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Notable whiptail The notable whiptail, notable rattail or longnose rattail, Caelorinchus innotabilis, is a rattail of the genus Caelorinchus, found around southern Australia, and New Zealand, at depths of between 500 and 1,500 m. Its length is between 15 to 32 cm.
Notacon Notacon (pronounced "not-a-con") is an art and technology conference which takes place annually in Cleveland, Ohio. The name Notacon became a bacronym for Northern Ohio Technological Advancement Conference, however use of this was mostly dropped after the first year.
Notan is a Japanese design concept involving the play and placement of light and dark next to the other in art and imagery. This use of light and dark translates shape and form into flat shapes on a two-dimensional surface.
Notary public A notary public is an officer who can administer oaths and statutory declarations, witness and authenticate documents and perform certain other acts varying from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Generally speaking, a notary public in the United States of America has powers that are far more limited than the role of a civil law notary in the rest of the world, with the exception of Louisiana.
Notary public (Pennsylvania) A Notary in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is empowered to perform seven distinct official acts: take affidavits, verifications, acknowledgments and depositions, certify copies of documents, administer oaths and affirmations, and protest dishonored negotiable instruments. A notary is strictly prohibited from giving legal advice or drafting legal documents such as contracts, mortgages, leases, wills, powers of attorney, liens or bonds.
Notation 3 Notation 3, or N3 as it is more commonly known, is a shorthand non-XML serialization of Resource Description Framework models, designed with human-readability in mind: N3 is much more compact and readable than XML RDF notation. The format is being developed by Tim Berners-Lee and others from the Semantic Web community.
Notational analysis Notational analysis is an emerging technology used in professional sports for competitive advantage. Play is analyzed by annotating matches and players for tactics and techniques using a technique called Notational Analysis.
Note A note is a sign used in music to represent the relative duration and pitch of sound. The word note is also used for the graphic representation of that pitch in a notation system (and sometimes its duration) or a specific instance of either.
Note Bleu: Best of the Blue Note Years 1998-2005 Note Bleu: Best of the Blue Note Years 1998-2005 is a greatest hits compilation from Medeski Martin & Wood featuring songs from all of their albums released on Blue Note Records. (The band has since started an independent label, Indirecto Records.
Note priority On a synthesizer, note priority determines how the instrument's polyphony will be divided among incoming notes when there are more notes being played than the synthesizer has voices. There are four kinds of note priorities that are commonly used: last note, first note, highest note, and lowest note.
Note Printing Australia Note Printing Australia (NPA), which is located in Craigieburn, Melbourne, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Australia and was corporatised in July 1998. NPA has its origins as a subsidiary of the Commonwealth Bank that was first established in 1913 to print banknotes for Australia.
Note verbale A note verbale is an unsigned diplomatic note written in the third person, of the nature of a memorandum but sometimes considered to be more formal. It is also known as Third Party Note and Third Person Note, with the abbreviation TPN.
Noteć The Noteć (German: Netze, Latin: Natissis) is a river in central Poland with a length of 388 km (7th longest) and a basin area of 17,330 km². It is a tributary of the Warta river and lies completely within Poland.
Notebook (style) Notebook is a style of writing where people jot down what they have thought or heard at the spur of moment. The contents of a notebook are unorganized, and the number of subjects covered in a notebook are unlimited: a paragraph of autobiography can be followed immediately by one on astronomy or one on history.
Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach The title Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach refers to either of two manuscript notebooks that the German Baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach presented to his second wife Anna Magdalena. Keyboard music (minuets, rondeaux, polonaises, chorales, sonatas, preludes, musettes, marches, gavottes) makes up most of both notebooks, and a few pieces for voice (songs, and arias) are included.
Notebooks of Henry James The Notebooks of Henry James are private notes made by the Anglo-American novelist and critic. Usually the notes are of a professional nature and concern ideas for possible or ongoing fictions, but there are a number of personal notes as well.
Notepad2 Notepad2 is an open source text editor for Microsoft Windows, released under a GNU GPL software license. It is written by Florian Balmer using the Scintilla editor component, and was first publicly released in April 2004.
