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Nyanaponika Thera Nyanaponika Thera (July 21, 1901, Hanau – 19 October, 1994, Forest Hermitage, Kandy, Ceylon) was a German-born Sri-Lanka-ordained Theravada monk, co-founder of the Buddhist Publication Societycontemporary author of numerous seminal Theravada books, and teacher of contemporary Western Buddhist leaders such as Bhikkhu Bodhi].
Nyanga language The Nyanga language (native name Kinyanga) is a language spoken by the Nyanga people in Kivu province, north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Speaker estimates range from 27,000 (Biebuyck & Matheene 1970) to 150,000 (1994 census).
Nyanga National Park Nyanga National Park lies at the northern end of Zimbabwe's Eastern Highlands. One of the first national parks to be declared in the country, it is administered jointly with the Mtarazi Falls National Park on its southern boundary.
Nyanga, Zimbabwe Nyanga (formerly known as Inyanga) is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe, located in the Eastern Highlands about 105 km north of Mutare. According to the 1982 Population Census, the village had a population of 2,973.
Nyangumarta language Nyangumarta is spoken by Indigenous Australians in the region of Western Australia to the south and east of Lake Waukarlykarly, including Eighty Mile Beach, and part of the Great Sandy Desert inland to near Telfer.
Nyanza Province Nyanza Province of Kenya, on Lake Victoria, is one of Kenya's seven administrative provinces outside Nairobi; it is in the southwest corner of Kenya. Nyanza includes part of the eastern edge of Lake Victoria and is inhabited predominantly by the Luo.
Nyarubuye massacre The Nyarubuye massacre is the name given to the killing of an estimated 20,000 civilians on April 15-April 16 1994 at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church in Kibungo Province, 140 km (60 miles) east of the Rwandan capital Kigali. The victims were Tutsis and Hutu moderates who had sought refuge in the church.
Nyasasaurus "Nyasasaurus" (meaning "Nyasa lizard") is the name given to an as yet undescribed genus of reptile from the Triassic. It was originally believed to have been a primitive dinosaur, but this theory is now disputed.
Nyasvizh Niasviž (Cyrillic: Нясьві́ж; Lithuanian, Nesvyžius; Russian: Несвиж, Nesvizh; Polish: Nieśwież) is a city in Belarus. It is the administrative center of the Niasviž District (rajon) of Minsk Province and location of a UNESCO World Heritage Site entitled Architectural, Residential and Cultural Complex of the Radziwill Family at Niasviž .
Nyaw language The Nyaw language is a dialect of the Isan or Lao language, with a few vocabulary, tonal and pronunciation differences. Speakers of the Nyaw language can be found mostly in the northeast portion of Thailand, and central Laos.
Nyaya Nyaya () is the name given to one of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu philosophy—specifically the school of logic. The Nyaya school of philosophical speculation is based on texts known as the Nyaya Sutras, which were written by Aksapada Gautama from around the 6th century BC.
Nyazura Nyazura (formery Inyazura) is a village in the province of Manicaland, Zimbabwe located 72 km north west of Mutare on the main road and railway linking Harare and Mutare. The phosphate from Dorowa (to the south west) are handled by the railways here.
Nyborg municipality Nyborg municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County on the east coast of the island of Funen in central Denmark. The municipality, including the island of Sprogø, covers an area of 84 km², and has a total population of 18,972 (2005).
Nybroplan Nybroplan, Stockholm, Sweden, is a plaza in Östermalm connecting a number of major streets (Birger Jarlsgatan, Strandvägen, Hamngatan and Nybrogatan). Nybroplan is the location of the Royal Dramatic Theatre and Berzelii Park with the luxurious Berns restaurant.
Nyctaginaceae Nyctaginaceae is a family of around 33 genera and 290 species of flowering plants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions, with a few representatives in temperate regions. The family has a unique fruit type, called an "anthocarp" and many genera have extremely large (>100 µm) pollen grains.
Nyctalope Le Nyctalope is the name of a lesser known fictional superhero who appears in a book series of novels written by French writer Jean de La Hire, a prolific author of popular adventure series, many of which include science fiction elements.
Nyctalus The bat genus Nyctalus (Noctule bats) are members of the family Vespertilionidae (Vesper bats) or sometimes Evening bats. They are distributed in the temperate and subtropical areas of Europe, Asia and North Africa.
Nyctanthes Nyctanthes is a genus of plants of the family Oleaceae, native to South East Asia. It contains two species, as most of the species previously included in this genus have been transferred to other genera, most of them to Jasminum.
