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North Hamgyong North HamgyĹŹng (HamgyĹŹng-pukto) is a province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former HamgyĹŹng Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea.
North Hampshire Hospital The North Hampshire Hospital, formerly Basingstoke District Hospital, is a 400 bed National Health Service (NHS) Hospital in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. It is part of the Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust, employing 3,000 staff and treating 180,000 patients a year in 2006.
North Hanover Township School District The North Hanover Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district which serves children in grades K - 6 from North Hanover Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The district is comprised of five elementary schools, Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth Grade.
North Hants Militia The North Hants Militia was a militia regiment in Hampshire, England which existed nominally from 1757 to 1853, as part of the reorganization of the standing armies of the United Kingdom brought in by the Militia Act of 1757. The regiment was not continuously embodied, being mustered only in times of need.
North Harbour in the 2006 Air New Zealand Cup North Harbour are in Pool A for the first round of the Air New Zealand Cup and start their campaign against Tasman on the 30 July. North Harbour have got 3 pre-season games against Counties Manukau, Otago and Northland.
North Harford High School North Harford High School is located in Pylesville, Maryland It is the largest district in Harford County, Maryland. NHHS one of the few schools in Harford County, Maryland to have a Future Farmers of America, and the only school to have a barn with a semi-working farm on campus.
North Harris College North Harris College is a public community college, located in Houston, Texas offering Associate's degrees and program certifications in over 60 fields of study. North Harris is a part of the North Harris Montgomery Community College District.
North Harrow tube station North Harrow tube station is a London Underground station situated in North Harrow, North West London. The station is on the Metropolitan Line and is the station between Harrow-on-the-Hill (southbound) and Pinner (northbound).
North Head Lighthouse North Head lies near the mouth of the Columbia River, approximately two miles north of Cape Disappointment. The Cape Disappointment light, installed in 1856, was obscured to ships approaching from the north by the headland extending southwest from the light.
North Heights North Heights is a neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio, nestled on the city's upper-Northside. It is so named because North Heights sits at a higher elevation than the Wick Park District, YSU, and Downtown Youngstown.
North Hennepin Community College North Hennepin Community College (NHCC) is a community college located in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. The college was established in 1966 under the name North Hennepin State Junior College and held its first classes in Osseo Junior High School in Osseo, Minnesota.
North Hertfordshire League The North Hertfordshire League was a football competition based in England. It had two divisions including the North Hertfordshire League Premier Division, which sat at level 13 of the English football league system and was a feeder to the Hertfordshire Senior County League.
North Hills (Pennsylvania) The North Hills is a term generally used to collectively describe the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The independent suburban municipalities that are typically included in the North Hills are Ross Township, Shaler Township, Franklin Park, Marshall Township, Bradford Woods, McCandless Township, Hampton Township, Pine Township, Richland Township, Cranberry Township, and Seven Fields.
North Hills Mall North Hills Mall, also known as North Hills Mall & Plaza, The Lassiter at North Hills or just North Hills is a former indoor shopping mall in Raleigh, North Carolina that has been redeveloped into an indoor-outdoor mixed use retail center. Currently, anchor stores include Target, REI, a 14 screen movie theater operated by Regal Cinemas, and original anchor JC Penney.
North Hobart Demons The North Hobart Football Club is an Australian Rules Football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League (Tasmania), also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.
North Hollow Files The North Hollow Files refer to a database of blackmail material on various members of both houses of parliament. The files, compiled by Dimitri Young, 9th Earl North Hollow, were used by him, his sons Pavel Young, and Stefan Young (10th and 11th Earls of North Hollow) before being destroyed by Stefan’s wife, Lady Georgia Young, Countess of North Hollow after Catherine Montaigne, and Anton Zilwicki found information identifying Lady Young as actually being Elaine Komandorski, a former genetic slave who bought her freedom by selling out other escaped slaves.
North Hollywood High School North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the husky, and the school colors are grey, silver and blue.
North Hollywood shootout The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers (Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Dechebal Matasareanu) and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on February 28, 1997, at a Bank of America teller-office.
North Humberside North Humberside is a former postal county of England. It was established in 1974 after the local government reform and consisted of the part of Humberside north of the Humber - and historically part of Yorkshire.
North Hunterdon High School North Hunterdon High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Annandale (in Clinton Township). As of 2007, the school serves about 1,900 students from six municipalities in northern Hunterdon County as one of two high schools in the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District.
North Charleston Coliseum The North Charleston Coliseum is a 14,000-seat multi-purpose arena in North Charleston, South Carolina, part of the North Charleston Coliseum, Performing Arts Center, and Convention Center complex built in 1993 (the Performing Arts Center and Convention Center opened in 1999) located on the access road to Charleston International Airport.
North Chelmsford, Massachusetts North Chelmsford is part of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, although has its own zip code, library, post office, police station, fire station, and local calling area. It is run by the same local town government and is part of the same school district as Chelmsford.
North Chicago Community High School North Chicago Community High School, also known as North Chicago and NCCHS, is a public four-year high school located in North Chicago, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of North Chicago Community Unit School District 187.
North China Electric Power University North China Electric Power University (华北电力大ĺ¦) is a university in Hebei, China under the national Ministry of Education that specializes in polytechnic disciplines. It was founded as the Beijing Institute of Electric Power in 1958 and later renamed the North China Institute of Electric Power when its location was moved to Baoding in 1970.
North China Plain (), the North China Plain, also called the Central Plain(s) (), is based on the deposits of the Huang He (Yellow River) and is the largest alluvial plain of eastern Asia. The plain is bordered on the north by the Yanshan Mountains and on the west by the Taihang Mountains.
North Chinese leopard North Chinese Leopards (Panthera pardus japonensis), are originally named on the basis of a skin purchased in Japan. They live in northern China south of the Amur leopards and have a broad range extending from Sichuan to southern China and north to Beijing.
