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New Living Translation
The New Living Translation (NLT) is a modern English Bible translation, first published in 1996 by Tyndale House Publishers from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts.
New London County
New London County, Connecticut: one of the state's four original counties, established May 10, 1666; 21 towns, 268,555 residents (2020), no county government since 1960, now a geographic name only.
New London School explosion
New London School explosion: March 18, 1937 gas blast at New London, Texas (London School) that killed about 300 students and teachers, the worst US school disaster, leading to Texas and federal natural gas odorization laws.
New London, Connecticut
New London, Connecticut: the Whaling City on the Thames River, Connecticut's only deep-water port. Founded 1646 by John Winthrop Jr.; second-largest whaling port by 1847; burned by Benedict Arnold in 1781; home of the Coast Guard Academy and first US submarine base.
New Looney Tunes
New Looney Tunes, originally Wabbit – A Looney Tunes Production, is a 2015–2020 Warner Bros. Animation short-comedy series starring Bugs Bunny, renamed from season 2 in January 2017.
New Madrid Power Plant
The New Madrid Power Plant is a coal-fired power station in Marston, Missouri, owned by Associated Electric Cooperative, with two 650-megawatt units commissioned in 1972 and 1977.
New Madrid seismic zone
The New Madrid seismic zone, also called the New Madrid fault, is the most seismically active area in the central and eastern United States, producing the great 1811–1812 earthquakes.
New Malden
New Malden, also called Little Pyongyang, is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, founded around an 1846 railway station and home to Europe's largest Korean community.
New Mangalore Port
New Mangalore Port is an all-weather deep-water major port at Panambur in Mangaluru, Karnataka, the only major port in Karnataka, handling about 46 million tonnes of cargo a year.
New Masses
New Masses was an American Marxist political and cultural magazine published in New York from 1926 to 1948, and the principal periodical of the American cultural left.
New materialism
New materialism is an interdisciplinary philosophical current from the 1990s associated with Barad, Braidotti, Bennett, and Haraway, which treats matter as active and extends agency beyond humans, distinct from linguistic-turn and historical-materialist approaches.
New Math
New Math, also called New Mathematics, was a Cold War-era school mathematics reform movement, strongest in the United States from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, that taught set theory and axiomatic algebra.
New media
New media (nuovi media): digital, networked, interactive, on-demand communication forms, from the web and social networks to smartphones and videogames; defined against broadcast and print media, theorized by Manovich and others, and periodized from 1970s online services to Web 2.0.
New Medium Helicopter
The New Medium Helicopter is a UK Ministry of Defence procurement program for 23 Leonardo AW149 helicopters to replace the Puma HC2, with first delivery expected in 2030.
New Mexico
New Mexico, a southwestern U.S. state bordering Texas, Arizona, and Mexico, spans 121,365 square miles (5th largest), from 2,817 ft at Red Bluff Lake to 13,161 ft Wheeler Peak, cut by the 725-km Rio Grande Rift.
New Mexico chile
New Mexico chile (chile de Nuevo México) is a group of Capsicum annuum cultivars bred at NMSU since 1888, first standardized as 'New Mexico No. 9' in 1913; grown green and red, it supplies about 45 percent of US chile and anchors the Hatch chile brand.
New Mexico Department of Transportation
The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) is New Mexico's executive-branch agency for highways, transit, rail, and aviation, formerly the State Highway and Transportation Department.
New Mexico Recovery Fund
The New Mexico Recovery Fund is a $100 million loan program formed in 2020 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, managed by Sun Mountain Capital to lend to businesses hurt by COVID-19.
New Mexico SIC
The New Mexico SIC is the state body investing New Mexico's permanent funds, distributing about $2.6 billion a year to schools and early childhood programs.
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot
New Mexico State Penitentiary riot, Penitentiary of New Mexico near Santa Fe, February 2-3, 1980: 36-hour inmate uprising, 33 inmates killed, 90 injured, 12 officers held hostage and rescued; second deadliest U.S. prison riot after Attica.
New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University (NMSU) is New Mexico's land-grant and space-grant public university system in Las Cruces, founded in 1888 as Las Cruces College, a Hispanic-Serving Institution designated Carnegie R1 in February 2025.
New Mexico Territory
New Mexico Territory: U.S. organized territory created September 9, 1850 under the Compromise of 1850, with slavery left to popular sovereignty; Gadsden Purchase 1853; statehood January 6, 1912 as the 47th state.
New Mexico-class battleship
The New Mexico class was a class of three United States Navy battleships, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Idaho, completed from 1917 to 1919 with twelve 14-inch guns.
New Milford, Connecticut
New Milford, Connecticut (Weeantenock) is a Litchfield County town on the Housatonic River, founded 1702-1712, largest Connecticut town by area at 64 square miles, population 28,115 (2020), home to Candlewood Lake and Lover's Leap State Park.
New Model Army
New Model Army: Parliament's professional army formed February 1645 under Sir Thomas Fairfax, later Cromwell; won Naseby 1645, Dunbar 1650, Worcester 1651, overthrew the monarchy, disbanded 1660.
New Model Army (band)
New Model Army: English rock band formed in Bradford in 1980, led by Justin Sullivan, named after Cromwell's army; 16 studio albums from Vengeance (1984) to Unbroken (2024).
New Mon State Party
The New Mon State Party (NMSP) is a Mon ethnic political organization and armed group in Myanmar, founded in 1958 by Nai Shwe Kyin to pursue Mon self-determination.
New moon
The new moon is the lunar phase in which the Moon lies in the same direction as the Sun, so it rises and sets with the Sun and is invisible from Earth.
New Moon (novel)
New Moon (2006) is Stephenie Meyer's second Twilight Saga novel, a YA vampire-werewolf romance in which Bella Swan grieves Edward's departure and befriends the werewolf Jacob Black; a New York Times Children's Chapter Books number-one seller for eleven weeks.
New Morning
New Morning is Bob Dylan's eleventh studio album, released in 1970 by Columbia Records. It followed the poorly received Self Portrait and reached number 1 in the UK.