Negeri Sembilan, state (negeri), southwestern Peninsular (West) Malaysia (Malaya), bounded by the states of Selangor (northwest), Pahang (north), Johor (east), and Melaka (south). Its area of is drained by the Linggi and Mirar rivers and has a 30-mile (48-km) coastline on the Strait of Malacca. Its

Giuditta Pasta was the reigning Italian soprano of her time, acclaimed for her vocal range and expressiveness. She studied with Bonifazio Asioli and Giuseppe Scappa at Milan and made her debut there in 1815 in Scappa’s Le tre Eleonore. She gave a brilliant performance in 1821 at the Théâtre-Italien

antiglobalization: The antiglobalization movement: Michael Hardt and Toni Negri used the term multitude to describe the antiglobalization movement as a whole of singularities that act in common, a decentred authority, a polyphonic dialogue, a constituent cooperative power of a global democracy from below, an open-source society, and a direct democratic government by…

Juan Negrín López was the Republican prime minister (1937–39) of Spain who held office during the last two years of the Spanish Civil War. He was a determined wartime leader but was forced to rely heavily on communist support during his time in power. His policies as prime minister have been the

Philippines: Ethnic groups: …of the islands were the Negritos, a term referring collectively to numerous peoples of dark skin and small stature, including the Aeta, Ita, Agta, and others. Those communities now constitute only a tiny percentage of the total population. From the 10th century, contacts with China resulted in a group of…

Negritude, literary movement of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation. Its leading figure was Léopold Sédar Senghor (elected first president of the Republic of

Negritude, literary movement of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation. Its leading figure was Léopold Sédar Senghor (elected first president of the Republic of

Noble Sissle: From bandleader to mayor of Harlem: Meanwhile, he helped found the Negro Actors Guild of America and became its first president in 1937. In 1950 he assumed the honorary post of mayor of Harlem.

baseball: Segregation: …in that decade, and the Negro American League, formed in 1936, ultimately had Eastern and Western divisions that in 1952 played a Negro East-West game. Among the most famous players in the various Negro leagues were Josh Gibson (who was credited with hitting 89 home runs in one season), Satchel…

burrower bug: Sometimes the subfamily Thyreocorinae is elevated to the family level (Thyreocoridae). Its members, slightly smaller than those of the burrower-bug subfamily Cydninae, at one time were commonly called negro bugs but are now called thyreocorids. They are found on vegetation, flowers, and fruits, especially raspberries. These are usually…

John H. Johnson: …1942 he began publication of Negro Digest. Its first issue sold some 3,000 copies, and within a year the monthly circulation was 50,000. From that beginning, Johnson launched Ebony, a general-interest magazine catering to an African American audience, in 1945. Ebony’s initial pressrun of 25,000 copies was completely sold out.…

baseball: Segregation: …Negro National League and the Negro Eastern League played in New York City, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City (Missouri), Detroit, and other cities that had absorbed a large influx of African Americans from the South during and after World War I. In the 1920s a Negro World Series was begun…

African American English (AAE), a language variety that has also been identified at different times in dialectology and literary studies as Black English, black dialect, and Negro (nonstandard) English. Since the late 1980s, the term has been used ambiguously, sometimes with reference to only

Regina M. Anderson: …Krigwa Players evolved into the Negro Experimental Theatre (also known as the Harlem Experimental Theatre), which in 1931 produced Anderson’s one-act play Climbing Jacob’s Ladder, about a lynching that happened while people prayed in church. The next year the theatre produced her one-act play Underground, about the Underground Railroad. Both…

Matthew Alexander Henson: Henson’s account of the journey, A Negro Explorer at the North Pole, appeared in 1912. The following year, by order of Pres. William Howard Taft, Henson was appointed a clerk in the U.S. Customs House in New York City, a post he held until his retirement in 1936. Henson received…

Daniel Patrick Moynihan: …the Department of Labor, cowrote The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, popularly called the Moynihan Report, which held that many of the educational problems of American blacks resulted from the instability of black urban families. The report caused a storm of controversy and made Moynihan famous. He became…

