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New Mosque (Istanbul)

The New Mosque (Yeni Cami) is a large Ottoman imperial mosque at Eminönü on Istanbul's Golden Horn waterfront, begun in 1597 and completed in 1665.

New Mountain Capital

New Mountain Capital is a New York private equity firm founded by Steven Klinsky in 1999, managing about $60 billion across private equity, credit, and net lease.

New Mountain Net Lease Partners

New Mountain Net Lease Partners is the net lease real estate platform of New York-based New Mountain Capital, launched in 2016, buying operationally critical single-tenant properties through dedicated funds.

New musick

New musick is a term Jon Savage developed in Sounds from November 1977 for post-punk experimentation, avant-gardism, and a synthetic, mythically European sound, distinct from New Romantic and from classical 'new music'.

New Mutants

New Mutants: Marvel Comics teenage X-Men spin-off team created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, debuting in Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (1982); members include Wolfsbane, Cannonball, Sunspot, Moonstar, Magik; later adapted into the 2020 horror-styled Fox film.

New neoclassical synthesis

The new neoclassical synthesis (NNS) is the framework of modern monetary macroeconomics, merging new classical rational expectations with New Keynesian sticky prices and monetary policy.

New Netherland

New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland) was a Dutch colony on the Hudson River from 1621 to 1664, covering parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut.

New Neyveli Thermal Power Station

New Neyveli Thermal Power Station is a 1,000 MW lignite-fired power station at Neyveli in Tamil Nadu, India, owned by NLC India Limited, with two 500 MW units.

New Nintendo 2DS XL

The New Nintendo 2DS XL is a clamshell handheld game console released by Nintendo in July 2017 that plays 3DS and DS games on 2D screens only.

New Nintendo 3DS (Newニンテンドー3DS)

New Nintendo 3DS (Newニンテンドー3DS): Nintendo's 2014 revised 3DS handheld with a quad-core CPU, C Stick, ZL/ZR buttons, Super-Stable 3D eye tracking, and built-in NFC for amiibo; XL-only in North America, eShop closed 2023.

New Norcia, Western Australia

New Norcia is Australia's only monastic town, a Spanish Benedictine settlement 132 km north of Perth on the Moore River, founded in 1846 by Rosendo Salvado as an Aboriginal mission, later an educational centre and now a heritage and retreat destination.

New Objectivity

New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit) was a German art movement of the 1920s and early 1930s reacting against Expressionism with sober realism and satire, named after Gustav Hartlaub's 1925 Kunsthalle Mannheim exhibition; leading figures included Otto Dix, George Grosz, and Max Beckmann.

New Opposition

The New Opposition (Новая оппозиция) was a faction in the Russian Communist Party led by Grigory Zinoviev, defeated at the 14th Party Congress in 1925.

New Order (band)

New Order: English rock band formed 1980 in Salford by Joy Division survivors Sumner, Hook and Morris with Gillian Gilbert; creators of 'Blue Monday', the best-selling 12-inch single ever, and UK No. 1 albums Technique and Republic.

New Order (Nazism)

New Order (Neuordnung): the racial, political, and economic order Nazi Germany planned for a conquered Europe under a Großgermanisches Reich, including Generalplan Ost resettlement of over 30 million people, a German-centered Großraumwirtschaft, and mass forced labor.

New Order discography

New Order discography: nine studio albums from Movement (1981) to Music Complete (2015, Mute, STUMM390), singles Blue Monday and World in Motion, Substance 1987 reissues, and Factory, Qwest, and Warner-era release history.

New Order Movement

The New Order Movement (新体制運動) was a 1940 Japanese political movement under Konoe Fumimaro that dissolved all political parties and founded the Imperial Rule Assistance Association.

New Order regiments

The New Order regiments (Полки нового (иноземного) строя) were Russian army units organized on Western European lines, first raised in 1631 for the Smolensk War.

New Oriental Education & Technology Group

New Oriental Education & Technology Group, usually New Oriental (新东方教育科技集团), is a Beijing-based private education company founded by Yu Minhong in 1993, once China's largest tutoring network.

New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana: Gulf Coast port city founded 1718 by Bienville, capital of French Louisiana, later Spanish and American. Known for Mardi Gras, jazz, Creole culture, subsidence and flood risk, and a tourism-driven economy.

New Orleans Baby Cakes

New Orleans Baby Cakes, Triple-A Pacific Coast League team in Metairie, Louisiana, 2017-2019, Miami Marlins affiliate, renamed from the Zephyrs after the king cake baby; relocated to become the Wichita Wind Surge.

New Orleans Buccaneers

New Orleans Buccaneers, ABA charter franchise 1967-1970, coached by Babe McCarthy, reached the first ABA Finals losing to Pittsburgh in 1968, then moved to Memphis as the Memphis Pros.

New Orleans crime family

New Orleans crime family (Matranga family), American Mafia organization founded around 1870 by Charles and Antonio Matranga; led for decades by Carlos Marcello, active in docks, gambling, and wire services, weakened by BRILAB and 1994 video-poker prosecutions.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage, also known as Jazz Fest, is an annual music and heritage festival held in New Orleans in late April and early May.

New Orleans levee system

The New Orleans levee system is the network of levees, floodwalls, and pump stations protecting New Orleans, first begun in 1717 and rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

New Orleans metropolitan area

The New Orleans metropolitan area (New Orleans–Metairie MSA) is a seven-parish metro in southeastern Louisiana; since 2023 it excludes St. Tammany Parish and had 970,849 residents in 2025.

New Orleans Pelicans

New Orleans Pelicans: NBA team in New Orleans since 2002-03, formerly the Hornets, renamed Pelicans in 2013; play at Smoothie King Center; coached by Jamahl Mosley since May 2026.

New Orleans Saints

New Orleans Saints, NFL franchise founded November 1, 1966 as the league's 16th team; based in New Orleans, home of the Superdome, winners of Super Bowl XLIV (2009 season), owned by Gayle Benson, coached by Kellen Moore.

New Orleans Saints bounty scandal

New Orleans Saints bounty scandal, or Bountygate: NFL case over a 2009-2011 Saints pay-for-performance pool run under defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, paying $1,500 knockouts and $1,000 cart-offs; coach suspensions stood, player suspensions were vacated.

New Orleans school desegregation crisis

The New Orleans school desegregation crisis of November 14, 1960, when Ruby Bridges and three other first-graders integrated William Frantz and McDonogh 19 schools, the first Deep South school desegregation, amid massive state resistance.