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Northeastern People's Revolutionary Army After the Empire of Japan invaded and occupied the Northeast in 1931, the Chinese Communist Party organized small anti-Japanese guerrilla units, and formed their own Northeastern People's Revolutionary Army, dedicated to social revolution, but these were dwarfed by the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Armies which had been raised by their anti-Japanese, patriotic appeal.
Northeastern United States Blizzard of 1978 The Blizzard of 1978 (more commonly known in New England as "Blizzard of '78") was a severe Nor'easter that brought blizzard conditions to the New England area of the United States, and to a lesser but still significant extent the New York metropolitan area.
Northeastern University (Liaoning) Northeastern University (NEU) (Simplified Chinese: 东北大学; Traditional Chinese: 東北大學) is a public university in the city of Shenyang, Liaoning Province, The People's Republic of China . With an annual enrollment of over 20,000 students, it is one of the largest and most prestigious universities in Northeast China.
Northeastern University (MBTA station) Northeastern University Station is a surface-level subway stop on the MBTA Green Line. It is located in a dedicated median along Huntington Avenue in Boston, between Opera Place and Forsyth Street, and is adjacent to the Krentzman Quad on the campus of Northeastern University.
Northeastern University Swimming and Diving The Northeastern University Women's Swimming and Diving team debuted in the Fall of 1978 under the coaching staff of NU hall of famer Janet Swanson. Since its inception, the Boston based team has grown into one of the most respected and competitive Division I aquatics programs in New England.
Northeastern Volunteer Righteous & Brave Fighters Wang Fengge, a student of traditional martial arts and later an officer in the Northeast Army, became involved in the Big Swords Society. After the Japanese invasion, he raised a force by linking up with other citizens in the Linjiang and Ji'an areas during late 1931 and announced the establishment of his army the Northeastern Volunteer Righteous & Brave Fighters in March 1932.
Northeim (district) Northeim is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is bounded by (from the northwest and clockwise) the districts of Holzminden, Hildesheim, Goslar, Osterode and Göttingen, and the state of Hesse (district of Kassel).
Northerly Northerly was one of Australia's champion thoroughbred horses in the early 2000's. Northerly, trained by Western Australian harness racing legend Fred Kersley, won nine Group 1 races, including the Australian Cup twice, and the Cox Plate, regarded as the Weight for Age championship of Australasia, also on two occasions.
Northern (Genre) The Northern is an American and Canadian genre in literature and film. It is similar to the Western genre but the action occurs in the Canadian North and typically features Mounties instead of, for example, Cowboys or Sheriffs.
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) is located in Edmonton, Alberta. NAIT (as it is more commonly called) is a leader in technical training and applied education designed to meet the demands of Alberta's industries.
Northern Alberta Railways The Northern Alberta Railways (AAR reporting mark: NAR) was a Canadian railway which served northern Alberta and northeastern British Columbia. Jointly owned by both Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway, NAR existed as a separate company from 1929 until 1981.
Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union The Northern Amalgamated Workers' Union (AWUNZ) is a trade union in New Zealand. It is one of three autonomous unions, with the Southern Amalgamated Workers' Union, and the Central Amalgamated Workers' Union, who operate nationally as the Amalgamated Workers' Union.
Northern America Northern America is a region of the Americas, distinct from but part of the North American continent, including all territories north of Mexico and the Caribbean. According to the United Nations, the subregion of Northern America consists of:
Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests The Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests is a temperate coniferous forest ecoregion of northern Turkey. The ecoregion extends along the Pontic Mountains of northern Anatolia, and is bounded by the Euxine-Colchic deciduous forests ecoregion to the north, which occupies the coastal strip between the mountains and the Black Sea.
Northern Areas (Pakistan) The Northern Areas (Urdu: شمالی علاقہ جات) or Gilgit-Baltistan is the northernmost region of Pakistani-administered Kashmir. The name 'Balawaristan' is given to the area by a regional nationalist party centred in Gilgit.
Northern Arizona Northern Arizona is dominated by the Colorado Plateau, the southern border of which in Arizona is called the Mogollon Rim. In the West lies the Grand Canyon, which was cut by the flow of the Colorado River while the land slowly rose around it.
Northern Athabaskan languages Northern Athabaskan is a geographic sub-grouping of the Athabaskan language family spoken in the northern part of North America, particularly in Alaska and the Yukon. The Northern Athabaskan language group has 31 languages that can be divided into seven geographic subgroups.
