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New Jersey State Athletic Control Board The New Jersey State Athletic Control Board (SACB) regulates all contests and exhibitions of unarmed combat within the state of New Jersey, including licensure and supervision of promoters, boxers, kickboxers, mixed martial arts fighters, seconds, ring officials, managers, and matchmakers. The Commission is the final authority on licensing matters, having the ability to approve, deny, revoke, or suspend all licenses for unarmed combat.
New Jersey State Constitution The Constitution of the State of New Jersey is the basic governing document of the State of New Jersey. In addition to three British Royal Charters issued for East Jersey, West Jersey and united New Jersey while they were still colonies, the state has been governed by three constitutions.
New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA), founded in 1918, is a voluntary, non-profit organization made up of 425 accredited public, private and parochial high schools in New Jersey. The daily administration is carried out by the Executive Director, Mr.
New Jersey State Planning Commission The New Jersey State Planning Commission is responsible for oversight of planning issues affecting the state of New Jersey. The Commission consists of 17 members representing State government, local government and the public.
New Jersey State Prison The New Jersey State Prison (NJSP) is a state prison in the United States operated by the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Located in Trenton, New Jersey, it accommodated over 1,900 prisoners as of January, 2005Total residents in New Jersey State correctional institutions and satellites on January 11, 2005.
New Jersey Synod The New Jersey Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is the local synod (the equivalent to an Roman Catholic or Episcopal diocese) that oversees all of the ELCA's congregations in the State of New Jersey.
New Jersey tri-cities A name commonly used to refer to the city of Asbury Park, Long Branch and the borough of Red Bank, the artistic communities located near each other at the Jersey Shore. The term became popularized by the publication Tricity News.
New Jersey Transit The New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) is a statewide public transportation system serving the state of New Jersey, and Orange and Rockland counties in New York. It operates bus, light rail, and commuter rail services throughout the state, notably connecting to major commercial and employment centers both within the state and in the adjacent cities of New York and Philadelphia.
New Jersey Vegetable Monster New Jersey Vegetable Monster is an expression used by cryptozoologists and other researchers of anomalous phenomena and the paranormal to describe a sighting or incident that has exceptionally poor evidential support.
New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial The New Jersey Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, honors those from that state who served in the Vietnam War, especially the 1,559 men and one woman who were killed or missing in action. The design for the memorial was created by Hien Nguyen in 1988, and construction was officially completed on May 7, 1995, when it was dedicated.
New Jersey West Line Railroad The New Jersey West Line Railroad was a proposed railroad running east and west across northern New Jersey, of which the only part constructed was what is now the Gladstone Branch of New Jersey Transit between Summit and Bernardsville. Some other remains of it can be found in Summit, Millburn, and Union Township.
New Jersey Western Railway The New Jersey Western Railway built what is now about 10 miles of the New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway from Hawthorne to Bloomingdale from 1868 to 1870, when it was leased by the New Jersey Midland Railway.
New Jersey XTreme The New Jersey XTreme were a professional indoor football team that played in the National Indoor Football League. They played their home games at Mennen Arena in Morristown, New Jersey and the Continental Airlines Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
New Jersey Youth Symphony The New Jersey Youth Symphony is a non-profit orginization located in Murray Hill, New Jersey. This group, founded in 1979, has grown to provide nearly 450 talented young instrumentalists around the surrounding metropolitan area with a choice of 3 string ensembles, 3 full orchestra ensembles, 2 flute ensembles, chamber music programs, music theory programs in accordance with the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music (Britain), a summer camp, and other various outreach activities.
New Jersey Zinc Company The New Jersey Zinc Company was for many years the largest producer of zinc and zinc products in the United States. The company thrived in the period from 1897 to 1966, at which time it merged with Gulf and Western Industries.
New Jersey's 13th congressional district New Jersey's Thirteenth Congressional District (together with the 14th district) was created starting with the 73rd United States Congress in 1933, based on redistricting following the United States Census, 1930. It is currently represented by Democrat Albio Sires.
New Jersey's 14th congressional district New Jersey's Fourteenth Congressional District in the House of Representatives was eliminated after the 1990 Census. As a result of the Congressional apportionment performed after this Census, New Jersey lost one seat and was reduced to thirteen seats in the House of Representatives.
