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Native Americans to opera

Native Americans

natural resources

natural selection

nature-nurture controversy

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

necessary condition

Necessity is the mother of invention

negative income tax

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

Nelson, Admiral Horatio

Netherlands Antilles

neural networks

neurotransmitter

Never give a sucker an even break

Never-Never Land

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today

A new broom sweeps clean

Newton’s laws of motion

New York Stock Exchange

Nice guys finish last

Nicholas, Saint

Nietzsche, Friedrich

“The Night Before Christmas”

Nightingale, Florence

Nijinsky, Vaslav

Nimitz, Admiral Chester

nine days’ wonder

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Ninth Symphony

nitrogen fixing

nitrogenous wastes

Noah and the Flood

noblesse oblige

“Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen”

no-fault insurance

nolo contendere

No man can serve two masters

No man can serve two masters

No man is an island

nominative case

nonaligned nations

non compos mentis

No news is good news

Nonproliferation Treaty

nonverbal communication

nonviolent resistance

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people

No rest for the weary

normal distribution curve

Norman Conquest

Normandy, invasion of

Norse mythology

North American Free Trade Agreement

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Northern Hemisphere

Northern Ireland

northern lights

Northwest Ordinance

Northwest Passage

Northwest Territories

nose out of joint

nose to the grindstone

nothing new under the sun

Nothing succeeds like success

Nothing ventured, nothing gained

Nothing will come of nothing

Notre Dame de Paris, Cathedral of

Nottingham, sheriff of

Now I lay me down to sleep

nuclear-free zone

nuclear reaction

nuclear reactor

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

nuclear testing

nuclear testing

Nuremberg trials

The Nutcracker

“O Captain, My Captain”

“O Come, All Ye Faithful”

O beautiful for spacious skies

occupational disease

Occupied Territories

Ockham, William of

O’Connor, Sandra Day

October Revolution

“Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Oedipus complex

Office of Economic Opportunity

offshore drilling

Off with her head! Off with his head!

O’Hara, Scarlett

“Oh! Susanna”

Oil and water don’t mix

O’Keeffe, Georgia

Oklahoma City Bombing

old boy network

“Old King Cole”

“Old Mother Hubbard”

Old soldiers never die; they only fade away

Olivier, Laurence

“Ol’ Man River”

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy

Once bitten, twice shy

once in a blue moon

Once more unto the breach, dear friends

One [or A] picture is worth a thousand words

One good turn deserves another

One if by land, and two if by sea

O’Neill, Eugene

One man’s meat is another man’s poison

One rotten (or bad) apple spoils the barrel

one that loved not wisely but too well

“On Liberty”

on pins and needles

on the horns of a dilemma

“On Top of Old Smoky”

“Onward Christian Soldiers”

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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