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: …the first president of the Negro Fellowship League, which aided newly arrived migrants from the South. In 1913 she founded what may have been the first Black women’s suffrage group, Chicago’s Alpha Suffrage Club. From 1913 to 1916 she served as a probation officer of the Chicago municipal court. She…

Black History Month: Together they organized a Negro History Week, beginning in February 1926. They selected the month of February for this celebration because it was close to the birthdays of U.S. Pres. Abraham Lincoln, who had been responsible for the Emancipation Proclamation, and the African American orator and abolitionist Frederick Douglass

Archibald Motley: Career: …was compelled to write “The Negro in Art,” an essay on the limitations placed on Black artists that was printed in the July 6, 1918, edition of the influential Chicago Defender, a newspaper by and for African Americans. The long and violent Chicago race riot of 1919, though it…

Charles Spurgeon Johnson: His first important writing, The Negro in Chicago (1922), was a sociological study of the race riot in that city in July 1919. His research technique, called “community self-survey of race relations,” facilitated the gathering of sociological data and interpretations from both blacks and whites. After directing research for…

Negro league, any of the associations of African American baseball teams active largely between 1920 and the late 1940s, when Black players were at last contracted to play major and minor league baseball. The principal Negro leagues were the Negro National League (1920–31, 1933–48), the Eastern

Negro league: Legacy: In 1990 the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum opened in Kansas City, Missouri.

the Green Book, travel guide published (1936–67) during the segregation era in the United States that identified businesses that would accept African American customers. Compiled by Victor Hugo Green (1892–1960), a Black postman who lived in the Harlem section of New York City, the Green Book

Negro league: The Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League: Foster was a visionary who dreamed that the champion of his Black major league would play the best of the white league clubs in an interracial world series. His original plan called for a Black major league…

Aleksandr Pushkin: The early years: …novel, Arap Petra Velikogo (1827; The Negro of Peter the Great). Like many aristocratic families in early 19th-century Russia, Pushkin’s parents adopted French culture, and he and his brother and sister learned to talk and to read in French. They were left much to the care of their maternal grandmother,…

Talented Tenth: …first appeared in Du Bois’ The Negro Problem (New York, 1903).

American civil rights movement, mass protest movement against racial segregation and discrimination in the southern United States that came to national prominence during the mid-1950s. This movement had its roots in the centuries-long efforts of enslaved Africans and their descendants to resist

Nicaragua: Drainage: …the most important are the Negro and Estero Real rivers, which empty into the Gulf of Fonseca, and the Tamarindo River, which flows into the Pacific.

Negro River, major tributary of the Amazon. It originates in several headstreams, including the Vaupés (Mapés) and the Guainía, which rise in the rain forest of eastern Colombia. The Guainía flows east and then arches northeast and southeast, forming the Colombian–Venezuelan border. Below its

Negro River, river, southern Argentina, whose major headstreams, the Neuquén and the Limay, rise in the Andes Mountains near the Chilean border. At Neuquén city they meet to form the Negro, which flows generally east-southeastward across northern Patagonia and empties into the Atlantic Ocean

Negro River, river in Uruguay, rising in the southern highlands of Brazil just east of Bagé. The Negro flows southwestward into Uruguay, where it is dammed near Paso de los Toros to create the Rincón del Bonete Reservoir (also called the Gabriel Terra Reservoir or the Rio Negro Reservoir), which is

Chixoy River, river in central Guatemala, rising as the Negro River in the southern part of the Altos (mountains) Cuchumatanes, west of Huehuetenango. First flowing eastward, it forms part of the borders between the Quiché and Huehuetenango regions and between Quiché and Baja Verapaz. Southwest of

Carlton Moss: …wrote, directed, and appeared in The Negro Soldier (1944), a training film aimed at fostering African American patriotism and racial harmony. Its portrayal of the heroism and dignity of its black characters is regarded as a touchstone of African American filmmaking. Moss collaborated on the script for director Elia Kazan’s…

Negro league: The Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League: A few weeks later the Negro Southern League was organized with clubs in the large cities of the South; however, it was regarded as a minor circuit during its on-again, off-again life over the next 30 years.

