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New Woman (song)

"New Woman" is a 2024 single by LISA featuring Rosalía, released August 15 via LLOUD Co./RCA, produced by Max Martin and ILYA. It peaked at number 97 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 55 in the UK, and won Best Collaboration at the 2024 MTV EMAs.

New Woman novel

The New Woman novel was late-Victorian fiction of the 1880s and 1890s centering on independent, educated women, named after the "New Woman" coined in 1894.

New Woodcut Movement

The New Woodcut Movement (新兴木刻运动, also called 新兴版画运动) was a Chinese art movement of the 1930s and 1940s, initiated and led by the writer Lu Xun.

New World

New World: term for the Americas and adjacent islands, contrasted with the Old World; coined in early 1500s usage (Mundus Novus, Waldseemüller's America), still used in biogeography and primatology but discouraged as colonial terminology.

New World (2박3일)

New World, also known as 2박3일, is a 2021 South Korean Netflix variety show in which six celebrities complete daily missions on a game-like island utopia.

New World (video game)

New World (New World: Aeternum) is Amazon Games' MMORPG launched on PC September 28, 2021, set on the supernatural island of Aeternum; over 900,000 peak Steam concurrent players, later released on PS5 and Xbox.

New World (뉴월드) (2013 film)

New World (신세계) is a 2013 South Korean crime-action film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung, starring Lee Jung-jae, Choi Min-sik, and Hwang Jung-min, about an undercover cop torn between police and the Goldmoon syndicate; it drew 4.69 million admissions.

New World arenaviruses

New World arenaviruses are rodent-borne viruses of the Americas whose pathogenic members, Junín, Machupo, Guanarito, Sabiá, and Chapare, cause severe hemorrhagic fever mainly in rural workers.

New World Casino

New World Casino (Hotel), a casino on National Road 1 in Bavet, Svay Rieng, Cambodia, near the Vietnam border; also a small casino in Luanda Province, Angola (Casino Novo Mundo).

New World Development

New World Development Company Limited is a Hong Kong property conglomerate founded in 1970 by Cheng Yu-tung and listed in 1972, one of the city's "Big Four" developers.

New World monkey

New World monkeys (Platyrrhini) are the arboreal primates of Central and South America, with flat noses, three premolars, about 152 species, and a split from Old World primates around 35 million years ago.

New World Order (conspiracy theory)

New World Order (NWO) conspiracy theory, also tied to the Illuminati, Great Reset, and Agenda 2030 narratives: belief that a secretive elite cabal is imposing a totalitarian one-world government, with anti-Semitic roots and documented links to radicalization.

New world order (politics)

New world order (politics): term from George H. W. Bush's 1990-91 speeches for the post-Cold War cooperative international order; scholarly debate covers unipolarity, multipolarity, bipolarity, and multiplexity; distinct from the NWO conspiracy theory.

New World Order (professional wrestling)

The New World Order (nWo) was a WCW wrestling stable formed in 1996 by Hulk Hogan, Scott Hall, and Kevin Nash, dominating ratings until 2002.

New World Pictures

New World Pictures, American independent film production and distribution company founded July 8, 1970 by Roger and Gene Corman; known for nurse and women-in-prison exploitation films, art-film pickups, sale in 1983, dissolution 1997.

New World Quarterly

New World Quarterly was a Pan-Caribbean journal of intellectual and political commentary published in 14 issues between 1963 and 1972 as the flagship publication of the New World Group.

New world screwworm

Cochliomyia hominivorax, the New World screwworm or gusano barrenador, is an American blow fly whose larvae eat the living flesh of warm-blooded animals; eradicated from the US in 1966 by sterile insect technique, it returned to Texas in June 2026.

New World Tour

New World Tour is a concert-tour name shared by several artists: Paul McCartney's 1993, 77-date, 19-country tour; SEVENTEEN's 2025-2026 New tour; Childish Gambino's 2024 tour; and Karol G's 2026 stadium run.

New World vulture

New World vultures (Cathartidae, Cathartiformes): seven American carrion-feeding species including condors, turkey vulture, and king vulture; unrelated to Old World vultures, a classic case of convergent evolution.

New Worlds

New Worlds was a British science fiction magazine, published from 1946 to 1997 and known as the hub of the experimental New Wave under editor Michael Moorcock.

New Year

New Year marks the transition between calendar years; January 1 in the Gregorian calendar, a public holiday in 221 countries in 2026, with other new years (Lunar New Year, Nowruz, Songkran) set by lunar and solar calendars.

New Year grand audience ceremony (yuanhui)

The New Year grand audience ceremony (yuanhui) (元会仪) is a Chinese imperial New Year court ritual, roughly framed under the Han and completed through the Jin and Six Dynasties.

New Year picture movement

The New Year picture movement (新年画运动) was a state-directed art campaign in China, launched in November 1949 and regarded as the first large-scale art movement of the People's Republic.

New Year's Day

New Year's Day, observed on January 1, is the first day of the Gregorian calendar year and a public holiday in at least 169 countries worldwide.

New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve (December 31, Gregorian calendar; Chinese equivalent Chuxi 除夕) is the last evening of the year, marked by midnight countdowns, foods like twelve grapes in Spain, fireworks, the Times Square ball drop since 1907, and sequenced across world time zones.

New Year's Eve (2011 film)

New Year's Eve is a 2011 American ensemble romantic comedy directed by Garry Marshall, following couples and singles in New York City on December 31 as the Times Square ball drop approaches.

New Year's Festival House at Assur

New Year's Festival House at Assur (bīt akītu): permanent akītu temple 200 m outside Assur's gates, rebuilt by Sennacherib as 'Temple Where Tiamat Is Put to Death' for Aššur's 20-day Nisan New Year festival.

New Year's resolution

New Year's resolution: a self-improvement pledge made at the year's start, with roots in Babylonian Akitu promises and Roman Janus vows; research shows 55% one-year success, approach goals outperforming avoidance goals.

New Year's Sacrifice (祝福)

New Year's Sacrifice (祝福, Zhufu) is Lu Xun's 1924 short story, opening Wandering, about the widow Xianglin Sao's destruction by feudal ethics; adapted in 1956 into New China's first color feature film by Xia Yan and Sang Hu.

New Year's Six

New Year's Six (NY6): the Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Peach, Rose, and Sugar bowl games, which host College Football Playoff quarterfinals and semifinals on an annual rotation and revert to traditional tie-in games otherwise.