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Norris Dam
Norris Dam is a hydroelectric and flood-control dam on the Clinch River in Tennessee, the first major Tennessee Valley Authority project, begun in 1933 and completed in 1936.
Norris Koppel
Norris Koppel is an Estonian fintech entrepreneur, born 1977, who founded and led Monese, a London mobile banking service launched in 2015 for people who move between countries.
Norrish reaction
The Norrish reaction is a light-induced photochemical transformation of aldehydes and ketones, documented by Ronald Norrish in the 1930s, with type I and type II pathways.
Norrköping
Norrköping, a city in Östergötland, Sweden, chartered in 1384 and once called Sweden's Manchester for its textile industry; known for the preserved Industrilandskapet along Motala ström, Campus Norrköping, its 1904 tramway, and one of Sweden's largest ports.
Norrmalmstorg robbery
Norrmalmstorg robbery (Norrmalmstorgsdramat): six-day 1973 Kreditbanken hostage siege in Stockholm by Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson; origin of the 'Stockholm syndrome' label, later disputed by research and hostage testimony.
Norse Atlantic Airways
Norse Atlantic Airways, also known as Norse Atlantic, is a Norwegian low-cost airline founded in 2021 that flies Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners between Europe and North America.
Norse colonization of North America
Norse colonization of North America: Norse seafarers from Greenland briefly reached and settled Newfoundland; L'Anse aux Meadows, the only confirmed site, is dated to AD 1021. Also covers the Vinland sagas and the Norse discovery myth.
Norse cosmology
Norse cosmology: the pre-Christian Scandinavian world-view of Yggdrasill, Ginnungagap, Ymir, and Ragnarök, preserved mainly in the Poetic Edda and Snorri's Prose Edda (c. 1220), studied through texts, archaeology, and place-names.
Norse funeral
Norse funeral, Viking Age mortuary practice in pre-Christian Scandinavia (c. 750–1100 CE), combining cremation and inhumation, ship and boat burials, grave goods, and animal or human sacrifice; famously described by Ibn Fadlan, with flaming-arrow sea cremation shown to be a modern myth.
Norse mythology
Norse mythology, also called Old Norse or Scandinavian mythology, is the pre-Christian myth system of the Viking Age: Odin's pantheon, Yggdrasil, Ragnarök, and the Eddas, recorded by Christian scribes in thirteenth-century Iceland.
Norse rituals
Norse rituals, also known as Norse religious worship, were the religious practices of pre-Christian Viking Age Scandinavians, centered on the blót sacrificial feast and seiðr magic.
Norse settlements in Greenland
Norse settlements in Greenland: Viking Age colonies founded c. 985 by Erik the Red from Iceland, in the Eastern and Western Settlements, farming and hunting walrus ivory until abandonment in the 14th-15th centuries.
Norse–Gaels
Norse–Gaels (Gall-Gaidheil, 'Foreign Gaels') were people of mixed Norse and Gaelic origin in the Scottish islands, Irish Sea region, and Iceland from the ninth century, emerging from Viking settlement and intermarriage and shaping the Kingdom of Man and the Isles.
Norsefire
Norsefire, also called the Norsefire Party, is the fictional white-supremacist, neo-fascist political party ruling the United Kingdom in V for Vendetta, created by Alan Moore and David Lloyd.
Norseman, Western Australia
Norseman is a goldmining town in Western Australia's eastern goldfields, about 724 km east of Perth, named after a horse that uncovered a gold nugget in 1894.
Norsemen
Norsemen were the Scandinavian peoples of the Viking Age (about AD 750–1100), also called Northmen or Vikings, who spoke Old Norse and ranged from the Caspian Sea to North America, settling Iceland, Greenland, and Normandy.
Norsemen (TV series)
Norsemen (Vikingane) is a Norwegian Viking-age comedy series (2016–2020, 3 seasons, 18 episodes) by Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen, set in 790 AD village Norheim, filmed twice in Norwegian (NRK) and English (Netflix).
Norsk Folkeminnelag
Norsk Folkeminnelag (NFL) is a Norwegian voluntary association founded on Knut Liestøl's initiative in 1920 to publish folk tradition, known for its book series Norsk Folkeminnelags skrifter since 1923.
Norsk Hydro
Norsk Hydro ASA is a Norwegian aluminum and renewable-power company founded in 1905 to make fertilizer from hydropower; it spun off Yara in 2004 and now covers the aluminum chain from bauxite mining to recycling.
Norsk Spisevognselskap
Norsk Spisevognselskap (A/S Norsk Spisevognselskap) was a Norwegian railway catering company, founded by NSB in 1919 to operate dining cars, station restaurants, and hotels, and merged into Narvesen in 1975.
Norşuntepe
Norşuntepe is a large settlement mound on the upper Euphrates near Elazığ, Turkey, occupied from the late Chalcolithic through the Iron Age until about 600 BC.
Norte del Valle Cartel
Norte del Valle Cartel (Cartel del Norte del Valle), Colombian cocaine trafficking organization based in northern Valle del Cauca that dominated the trade after the Cali cartel's 1995 fall, exporting over 500 metric tons of cocaine to the US before its 1994-2011 collapse.
Nortel
Nortel (Nortel Networks Corporation), formerly Northern Telecom, was a Canadian telecommunications equipment maker that grew out of Bell Canada, peaked around 2000, and filed for bankruptcy in 2009.
Nortel payphones
Nortel payphones were coin- and card-operated public telephones made by Northern Electric, Northern Telecom, and Nortel Networks, widely deployed across Canada through the Centurion and Millennium lines.
Norteño (music)
Norteño (música norteña) is a Mexican music genre from northeastern Mexico and southern Texas, played on button accordion and bajo sexto with corridos and rancheras.
Norteño pop
Norteño pop is a regional Mexican fusion style that keeps norteño's accordion, bajo sexto, and polka rhythms while adding pop balladry, romantic songwriting, and studio polish.
Norteños
Norteños (Spanish for "northerners") are Hispanic street gangs in Northern and Central California aligned with the Nuestra Familia prison gang in opposition to the Sureños.
North
North is one of the four cardinal directions: true north toward the geographic North Pole, magnetic north where a compass points, and grid north on maps.
North (1994 film)
North is a 1994 American family comedy directed by Rob Reiner, starring Elijah Wood as a boy who divorces his parents and searches the world for better ones.
North & South (TV serial)
North & South (2004) is a four-part BBC One serial adapted from Elizabeth Gaskell's 1855 novel, written by Sandy Welch, directed by Brian Percival, starring Daniela Denby-Ashe and Richard Armitage, set in Milton, a Manchester stand-in; distinct from the 1985 American Civil War miniseries.