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New Sarum

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

New Spain

(Encyclopedia)New Spain: see Mexico, country.

New Sweden

(Encyclopedia)New Sweden, Swedish colony (1638–55), on the Delaware River; included parts of what are now Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. With the support of Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna, Admiral Kl...

New Territories

(Encyclopedia)New Territories: see Hong Kong.

New Testament

(Encyclopedia)New Testament, the distinctively Christian portion of the Bible, consisting of 27 books of varying lengths dating from the earliest Christian period. The seven epistles whose authorship by St. Paul is...

New Thought

(Encyclopedia)New Thought, popular philosophical movement with religious implications; it affirms “the creative power of constructive thinking.” A successor of New England transcendentalism, New Thought grew ou...

New Toronto

(Encyclopedia)New Toronto tərŏnˈtō [key], part of metropolitan Toronto, S Ont., Canada, on Lake Ontario. ...

new towns

(Encyclopedia)new towns, planned urban communities in Great Britain, developed by long-term loans from the central government and first authorized by the New Towns Act of 1946. The chief purpose of the act was to r...

New Ulm

(Encyclopedia)New Ulm ŭlm [key], city (1990 pop. 13,132), seat of Brown co., S Minn., at the confluence of the Minnesota and Cottonwood rivers; inc. as a city 1876. It is a processing and trade center for an agric...

New Waterford

(Encyclopedia)New Waterford, town (1991 pop. 7,695), on NE Cape Breton Island, N.S., Canada, NE of Sydney. A former coal-mining center in a region that saw the last mine close in 2001, New Waterford experienced ste...