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Norristown High Speed Line The Norristown High Speed Line (NHSL), operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) as Route 100 of the Suburban Transit Division, is an interurban operating between Upper Darby, Pennsylvania's 69th Street Terminal and Norristown, Pennsylvania's Norristown Transportation Center, running entirely on its own right-of-way, inherited from the Philadelphia and Western Railroad, an interurban streetcar line. The line is unique in its combination of transportation technologies.
Norristown Transportation Center Norristown Transportation Center is a two-level multimodal public transportation regional hub located in Norristown, Pennsylvania and operated by SEPTA. It opened in 1989 to replace the older Norristown High Speed Line (Route 100) terminus one block away at Main and Swede Streets, and integrated the former Reading Company Dekalb Street Norristown railroad station into its structure.
Norrköping Norrköping [ˈˈnɔrɕøːpɪŋ] is a city in Östergötland in midth-east Sweden, situated at . It has 83,000 inhabitants, and is the seat of Norrköping Municipality with 125,000 inhabitants, making it among Sweden's tenth largest.
Norrlands dragonregemente Norrlands dragonregemente (Norrland Dragoon Regiment), also K 4 or K 8, is a Swedish Army cavalry regiment located in the province of Lappland that traces its origins back to the 17th Century. It is still in active service.
Norrlands storregemente Norrlands storregemente or Landsregementet i Norrland (Norrland Grand Regiment, Regiment of the Land in Norrland) was one of the nine grand regiments organized by Gustavus Adolphus in the late 1610s and split into smaller regiments in the 1620s.
Norrlandsflyg Norrlandsflyg AB (ICAO: HMF) is a Swedish helicopter operator which provides search and rescue under contract with the Swedish Maritime Administration and air ambulance services for Norrbotten County and Västra Götaland County. The company has its headquarters and technical base at Gällivare and helicopters stationed in Gothenburg, Ronneby, Sundsvall, Stockholm and Visby.
Norrländska Mästerskapet Norrländska Mästerskapet was a Swedish football cup held to decide the Champions of Norrland. As teams from a large part of northern Sweden, approximately above the province of Medelpad, were not allowed to play in the Swedish league system until the 1952–53 season, the best team from the region was instead decided by this tournament, which was played between 1925 and 1953.
Norrländska Socialdemokraten Norrländska Socialdemokraten (NSD) (Swedish: The Norrland Social Democrat) is a daily regional newspaper published in Norrbotten, Sweden. It is the largest morning newspaper in the region, as well as the largest newspaper published north of Uppsala, with a daily circulation of 40,600 (2005).
Norroy and Ulster King of Arms Norroy and Ulster King of Arms is one of the senior Officers of Arms of the College of Arms, and the junior of the two provincial Kings of Arms. The current office is the combination of two former appointments.
Norrtälje Municipality Norrtälje Municipality is located in Stockholm County, in the easten part of central Sweden, with the town Norrtälje as seat with its 16,500 inhabitants. It is the largest and northernmost municipality of Stockholms County.
Norsca (Warhammer) Norsca is a fictional place in Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy world setting. It is analgous in position within the "Old World" to Scandinavia and its human occupants, the "Norse", are a fantasy version of the vikings.
Norse art Norse art is a blanket term for the artistic style in Scandinavia during the Germanic Iron Age, the Viking Age, and sometimes even used when describing objects from the Nordic Bronze Age. Art during the Viking Age is also known as "Viking Art".
Norse colonization of the Americas The Vikings, or Norsemen, explored and settled areas of the North Atlantic, including the northeast fringes of North America, beginning in the 10th century. While this settlement process did not have the lasting effects that later settlements and conquests would have, it can be seen as a prelude to wide-scale European settlement in the Americas.
Norse cosmology Norse cosmology, as it is described in Norse mythology, recognizes the existence of nine worlds and the World Tree Yggdrasill. Due to the nature of the source material the details are not known with certainty.
Norse paganism Norse paganism or Nordic religion is a term used to describe the spectrum of religious ideas which were common amongst the Germanic tribes living in Nordic countries prior to the advent of Christian missionary activity in Northern Europe. Norse paganism is therefore a subset of Germanic paganism, which was practiced in the lands inhabited by the Germanic tribes across most of Northern and Central Europe until the end of the Viking Age.