Nycteribiidae Nycteribiidae, (superfamily Hippoboscoidea), are known as bat flies, together with their close relatives, the Streblidae. They are flattened, spiderlike flies without eyes or wings, and are seldom encountered by general collectors, as they almost never leave the bodies of their hosts.
Nyctivoe Nyctivoe forms the central panel in Dimitris Lyacos' trilogy Poena Damni. The book recounts the staging of a verse play in a grim inner-city setting, by a company of lumpen-like actors, unfolding as a pattern of intermittent monologues - solitary visions of characters apparently in a state of trance.
Nyctograph Nyctograph is a form of Typhlograph invented in 1891 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson for his personal use in recording notes at night without having to light a lamp. The device consists of series of squares cut out in a card and was used to guide the writer in making letter-like marks consisting of lines and dots which could then be transcribed the following day.
Nyctophobia Nyctophobia (from Greek νυξ noc-ti-pho-bi-a: "night" and phobia, also called scotophobia, from σκότοσ - "darkness", lygophobia, from lyge - "twilight", or achluophobia or noctiphobia) is a pathological fear of the dark. Its symptoms include breathlessness, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly or sensation of detachment from reality.
Nyctosaurus Nyctosaurus is a genus of pterodactyloid pterosaur notable for its extraordinarily large cranial crest. A few scientists hypothesize that this crest, which resembles an enormous antler, maybe have supported a fleshy sail used for stability while skimming for fish.
Nydia Rojas Nydia Rojas (born 1981, Whittier, California), daughter of Arturo and Olivia Rojas, is an American singer of Mexican heritage. She performs in a wide range of musical styles but makes a particular speciality of mariachi.
Nydri Nydri, also Nidri (Greek, Modern: , Katharevoussa: -on), older forms: Nydrio, Nydrion, Nidrio and Nidrion is a town located in the eastern part of the island of Lefkada, Greece. It is linked with a road linking with Vasiliki and north to Lefkada and with the GR-42 with the mainland.
Nyele The nyele is a small horn made from hollowed out animal horn or matete reed. The nyele is played in groups; one man plays one note and others play different pitches, which combine to form a certain combination of sounds.
Nyelv Nyelv (Sami: OÄ‘Ä‘ajohka) is a village in Nesseby municipality, Norway. The statistical area Nyelv, which also can include the peripheral parts of the village, as well as the surrounding countryside, has a population of 30.
Nyen Nyen or Nyenschantz (Finnish: Nevanlinna, Russian: Ниеншанц, although generally known in the 17th century as Канцы) was a Swedish fortress built in 1611 at the mouth of the Neva river in Swedish Ingria.
Nyenrode Business Universiteit Nyenrode Business Universiteit is the Netherlands' leading business school and only private university with Ivy League status. Founded in 1946, it is located on a large estate in the town of Breukelen, very close to the cities of Amsterdam and Utrecht.
Nyeri Nyeri is a town in Kenya about 180km north of the capital Nairobi. It lies at the eastern base of the Aberdare (Nyandarua) Range that forms part of the eastern end of the Great Rift Valley and on the western side of Mount Kenya. Nyeri town is the administrative headquarters of Central Province and Nyeri District. The population was 98,908 in the 1999 census.
Nygel of Gwynedd In the fictional universe of the Deryni novels of Katherine Kurtz, Nygel Haldane was the eighteenth King of Gwynedd, reigning from 980 to 983. He was the thirteenth member of the House of Haldane to sit upon the throne of Gwynedd, and the seventh consecutive Haldane king since the end of the Festillic Interregnum.
Nychthemeron Nychthemeron, or Nycthemeron ( from Greek nykt- "night", (h)emera "day" ) is a period of 24 consecutive hours. It is sometimes used, especially in technical literature, to avoid the ambiguity inherent in the term "day.
Nyiha The Nyiha are an ethnic and linguistic group based in southwestern Tanzania and northeastern Zambia. In 1993 the Nyiha population was estimated to number 626,000, of which 306,000 were in Tanzania and 320,000 were in Zambia Nyika were, and still are, scattered widely through East Africa] but are found mostly in clusters near the corridor of land between lakes Nyasa, Rukwa, and Tanganyika, particularly around Mbozi and the general area of the Lyagalile district of Ufipa.
Nyimpine Chissano Nyimpine Chissano (born 1970) is the eldest son of former Mozambican president Joaquim Chissano. He has been linked to two high-profile murders in Mozambique, both of which are widely reported to have occurred because of their victims' anti-corruption activities.