Notepadding Notepadding refers to a particular situation when having a conversation via Instant messaging. If one of the conversation participants has entered text, such that the IM client indicates that text has been entered, but typing has stopped (indicated by an orange keyboard in the upper right corner in GAIM or a text message saying "User has entered text" in Trillian), it can be assumed that the sender is trying to figure out how to phrase what they are typing by using a text editor (such as Notepad) to write and rewrite the text.
Notes & Photographs Notes & Photographs is the debut EP from JamisonParker, released on October 28 2003 on Interscope Records. Except for "Your Song" (which was written during the recording session), all the songs were written by Jamison Covington and Parker Case over a distance of 1800 miles.
Notes & Queries Notes & Queries (always with an ampersand, both on paper and online) is a weekly column in The Guardian newspaper which publishes readers' questions together with (often humorous) answers submitted by other readers.
Notes and Queries Notes and Queries (originally subtitled "a medium of inter-communication for literary men, artists, antiquaries, genealogists, etc") is a London-based, quarterly publication, part academic journal, part correspondence magazine, in which scholars and interested amateurs can exchange knowledge on literature and history.
Notes from a Small Island Notes from a Small Island is a travel book by Bill Bryson. It was written when the author was due to move back to his native United States but decided to take one final trip around Great Britain, which had been his home for over twenty years.
Notes from My Travels Notes from My Travels is a collection of journal excerpts kept by actress Angelina Jolie in 2001-2002 detailing her experiences travelling to troubled Third World regions in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
Notes from the Underground (TMNT 2003 Episode) "Notes from the Underground" is a three-part episode (thirteenth through fifteenth) of the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), which originally aired on May 10, 2003, May 17, 2003 and May 24, 2003.
Notes from Underground Notes from Underground (, Zapìski iz pòdpol'ja, also translated in English as Notes from the Underground or Letters from the Underworld) (1864) is a short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. It is considered the world's first existentialist work.
Notes From a Big Country Notes From a Big Country, or as it was released in the United States, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, is a collection of articles written by Bill Bryson for the Daily Mail's Night and Day supplement. He published this collection in 1999, creating a hysterical snapshot of all the idiosyncrasies in American culture.
Notes From Africa 'Notes From Africa' is the thirteenth track of Synchestra by The Devin Townsend Band. It is one of Devin's older compositions; dating back to around 2001, and there is speculation that it was at one time considered for inclusion on the Terria album.
Notes inégales In music, notes inégales (French: unequal notes) refers to a performance practice, mainly from the Baroque and Classical music eras, in which some notes with equal written time values are performed with unequal durations, usually as alternating long and short. The practice was especially prevalent in France in the 17th and 18th centuries, with appearances in other European countries at the same time; and it reappeared as the standard performance practice in the 20th century in jazz.
Notes of a Son and Brother Notes of a Son and Brother is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1914. The book covers James' early manhood and tells of "the obscure hurt" that kept him out of the Civil War, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the early death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple, from tuberculosis.
Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 was James Madison's record of the daily debates held by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention, which resulted in the drafting of the current United States Constitution. Madison's journal describing what delegates said remains valuable to historians, as it is one of historians' few sources of information on the proceedings in Independence Hall during the summer of 1787 (which despite the summer heat, had its windows shut so that those outside could not hear what was being said; delegates were forbidden to leak the proceedings to the public).
Notes on Muscovite Affairs Notes on Muscovite Affairs (Rerum Moscoviticarum Commentarii) (1549) was a Latin book by Baron Sigismund von Herberstein on the geography, history and customs of Muscovy (the 16th century Russian state). The book was the main early source of knowledge about Russia in Western Europe.
Notes on Novelists Notes on Novelists is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1914. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding two decades on French, Italian, English and American writers.
Notes on Nursing Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not is a book first published by Florence Nightingale in 1860. A 136-page volume, it was intended to give hints on nursing to those entrusted with the health of others.
Notes on Prosody The book Notes on Prosody by bi-lingual author Vladimir Nabokov compares differences in iambic verse in the English and Russian languages, and highlights the effect of relative word length in the two languages on rhythm. Nabokov also proposes an approach for scanning patterns of accent which interact with syllabic stress in iambic verse.
Notes payable Notes payable is a balance sheet term referring to a company's outstanding bank loans. Notes Payable is a bank document when a loan is borrowed from a bank against a fixed period Note signed between the bank and the company.