New Jersey's 1st congressional district New Jersey's First Congressional District is currently represented by Democrat Rob Andrews. NJ-01 is one of the most reliable Democratic districts in New Jersey, as it is mainly made up of Democratic dominated Camden County, New Jersey.
New Jersey's 7th congressional district New Jersey's Seventh Congressional District is currently represented by Republican Mike Ferguson. In 2006, Ferguson faced Democratic Party nominee Linda Stender, an Assemblywoman and former Union County Freeholder and Fanwood Councilmember.
New Jerusalem In religion, the New Jerusalem (also called the tabernacle of God, holy city, city of God, celestial city, and heavenly Jerusalem, as well as Jerusalem above and Zion), is a literal or figurative city that is a physical reconstruction, spiritual restoration, or divine recreation of the city of Jerusalem. Such a renewal of Jerusalem is an important theme in Judaism, Christianity, and the Bahá'í Faith.
New Jerusalem Monastery The New Jerusalem Monastery, also known as the Voskresensky Monastery (Russian: Новоиерусалимский монастырь) is a male monastery, located in today's town of Istra in the Moscow Oblast, Russia.
New Jewel Movement The New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation, or New JEWEL Movement, was a Marxist populist political movement in the Caribbean island nation of Grenada and the ruling organization of that country from 1979 to 1983.
New Jewish Agenda New Jewish Agenda (NJA) was a multi-issue membership organization active in the United States between 1980 and 1992 and made up of about 50 local chapters. NJA's slogan was "a Jewish voice among progressives and a progressive voice among Jews.
New Journalism New Journalism was the name given to a style of 1960's and 1970's news writing and journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time. The term was codified with its current meaning by Tom Wolfe in a 1973 collection of journalism articles he published as The New Journalism, which included works by himself, Truman Capote, Hunter Stockton Thompson and others.
New Julfa New Julfa is a quarter of Isfahan, Iran, located on the outskirts of the city. In the beginning of the 17th century (during the Safavid period), over 150 000 Armenians were moved there by force from Julfa in Nakhichevan.
New Kadampa The New Kadampa is a synonym for the 14th Century Gelukpas (Dge-lugs-pa) school of Tibetan Buddhism, as founded by Je Tsongkhapa (Btsong-ka-pa); being great admirer of the Kadampa teachings, Tsongkhapa was an enthusiastic promoter of the 11th Century Kadampa School's emphasis on the Mahayana principles of universal compassion as the fundamental spiritual orientation. Because of this great faith in the Kadampa, and as the Kadampa was quickly absorbed within the Geluk tradition, the Geluk was well known in Tibet as the New Kadampa, though the synonym is less well known in English-speaking countries.
New Karachi Town New Karachi Town is a small densely populated town in the northern part of Karachi, located between the Lyari River, the Manghopir Hills and two major roads - Surjani Road to the north and Shahrah-e-Zahid Hussain to the south. To the north and west lies the town of Gadap, and to the south lie the towns of Gulberg and North Nazimabad.
New Kensington-Arnold School District The New Kensington-Arnold School District is the public school system in the cities of Arnold and New Kensington, located in northern Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Currently, the district's superintendent is Thomas J.
New Kensington, Pennsylvania New Kensington is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Pittsburgh, on the Allegheny river. In 1900, 4,665 people lived in New Kensington, Pennsylvania; in 1910, 7,707; in 1920, 11, 987; and in 1940, 24,055.
New Kent Road New Kent Road is a short road in south London, created in 1751 when the Turnpike Trust upgraded a local footpath. The road starts at Elephant and Castle], and runs eastward for a few hundred yards to a [[List of road junctions in the United Kingdom|junction with Great Dover Street and Tower Bridge Road (called the Bricklayer's Arms) before being renamed Old Kent Road (the A2).
New Keynesian economics New Keynesian economics developed partly in response to new classical economics. It strives to provide microeconomic foundations to Keynesian economics by showing how demand management by the government or its central bank can improve efficiency under imperfect markets.
New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a book edited by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris and published in 2005 by Blackwell Publishing. It is an attempt to revise Raymond Williams' seminal 1976 text, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society.
New King James Version The New King James Version is a modern Bible translation published by Thomas Nelson, Inc. The Anglicized edition was originally known as the Revised Authorised Version, but the NKJV title is now used universally.