Nyingchi Prefecture Nyingchi Prefecture (Tibetan: ཉིང་ཁྲི་ས་ཁུལ་; Wylie: nying-khri sa khul; ) is a prefecture in southwestern Tibetan Autonomous Region in western China. The Chinese government claims it includes the disputed Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Nyingma The Nyingma tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug). "Nyingma" literally means "ancient," and is often referred to as the "school of the ancient translations" or the "old school" because it is founded on the first translations of Buddhist scriptures from Sanskrit into Tibetan, in the eighth century.
Nyköping Banquet The Nyköping banquet (Swedish: Nyköpings gästabud) was king Birger of Sweden's Christmas celebration December 11 1317 at the Nyköping Castle in Sweden. Among the guests were his two brothers Duke Valdemar and Duke Eric, who later that night were imprisoned and starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.
Nykøbing Falster Nykøbing Falster is the name of a southern Danish city located in Guldborgsund kommune, which is located within Storstrøms amt. The city is geographically partitioned on two islands of Lolland and Falster, connected by the 295 meter long Frederick IX Bridge over the the Guldborgsund (Guldborg Strait) waterway.
Nykøbing-Rørvig municipality Nykøbing-Rørvig municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in West Zealand County on the northwest coast of the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in Denmark, at the mouth of the Isefjord. The municipality covers an area of 40 km², and has a total population of 7,610 (2005).
Nykredit Dating back to 1851, Nykredit is one of Denmark's leading financial services companies with activities ranging from mortgage, retail and investment banking to insurance and fixed income trading and asset management. In 2002 they formed a strategic alliance with Jyske Bank, which ultimately culminated in a spin-off of their joint IT services into a third and separate company, JN Data A/S.
Nylands och Tavastehus läns kavalleriregemente Nylands och Tavastehus läns kavalleriregemente (Nyland and Tavastehus County Cavalry Regiment), was a Swedish Army cavalry regiment located in the county of Nyland and Tavastehus that traced its origins back to the 17th Century. It was split in 1791.
Nylex Clock The Nylex Clock is an iconic neon sign sitting atop malting storage silos in the suburb of Cremorne, Victoria, Australia. The sign was erected in 1961 on behalf of Nylex, an Australian manufacturer of plastic products who originally occupied a site underneath the sign.
Nylon 6 Nylon 6 or polycaprolactam is a polymer developed by Paul Schlack at IG Farben to reproduce the properties of nylon 6,6 without violating the patent on its production. Unlike most other nylons, nylon 6 is not a condensation polymer, but instead is formed by ring-opening polymerization.
Nylon Moon Nylon Moon was a dream house production team formed by Daniele Maffei (aka Daniele Gas) and Michele Generale. Their biggest hit was "Sky Plus", a beautiful piano-driven track which was one of the major dream house hits during the mid-nineties.
Nylon-eating bacteria In 1975 a team of Japanese scientists discovered a strain of Flavobacterium living in ponds containing waste water from a factory producing nylon that was capable of digesting certain byproducts of nylon-6 manufacture, such as, 6-aminohexanoate linear dimer, even though those byproducts had not existed prior to the invention of nylon in 1935. Further study revealed that the three enzymes the bacteria were using to digest the byproducts were novel, significantly different than any other enzymes produced by other Flavobacterium strains (or any other bacteria for that matter), and not effective on any other material other than the man made nylon byproducts.
NyĹŤbĹŤ kotoba was a cant or secret language that was originally used by Japanese court ladies during the Muromachi era, and subsequently spread and came to be thought of as a general women's language. It consisted primarily of a special vocabulary of words for food, clothing, and other household items.
Nymburk Nymburk is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic, located 45 km east of Prague on the Labe River. It is also home to ÄŚEZ Basketball Nymburk, a men's basketball team, the current Czech champions.
Nymph In Greek mythology, a nymph is any member of a large class of female nature entities, either bound to a particular location or landform or joining the retinue of a god or goddess. Nymphs were the frequent target of lusty satyrs.
Nymph (biology) In biology, a nymph is the immature form of some insects, which undergoes incomplete metamorphosis (hemimetabolism) before reaching its adult stage; unlike a larva, a nymph's overall form already resembles that of the adult. In addition, while a nymph molts it never enters a pupal stage.