Notes to the Financial Statements Notes to the Financial Statements are additional notes and information added to the end of the financial statements to supplement the reader with more information. Notes to Financial Statements can include information on debt, going concern, accounts, contingent liabilities or contextual information explaining the financial numbers (e.
NotesPeek NotesPeek is a utility that allows navigation and display of the complete contents of Lotus Notes database files. It breaks out the database components in a tree structure, while also providing access to both low level and high level database components.
Notetaking Notetaking is the practice of writing pieces of information, often in an informal or unstructured manner. One major specific type of notetaking is the practice of writing in shorthand, which can allow large amounts of information to be put on paper very quickly.
Nothin' at All "Nothin' at All" is the name of a song recorded by rock band by Heart. It was released as the fourth single from the band's self-titled 1985 album Heart, and the fourth song from the album to hit the U.
Nothin' but net Nothin' but net was a fantasy commercial that aired during the Super Bowl in the early 90s showing NBA Legends Michael Jordan and Larry Bird, still playing at the time, playing a game of H-O-R-S-E, a "Can you top this?" game, for a Big Mac.
Nothing But a Man Nothing But a Man is a 1964 movie about an African American man in the American South who wants to be treated as "nothing but a man", instead of a "boy". It stars Ivan Dixon, Abbey Lincoln, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster, Martin Priest, Leonard Parker, and Yaphet Kotto.
Nothing But Noodles Nothing but noodles is a concept restaurant chain that has developed throughout the midwest of the United States of America. It is a concept eatery that features; non tipping, fast food, and a sit down environment.
Nothing But Trouble (1944 film) Nothing But Trouble is a late Laurel and Hardy feature, and not regarded by fans and critics as one of their better efforts. The plot involves the team as a chef and a butler wrecking a dinner party and foiling an assassination plot.
Nothing comes from nothing Nothing comes from nothing is a philosophical expression often stated in its Latin form: ex nihilo nihil fit. In the Chandogya upanishad of circa 800 BCE, belonging to the philosophical portion of the Hindu scriptures, this ideas is expressed as - "How can Non-existence come from Existence?
Nothing Can Keep Us Together Nothing Can Keep Us Together is the eighth novel in the Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar. It is set during the week in which graduation takes place for Blair Waldorf, Serena van der Woodsen, Kati Farkas, Isobel Coates, Vanessa Abrams (from their school Constance Billard) Dan Humphrey, Chuck Bass (from Riverside Prep) and Nate Archibald (from St.
Nothing Comes Easy Nothing Comes Easy is a box set of four CDs by 1960s British girl singer Sandie Shaw released in 2004. It contains digitally remastered versions of EVERY A and B-side to the singles she released in the UK from 1964 to 1988, plus several rare and unreleased recordings.
Nothing Comes Easy (song) "Nothing Comes Easy" is the ninth single by 1960s British girl singer Sandie Shaw. Described by Shaw herself as "a fantastic song," it describes the events of a young woman chasing after a male suitor and later regretting her decision, only to find that he now won't leave her alone.
Nothing Compares 2 U "Nothing Compares 2 U" is a song written around 1984 or 1985 by Prince for The Family, a funk band created as an outlet to release more of his music. The band's self-titled album was released in 1985, but "Nothing Compares 2 U" was not released as a single and received little recognition.
Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution is a 1973 essay by the evolutionary biologist and Russian Orthodox Christian Theodosius Dobzhansky, criticising Young Earth creationism and espousing evolutionary creationism. The essay was first published in the American Biology Teacher, volume 35 125-129.
Nothing in Common Nothing in Common is a 1986 comedy-drama film, directed by Garry Marshall and starring Tom Hanks and comedian Jackie Gleason, in his last movie role. The film, released in 1986, was not a tremendous hit at first, but it became more popular as Tom Hanks' fame grew.
Nothing in This World "Nothing in This World" was released on September 12 2006 and is the second official single taken from Paris Hilton's debut album Paris. This song was also the theme song to Paris Hilton's MTV special This is Paris.