Norse Peak Wilderness Norse Peak Wilderness is located in central Washington in the United States. It protects the portion of the Cascade Range north of Chinook Pass (Highway 410), south of Naches Pass (Naches Trail), and east of Mt.
Norse saga The Norse sagas (from Icelandic saga, plural sögur), are stories about ancient Scandinavian and Germanic history, about early Viking voyages, about migration to Iceland, and of feuds between Icelandic families. They were written in the Old Norse language.
Norse-Gaels The Norse-Gaels were a people who dominated much of the Irish Sea region and western Scotland for a large part of the Middle Ages, whose aristocracy were mainly of Scandinavian origin, but as a whole exhibited a great deal of Gaelic and Norse cultural syncretism. They are generally known by the Gaelic name which they themselves used, of which "Norse-Gaels" is a translation.
Norsecore Norsecore is a derogatory term used to describe Scandinavian black metal. Although the term seems to have been more widely popularized by Hartmuth "Blackgoat" Schindler of the German heavy metal label Barbarian Wrath (Schindler seems to use it as a jab at the often generic nature of repetitive and blasting black metal such as Marduk and Dark Funeral), he knowingly or unknowingly seems to have usurped the word and shifted it from the original meaning.
Norsefire Norsefire is the fictional ruling political party in the United Kingdom in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's V for Vendetta comic book series. While neither Moore nor Lloyd have said why they chose "Norsefire" as the name for his ruling party (sometimes simply called "the Party"), it was probably chosen to reference the National Socialist German Workers Party's (Nazi Party) fascination with Odinism, as well as the National Front, who have used the initials "NF" and a flaming torch as their logo.
Norseman, Western Australia Norseman (; post code: 6443) is a town located in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia along the Coolgardie-Esperance Highway, 726km east of Perth and 278 m above sea level. It is also the starting point of the Eyre Highway, and the last major town in Western Australia before the South Australian border 720 km to the east.
Norsemen Norsemen is used to refer to the group of people as a whole who speak one of the North Germanic languages as their native language. (Norse, in particular, refers to the Old Norse language belonging to the North Germanic branch of Indo-European languages, especially Danish, Icelandic, Swedish and Norwegian in their earlier forms.
Norsey Wood Norsey Wood is a mixed coppice woodland situated in Billericay, Essex, England. The nature reserve covers an area of approximately 165 acres, and consists of a variety of habitats due to its distinctive, underlying geology.
Norsjö and Malå Court District Norsjö and Malå Court District, or Norsjö och Malå tingslag, was a district divided between Västerbotten and Lapland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Norsk Folkehjelp Norsk Folkehjelp is a non-governmental organization, which has focused its work on clearing landmines. Norsk Folkehjelp is one of several Norwegian NGO's contributing in the difficult situation in Sri Lanka after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.
Norsk Folkemuseum Norsk Folkemuseum, the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History at Bygdøy in Oslo, has a large open air museum. It was established in 1894 by Hans Aall and contains 155 buildings which have been relocated from different districts of Norway.
Norsk Helikopter Norsk Helikopter is a Norwegian helicopter company that transports crew to oil installations in the North Sea. It has headquarters in Stavanger and has additional operations out of Bergen, Brønnøysund, Hammerfest and the oil platform Heidrun.
Norsk Kontantservice Norsk Kontantservice AS (NOKAS) is a Norwegian company offering solutions for management, control and distribution of cash to Norwegian banks. It is owned by several major Norwegian banks, including Norges Bank and DnB NOR.
Norsk MĂĄlungdom Norsk MĂĄlungdom (Unofficial translation: The Norwegian Language Youth) is an organization of youth working for the written language of Norwegian Nynorsk and the Norwegian dialects. Norsk MĂĄlungdom (shortened NMU) is the youth organization of Noregs MĂĄllag.
Norsk rikskringkasting Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK) - the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation - is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company. It is financed not as a post in the national budget, but primarily through a combination of a mandatory yearly license fee for each person who is in possession of a TV, and the display of static commercial placards (sponsor-logos) before certain tv-shows.
Norstrilia Norstrilia is the only novel published by Paul Linebarger under the pseudonym Cordwainer Smith, which he used for his science-fiction works (though several related short stories were once packaged together as a short novel The Quest of the Three Worlds). It takes place in Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind universe.
