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Northwestern United States
Northwestern United States, also called the Pacific Northwest, is the region of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming, defined by the Cascade rain shadow, the Columbia River, Mediterranean-type climate, and Oregon and Washington territorial history.
Northwestern University
Northwestern University, founded 1851 in Evanston, Illinois, is a private research university with Chicago and Doha campuses, 12 schools, 21,000 students, a $15.3 billion endowment, and Big Ten athletics.
Northwestern Wildcats football
Northwestern Wildcats football, the Big Ten FBS program of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; since 1876, eight Big Ten titles, coached by David Braun, playing at the new $870 million, 35,000-seat Ryan Field opened October 2, 2026.
Northwestern wolf
Northwestern wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis), also called Mackenzie Valley wolf, a large gray wolf subspecies of western Canada, Alaska, and the northwestern US; source of the 1995 Yellowstone reintroduction; its subspecies status remains debated.
Northwich
Northwich, Cheshire town 20 miles from Manchester, home of Northwich Victoria FC (founded 1874, Football League Second Division founder 1892, Drill Field) and fan-owned 1874 Northwich FC, founded 2012 after the old club's administrations.
Northwick Park
Northwick Park: Grade I listed country house at Blockley, Gloucestershire, early C17 core remodelled 1686-1832, attributed to Talman, Lord Burlington, Woolfe, Hulls; also a London park and hospital district named for Lord Northwick.
Northwood Real Estate Partners
Northwood Real Estate Partners is a series of real estate private equity funds managed by Northwood Investors, a Denver firm founded in 2006 by John Z. Kukral.
Northwood Real Estate Partners TE LP
Northwood Real Estate Partners TE LP is a Delaware-based real estate private equity fund managed by Northwood Investors in Denver, which reported about $2.4 billion sold by 2022.
Northwoods League
Northwoods League: summer collegiate baseball and softball league founded 1994 in Rochester, Minnesota; 26 baseball teams in 2026 across seven U.S. states and Ontario, 72-game season, 370+ MLB alumni including Scherzer and Sale.
Northzone
Northzone is a European multi-stage venture capital firm founded in Oslo in 1996, known for early investments in Spotify, Kahoot!, and Trustpilot, which raised a €1 billion fund in 2022.
Nortia Tesserae
Nortia Tesserae is a 650-km-wide tessera terrain feature on Venus at 49S, 160E, named for the Etruscan fate goddess and adopted by the IAU in 1997; it lies in the Mahuea Tholus quadrangle (V-49) among that region's oldest map units.
Norton AntiVirus
Norton AntiVirus is a consumer antivirus program first released by Symantec in 1991 and now developed by Gen Digital as the entry product of its Norton security line.
Norton B. Gilula
Norton B. Gilula (1944–2000) was an American cell and molecular biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, known for work on gap junctions and connexin genes.
Norton Camp
Norton Camp, Shropshire hillfort near Craven Arms; also Norton Fitzwarren univallate hillfort, Somerset, and Norton 1 Roman marching camp near Wroxeter. D-shaped multivallate Iron Age hillfort, about 7 ha, undated, scheduled 1934.
Norton Commander
Norton Commander was a file manager for MS-DOS, first released in 1986 by Peter Norton Computing, whose two side-by-side directory panels made it the defining DOS file utility.
Norton D. Zinder
Norton D. Zinder (1928–2012) was an American molecular geneticist who discovered transduction in Salmonella and the first RNA-containing bacteriophages, spending his career at Rockefeller University.
Norton Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Norton Louis Philip Knatchbull, 3rd Earl Mountbatten of Burma and 8th Baron Brabourne (born 1947), British peer and film producer; son of Patricia, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma; succeeded to the earldom in 2017; second cousin of King Charles III.
Norton Motorcycle Company
Norton Motorcycle Company, also known as Norton Motorcycles, is a British motorcycle maker founded in Birmingham in 1898 and known for the Isle of Man TT and the Commando.
Norton Sound
Norton Sound: shallow Bering Sea inlet on Alaska's west coast south of the Seward Peninsula, named by Captain Cook in 1778 for Sir Fletcher Norton; receives the Yukon River, home to Nome and subsistence salmon fisheries.
Nortriptyline
Nortriptyline, a tricyclic antidepressant and the principal active metabolite of amitriptyline (ATC N06AA10), treats depression, aids smoking cessation, and is used for neuropathic pain; metabolized by CYP2D6 with cardiac arrhythmia risk.
Norucholic acid
Norucholic acid (NCA), or 24-norursodeoxycholic acid (nor-UDCA), is a side-chain-shortened C23 analogue of ursodeoxycholic acid, investigational for PSC and MASLD; it resists amidation and drives bicarbonate-rich choleresis via cholehepatic shunting.
Noruron
Noruron (norea, Herban) is a substituted urea herbicide, C13H22N2O, CAS 18530-56-8, with a bicyclic aliphatic group; not approved in the EU and classified obsolete (class O) by WHO.
Norv Turner
Norv Turner (Norval Turner) is an American football coach who served as head coach for Washington, Oakland, and San Diego, and an offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys.
Norval H. Curry
Norval H. Curry, also known as Norval Herbert Curry, was an American consulting engineer who founded the firm that became Curry-Wille & Associates in Ames, Iowa.
Norval Morrisseau
Norval Morrisseau (1932–2007), an Anishinaabe painter from Ontario who signed his work Copper Thunderbird, founded the Woodland School and is called the grandfather of contemporary Indigenous art in Canada.
Norvaline
Norvaline is a non-proteinogenic amino acid, an unbranched isomer of valine that bacteria synthesize as a metabolic side product. It can be misincorporated into recombinant proteins and is sold as a dietary supplement.
Norvel Lee
Norvel LaFallette Ray Lee (1924–1992), American boxer, Tuskegee Airman, and educator; won light heavyweight gold and the Val Barker Trophy at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and won a 1949 Virginia segregation appeal.
Norvestor
Norvestor is a Nordic mid-market private equity firm founded in 1989 and headquartered in Oslo, Norway, which buys out and builds medium-sized companies across the Nordic region, with about EUR 5.2 billion under management.
Norvina
Norvina is Claudia Soare, president of Anastasia Beverly Hills and daughter of founder Anastasia Soare, and her namesake makeup line of vivid eyeshadow palettes and color cosmetics sold at Sephora.
Norwalk, California
Norwalk, California, a city in Los Angeles County 17 miles southeast of downtown LA; incorporated 1957, founded by the Sproul brothers in the 1870s; 2020 population 102,773, declining to an estimated 97,104 by 2025.