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NOYON 



Novo RossKsk. Town and port 

 of the Caucasus. It stands on the 

 \ I .lioro of the Black Sea and 

 the Vladikavkaz rly., 60 m. S.W. of 

 i modar. It is much used for 

 shipping petroleum, and export 

 trade is done in wheat, barley, rye, 

 iii.ii/.-, and linseed. Pop. 01,000. 



Novo-Tclu-rkask. Town of 8. 

 Russia and the capital of the Don 

 Cossack territory. It is 25 m. 

 >f Rostov, on the Kosloy- 

 Rostov rly. There is trade in 

 corn, wine, and timber, and im- 

 portant anthracite beds about 20 

 m. north. The Don Museum con- 

 tains Cossack banners, trophies, 

 and the sceptre with which the 

 hetman has been invested since the 

 time of Catherine II. Pop. 67,000. 



Novoyc Vremya (New TIMES). 

 Russian daily newspaper pub- 

 lished in Petrograd. Under the 

 editorship of A. S. Suvorin it 

 became the most widely circulated 

 and profitable political paper in 

 ore-revolutionary Russia. The 

 Russian satirical writer Saltikov 

 (Shchedrin) nicknamed it As You 

 Like It, a tribute to its reflection 

 of the views of changing ministries, 

 its one dominant note before the 

 establishment of the Duma being 

 anti-Semitism, which was modi- 

 fied later, as was its conservatism, 

 in favour of a moderate con- 

 stitutionalism. 



Novozibkov. Town of Central 

 Russia. It is in the govt., and 

 80 m. N.E., of Chernigov, and is 



NowRong. Dint, and town of 

 Assam, India. The dint, lies 8. of 

 ihiiiiiputiii. Although al- 

 most the whole area is cultivable, 

 less than one-tenth is tilled, n. 

 and oil seeds being the chief crop. 

 The town is on the Kalang, a left- 

 bank tributary of the Brahmaputra. 

 The area of tno dist. is 3,843 sq. m. 

 Pop., dist., 304,000 ; town, 5,400. 



Nowra. Town in St. Vincent 

 oo., New South Wales, Australia. 

 It is the terminus of the coast rly., 

 94 m. in length, 8. from Sydney, 

 at the mouth of the ShosJhavcn 

 river. Pop. 1,900. 



Noys. Town of Spain, in the 

 prov. of Corunna. It stands at the 

 mouth of Tambre river at the head 

 of Muros y Nova Bay, 21 m. W. 

 of Santiago de Compostella. Ship- 

 building and fishing are the lead- 

 ing occupations, and there are 

 manufactures of lace, linen, soap, 

 and paper. Pop. 10,000. 



Noyau (Fr., kernel). Liqueur 

 made from the kernels of peach- 

 stones or bitter almonds, brandy, 

 and sugar. Either white or pink, 

 it is a cordial and used for flavour- 

 ing in cookery. It is made in 

 Martinique, and exported from 

 Bordeaux. 



Noyes, ALFRED (b. 1880). Brit- 

 ish poet. Born Sept. 16, 1880, he 

 was educated at Exeter College, 

 Oxford, and published his first 

 book of verse, The Loom of Years, 

 1902. It was followed by others 

 which showed the easy flow of 

 his rnli.urrd iiiul 

 . resonant verse : 

 Drake, an Eng- 

 ish Epic, 1906; 

 : i >rty Singing 

 ieamen, 1907 



Mired Hoyw. 

 Britiib 90* 



He published 

 a study of 

 William Mor- 

 ris, 1908. Later 

 works ha vein 

 eluded Tales 

 of the Mer- 

 maid Tavern, 

 1912; The 

 Wine Press, 

 1913; A Salute 

 from the Fleet, 

 1910 ; The Elfin Artist, 1920 ; and 

 he edited several anthologies. He 

 lectured at the Lowell Institute, 

 Boston, U.S.A., in 1913, and was 

 appointed visiting professor of 

 English literature at Princeton 

 University, 1914. 



Noyon. City of France, in the 

 dept. of Oist. It stands on the 

 Verse, near its junction with the 



Oise, 67 m. from 



Paris. It is 

 famous for its 

 cathedral of 

 Notre Dame, and 

 as the birthplace 

 of Calvin. The 

 cathedral is a 

 Transition build- 

 Noyon arrai j n g with a 

 harmonious and beautiful exterior, 

 although the two W. towers are 

 unfinished. Noyon existed in 

 Roman times, and was made a 

 bishopric before 600. It was one 

 of the Prankish capitals, and here 

 the Prankish kings at times held 

 court, but from about 900 to the 

 Revolution was only important as 

 one of the great French bishoprics. 

 Noyon is familiar to readers of 

 Robert Louis Stevenson's Inland 

 Voyage. Pop. 7,400. 



Noyon was reoccupied by the 



situated at the confluence of the 

 rivers Zibka and Kama on the 

 Zhabinka-Bryansk rly. There are 

 tallow boileries, tanneries, sugar 

 and match factories, and a trade in 

 wax and honey. The inhabitants 

 are chiefly Raskolnika (dissenters). 

 Pop. 22,000. 



Nowgong. Town and canton- 

 ment of Bundelkhand, Central 

 India. It is situated between the 

 British dist. of Hamirpur and 

 the native state of Chhatarpur. 

 Rajkumar College, for the educa- 

 tion of the sons of native chiefs, 

 founded by the chiefs of Bundelk- 

 hand in memory of Lord Mayo, 

 was opened in 1875. Pop. 12,000. 



Noyon, France. Weit towers and tool* noreo oi me cathedral of Notre 



Dame, before the Great War. Too. Utt. ruin* oi the cathedral after the 



bombardment, from the south 