Northern Australia The term northern Australia is generally considered to include the States and territories of Australia of Queensland and the Northern Territory. The part of Western Australia (WA) north of latitude 26° south — a definition widely used in law and State government policy — is also usually included.
Northern bastard codling The northern bastard codling, Pseudophycis breviuscula, is a morid cod of the genus Pseudophycis, found around southern Australia including Tasmania, and New Zealand, from the surface to 220 m. Its length is between 15 and 25 cm.
Northern blot The northern blot is a technique used in molecular biology research to study gene expression. It takes its name from the similarity of the procedure to the Southern blot procedure, named for biologist Edwin Southern, used to study DNA, with the key difference that RNA, rather than DNA, is the substance being analyzed by electrophoresis and detection with a hybridization probe.
Northern Baltic Communist Youth League Northern Baltic Communist Youth League (in Estonian: Põhja-Balti Kommunistlik Noorsoo Liit, abbreviated PBKNL) was a political youth movement in Estonia. PBKNL emerged in 1918 following a split from the Social Democratic Youth League (SDNÜ), after the Talinn congress of SDNÜ.
Northern Bank robbery The Northern Bank robbery was a large robbery of cash from the Donegall Square headquarters of the Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Carried out by a large, proficient group on 20 December 2004, the gang seized ÂŁ26.
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary Northern Baptist Theological Seminary (often shortened to Northern Seminary) is a seminary located in Lombard, Illinois, USA near Chicago. It was founded in 1913 by the Second Baptist Church of Chicago to prepare students for church leadership.
Northern Basque Country The Northern Basque Country, French Basque Country or Continental Basque Country (, ) constitutes the Western part of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. It is delimited in the north by the department of the Landes, in the west by the Atlantic Ocean, in the south by the Spain and in the east by Béarn which is the Eastern part of the department.
Northern Beaches (Sydney) The Northern Beaches is a general term used to describe the northern coastal suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, located near the coast of the Pacific Ocean. This area extends south to the entrance of Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour), west to Middle Harbour and north to the entrance of Broken Bay.
Northern Beardless Tyrannulet The Northern Beardless Tyrannulet, Camptostoma imberbe, is a small passerine bird in the tyrant flycatcher family. It breeds from southeasternmost Arizona and Texas of the United States through Mexico and Central America to northwestern Costa Rica.
Northern Berber languages The Northern Berber languages are a dialect continuum across the Maghreb that form a sub-family within the Berber languages. Their continuity is broken by the spread of Arabic, and to a lesser extent by the Zenati subgroup, which, though unmistakably Northern Berber, shares certain innovations not found in the surrounding languages, notably a softening of k to sh or ch, and an absence of a- in certain words, such as "hand" (afus vs.
Northern Border Pipeline Northern Border Pipeline is a natural gas pipeline which brings gas from Canada through Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iowa into the Chicago area. It is owned by Northern Border Partners and TC Pipelines.
Northern Branch The Northern Branch is a proposed 11-mile long light rail line that would offer a mass transit rail option to residents of central Bergen County, New Jersey, that has been unavailable for decades since passenger rail service ended on the Northern Branch and the West Shore Line in the 1950's. Currently, the track is part of a lightly-used freight rail line owned by CSX Transportation.
Northern Branch (Conrail) Conrail's Northern Branch runs from their Passaic and Harsimus Line at Marion Junction in western Jersey City, New Jersey (via a short connection known as the Marion Running Track) north to a junction with CSX's Bergen Subdivision and Northern Branch at CP 2 in North Bergen, New Jersey.
Northern Brown Bandicoot The Northern Brown Bandicoot (Isoodon macrourus), a marsupial species, is a bandicoot found only on the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and nearby islands, mainly Papua New Guinea. It is not, however, found far inland in Australia where the environment is extremely hot and unsuitable for most organisms.
Northern Bruce Peninsula, Ontario The Municipality of Northern Bruce Peninsula is located on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, Canada. It is a popular vacation spot, in the summer for its water sports and cottageing and in the winter for the snowmobiling.
Northern Bullants The Northern Bullants Football Club is an Australian rules football club based in Preston, Melbourne and currently playing in the Victorian Football League. They are one of the less financially successful VFL teams, and play their games at Australian Motor Finance Oval, Cramer St, Preston.
