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The Next Great Prime Minister Contest The Next Great Prime Minister is a national contest for young Canadians who wish to share their ideas for making Canada a better, stronger and more prosperous country. The televised contest, which debuted in February 2006, is the evolution of the As Prime Minister Awards essay contest, which provided a national forum for the innovative ideas of Canadian college and university students.
The Next Passage (Alternamorphs) Alternamorphs #2: The Next Passage is the second and final book of the Alternamorphs series, a spinoff of the Animorphs series. It involves a second-person narrative so as to allow the reader to actually take part in the story.
The Next Phase The Next Phase is a fifth-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Responding to a distress call from a Romulan science ship, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge and Ensign Ro Laren are lost in a transporter accident when returning to the Enterprise with a faulty generator from the Romulan ship.
The Next Step The Next Step was a television show that aired on The Discovery Channel during the 1990s. It was created and hosted by Richard Hart and showcased the latest in cutting-edge technology and it's applications from electric vehicles to virtual reality.
The Next Time "The Next Time" was the first of three number one hit singles from the Cliff Richard musical Summer Holiday. It was a double 'A' side with the somewhat prophetic Bachelor Boy, and was followed up at number one with the film's title track Summer Holiday, to be followed by The Shadows and their Foot Tapper well known nowadays as the theme tune for the BBC Radio 2 programme Sounds of the Sixties.
The Next Time I Fall "The Next Time I Fall" is a popular song written by Bobby Caldwell and Paul Gordon, recorded as a duet by Peter Cetera and Amy Grant for Cetera's 1986 album Solitude/Solitaire. The single version reached number 1 on the U.
The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne is a greatest hits album by the rock and roll artist Jackson Browne released in 1997. It Includes songs from his early years such as, Doctor My Eyes and These Days, as well as later songs.
The Nextmen The Nextmen are a critically acclaimed production/songwriting group consisting of Dom Search (aka Dominic Betmead) and Brad Baloo (aka Brad Ellis). Often expressing a reggae influence, they have worked with many urban artists from the UK, US and Jamaica.
The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers The Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers (ISBN 0-7432-6158-5) is a non-fiction baseball reference book, written by Rob Neyer and Bill James and published by Simon & Schuster in June of 2004. In the text on its dust jacket, it bills itself as a "comprehensive guide" to "pitchers, the pitches they throw, and how they throw them".
The NFL on ESPN Radio The NFL on ESPN Radio is a weekly radio program dedicated to the National Football League every Sunday from 1pm ET to 8pm ET on ESPN Radio. The current host of the show since 2006, is ESPNEWS and The SportsBash commentator John Seibel along with analysts that include former quarterback Sean Salisbury, former Chicago Bears head coach Mike Ditka and former defensive back Eric Allen.
The NHL Network (1975-1979 version) The NHL Network was an American television syndication package that broadcasted National Hockey League games from the 1975-76 through 1978-79 seasons. The NHL Network was distributed by the Hughes Television Network.
The NHL on CBS The NHL on CBS was professional ice hockey's first official incarnation of the sport's Game of the Week in the United States. It came at just about the time when the NHL's Original Six franchises were to be joined by the league's first expansion class of 1967.
The Nibblers The Nibblers were fictional characters who had their own comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. The Nibblers were a community of mice who lived in a hole in the wall, and were always stealing food from Porky, the fat owner of the house.
The Nice The Nice are a progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their unique blend of rock, jazz and classical music. Keith Emerson, a keyboardist, formed the group and released their debut, The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack to immediate acclaim; this is often considered the first progressive rock album.
The Nice Boys The Nice Boys are a power pop band hailing from Portland, Oregon. They were formed in 2004 by surviving Exploding Hearts] guitarist Terry Six, studio keyboardist Brian Lelko, drummer Alan Mansfield, and Colin Jarrel and Gabe Lageson of The Riffs, who, like the [[Exploding Hearts, held influence in punk and rock of the late 1970s.
The Nice Valour The Nice Valour, or The Passionate Madman is a Jacobean stage play of problematic date and authorship. Based on its inclusion in the two Beaumont and Fletcher folios of 1647 and 1679 and two citations in 17th-century sources, the play has long held a place in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators.
The Nields The Nields were a folk-rock band who performed from 1991 to 2001. They toured much of the United States, performing with artists such as Dar Williams, Moxy FrĂĽvous, and Catie Curtis, and appearing at many folk festivals.
