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National Historic Sites of Canada
National Historic Sites of Canada (lieux historiques nationaux du Canada) are places designated of national historic significance by the Minister responsible for Parks Canada on HSMBC advice; 1,004 exist, 171 Parks Canada-administered, designation confers no ownership change or protection.
National history of Silla by Geochibu
The Guksa (國史) was the national history of Silla, compiled in 545 under King Jinheung by the official Geochibu; it is lost, and is known through the 1145 Samguk sagi.
National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers
National History Park – Citadel, Sans Souci, Ramiers is a protected area in northern Haiti with the Citadelle Henry fortress, Sans Souci palace, and Ramiers, a UNESCO site since 1982.
National Hockey League
National Hockey League (NHL), founded November 26, 1917 in Montreal; 32-team professional ice hockey league in Canada and the US awarding the Stanley Cup; 82-game season, hard salary cap, 84 games from 2026-27.
National Hockey League on television
National Hockey League on television, or NHL on television, covers the broadcast and streaming rights that carry NHL games nationally in the United States and Canada.
National Hockey League rules
National Hockey League rules: the NHL Official Rule Book governing game format, penalties, video review, and conduct; three 20-minute periods, Rule 69 goalie interference, fighting permitted but penalized, differing from IIHF rules.
National Honor Society
National Honor Society (NHS), founded March 1, 1921 by Edward Rynearson under NASSP, is a US high school honor society with 16,000+ chapters selecting members on scholarship, service, leadership, and character.
National honours for services to horse racing
National honors for services to horse racing are state awards, including knighthoods and OBEs, conferred on jockeys, trainers, owner-breeders, and administrators in the UK and New Zealand.
National Hospital (Kozhikode, IN)
National Hospital, Kozhikode (National Hospital Kozhikode) is a 400-bedded private super-specialty hospital on Indira Gandhi Road at Mavoor Road junction, Kozhikode, Kerala, with about 20 departments, NABH pre-accreditation, and a nursing college as its parent-hospital affiliate.
National Hospital (Panama City, PA)
Hospital Nacional is a private hospital in Panama City, Panama, opened in 1973 as Clínica Nacional and grown to more than 107 beds after its 2013 expansion.
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN), Queen Square, London: the world's first specialised neurological hospital, founded 1859, UK's largest dedicated neurology and neurosurgery hospital, run by UCLH, partnering with UCL's Institute of Neurology.
National Housing Bank (राष्ट्रीय आवास बैंक)
The National Housing Bank (राष्ट्रीय आवास बैंक) is India's apex development finance institution for housing, set up in 1988 and wholly owned by the Government of India.
National Human Rights Commission of India (राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग)
National Human Rights Commission of India (राष्ट्रीय मानवाधिकार आयोग), NHRC: statutory human rights body under the 1993 Act, chaired by a former Chief Justice or Supreme Court judge, holding GANHRI 'A' status since 1999 but facing downgrade.
National Hunt flat race
National Hunt flat race (bumper): a British/Irish Jump-rules race with no obstacles for unraced, late-maturing jump-bred horses aged seven or younger; limited to three runs, a bridge to hurdling or chasing.
National Hunt racing
National Hunt racing, or jumps racing, is British and Irish Thoroughbred racing over hurdles and steeplechase fences, plus flat bumpers; originated in Ireland (1752 Buttevant-Doneraile), culminating in the Cheltenham Festival and Grand National.
National Hurricane Center
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is a US government office in Miami, part of NOAA's National Weather Service, that forecasts tropical cyclones in the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific.
National Hydrogen Strategy (Germany)
The National Hydrogen Strategy (Nationale Wasserstoffstrategie) is Germany's federal framework for building a green hydrogen economy, launched in 2020, updated in July 2023, and paired with a hydrogen import strategy.
National hydrographic services and their surveyors
National hydrographic services are government agencies that survey a country's waters and produce its nautical charts, coordinated by the International Hydrographic Organization, with surveyors trained under IHO-recognized programs.
National Idea (symbol)
The National Idea (Ідея Нації) is a Ukrainian far-right monogram of intertwined Latin letters I and N, created in 1992 for the Social-National Party of Ukraine, later used by Patriot of Ukraine and Azov, and controversial for resembling the Wolfsangel.
National identification number
A national identification number, also called a national ID or national identity number, is a unique number a government issues to identify a person, typically assigned once for life.
National identity
National identity: the collective sense of belonging to a nation based on shared culture, history, language, and symbols. Covers Anderson's imagined community, the Kohn civic-ethnic dichotomy and its critics, modernist dating of nations to the 18th century, ISSP and British Social Attitudes survey findings, and effects on immigration attitudes and voting.
National identity card (Bangladesh)
The National identity card of Bangladesh (জাতীয় পরিচয়পত্র, NID) is the identity document issued to citizens by the Election Commission, serving as standard proof of identity.
National Ignition Facility
The National Ignition Facility is a 192-beam laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, where the first controlled fusion experiment achieved ignition in December 2022, producing 3.15 megajoules.
National Incident-Based Reporting System
The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is an FBI system in which law enforcement agencies report details on each criminal incident, replacing summary counting in 2021.
National Income and Product Accounts
The National Income and Product Accounts (NIPAs) are the United States' official system of accounts for national output and income, compiled quarterly and annually by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.
National Independence Day (Poland)
National Independence Day (Narodowe Święto Niepodległości), Poland's 11 November public holiday, commemorates Piłsudski's 1918 assumption of military command after 123 years of partitions; established 1937, banned 1945, restored 1989.
National Independent Soccer Association
National Independent Soccer Association (NISA), USSF Division III men's pro soccer league founded by Peter Wilt and Jack Cummins, began play 2019; low barriers, no territory rights, NISA Nation path-to-pro, Independent Cup.
National Industrial Recovery Act
The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was a 1933 New Deal law exempting industry codes of fair competition from antitrust laws and funding $3.3 billion in public works.
National Informatics Centre
National Informatics Centre, also known as NIC India, is the information technology arm of the Government of India, established in 1976 under MeitY to build systems for government.
National Inpatient Sample analysis
National Inpatient Sample analysis is observational research using the NIS, the largest all-payer US hospital discharge database, to estimate national inpatient utilization, cost, and outcomes.