Northern Burlington County Regional High School Northern Burlington County Regional High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school that serves students in ninth through twelfth grade from four communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States, as part of the Northern Burlington County Regional School District. Students are served from Chesterfield Township, Mansfield Township, North Hanover Township and Springfield Township.
Northern Burlington County Regional School District The Northern Burlington County Regional School District serves children in grades 7 - 12 from four communities in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Students are served from Chesterfield Township, Mansfield Township, North Hanover Township and Springfield Township.
Northern Busway, Brisbane The Northern Busway is a bus-only corridor intended to run between the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Chermside and Aspley, on the northside of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. A busway is a dedicated roadway for buses, allowing them to bypass peak-hour congestion.
Northern cities vowel shift The Northern cities vowel shift is a chain shift in the sounds of some vowels in certain accents of American English. It is called northern cities because it is taking place mostly in a broad swath of the United States around the Great Lakes, beginning near Syracuse and Binghamton and extending west through Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Madison, and north to Green Bay (Labov et al.
Northern California coastal forests The Northern California coastal forests are a temperate coniferous forests ecoregion of coastal Northern California, USA. The ecoregion lies close to the Pacific Ocean, and is kept moist by Pacific Ocean storms during the winter months, and by coastal fogs in the summer months.
Northern California News Northern California News (or NCN for short) aired on Chico, California television stations KHSL-TV Channel 12 (now CBS 12) and KNVN-TV Channel 24 (now NBC 24) simultaneously at 5:00pm, 5:30pm and 11:00pm from 2001 to 2005. The newscasts were anchored by Matt Keller and Maureen Naylor, with Dave Vanore covering the weather and had various sports anchors.
Northern California Public Broadcasting Northern California Public Broadcasting (NCPB) was formed on May 1, 2006 when the boards of KQED, Inc., and the KTEH Foundation agreed to merge, forming the "most watched public television broadcaster and the second most listened-to public radio broadcaster in the country.
Northern California Recycling Association The Northern California Recycling Association, or NCRA, is an association of recycling businesses, community groups, municipalities, and individuals committed to promoting, expanding and institutionalizing recycling.
Northern California War Tax Resistance Northern California War Tax Resistance (NCWTR) is an activist group in the San Francisco bay area that promotes tax resistance as a way to protest against and/or disassociate from war and militarism. Despite the "Northern California" in the name, the group has a smaller, bay-area-specific focus, and there are other groups that serve war tax resisters in other parts of Northern California.
Northern Campaign (IRA) Northern Campaign 1942 - 1944 is a term used to describe attacks involving volunteers of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the period September 1942 - December 1942. It was a plan conceived by the then IRA Northern Command to launch attacks within the region of Northern Ireland during the 1942 – 1944 period.
Northern Caribbean University The Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is a tertiary level academic facility run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica. Located in Mandeville, Manchester in west-central Jamaica, the institution was the former West Indies College (WIC) until 1999 when it became a chartered University.
Northern Cassowary The Northern Cassowary, Casuarius unappendiculatus also known as Single-wattled Cassowary is a large, up to 150cm long, stocky flightless bird with a hard and stiff black plumage, blue facial skin and a casque on top of the head. It has a bright red or yellow colored neck and wattle.
Northern Catalonia Northern Catalonia (Catalan: Catalunya Nord; French: Catalogne Nord or Pays Catalan) is the name mainly used by the Catalan-speaking community to refer to the part of the historic Principality of Catalonia that came under French governance through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 between France and Spain. It is also called French Catalonia.
Northern Circars The Northern Circars was a former division of British India's Madras Presidency, which consisted of a narrow slip of territory lying along the western side of the Bay of Bengal from 15Âş 40' to 20Âş 17' north latitude, in the present-day Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. The territory derived its name from Circar or Sarkar, an Indian term applied to the component parts of a subah or province, each of which is administered by a deputy governor.
Northern City Line The Northern City Line is a former name for the railway line from Moorgate to Finsbury Park in London, once part of the Great Northern Electrics line. It should not be confused with the City branch of the Northern Line, nor with the North London Line.
Northern Collared Lemming The Northern Collared Lemming, Dicrostonyx groenlandicus (Sometimes called the Peary Land Collared Lemming in Canada) is a small North American lemming. At one time, they were considered to be a subspecies of the Arctic Lemming, Dicrostonyx torquatus.