Nothing Is Real but the Girl "Nothing Is Real but the Girl" is a song from Blondie's 1999 comeback album No Exit. Written by the band's keyboardist Jimmy Destri, the song was released as a single in the UK on June 12 1999 in various formats.
Nothing Lasts Forever (Jebediah) Nothing Lasts Forever is the second single lifted from Jebediah's 2002 self-titled album, produced by Magoo. It is the follow up single to the first hit single " Fall Down" from their album, Jebediah.
Nothing Less Than Brilliant Nothing Less Than Brilliant is a compilation album by 1960s British girl singer Sandie Shaw. Released in 1994 by Virgin Records, it contains several new recordings of her hit singles from the 1960s as well as some in their original forms.
Nothing Less Than Brilliant (song) "Nothing Less Than Brilliant" is the final single by British singer Sandie Shaw, and the second single from her Hello Angel album. Shaw initially became a star in the 1960s when she scored eight Top 10 singles in the UK alone, including three Number Ones (a first for a female), and became the first British act to win the Eurovision Song Contest.
Nothing Like the Rain "Nothing Like the Rain" was the fourth and last single from the 2 Unlimited album Real Things. The single was not released in the UK, possibly due to the fact that it was the only ballad that 2 Unlimited ever released and the record company may not have felt that a ballad would have done so well for the British market.
Nothing Painted Blue Nothing Painted Blue is an American indie rock band, sporadically active since the 1990s, led by songwriter Franklin Bruno. Bruno and drummer Kyle Brodie have been the only constant members, as the remainder of the line-up has undergone a number of changes throughout the band's existence.
Nothing So Strange Nothing So Strange is a film shot in the style of an "independent documentary" directed by Brian Flemming. It centers on the fictional assassination of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates on December 2, 1999.
Nothing to Lose (film) Nothing to Lose (1997) is a comedy starring Tim Robbins and Martin Lawrence. The film was directed by Steve Oedekerk who also wrote the film and made a cameo appearance as a lip-synching security guard in the film.
Nothing to Lose (song) Nothing to Lose is a single from the Canadian punk rock band Billy Talent's debut self titled album. The song was not released for special digital download or as a CD single or vinyl record, but Nothing to Lose can still be found on the album Billy Talent.
Nothing up my sleeve number Nothing up my sleeve numbers are numbers which appear to be random by statistical tests but are created with minimum entropy. They are typically used in creating cryptographic functions such as hashes and ciphers.
Nothing Without You (song) "Nothing Without You" is the fifth single released by Japanese singer Ami Suzuki in February 1999, the first Ami single released on that year. The main song of this single also appeared in a TV commercial for a videogame from Tecmo called "Monster Farm 2", and was one of the 50 best-selling singles of that year.
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" is a song co-written by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren, recorded by Starship. Featured as the theme to the film Mannequin, it hit #1 in the Billboard Hot 100 on April 4, 1987 and reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart for four weeks the following month.
Nothofagus Nothofagus, the southern beeches is a genus of about 35 species of trees native to the temperate oceanic to subtropical Southern Hemisphere in southern South America (Chile, Argentina) and Australasia (east & southeast Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Guinea and New Caledonia).
Nothofagus antarctica Nothofagus antarctica (Antarctic Beech; in Spanish Ñire), is a deciduous tree or shrub native to southern Chile and Argentina from about 36°S latitude south to Tierra del Fuego. It grows mainly in the diminishing temperate rainforests.
Nothofagus moorei Nothofagus moorei, once referred to as 'Negrohead beech', but now as 'Antarctic beech' (not to be confused with its South American relative, Nothofagus antarctica) is an evergreen tree native to the eastern highlands of NSW, Australia. It grows in warm temperate rainforests around the Barrington Tops to the Queensland border between 500 m and 1500 m altitude.
Notholaena Notholaena is a genus of ferns in the family Pteridaceae found exclusively in the New World. Ferns of this genus are mostly epipetric (growing on rock) or occurring in coarse, gravelly soils, and are most abundant and diverse in the mountain ranges of warm arid or semiarid regions.
Nothosaur Nothosaurs (order Nothosauria) were Triassic marine sauropterygian reptiles that may have lived like seals of today, catching food in water but coming ashore on rocks and beaches. They averaged about three meters in length, with a long body and tail.
