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New Testament apocrypha

New Testament apocrypha, also called Christian apocrypha, are non-canonical writings related to the New Testament, mostly from the 2nd century, including gospels, acts, letters, and apocalypses.

New Text school

The New Text school (今文经学) was the official Han dynasty learning of the Confucian classics, transmitted in clerical script and taught by the Erudites of the Five Classics.

New Thought

New Thought, also called the New Thought movement or Mind-cure, is an American mind-healing religious movement of the 19th century teaching that thoughts shape health and circumstances.

New Three Principles of the People

New Three Principles of the People (新三民主义), the CCP-associated reinterpretation of Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles via the Three Great Policies of allying with Russia, the Communists, and workers and peasants, adopted in the KMT First Congress manifesto of January 1924.

New tolerance factor to predict the stability of perovskite oxides and halides

The Bartel tolerance factor, τ, is a descriptor introduced in 2019 that predicts whether an ABX₃ compound forms a perovskite from ionic radii alone, with 92% accuracy.

New Topographics

New Topographics was a 1975 exhibition at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, whose deadpan pictures of suburban tracts and industrial parks named a lasting style.

New Town, Prague

The New Town of Prague (Nové Město pražské) is the largest historical town of Prague, founded by Emperor Charles IV in 1348 as a planned extension of the capital.

New towns in the United Kingdom

New towns in the United Kingdom are state-designated settlements built under the 1946 New Towns Act by development corporations; 32 were designated 1947–1970, including Stevenage and Milton Keynes, housing about 2.8 million people, with a new 12-town programme launched in 2024.

New trade theory

New trade theory is a branch of international economics that explains trade through economies of scale and product differentiation rather than comparative advantage, beginning with Paul Krugman's 1979 model.

New Trafford Stadium

New Trafford Stadium is Manchester United's planned 100,000-seat replacement for Old Trafford, announced 11 March 2025, designed by Norman Foster, costing about £2 billion, sited roughly 350 metres north-west of the current ground within the Trafford Wharfside regeneration project.

New Trial (재심)

New Trial (재심, Jaesim) is a 2017 South Korean courtroom drama directed by Kim Tae-yun, starring Jung Woo and Kang Ha-neul, based on the 2000 Iksan Yakchon Junction taxi driver murder case and the real retrial that exonerated a wrongly convicted teenager.

New Tricks

New Tricks is a British BBC crime comedy-drama running from 2004 to 2015, following the Metropolitan Police's UCOS, a cold-case unit of retired detectives led by Sandra Pullman.

New Trier High School

New Trier High School (New Trier Township High School District 203), founded 1901 in Winnetka and Northfield, Illinois, is a top-ranked public high school serving about 4,000 North Shore students, known for its 1928 Adviser Program, ACT 27.9 average, and leading state championship count.

New Trolls

New Trolls are an Italian rock band formed in Genoa in 1967, best known for the 1971 progressive album Concerto Grosso per i New Trolls and seven Sanremo appearances.

New Unionism

New Unionism (novo sindicalismo) was a Brazilian labor movement of the late 1970s, centered on metalworkers' strikes in the ABC Paulista region against the military regime's wage policy.

New Urbanism

New Urbanism: urban design movement promoting compact, mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods over car-oriented sprawl. Founded around the Congress for the New Urbanism (1993) and its 1996 Charter; signature project Seaside, Florida (1981-82) by Duany and Plater-Zyberk; amended in 2024.

New Vaal Coal Mine

New Vaal Coal Mine is a large opencast coal mine near Vereeniging, South Africa, and the sole coal supplier to Eskom's adjacent Lethabo Power Station.

New Valley Project (مشروع الوادي الجديد)

The New Valley Project (مشروع الوادي الجديد), also called the Toshka project, is an Egyptian land reclamation program channeling Lake Nasser water into desert farmland.

New Wadi es-Sebua

New Wadi es-Sebua, also written New Wadi al-Sebua, is an archaeological site in Egyptian Nubia where three temples moved from Lake Nasser's flood zone were re-erected in the 1960s.

New Warriors

New Warriors: Marvel Comics superhero team of teen and young-adult heroes, debuted in The Mighty Thor #411 (1989) with its own 1990-1996 series by Fabian Nicieza and Mark Bagley; known for the Stamford incident that triggered Civil War and an unaired Freeform TV pilot.

New Wave (science fiction)

New Wave science fiction: 1960s-1970s experimental literary movement in SF, term borrowed from the French nouvelle vague; centered on Moorcock's New Worlds (1964), inner space, soft sciences, and writers like Ballard, Aldiss, and Ellison.

New Wave 2026 (festival)

New Wave 2026 (Новая волна 2026) was the 2026 edition of the international contest for young performers, held in Kazan and won by Armenia's Flora Bichakhchyan.

New Wave Australian drama

New Wave Australian drama was a playwriting and alternative theater movement that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s, centered on Melbourne's La Mama and Pram Factory and Sydney's Nimrod Theatre.

New Wave in Hebrew poetry

The New Wave (הגל החדש) is a 1950s–1960s movement in Israeli Hebrew poetry led by Natan Zach and Yehuda Amichai, favoring free rhythm and spoken language.

New wave music

New wave music is a pop and rock style that arose in the mid-to-late 1970s in the United Kingdom and the United States as a sleeker offshoot of punk rock.

New wave of British heavy metal

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), British metal movement circa 1979-1983 named by Sounds editor Alan Lewis; DIY scene of Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Saxon, Neat Records that seeded thrash and power metal.

New Weir

New Weir (The Weir, Swainshill, Kenchester, Herefordshire) is a scheduled Roman riverside monument on the River Wye near Magnis, with an octagonal cistern, stone revetments, and mosaics; interpreted as villa, bath house, temple, or water shrine.

New West (band)

New West is a Toronto collective formed in 2017 (Kala Wita, Lee Vella, Ben Key, Noel West) blending Britpop, indie pop, and alternative R&B; known for the 2019 viral hit "Those Eyes" and the 2023 debut album Based on a True Story...

New Westminster

New Westminster, British Columbia, the "Royal City": founded 1859 by Colonel Moody as capital of the mainland colony, named by Queen Victoria, capital until 1868; population 78,916 (2021).

New Woman

The New Woman: feminist ideal and cultural figure of the 1880s-1890s English fiction, coined by Sarah Grand and Ouida in 1894, an educated, independent, bicycling woman who challenged Victorian marriage and influenced global feminism.