Northern Colorado Writers Workshop The Northern Colorado Writers Workshop is an invitation-only, non-profit writing workshop founded in 1972 by Edward Bryant. The writing genres of its members include mainly science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mystery.
Northern Combat Area Command The Northern Combat Area Command or NCAC was a mainly Sino-American formation that held the northern end of the Allied front in Burma during World War II. For much of its existence it was commanded by the acerbic General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell.
Northern Combination Women's Football League The Northern Combination Women's Football League, also known simply as the Northern Combination, is at the third level of the English women's football pyramid, along with the three other Combination Leagues - South West, South East and Midland. The Northern Combination feeds directly into the FA Women's Premier League Northern Division, and lies above the North West Women's Football League and the North East Women's Football League in the pyramid.
Northern Command (Australia) The Australian Northern Command is an operational joint Australian Defence Force headquarters. Northern Command is responsible for the planning and conduct of operations to the north of Australia during peacetime and wartime.
Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic The Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic is a forest and savanna ecoregion of central Africa, part of the belt of transitional forest-savanna mosaic that lie between Africa's equatorial forests and the tropical dry forests, savannas, and grasslands that lie to the north and south. The Northern Congolian forest-savanna mosaic lies between the equatorial Congolian forests to the south and the drier East Sudanian savanna to the north.
Northern Constabulary The Northern Constabulary is the police force for Northern Scotland, covering the council areas of Highland, Na h-Eileanan Siar (the Western Isles), the Orkney Isles and the Shetland Isles, which comprise most of the Highlands and Islands area. It is the police force covering the largest geographical area in the United Kingdom, equivalent to the size of Belgium, but is one of the smallest in terms of officers, with about 715 officers.
Northern Cordilleran volcanic province The northern Cordilleran volcanic province (NCVP) comprises volcanoes that are 10 million years old or younger in northern British Columbia, the Yukon, and easternmost Alaska. The Stikine Volcanic Belt is used to refer to a subset of these volcanoes located near the Stikine River, in northwestern BC.
Northern Counties Committee The Northern Counties Committee (NCC) came about on 1 July 1903 as the result of the Midland Railway taking over the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. At the 1923 Grouping the Committee became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); with the nationalisation of the railways in Britain in 1948 the line passed to the British Transport Commission and the following year, 1949, it was sold to the Ulster Transport Authority (UTA).
Northern Counties East Football League Division One The Northern Counties East Football League Division One is an English football league, which is a part of the Northern Counties East Football League. It was founded in 1982 and sits at level 10 of the National League System.
Northern Counties East Football League Division Two The Northern Counties East Football League Division Two was an English football league, which was a part of the Northern Counties East Football League. It was founded in 1982 and sat at level 11 of the National League System.
Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division The Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division is the top level of the Northern Counties East League, it is at the 9th tier of the football pyramid, and it acts as a feeder league into the Northern Premier League Division 1.
Northern dry deciduous forests The Northern dry deciduous forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion of east-central India. It covers an area of 58,300 square kilometers (22,500 square miles), extending across portions of Andhra Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Orissa, and Jharkhand states.
Northern Dancer Northern Dancer (May 27, 1961 - November 16,1990) was a Canadian-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and the most successful sire of the 20th Century. The National Thoroughbred Racing Association calls him "one of the most influential sires in Thoroughbred history.
Northern Department The Northern Department was a former department of the government of England and later the United Kingdom, responsible for dealing with government business in the northern part of Europe. This included foreign affairs concerning such northern powers as Russia, Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire.
Northern Dimension The Northern dimension is an initiative in the European Union regarding the cross-border and external policies covering Nordic countries, Baltic states and Russia. The Northern Dimension addresses the specific challenges and opportunities arising in those regions and aims to strengthen dialogue and cooperation between the EU and its member states, the northern countries associated with the EU under the European Economic Area (Norway and Iceland) and Russia.
Northern Dist. Cricket Club The Northern Districts Cricket Club ("Jets") has produced ex test players Darren Lehmann, Peter Sleep and possibe future test player, Mark Cosgrove. Many other great cricketers who have played (and are playing) include G Manou, M Higgs, R Harris, A Heidrich, A Costello and S Busbridge.
Northern Districts Knights The Northern Districts Knights are a New Zealand first class cricket team based in the upper half of the North Island of New Zealand (excluding Auckland). They compete in the State Championship first class competition and the State Shield domestic one day competition.
