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Specialty Definition: List of people by name: Nt

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List of people by name: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z Na - Nb - Nc - Nd - Ne - Nf - Ng - Nh - Ni - Nj - Nk - Nl - Nm - Nn - No - Np - Nq - Nr - Ns - Nt - Nu - Nv - Nw - Nx - Ny - Nz

• Ntaryamira, Cyprien (died 1994 April 6), President of Burundi
• Ntibantunganya, Sylvestre, President of Burundi

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Microsoft Windows NT

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Microsoft Windows NT (Windows "New Technology") is an operating system produced by Microsoft Corporation. It was originally based on OS/2 3.0, a joint project between Microsoft and IBM. The collaboration fell apart, and IBM continued to market the previous version OS/2 3.0 (later rebranded OS/2 Warp) while Microsoft renamed their version to MS Windows NT, changing the main API to a 32-bit version of its MS Win16 API.

Microsoft hired a group of developers from Digital Equipment Corporation to build a new system. Many elements of NT reflect the earlier DEC experience with VMS and RSX-11

NT enjoyed more success than OS/2, due to its feature promises that were never fully realized and to Microsoft's market prowess.

The following are the major releases of Windows NT :

• Microsoft Windows NT 3.1
• Microsoft Windows NT 3.5
• Microsoft Windows NT 3.51
• Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP are later versions of Windows NT:

• Microsoft Windows 2000 (Version 5.0)
• Microsoft Windows XP (Version 5.1)

Windows NT is now simply called Windows:

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Version 5.2)

Version 3.1, the first version based on "NT Technology" (which may have been numbered perhaps to match that of Windows 3.1, or perhaps to best OS/2 Warp 3), came in "Advanced Server" and "Workstation" editions. From Version 3.5, "Advanced Server" was renamed "Server". From Version 5.0 (Windows 2000) onwards, "Workstation" was renamed "Professional". A "Home Edition" was introduced with Version 5.1 (XP), to mark the discontinuation of the previous MS-DOS based Windows system.

The acronym WNT was acknowledged by its ex-Digital developer, Dave Cutler, to be a pun on VMS -- obtained by shifting each letter one position in alphabetical order, akin to the urban legend regarding the name of IBM and the villanous computer HAL 9000, as featured in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

NT uses a highly layered design, with the hardware hidden from the NT kernel by a hardware abstraction layer, and most operating system API functionality provided by API-specific interface modules that present specific functionality such as the Win32, OS/2, DOS and POSIX system call compatibility environments.

See History of Microsoft Windows, Blue screen of death.

External links

• Windows NT and VMS: The Rest of the Story, discussion of ancestry of NT by Mark Russinovich
• A Brief History of the Windows NT Operating System a Microsoft Presspass Fact Sheet

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Microsoft Windows NT."

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Northern Territory

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Northern Territory

Territory flag (In detail) Coat of Arms (In detail)
Capital	Darwin
Area — Land — Marine — Total	1 349 129 km² 71 839 km² 1 420 968 km²
Population (2002) Density	197 700 0.15/km²
Time zone	UTC+9:30
Highest point	Mt Zeil (1 531 m)
ISO 3166-2 code:	AU-NT

The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia. There were four early attempts to settle the harsh environment of the northern coast, of which three failed in starvation and despair. The Northern Territory was part of New South Wales from 1825 to 1863 and was later part of South Australia from 1863 to 1911. On January 1, 1911, a decade after federation, the Northern Territory was separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control. During World War II, most of the Top End was placed under military government. This is the only time that an Australian state or territory has been under military control. After the war, control for the entire area was handed back to the Commonwealth. In 1978 the Territory was given self-government, with a Legislative Assembly headed by a Chief Minister.

The capital city is Darwin, the successful fourth settlement on the north coast; the other two sizable settlements are Alice Springs (in the desert interior 1500 kilometres to the south) and Katherine (near the base of the Top End). There are many very small settlements scattered across the Territory but the larger population centres are located on the single sealed road that links Darwin to southern Australia, the Stuart Highway, known to locals simply as "the track".