North Ice North Ice was the name of a research station of the British North Greenland Expedition (1952 to 1954) on the inland ice of Greenland. The coordinates of the station were , with an altitude of 2 345 Meters above sea level.
North India North India is a geographic and linguistic-cultural region of India. In traditional Indian geography, India is divided into five major zones: North India, North-East India, East India , West India and South India.
North Island Brown Kiwi The North Island Brown Kiwi, Apteryx mantelli or Apteryx australis before 2000 (and still in some sources), is a species of kiwi that is widespread in the northern two-thirds of the North Island and, with about 25,000 remaining, is the most common kiwi. Females stand about 40 cm (16 inches) high and weigh about 2.
North Island Line North Island Line is a proposed reformation of the existing and extension of of the Hong Kong MTR metro system. According to the documentary - Rail Projects Under Planning 2000 released by Highways Department, the current Tung Chung Line will be extended from Hong Kong terminus eastward and two new stations, Tarmar Station and Exhibition Station are proposed on the extension.
North Island Volcanic Plateau The North Island Volcanic Plateau (often called the Central Plateau and occasionally the Waimarino Plateau) is located in the central North Island of New Zealand. It is located to the south of the dormant supervolcano, Lake Taupo, and extends south past the three active peaks of Mount Tongariro, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Mount Ruapehu.
North Island—Powell River North Island—Powell River was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997. This riding was created in 1987 from parts of Comox—Powell River riding.
North Jakarta International School North Jakarta International School (NJIS), in Jakarta (Indonesia), aims to provide its students with the opportunities, resources, instruction, and environment to pursue academic and personal excellence through an international school curriculum with a U.S.
North Jeffco Park and Recreation District The North Jeffco Park and Recreation District is a park and recreation district located in the northeastern portion of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. North Jeffco encompasses the portion of City of Arvada and adjacent areas that are located within Jefferson County.
North Jersey Coast Line The North Jersey Coast Line is one of New Jersey Transit commuter rail lines. Out of 43 inbound and 44 outbound daily weekday through trains, 7 round trips (about 16%) use the Waterfront Connection (opened September 9, 1991) to Hoboken Terminal; One round trip terminates at Newark Penn Station, while the remainder of the through trains terminate at New York Penn Station.
North Jersey Media Group North Jersey Media Group is a newspaper publishing and media firm serving northern New Jersey and headquartered in Hackensack, with a second office in West Paterson. The firm publishes Herald News, which covers Passaic County and Bergen County’s largest newspaper, The Record.
North Kaio North KaiĹŤ (Lord of the Worlds) (FUNimation's dub: King Kai) is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball, and the anime Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. He is the KaiĹŤ of the North quadrant of the galaxy in which Earth resides, living on a small planet at the end of Snake Way.
North Karelian Group The North Karelian Group (Pohjois-Karjalan Ryhmä, P-KR) was a formation of the Finnish Army (1939) during the Winter War. It defended the wide stretch of border between the Finnish IV Corps and the troops around Suomussalmi.
North Karnataka North Karnataka is a relatively arid expanse of plateau, lying between 300 and 700 meters elevation. It covers the Belgaum District, Bellary District, Bidar District, Bijapur District, Bagalkot District Chikmagalur District, Chitradurga District, Hubli-Dharwad District, Gulbarga District, Raichur District, and Shimoga District.
North Kessock North Kessock is the first village encountered on the Black Isle when driving from Inverness north over the Kessock Bridge. Because it is by-passed by the main road to the north (the A9) the village remains quiet.
North Ko'olaupoko, Hawai'i Koolaupoko is a district within the City & County of Honolulu on the island of Oahu, State of Hawaii. In Hawaiian, koolau poko means "short windward", referring to the fact that this is the shorter of the two windward districts on the island (Koolauloa or "long windward" is the other).
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction North Korea claims to possess nuclear weapons, and it is widely believed to have a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons (deliverable by artillery). North Korea was a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but withdrew in 2003, citing the failure of the United States to fulfill its end of the Agreed Framework, a 1994 agreement between the states to limit North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
North Korea at the 1992 Summer Olympics North Korea competed as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. It was the nation's first appearance in twelve years at the Summer Games due to its boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
North Korea at the 2007 Asian Winter Games North Korea, IOC designation: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, will participate in the 2007 Asian Winter Games which will be held in Changchun, China from January 28, 2007 to February 4, 2007.2007 Winter Asiad official website
North Korea national amateur boxing athletes North Korea national amateur boxing athletes represents Democratic People's Republic of Korea or North Korea in regional, continental and world matches and tournaments sanctioned by the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA).
North Korea Peace Museum The North Korea Peace Museum is in the building constructed to house the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953. It is located in the former village of Panmunjeom (P'anmunjĹŹm) in the Gyeonggi province, North Korea.
North Korea Times North Korea Times is an online newspaper with a special focus on North Korean events. The site is not based in North Korea; according to domain name registration records, it is owned by Midwest Radio Network Ltd.
North Korean abductions of Japanese The North Korean abductions of Japanese refers to the abduction of many Japanese citizens from Japan by agents of the North Korean government during a period of six years from 1977 to 1983. Although only sixteen (8 men and 8 women) are officially recognized by the Japanese government, there may have been as many as 70 to 80 Japanese abducted.
North Korean famine The North Korean famine occurred during the mid 1990s in North Korea and lasted until about 2001 when the country had mostly recovered from the Arduous March but it was not until 2004 that North Korea finally announced that it would need no further assistance from foreign aid suppliers.
North Korean Ground Force The North Korean Ground Forces in 1960 may have totalled fewer than 400,000 persons and probably did not rise much above that figure before 1972. The force expanded relentlessly over the next two decades; in 1992, there were approximately 1 million personnel.
North Korean websites banned in South Korea In September 2004, North Korea launched the Kim Il Sung Open University website Only three days later, Internet providers in South Korea were ordered by the National Police Agency, National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) to block connections to the site, as well as more than 30 others, including Minjok Tongshin, Chosun Sinbo, Chosun Music, North Korea Info Bank, DPRK Stamp and Uriminzokkiri.