Northern Division, Fiji The Northern Division is one of four Divisions into which Fiji's fourteen Provinces are grouped for local government purposes. The administrative centre of the Division, where main governmental departments are located, is Labasa.
Northern Dobruja Northern Dobruja (Dobrogea in Romanian; Северна Добруджа, Severna Dobrudzha in Bulgarian) is the part of Dobruja within the borders of Romania. It lies between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, bordered in south by Bulgarian Southern Dobruja.
Northern Dwarf Tree Frog The Northern Dwarf Tree Frog, (Litoria bicolor) is a small species of tree frog native to northern Australia, from the Kimberly region of Western Australia to Bowen, Queensland and Aru Islands of Indonesia. The population occurring in Indonesia may not be Litoria bicolor and research on call structure or genetics is needed to confirm its taxonomic status.
Northern Eagles The Northern Eagles were a short-lived rugby league team, formed during the rationalisation of the National Rugby League by the merger of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the North Sydney Bears, in 2000. The team shared its home games between Brookvale Oval and Grahame Park, Gosford, New South Wales.
Northern Earth Northern Earth is a British magazine dealing with Earth mysteries, folklore, and neo-antiquarian interests generally. Founded in 1979 as a Northern British regional magazine, with the demise of other national magazines in its field, it has widened its scope to international, though retaining its traditional Northern outlook.
Northern Electric Northern Electric was an electricity supply and distribution company serving north east England. It had its origins as the North Eastern Electricity Board, formed as part of the nationalisation of the electricity industry by the Electricity Act 1947.
Northern Electric Railway-Marysville and Colusa Branch The Northern Electric Railway, Marysville and Colusa Branch was incorporated on June 6 1910 to construct a branch from a junction with Northern Electric's mainline near Yuba City (Colusa Junction) then west for 22.39 miles to Colusa, California.
Northern Elite League The Northern Elite League (NEL) was created back in 1992, as a way of giving Northern Ontario baseball players a competitive league of their own. This task was spearheaded by North Bay's Peter Topolie, who is the current president of Baseball Ontario.
Northern England Northern England, The North or North of England is a rather ill-defined term, with no universally accepted definition. Its extent may be subject to personal opinion and many companies or organisations have differing definitions as to what it constitutes.
Northern English devolution referenda, 2004 A referendum was held in the North East region of England, in the United Kingdom, on 4th November 2004. In it, the voters overwhelmingly rejected the proposal that this region should have an elected regional assembly.
Northern Epirus Northern Epirus (Greek: Βόρειος Ήπειρος Vorios Ipiros) is the name by which the Greeks call the region of southern Albania which is home to Tosk Albanians, Greeks, Aromanians and other ethnic groups. The fustanella, a significant component of traditional Greek and Albanian dress, originated in this region and the ancestors of the Arvanites – an Orthodox Christian Albanian-speaking Greek-identifying community in Greece – migrated from this region to present-day Greece in the Middle Ages.
Northern Essex Community College Northern Essex Community College (also known as NECC or Necco) is a community college with campuses in Haverhill, Massachusetts and Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 2004, it had a total enrollment of over 6,000 students.
Northern European Lowlands The Northern European Lowlands are a geomorphological region in Europe. They consist of the low plains between the Central European Highlands to the south and the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the north; their elevation is between 0 and 200 m (about 0 and 650 ft).
Northern Expedition The Northern Expedition () was a military campaign led by the Kuomintang (KMT) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1926 to 1927. Its main objective was to speed up the Chinese revolution against feudalism and imperialism plaguing China after the Xinhai Revolution and unify China under the Nationalist banner by ending the rule of local warlords.
Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute The Northern Exposure to Leadership Institute is a Canadian library leadership institute based on the Snowbird Institute in Utah (which operated until 2002). NELI as it is sometimes called is held every 18 months at Emerald Lake, British Columbia.
Northern Expressway The Northern Expressway is a 31 kilometre long expressway that will be constructed in Adelaide, Australia. Construction on the expressway is due to begin in 2007, and it will go from the National Highway 1 (west of Salisbury) to Gawler.
Northern flying squirrel The Northern flying squirrel (glaucomys sabrinus) is one of two species of the genus Glaucomys, the only flying squirrels found in North America (the other is the somewhat smaller Southern flying squirrel, G. volans).
