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name
One or more words designating an individual entity. The names of certain specific people, places, and things, called proper nouns, are capitalized. Types of names include personal names (Christopher, Nancy), place-names (London, Nairobi), titles of works of art (Mona Lisa, Paradise Lost), brand names (Sanka, Vaseline), names of historical events or eras (War of the Roses, Renaissance), and political, artistic, or philosophical movements (Progressivism, Cubism). Personal names may pass from one culture to another, often changing form--Jochanan (Hebrew), Johann (German), John (English), Ian (Scottish), etc. Family names (surnames) are of more recent origin; the conventions that govern them have existed only since the 11th cent. Many hereditary family names came from given names--for example, Alfred, the son of John, might be called Alfred Johnson. Others came from place-names or occupations--Henri from the town of Avignon might become Henri d'Avignon, and Robert, a blacksmith, might become Robert Smith.
NBC
Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., GE, and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. Directed by RCA's president D. Sarnoff, it became wholly owned by RCA in 1930. NBC was initially divided into the semi-independent Blue Network, based on station WJZ, and the Red Network, based on WEAF, each with links to stations in other cities. By 1938 the Red Network carried 75% of NBC's programs. The Blue Network was sold in 1941 and became the Amer. Broadcasting Co. (ABC). NBC continued to lead the networks with its popular comedy, variety, and drama programs, but in the late 1940s it lost several leading performers to CBS in a talent raid. NBC entered television broadcasting in a weakened position, and by 1952 it trailed CBS in audience ratings, though it gradually regained its leading position. In 1986 RCA was sold to GE; in 1987 NBC sold its radio networks.
Nemi
Crater lake in the Alban Hills, southeast of Rome, Italy. Its area is about 0.67 sq mi (1.7 sq km), and it is 110 ft (34 m) deep. Nearby were a temple and grove sacred to the goddess Diana. Two ships from the period of the emperor Caligula were raised from the bottom of the lake in the 1920s but were burned by the retreating German army in 1944.
Nome
Seaport (pop., 1990: 4,000), W Alaska, on the S side of the Seward Peninsula. Founded as a miner's camp called Anvil City after the discovery of gold at nearby Anvil Creek in 1898, it became a center of the Alaskan gold rush of 1899-1903. Its population, estimated at 20,000 in 1900, had dwindled to 852 by 1920. Gold mining remained the chief occupation until the dredge fields were closed in 1962. The finish line for the Iditarod trail race, it also serves as a supply center for NW Alaska.
Abuja
City (pop., 1995 est.: 423,000), federal capital of Nigeria. Construction of the ...
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