The Nigger The Nigger is a play by American playwright Edward Sheldon (1886 - 1946). It explores the relationship between Colored people and Caucasians in the melodrama of a politician faced with a sudden, personal dilemma.
The Nigger Bible The Nigger Bible by Robert H. deCoy (MFA, Yale, 1951), published by Holloway House, Los Angeles, in 1967, 299 pages, aims to validate the word "nigger" as a self-identifier and to embed critical thinking skills about black personality types and categories.
The Night and Day Café The Night and Day Café is a popular cafe bar and live music venue located on Oldham Street, Manchester. The establishment provides live gigs most nights of the week, from new indie bands on the Manchester scene like the Waltones through to more established singer-songwriters, as well as acts such as David Devant and his Spirit Wife and Abstract Dawn, who provide visual as well as musical entertainment.
The Night Attack The Night Attack (Romanian: Atacul de noapte) was a skirmish fought between Vlad III Dracula of Wallachia and Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire. The conflict initially started with Dracula's refusal to pay tribute to the Porte and elevated in size when Dracula invaded Bulgaria and impaled over 23,000 Turks and Bulgarians.
The Night Before Christmas (1913 film) The Night Before Christmas (, Noch pered Rozhdestvom) is a 1913 silent film made in the Russian Empire by Ladislas Starevich, based on the tale of the same name by Nikolai Gogol. Unlike most of Starevich's films, it is mainly live-action.
The Night Before Christmas (1951 film) The Night Before Christmas (, Noch pered Rozhdestvom) is a 1951 Soviet traditionally-animated feature film directed by the Brumberg sisters and produced by the Soyuzmultfilm studio in Moscow. The film is based on Nikolai Gogol's story The Night Before Christmas.
The Night Before Christmas (Tom & Jerry) The Night Before Christmas is an animated cartoon from 1941 featuring Tom and Jerry. The third cartoon featuring the cat and mouse duo, it was nominated for the 1941 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, but lost to Disney's Lend A Paw, featuring Pluto.
The Night Café The Night Café (original French title: Le Café de nuit) is an oil painting executed on industrial primed canvas of size 30 (French standard) in Arles in September 1888, by Vincent van Gogh. Its title is inscribed lower right beneath the signature.
The Night Gwen Stacy Died "The Night Gwen Stacy Died" is a famous fictional story arc of the Marvel Comics comic book series The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 1, #121-122 (June-July 1973), that became a watershed effect in the life of the superhero Spider-Man, one of popular culture's most enduring and recognizable fictional characters.
The Night Chicago Died "The Night Chicago Died" is a song by the British group Paper Lace, written by Peter Robin Callander and Mitch Murray, that reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in 1974. The single reached number 3 in the UK charts.
The Night Kitchen The Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak is a controversial children's picture book which illustrates a young boy's dream journey through a surreal baker's kitchen. The book follows young Mickey as he "falls" into the Night Kitchen, where he aids the bakers with their Morning Cake by securing milk for it.
The Night Letter The Night Letter is a 1978 book by Paul Spike, with a double-layered structure: an anti-Nazi spy thriller on the background of the early part of the Second World War, and an exposure of cynical and machiavellian manoeuvrings in the American corridors of power.
The Night Listener (film) The Night Listener is a drama film starring Robin Williams, Toni Collette, and Rory Culkin. The screenplay was written by Armistead Maupin, Terry Anderson, and Patrick Stettner, and the film was directed by Stettner.
The Night Listener (novel) The Night Listener is a roman Ă  clef novel by Armistead Maupin. The plot is based on the real life story of Anthony Godby Johnson, the purported author of a book A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story that was later revealed to have been a hoax.
The Night of Kadar The Night of Kadar is the story of a crew of interplanetary colonists. On their approach to a distant planet, while these human space voyagers were still in a state of suspended animation, an alien life force enters the ship.
The Night of Morningstar The Night of Morningstar is the title of the eleventh novel chronicling the adventures of crime lord-turned-secret agent Modesty Blaise. The novel was first published in 1982 and was written by Peter O'Donnell, who had created the character for a comic strip in the early 1960s.
The Night of the Generals The Night of the Generals is a 1967 World War II film adapted from the novel of the same name by Hans Hellmut Kirst. It stars Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay, Donald Pleasence, Charles Gray, Philippe Noiret, Joanna Pettet, and Coral Browne.