Northern Football Alliance The Northern Football Alliance is a football competition based in the North-East of England. It has three divisions headed by the Premier Division, which sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System.
Northern Force The Fujifilm Northern Force are the northern-most team in Netball New Zealand's premier competition - the National Bank Cup. Based at the Northshore Events Centre in Auckland, the Force region includes North Harbour and Northland, with the majority of its players being based in Auckland.
Northern Forest Canoe Trail The Northern Forest Canoe Trail is a 740-mile marked canoeing trail in the northeastern United States and in Canada, extending from Old Forge, New York to Fort Kent in Maine. Along the way, the trail also passes through the states and provinces of Vermont, Quebec, and New Hampshire.
Northern France Campaign (1944) The Northern France Campaign of World War II began on July 25, 1944, with General Bernard Montgomery launching Operation COBRA to break out from the Normandy beachhead, and concluded on September 14 with Belgium and most of France liberated from German rule.
Northern Fujiwara The Northern Fujiwara (奥州藤原氏 Ōshū Fujiwara-shi) was a Japanese noble family that ruled the Tōhoku region (the northeast of Honshū) of Japan from the 12th to the 13th centuries, ultimately conquered by the Kantō samurai clans led by Minamoto no Yoritomo. They succeeded the semi-independent Emishi families of the 11th century who were successively brought down by the Minamoto clan loyal to the Imperial throne based in Kyoto.
Northern group The Northern group is a term used to describe the northern member states of the European Union but varies in its definition. The countries which constitute the northern group are Denmark, Germany, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands as well as the United Kingdom.
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art is a contemporary art gallery which focuses on producing exhibitions of new work by emerging and established international artists. Based in Sunderland, England, the main gallery is a generous 35 x 17m space which is regularly configured for each exhibition, often breaking the large space up into a suite of rooms.
Northern Germany Northern Germany is the geographic area of the five German states Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Niedersachsen and Schleswig-Holstein in the German Lowlands known as the Northern German Plain with Low German as the historic language (see: Benrath line).
Northern Governorate The Northern Governorate (Arabic: المحافظة الشمالية; transliterated: al-Muhafazah ash-Shamaliyah) is one of the five governorates of Bahrain. It includes parts of the municipalities of Al Mintaqah al Gharbiyah, Al Mintaqah al Wusta, Al Mintaqah al Shamaliyah, Jidd Haffs and Madinat Hamad.
Northern Hemisphere The Northern Hemisphere is the half of a planet's surface (or celestial sphere) that is north of the equator (the word hemisphere literally means 'half ball'). On the Earth, the Northern Hemisphere contains most of the land and about 88-90% of the human population.
Northern Highlands Regional High School Northern Highlands Regional High School (NHRHS) is a regional public high school and school district in Allendale, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The high school serves students in grades 9–12 from Allendale, Ho-Ho-Kus, Saddle River, and Upper Saddle River.
Northern Highway, Belize The Northern Highway in Belize joins Belize City through Orange Walk Town and Corozal Town with the Mexican border at the state of Quintana Roo. Crude side-roads suitable only for over-land vehicles connect to such localities as Aguas Turbias, on the corner where Belize, Mexico and Guatemala meet.
Northern Hungary Northern Hungary is the name of a region in Hungary. As a statistical region it includes the counties Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén, Heves and Nógrád, but in colloquial speech it usually also refers to Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg county.
Northern Chanyu The Northern Chanyu (, reigned 89–91) was an unnamed and obscure chanyu of Xiongnu who lived in the 1st century. In February 91, he was defeated by Geng Kui during the Battle of Ikh Bayan, on an expedition sent by Dou Xian, and thence vanished from history.
Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation is an Indian reservation that is home to the Northern Cheyenne tribe of Native Americans. It is located around the small towns of Lame Deer and Ashland, Montana in parts of Rosebud and Big Horn counties.
Northern Illinois Bluegrass Association The Northern Illinois Bluegrass Association (NIBA) was originally formed in 1996 for the purpose of promoting and preserving bluegrass music in the northern Illinois area. The NIBA originally began as a group of musicians who met weekly to play bluegrass in a barn in Grand Ridge, Illinois.
Northern Illinois Conference (athletic division) The Northern Illinois Conference (NIC-9) is a class AA high school athletic division serving Boone, Stephenson, and Winnebago Counties. Member schools are also full members of the Illinois High School Association.

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