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- (from the article "Newhouse family") The family's fortunes began with Samuel Irving Newhouse (b. May 24, 1895, New York, N.Y., U.S.-d. Aug. 29, 1979, New York City), who was born Solomon Neuhaus and was later known as S.I. Newhouse. He was working as a clerk for Judge Herman Lazarus in Bayonne, N.J., when Lazarus took ...
- Newhouse, Theodore
- American publisher who with his brothers founded a publishing empire that grew to comprise such holdings as 26 newspapers, the Conde Nast magazine group, business journals, and cable television systems (b. July 19, 1903, Bayonne, N.J.--d. Nov. 28, 1998, New York, N.Y.).
- Newhouser, Harold
- American left-handed baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers (1939-53) and the Cleveland Indians (1954-55) who was the only pitcher to win consecutive (1944-45) Most Valuable Player awards; he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992 (b. May 20, 1921, Detroit, Mich.--d. Nov. 10, 1998, Southfield, Mich.).
- Newington
- area in the borough of Southwark, London. It lies southeast of Waterloo Station and west of Bermondsey. In the 19th century the area was developed as a residential suburb, and several roads and railways were built, converting Newington into a transportation hub for London south of the River Thames. Central ...
- Newland, John
- American actor and director (b. Nov. 23, 1917, Cincinnati, Ohio-d. Jan. 10, 2000, Los Angeles, Calif.), was best known for his role as host of the 1959-61 television series Alcoa Presents (also known as One Step Beyond), which purported to be dramatized tales of ...
- Newlands, John Alexander Reina
- British chemist whose "law of octaves" noted a pattern in the atomic structure of elements with similar chemical properties and contributed in a significant way to the development of the periodic law. [2 Related Articles]
- Newley, Anthony George
- British entertainer, composer, lyricist, playwright, and director who was most famous for his roles in two shows he also co-wrote (with Leslie Bricusse) and directed: Stop the World-I Want to Get Off (1961), which gave him his signature songs "What Kind of Fool Am I?" and "Once ...
- Newlin, Dika
- American musicologist, composer, and pianist (b. Nov. 22, 1923, Portland, Ore.-d. July 22, 2006, Richmond, Va.), had a career that embraced musical scholarship, classical performance, and immersion in pop-music culture. A precocious only child, Newlin began to read by age 3, started composing by 7, finished high school at age ...
- newly industrializing country
- (from the article "Asia") ...proportion of world population. Although heavy industry has been important to the economies of the larger Asian countries, light manufacturing has been more conspicuous. In the lesser-developed and newly industrialized countries, labour-intensive industries have remained the most important. Medium-technology industries have been significant in many Asian economies regardless of their ...
- Newman
- mining town, northwestern Western Australia. It lies near Mount Newman, the highest peak (3,455 feet [1,053 m]) in the Ophthalmia Range. Both the town and the mountain were named for Aubrey Woodward Newman, who died while exploring the region in 1896. Newman was constructed during 1967-69 by The Mount Newman ...
- Newman's Own
- (from the article "Newman, Paul") A noted political liberal, Newman was outspoken in support of causes such as same-sex marriage and global disarmament. He was also a businessman and philanthropist. He launched the successful Newman's Own line of food products in 1982, with its profits going to a number of charitable causes. Some 25 years ...
- Newman, Alfred
- (from the article "1943: Other Winners") ...and William Darling for The Song of BernadetteArt Direction, Color: Alexander Golitzen and John B. Goodman for The Phantom of the OperaMusic Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture: Alfred Newman for The Song of BernadetteScoring of a Musical Picture: Ray Heindorf for This Is the ArmySong: "You'll Never Know" ...
- Newman, Arnold
- American photographer, who specialized in portraits of well-known people posed in settings associated with their work. This approach, known as "environmental portraiture," greatly influenced portrait photography in the 20th century. [1 Related Articles]
- Newman, Barnett
- American painter whose large, austerely reductionist canvases influenced the colour-field painters of the 1960s. [1 Related Articles]
- Newman, Charles
- (from the article "Literature") ...during the year were those of novelists William Styron, Gilbert Sorrentino, and Frederick Busch and science-fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. (See Obituaries.) Writer-critic Charles Newman, the founding editor of TriQuarterly literary magazine, died in March.
- Newman, John Henry
- influential churchman and man of letters of the 19th century, who led the Oxford Movement in the Church of England and later became a cardinal-deacon in the Roman Catholic church. His eloquent books, notably Parochial and Plain Sermons (1834-42), Lectures on the Prophetical Office of the Church (1837), and University ... [14 Related Articles]
- Newman, Larry
- (from the article "Abruzzo, Ben L.") ...a real-estate developer. He, as well as his wife and children, became active in skiing, boating, sailing, tennis, flying, and ballooning. In 1978 Abruzzo, with Maxie Anderson (q.v.) and Larry Newman, made the first transatlantic balloon flight in the Double Eagle II. In 1979 Abruzzo and Anderson won the Gordon ...