Norte del Valle Cartel The Norte del Valle Cartel, or North Valley Cartel, is a drug cartel which operates principally in the north of the Valle del Cauca region of Colombia. It rose to prominence during the second half of the 1990s, after the Cali Cartel and the MedellĂ­n Cartel fragmented, and is known as one of the most powerful organizations involved in the illegal drugs trade.
Norteños The Norteños (Spanish for "northerners"), affiliated with Nuestra Familia (Our Family), are a coalition of partially Latino gangs in North America, based in Northern California. A member of these gangs is a Norteño (male) or Norteña (female); based on Spanish usage, these names are often not capitalized when referring to individual members.
Nortec Nortec (from the combination of "norteño" and "techno") is an electronic musical genre from Tijuana (a border city in Baja California, Mexico) that first gained popularity in the 2001. Nortec music is characterized by hard dance beats and samples from traditional forms of Mexican music such as Banda sinaloense and Norteño - unmistakably Mexican horns are often used.
Nortec Collective Nortec Collective is a group of musicians that together and separately make music representative of the Nortec musical style. Nortec Collective was also title of a compilation of music by these musicians; the CD is the best-known Nortec record.
Norteiro people Norteiro is the Portuguese language term for people belonging to former Portuguese exclave in the western littoral of South Asia, which included islands such as the islands of Bom Bahia (modern Bombay), the Island of Salsette, Dharavi Island, New Bombay, Chaul-Revdanda, Baçaim, Daman and Diu, located across the Gulf of Cambay.
Nortek Nortek is a subsidiary of Nortek Group Limited that produces peripheral devices for personal computers, such as speakers, mice, keyboards and webcams as well as mp3 players, DVD players and televisions. The company operates under the tagline of "Italian Design", based on their usage of shaping and colouring.
Nortel Meridian Nortel Meridian is a private branch exchange. It provides advanced voice features, data connectivity, LAN communications, computer telephony integration (CTI), and information services for communication applications ranging from 60 to 80,000 lines.
North North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the northern edge of the area represented, unless explicitly stated otherwise or landmarks are considered more useful for that territory than specific directions.
North & Mid-Herts Football League The North & Mid-Herts League is a football competition based in Hertfordshire, England. It has three divisions including the Premier Division, which sits at level 13 of the English football league system and is a feeder to the Hertfordshire Senior County League.
North & South (computer game) North & South is a combined strategy and action game for the Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, DOS, NES, Amstrad CPC, MSX and ZX Spectrum. It was developed and published in 1989 by Infogrames/Atari Europe.
North (film) North is a 1994 motion picture directed by Rob Reiner, and starring Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Dan Aykroyd and Reba McEntire. The story is based on the novel North by Alan Zweibel, who also wrote the screenplay and has a minor role in the film.
North american development bank The North American Development Bank (NADB) is a binational financial institution capitalized and governed equally by the United States and Mexico for the purpose of financing environmental projects certified by the Border Environment Cooperation Commission (BECC). The two institutions work together with communities and project sponsors in both countries to develop and finance infrastructure necessary for a clean and healthy environment for border residents.
North and South (TV miniseries) North and South was a TV miniseries set in the American Civil War, based on a 1980s trilogy of novels by John Jakes. The three series were produced in 1985, 1986 and 1994 and follow the books quite closely, although there are considerable differences, especially in Book Two.
North and South Foreland The North Foreland and South Foreland are two chalk headlands on the Kent coast of southern England. The North Foreland forms the eastern end of the Isle of Thanet, and the South Foreland is 5 km (3 miles) northeast of Dover, overlooking the Strait of Dover.
North and South Open The North and South Open was one of the most prestigious golf tournaments in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. It was played at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina, long the largest golf resort in the world, which also staged a series of other tournaments with the "North and South" moniker, some of which continue to this day.
North and South Railroad The North and South Railroad was chartered in 1871 to build a railroad from Columbus, GA to Rome, GA. In 1874, after building about 20 miles, the railroad went bankrupt and was reorganized as the Columbus and Rome Railway.