Nothoscordum inodorum Nothoscordum inodorum (Honey-bells) is a bulbous perennial of the family Liliaceae, closely related to and resembling species of the genus Allium. It is a native of South America but has become naturalised as a weed in many other parts of the world.
Nothotsuga Nothotsuga is a genus of coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae, in many respects intermediate between the genera Keteleeria and Tsuga. It is distinguished from Tsuga by the larger, erect cones with exserted bracts, and (like Keteleeria) male cones in umbels, and from Keteleeria by the shorter leaves and smaller cones.
Notch Lake Notch Lake is a small body of water in Edgewood, New York, in the Town of Hunter in the Catskill Mountains. It is located near the Stony Clove Notch, and is located near the edge of the Devil's Tombstone Campsite, bordering New York State Route 214.
Notchback Notchback is a very common form of car body style characterized by a sharp vertical drop-off from roof to trunk, as opposed to hatchback or fastback. All notchbacks are what is known as 3-box designs - seen from the side, three separate volumes - the engine area, the passenger area, and the trunk area.
Notchheaded marblefish The notchheaded marblefish, Aplodactylus etheridgii, is a marblefish of the genus Aplodactylus, found between North Cape and East Cape on the North Island of New Zealand, in depths down to 40 m. Their length is between 35 and 40 cm.
Notice Notice is the legal concept describing a requirement that a party be aware of legal process affecting their rights, obligations or duties. There are several types of notice: public notice (or legal notice), actual notice, constructive notice, and implied notice.
Notice of default A notice of default is a notification given to a borrower stating that he or she has not made their payments by the predetermined deadline. It dictates that if the money owed (plus an additional legal fee) is not paid in a given time, the lender may choose to forclose the borrower's property.
Notice of proposed rulemaking A notice of proposed rulemaking or NPRM is issued by law when a regulatory agency of the United States Federal Government wishes to add, remove, or change a rule (or regulation) as part of the rulemaking process.
Notification RD 42 LRD 87 Part III Notification RD 42 LRD 87 Part III was part of a notification issued by the Government of Karnataka on August 2, 1997 in Bangalore that resulted in the creation of seven new districts in the Indian state of Karnataka. The new districts created were
Notification system A modern notification system is a combination of software and hardware that provides a means of delivering a message to a set of recipients. For example, notification systems can send an e-mail when a new topic has been added to Wikipedia.
Notified tribes of India Notified tribes are the tribes that were originally listed under the Criminal Tribes Act in 1871, as "addicted to the systematic commission of non-bailable offences." Once a tribe became "notified" as criminal, all its members were required to register with the local magistrate, failing which they would be charged with a crime under the Indian Penal Code.
Notional amount Nominal or notional amounts outstanding are defined as the gross nominal or notional value of all deals concluded and not yet settled on the reporting date. For contracts with variable nominal or notional principal amounts, the basis for reporting is the nominal or notional principal amounts at the time of reporting.
Notitia Dignitatum The Notitia Dignitatum is a unique document of the Roman imperial chanceries. One of the very few surviving documents of Roman government, it details the administrative organisation of the eastern and western empires from the imperial court down to the provincial level.
Notitiae Episcopatuum The Notitiae Episcopatuum (singular: Notitia Episcopatuum) is the name given to official documents that furnish for Eastern countries the list and hierarchical rank of the metropolitan and suffragan bishoprics of a church. In the Roman Catholic Church (the Patriarchy of Rome), archbishops and bishops were classed according to the seniority of their consecration, and in Africa according to their age, in the Eastern patriarchates the hierarchical rank of each bishop was determined by the see he occupied.
Notkea Rotta Notkea Rotta is a Finnish rap group consisting of members Notkea Rotta (literally "Supple Rat"), Rautaperse ("Iron Arse"), Komisario Jyrkkä ("Inspector Steep") and Meno-Anu ("Speedy-Anu"). The group mixes humour and comedy in their brand of hip hop, crafting original (and largely fictional) rap saga of the underground culture in the east side of Helsinki.
Notker of Liège Notger or Notker of Liège (; died 10 April1008) was a Benedictine monk, Provost of St. Gall in Switzerland and later was bishop (972-1008) and first prince-bishop (980-1008) of the Bishopric of Liège with a capital Liège, (now in Belgium).
