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Naberezhnye Chelny power station

Naberezhnye Chelny power station, the Naberezhnochelninskaya TETs, is a gas-fired combined heat and power station in Naberezhnye Chelny, Tatarstan, Russia, commissioned in 1971 and supplying the KamAZ truck complex.

Naberezhnye Chelny-Almetyevsk Oil Pipeline

The Naberezhnye Chelny–Almetyevsk oil pipeline (нефтепровод «Набережные Челны – Альметьевск») is a trunk oil pipeline in Tatarstan, Russia, built in 1966 to carry sour crude to the Nizhnekamsk refinery.

NABERS

NABERS (National Australian Built Environment Rating System) is an Australian government program rating buildings' environmental performance on a one-to-six-star scale, using twelve months of measured operational data.

Nabeshima Katsushige

Nabeshima Katsushige (1580–1657) was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period who, as the eldest son of Nabeshima Naoshige, became the first lord of Saga domain in 1607.

Nabeshima Naoshige

Nabeshima Naoshige (鍋島直茂, 1538–1618) was a Japanese warlord of Hizen Province who ruled the Ryūzōji domain and founded the Saga domain, whose first lord was his son Katsushige.

Nabeshima ware

Nabeshima ware (鍋島焼) is Japanese porcelain made at the Saga domain's official kiln, produced as presentation gifts for the Tokugawa shogunate rather than for sale.

Nabha Natesh (ನಭಾ ನಟೇಶ್)

Nabha Natesh (ನಭಾ ನಟೇಶ್), Indian actress born 1995 in Sringeri, Karnataka; Kannada debut Vajrakaya (2015), Telugu breakthrough iSmart Shankar (2019); returned to Kannada cinema with Chemistry opposite Dhruva Sarja.

Nabha State

Nabha State (ਨਾਭਾ ਰਿਆਸਤ) was a Sikh princely state in the Punjab, one of the three Phulkian States, founded by Raja Hamir Singh in 1755 and merged into PEPSU after independence.

Nabha–Patiala dispute

The Nabha–Patiala dispute was a conflict between the neighboring princely states of Nabha and Patiala in Punjab, leading to the removal of Maharaja Ripudaman Singh in 1923.

Nābhādāsa

Nābhādāsa, also remembered as Nābhājī, was a Ramanandi devotional poet who composed the Bhaktamāl, a Braj-language verse catalog of saints, around 1600, at the command of his teacher Agradās.

Nabhani dynasty

The Nabhani dynasty (بنو نبهان) was an Ibadi ruling family that governed the interior of Oman for about five centuries, from 1154 to 1624, ending with the rise of the Ya'aruba state.

Nabi

Nabi (نابی), born Yusuf in Urfa, was an Ottoman divan poet, 1642 to 1712, who served Ottoman viziers, lived over two decades in Aleppo, and was known for wisdom poetry and his didactic work Hayriyye.

Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch

Nabi Bakhsh Khan Baloch (نبي بخش خان بلوچ) was a Pakistani folklorist and scholar who documented the language and folklore of Sindh in over 100 volumes.

Nabi Musa (النبي موسى)

Nabi Musa (النبي موسى, Prophet Moses) is a Muslim shrine and pilgrimage site near Jericho in the West Bank, monumentalized by Sultan Baybars in 1269.

Nabidae

Nabidae, damsel bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha), is a worldwide family of predatory true bugs with raptorial forelegs; two subfamilies, Nabinae and Prostemmatinae, roughly 20–31 genera and 386–500 species, important generalist predators of crop pests.

Nabih Berri (نبيه بري)

Nabih Berri (نبيه بري), born 4 May 1938, is a Lebanese Shia politician, lawyer, and head of the Amal Movement since 1980 and Speaker of Lebanon's Parliament since 1992, Hezbollah's main political ally.

Nabih I. Abdou

Nabih I. Abdou (1934–2024) was an Egyptian-born physician-scientist in rheumatology, allergy, and clinical immunology, trained at Cairo and McGill, known for his lupus and malakoplakia research.

Nabiha Saklayen

Nabiha Saklayen is a physicist and biotechnology entrepreneur who developed laser-based cellular editing during her PhD at Harvard and co-founded Cellino, which manufactures patient-specific stem cell therapies.

Nabil Bentaleb (نبيل بن طالب)

Nabil Bentaleb (نبيل بن طالب) is an Algerian professional footballer born in 1994 in Lille who plays as a defensive midfielder for LOSC Lille and Algeria.

Nabil Chartouni

Nabil Chartouni is a London-based investor who founded Acropolis Capital in 1975, a single-family office managing the Chartouni family's investments across real estate, hedge funds, and private equity.

Nabil Djouder

Nabil Djouder is a French molecular biologist who heads the Growth Factors, Nutrients and Cancer Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre in Madrid, studying the URI oncogene.

Nabil Fekir

Nabil Fekir, born 1993 in Lyon, French attacking midfielder; 2018 World Cup winner with France (25 caps, 2 goals), Lyon and Real Betis captain, 2022 Copa del Rey winner, later Al Jazira and Abha.

Nabil Mallick

Nabil Mallick is a venture capitalist who has been a General Partner at New York's Thrive Capital since 2015, serving on the boards of Glossier, Zola, and formerly Vimeo.

Nabil Seidah

Nabil G. Seidah, born 1949 in Cairo, is a Canadian biochemist who directs biochemical neuroendocrinology research at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute and discovered PCSK9.

Nabil Shuail

Nabil Shuail, also written Nabeel Shuail (نبيل شعيل), is a Kuwaiti singer nicknamed the Gulf Nightingale who has led Gulf pop for more than four decades since his 1982 breakthrough.

Nabila Huda

Nabila Huda (Nabila Huda binti Suhaimi, "Abil"), Malaysian actress and host born 1984 in Kuala Lumpur, daughter of Amy Search; FFM28 Best Actress for Munafik (2016), FFM30 Best Supporting Actress, and 2026 BOH Cameronian theatre award.

Nabila Khashoggi

Nabila Khashoggi (نبيلة خاشقجي), daughter of arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, is a New York-based entrepreneur, author, and former actress who founded the Nabila K skincare brand and wrote the Spartan and the Green Egg children's graphic novels.

Nabilone

Nabilone (Cesamet) is a synthetic THC analogue and CB1/CB2 partial agonist approved in Canada (1981) and the US (1985) for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting; Schedule II, common effects drowsiness, dizziness, dry mouth.

Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Project

The Nabinagar Super Thermal Power Project is a coal-fired power station in Aurangabad district, Bihar, India, developed by NTPC and Bihar in two stages totaling 4,380 MW.

Nabinagar Thermal Power Project

The Nabinagar Thermal Power Project is a 1,000 MW coal-fired power station at Nabinagar in Bihar, India, owned by NTPC and Indian Railways and built mainly to power railway traction.