NORDHAUSEN 



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NORFOLK 



Nordhausen. T\\u .f Ger- 



III till- lYll-^l.lll |il 



ami 1'inlt on tin- slnpen i>f tli- 



'- notable luiilditi^'s 11 it- the 

 cathedral, the church of S. HhumiM. 

 and medieval town hall. It has 

 distilleries, breweries, a trade in 

 corn. pork, etc-., and manufacture* 

 <>f ce.emir.ils and tobacco. It be- 

 came Prussian in 1803 Pop. 33,000. 



Nordica, LILLIAN NORTHS 

 1 'it imert in vocalist. Born at 

 ! i; nunu'ton, Maine, May 12, I860, 

 -!n- studied in 

 Koston, and in 

 md and 

 Italv. and in 

 1879 made 

 her successful 

 debut in opera 

 r e s o i a. 

 She sang at 

 Covent G a r- 

 den, 1887-93, 

 and in the 

 leading opera 

 houses of New York and the Euro- 

 pean capitals. Her principal suc- 

 cesses were as Marguerite in Faust 

 and in Wagner roles. She died when 

 on tour, after being shipwrecked 

 off Java, May 10, 1914. 



Nordland. Fylke or co. of Nor- 

 way. It stretches for over 300 m., 

 and has a breadth of less than 60 

 m. It includes in the N. the 

 Lofoten Islands, and the coast is 

 fringed by islets, of which the chief 

 group is the Vikten Islands in the 



Lillian Nordica, 

 American vocaliit 



Elliott* Fry 



' toxvn is Bodft, on the 

 Old luareab I i 

 !'..).. IT.'UXM). 

 Nordlingen. Town of lUvari*. 



It stand* on il 



40 m. from Augsburg and 70 m. 

 fiom Muni f l.mldiiij/H 



are the Gothic church of S. (Jeorge, 

 restored in the 19th century, and 

 the town hall. The town wall* HI ill 

 From about 1220 to 1803 

 N'cudlinu'eii was a free city of tlu> 



empire. Pop. 8,700. 



I Miriiii; the Thirty Yearn' War, 

 two battle* were fought at Nordlin 

 L-eii Iii tin- t'n-vt, Sept. 5 and 0, 

 1634, the Swedish army, with it* 

 German auxiliaries under Bcrnhard 

 of Saxe- Weimar, was routed with 

 heavy loss by the Imperialists. 

 The second battle, Aug. 3, 1640, 

 waa between the French army of 

 Cond6 and Turenne, and the impe- 

 rial army under Franz von Mercy, 

 who was killed in the battle. After 

 severe fighting, Turenne carried t In- 

 day, though it wan but a barren 

 success. See Thirty Years' War. 



Nordstrand. Island of Ger- 

 many. It lies off the W. coast of 

 Schleswig-Holstein, W. of Husum, 

 with which it has steamer con- 

 nexion. Its area is 20 so. m. 



Nord-Trondelag. Fylke or co. 

 of Norway. It is centrally situated, 

 with a small section of the Atlantic 

 coast near the Vikten Islands. 

 Trondhjem Fiord extends almost 

 half-way across the co. from the 

 S.\V. ; Foldcn and Nan sen Fiord-; 



are large indentation* in the N.W 

 Tli>- rlv from Trondbjin reaches 

 st4-nkjaer. The chief town u 

 I^vanger. The area is 8.683 *\. m 



i-,,,, mjm 



Nora, THE. Sandbank in the 

 Thames estuary, England It u 

 about 3 m. N.E. of Sbeeroess and 

 47 m. K. of London. At the K. 

 extremity is the Nore lighuhii*. 

 raa here since 1732. The 

 Nore is generally regarded as mark- 

 ing the mouth of the Thames, and 

 u an important anchorage. The 

 naval mutiny at the Nore took 

 place May 20 to June 13. 1797. 



Nore. River of Ireland. Rising 

 in the N. of co. Tipperary, it flows 

 70 m. S.E. through Queen's co. 

 and co. Kilkenny to the Barrow. 

 \vhidi it enters 2 m. above New 

 Ross. The Nore n tidal to Ini- 

 tioge, 10 m. from ito mouth. 



Norfolk. Eastern and mari- 

 time countv of England, the fourth 

 largest in the country. It baa about 

 90 m. of coast, 

 line on the Wa*h 

 and the North 

 Sea. and an are* 

 of 2,054 sq. m. 

 The surface in 

 the interior is 

 undulating or 

 flat, the latter in 

 the W., whore 

 the fen district enters the county, 

 while along much of the coast 

 it is quite low. and suffers in 

 parts from the encroachments of 



Norfolk arms 



Norfolk. Map o! the maritime county o! Eatt Angus, noted tor airicnltnral produce and eattto-raWac 



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