For several years there has been agitation for full statehood. A referendum was held on the issue in 1998 which failed. This was a shock to both the Northern Territory and Commonwealth governments, for opinion polls showed most Territorians supported statehood. However, under the Australian Constitution, the Federal government may set the terms of entry to full statehood. The Northern Territory was offered 3 Senators, rather than the full complement of 12. (With 12 Senate seats, a Territorian vote would have been worth more than 30 votes in New South Wales or Victoria.) Alongside the arrogant approach adopted by then Chief Minister Shane Stone, it is believed that most Territorians were reluctant to adopt the offer which was made.

The Northern Territory for a while was one of the first places in the world with legal voluntary euthanasia, but the Federal Parliament overturned the legislation. Before the overriding legislation was enacted, three people had been voluntarily euthanasised by Dr Philip Nietschke.

The current head of government in the Territory is Chief Minister Clare Martin of the Australian Labor Party (since August 2001).

The population of the Northern Territory is about 1% of the total population of Australia. The entire territory is covered by a combined White Pages and Yellow Pages.

Local Government Areas of the Northern Territory

External Link

• Northern Territory Government of Australia

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Northwest Territories

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A former territory in the United States is called Northwest Territory.

Northwest Territories
Territoires du Nord-Ouest

(In Detail) (In Detail)
Motto: None
Capital	Yellowknife
Area  - Total  - % fresh water	3rd largest (2nd lgst terr.) 1 346 106 km² 12.11%
Population  - Total (2001)  - Density	Ranked 11th 40 900 0.03/km²
Admittance into Confederation  - Date  - Order	Hudson's Bay Company cedes territory to Canada 1870 5
Time zone	UTC -7
Postal information Postal abbreviation Postal code prefix	NT X
ISO 3166-2	CA-NT
Parliamentary representation  Seats in the House  Seats in the Senate	1 1
Premier	Stephen Kakfwi
Commissioner	Glenna Hansen
Government of the Northwest Territories

One of the territories of Arctic Canada, the Northwest Territories (NWT; French, les Territoires du Nord-Ouest) has a landmass of 1,171,918 square kilometres and a population of over 42,000.

Its capital has been Yellowknife since 1967; see also List of communities in the Northwest Territories.

The Northwest Territories are located east of Yukon, west of Nunavut, and north of British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.

Geographical features include the vast Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes, as well as the immense Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni River, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the Arctic Archipelago, the Northwest Territories includes Banks Island, Parry Peninsula, Prince Patrick Island, and parts of Victoria Island and Melville Island.

Unlike provincial governments, the Government of the Northwest Territories does not have political parties. It is a consensus government called the Legislative Assembly. This group comprises one democratically elected member from each of the nineteen constituencies. After each general election, the new parliament elects a premier and speaker by secret ballot. Seven MLAs are also chosen as cabinet ministers, with the remainder forming the opposition. The territory's most recent general election was on November 24, 2003.

The premier of the Northwest Territories is Stephen Kakfwi. The member of Parliament for the Western Arctic, the riding that comprises the Northwest Territories, is Ethel Blondin-Andrew.

Official languages

The territory's Official Languages Act recognizes eight official languages, more than any other political division in Canada:

• Chipewyan;
• Cree;
• Dogrib or Tli Cho;
• English;
• French;
• Gwich'in;
• Inuktitut, including
  • Inuktitut proper,
  • Inuvialuktun
  • Inuinnaqtun;
• Slavey, including
  • North Slavey and
  • South Slavey;

Citizens of the NWT have a right to use any of the above languages:

• when receiving services from the government;
• in court;
• in debates and proceedings of the legislature.

External link: Language Commissioner of the Northwest Territories

History

The Northwest Territories were created in 1870, when the Hudson's Bay Company transferred Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory to the government of Canada. These formed the Northwest Territories. This immense region comprised all of modern Canada except British Columbia, the coast of the Great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence River valley and the southern third of Quebec, the Maritimes, Newfoundland, and the Labrador coast. It also excluded the Arctic Islands except the southern half of Baffin Island; these remained under direct British rule until 1880.

After the transfer, the Territories were gradually whittled away. The province of Manitoba was created in 1870, a tiny square around Winnipeg, and then enlarged in 1881 to a square region composing the modern province's south.

In 1876, the district of Keewatin, at the centre of the territory, was separated from it. In 1882 and again in 1896, the remaining portion was divided into the following districts (corresponding to the following modern-day areas):

• Alberta (southern Alberta);
• Assiniboia (southern Saskatchewan);
• Athabaska (northern Alberta and Saskatchewan);
• Franklin (the Arctic islands);
• Mackenzie (mainland NWT and western Nunavut);
• Saskatchewan (central Saskatchewan);
• Ungava (modern Quebec and inland Labrador).