North Korean-American relations North Korea-United States relations developed primarily during the Korean War, but in recent years have been largely defined by the United States' suspicions regarding North Korea's nuclear programs and North Korea's desire to normalize relations with the U.S.
North Kosovo North Kosovo is the Serbian-populated populated northern part of Serbia's southern province under UN administration, Kosovo, that maintains its own government, seated in Kosovska Mitrovica. It is composed out of three most northern municipalities of Kosovo, Leposavić, Zvečan, Zubin Potok and the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
North Kurdufan North Kurdufan (Arabic: شمال ŮردŮان; transliterated: Shamal Kurdufan) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 185,302 km² and an estimated population of approximately 1,400,000 (2000).
North Lake College North Lake College is a community college that is part of the Dallas County Community College District and is located in the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas. The school opened in 1977 and features an enrollment of about 8,000 credit students and an additional 4,000 continuing education students.
North Lake Senior Campus North Lake Senior Campus is a public high school located in Kardinya, Western Australia. The schools' primary focus is on the education of those of post-compulsory age, who wish to complete year 11 or 12, while also offering various vocational education courses, a Fast Track program, a night school and open learning programs.
North Lanarkshire North Lanarkshire (Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath in Gaelic) is one of 32 council areas in Scotland. It borders onto the north east of the City of Glasgow and contains much of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages.
North Lantau Highway North Lantau Highway (北大嶼山公路) is part of Route 8 of Hong Kong, linking the Airport and Lantau Island with the rest of the territory. It is a 3-lane expressway for its entire length with full width hard shoulders for emergencies and breakdowns.
North Lantau New Town The North Lantau New Town (Traditional Chinese: 北大嶼山新市鎮), built on reclaimed land from the northern coast of the Lantau Island in the New Territories, is the newest among the nine new towns in Hong Kong. It was planned to span across Tung Chung and Tai Ho.
North Leamington Community School and Arts College North Leamington Community School & Arts College (NLS for short or North Leam colloquilly) is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive with 1525 students on roll, including 300 in the Sixth Form. Main Site, at the north of the town, comprises the Lower School (Years 7, 8 & 9), approached from Cloister Way, and the Upper School (Years 10 & 11), approached from Park Road.
North Leeton, New South Wales North Leeton is a suburb located in northern Leeton, New South Wales in Leeton Shire. It is the most rapidly growing area of Leeton with many housing estates such as Karri Estate and Nobel Park Estate being constructed to meet housing demands.
North Leicestershire Football League The North Leicestershire League is a football competition based in Leicestershire, England. This league was established in 1931 and was formerly known as the Loughborough and District Amateur Football Alliance.
North Little Rock, Arkansas North Little Rock is a city located in central Arkansas across the Arkansas River from Little Rock in Pulaski County. According to 2005 Census Bureau, the population of the city was 58,833 ranking it as the sixth most populous city in the state.
North Liverpool Extension Line The North Liverpool Extension Line is a now-disused railway line in Liverpool, England. It was built by the Cheshire Lines Committee, branching from the Committee's Liverpool to Manchester line at Hunts Cross and skirting the edge of Liverpool before finally arriving at the Walton Triangle, a junction where one line continued north to Aintree and another turned west towards the River Mersey.
North Llanrwst railway station North Llanrwst railway station is the only train passing station on the Conwy Valley Line between Llandudno Junction and Blaenau Ffestiniog. The station and its goods yard was opened on June 17, 1863 as the Llanrwst terminus of the Conway and Llanrwst Railway Company that was taken over by the LNWR in 1867 and extended to Betws-y-Coed in 1869.
North Lochs North Lochs, (Scottish Gaelic: Na Lochan a Tuath), an area in southeast Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, is named for the many lochans (small lochs) which dot the landscape. Because of its largely undulating and rocky terrain, it is sparsely populated apart from flat ground near the coast.
North London derby The North London derby is the name of the football local derby between the two major teams in North London – Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. It specifically refers to individual matches between the teams, but can also be used to describe the general ongoing rivalry between the clubs.
North London Railway The North London Railway (known as the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway until 1853) was a railway that opened in 1850 and connected the north of London to the East and West India Docks. Its headquarters and locomotive works were situated at Bow.
North Long Beach, Long Beach, California North Long Beach (or "the Northside") is a predominantly working class area of Long Beach, California. The neighborhood is bounded to the west, north and east by the Long Beach city limits (the Rancho Dominguez unincorporated county area and the cities of Compton, Paramount, Bellflower and Lakewood), and to the south by Del Amo Blvd and the Bixby Knolls neighborhood.
North Loop, Minneapolis The North Loop is a neighborhood which is part of the larger Central community of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Although "North Loop" is the official name of the neighborhood many people still refer to it as the Warehouse District.
North Luangwa National Park North Luangwa National Park is a national park in Zambia, the northernmost of the three in the valley of the Luangwa River. Founded as a game reserve in 1938, it became a national park in 1972 and now covers 4,636km².
North Luzon Expressway The North Luzon Expressway (NLE or NLEx), also called North Diversion Road, is a limited-access toll expressway that connects Metro Manila to the provinces of the Central Luzon region in the Philippines. It is one of the two branches of the R-8 major radial road of Metro Manila (Quirino Highway is the other).
North Madras North Madras refers to the suburbs in the northern part of Chennai. It consists of residential areas like Washermanpet, Kosapet, Korukkupet, Perambur, George Town, Park Town and the new suburbs of Villivakkam, Korattur, and Anna Nagar.
North Maharashtra University The North Maharashtra University is one of the upcoming universities in India, the university was established on 15 August 1990 under the Maharashtra University Act No. XXIX of 1989 as a teaching and affiliating University.