New Kingdom The New Kingdom is the period in ancient Egyptian history between the 16th century BCE and the 11th century BC, covering the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of Egypt. The New Kingdom (1570–1070 BC) followed the Second Intermediate Period, and was succeeded by the Third Intermediate Period.
New Kingdom of Granada The New Kingdom of Granada (Spanish: Nuevo Reino de Granada) was the name given to a group of 16th century Spanish colonial provinces in northern South America, corresponding mainly to modern Colombia. It became part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717, and ceased to exist altogether with the later's end in 1819 and the establishment of an independent republic.
New Kingman-Butler, Arizona New Kingman-Butler or more commonly referred to as Butler is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States right at the northern side of Kingman's city limits.. The population was 14,810 at the 2000 census.
New Klang Valley Expressway The New Klang Valley Expressway, or the NKVE (the official name as stated on the website of PLUS Expressways Berhad, the highway concessionaire) refers to a stretch of the North-South Expressway in Peninsular Malaysia which starts from Bukit Raja near Klang town, and ends at Jalan Duta in Kuala Lumpur. People sometimes call it the North Klang Valley Expressway due to its location in Malaysia's most populated region, but most refer to it by its initials.
New Knights Stadium The New Knights Stadium is the tentative name of a new baseball stadium that may be built in Charlotte, North Carolina's uptown area. Charlotte currently doesn't have a baseball venue near center city (unless you count tiny Independence Park stadium which seats 300 people on a granite] terrace).
New Kowloon New Kowloon () is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong, bounded in the south by Boundary Street, and in the north by the ranges of the Lion Rock, Beacon Hill, Tate's Cairn Tunnel and Kowloon Peak. It covers the present-day Kwun Tong and Wong Tai Sin districts, and part of Sham Shui Po and Kowloon City districts.
New Kuomintang Alliance The New Kuomintang Alliance (新國民黨連線; Hsin Kuomintang Lienhsien) was a faction of Kuomintang in the Republic of China on Taiwan, active late 20th century. Composed of mainly younger mainlanders, this faction was in favor of interparty reform.
New Kyo New Kyo is a village in County Durham, in England. It is situated close to the A693 road between Annfield Plain and Stanley, and is slightly larger than nearby East Kyo and West Kyo, containing a housing estate, a garage and the King's Head ice cream company.
New line theatre New Line Theatre in St. Louis, MO, "the Bad Boy of Musical Theatre," is the only alternative musical theatre company in America, producing challenging, adult, politically and socially relevant works of musical theatre.
New localism "New localism" is a concept associated with Tony Blair's Labour government in the United Kingdom. It is intended to indicate a cautious devolution of power to the local level in an attempt to better implement national goals.
New Labour Party (South Africa) The New Labour Party (NLP) is a minor South African political party founded by Peter Marais after he left the New National Party in some disrepute. The name was chosen to evoke the former Labour Party led by the late Reverend Allan Hendrickse as an anti-apartheid Coloured party.
New Labour Unity Party (Fiji) The New Labour Unity Party was a Fijian political party, which broke away from the Fiji Labour Party in May 2001. It was founded by Tupeni Baba, a former Deputy Prime Minister and Labour Party stalwart, who had become dissatisfied with Mahendra Chaudhry's leadership and expressed fears that if Chaudhry, who had been deposed in the Fiji coup of 2000, returned as Prime Minister, there could be another coup.
New Laender In the German reunification in 1990, the federal states of the former German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany. These 5 states (Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Saxony, Sachsen-Anhalt and Thuringia) are called New Laender (or Neue Bundesländer in german).
New Lanark New Lanark is a village on the River Clyde, approximately two kilometres from the Royal Burgh of Lanark, in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It was founded in 1786 by David Dale, who built cotton mills and housing for the mill workers.
New Lane railway station New Lane railway station serves the rural communities and farming villages around New Lane in West Lancashire, in the north-west of England. It is served and managed by Northern Rail and is situated near the Martin Mere bird sanctuary, which can be reached by a 1 mile walk.
New Laws The New Laws (or Leyes Nuevas in Spanish) of 1542 were created to prevent the exploitation of the indigenous people by the encomenderos during the Spanish colonization of the Americas. They were enforced by Blasco Núñez Vela, the first viceroy of Peru, who quickly became unpopular among the encomenderos and fled to Quito to escape a large revolt.
