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Nabinchandra Sen
Nabinchandra Sen (নবীনচন্দ্র সেন) was a Bengali poet and writer, one of the leading poets of the pre-Tagore era, known for Palashir Yuddha (1875) and a Bengali Mahabharata epic.
Nabisco
Nabisco, short for National Biscuit Company, is the American cookie and cracker brand founded in 1898, maker of Oreo, Ritz, and Chips Ahoy!, now owned by Mondelēz International after ownership by R.J. Reynolds, KKR, Philip Morris, and Kraft.
Nabla (company)
Nabla is a Paris- and New York-based AI health company founded in 2018 whose Copilot assistant records patient-clinician conversations and drafts structured clinical notes integrated with major EHR systems.
Nabla symbol
The nabla symbol, also called del, is an inverted Greek delta used in vector calculus for the differential operator giving the gradient, divergence, curl, and Laplacian.
Nablus (district)
Nablus district (Muḥāfaẓat Nāblus), also Nablus Governorate, is a West Bank administrative division centered on Nablus city: an Ottoman sanjak, Mandate subdistrict, and since 1995 one of 11 Palestinian governorates with about 439,000 residents.
Nablus (نابلس)
Nablus (نابلس), founded 72 CE as Flavia Neapolis near Shechem, is the northern West Bank's commercial hub: Old City kasbah, Nabulsi soap, Mount Gerizim Samaritans, Balata camp, Area A governance, and post-2023 checkpoint and raid pressures.
Nabnitu
Nabnītu, also written SIG7.ALAN = Nabnitu, is an Akkadian lexical series of the canonical Mesopotamian corpus, known chiefly from Neo-Assyrian copies excavated at Nineveh and held in the British Museum.
Nabob of Arcot's debts
The Nabob of Arcot's debts (کرناٹک قرضے) were sums owed by the Nawabs of Arcot in southern India to East India Company servants, provoking parliamentary inquiries in Britain.
Nabokov (Mercurian crater)
Nabokov is a 166-km-wide impact crater on Mercury at 14.56°S, 304.24°W, IAU-named in 2012 for writer Vladimir Nabokov, with a rugged basin ring, degraded rim, and smooth plains of unknown origin on its floor.
Nabonassar (king of Babylon)
Nabonassar, in Akkadian Nabû-nāṣir, was king of Babylon from 747 to 734 BC and a contemporary of Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria, best known as the epoch of the Era of Nabonassar.
Nabonassar Chronicle (ABC 1)
The Nabonassar Chronicle, also known as the Babylonian Chronicle (ABC 1), is a Babylonian chronicle narrating year by year how Babylon, supported by Elam, resisted Assyria from 747 to 668 BC.
Nabongo Mumia
Nabongo Mumia, born Mumia Shiundu around 1849, was the ruler of the Wanga Kingdom in western Kenya who reigned from 1882 until his death in 1949.
Nabonidus
Nabonidus (Nabû-nāʾid), last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire (556–539 BC), promoted the moon god Sin, sojourned ten years at Teima in Arabia, and was captured when Cyrus the Great took Babylon in 539 BC.
Nabonidus Chronicle
The Nabonidus Chronicle is a Babylonian cuneiform tablet in the British Museum narrating Nabonidus's reign and Cyrus the Great's conquest of Babylon in 539 BC.
Nabonidus Cylinders
Nabonidus Cylinders are inscribed clay foundation cylinders buried by Nabonidus, king of Babylon (r. 556–539 BC), in temples he restored at Sippar, Ur, and Larsa, recording digs to earlier kings' deposits.
Nabonidus' conquest of Tayma
Nabonidus' conquest of Tayma was the capture of the oasis of Tayma in northwest Arabia by Babylonian forces under King Nabonidus in 553/552 BC, opening his Arabian campaigns.
Nabonidus' decade at Tayma
Nabonidus' decade at Tayma was the roughly ten-year residence of Nabonidus, the last Neo-Babylonian king, at the north Arabian oasis of Tayma, during which Belshazzar governed Babylon.
Nabonidus's conquest of Dedan
Nabonidus's conquest of Dedan was the capture of the oasis kingdom of Dadān (modern al-ʿUlā in Saudi Arabia) by Nabonidus, the last king of Babylon, around 553 BC.
Nabonidus's religious reform
Nabonidus's religious reform, also called the Elevation of Sin, was the policy of Nabonidus, king of Babylon 556–539 BC, promoting the moon god Sîn above Marduk.
Nabonidus's restoration of the Sin temple at Harran
Nabonidus's restoration of the Sin temple at Harran was the rebuilding of the Ehulhul, temple of the moon god Sîn, destroyed in 610 BC and rebuilt from around 552 BC.
Nabopolassar
Nabopolassar, in Akkadian Nabu-apla-usur, was king of Babylon from 626 to 605 BC and founder of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, which he built by destroying Assyria in alliance with the Medes.
Nabopolassar Chronicle
The Nabopolassar Chronicle is a Babylonian annalistic text on British Museum tablets covering Nabopolassar's reign (626–605 BC), including the fall of Nineveh in 612 BC.
Nabopolassar's building inscriptions
Nabopolassar's building inscriptions are the commemorative texts of Nabopolassar, the Neo-Babylonian king who ruled Babylon from 626 to 605 BC, recording temples, city walls, and canals.
Nabothian cyst
Nabothian cyst (mucinous retention cyst, nabothian follicle): a benign mucus-filled bump on the cervix caused by blocked cervical glands in the transformation zone, usually a few millimeters to 4 cm, asymptomatic, and requiring no treatment.
Nabro
Nabro (Nabbeo) is a 2,218 m stratovolcano in southern Eritrea, highest in the Danakil depression, with nested 8 and 5 km calderas in the Bidu complex. Its first recorded eruption began 12-13 June 2011 (VEI 4), emitting ~1.5 Tg SO2, the largest of 2002-2012, with activity ending mid-2012.
Nabta Playa
Nabta Playa is a prehistoric basin in Egypt's Western Desert, about 100 km west of Abu Simbel, bearing some of the oldest known megalithic structures, including an early stone circle.
Nabu
Nabu (Akkadian Nabû) was the Mesopotamian god of writing, scribes, wisdom, and prophecy, worshiped from the 24th century BC; his main cult center was the Ezida temple at Borsippa near Babylon.
Nabu (DC Comics)
Nabu the Wise, DC Comics Lord of Order created by Gardner Fox and Howard Sherman (More Fun Comics #67, 1941), whose spirit in the Helmet of Fate possesses wearers, turning them into Doctor Fate, notably Kent Nelson.
Nabû temple (Khorsabad)
Nabû temple (Building H) at Khorsabad/Dur-Sharrukin, Sargon II's Assyrian capital: largest temple of the city, god of scribes, on a 6 m platform linked by bridge to the palace, 132 x 85 m, two cellae, tablet niches, excavated 1933/34.
Nabu-ahhe-bullit
Nabu-ahhe-bullit, also written Nabû-aḫḫē-bulliṭ, was a Neo-Assyrian official who served as royal overseer (qēpu) of the Esagil temple in Babylon under Sargon II and Sennacherib.