The Night of the Iguana The Night of the Iguana is a play by Tennessee Williams that had its Broadway premiere in 1961, and was based on 1948 short story by Williams. It has been made into movies twice, in 1964 and 2001, with a new movie version in production.
The Night of Wenceslas The Night of Wenceslas (1960) was the debut novel of British thriller writer Lionel Davidson. It describes the reluctant adventures of Nicolas Whistler, a dissolute young man of mixed English and Czech parentage who finds himself caught up against his will in Cold War espionage.
The Night That Panicked America The Night That Panicked America is an American made-for-television movie that was originally broadcast on the ABC network on October 31, 1975. The movie dramatizes events surrounding Orson Welles's famous - and infamous - War of the Worlds radio broadcast of October 30, 1938, which had led some Americans to believe that an invasion of Martians was occurring in New Jersey.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song written by Robbie Robertson and first recorded by The Band in 1969. It is interesting to note that this song about the American Civil War was written by Robertson who is a half-Mohawk Indian, half-Jewish Canadian.
The Night They Raided Minsky's The Night They Raided Minsky's is a 1968 film directed by William Friedkin. This film tells the story of an innocent Amish girl (Britt Ekland) who, in a rebellious fit, leaves home to become a dancer and ends up inventing the striptease at Minsky's Burlesque circa 1927.
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail is a two-act play by Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence. The play is based on the early life of the titular character, Henry David Thoreau, leading up to his night spent in a jail in Concord, Massachusetts.
The Night We Called It a Day The Night We Called It a Day (2003) is an Australian film starring Dennis Hopper, Melanie Griffith, Portia de Rossi, Joel Edgerton, Rose Byrne, and David Hemmings. It is based on the true events surrounding one of several tours of Frank Sinatra (played by Hopper)in Australia.
The Nightingale The Nightingale is a Danish fairy tale by Danish author and poet Hans Christian Andersen. It was written in 1844 as part of the collection New Fairy Tales (Nye Eventyr) and the original Danish title is Nattergalen.
The Nightingale (opera) The Nightingale (Solovyei) is a Russian conte lyrique in three acts by Igor Stravinsky. The libretto, based on the tale of The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen, was written by the composer and Stepan Mitussov.
The Nightingales The Nightingales are a British punk/alternative band formed in November, 1979 in Birmingham. Original members were Robert Lloyd (vocals) and Joe 'Motivator' Crow on guitar, both formerly of The Prefects, with Andy Lloyd on guitar, Eamonn Duffy on bass and Paul Apperley on drums.
The Nightmare Before Christmas Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 stop motion animated musical film about the inhabitants of Halloween Town who take over Christmas, directed by stop-motion animator Henry Selick. The film is loosely based on drawings and a poem by Tim Burton, and he served as co-producer.
The Nightmare Before Christmas Trading Card Game The Nightmare Before Christmas TCG is a card game that was released in 2005: it consisted of a Premiere set and 4 Starter Decks based on 4 characters, Jack Skellington, The Mayor, Oogie Boogie, and Doctor Finklestein. Each Starter contain a rule book, a Pumpkin King card, a Pumpkin Points card, and a 48 card deck.
The Nightmare Fair The Nightmare Fair is the first of a series of novelisations, based on a number of cancelled scripts from the 1986 season of Doctor Who. It was written by former series producer Graham Williams, and would have been directed by Matthew Robinson had it gone to air.
The Nimmo Twins The Nimmo Twins are Owen Evans and Karl Minns, a sketch comedy duo from Norfolk, UK. Formed in 1996 in Norwich, they first came to national attention after their show Posh Spice Nude was a sell-out success at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival.
The Nine Billion Names of God The Nine Billion Names of God is a famous 1953 short story by Arthur C. Clarke; the phrase also appears in the title of a collection of Clarke's short stories, The Nine Billion Names of God: The Best Short Stories of Arthur C.
The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art (Traditional Chinese: 九章算術; Simplified Chinese: 九章算术; pinyin: jiǔ zhāng suàn shù) is a Chinese mathematics book, probably composed by the 1st century AD, but perhaps as early as 200 BC. This book is the earliest surviving mathematical text from China that has come down to historians by being copied by scribes and (centuries later) printed.
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat is an R-rated animated film from 1974. It was produced by Steve Krantz, directed by Robert Taylor, co-written by Taylor, Fred Halliday, and Eric Monte, and distributed by American International Pictures.