The Negro Speaks of Rivers, poem in free verse by Langston Hughes, published in the June 1921 issue of The Crisis, the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It is Hughes’s first acclaimed poem and is a panegyric to people of Black African origin throughout

spiritual, in North American white and black folk music, an English-language folk hymn. White spirituals include both revival and camp-meeting songs and a smaller number of other hymns. They derived variously, notably from the “lining out” of psalms, dating from at least the mid-17th century. Where

the Green Book, travel guide published (1936–67) during the segregation era in the United States that identified businesses that would accept African American customers. Compiled by Victor Hugo Green (1892–1960), a Black postman who lived in the Harlem section of New York City, the Green Book

African American literature: Playwrights and editors: …published young Black writers in Negro World, the organ of Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association, provided significant visibility for New Negro writers. Anthologies, particularly of poetry, abounded during the Harlem Renaissance, enhancing the literary reputations of both the writers represented in them and their editors. The editors included James…

baseball: Segregation: In the 1920s a Negro World Series was begun and was held annually until the Negro leagues failed in the 1930s. A second Negro National League was founded late in that decade, and the Negro American League, formed in 1936, ultimately had Eastern and Western divisions that in 1952…

African Americans, one of the largest of the many ethnic groups in the United States. African Americans are mainly of African ancestry, but many have non-Black ancestors as well. African Americans are largely the descendants of enslaved people who were brought from their African homelands by force

Euboea, island, the largest in Greece, after Crete (Modern Greek: Kríti). It is located in the Central Greece (Stereá Elláda) periféreia (region), in the Aegean Sea. It lies along the coasts of the periféreies (regions) of Western Greece (Dytikí Elláda), Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos), and Attica

John Negroponte is an American diplomat, who served as ambassador to a number of countries, including Honduras (1981–85) and Iraq (2004–05), and was the U.S. representative to the United Nations (UN; 2001–04) before being named the first director of national intelligence (DNI; 2005–07). The son of

John Negroponte is an American diplomat, who served as ambassador to a number of countries, including Honduras (1981–85) and Iraq (2004–05), and was the U.S. representative to the United Nations (UN; 2001–04) before being named the first director of national intelligence (DNI; 2005–07). The son of

Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect and computer scientist who was the founding director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and founded One Laptop per Child (OLPC). Negroponte gained fame with his book Being Digital (1995), which predicted a future in which

Negros, island, one of the Visayan Islands, central Philippines. It is separated from the island of Panay to the northwest by the Guimaras Strait and from Cebu island to the east by Tanon Strait. The island is bordered on the north and south by the Visayan and Sulu seas, respectively. Negros is

Fernando Ortiz: In 1906 he published Los negros brujos (“Black Sorcerers”), his first book on the subject, and in 1916 Los negros esclavos (“Black Slaves”), in which he studies Cuban blacks according to the region of Africa from which they came. His Un catauro de cubanismos (1923; “A Load of Cubanisms”)…

Fernando Ortiz: …the subject, and in 1916 Los negros esclavos (“Black Slaves”), in which he studies Cuban blacks according to the region of Africa from which they came. His Un catauro de cubanismos (1923; “A Load of Cubanisms”) identifies the African origins of many words used in Cuba, as well as the…

Muḥammad Naguib was an Egyptian army officer and statesman who played a prominent role in the revolutionary overthrow of King Farouk I in 1952. He twice served as president (June 18, 1953–February 25, 1954 and February 27–November 14, 1954) of Egypt. A professional soldier, Naguib distinguished

Jean Negulesco was a Romanian-born artist and director who first gained notice for his film noirs and later made such notable movies as Johnny Belinda (1948), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), and Three Coins in the Fountain (1954). While still a teenager, Negulesco left Romania and moved to

Sapindales: Distribution and abundance: …placed in a separate genus, Negundo. Another former member of Aceraceae is Dipteronia, a genus of central and southern China with two species.

