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NAVY YARDS In addition to the above, there are approximately 2,000 midshipmen under training for officers at the Naval Academy.

Subordinate to the grades of the above list, but holding commissions, are the grades of chief boatswain, chief gunner, chief machinist, chief carpenter, chief sailmaker, and chief pay clerk.

Warrant officers are officers of the navy occupying a plane intermediate between the commissioned officers and the enlisted men. As a rule they have been promoted from the ranks of enlisted men and they are eligible for advancement to the grades of chief boatswain, chief gunner, etc., and thereafter to ensign, and so on upward through all the commissioned grades to that of rear-admiral. The warrant grades are: Boatswain, gunner, machinist, carpenter, sailmaker, and pay clerk.

The enlisted personnel authorized by the law of 1919 consists of 143,396 men of all grades. The democratic character of the United States navy is illustrated by the fact that any one of these men may hope to attain the highest rank in the service.  NAVY YARDS AND NAVAL STATIONS, UNITED STATES, are located at Portsmouth, N. H., Boston, Mass., Newport, R. I., New London, Conn., Brooklyn, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., Norfolk, Va., Charleston, S. C, Key West, Fla., Pensacola, Fla., New Orleans, La., Panama Canal Zone, San Diego, Cal., San Francisco, Cal., Mare Island, Cal., Bremerton, Wash., Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Cavite and Olongapo, Philippine Islands, and Guantanamo, Cuba.

The largest and most important of these stations are those at New York and Norfolk. At Newport is the Torpedo Station, where Torpedoes are manufactured and tested and new developments tried out. The station at New London is a base and training school for submarines and that at Pensacola a base and training school for aviation. Ship-building is carried on on a large scale at Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Norfolk, and Mare Island, and on a small scale at Portsmouth, N. H. Elaborate and well-equipped establishments for the training of recruits are maintained at Newport, Lake Forrest, (Great Lakes Training Station), and San Francisco. The educational facilities at these and other shore stations, as well as on shipboard, are remarkably complete and justify the boast of the Navy that it offers technical courses in a wide diversity of branches equal, if not superior, from a practical point of view, to those offered by any university in the country.  NAWANAGAR, one of the Bombay states of India. It has an area of 3,791 square miles. Pop. about 350,000.  NAXOS, or NAXIA, an island of the Grecian Archipelago, the largest of the Cyclades; length 18 miles; breadth, 12 miles; area, 164 square miles; pop. about 15,000. It is hilly, but extremely productive. The chief products are fruits, wine, oil, cotton, silk, cheese, honey, and wax. Chief town is Naxia (or Naxos).  NAZARENES, a Jewish sect mentioned by Epiphanius. They aimed at a patriarchal religion in place of a Mosaic Judaism, and rejected the history of Genesis and the Mosaic Law. They were found in Galaaditis, Basanitis, and other parts beyond Jordan.  NAZARETH, the home of Jesus, anciently in the district of Galilee, 21 miles S. E. of Acre, still a small but flourishing town of Palestine. It lies in a hilly tract of country, and is built partly on the sides of some rocky ridges. In the earliest ages of Christianity Nazareth (which is not mentioned in the Old Testament) was quite overlooked by the Church; the first Christian pilgrimage to it took place in the 6th century. The principal building is the Latin convent, on the supposed scene of the Annunciation; but the Greeks have also erected on another spot a church in commemoration. The traveler is also shown a Latin chapel, affirmed to be built over the "workshop of Joseph"; the chapel of "the Table of Christ," a vaulted chamber, containing the veritable table at which our Lord and His disciples ate; and the synagogue out of which He was thrust by His townsmen. The Virgin's Well is just outside the town. The women of the village have long been famous for their beauty. There is here a Protestant mission and orphanage. Pop. about 11,000. Severe fighting between the British and Turkish forces, resulting in the capture of the city by the former, took place here in 1917.  NAZARITE, in the Jewish Church, a man or woman set apart by a vow for the service of God, either for a definite period or for life. The hair was allowed to grow, the fruit of the vine in any shape was forbidden, and no Nazarite might approach a corpse.  NAZIMOVA, ALLA, actress, born in Yalta, Crimea, Russia, in 1879, learned French and German in Switzerland and studied music in St. Petersburg. She played at Moscow and St. Petersburg,<section end="Nazimova, Alla" />