New Left The New Left is a term used to refer to radical left-wing movements from the 1960s onwards. They differed from earlier leftist movements that had been more oriented towards labour activism, and instead adopted a broader definition of political activism commonly called social activism.
New Left Current New Left Current (- Neo Aristero Revma) (NAR) was formed in late 1989, mainly by ex-KNE members. The Communist Party of Greece joined New Democracy party in a government coalition after the June 18, 1989 elections, and most of the KNE members left as they disagreed with the policy that CP of Greece had.
New Left Review The New Left Review was founded in 1960 in the UK after the editors of the New Reasoner and the Universities and Left Review merged their boards. The Universities and Left Review had grown out of the Suez crisis in 1956; their journal centred on a rejection of the dominant 'revisionist' orthodoxy within the Labour Party, from a Marxist perspective.
New Liberal Party (New Zealand) The New Liberal Party of New Zealand was a splinter group of the original Liberal Party. It was founded in 1905 by two Liberal-aligned independents who sought a more "progressive" policy than that followed by the Liberal leader, Richard Seddon.
New Life (Meher Baba) The New Life was an enigmatic period of renunciation, pilgrimage, and spiritual adventures undertaken by the spiritual master Meher Baba. In 1949, Baba selected twenty companions to join him in a life of complete "hopelessness, helplessness and aimlessness.
New Life Church, Arkansas New Life Church is a non-denominational church in Arkansas with two campuses, one in Conway and one in Maumelle. Both campuses are pastored by Rick Bezet, a native of Louisiana and formerly the youth pastor at Bethany World Prayer Center in Baton Rouge.
New Life Churches New Life Churches International is a Pentecostal Christian church denomination that was formally established in New Zealand in the 1960s. It was led for many years by Rob Wheeler, a New Zealand Evangelist and Peter Morrow, an Australian evangelist.
New Life Movement The New Life Movement (Chinese: 新生活運動) was set up by Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong May-ling in February 1934, to promote traditional Confucian social ethics, while rejecting individualism and Western capitalistic values. It also aimed to build up morale in a nation that was besieged with corruption, factionalism, and opium addiction.
New Life Northwest New Life Northwest or New Life NW is a community of churches in the Northwest, United States of America (specifically located in West Linn, Oregon, a suburb of Portland, Oregon.) The official church name is New Life Church and it is a multi-site church.
New Life Volunteering Society New Life Volunteering Society (NLVS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to "easing the pain and suffering of mankind." It was founded in 1999 by Vijay Khiani at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
New Light of Myanmar The New Light of Myanmar (; ; formerly The New Light of Burma) is a government-owned newspaper published by the Ministry of Information and based in Yangon (formerly Rangoon). The newspaper was founded in 1914, first published as a magazine before becoming a newspaper.
New Line Records New Line Records is a record label owned by New Line Cinema. Founded to release movie soundtracks, the label has grown beyond this initial purpose and has built a roster of indie rock acts such as The Sounds, Robbers on High Street, The Sights, and Midnight Movies.
New Lisbon High School New Lisbon High School (or NLHS) is part of the School District of New Lisbon and is located in New Lisbon, Juneau County, Wisconsin. The district serves students residing in the City of New Lisbon, Village of Hustler, and the townships of Clearfield, Cutler, Fountain, Germantown, Lisbon, and Orange.
New Living Translation The New Living Translation is a translation of the Bible into an easily readable form of modern English. It started out as an effort to revise The Living Bible, but the project evolved into a new English translation from available texts in the original languages.
New Lodge, Belfast The New Lodge is an urban, working-class Catholic community in Belfast, Northern Ireland, immediately to the north of city centre. Architecturally, the district is dominated by several large tower blocks although there has been significant redevelopment in recent years.
New London Northern Railroad The New London Northern Railroad was a part of the Central Vermont Railway from New London, Connecticut north to Brattleboro, Vermont. After a long period with the Canadian National Railway, it is now operated by the New England Central Railroad.
New London School explosion The New London School explosion occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion, destroying the New London School of the city of New London, Texas. The disaster killed in excess of three hundred students and teachers, making it the worst catastrophe to take place in a U.
New Look The New Look was the name given to the women's clothing fashions introduced by Parisian fashion designer Christian Dior in the spring of 1947. This collection influenced fashion and other designers for over ten years.