North and South Railway The North and South Railway (N&S), now defunct, was an American railroad planned for construction between Casper, Wyoming and Miles City, Montana, via Sheridan, Wyoming. Though substantial portions of the railroad's grade were completed in 1923, only the far southern end of the line was ever completed, and that trackage was abandoned in 1935.
North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship The North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship is an annual golf tournament held since 1903 at the Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina. An invitational tournament, participants are chosen based upon their performance in national amateur championships and overall competitive record.
North Africa North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent. Geopolitically, the UN definition of Northern Africa (which coincides with common reckonings of the region) includes the following seven territories:
North African campaign The Algeria-French Morocco Campaign started on November 8, 1942, and terminated on November 11, 1942. In an attempt to pincer German forces, Allied forces (primarily American, with a smaller British contingent) landed in Vichy-held French North Africa under the assumption that there would be little to no resistance.
North Albany Football Club North Albany Football Club, the Kangas, is an Australian rules football club located in Albany, Western Australia playing in the Great Southern Football League. The home ground is called Collingwood Park and although the main focus of the club is football the facilities are shared with other sports such as cricket, soccer and touch rugby.
North Albury Football Club The North Albury Football Club, nicknamed The Hoppers, is an Australian rules football club playing in the Ovens & Murray Football League (O&MFL). They are incorporated as part of the North Albury Sports Club licensed club at Bunton Park in North Albury, where they play their home matches.
North Aleutians Basin The North Aleutians Basin is a geographic phenomenon, primarily a submarine depression, occurring in the southern Bristol Bay region of the Bering Sea and just off the northern shore of the Alaska Peninsula. It extends some 600 miles (960 km) along the Alaska Peninsula (northeast-southwest) and nearly as far north-south into the center of the Bering Sea.
North America North America is a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost fully in the western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast, connected to North America by the isthmus of Panama.
North America and West Indies Squadron The North America and West Indies Squadron of the UK's Royal Navy was maintained at varying strength throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It had a base at Bermuda where there was a dockyard until 1951.
North America Cup The North America Cup is an annual harness racing event held at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, Canada for 3-year-old standardbred pacing horses. Beginning in 2007, the North America Cup will be held at Woodbine Entertainment Group's other harness racing venue, Mohawk Raceway.
North American A-27 The North American NA-69, an attack version of the T-6 Texan, was ordered by Thailand as a light attack aircraft. The final ten aircraft of the order were impressed by the USAAC as A-27s to keep them out of Japanese hands.
North American A-36 The North American A-36A Apache/Invader was the ground-attack/dive-bomber version of the North American P-51 Mustang, from which it could be distinguished by the presence of rectangular, slatted dive brakes above and below the wings. A total of 500 A-36A dive bombers served in North Africa, the Mediterranean, Italy and the China-Burma-India theater during World War II before being withdrawn from operational use in 1944.
North American Aerospace Defense Command North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a joint organization of the United States and Canada which provides aerospace warning and control for North America. It was founded on May 12, 1958, as the North American Air Defense Command.
North American Aviation North American Aviation was a major US aircraft manufacturer. The company was responsible for a number of historic aircraft, including the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F-86 Sabre jet fighter, and the X-15 rocket plane, as well as Apollo Command and Service Module, the second stage of the Saturn V rocket, the Space Shuttle orbiter and the B-1 Lancer.
North American blizzard of 2003 The Blizzard of 2003, also known as the Presidents' Day Storm of 2003, or Presidents' Day Storm II, was a historical and record-breaking snowstorm on the East Coast of the United States and Canada, which lasted from February 15 to February 18, 2003. It spread widespread heavy snow across the major cities of the Northeastern US, making it the defining snowstorm of the very snowy winter of 2002-2003.
North American blizzard of 2006 The Blizzard of 2006 was a nor'easter that began on the evening of February 11, 2006. It dumped heavy snow across the Northeast United States from Virginia to Maine through the early evening of February 12 and ended in Atlantic Canada on February 13.
North American broadcast television frequencies In North America, terrestrial television is broadcast on designated channels numbered 2 through 69. Except for a few instances, consumer televisions and recorders come with these frequencies pre-programmed in, as opposed to what sometimes occurs in other places around the world.
North American burl treen Burl (the knotty outgrowth of a tree) treen is a part of nearly every major Americana and Native Americana collection. For decades it has consistently commanded respectable prices in private dealings and at auction.