Nymphaea caerulea Nymphaea caerulea, also known as the Egyptian blue lily or sacred blue lily, is a blue water-lily in the genus Nymphaea that grows along the Nile, amongst other locations. It is not to be confused with blue lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, although it has historically been known as the blue lotus and sacred lotus, particularly in discussing its revered status among the Ancient Egyptians, Nubians, Abyssinians, and any number of historic African civilizations of the ancient world.
Nymphaea lotus Nymphaea lotus, the Tiger Lotus or Egyptian White Water-lily, is a flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae that grows in various parts of East Africa and Southeast Asia. It is known to flower at night and close in the morning and remains of the flower have been found in the burial tomb of Ramesses II.
Nymphaea lotus termalis Nymphaea lotus thermalis is a plant subspecies endemic to the thermal water of the Petea River (Bihor County, Transylvania, Romania). The rivulet and lake have a constant temperature of 30-31°C and the subtropical water lily species is a tertiary relict.
Nymphaeum A nymphaeum, in the culture of Greece and Rome, is a monument consecrated to the nymphs, especially those of springs. These monuments were originally natural grottoes, which tradition assigned as habitations to the local nymphs.
Nymphalis antiopa Nymphalis antiopa, known as the Mourning Cloak in North America and the Camberwell Beauty in the British Isles, is a large butterfly native to Eurasia and North America. The immature form of this species is sometimes known as the spiny elm caterpillar.
Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory The Nymphenburg Porcelain Factory (in German Porzellanmanufaktur Nymphenburg), manufacturer of Nymphenburg porcelain, is situated in the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, capital of Bavaria, and since the mid-eighteenth century has been manufacturing porcelain of high artistic value.
Nymphes des bois A lament composed by Josquin des Prez on the occasion of the death of his predecessor Johannes Ockeghem in February 1497. The piece, based on a poem by Jean Molinet and including the funeral text Requiem Aeternam as a cantus firmus, is in five voices.
Nymphet A nymphet is a sexualized adolescent girl in the early days of puberty. The term was coined by Vladimir Nabokov in the novel Lolita, in which the main character, a self-described "nympholept", uses it to describe the girls (aged 9 to 14) to whom he was attracted.
Nynäs Refining Nynäs Refining is an oil refinery located northeast of Nynäshamn in Stockholm County, Sweden. It is own by Nynäs Petroleum, a company that produces petroleum products such as Bitumen and Napthenics as well as traditional oil refining.
Nynorsk Nynorsk (literally New Norwegian) is one of the two officially sanctioned orthographic standards of the Norwegian language, the other being BokmĂĄl. Nynorsk is used as the primary written language by just over 10% to 15% of Norwegian speakers in Norway.
Nyoka the Jungle Girl Nyoka the Jungle Girl is a Fawcett and later Charlton and AC comic book first published in 1940. The comic cannot accurately be described as a generic "Jungle Girl" comic book popular in the 1940s since Nyoka was simply an expatriot American girl who lived in the jungle.
Nyoko-do Hermitage is the former residence of Dr Takashi Nagai, the famous radiologist from Nagasaki. After his exposure to the atomic bomb explosion, he made great efforts for the welfare of the atomic bomb survivors until his death at the age of 43 (on May 1) in 1951.
Nyon Nyon is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud, some 25 kilometers north of Geneva on the shores of Lake Geneva, and is the seat of the district of Nyon. It was founded by the Romans between 50 and 44 BC under the name of "Colonia lulia equestris", the urban center of which was called "Noviodunum".
Nyora railway station, Victoria Nyora is a railway station on the former South Gippsland line in South Gippsland, Victoria, Australia. The station is now part of the South Gippsland Tourist railway, after passenger operations on the line ceased after Cranbourne station in 1993.
Nyoro The Nyoro (native name Banyoro, also Bunyoro or Kitara) are interlacustrine Bantu-speaking people of west-central Uganda (live also in Zaire [about 70 000]). Traditional economies revolved around big-game hunting of elephants, lions, leopards, and crocodiles, but are now agriculturalists who raise bananas, millet, cassava, yams, cotton, tobacco, and coffee.
Nyotaimori Nyotaimori (Japanese: 女体盛り, "female body presentation"), often referred to as "body sushi", is the practice of eating sashimi or sushi from the body of a woman, typically naked. As a result of being served on a human body, the temperature of the sushi or sashimi comes closer to body temperature, which some may see as a disadvantage or a benefit.
Nypa fruticans Nypa fruticans , known as the Attap Palm (Singapore), Nipa Palm (Philippines), and Mangrove Palm or Nipah palm (Malaysia), is the only palm considered a mangrove. This species, the only one in the genus Nypa, grows in southern Asia and northern Australia.