Notker Wolf Notker Wolf OSB (born June 21, 1940 in Unterallgäu, Bavaria) is the current Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Confederation of the Order of Saint Benedict. He was elected to his position as Abbot Primate in 2000, succeeding Marcel Rooney.
Notman Photographic Archives The Notman Photographic Archives are a photographic archive containing thousands of images, originally collected by photographer William Notman. It is conserved by the McCord Museum of Canadian History (Montreal).
Noto, Ishikawa (Fugeshi) Noto (能都町; -machi) was a town located in Fugeshi District, Ishikawa, Japan. On March 1, 2005 the town merged with the village of Yanagida and the town of Uchiura (from neighboring Suzu District) forming the town of Noto in Hosu District, Ishikawa (Hosu District, Ishikawa also formed at the same day) and no longer exists as in independent municipaliy.
Noto, Ishikawa (Hosu) Noto (能登町; -cho) is a town located in Hosu District, Ishikawa, Japan. On March 1, 2005 the town of Noto and the village of Yanagida both from Fugeshi District merged with the town of Uchiura (from neighboring Suzu District) forming the new town of Noto.
Notobasis Notobasis syriaca (Syrian Thistle, syn. Cirsium syriacum, Cnicus syriacus), the sole species in the genus Notobasis, is a thistle-like plant in the family Asteraceae, native to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East, from Madeira, the Canary Islands, Morocco and Portugal east to Egypt, Iran and Azerbaijan.
Notobranchaeidae The small pelagic snails of the family Notobranchaeidae (Pelseneer, 1886) lack a shell (except in early embryonic stage).They are carnivores, equipped with swimming parapoda (fleshy winglike flaps), strong jaws and grasping tentacles, often with suckers resembling those of cephalopods.
Notodontidae Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3500 known species. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas, especially in the New World (Miller, 1992).
Notojima, Ishikawa was a town located in Kashima District, Ishikawa, Japan. On October 1, 2004 the town merged with two other towns from the district into the expanded city of Nanao and no longer exists as an independent municipality.
Notophthalmus meridionalis The Black-spotted Newt or Texas Newt (Notophthalmus meridionalis) is a species of aquatic newt native predominantely to Mexico, in the states of Tamaulipas, Veracruz, San Luis PotosĂ­ and barely into northeastern Hidalgo, and Puebla. It ranges as far north as the United States, into the southern tip of Texas, along the Gulf of Mexico.
Notopteridae The family Notopteridae contains eight species of osteoglossiform (bony-tongued) fishes, commonly known as featherbacks and knifefishes. They are small fishes living in freshwater or brackish environments in Africa and South-east Asia.
Notorious Notorious is a 1946 thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman as two people whose lives become intimately entangled during an investigation of espionage. Claude Rains received a nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
Notorious Lightning & Other Works Notorious Lightning & Other Works is an EP by Destroyer, released in 2005. After shocking many fans by supporting the synth driven album Your Blues with the avant-guitar band Frog Eyes, Dan Bejar decided to put to tape some of the very different versions of songs from Your Blues.
Notorious MSG Founded in Chinatown, New York City, the Notorious MSG is a performing trio of Chinese gangsta rappers who sing about their rise to fame and fortune, survival on the streets, and boasting innuendos regarding women and Chinese food. Their group name is a parody of famous post-mortem rapper, Notorious BIG (aka Biggie Smalls).
Notostraca The order Notostraca (colloquially referred to as notostracans, called Triops, tadpole shrimp or shield shrimp) are small crustaceans in the class Branchiopoda. Triops have two internal compound eyes and one naupliar eye in-between, a flattened carapace covering its head and leg-bearing segments of the body.
Notosudidae Waryfishes are deep-sea aulopiform marine fishes in the small family Notosudidae. Thought to have a circumglobal distribution in sub-Arctic to sub-Antarctic waters, the family contains just 17 species in 3 genera.
Notothenioidei The Antarctic icefishes belong to the perciform suborder Notothenioidei and are the largely endemic, dominant fish taxa in the cold continental shelf waters surrounding Antarctica. At present, the suborder includes 8 families with 43 genera and 122 species.

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