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(Encyclopedia) New Galicia: see Nueva Galicia.

(Encyclopedia) New Lanark, Scotland: see Lanark.

(Encyclopedia) New Sarum, England: see Salisbury. ...

(Encyclopedia) New Spain: see Mexico, country.

(Encyclopedia) New Territories: see Hong Kong.

(Encyclopedia) New England Confederation, union for “mutual safety and welfare” formed in 1643 by representatives of the colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. They met in Boston an...

(Encyclopedia) Tweed, William Marcy, 1823–78, American politician and Tammany leader, b. New York City. A bookkeeper, he became (1848) a volunteer fireman and as a result acquired influence in his ward. He was an ...

(Encyclopedia) New Alesund, town, Spitsbergen: see Ny-Ålesund. ...

(Encyclopedia) New Laws: see Las Casas, Bartolomé de. ...

(Encyclopedia) Nagin, Ray (Clarence Ray Nagin, Jr.), 1956–, African-American politician, b. New Orleans. A Louisiana cable-television executive before entering politics, Nagin won the 2002 mayoral election handily...