Nyquist plot A Nyquist plot is used in automatic control and signal processing for assessing the stability of a system with feedback. It is represented by a graph in polar coordinates in which the gain and phase of a frequency response are plotted.
Nyquist rate In signal processing, the Nyquist rate is two times the bandwidth—but this concept has two rather different meanings: as a lower bound for the sample rate for alias-free signal sampling, and as an upper bound for the signaling rate across a bandwidth-limited channel such as a telegraph line.
Nyquist stability criterion The Nyquist stability criterion, named for Harry Nyquist, provides a simple test for stability of a closed-loop control system by examining the open-loop system's Nyquist plot. Stability of the closed-loop control system may be determined directly by computing the poles of the closed-loop transfer function.
Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem is a fundamental result in the field of information theory, in particular telecommunications and signal processing. The theorem is commonly called the Shannon sampling theorem, and is also known as Nyquist–Shannon–Kotelnikov, Whittaker–Shannon–Kotelnikov, Whittaker–Nyquist–Kotelnikov–Shannon, WKS, etc.
NyQuil NyQuil, produced by the Vicks company, is the brand name of a family of cold medicine designed to help relieve many symptoms of the common cold. Because all of the medications within the NyQuil imprint contain sedating antihistamines and/or hypnotics, they are typically taken at night, just before bedtime.
Nyr Dyv The Nyr Dyv, also known as the "Lake of Unknown Depths," is a fictional fresh water lake in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. Centrally located in the Flanaess, the Nyr Dyv is the largest known body of fresh water known to the people of that region of Oerik.
Nyrölä Observatory Nyrölän observatorio (Nyrölä Observatory) is an amateur astronomical observatory in Finland. It is owned and operated by the astronomical association Jyväskylän Sirius ry, and located in the countryside village of Nyrölä near Jyväskylä.
Nysa (mythology) In Greek mythology, the mountainous district of Nysa, variously associated with Ethiopia, Libya, Tribalia or Arabia by Greek mythographers, was the traditional place where the rain nymphs, the Hyades, raised the infant Dionysus, the 'god of Nysa.' Though the worship of Dionysus came into mainland Greece from Anatolia (where the Hittites called themselves "Nesi" and their language "Nesili") the locations of the mythical Nysa may simply be conventions to show that a magically distant chthonic land of myth was intended.
Nysa (van) The Nysa van was produced in the town of Nysa, Poland from the late 1950s until the early 1990s. Most were sold to the armed services in Poland, particularly the Militia, and were painted a distinctive shade of dark blue.
Nysa Kłodzka The Nysa Kłodzka (-Polish, German: Glatzer Neiße, Czech: Kladská Nisa) is a river in southwestern Poland, a tributary of the Oder river, with a length of 182 km (21st longest) and the basin area of 4,566 km² (3,744 in Poland).
Nysa, Anatolia Nysa was an ancient Greek city of Anatolia, whose remnants are now in the Sultanhisar district of Aydın Province of Turkey 50 km East of the Ionian city of Ephesus. The geographer and historian Strabo, born in Amasiya started his life of study in Nysa, which was an important center of learning in the first century B.
Nysa, Greek mythology Nysa was a mythical place in Greek mythology where the young god Dionysus was raised. The exact location of Nysa varies in the myths; Alexander's troops in the Swat hills of northwestern Pakistan in 327 BCE, were told that Dionysus had been there before them.
Nysätra Court District Nysätra Court District, or Nysätra tingslag, was a district of Västerbotten in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Nysius raphanus Nysius raphanus (also known as the false chinch bug) is a small (no more than  inch) North American insect in the order Hemiptera and family Lygaeidae. They are grey to brown in color, with largely transparent wings, and can release an offensive odor similar to stinkbugs.
Nyssa of Traken Nyssa of Traken, or simply Nyssa, is a fictional character played by Sarah Sutton in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. She was a native of the planet Traken, a world that was so peaceful that evil literally calcified in its atmosphere.
Nyssaceae The Nyssaceae is a small family of flowering plants related to and often included within the dogwood family (Cornaceae). As most commonly circumscribed, the Nyssaceae includes three genera of trees, while a fourth genus has recently been transferred to the family (Averyanov & Hiep 2002):
Nysted Nysted is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Storstrøm County on the southeastern coast of the island of Lolland in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 142 km², and has a total population of 5,417 (2005).