The Nine Muses The Nine Muses, Or, Poems Written by Nine severall Ladies Upon the death of the late Famous John Dryden, Esq. (London: Richard Basset, 1700) was an elegiac volume of poetry left on the grave of poet John Dryden in 1700.
The Ninja Warriors The Ninja Warriors was a side-scrolling arcade game about ninjas created by Taito and released in 1988. It is particularly unusual because it has 3 contiguous screens (one screen in the usual place for an arcade game, and two more screens in the cabinet below, reflected by mirrors on either side of the middle screen) which created the effect of a single, "triple-wide" screen, depicting ninjas.
The Ninth Configuration The Ninth Configuration, (also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane) is an American-made film, released in 1980, directed by William Peter Blatty (most famous as the author of The Exorcist). It is often considered a cult film, and it won the Best Screenplay award at the 1981 Golden Globes.
The Nipple Erectors The Nipple Erectors were a British punk rock band formed in The Arsenal, London in 1977 and notable as Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan's first musical group. Initially consisting of vocalist/songwriter MacGowan (known at the time as 'Shane O'Hooligan'), bassist/songwriter/original Punk Artist Shanne Bradley, guitarist/ Artist Roger Towndrow and drummer Arcane Vendetta; the band released four singles and there was one bootleg live album between 1978 and 1981.
The Nitrogen Fix The Nitrogen Fix is a 1980 science fiction novel by Hal Clement. The plot revolves around a nomadic family in a future where all oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere has combined with nitrogen, so the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen with traces of water, nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide, and the seas are very dilute nitric acid.
The Nits The Nits are a Dutch art rock group, founded in 1974. Their musical style has varied considerably over the years, as has their line-up with the core of Henk Hofstede (the group's lead singer and lyricist), Rob Kloet, drummer, Robert Jan Stips (Supersister, Gruppo Sportivo, Golden Earring), keyboards.
The Nittany Lion The Nittany Lion is one of the traditional songs played by the Penn State Blue Band at football games and other sporting events. During the pre-game show of home football games, it is part of the traditional Lion Fanfare and Downfield.
The Nixons (band) The Nixons were a "one hit wonder" band (and maybe, one of the most obscure groups of the grunge era) founded in Oklahoma City by singer/guitarist Zac Maloy, guitarist Jesse Davis, bassist Ricky Brooks, and drummer Tye Robinson. The group released their debut EP Six in 1992 (after a obscure self-titled album, probably released in 1990) on Dragon Street Records and replaced the original drummer with John Humphrey before releasing Halo in 1994 on Rainmaker label.
The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization was written by Wayne Ellwood, an editor for the New Internationalist, and published by Verso Books in 2001. Based in Toronto, he has also been the editor for the The A to Z of World Development.
The Nodd The Nodd is an American rock band. Formed in Philadelphia in 2003, they have made songs drawing from various traditions of music, rock or otherwise, and combine reverence for generations past with bold visions of the future.
The Nodding Folk The Nodding Folk was the name of an industrial music supergroup with members David Tibet, James Mannox, John Balance, Peter Christopherson, Sam Mannox-Wood, Simon Norris and Steven Stapleton from the groups Current 93, Spasm, Nurse With Wound, Cyclobe and Coil. The group got together specifically to record a single album, The Apocalyptic Folk In The Nodding God Unveiled, a CD which was coupled with a comic book and released in 1993.
The Nomadic Project The Nomadic Project is a conceptual art project, designed by visual artist, Kristin Abraham and musician, Alfonso Llamas. From November 13th, 2005 to December 21st, 2006 the artists traveled to all 50 states in the U.
The Nonprofit Center The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University helps strengthen nonproift organizations in the Delaware Valley so that they can better serve their constituents. Through educational programs, board of director development, training and consulting services and an information and referral network, the Nonprofit Center's team of experts works with thousands of organizations to enhance their own ability to govern, manager and perform more effectively in a competitive environment.
The Norfolk Burnhams The Norfolk Burnhams are a group of adjacent villages on the north coast of Norfolk, England. The villages are located at the sea near a large natural bay named Brancaster Bay and the Scolt Head Island National Nature Reserve.
The Norm (radio) The Norm was a CBC Radio comedy show that ran between 1986 to 1988. It was the immediate successor to The Frantics' Frantic Times radio show, whose slot they took over in January 1986, and tried to capitalize on its often surreal and zany style with its own cast of characters placed in odd situations.