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), an independent agency of the U.S. government that supports research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. It was created by the U.S. Congress in the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965. The

Nehanda, Shona spirit who uses women as her mediums. The mediums are then given the title Nehanda or Mbuya Nehanda (mbuya being the Shona word for “grandmother” and a title of respect). Nehanda is a mhondoro (a powerful and revered ancestral spirit) based in central and northern Mashonaland in

Charwe was one of the major spiritual leaders of African resistance to white rule during the late 19th century in what is now Zimbabwe. She was considered to be a medium of Nehanda, a female Shona mhondoro (powerful and revered ancestral spirit). Charwe was born among the Shona people, one of

history of Mesopotamia: The Parthian period: …where they joined their coreligionists; Nehardea, north of Ctesiphon, became a centre of Jewish population. Naturally also many migrants from the east came to Mesopotamia in the wake of the Parthian occupation. With many merchants from east and west passing through or remaining in Mesopotamia, the population became more diverse…

Battle of Nahāvand, (ad 642), military clash in Iran between Arab and Sāsānian forces that was a major turning point in Iranian history. The battle ended in disastrous defeat for the Sāsānian armies and paved the way for the Arab conquest, which resulted in the Islamization of Iran. At Nahāvand

Nehemiah was a Jewish leader who supervised the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the mid-5th century bce after his release from captivity by the Persian king Artaxerxes I. He also instituted extensive moral and liturgical reforms in rededicating the Jews to Yahweh. Nehemiah was the cupbearer to King

biblical literature: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles: The final books of the Hebrew Bible are the books of Chronicles and Ezra–Nehemiah, which once formed a unitary history of Israel from Adam to the 4th century bce, written by an anonymous Chronicler. That these books constituted a single work—referred to…

Nehemiah was a Jewish leader who supervised the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the mid-5th century bce after his release from captivity by the Persian king Artaxerxes I. He also instituted extensive moral and liturgical reforms in rededicating the Jews to Yahweh. Nehemiah was the cupbearer to King

biblical literature: Ezra, Nehemiah, and Chronicles: The final books of the Hebrew Bible are the books of Chronicles and Ezra–Nehemiah, which once formed a unitary history of Israel from Adam to the 4th century bce, written by an anonymous Chronicler. That these books constituted a single work—referred to…

Erwin Neher is a German physicist who was a corecipient, with Bert Sakmann, of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their research into basic cell function and for the development of the patch-clamp technique, a laboratory method that can detect the very small electrical currents

Meïr was a rabbi who was among the greatest of the tannaim, the group of some 225 masters of the Jewish Oral Law that flourished in Palestine for roughly the first 200 years ad. He continued the work of his teacher, Rabbi Akiba, in compiling by subject the Halakhot (laws) that came to be

Motilal Nehru: …he wrote the Congress Party’s Nehru Report, a future constitution for independent India based on the granting of dominion status. After the British rejected these proposals, Motilal participated in the civil disobedience movement of 1930 that was related to the Salt March, for which he was imprisoned. He died soon…

Indira Gandhi was an Indian politician who was the first female prime minister of India, serving for three consecutive terms (1966–77) and a fourth term from 1980 until she was assassinated in 1984. (Read Indira Gandhi’s 1975 Britannica essay on global underprivilege.) Indira Nehru was the only

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister of independent India (1947–64), who established parliamentary government and became noted for his neutralist (nonaligned) policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of the Indian Independence Movement during the 1930s and

Motilal Nehru was a leader of the Indian independence movement, cofounder of the Swaraj (“Self-rule”) Party, and the father of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Motilal, a member of a prosperous Brahman family of Kashmiri origin, early established a lucrative law practice and was

Jawaharlal Nehru was the first prime minister of independent India (1947–64), who established parliamentary government and became noted for his neutralist (nonaligned) policies in foreign affairs. He was also one of the principal leaders of the Indian Independence Movement during the 1930s and

Motilal Nehru was a leader of the Indian independence movement, cofounder of the Swaraj (“Self-rule”) Party, and the father of India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Motilal, a member of a prosperous Brahman family of Kashmiri origin, early established a lucrative law practice and was

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was an Indian political leader and diplomat, one of the world’s leading women in public life in the 20th century. She was the daughter of Motilal Nehru, a wealthy and aristocratic nationalist leader, and sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent

