Ninety-five Theses. 1517. Document Luther nailed to Wittenburg church door. Began Reformation.

Nineveh. c6500BC. Capital of Assyrian Empire 700-612BC.

Nirvana. Hindu and Buddhist final state of freedom.

Nisei. 2nd generation Japanese in US.

Nivelle, Jean. 1422-77. Son of John II who refused to march against Burgundy.

Nixon, Richard. 1913-94. US president 1969-74. Hiss investigation. Checkers. China relations. Vietnam cease-fire. Watergate. Pardoned.

Nkrumah, Kwame. 1909-72. Gold Coast/Ghana Prime Minister 1952-60, President 60-66.

Noah. Biblical figure. Survived flood in ark.

Nobel, Alfred. 1833-96. Swedish. Invented dynamite 1867. Founded Nobel Prize 1901.

Nobel Prize. Nobel legacy funded. Peace Prize and prizes in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature. 1969 +Economics. . Declined: Le Duc Tho, Pasternak, Sartre.

Nobile, Umberto. 1885-1978. Italian general, flew over South Pole in a dirigible, 1926, with Amundsen, Ellsworth.

Nobiles. 3C- Roman ruling aristocracy. Patricians and office holding Plebeians.

Nod. Biblical land where Cain fled.

Nolde, Emil. 1867-1956. German Expressionist painter.

Nominalism. Philosophy. Abstractions do not exist. Things are their names. Vs Realists. Aristotle. Roscelin. Hobbes.

Noncooperation Movement. 1920-22. Ghandi’s non-violent protest in India. Amritsar Massacre.

Nonjurors. 1689. Clergy refusing to take oath of Allegiance to William and Mary.

Nordic Council. 1953-. Denmark, Norway, Sweden. 1955 +Finland. Promotes cultural unity, reciprocal rights.

Nordlingen, Battle. 1634. Sweden defeated, ending influence in S Germany. Heilbronn alliance dissolved.

Nore Mutiny. 1797. British North Sea fleet protest conditions. Parker hung.

Norfolk, First Duke. c1366-99. Lord Appellant. Dominated Richard II 1387-89.

Norman Conquest. 1066. Brought Norman laws, customs, feudal system to England. Hastings.

Normandy Invasion. 1944. Eisenhower’s D-Day assault of Allies on German-occupied France. WWII turning point.

Normans. 9C. Norsemen who settled in northern France, Sicily, Naples, Albania, Thessaloniki.

Norsemen. Danes, Norwegians and Swedes who colonized Britain, France, Russia, 9-11C. Also called: Northmen, Vikings, Varangians. Beseiged Paris 885.

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