The Norm Show The Norm Show was an American television sitcom that ran from 1999 through 2001 on the ABC television network. The show focused on the life of Norm Henderson (Norm MacDonald), a former NHL hockey player who is banned for life from hockey due to gambling and tax evasion.
The Normal Heart The Normal Heart is a play written by Larry Kramer, dealing with the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City from 1981-1984, through the eyes of Ned Weeks, the gay Jewish founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. It was one of the first plays to deal with the issue.
The Norman Whitfield Sessions The Norman Whitfield Sessions is an aptly-titled look back at the gritty Norman Whitfield-produced sessions of soul singer Marvin Gaye's late sixties period as he moved away from teen pop-driven R&B smashes that made him a pop star in the early and mid portion of the decade and pushed to do more mature, grittier and funkier material as Whitfield guided the next direction of Gaye's career, the high point being the 1968 classic, "I Heard It through the Grapevine", which became Gaye's first international smash. Other hits during that period included the more upbeat "Too Busy Thinking About My Baby", the darker "That's the Way Love Is" and "The End of Our Road", Gaye's 1970 hit.
The North Atlantic Squadron In this context, squadron refers to a naval squadron, rather than an air force squadron. There are many versions of this song, dependent on the origin of the singers, but all have in common a crudeness typical to military songs.
The North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation The North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation is a student-run legal journal at the University of North Carolina School of Law in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Now in its thirty-second year of publication, the Journal is dedicated to stimulating the intellectual climate through legal scholarship in the area of international and foreign law.
The North of England Horticultural Society The North of England Horticultural Society, is a horticultural society in the North of England that arranges first class flower shows, where northern exhibits can be judged by standards suitable for the northern areas of the country.
The North/South Language Body The North/South Language Body (in Irish, An Foras Teanga; in Ullans, Tha Boord o Leid) is an implementation body, provided for by the Belfast Agreement, that exists to implement policies agreed by Ministers in the North/South Ministerial Council (NSMC) in Ireland with regard to the Irish and Ulster-Scots languages.
The Northeastern Anarchist The Northeastern Anarchist is the English-language magazine of the Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC), covering news and theory of interest to the anarchist movement and contributing to the development of anarcho-communist theory and practice.
The Northern Territories The Northern Territories was an electronic music project from Sweden. It was started in Uppsala in 1992 by John Alexander Ericson (vocals, instruments and electronics) and Stefan Sääf (vocals and electronics).
The Northwest Academy The Northwest Academy is an arts and performing arts high school located in Northwest Portland, Oregon. The school was founded by Mary Vinton Folberg, former artistic director of The Jefferson Dancers and sister of Claymation creator Will Vinton.
The Northwood’s Superior Coastal Plains Bioregion A bioregion is an area constituting a natural ecological community with characteristic flora, fauna, and environmental conditions and bounded by natural rather than artificial borders. Way up north along the shores of Lake Superior, there lives a unique diversity of humans, natural beauty, natural resources, climate, and nuance.
The Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression The Norwegian Academy of Literature and Freedom of Expression (Det Norske Akademi for Litteratur og Ytringsfrihet) is a Norwegian institution, founded in 2003, and also called Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson-Akademiet. Its objective is to promote understanding of cultures other than our own and for literary free speech.
The Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl The Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl (Det Norske Akademis Pris til minne om Thorleif Dahl) is awarded annually by the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature (Det Norske Akademi for Sprog og Litteratur). The prize is given in recognition of the eminent literature, poetry or nonfictional work written in riksmĂĄl, or to the foremost translation to riksmĂĄl of fiction or nonfiction.
The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature The Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature (Den norske Kritikerprisen for litteratur or Kritikerprisen) is awarded by the Norwegian Literature Critics Association (Norsk Litteraturkritikerlag) and has been awarded every year since 1950. The prize is presented to a Norwegian author for a literary work as agreed to among the members of the Norsk Litteraturkritikerlag.
The Norwegian Writers' Center The Norwegian Writers' Center (Norsk Forfattersentrum) is an organization of Norwegian poets and fiction writers that encourages interactions among writers and the general public. It is funded by the The Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and promotes literacy through poetry readings, public talks, conferences, presentations in schools, and cultural events.
The Nose The Nose is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol, subsequently made into an opera by Dmitri Shostakovich. A short film based on the story was made by Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in 1963 which used pinscreen animation.
The Nose (opera) The Nose (, Nos in transliteration) is a satirical opera by Dmitri Shostakovich to a Russian libretto by the composer and Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, Alexander Preis, based on a story with the same name by Nikolai Gogol. First performance: Maliy Opera Theatre, Leningrad, 18 January 1930.