- Newman, Lionel
- (from the article "1969: Other Winners") ...Smith for Hello, Dolly!Original Score for a Motion Picture: Burt Bacharach for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidScore of a Musical Picture Original or Adaptation: Lennie Hayton and Lionel Newman for Hello, Dolly!Song Original for the Picture: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; ...
- Newman, Mount
- (from the article "Pilbara") Massive development of the iron industry, based on ore mined in the Hamersley Range, brought an influx of population to the area in the 1970s. One of the principal mines is Mount Newman, from which ore is shipped by rail northward to Port Hedland. Another railroad carries ore from Paraburdoo ...
- Newman, Paul
- handsome and charismatic American film actor, who was an enduring screen presence in the second half of the 20th century. [4 Related Articles]
- Newman, Randy
- American composer, songwriter, singer, and pianist whose character-driven, ironic, and often humorous compositions won him a cult audience and praise from critics but were atypical of the singer-songwriter movement of the 1970s that gave him his start as a performer. [2 Related Articles]
- Newman, Riley
- (from the article "gravitation") ...the distance between the test mass and the ring is not needed. Two later experiments over the same range showed no deviation from the inverse square law. In one, conducted by the American physicist Riley Newman and his colleagues, a test mass hung on a torsion balance was moved around ...
- Newman, William Stein
- American musicologist and educator (b. April 6, 1912, Cleveland, Ohio-d. April 27, 2000, Chapel Hill, N.C.), was a leading historian of music who in 1963 published a seminal three-volume work, The History of the Sonata (The Sonata in the Baroque Era, The Sonata in the Classical Era, and The Sonata ...
- Newmark, Craig
- (from the article "Craigslist") Craig's list was launched in 1995 by Craig Newmark, a software engineer, as a free e-mail service that described upcoming events in the San Francisco Bay area of California. Over time, Newmark set up a Web site with a forum for members to communicate with one another. As an increasing ...
- Newmarket
- town, Forest Heath district, administrative and historic county of Suffolk, England. It lies on chalk downland 70 miles (110 km) north of London. It is the home of the Jockey Club and has been celebrated for its horse races since the time of James I (reigned 1603-25); it is also ... [1 Related Articles]
- Newmont Mining
- (from the article "Business Overview") Consolidation was also prevalent in other metals sectors. For example, gold, whose price was at 28-year highs (gold hit $787 per troy ounce in September), experienced a wave of mergers, including Newmont Mining's takeover of Miramar Mining for $1.53 billion in October and Yamana Gold's $3.6 billion purchase of Meridian ...
- Newnes, George
- (from the article "publishing, history of") ...education, the potential market for magazines had greatly increased, and the public was avid for miscellaneous information and light entertainment. The first man in Britain to discover this was George Newnes, who liked snipping out any paragraph that appealed to him. In 1881 he turned his hobby to advantage by ...
- Newport
- (from the article "Newport") town, industrial seaport, and county borough, historic county of Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy), Wales.
- Newport
- town, industrial seaport, and county borough, historic county of Monmouthshire (Sir Fynwy), Wales.
- Newport
- city, seat of Jackson county, northeastern Arkansas, U.S. It lies on the White River at the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of Jonesboro. Newport was founded in 1870 by the Cairo and Fulton (now Union Pacific) Railroad after townspeople of Jacksonport, to the north, ...
- Newport
- county, southeastern Rhode Island, U.S. It lies between Massachusetts to the north and east and the Atlantic Ocean to the south and west and includes Conanicut, Prudence, and Rhode islands in Narragansett Bay. The county was created in 1703. There is no county seat, but the principal communities are Newport, ...
- Newport
- city, seat (1954) of Lincoln county, western Oregon, U.S. It lies on the north shore of Yaquina Bay at the Pacific Ocean. Settled in 1855 as a fishing village, it was laid out in 1866 and developed as a seaside resort with steamer connections to San Francisco. The city serves ...
- Newport
- city, one of the seats (1796) of Campbell county (the other is Alexandria), Kentucky, U.S. It adjoins Covington (west) and lies opposite Cincinnati, Ohio, on the Ohio River near the mouth of the Licking River. The first settlement (about 1790) was named for Christopher Newport, commander of the first ship ...
- Newport
- town, Isle of Wight, historic county of Hampshire, England. It lies near the centre of the diamond-shaped island at the head of the River Medina's estuary, 5 miles (8 km) from its mouth at Cowes. Newport was probably the Roman settlement of Medina, but there is no trace of Saxon ...