North American BC-1 The North American BC-1 was the basic combat airplane used by the United States Army Air Corps from 1936-1940. It was the production version of the NA-26 prototype, with retractable tailwheel landing gear and the provision for armaments, a two-way radio, and the 550 hp (410 kW) R-1340-47 engine as standard equipment.
North American Boxing Council The North American Boxing Council is a professional Boxing and Mixed Martial Arts sanctioning body with its United States office in Indianapolis, IN. The US operations are managed by NABC President, Ed Hutchison.
North American Brown Lemming The North American Brown Lemming, Lemmus trimucronatus, is a small North American lemming. Originally called the Siberian Brown Lemming Lemmus sibiricus it was later decided that the animal formed a distinct species.
North American BT-9 The North American BT-9 was a monoplane primary trainer aircraft that served with the United States Army Air Corps and other allied countries during World War II. It was a contemporary of the Kaydet biplane trainer.
North American Bus Industries North American Bus Industries, commonly known as NABI, is a major transit bus manufacturing company based in Anniston, Alabama. NABI was founded in 1992 when the Hungarian firm Ikarus Bus, a key bus supplier to Eastern Europe, spun off a majority share of their American operations to American/Hungarian investors amid financial instabilities in the wake of the end of the Cold War.
North American Butterfly Association The North American Butterfly Association (NABA) was created in 1992 by Jeffrey Glassberg who currently resides as the association's president. The NABA was formed in order to promote awareness of butterfly conservation and the benefits of butterfly gardening, observation, photography and education.
North American call sign Many countries have specific conventions for classifying call signs by transmitter characteristics and location. The North American call sign format for radio and television call signs follows a number of conventions.
North American cinema The term North American cinema is generally used to refer collectively to the film industries of the United States and Canada. The film industries of Mexico and Cuba are considered to be part of Latin American cinema.
North American cuisine North American cuisine is a term used for foods native to or popular in countries of North America, as with Canadian cuisine, Cuisine of the United States, and Cuisine of Mexico. It has influences from many international cuisines, including Native American cuisine and European cuisine.
North American Company The North American Company was a holding company incorporated in New Jersey on June 14, 1890, and controlled by Henry Villard, to succeed to the assets and property of the Oregon and Transcontinental Company. It owned public utilities and public transport companies and was broken up in 1955, largely to comply with the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.
North American Competitiveness Council The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) is an official tri-national working group of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). It was created at the second summit of the SPP in Cancun, Mexico, in March 2006.
North American Congress on Latin America The North American Congress on Latin America or NACLA is an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1966 with the purpose of providing information on major trends in Latin America and its relations with the United States. The organization is best known for publishing the NACLA Report on the Americas.
North American Debating Championship The North American Debating Championship is the premier parliamentary debating championship in North America, sanctioned by the national university debating associations in the United States and Canada, the American Parliamentary Debating Association and the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate. It has been held on an alternating basis between the USA and Canada since 1991.
North American Eastern Time Zone The Eastern Time Zone (ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of Northern America and the west coast of South America. Its time offset is UTC-5 during standard time and UTC-4 during daylight saving time.
North American Eastern War Time Zone The North American Eastern War Time Zone (abbreviated EWT) was a geographic region that kept time by subtracting four hours from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) resulting in GMT-4. It was used in place of Eastern Standard Time during World War II from February 9, 1942 until September 30, 1945.
North American Electric Reliability Corporation The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a nonprofit corporation based in Princeton, NJ which was formed March 28, 2006. It is the successor to the North American Electric Reliability Council (also known as NERC), which was formed June 1, 1968, by the electric utility industry to promote the reliability and adequacy of bulk power supply in the electric utility systems of North America.
North American English North American English is a collective term used for the varieties of the English language that are spoken in the United States and Canada. Because of the considerable similarities in pronunciation, vocabulary and accent between American English and Canadian English, the two spoken languages are sometimes grouped together under a single category, as distinguished from the varieties of English that are spoken in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations countries such as Australia, New Zealand and South Africa and those in the Caribbean.
North American Federation of Temple Youth The North American Federation of Temple Youth (NFTY) is the organized youth movement of Reform Judaism in North America. Funded and supported by the Union for Reform Judaism, NFTY exists to supplement and support Reform youth groups at the synagogue level.