The Nothing The Nothing is an experimental band from Long Island, New York. The group was formed in 2006 by Arnaud & Atrachji (the members of the Nothing usually refer to themselves by their last names), before the 2006 school year was started.
The Notorious Notations The Notorious Notations is an accompanying book to A Series of Unfortunate Events, a book series by Lemony Snicket. It has quotes from the series on "almost every page" and is very similar to The Blank Book.
The Nottingham Bluecoat School and Technology College The Nottingham Bluecoat School and Technology College (TNBS) is a Church of England secondary school in Aspley, Nottingham, United Kingdom whose history dates back to 1706. The school currently has 1500 students aged 11-18 (years 7 to 11 in the main school, and years 12 and 13 in the separate 6th form building).
The Now (band) the Now was a Hardcore joke band formed from by members of Joshua Fit For Battle and Neil Perry. They released a one-sided LP on Robotic Empire in 2000 and went on one tour, but their LP has seen several represses and remains sought-after today.
The Now (Band) The Now are an Australian Band that were formed in 1995. They have recorded two albums (The NOW-1996) and (Live 4 The NOW-1999) Two of the bands members (Darren and Siobion) recorded an EP in 1994 called "Body Parts" which has received some airplay.
The Now Explosion Music Video Program - 1970 In 1968 and 1969, broadcaster Bob Whitney experimented with then novel television production techniques by renting studio facilities in major US cities and recording sample modules synchronized to popular records.
The Nritarutya Dance Collective The Nritarutya Dance Collective is a dance group hailing from Bangalore, India led by Mayuri Upadhya. They describe themselves as "A group of young dancers from diverse backgrounds of dance and martial arts on a journey together, exploring new avenues while staying rooted in the traditional.
The Nuclear Threat Initiative The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) is a public charity founded in 2001 by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn in the United States, which exists to strengthen global security by reducing the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, and also to reduce the risk that they will actually be used.
The Nude Bomb The Nude Bomb (also known as The Return of Maxwell Smart or Maxwell Smart and the Nude Bomb) was a 1980 comedy film based on the television series Get Smart. It starred Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, and was directed by Clive Donner.
The Nueva School The Nueva School is a Pre-K through 8th grade private school in Hillsborough, CA for gifted and talented children. Nueva was founded in 1967 by Karen Stone McCown and is located in a former Crocker family mansion known as Skyfarm.
The Nugget The Nugget is a tale about a group of three roadworkers who stumble upon the world's biggest nugget, and become instant millionaires - or so they think. The roadworkers are mates from way back, and each weekend they go out to an old goldmining site hoping to strike it rich.
The Nuggets The Nuggets are a 5-piece covers band based in Peterborough, who specialise in popular music from the 1960's covering everything from The Beatles to The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band, The Who to The Kinks and everything in between. Their website can be found here.
The Number 1 Homestead on the Lenina Street, Vynohrad The Number 1 Homestead on the Lenina Street in Vynohrad, a village in the Lysiansky Raion (district)) of the Cherkasy Oblast (province), Ukraine, is one of the most beautiful and memorable places in the world for people who grew up or lived there for some parts of their lives.
The Number of the Beast (song) "The Number of the Beast" is Iron Maiden's seventh single and the second single from Iron Maiden's 1982 album of the same name. The song is inspired by a nightmare bandleader and bassist Steve Harris had after watching the movie "Damien: Omen II".
The Number Painter's victim The Number Painter's victim is a secondary human character in the children's television program, Sesame Street. The victim was played by Stockard Channing, a versatile and talented stage actress and movie star, also famous as First Lady Abbey Bartlet on the television drama The West Wing.
The Number Twelve Looks Like You The Number Twelve Looks Like You(Simply called The Number Twelve) is a six-piece mathcore band from Bergen County, New Jersey. Eclectic influences result in a calculated mixture of extreme metal, fusing elements of death metal, grindcore, jazz, and hardcore.
The Numbskulls The Numbskulls (aka HyperzombieNumbSkulls) were an influential acid house band hailing from Boulder, Colorado in the early to mid 1980’s. Influenced by the Madchester style of music of the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, as well as punk/new wave stalwarts New Order and The Cure, the Numbskulls catalogue included whimsical lyrics juxtapositioned against repetitive keyboards, trance-like drumming, melodic vocals and quirky punk guitar hooks.
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