North Meadowbrook Terrace, Florida North Meadowbrook Terrace is a separate unincorporated community in northern Clay County, Florida, just south of the border of Jacksonville. The community is combined with Belair and Meadowbrook Terrace, to form the Census Designated Place of Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace by the U.
North Medford High School North Medford High School is a secondary school located at 1900 North Keene Way Drive, in the city of Medford, Oregon. Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year, NMHS started its Freshman Academy program, after a monetary grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
North Melbourne Football Club The North Melbourne Football Club, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. It is based at the Arden Street Oval in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne, but plays its home matches at the Telstra Dome and occasionally, the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
North Melbourne Giants The North Melbourne Giants were an Australian basketball team, that played in Melbourne, Victoria, in the National Basketball League. The team was formed in 1980 as the Coburg Giants and were renamed in 1987 as North Melbourne.
North Memphis, Memphis North Memphis is a blighted area on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee. Sometimes spelled Norf Memphis for comic effect, it is home to smaller neighborhoods likeDouglass, Memphis,Hyde Park, Memphis, and Hollywood, Memphis.
North Middletown, New Jersey North Middletown, or "East Keansburg," is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 3,165.
North Midlands The North Midlands is a loosely-defined area of England. It is typically held to include the northern parts of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and in some definitions also covers Cheshire and parts of Lincolnshire and Staffordshire.
North Mississippi Allstars North Mississippi Allstars is a blues-rock/jam band band from Hernando, Mississippi founded in 1996. The band is composed of brothers Luther Dickinson (guitar and vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums), and Chris Chew (electric bass guitar).
North Mount Lyell North Mount Lyell was the name of a mine, mining company and former railway near Gormanston on the West Coast of Tasmania. It was absorbed into the workings of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company following the failure of the smelters at Crotty.
North Mount Lyell Railway The North Mount Lyell Railway was built to service the North Mount Lyell mine in West Coast Tasmania at the start of the Twentieth Century to take ore from Gormanston to the Crotty smelters, and then on to Pillinger in the Kelly Basin of Macquarie Harbour, from where it was shipped out.
North Nazimabad Town North Nazimabad Town is a small densely populated town in the northern part of Karachi, named as such in reference to it being north of the suburb of Nazimabad. The town is bordered by New Karachi Town to the north across the Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain, Gulberg Town to the east across the Gujar Nala stream, Liaquatabad Town to the south, and SITE Town to the west.
North New York, Bronx North New York is an archaic name for an area in the New York City borough of The Bronx, that is part of what is today the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. It was between 134th and 147th Streets and from Port Morris to Third Avenue.
North Newbald North Newbald, along with South Newbald and several other small local villages form the Parish Council of Newbald. It is a village consisting of roughly 800 people both young and old, and is situated almost equidistantly between Beverley and Hull.
North Norfolk Coastal Path The North Norfolk Coastal Path is a long distance footpath] in [[Norfolk, England, running 72 kilometers from Hunstanton to Cromer. It was opened in 1986 and covers the North Norfolk Coast AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty).
North of 60 North of 60 was a mid-1990s Canadian television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest (north of 60 degrees North latitude, hence the title). It first aired on CBC Television in 1992 and was syndicated around the world.
North of America North of America is a rock band from Nova Scotia that has recorded with Matlock Records in Canada and the American label Level Plane Records. Members of Halifax's State Champs and Truro's The Motes formed North of America in 1997.
North of Boston Library Exchange The North Of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE) is a cooperative effort of 28 libraries in Boston's northern suburbs to improve library service through automation. Seventeen public library members, nine college libraries and one special library are members of NOBLE.
North of Scotland Electricity plc North of Scotland Electricity plc (UK company number SC117119) was formed on 1 April 1989 to acquire the assets of North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board ahead of electricity privatisation in the United Kingdom.
North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1943 - 1990) was founded to design, construct and manage hydroelectricity projects in the Highlands of Scotland. It is regarded as one of the major achievements of Scottish politician Thomas Johnston, who chaired the board from 1945 to 1959.
North of Superior Junior B Hockey League The North of Superior Junior B Hockey League is a defunct Junior "B" ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by Hockey Canada. The league used to be a part of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association.
North Ockendon North Ockendon is a place in the London Borough of Havering in London, United Kingdom. It is the only settlement within Greater London to be located outside the bounds of the M25 motorway which orbits the city, and is situated 18 miles (30 km) east north-east of Charing Cross.
North Okanagan North Okanagan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia beginning with the election of 1916. Following the 1975 election boundary revisions accompanied the riding's renaming to Okanagan North.
North Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum North Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum is a botanical garden and arboretum on the campus of Northern Oklahoma College, located at 1220 East Grand, Tonkawa, Oklahoma. It is an affiliate garden of the Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum and open to the public daily without charge.
North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line The North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line (NOMBL) was a transit agency in Northeast Ohio. The NOMBL was the first and oldest continuous operating municipal transit system in the United States and was in operation for over 74 years.
North Orange County Community College District The North Orange County Community College District (NOCCCD), located in Orange County, California, offers associate degrees and adult education certificates through Cypress College, Fullerton College and the School of Continuing Education.
North Otago The district of North Otago in New Zealand covers the area of Otago between Shag Point and the Waitaki River, and extends inland to the west as far as the village of Omarama (which has experienced rapid growth as a developing centre for astronomy and for gliding). The large east-coast town of Oamaru serves as North Otago's main centre.
North Hampshire Hospital The North Hampshire Hospital, formerly Basingstoke District Hospital, is a 400 bed National Health Service (NHS) Hospital in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England. It is part of the Basingstoke and North Hampshire NHS Foundation Trust, employing 3,000 staff and treating 180,000 patients a year in 2006.
North Hanover Township School District The North Hanover Township School District is a comprehensive community public school district which serves children in grades K - 6 from North Hanover Township, in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The district is comprised of five elementary schools, Pre-Kindergarten through Sixth Grade.