New Lost City Ramblers The New Lost City Ramblers is a contemporary old-time string band that formed in New York City in 1958 during the Folk Revival. The founding members of the Ramblers, or NLCR, are Mike Seeger, John Cohen, and Tom Paley.
New Lots Avenue (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) New Lots Avenue is the eastern (railroad southern) terminal of the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway. With two tracks and one island platform, it is the terminal for some rush-hour and trips, the at all times but late nights, and the during late nights (as well as a few rush hour trains).
New Lots, Brooklyn New Lots is a neighborhood in the eastern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It was known as the Town of New Lots, from 1852 when the area seceded from the Town of Flatbush until it was annexed in 1886.
New Lynn Train Station New Lynn Railway Station is on the Western Line of the Auckland railway network, and is part of an integrated transport centre where transfers can be made to and from many bus services. Lynn Mall, a major shopping mall, is nearby.
New media art New media art (also known as media art) is a generic term used to describe art related to, or created with, a technology invented or made widely available since the mid-20th Century. The term differentiates itself by its resulting cultural objects, which can be seen in opposition to those deriving from old media arts (i.
New men New men is a term used by some historians when referring to middle class professionals who held important positions in government in Britain during the House of Lancaster, House of York and Tudor periods (especially those during the reign of Henry VI).
New minor forcing New Minor Forcing (often abbreviated NMF), is a bridge convention in which responder's rebid of a previously-unbid minor (generally over opener's 1NT rebid) is artificial and asks opener for clarification of shape and strength. It typically shows at least invitational values (about 10HCP).
New musicology The New Musicology is a term applied to a wide body of work produced by many musicologists who consider themselves and their musicology neither new nor New. Often based on the work of Theodor Adorno (and Walter Benjamin) and feminist, gender studies, gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, or postcolonial hypotheses, the New Musicology is the cultural study, analysis, and criticism of music.
New MacDonald's Farm New McDonald's Farm is a children's television show shown on Channel 9 to date (), with episodes also being produced from 2004 to present.The show revolves around a farm in the country, owned by Milly and Max, and occupied by six farm animals, Henry the Horse, Daisy the Cow, Dash the Duck, Percy the Pig, Shirley the Sheep, and Charlotte the Chicken.
New Madrid earthquake The New Madrid Earthquake, the largest earthquake ever recorded in the contiguous United States, occurred on February 7, 1812. (The largest recorded earthquake in the entire United States was the Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake on March 27, 1964.
New Madrid Seismic Zone The New Madrid Seismic Zone, also known as the Reelfoot Rift or the New Madrid Fault Line, is a major seismic zone located in the Southern United States and Midwestern United States. The New Madrid fault system was responsible for the 1812 New Madrid Earthquake and has the potential to produce damaging earthquakes on an average of every 300 to 500 years.
New Magnetic Wonder New Magnetic Wonder is the sixth studio album from The Apples in Stereo. The album was produced by Robert Schneider with additional production and mixing by Bryce Goggin (Pavement, Evan Dando, Sean Lennon) and was recorded in three separate states (New York, Colorado and Kentucky).
New Marske New Marske is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, in the region of North East England. Roughly a mile south west of Marske-by-the-Sea and set on a hillside, it was originally a group of miner's terraced houses, but has expanded in the past 40 years.
New Maryland-Sunbury West New Maryland-Sunbury West is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada. It was created in 1994 as a totally new district taking in large parts of York South and Sunbury as well as small pieces of several other districts.
New Math (song) One of Harvard mathematic graduate Tom Lehrer's most famous songs was a satire named "New Math" which centered around the process of subtracting 173 from 342 in decimal and octal. The song is in the style of a lecture about the general concept of subtraction in arbitrary number systems, illustrated by two simple calculations, and highlights the emphasis on insight and abstract concepts of the New Math approach.
New Meadow The New Meadow is the provisional name for a new football stadium being built for Shrewsbury Town Football Club. The ground is situated on the south-western outskirts of Shrewsbury, between the districts of Meole Brace and Sutton Farm.
New Media Consortium The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of more than 200 colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.
New Media Council New Media Council was formed by the Producers Guild of America (PGA) in 2002, in order to better represent producers working in emerging media such as DVDs, broadband and mobile entertainment, interactive television and console games.
