Nahj al-Balagha is the most famous collection of speeches and letters attributed to Imam Ali . It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Ali . () Quotes Submission to Allah 's Will is the best companion; wisdom is t...

Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico, which continues to be spoken by more than a million modern Mexicans in various markedly divergent dialects. Nahuatl was the language of perhaps the majority of the inhabitants of pre-Conquest central Mexico,...

Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240 Exclusive concentration on the criterion of historicity obscures the intent, meanin...

South African expatriate Beverley Naidoo's books about the evils of the apartheid system and of homelessness in "the new South Africa" have brought her and the issues she writes about into the international spotlight. Prior to the May 1994...

In construction and carpentry, a slender metal shaft, pointed at one end and flattened at the other end, used as a fastener. Most often used to join pieces of wood, nails are also used with plastic, drywall, masonry, and concrete. They are...

Sheikh Naim Qassem (born in Beirut in 1953) is the Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah . Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Martyrdom operations 2 References 3 External links 3.1 Video clips // Sourced Martyrdom operations Do we really believe in a ...

Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu is a Fijian chief and politician. He holds the title of Tui Cakau (one of the three highest in the chiefly hierarchy) and leads the Conservative Alliance Party . Parliamentary speech, 17 November 2005 (excerpts) Sou...

Ben no Naishi's contribution to the medieval literary corpus is the poetic memoir Ben no Naishi nikki (1246-1252), a record of events that occurred during the thirteen years she served as a personal attendant to the child emperor Go-Fukaku...

Throughout his twenty-year career as a journalist, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera published approximately 1,500 crónicas (journalistic articles) and wrote more than 200 poems. He is recognized as one of Mexico's most importan...

Nakagami Kenji was one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Japan. Coming from a blue-collar background and with neither college degree nor specialized training, he belonged to the tradition of writers such as Minakami Tsutomu and ...

Found in the membranes of all animal cells, the sodium-potassium pump is a protein complex used to transport potassium ions (K+) into the cell and sodium ions (Na+) out of the cell. For every three Na+ the pump sends out of the cell, two K...

Naked is a 1993 film that follows Johnny, a highly intelligent but cynic, misogynist and rude man, on his wanderings of the streets of London after having fled Manchester in fear of reprisal for an act of violent, mercenary sex. Written an...

David Sedaris is a one of the best-selling authors. One of his books is called "Naked." In this book he talks about his life. David Sedaris is a great writer who wrote about his family and himself when he was growing up. While most people u...

SOURCE: Parkinson, Thomas. “Critical Approaches to William Burroughs, or How to Admit an Admiration for a Good Book.” In Poets, Poems, Movements, pp. 313-20. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1980. In the following essay, Parkinson provide...

City (pop., 2000: 204,391), northeastern Thailand. It is the area's transportation, commercial, financial, and governmental centre. It grew rapidly during the 1960s and '70s with the buildup of its Royal Thai Air Force Base, from which U.S...

Nalo Hopkinson calls her work an attempt at "subverting the [science fiction] genre"; reviewers point to her intriguing blend of African, Caribbean, and Creole folklore with the usual conventions of science fiction and science fantasy; lit...

Naltrexone (brand name ReVia) is an OPIOID ANTAGONIST (i.e., a blocker of substances with morphine-like actions), with a structure very similar to another antagonist, NALOXONE. It also closely resembles the potent ANALGESIC (painkiller) OX...

(born July 20, 1932, Seoul, Korea) Korean-born U.S. sculptor and video and performance artist. He studied music at the Universities of Tokyo and Munich and came to the U.S. in 1964. Inspired by Joseph Beuys and John Cage, he joined the Flu...

Nambaryn EnkhbayarPrime Minister (pronounced "Nam-bar-EEN en-kah-bye-YAHR") "The government of Mongolia will press forward democracy and market reforms…This is a duty." Mongolia is a large landlocked...

A religious hypocrisy, Name of The Rose was directed by Jean Jacques Annaud and produced by 20th Century Fox. The main characters are Brother William of Baskerville and, his novice, Adso. The other characters are the Abbott, a peasant gir...

Don DeLillo is a formidable prose stylist; as Fred Allen once said of another literary craftsman, "He writes so well he makes me feel like putting my quill back in my goose." From time to time DeLillo thinks as keenly as he writes, and it i...

country located on the southwestern coast of Africa. It is bordered by Angola to the north, Zambia to the northeast, Botswana to the east, South Africa to the southeast and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. It ranges from arid in ...

Lensey Namioka worked primarily as a mathematics instructor before beginning her career as a published writer in the mid-1970s. As she once told Something about the Author, her works "draw heavily" on her "Chinese cultural heritage and on ...

(2001 est. pop. 645,000). Namp'o (Chinnampo) is a major port and industrial city on the west coast of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The city is 55 kilometers southwest of Pyongyang and 8 kilometers ...