North Hants Militia The North Hants Militia was a militia regiment in Hampshire, England which existed nominally from 1757 to 1853, as part of the reorganization of the standing armies of the United Kingdom brought in by the Militia Act of 1757. The regiment was not continuously embodied, being mustered only in times of need.
North Harbour in the 2006 Air New Zealand Cup North Harbour are in Pool A for the first round of the Air New Zealand Cup and start their campaign against Tasman on the 30 July. North Harbour have got 3 pre-season games against Counties Manukau, Otago and Northland.
North Harford High School North Harford High School is located in Pylesville, Maryland It is the largest district in Harford County, Maryland. NHHS one of the few schools in Harford County, Maryland to have a Future Farmers of America, and the only school to have a barn with a semi-working farm on campus.
North Harris College North Harris College is a public community college, located in Houston, Texas offering Associate's degrees and program certifications in over 60 fields of study. North Harris is a part of the North Harris Montgomery Community College District.
North Harrow tube station North Harrow tube station is a London Underground station situated in North Harrow, North West London. The station is on the Metropolitan Line and is the station between Harrow-on-the-Hill (southbound) and Pinner (northbound).
North Head Lighthouse North Head lies near the mouth of the Columbia River, approximately two miles north of Cape Disappointment. The Cape Disappointment light, installed in 1856, was obscured to ships approaching from the north by the headland extending southwest from the light.
North Heights North Heights is a neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio, nestled on the city's upper-Northside. It is so named because North Heights sits at a higher elevation than the Wick Park District, YSU, and Downtown Youngstown.
North Hennepin Community College North Hennepin Community College (NHCC) is a community college located in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. The college was established in 1966 under the name North Hennepin State Junior College and held its first classes in Osseo Junior High School in Osseo, Minnesota.
North Hertfordshire League The North Hertfordshire League was a football competition based in England. It had two divisions including the North Hertfordshire League Premier Division, which sat at level 13 of the English football league system and was a feeder to the Hertfordshire Senior County League.
North Hills (Pennsylvania) The North Hills is a term generally used to collectively describe the northern suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The independent suburban municipalities that are typically included in the North Hills are Ross Township, Shaler Township, Franklin Park, Marshall Township, Bradford Woods, McCandless Township, Hampton Township, Pine Township, Richland Township, Cranberry Township, and Seven Fields.
North Hills Mall North Hills Mall, also known as North Hills Mall & Plaza, The Lassiter at North Hills or just North Hills is a former indoor shopping mall in Raleigh, North Carolina that has been redeveloped into an indoor-outdoor mixed use retail center. Currently, anchor stores include Target, REI, a 14 screen movie theater operated by Regal Cinemas, and original anchor JC Penney.
North Hobart Demons The North Hobart Football Club is an Australian Rules Football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League (Tasmania), also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.
North Hollow Files The North Hollow Files refer to a database of blackmail material on various members of both houses of parliament. The files, compiled by Dimitri Young, 9th Earl North Hollow, were used by him, his sons Pavel Young, and Stefan Young (10th and 11th Earls of North Hollow) before being destroyed by Stefan’s wife, Lady Georgia Young, Countess of North Hollow after Catherine Montaigne, and Anton Zilwicki found information identifying Lady Young as actually being Elaine Komandorski, a former genetic slave who bought her freedom by selling out other escaped slaves.
North Hollywood High School North Hollywood High School, originally called Lankershim High School when it opened in 1927, is a secondary school in North Hollywood in Los Angeles, California. The school mascot is the husky, and the school colors are grey, silver and blue.
North Hollywood shootout The North Hollywood shootout was an armed confrontation between two heavily-armed and armored bank robbers (Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Dechebal Matasareanu) and patrol and SWAT officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) on February 28, 1997, at a Bank of America teller-office.
North Humberside North Humberside is a former postal county of England. It was established in 1974 after the local government reform and consisted of the part of Humberside north of the Humber - and historically part of Yorkshire.
North Hunterdon High School North Hunterdon High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Annandale (in Clinton Township). As of 2007, the school serves about 1,900 students from six municipalities in northern Hunterdon County as one of two high schools in the North Hunterdon-Voorhees Regional High School District.
North Charleston Coliseum The North Charleston Coliseum is a 14,000-seat multi-purpose arena in North Charleston, South Carolina, part of the North Charleston Coliseum, Performing Arts Center, and Convention Center complex built in 1993 (the Performing Arts Center and Convention Center opened in 1999) located on the access road to Charleston International Airport.
North Chelmsford, Massachusetts North Chelmsford is part of Chelmsford, Massachusetts, although has its own zip code, library, post office, police station, fire station, and local calling area. It is run by the same local town government and is part of the same school district as Chelmsford.
North Chicago Community High School North Chicago Community High School, also known as North Chicago and NCCHS, is a public four-year high school located in North Chicago, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of North Chicago Community Unit School District 187.
North China Electric Power University North China Electric Power University (华北电力大ĺ¦) is a university in Hebei, China under the national Ministry of Education that specializes in polytechnic disciplines. It was founded as the Beijing Institute of Electric Power in 1958 and later renamed the North China Institute of Electric Power when its location was moved to Baoding in 1970.
North China Plain (), the North China Plain, also called the Central Plain(s) (), is based on the deposits of the Huang He (Yellow River) and is the largest alluvial plain of eastern Asia. The plain is bordered on the north by the Yanshan Mountains and on the west by the Taihang Mountains.
North Chinese leopard North Chinese Leopards (Panthera pardus japonensis), are originally named on the basis of a skin purchased in Japan. They live in northern China south of the Amur leopards and have a broad range extending from Sichuan to southern China and north to Beijing.
North Ice North Ice was the name of a research station of the British North Greenland Expedition (1952 to 1954) on the inland ice of Greenland. The coordinates of the station were , with an altitude of 2 345 Meters above sea level.
North India North India is a geographic and linguistic-cultural region of India. In traditional Indian geography, India is divided into five major zones: North India, North-East India, East India , West India and South India.