Delhi Pact, pact made on April 8, 1950, following the escalation of tension between India and Pakistan in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) after economic relations between the two countries had been severed in December 1949. An estimated one million people—Hindus from East Pakistan and Muslims from

Baltic Sea: Coastal features: A series of long shingle bars (Nehrungen), capped by moving sand dunes, has been built up there, cutting off the distinctive shallow lagoons (Haffs) from the open sea. Examples are the west-east spit of Darsser-Ort, on the island of Rügen, and the link (near Świnoujście, Poland) between the islands…

Saina Nehwal is the first Indian badminton player to win an Olympic medal. During the 2012 Olympic Games in London, she captured the women’s singles bronze medal. She has won more than 20 titles internationally, and in 2016 she received India’s third highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan.

Taoism: Taoist contributions to Chinese science: …earliest surviving medical book, the Huangdineijing, or “The Yellow Emperor’s Esoteric Classic” (c. 3rd century bce), presents itself as the teachings of a legendary Celestial Master addressed to the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi).

Inner Mongolia, autonomous region of China. It is a vast territory that stretches in a great crescent for some 1,490 miles (2,400 km) across northern China. It is bordered to the north by Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) and Russia; to the east by the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and

Inner Mongolia, autonomous region of China. It is a vast territory that stretches in a great crescent for some 1,490 miles (2,400 km) across northern China. It is bordered to the north by Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) and Russia; to the east by the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and

Neijiang, city, southeastern Sichuan sheng (province), south-central China. Situated on the Tuo River, it is also at the junction of the Chengdu-Chongqing railway and the southern branchline to Yibin (later extended to Kunming, Yunnan province). These railways were completed in the 1950s and made

Inner Mongolia, autonomous region of China. It is a vast territory that stretches in a great crescent for some 1,490 miles (2,400 km) across northern China. It is bordered to the north by Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) and Russia; to the east by the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and

Neiba, city, southwestern Dominican Republic, in the lowlands between the eastern shore of Lake Enriquillo and the Yaque del Sur River. It was founded about the beginning of the 18th century. Sugarcane and fine timber are the principal products of the area; rock salt and gypsum deposits in

Dominican Republic: Relief, drainage, and soils: …to the south is the Sierra de Neiba, which corresponds to the Matheux and Trou d’Eau mountains of Haiti; its high peaks reach approximately 7,200 feet (2,200 metres). Water flowing off the Neiba range drains partly to the Caribbean, via the Yaque del Sur system, and partly inland, to saline…

Taoism: Alchemical developments: …interest in internal alchemy (neidan), in which the language of the laboratory was used to describe operations realized within the body. This, in a sense, was nothing new. Alchemical metaphors had very early been applied to physiology; Ge Hong, for example, called semen the “yin elixir.” By Song times,…

Neidhart von Reuenthal was a late medieval German knightly poet who, in the period of the decline of the courtly love lyric, introduced a new genre called höfische Dorfpoesie (“courtly village poetry”). It celebrated, in dancing songs, the poet’s love of village maidens rather than noble ladies.

Peeblesshire: …the best-preserved is that of Neidpath Castle, a 15th-century stronghold of the Frasers just outside the royal burgh of Peebles. The county is closely associated with the legend of Merlin and has provided background and other material for Sir Walter Scott, James Hogg, and other writers. The growth of woolen…

China: Later innovations: …quickly evolved into a stable Grand Secretariat (Neige) through which emperors guided and responded to the ministries and other central government agencies. Similarly, the need for coordinating provincial-level affairs led to delegating high-ranking central government dignitaries to serve as regional commanders (zongbing guan) and governor-like grand coordinators (xunfu) in the…

Jura Mountains: …the Geneva area, and include Crêt de la Neige (5,636 feet [1,718 metres]) and Le Reculet (5,633 feet [1,717 metres]), both in France, and Mount Tendre and La Dôle, both more than 5,500 feet (1,680 metres), in Switzerland. Toward the northeast and along the outer ridges of the arc, the…

Réunion: Land: …feet (2,740 metres), including the Piton des Neiges (10,069 feet [3,069 metres]). The massif is encircled by several wide basins and a series of smaller plateaus. In the eastern part of the island is an area of more recent volcanism, and in the extreme east is the mountain Le Volcan,…

Lugenia Burns Hope: …an American social reformer whose Neighborhood Union and other community service organizations improved the quality of life for blacks in Atlanta, Ga., and served as a model for the future Civil Rights Movement.