- Newport
- city, Newport county, southeastern Rhode Island, U.S. It occupies the southern end of Rhode (Aquidneck) Island in Narragansett Bay (there bridged to Jamestown). From the harbour on the west, the city rises up a gentle hillside to a low plateau. [5 Related Articles]
- Newport
- (from the article "naval ship") The diesel-powered Newport LSTs, which entered service in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s, displaced more than 8,000 tons full load and transported amphibious craft, tanks, and other combat vehicles, along with 400 men, at speeds of up to 20 knots. Instead of merely beaching, like their World War II ...
- Newport
- city, seat of Orleans county, northern Vermont, U.S., at the south end of Lake Memphremagog, near the Canadian border. The first house in the settlement (originally called Duncansboro) was built in 1793 by Deacon Martin Adams. The name Newport was adopted in 1816. Newport town (township; chartered 1802), including the ...
- Newport Beach
- city, Orange county, southern California, U.S. It lies along Newport Bay (Pacific inlet), south of Long Beach. Captain Samuel S. Dunnells sailed into the bay in 1870 looking for "new port" facilities; he developed Newport Landing, which in 1873 became a lumber terminal. Known as McFaddens Landing and Port Orange, ...
- Newport Jazz Festival
- (from the article "Newport") ...1947. Newport long has been known as a centre of yachting and has held many of the America's Cup yacht races. The Museum of Yachting is located in Fort Adams State Park. The city was the site of the Newport Jazz Festival from 1954 until 1971, when it was moved ...
- Newport LST
- (from the article "landing ship, tank") During the Korean War, LSTs were employed in the Inch'on landing. Limited numbers of LSTs were produced in the 1950s and '60s. The most prominent were the diesel-powered Newport LSTs, which were built for the U.S. Navy in the 1960s. These vessels displaced more than 8,000 tons fully loaded and ...
- Newport News
- independent city and port of entry, southeastern Virginia, U.S. It lies on the north side of Hampton Roads (harbour) and the mouth of the James River. With Portsmouth, Hampton, and Norfolk, it constitutes the Port of Hampton Roads. The site was settled by Daniel Gookin (1621), who brought 50 colonists ... [1 Related Articles]
- Newport, Christopher
- (from the article "Smith, John") ...attached himself to a group preparing to establish an English colony in North America. When a royal charter was granted to the Virginia Company of London, Smith and about 100 other colonists led by Christopher Newport set sail on December 20, 1606.Virginia Company
- Newport-Bermuda race
- (from the article "Sailing") In the centennial Newport-Bermuda Race, the boats had to sail through a strong ridge of high pressure extending from the west of Bermuda to the Azores, with winds of 5 knots or less. The first boat to finish, Hap Fauth's 20-m (66-ft) Bella Mente, averaged only 5.6 knots for the ...
- Newquay
- town ("parish") on the Atlantic coast, Restormel borough, administrative and historic county of Cornwall, England. The town is almost entirely a modern seaside resort, having grown since the mid-19th century from a small fishing village. It stands on cliffs overlooking sandy beaches and is sheltered from the Atlantic by Towan ...
- Newry
- town and seat, Newry and Mourne district (established 1973), formerly in County Down, southern Northern Ireland. It lies along the River Clanrye and Newry Canal, near Carlingford Lough (inlet of the sea) and the Mourne Mountains. The town developed around a Cistercian abbey founded on the Clanrye by St. Malachy ...
- Newry and Mourne
- district, southern Northern Ireland. Formerly astride Counties Armagh and Down, Newry and Mourne was established as a district in 1973. It is bordered by the districts of Armagh and Banbridge to the north and Down to the northeast, by the Irish Sea to the east, and by the Republic of ...
- news
- (from the article "Abell, A.S.") ...publishers of the New Orleans Daily Picayune, established a "pony express" of relay riders between Baltimore and New Orleans to speed the transmission of news. In a historic "news beat," the express delivered in Baltimore the news of the U.S. Army victory at Vera Cruz, Mexico, before ...
- news agency
- organization that gathers, writes, and distributes news from around a nation or the world to newspapers, periodicals, radio and television broadcasters, government agencies, and other users. It does not generally publish news itself but supplies news to its subscribers, who, by sharing costs, obtain services they could not otherwise afford. ... [5 Related Articles]
- News Corporation Ltd.
- (from the article "Computers and Information Systems") ...Report founder Matt Drudge and the Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington among America's 100 most influential people. Social-networking Web site MySpace, acquired in 2005 by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., also became a well-known Internet brand. According to one Web-traffic-measuring service, MySpace had become one of the five most popular Web ...
- newscast
- radio or television summary of news events read by a newscaster or produced with a combination of reading and audio tape for radio or a combination of reading and film or video tape for television. It ranges from the one-minute dateline radio summary (usually a reading of five or six ... [2 Related Articles]
- Newsday
- evening daily tabloid newspaper published in Long Island, N.Y., to serve residents of suburban Nassau and Suffolk counties, east of New York City. [1 Related Articles]
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