North Island Brown Kiwi The North Island Brown Kiwi, Apteryx mantelli or Apteryx australis before 2000 (and still in some sources), is a species of kiwi that is widespread in the northern two-thirds of the North Island and, with about 25,000 remaining, is the most common kiwi. Females stand about 40 cm (16 inches) high and weigh about 2.
North Island Line North Island Line is a proposed reformation of the existing and extension of of the Hong Kong MTR metro system. According to the documentary - Rail Projects Under Planning 2000 released by Highways Department, the current Tung Chung Line will be extended from Hong Kong terminus eastward and two new stations, Tarmar Station and Exhibition Station are proposed on the extension.
North Island Volcanic Plateau The North Island Volcanic Plateau (often called the Central Plateau and occasionally the Waimarino Plateau) is located in the central North Island of New Zealand. It is located to the south of the dormant supervolcano, Lake Taupo, and extends south past the three active peaks of Mount Tongariro, Mount Ngauruhoe, and Mount Ruapehu.
North Island—Powell River North Island—Powell River was a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1997. This riding was created in 1987 from parts of Comox—Powell River riding.
North Jakarta International School North Jakarta International School (NJIS), in Jakarta (Indonesia), aims to provide its students with the opportunities, resources, instruction, and environment to pursue academic and personal excellence through an international school curriculum with a U.S.
North Jeffco Park and Recreation District The North Jeffco Park and Recreation District is a park and recreation district located in the northeastern portion of Jefferson County, Colorado, United States. North Jeffco encompasses the portion of City of Arvada and adjacent areas that are located within Jefferson County.
North Jersey Coast Line The North Jersey Coast Line is one of New Jersey Transit commuter rail lines. Out of 43 inbound and 44 outbound daily weekday through trains, 7 round trips (about 16%) use the Waterfront Connection (opened September 9, 1991) to Hoboken Terminal; One round trip terminates at Newark Penn Station, while the remainder of the through trains terminate at New York Penn Station.
North Jersey Media Group North Jersey Media Group is a newspaper publishing and media firm serving northern New Jersey and headquartered in Hackensack, with a second office in West Paterson. The firm publishes Herald News, which covers Passaic County and Bergen County’s largest newspaper, The Record.
North Kaio North KaiĹŤ (Lord of the Worlds) (FUNimation's dub: King Kai) is a fictional character in the manga Dragon Ball, and the anime Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT. He is the KaiĹŤ of the North quadrant of the galaxy in which Earth resides, living on a small planet at the end of Snake Way.
North Karelian Group The North Karelian Group (Pohjois-Karjalan Ryhmä, P-KR) was a formation of the Finnish Army (1939) during the Winter War. It defended the wide stretch of border between the Finnish IV Corps and the troops around Suomussalmi.
North Karnataka North Karnataka is a relatively arid expanse of plateau, lying between 300 and 700 meters elevation. It covers the Belgaum District, Bellary District, Bidar District, Bijapur District, Bagalkot District Chikmagalur District, Chitradurga District, Hubli-Dharwad District, Gulbarga District, Raichur District, and Shimoga District.
North Kessock North Kessock is the first village encountered on the Black Isle when driving from Inverness north over the Kessock Bridge. Because it is by-passed by the main road to the north (the A9) the village remains quiet.
North Ko'olaupoko, Hawai'i Koolaupoko is a district within the City & County of Honolulu on the island of Oahu, State of Hawaii. In Hawaiian, koolau poko means "short windward", referring to the fact that this is the shorter of the two windward districts on the island (Koolauloa or "long windward" is the other).
North Korea and weapons of mass destruction North Korea claims to possess nuclear weapons, and it is widely believed to have a substantial arsenal of chemical weapons (deliverable by artillery). North Korea was a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty but withdrew in 2003, citing the failure of the United States to fulfill its end of the Agreed Framework, a 1994 agreement between the states to limit North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
North Korea at the 1992 Summer Olympics North Korea competed as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. It was the nation's first appearance in twelve years at the Summer Games due to its boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
North Korea at the 2007 Asian Winter Games North Korea, IOC designation: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, will participate in the 2007 Asian Winter Games which will be held in Changchun, China from January 28, 2007 to February 4, 2007.2007 Winter Asiad official website
North Korea national amateur boxing athletes North Korea national amateur boxing athletes represents Democratic People's Republic of Korea or North Korea in regional, continental and world matches and tournaments sanctioned by the Amateur International Boxing Association (AIBA).
North Korea Peace Museum The North Korea Peace Museum is in the building constructed to house the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953. It is located in the former village of Panmunjeom (P'anmunjĹŹm) in the Gyeonggi province, North Korea.
North Korea Times North Korea Times is an online newspaper with a special focus on North Korean events. The site is not based in North Korea; according to domain name registration records, it is owned by Midwest Radio Network Ltd.
North Korean abductions of Japanese The North Korean abductions of Japanese refers to the abduction of many Japanese citizens from Japan by agents of the North Korean government during a period of six years from 1977 to 1983. Although only sixteen (8 men and 8 women) are officially recognized by the Japanese government, there may have been as many as 70 to 80 Japanese abducted.
North Korean famine The North Korean famine occurred during the mid 1990s in North Korea and lasted until about 2001 when the country had mostly recovered from the Arduous March but it was not until 2004 that North Korea finally announced that it would need no further assistance from foreign aid suppliers.
North Korean Ground Force The North Korean Ground Forces in 1960 may have totalled fewer than 400,000 persons and probably did not rise much above that figure before 1972. The force expanded relentlessly over the next two decades; in 1992, there were approximately 1 million personnel.
North Korean websites banned in South Korea In September 2004, North Korea launched the Kim Il Sung Open University website Only three days later, Internet providers in South Korea were ordered by the National Police Agency, National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Ministry of Information and Communication (MIC) to block connections to the site, as well as more than 30 others, including Minjok Tongshin, Chosun Sinbo, Chosun Music, North Korea Info Bank, DPRK Stamp and Uriminzokkiri.