New Media Marketing New Media Marketing is a relatively new concept utilized by businesses in developing an online community, which allows customer evangelists to congregate and extol the virtues of a particular brand. In most cases, the online community includes mechanisms such as blogs, podcasts, message boards, and product reviews, all of which contribute to a transparent forum to post praises, criticisms, questions, and suggestions.
New Melones Reservoir New Melones Reservoir is a reservoir on the Stanislaus River in the California Central Valley, about 60 miles upstream from the river's confluence with the San Joaquin River and forming part of the border between Calaveras County and Tuolumne County. The reservoir's 2,400,000 acre-foot capacity makes it one of the largest in California.
New Men (Image Comics) New Men was one of the many titles co-created by Rob Liefeld and released as part of his Extreme Studios imprint of Image Comics like many of Liefeld's creations for this and his Maximum Comics line the New Men bore striking similarities to characters from mainstream comic companies, in this case New Men was very similar to Marvel Comics' X-Men franchise. New Men received similar reviews to the rest of Extreme Studios books, with complains about quality of art, story and dialogue, however it achieved much higher critical acclaim following a re-design and revamp by writer Eric Stephenson and the addition the noted art team Chris Sprouse and Al Gordon.
New Mexican cuisine New Mexican food is a type of regional cuisine originating in the US state of New Mexico; it is a subset of Mexican-American cuisine. Although many New Mexican dishes are similar to Mexican and Tex-Mex offerings such as enchiladas and burritos, New Mexican food has a distinct style.
New Mexican locust New Mexican Locust or New Mexico Locust (Robinia neomexicana) is a shrub or small tree in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae, native to the southwest United States (southeast California and southernmost Utah east through Arizona and New Mexico to west Texas) and adjoining northern Mexico.
New Mexican Spanish New Mexican Spanish is a variant or dialect of Spanish spoken in the United States, primarily in the northern part of the state of New Mexico and the southern part of the state of Colorado. Despite a continual influence from the Spanish spoken in Mexico to the south, New Mexico's relative geographical isolation and unique political history has made New Mexican Spanish differ notably from Spanish spoken in other parts of Latin America, even from that of northern Mexico or Texas.
New Mexico Bowl The New Mexico Bowl is a NCAA sanctioned post-season bowl game scheduled played at University Stadium on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The game between teams representing the Mountain West Conference and the Western Athletic Conference is televised on ESPN.
New Mexico Campaign The New Mexico Campaign was a military operation of the American Civil War in February-March 1862 in which the Confederate Brigadier General Henry Hopkins Sibley invaded the northern New Mexico Territory in an attempt to gain control of the Southwest, including the gold fields of Colorado and the ports of California.
New Mexico in the American Civil War As the main route to California, the New Mexico Territory was disputed territory during the American Civil War, resulting in settlers in the region carved out by the Gadsden Purchase willingly joining the Confederate States of America, while much of the rest of the present day state of New Mexico remained loyal to the Union.
New Mexico Junior College New Mexico Junior College is an institution of higher learning located less than 5 miles outside of Hobbs, New Mexico, in the southeastern corner of the state. It's baseball team won the NJCAA World Series in 2005, its first championship.
New Mexico Lobo Basketball The University of New Mexico (UNM) established basketball as a varsity sport in 1899, but it wasn't until 1920 when they hired a new basketball coach. It was at that point the UNM athletic department became competitive among colleges in the Western United States.
New Mexico Rail Runner Express The New Mexico Rail Runner Express is a commuter rail system serving the metropolitan area of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is administered by the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) and the Mid Region Council of Governments (MRCOG), a regional government planning association.
New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot The New Mexico State Penitentiary Riot, which took place on February 2 and February 3, 1980 in the Penitentiary of New Mexico south of Santa Fe, was one of the worst prison riots in the history of the American correctional system: 33 inmates were killed, more than 100 inmates were treated for injuries, and seven of 12 guards taken hostage were treated for injuries suffered during beatings and rapes. Surprisingly, amid all the chaos, none of the guards were killed.
New Mexico State Police The New Mexico State Police is the state police agency for New Mexico, which has jurisdiction anywhere in the state. It was created to protect the lives, property and constitutional rights of people in New Mexico.
New Mexico State Road 1 New Mexico Route 1 runs south from Socorro, New Mexico to Mitchell Point and goes through the communities of Luis Lopez and San Antonio and then the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Further south it passes dirt roads leading to Fort Craig and San Marcial.

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