Zac Efron: Rehab and Neighbors: …starring in the frat-boy comedy Neighbors alongside Seth Rogen, who praised Efron for his strong work ethic. Efron also produced his first movie, That Awkward Moment (2014), in which he also starred with Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller as friends trying to enjoy being single.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: First plays: …New York staged Jacobs-Jenkins’s play Neighbors, in which the Crows, a Black family adorned in blackface, move to the suburbs next door to an interracial couple and their daughter. The play reflected Jacobs-Jenkins’s interest in minstrelsy and became a cause célèbre; The New York Times interviewed attendees who walked out…

John G. Avildsen: …adaptation of Thomas Berger’s novel Neighbors (1981), starring John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, was also a critical and commercial disappointment, as was the romance A Night in Heaven (1983).

Zac Efron: Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile and other movies from the late 2010s: …Dave Need Wedding Dates, and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (all 2016). He returned to musicals in 2017 with The Greatest Showman, the popular film about American showman P. T. Barnum (played by Hugh Jackman). In the movie Efron demonstrated his singing skills, performing with Zendaya on one of the movie’s…

shoveler: The northern shoveler (A. clypeata) nests in North America, Europe, and northern Asia, migrating to South America, North Africa, and southern Asia in winter. The male has a green head, a white breast, a chestnut belly and chestnut sides, and a blue patch on the forewing.…

evolution: Distance methods: …of this kind is called neighbour-joining. The method starts, as before, by identifying the smallest distance in the matrix and linking the two taxa involved. The next step is to remove these two taxa and calculate a new matrix in which their distances to other taxa are replaced by the…

neighbourhood, immediate geographical area surrounding a family’s place of residence, bounded by physical features of the environment such as streets, rivers, train tracks, and political divisions. Neighbourhoods also typically involve a strong social component, characterized by social interaction

neighbourhood association, organized group whose aim is to address local issues, such as education reform, crime, or homelessness, to promote or prevent planned reforms and investments that are perceived as significantly influencing life in a neighbourhood or local community. Neighbourhood

social settlement, a neighbourhood social welfare agency. The main purpose of a social settlement is the development and improvement of a neighbourhood or cluster of neighbourhoods. It differs from other social agencies in being concerned with neighbourhood life as a whole rather than with

shopping centre: Shopping centres are generally of neighbourhood, community, or regional scope. The smallest type, the neighbourhood centre, usually has a supermarket as a focus, with daily convenience shops such as a drugstore, shoe repair, laundry, and dry cleaner accompanying it. At the opposite end of the size spectrum is the Mall…

Mozambique: The arts: …later published in English as Neighbours: The Story of a Murder (2001).

John G. Neihardt was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer who described the history of Native Americans, especially the Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) people. His best-known works are Black Elk Speaks (1932), an autobiography of the Oglala Lakota warrior and holy man Black Elk, and A Cycle of

John G. Neihardt was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer who described the history of Native Americans, especially the Oceti Sakowin (Sioux) people. His best-known works are Black Elk Speaks (1932), an autobiography of the Oglala Lakota warrior and holy man Black Elk, and A Cycle of

The Pirate Bay: …operators of The Pirate Bay, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and Peter Sunde, and businessman Carl Lundström, who had supplied servers and bandwidth to the site, were charged with copyright infringement, and in April 2009 they were sentenced to one year in prison and the payment of a fine of…

Neijiang, city, southeastern Sichuan sheng (province), south-central China. Situated on the Tuo River, it is also at the junction of the Chengdu-Chongqing railway and the southern branchline to Yibin (later extended to Kunming, Yunnan province). These railways were completed in the 1950s and made