North Korean-American relations North Korea-United States relations developed primarily during the Korean War, but in recent years have been largely defined by the United States' suspicions regarding North Korea's nuclear programs and North Korea's desire to normalize relations with the U.S.
North Kosovo North Kosovo is the Serbian-populated populated northern part of Serbia's southern province under UN administration, Kosovo, that maintains its own government, seated in Kosovska Mitrovica. It is composed out of three most northern municipalities of Kosovo, Leposavić, Zvečan, Zubin Potok and the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica.
North Kurdufan North Kurdufan (Arabic: شمال ŮردŮان; transliterated: Shamal Kurdufan) is one of the 26 wilayat or states of Sudan. It has an area of 185,302 km² and an estimated population of approximately 1,400,000 (2000).
North Lake College North Lake College is a community college that is part of the Dallas County Community College District and is located in the Las Colinas area of Irving, Texas. The school opened in 1977 and features an enrollment of about 8,000 credit students and an additional 4,000 continuing education students.
North Lake Senior Campus North Lake Senior Campus is a public high school located in Kardinya, Western Australia. The schools' primary focus is on the education of those of post-compulsory age, who wish to complete year 11 or 12, while also offering various vocational education courses, a Fast Track program, a night school and open learning programs.
North Lanarkshire North Lanarkshire (Siorrachd Lannraig a Tuath in Gaelic) is one of 32 council areas in Scotland. It borders onto the north east of the City of Glasgow and contains much of Glasgow's suburbs and commuter towns and villages.
North Lantau Highway North Lantau Highway (北大嶼山公路) is part of Route 8 of Hong Kong, linking the Airport and Lantau Island with the rest of the territory. It is a 3-lane expressway for its entire length with full width hard shoulders for emergencies and breakdowns.
North Lantau New Town The North Lantau New Town (Traditional Chinese: 北大嶼山新市鎮), built on reclaimed land from the northern coast of the Lantau Island in the New Territories, is the newest among the nine new towns in Hong Kong. It was planned to span across Tung Chung and Tai Ho.
North Leamington Community School and Arts College North Leamington Community School & Arts College (NLS for short or North Leam colloquilly) is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive with 1525 students on roll, including 300 in the Sixth Form. Main Site, at the north of the town, comprises the Lower School (Years 7, 8 & 9), approached from Cloister Way, and the Upper School (Years 10 & 11), approached from Park Road.
North Leeton, New South Wales North Leeton is a suburb located in northern Leeton, New South Wales in Leeton Shire. It is the most rapidly growing area of Leeton with many housing estates such as Karri Estate and Nobel Park Estate being constructed to meet housing demands.
North Leicestershire Football League The North Leicestershire League is a football competition based in Leicestershire, England. This league was established in 1931 and was formerly known as the Loughborough and District Amateur Football Alliance.
North Little Rock, Arkansas North Little Rock is a city located in central Arkansas across the Arkansas River from Little Rock in Pulaski County. According to 2005 Census Bureau, the population of the city was 58,833 ranking it as the sixth most populous city in the state.
North Liverpool Extension Line The North Liverpool Extension Line is a now-disused railway line in Liverpool, England. It was built by the Cheshire Lines Committee, branching from the Committee's Liverpool to Manchester line at Hunts Cross and skirting the edge of Liverpool before finally arriving at the Walton Triangle, a junction where one line continued north to Aintree and another turned west towards the River Mersey.
North Llanrwst railway station North Llanrwst railway station is the only train passing station on the Conwy Valley Line between Llandudno Junction and Blaenau Ffestiniog. The station and its goods yard was opened on June 17, 1863 as the Llanrwst terminus of the Conway and Llanrwst Railway Company that was taken over by the LNWR in 1867 and extended to Betws-y-Coed in 1869.
North Lochs North Lochs, (Scottish Gaelic: Na Lochan a Tuath), an area in southeast Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, is named for the many lochans (small lochs) which dot the landscape. Because of its largely undulating and rocky terrain, it is sparsely populated apart from flat ground near the coast.
North London derby The North London derby is the name of the football local derby between the two major teams in North London – Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal. It specifically refers to individual matches between the teams, but can also be used to describe the general ongoing rivalry between the clubs.
North London Railway The North London Railway (known as the East & West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway until 1853) was a railway that opened in 1850 and connected the north of London to the East and West India Docks. Its headquarters and locomotive works were situated at Bow.
North Long Beach, Long Beach, California North Long Beach (or "the Northside") is a predominantly working class area of Long Beach, California. The neighborhood is bounded to the west, north and east by the Long Beach city limits (the Rancho Dominguez unincorporated county area and the cities of Compton, Paramount, Bellflower and Lakewood), and to the south by Del Amo Blvd and the Bixby Knolls neighborhood.
North Loop, Minneapolis The North Loop is a neighborhood which is part of the larger Central community of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Although "North Loop" is the official name of the neighborhood many people still refer to it as the Warehouse District.
North Luangwa National Park North Luangwa National Park is a national park in Zambia, the northernmost of the three in the valley of the Luangwa River. Founded as a game reserve in 1938, it became a national park in 1972 and now covers 4,636km².
North Luzon Expressway The North Luzon Expressway (NLE or NLEx), also called North Diversion Road, is a limited-access toll expressway that connects Metro Manila to the provinces of the Central Luzon region in the Philippines. It is one of the two branches of the R-8 major radial road of Metro Manila (Quirino Highway is the other).
North Madras North Madras refers to the suburbs in the northern part of Chennai. It consists of residential areas like Washermanpet, Kosapet, Korukkupet, Perambur, George Town, Park Town and the new suburbs of Villivakkam, Korattur, and Anna Nagar.
North Maharashtra University The North Maharashtra University is one of the upcoming universities in India, the university was established on 15 August 1990 under the Maharashtra University Act No. XXIX of 1989 as a teaching and affiliating University.