North American Figure Skating Championships The North American Figure Skating Championships were a former elite figure skating competition for skaters from the United States and Canada. It was a biennial (every two years) competition held between 1923 and 1971, with locations alternating between the two countries.
North American Forum on Integration The North American Forum on Integration (NAFI), also known as Le Forum sur l'Intégration Nord-Américaine (FINA), is a North American think tank based in Montreal, Quebec that advocates closer ties between Canada, Mexico, and the United States, including a common currency and common EU style parliament.
North American Free Trade Agreement The North American Free Trade Area is the trade bloc created by North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its two supplements, the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation (NAAEC) and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC) whose members are Canada, Mexico and the United States. It came into effect on 1 January 1994.
North American Fur Auctions North American Fur Auctions (commonly known as NAFA) is a Canadian company that auctions on consignment fur pelts harvested in Canada and the United States. Its services are used by both large fur farms and small-time trappers.
North American GAA The North American County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (Irish: Cumann Luthchleas Gael na Meiriceá Thuaidh) or North American GAA is one of the boards of the GAA outside Ireland. It is responsible for Gaelic Games in the United States of America excluding the New York metropolitan region, which is under the control of the New York GAA.
North American Guqin Association The North American Guqin Association (; often abbreviated to NAGA) is a guqin society based in the State of California, in the United States, catering for qin players of the western coast of America. It is also the world's largest English speaking online community for the guqin musical instrument.
North American High The North American High is an impermanent high-pressure cell or anticyclone created by anticyclogenesis (anticyclone + the Greek word genesis, meaning "birth, origin"), a formative process that occurs when cool or cold dry air settles onto western North America. North American Highs moves eastwards across the continent, often in the company of one or more low-pressure cells or cyclones.
North American Hockey League (1973-1977) The North American Hockey League was a low-level minor professional hockey league that existed from 1973 to 1977. The NAHL was one of two leagues, along with the Southern Hockey League, that were formed after the Eastern Hockey League ceased operations in 1973.
North American ice storm of 1998 The Ice Storm of 1998 (also known as Ice Storm '98) was a massive ice storm that struck a relatively narrow swath of land from Eastern Ontario to southern Quebec to Nova Scotia in Canada, and bordering areas from Northern New York to Southeast Maine in the United States, in January 1998. It caused massive damage to trees and electrical infrastructure all over the area, leading to widespread power outages.
North American Indian Center of Boston The North American Indian Center of Boston, Inc. (NAICOB) is a non-profit organization located in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which provides assistance to American Indians, Native Canadians, and other indigenous peoples of North America.
North American Indoor Football League (2005) The North American Indoor Football League was a proposed indoor football league that announced plans in 2004 to begin play in fourteen Canadian cities in February 2005. The game played was to be a unique indoor version of Canadian football.
North American International Demoparty The North American International Demoparty (NAID) was a demo party held in the years 1995 and 1996, and the first demo party held in North America. Both years, the party was held in CEGEP Édouard-Montpetit in Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal, Canada.
North American International Livestock Exposition North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) is a livestock show held each November in Louisville, Kentucky and lasts for two weeks. The events are held at the Kentucky Exposition Center which is also home to the Kentucky State Fair and the University of Louisville's basketball teams.
North American Islamic Trust The North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) is a nonprofit organization based in Indiana seeking to own and promote waqf (Islamic endownment) of Muslims in North America. As a nonprofit, NAIT qualifies as a tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
North American Labour Party The North American Labour Party was a Canadian political party that nominated candidates in federal elections in the 1970s. Because it was not a registered political party under the rules of Elections Canada, the government elections agency, however, its candidates were considered to be independents.
North American Maintenance of Bear-Life Association The North American Maintenance of Bear-Life Association, or NAMBLA, was established as a non-profit, non-governmental organization working to preserve the life of all bear-kind from attacks brought onto it by the human society. It is headquartered in Leander, Texas.
North American Man/Boy Love Association The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a New York City and San Francisco-based unincorporated organization that opposes the use of age as the sole criterion for deciding whether minors can legally engage in sexual relations. NAMBLA defends what it asserts to be the right of minors to explore their sexuality on a much freer basis.

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