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New Castle

(Encyclopedia)New Castle. 1 City (1990 pop. 4,837), New Castle co., N Del., on the Delaware River. Mineral, metal, food, paper, and gypsum products are among its varied manufactures. It is also a major book distrib...

new objectivity

(Encyclopedia)new objectivity (Ger. Neue Sachlichkeit), German art movement of the 1920s. The chief painters of the movement were George Grosz and Otto Dix, who were sometimes called verists. They created styles of...

Sierra Madre, mountain system, Mexico

(Encyclopedia)Sierra Madre dĕl so͝orˈ [key] is a tumbled, broken mass of uptilted mountains that touch the Pacific coast but form into no clearly defined range. It spreads over S Mexico between the volcanic belt...

New Castile

(Encyclopedia)New Castile, Spain: see Castile.

New Galicia

(Encyclopedia)New Galicia: see Nueva Galicia.

New Lanark

(Encyclopedia)New Lanark, Scotland: see Lanark.

New Sarum

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

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