North Meadowbrook Terrace, Florida North Meadowbrook Terrace is a separate unincorporated community in northern Clay County, Florida, just south of the border of Jacksonville. The community is combined with Belair and Meadowbrook Terrace, to form the Census Designated Place of Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace by the U.
North Medford High School North Medford High School is a secondary school located at 1900 North Keene Way Drive, in the city of Medford, Oregon. Beginning in the 2006-2007 school year, NMHS started its Freshman Academy program, after a monetary grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
North Melbourne Football Club The North Melbourne Football Club, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. It is based at the Arden Street Oval in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne, but plays its home matches at the Telstra Dome and occasionally, the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
North Melbourne Giants The North Melbourne Giants were an Australian basketball team, that played in Melbourne, Victoria, in the National Basketball League. The team was formed in 1980 as the Coburg Giants and were renamed in 1987 as North Melbourne.
North Memphis, Memphis North Memphis is a blighted area on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee. Sometimes spelled Norf Memphis for comic effect, it is home to smaller neighborhoods likeDouglass, Memphis,Hyde Park, Memphis, and Hollywood, Memphis.
North Middletown, New Jersey North Middletown, or "East Keansburg," is a census-designated place and unincorporated area located within Middletown Township, in Monmouth County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the CDP population was 3,165.
North Midlands The North Midlands is a loosely-defined area of England. It is typically held to include the northern parts of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, and in some definitions also covers Cheshire and parts of Lincolnshire and Staffordshire.
North Mississippi Allstars North Mississippi Allstars is a blues-rock/jam band band from Hernando, Mississippi founded in 1996. The band is composed of brothers Luther Dickinson (guitar and vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums), and Chris Chew (electric bass guitar).
North Mount Lyell North Mount Lyell was the name of a mine, mining company and former railway near Gormanston on the West Coast of Tasmania. It was absorbed into the workings of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company following the failure of the smelters at Crotty.
North Mount Lyell Railway The North Mount Lyell Railway was built to service the North Mount Lyell mine in West Coast Tasmania at the start of the Twentieth Century to take ore from Gormanston to the Crotty smelters, and then on to Pillinger in the Kelly Basin of Macquarie Harbour, from where it was shipped out.
North Nazimabad Town North Nazimabad Town is a small densely populated town in the northern part of Karachi, named as such in reference to it being north of the suburb of Nazimabad. The town is bordered by New Karachi Town to the north across the Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain, Gulberg Town to the east across the Gujar Nala stream, Liaquatabad Town to the south, and SITE Town to the west.
North New York, Bronx North New York is an archaic name for an area in the New York City borough of The Bronx, that is part of what is today the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. It was between 134th and 147th Streets and from Port Morris to Third Avenue.
North Newbald North Newbald, along with South Newbald and several other small local villages form the Parish Council of Newbald. It is a village consisting of roughly 800 people both young and old, and is situated almost equidistantly between Beverley and Hull.
North Norfolk Coastal Path The North Norfolk Coastal Path is a long distance footpath] in [[Norfolk, England, running 72 kilometers from Hunstanton to Cromer. It was opened in 1986 and covers the North Norfolk Coast AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty).
North of 60 North of 60 was a mid-1990s Canadian television series depicting life in the sub-Arctic northern boreal forest (north of 60 degrees North latitude, hence the title). It first aired on CBC Television in 1992 and was syndicated around the world.
North of America North of America is a rock band from Nova Scotia that has recorded with Matlock Records in Canada and the American label Level Plane Records. Members of Halifax's State Champs and Truro's The Motes formed North of America in 1997.
North of Boston Library Exchange The North Of Boston Library Exchange (NOBLE) is a cooperative effort of 28 libraries in Boston's northern suburbs to improve library service through automation. Seventeen public library members, nine college libraries and one special library are members of NOBLE.
North of Scotland Electricity plc North of Scotland Electricity plc (UK company number SC117119) was formed on 1 April 1989 to acquire the assets of North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board ahead of electricity privatisation in the United Kingdom.
North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board The North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (1943 - 1990) was founded to design, construct and manage hydroelectricity projects in the Highlands of Scotland. It is regarded as one of the major achievements of Scottish politician Thomas Johnston, who chaired the board from 1945 to 1959.
North of Superior Junior B Hockey League The North of Superior Junior B Hockey League is a defunct Junior "B" ice hockey league in Ontario, Canada, sanctioned by Hockey Canada. The league used to be a part of the Northern Ontario Hockey Association.
North Ockendon North Ockendon is a place in the London Borough of Havering in London, United Kingdom. It is the only settlement within Greater London to be located outside the bounds of the M25 motorway which orbits the city, and is situated 18 miles (30 km) east north-east of Charing Cross.
North Okanagan North Okanagan was the name of a provincial electoral district in the Canadian province of British Columbia beginning with the election of 1916. Following the 1975 election boundary revisions accompanied the riding's renaming to Okanagan North.
North Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum North Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum is a botanical garden and arboretum on the campus of Northern Oklahoma College, located at 1220 East Grand, Tonkawa, Oklahoma. It is an affiliate garden of the Oklahoma Botanical Garden and Arboretum and open to the public daily without charge.
North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line The North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line (NOMBL) was a transit agency in Northeast Ohio. The NOMBL was the first and oldest continuous operating municipal transit system in the United States and was in operation for over 74 years.
North Orange County Community College District The North Orange County Community College District (NOCCCD), located in Orange County, California, offers associate degrees and adult education certificates through Cypress College, Fullerton College and the School of Continuing Education.
North Otago The district of North Otago in New Zealand covers the area of Otago between Shag Point and the Waitaki River, and extends inland to the west as far as the village of Omarama (which has experienced rapid growth as a developing centre for astronomy and for gliding). The large east-coast town of Oamaru serves as North Otago's main centre.
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