbrough as a revision of the 1966 Jerusalem Bible.
New Jewel Movement
The New Jewel Movement (NJM) was a Marxist-Leninist party in Grenada that took power in 1979 under Maurice Bishop and ruled until the US invasion of 1983.
New Jinling school
The New Jinling school (新金陵画派) is a Chinese landscape painting movement that rose in Jiangsu in the 1960s around the Jiangsu Provincial Chinese Painting Academy, led by Fu Baoshi.
New Journalism
New Journalism: intensely subjective 1960s-1970s American reportage using fictional techniques, associated with Tom Wolfe, Capote, Mailer, Didion, and Thompson; named in Wolfe's 1973 anthology.
New Journey to the West (신서유기)
New Journey to the West (신서유기) is a tvN Korean travel-game variety show directed by Na Young-seok, reuniting 1 Night 2 Days members Kang Ho-dong, Lee Soo-geun, Eun Ji-won, and Lee Seung-gi; it premiered September 4, 2015 as Korea's first network-made web-only variety show.
New Kansai International Airport Company
New Kansai International Airport Company (新関西国際空港株式会社, NKIAC) is a Japanese government-owned company that owns Kansai International Airport and Osaka International Airport (Itami), established in 2012.
New Kansas City Royals Stadium
The New Kansas City Royals Stadium is a planned ballpark at Crown Center in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, announced in 2026 for a 2030 home opener.
New Keynesian economics
New Keynesian economics, also called New Keynesian macroeconomics, is a school of macroeconomics that explains demand-driven output fluctuations with sticky prices and rational expectations, dominant in central banking by 2007.
New Kids on the Blecch
"New Kids on the Blecch" (The Simpsons S12E14, aired February 25, 2001) is the episode in which Bart, Nelson, Milhouse, and Ralph form the boy band Party Posse with 'N Sync guest-starring, and the songs carry subliminal navy recruitment messages.
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block (NKOTB), formed 1984 in Dorchester, Massachusetts, is an American boy band (Jonathan and Jordan Knight, Donnie Wahlberg, Joey McIntyre, Danny Wood) created by Maurice Starr; Hangin' Tough and Step by Step hit No. 1, 80 million albums sold, reunited 2008 with Vegas residency The Right Stuff.
New Kingdom of Egypt
New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1550–1069 BC), the Egyptian Empire period of Dynasties 18–20, founded by Ahmose I after expelling the Hyksos; rulers included Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, Akhenaten, and Ramesses II.
New Kingdom of Granada
The New Kingdom of Granada (Nuevo Reino de Granada) was a Spanish colonial jurisdiction in northern South America, established in the late 1530s and governed from Santafé de Bogotá.
New Labour
New Labour: the rebranded UK Labour Party under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown (1997-2010), defined by the centrist 'Third Way', Clause IV reform, devolution, the National Minimum Wage, the Good Friday Agreement, and debate over its Thatcherite or social democratic character.
New Lanark
New Lanark, a Scottish cotton mill village on the River Clyde founded in 1785 by David Dale and Richard Arkwright, became Robert Owen's model industrial community (1800–1825) and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2001.
New Laws of 1542
The New Laws of 1542 (Leyes Nuevas de 1542) were laws issued by Emperor Charles V in 1542 that abolished enslavement of Indigenous people in Spanish America.
New Left
New Left: 1950s-1970s radical movement in Britain, the US, and Western Europe rejecting Stalinism and social democracy; coined by C. Wright Mills (1960), organized around SDS, Port Huron Statement, New Left Review, and the 1968 upheavals.
New Left (Νέα Αριστερά) (Greece)
New Left (Νέα Αριστερά, Nea Aristera) is a Greek left-wing party founded December 2023 by 11 MPs who split from SYRIZA after Stefanos Kasselakis won its leadership; led by Alexis Charitsis, member of the Party of the European Left.
New Left Review
New Left Review (NLR) is a bimonthly political and intellectual journal published from London since 1960, covering world politics, the global economy, social theory, history, philosophy, and aesthetics.
New Life (2023 film)
New Life (2023) is John Rosman's American horror-thriller debut starring Sonya Walger and Hayley Erin: a fugitive carrying a mysterious infection is chased by a fixer with ALS. Released May 3, 2024; 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Distinct from the Italian 2023 film of the same name.
New Life Begins (卿卿日常)
New Life Begins (卿卿日常) is a 2022 Chinese costume light-comedy romance series on iQiyi, adapted from Duo Mu Mu Duo's web novel Qing Chuan Ri Chang, starring Bai Jingting and Tian Xiwei in a fictional Nine Rivers world; it broke iQiyi's 10,000 heat record in 144 hours.
New Life Children's Refuge case
New Life Children's Refuge case: January 2010 arrest of ten American Baptists led by Laura Silsby at Malpasse, Haiti, trying to take 33 non-orphaned children to the Dominican Republic without documents; child trafficking charges, Silsby convicted of lesser charges.
New Life Movement (新生活运动)
New Life Movement (新生活运动, Xinshenghuo Yundong): moral-reform campaign launched by Chiang Kai-shek in Nanchang on 19 February 1934, built on the Confucian virtues li, yi, lian, chi, promoting hygienic, militarized daily life; lasted until 1949 and is debated as 'Confucian fascism' versus modern state-building.
New Line Cinema
New Line Cinema is an American film studio founded by Robert Shaye in 1967 in New York, known for Pink Flamingos, Nightmare on Elm Street, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Friday, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy; since 2008 a Warner Bros. division, now under Skydance after the 2026 Paramount-Warner merger.
New literature movement
The new literature movement (신문학운동, sinmunhak undong) was Korea's early twentieth-century effort to create a modern vernacular national literature, conventionally dated from Ch'oe Namsŏn's 1908 journal Sonyŏn.