Nytorget Nytorget is a square in Södermalm, a district of Stockholm, Sweden. The name roughly translates to "New Square", and was for most of the 1600s until the early 1900s a place for open air markets and a locals hangout.
Nyugat Nyugat, meaning "West", was a Hungarian literary journal, probably the most important in the first half of the 20th century. Writer and poet generations of the age are still referred to as "1st/2nd/3rd generation of Nyugat".
Nyugati Railway Station Budapest nyugati pályaudvar (Hungarian for Budapest Western Railway Station) is a railway station in the northern part of the old town of Budapest. It is one of the three main railway stations of Budapest (together with Keleti pályaudvar and Déli pályaudvar) and can be found in the 6th district.
Nyukawa, Gifu Nyūkawa (丹生川村; -mura) was a village located in Ōno District, Gifu, Japan. On February 1, 2005 the village merged with most of the other villages and towns from Ono District into the expanded city of Takayama.
Nyumbani Orphanage The Nyumbani Children's Home was founded by Father Angelo D'Agostino 8 Sept 1992 to aid orphans created by the AIDS pandemic in Africa. Originally a medical doctor in the US Air Force, Agostino joined the Jesuits early in his career, focused on psychiatry and held various teaching positions.
Nyungwe Forest Nyungwe Forest National Park is a national park in southwestern Rwanda, located south of Lake Kivu on the border with Burundi. The park was established in 2004 and covers an area of approximately 970 km² of rainforest, bamboo, grassland, swamps, and bogs.
Nyuserre Ini Nyuserre Ini, also spelt as Neuserre Izi or Niuserre Isi (in Greek known as Rathoris), was a Pharaoh of Egypt during the Fifth dynasty. He is frequently given a reign of 24 or 25 yearsNicolas Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt, (Blackwell: 1992), p.
NY Route 175 The Seneca Turnpike became NY Route 175. Once the longest road in the state, the Seneca Turnpike generally followed the route of the older Genesee Road, which in turn followed the general alignment of an Iroquois trail.
NY Salon NY Salon is a non-profit organization based in New York City comprised of intellectuals, academics, artists and public personalities. They collaborate with foundations, universities and notable individuals to host discussions of today's issues; design lectures and debates; and hold forums to review controversies.
NY Waterway NY Waterway is a private firm that provides commuter ferry service and tourist excursions in New York Harbor, with service between several points in Manhattan and New Jersey, including Hoboken Terminal. It was founded in 1986 by Arthur E.
NY's 25th District, the Fighting 25th! New York's 25th congressional district, in the heart of central New York, includes Onondaga County, Wayne County, and portions of Monroe and Cayuga counties. Syracuse is wholly in the district, as are some of the Rochester suburbs.
NY-962nd AFJROTC The NY-962nd Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps was formed in Bronx Aerospace Academy, (located in the Evander Childs Educational Campus on Gun Hill Road, Bronx, New York) in 1996 and it is the second unit formed in the New York State. The current Wing Commander is Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Roshane Morrison, with his Vice Wing Commander being Cadet Major Landerverde and Executive Officer Cadet 1st Lt Mauricio.
NY1 NY1 (pronounced "New York One") is a twenty-four hour news channel available exclusively to over two million cable television customers within the five boroughs of New York City, nearby Bergen County, New Jersey, Mount Vernon in Westchester County as well as Time Warner Cable systems throughout New York State. It appears on preset Channel 1 on Time Warner Cable and Cablevision service, and is owned and operated by Time Warner Cable.
NYAV Post NYAV Post is a recording studio located in New York, founded by Michael Sinterniklaas in 2000. They have been prolific in recording anime dubs, primarily for Media Blasters and RightStuf, but they have also worked on original animation, commercials, and feature films.
NYC (There's No Need to Stop) NYC (There's No Need to Stop) is the second single from the album Simpatico by British band The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK), released on July 3, 2006. "Hard to Be You (Song For Carl)" was written for Dirty Pretty Things singer and former Libertine Carl Barât.
NYC HOLD New York City HOLD (Honest Open Logical Decisions on Mathematics Education Reform) is an American national education advocacy organization, founded in January 2000 by a group of Manhattan parents and NYU mathematicians. The organization was first established in order to support parent, teacher and mathematician objections to mathematics curricula based on NCTM Standards in New York City schools.
NYC Midsummer NYC Midsummer or Swedish Midsummer is a Swedish midsummer celebration organized since 1996 in one of New York City's parks on the Friday afternoon close to the June solstice, or St John's Day. For several years now, Battery Park in lower Manhattan has hosted this event.

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