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Newar metalwork

Newar metalwork is the metalcraft tradition of the Newar people of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, centered on Patan and known for lost-wax casting, repoussé, and fire-gilding.

Newar people

Newar people (Newa, Newāḥ), indigenous inhabitants of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, 5.6% of Nepal's 1991 population; Tibeto-Burman Nepal Bhasa speakers with caste-organized Hindu-Buddhist society, guthi associations, Newar Buddhism, and the Indra Jatra Kumari festival.

Newark Liberty International Airport

Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) is a major airport in Newark, New Jersey, serving the New York metropolitan area. Opened in 1928, it is a United Airlines hub.

Newark Liberty International Airport station

Newark Liberty International Airport station is an elevated railway station in Newark, New Jersey, opened in 2001 to link Amtrak and NJ Transit trains with the airport's AirTrain.

Newark museum herbarium

Newark museum herbarium (NEMU): the botanical specimen collection of The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, founded 1909 by John Cotton Dana. Part of a ~170,000-object science collection; code NEMU; received isotypes of Termitaria hexasporodochia in 2023.

Newark, Delaware

Newark is a city in New Castle County, Delaware, home to the University of Delaware, chartered in 1758, with 30,601 residents at the 2020 census.

Newark, New Jersey

Newark, New Jersey (founded 1666), the state's largest city with about 323,800 residents (2025), a diverse port and air hub with EWR airport, falling crime and poverty, and ongoing airport and downtown redevelopment.

Newasa Mound

Newasa Mound, locally known as Ladmod, is the main archaeological mound of ancient Nevasa on the Pravara river in Maharashtra, India, with layers from the Paleolithic to the Maratha period.

NEWater

NEWater is Singapore's brand of high-grade reclaimed water produced by PUB through a three-stage purification process, introduced in 2002 and meeting about 40% of Singapore's water demand.

NewAthena

NewAthena, short for New Advanced Telescope for High-ENergy Astrophysics, is a planned ESA X-ray observatory carrying the largest X-ray telescope ever built, with launch planned for the late 2030s.

Newave Semiconductor

Newave Semiconductor (新涛科技) was a fabless semiconductor company founded in 1997 that designed mixed-signal communication chips in Shanghai, and was acquired by IDT in 2001 for about $80 million.

Neway

Neway: name shared by several businesses, chiefly Neway Karaoke Box, a Hong Kong-origin karaoke chain (Neway Entertainment Limited) with Malaysia outlets; also French boardsports shops, Singapore table tennis coaching, and a Michigan nonprofit.

Neway Debebe

Neway Debebe (ነዋይ ደበበ), born in 1958, is an Ethiopian singer who came to prominence as lead vocalist of the Roha Band and is known for his smooth vocal style and love songs.

Newbald

Newbald (North and South Newbald), East Riding of Yorkshire village: Old English 'new building'; Domesday manor of the Archbishop of York; Middle Saxon coin site, Roman villa, Norman St Nicholas church.

Newberry

Newberry (Newberry Volcano), a large shield-shaped composite volcano in central Oregon about 60 km east of the Cascade crest, the arc's most aerially extensive volcano (~3,200 km2), with a 6 x 8 km caldera holding Paulina and East lakes, last erupting about 1,300 years ago (Big Obsidian Flow).

Newbery Medal

The Newbery Medal, also called the John Newbery Medal, is an annual American award since 1922 for the most distinguished work of children's literature by a US author.

Newborn screening

Newborn screening is a public health program that tests infants' blood, hearing, and oxygen saturation for treatable disorders before symptoms appear, diagnosing about 1 in 300 US newborns.

NewbornBathing trial

NewbornBathing (NCT06661408) is a Turkish randomized controlled trial by Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University testing video-based versus practical newborn bathing education for primiparous pregnant women, measuring knowledge, anxiety, and bonding at the first bath, 144 participants, three arms.

Newburgh, New York

Newburgh, New York: a small Hudson River city in Orange County, about 60 miles north of NYC, distinct from the surrounding Town of Newburgh; George Washington's 1782-83 headquarters, first US publicly owned historic site, population about 28,000.

Newbury Equity Partners

Newbury Equity Partners is the fund series of Newbury Partners, a Stamford, Connecticut private equity firm founded in 2006 that specializes in secondary fund-of-funds investing.

Newbury, Berkshire

Newbury, Berkshire: market town in the Kennet valley, West Berkshire, England. Known for its 1596 Elizabethan charter, clothier Jack of Newbury, two Civil War battles, the Kennet and Avon Canal, Newbury Racecourse, and nearby Greenham Common.

Newcastle Brown Ale

Newcastle Brown Ale, nicknamed the Dog or Newkie Brown, is an English brown ale first brewed in 1927 by Colonel Jim Porter in Newcastle upon Tyne, 4.7% ABV, blue star logo, now brewed by Heineken in Tadcaster with a separate Lagunitas US version.

Newcastle coal benchmark

The Newcastle coal benchmark is the reference price for seaborne thermal coal loaded free on board at Newcastle, Australia, best known through the globalCOAL NEWC Index.

Newcastle disease (woah newcastle-disease)

Newcastle disease is a highly contagious viral disease of birds, caused by virulent avian paramyxovirus, that can kill up to 100% of an infected poultry flock.

Newcastle Falcons

Newcastle Falcons, English rugby union club founded 1877 as Gosforth FC, renamed Newcastle Gosforth then Falcons, 1998 Premiership champions, Kingston Park home, bought by Red Bull in 2025 and rebranded Newcastle Red Bulls.

Newcastle Jets FC

Newcastle Jets FC, also founded as Newcastle United Jets, is an Australian professional football club from Newcastle, NSW, playing in the A-League Men and Ninja A-League Women at McDonald Jones Stadium; it won the 2008 A-League Championship and its first Premier's Plate in 2025/26.

Newcastle Knights

Newcastle Knights, also nib Newcastle Knights, an Australian professional rugby league club founded in 1988 in Newcastle, NSW, playing in the NRL and NRLW; two men's premierships (1997, 2001) and two women's titles (2022, 2023), based at McDonald Jones Stadium.

Newcastle United F.C.

Newcastle United F.C., also known as Newcastle United Football Club, is a professional football club in Newcastle upon Tyne that plays at St James' Park in the Premier League.

Newcastle University

Newcastle University (UK), a Russell Group research university in Newcastle upon Tyne; founded 1834 as a School of Medicine and Surgery, independent from Durham in 1963; distinct from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, grew from the Roman fort of Pons Aelius (AD 122) and the 1080 Norman castle that gave it its name; population 300,200 (2021), once Britain's coal-port and railway cradle.