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Northern Rock
Northern Rock was a British bank, formerly a Newcastle upon Tyne building society, that suffered the first UK bank run since Victorian times in September 2007 and was nationalized in 2008.
Northern Savonia
Northern Savonia (Pohjois-Savo, Norra Savolax) is a region of eastern Finland around Kuopio, with 19 municipalities, about 248,000 residents, lake-district geography, and machine, forest, and food industries.
Northern Sea Route
The Northern Sea Route is a roughly 5,600-kilometer shipping lane along the Russian Arctic coast, from the Kara Strait to the Bering Strait, crossing five Arctic seas.
Northern section of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line (Darwin to Tennant Creek)
The Northern section of the Australian Overland Telegraph Line ran from Darwin to Tennant Creek. Begun by Darwent & Dalwood in 1870, it was completed in 1872.
Northern slimy salamander
Northern slimy salamander (Plethodon glutinosus), a lungless woodland salamander of the eastern and central United States, black with silvery flecks, secreting sticky glue-like mucus, fully terrestrial, brooding 10-20 eggs; member of a contested cryptic species complex.
Northern snakehead (乌鳢)
Northern snakehead (乌鳢, Channa argus), an air-breathing freshwater fish native to China, Siberia, and Korea; invasive in the U.S. since 2002, regulated under the Lacey Act, often confused with the native bowfin.
Northern Society
The Northern Society (Северное общество) was a secret Decembrist revolutionary organization centered in St Petersburg from 1821 to 1825, which staged the Decembrist uprising on Senate Square in December 1825.
Northern Song Dongjing city site
北宋东京城遗址 (Northern Song Dongjing city site), the buried capital at Kaifeng, Henan; also called Bianjing. Triple-walled Song capital buried ~7 m deep by Yellow River floods; national heritage site since 1988; Shuntianmen gate museum opened 2025.
Northern Song monumental landscape
Northern Song monumental landscape, or shanshui hua, is grand-format Chinese ink landscape painting of the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), typified by towering silk hanging scrolls with a dominant central mountain.
Northern Sotho
Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa, also called Sepedi) is a Sotho-Tswana language and one of South Africa's 11 official languages, with about 4 million speakers in Limpopo and Mpumalanga, roughly 27 dialects, and a contested official name.
Northern soul
Northern soul: British music and dance scene of the late 1960s-1970s, also called the rare soul scene, built around obscure fast American soul 45s (about 100-130 BPM) played at all-night clubs such as the Twisted Wheel, Golden Torch, and Wigan Casino; named by Dave Godin in 1970.
Northern Star (Chartist newspaper)
The Northern Star, also called the Northern Star and Leeds General Advertiser, was a radical weekly newspaper founded in Leeds in 1837 by Feargus O'Connor that became the principal national organ of Chartism.
Northern State (Sudan)
Northern State (El-Shemaliya), Sudan's northernmost and largest state by area, borders Egypt, Libya, and Chad; sparsely populated Nile Valley with Merowe Dam, Karima, gold mining, and wartime drone attacks.
Northern Tablelands
Northern Tablelands: highland region of northern New South Wales on the Great Dividing Range, core of New England; 34,500 km2, over 1,000 m elevation, summer-dominant rainfall, towns Armidale, Glen Innes, Tenterfield; distinct from the Queensland Northern Tablelands.
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (NT) is Australia's internal self-governing territory, granted self-government on 1 July 1978. Mining dominates its economy, government services dominate employment, and a 1998 statehood referendum failed.
Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal
NTCAT, the Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal, established October 2014, reviews administrative decisions and hears civil disputes including tenancy and small claims up to $25,000, replacing over 35 ad hoc review bodies.
Northern Thailand
Northern Thailand (ภาคเหนือ), also called Lanna, is Thailand's mountainous region bordering Myanmar and Laos, with 15 provinces, Doi Inthanon at 2,565 m, Chiang Mai as its main city, the country's lowest rural incomes, and a severe annual burning-season haze.
Northern Transylvania
Northern Transylvania (Transilvania de Nord, Észak-Erdély) is the territory of about 43,492 km2 that the Second Vienna Award of 1940 transferred from Romania to Hungary, until it was returned to Romania in 1944.
Northern Trust
Northern Trust is a Chicago-headquartered custody and wealth-management bank founded in 1889, one of the three dominant US pure-play custodians, servicing $18.7 trillion in client assets.
Northern two-lined salamander
Northern two-lined salamander (Eurycea bislineata, formerly Salamandra bislineata), a small lungless stream salamander of eastern North America from Quebec to northern Virginia; IUCN Least Concern, part of a reticulately evolving species complex.
Northern Tyumen Regions (SRTO)–Torzhok Gas Pipeline
The Northern Tyumen Regions (SRTO)–Torzhok gas pipeline (СРТО — Торжок) is a 2,200 km Russian gas trunkline carrying gas from the Urengoyskoye field in Western Siberia to Torzhok, built from 1995.
Northern Union of Russian Workers
The Northern Union of Russian Workers (Северный союз русских рабочих) was a revolutionary underground workers' organization in St Petersburg, founded in 1878 and led by Viktor Obnorsky and Stepan Khalturin.
Northern United States
The Northern United States (the North) is the northern tier of the U.S., covering the Census Bureau's Northeast and Midwest regions, 19 states from New England to the Dakotas, historically defined against the South.
Northern Upper Guinea
Northern Upper Guinea (FEOW ecoregion 511) is a West African freshwater ecoregion of short Atlantic coastal rivers in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, rated Continentally Outstanding for its highly endemic fish, crab, and mollusk fauna.
Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia (NoVA), the Virginia side of the Washington metro area, minimally covering Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William, and Stafford counties; 2.6 million people, $321 billion GDP, and the world's largest data center market.
Northern Weapon City
Northern Weapon City (北方兵器城) is an artillery-themed park in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, built by North Heavy Industry Group and described as North China's first military-themed tourist attraction.
Northern Wei (北魏)
Northern Wei (北魏, 386–534), Xianbei Tuoba dynasty founded by Tuoba Gui, unified north China in 439 under Taiwu; Xiaowen's Luoyang move and sinicization, equal-field system, Yungang caves, split 534 into Eastern and Western Wei.
Northern Wei conquest of Later Yan's heartland (北魏取中山)
The Northern Wei conquest of Later Yan's heartland (北魏取中山) was the campaign in which Tuoba Gui took the Later Yan capital Zhongshan, driving ruler Murong Bao to Helong.
Northern Wei conquest of Northern Liang
The Northern Wei conquest of Northern Liang (北魏灭北凉) was the 439 campaign in which Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei besieged the capital Guzang and received the surrender of Juqu Mujian.
Northern Wei Imperial House (Yuan clan)
The Northern Wei imperial house, the Yuan clan (元氏), ruled the Northern Wei dynasty and its successor states, binding itself to over 100 families through more than 400 marriages.