Dictionary of Paranormal Terms - N

Nellis Air Force Range
The military base of which Area 51 is allegedly a part. The United States Government has not yet officially acknowledged that Area 51 exists at the Nellis Air Force Range.

Neptune
Fourth largest planet, and one of the four gas giants in our solar system. At a mean distance of 4.5 billion km from the Sun, Neptune has a volume 72 times that of the Earth, and a mass that is 17 times greater than that of the Earth. It's atmosphere is made up mainly of hyrdrogen and helium, with a small percentage of methane which gives the planet its blue colour. There are eight moons known to be in orbit around Neptune, the largest being Triton which is only slightly smaller than our own Moon.

Nostradamus
Born in France, 1503, Michel de Nostredame originally attended medical college and became a specialist in the Plague. It wasn't until he turned to writing in 1550 however, that Nostradamus began to make predicitons about the future. He was twice married, and had a total of 8 children. Nostradamus wrote a vast number of predictions in total, ranging from weather and crop-prospects to war and major events. The technique he claimed to use to predict these events, was what he called 'comparative horoscopy', which involved looking at horoscopes and working out when major elements of past events would happen again. It is thought that only 5-10 percent of his predictions have been fulfilled with 100 percent certainty. Although many of his predictions have been apparantly fulfilled, there is still the fact that a lot of them can be seen to mean a variety of things. Some took his prediction of 'hister' for example, to be evidence of a prediction of Adolf Hitler, when in fact 'hister' was a classical name for the river Danube. Other more recent predictions include one for 1999 that refers to 'a great king of terror'.