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N Fourteenth letter of the 

 English and Latin alpha- 

 bets, one of the nasal con- 

 sonants. In the combination ng it 

 has a marked nasal sound in words 

 like lei ni/. xiiig, to some extent com- 

 parable with the sound heard in 

 the French mon, non. Otherwise 

 it is pronounced as in can, neck. 

 It Is mute at the end of words after 

 m, as in column, hymn, solemn. See 

 Alphabet ; Phonetics. 



Naas. Urban dist. and market 

 town of co. Kildare, Ireland. It 

 stands on the G.S. and W. Rly. and 



, w the Grand Canal, 



and near the Lif- 

 fey, 20 m. from 

 Dublin. It is sup- 

 posed to have 

 been the capital 

 of the kings of 

 Leinster, while 

 after the English 

 conquest it had 

 a castle and an abbey, and was 

 represented in the Irish Parlia- 

 ment. Near is Punchestown (q.v. ). 

 Market days, Mon. and Thurs. 

 Pop. 4,100. Pron. Nace. 



Naas. ViHam- of Sweden, in the 

 Ian or govt. of Goteborg, 20 m. by 

 rly. N.E. of the seaport of Gothen- 

 Imti?. it is the seat of the Abra- 

 hamson school of handicrafts. 



Nabeul. City in the N.E. of 

 Tunisia renowned for ife manu- 

 facture of perfumes and essences. 

 It is situated in a fertile district 

 producing oranges, lemons, and 

 flowers, which are grown for the 

 Huropcan markets. Pop. 11,000. 

 Nabha. Native state and town 

 of the Punjab, India, and one of 

 the Phulkian states. The state has 

 an annual rainfall of 18 ins. and 



Naas arms 



grows native food grains. The 

 town was founded in 1755 by 

 Hamir Singh. Since irrigation has 

 been in use from the Sirhind Canal 

 the soil has become waterlogged 

 and the town unhealthy. Area 

 928 sq. m. Pop. state, 249,000 : 

 town, 13,600. See Phulkian States. 



Nablus OB NABLOOS. Town of 

 Palestine, 28 m. N. of Jerusalem. 

 As Sheohem, it is frequently men- 

 tioned in the O.T. Abimelech, the 

 son of Gideon, destroyed the city ; 

 later it was rebuilt, and became 

 the capital of Jeroboam, but was 

 eventually deserted. Vespasian 

 built a new town on the site, and 

 called it Flavia Neapolis, the 

 modern title being a corruption of 

 the second word. According to 

 tradition Jacob was buried in 

 Shechem.and Jacob's Well is shown 

 near Gerizim. It was a holy 

 city of the Samaritans, and the 

 birthplace of Justin Martyr. Be- 

 fore the Great War Nablus was a 

 fairly flourishing town, with a 

 mixed pop. of about 20,000. 

 During the Great War the Turks, 

 after their surrender of Jerusalem, 

 fortified it as a military base. In 

 Sept., 1918, it was taken by 

 Allenby. See Palestine, Conquest of ; 

 Shechem, Battle of. 



Nabob. Title given to the Great 

 Mogul's viceroys, and generally to 

 native rulers and persons of rank 

 in India. In the 18th century 

 nabob was used in England of one 

 who ostentatiously spent a fortune 

 made in the East. It is a corrup- 

 tion of the Hindustani nawab. 



Nabonxlus. Last independent 

 king of Babylon. A usurper of 

 priestly descent, he devoted him- 

 self to temple restoration and re- 



search, incidentally seeking /or and 

 dating the foundation deposits of 

 earlier monarchs. See Babylonia. 



Naboth. Jezreelite who owned 

 a vineyard adjoining the palace of 

 Ahab. When he refused to part 

 with it, Jezebel secured it by causing 

 Naboth and his sons to be executed 

 on a false charge of blasphemy ( 1 

 Kings 21 ). See Ahab. 



Nabua. Town of Luzon, Philip- 

 pine Islands. In the prov. of Ambos 

 Camarines, it stands near the river 

 Bicol, 21 m. S. by E. of Nueva 

 Caceres, with which it is connected 

 by rly. Pop. 19,500. 



Nacelle. Aeronautical term for 

 the body of an aircraft. It usually 

 refers to a body used solely to 

 accommodate the crew and the 

 power plant, and not forming part 

 of the aeroplane structure proper. 

 See Fuselage. 



Nachtigal, GUSTAV (1834-85). 

 German explorer. Born Feb. 23, 

 1834, at Eichstedt, Germany, he 

 qualified in medicine at Halle, and 

 in 1869 was sent on a mission to the 

 Sultan of Bornu. Thence he ex- 

 plored Lake Chad and the Shari 

 river, traversed Wadai, and made 

 his way back to Cairo in 1874. Ten 

 years later he was sent by the Ger- 

 man government to the W. coast of 

 Africa and explored those parts of 

 Togoland and Cameroons which 

 were eventually annexed by Ger- 

 many. He died April 20, 1885. 



Nacion, LA. Daily newspaper of 

 Buenos Aires. It is printed in 

 Spanish, and shares with its rival, 

 La Prensa (q.v.) t the greater part 

 of newspaper circulation and in- 

 fluence in Argentina. Founded 

 by Bartolome Mitre, one of the 

 heroes of the republic, its control 



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