Keewatin would be returned to the NWT in 1905.

In the meantime, Ontario was enlarged northwestward in 1882. Quebec was also extended, in 1898, and Yukon was created in the same year to deal with the Gold Rush. Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905, and Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec acquired the last of their modern territories from the NWT in 1912. This left only the districts of Mackenzie, Franklin, and Keewatin. However, in 1925 the boundaries of the NWT were extended all the way to the North Pole on the sector principle, vastly expanding its territory onto the northern ice cap.

Between 1925 and 1999, the Northwest Territories measured 3 439 296 km² - larger than India.

Finally, on April 1, 1999, the eastern three-fifths of the Northwest Territories (including all of Keewatin district and much of Mackenzie and Franklin) became a separate territory called Nunavut.

There was some discussion of changing the name of the Northwest Territories after the separation of Nunavut, possibly to a term from an Aboriginal language. One proposal is "Denendeh" ("our land" in Dene). The idea is favoured, among others, by the premier, Stephen Kakfwi, but a poll conducted prior to division showed strong support for retaining the name "Northwest Territories." (The second-place finisher was a joke entry, "Bob.") [1] [1]

Politics

As a territory, the Northwest Territories has fewer rights than the provinces do. During his term, Premier Kakfwi pushed to have the federal government accord more rights to the territory, including having a greater share of the returns from the territory's natural resources go to the territory. [1] Devolution of powers to the territory is an issue in the Northwest Territories general election, 2003.

The territory enjoys vast geological resources including diamonds, gold, and natural gas. In particular, NWT diamonds are touted as an ethical alternative that allays risks of supporting conflicts by purchasing blood diamonds.

However, their exploitation has raised environmental concerns, not least the potential havoc that a spill from tailings ponds would cause to unspoiled wilderness areas such as the Nahanni River, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Aboriginal issues

Aboriginal issues in the NWT include the fate of the Dene Indians who, in the 1940s, were employed to carry radioactive uranium ore from the mines near Deline (then called Port Radium). Their cancer rates skyrocketed due to lack of safety procedures that were available to their white colleagues.

Another issue is historic racial tension based on the bloody history between the Dene and the Inuit, who nevertheless have taken recent steps towards reconciliation.

Land claims in the NWT culminated with the creation of the Inuit homeland of Nunavut, the result of the largest land claim in Canadian history.

Another land claims agreement with the Dogrib nation created a region within the NWT called Tli Cho, between Great Bear and Great Slave Lakes, which will give the Dogrib their own legislative bodies, taxes, resource royalties, and other affairs, though the NWT will still maintain control over such areas as health and education. This area includes the only diamond mines in Canada.

See also

• Canada
• List of Canadian provinces and territories
• List of cities in Canada
• List of Northwest Territories lieutenant-governors
• List of Northwest Territories premiers
• List of communities in the Northwest Territories
• List of Canadian provincial and territorial symbols
• Nunavut

  Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Northwest Territories."

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NT

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NT may stand for:

• Northwest Territories, one among the Canadian provinces and territories
• Windows NT, an operating system from Microsoft. NT here stands for New Technology.

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	Plate XII. 41. Alepocephalus rostratus, Risso. From Cuvier and Valenciennes, " Histoire Naturelle des Poissons de la France. 42. Alepocephalus niger, Gunther. From Gunther, "Challenger Report, Vol. XXII." 43. Conocara macroptera, (Vailla nt), Goode and Bean. From Vaillant, "Exped. Scient. du Travailleur et du Talis man." 44. Bathytroctes macrolepis, Gunther. Gunther, Challenger Report. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.		Plate XVI. 57. Xenodermichthys nodulosus, Gunther. Gunther, Challenger Report , Vol. XXII. 58. Aleposomus socialis, (Vaillant), Goode and Bean. From Vailla nt, "Exped. Scient. du Travailleur et du Talisman." Microstoma rotundatum, (Ris so), Gunther. From Cuvier and Valenciennes, Histoire Natur. des Poissons de la France." Harpodon macrochir, Gunther. Gunther, Challenger Report, Vol. 22. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
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"Newtown Creek at night" by Mike Ambrose Commentary: "Newtown Creek, NT, on Isle of Wight."

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