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National Library of India
National Library of India, Kolkata: India's largest national library and legal deposit repository, descended from the 1836 Calcutta Public Library and the Imperial Library, renamed by the 1948 Act and opened to the public in 1953.
National Library of Kosovo
National Library of Kosovo (Biblioteka Kombëtare e Kosovës, "Pjetër Bogdani"), founded 1944 in Prizren, Kosovo's highest library in Pristina; Mutnjaković's 72-dome 1982 building, ~2.5 million units, legal deposit since 2008.
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
The National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS) is a Library of Congress program providing free braille and recorded books, established in 1931.
National Literary Awards (Myanmar)
The National Literary Awards (အမျိုးသားစာပေဆု) are Myanmar's annual state prizes for books and writers, presented by the Ministry of Information and tracing to awards begun in 1948.
National Live Music Awards
The National Live Music Awards (NLMAs) are annual Australian awards honoring the country's live music industry, founded by Larry Heath and first held in 2016, with national and state categories voted by the live industry.
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) is a pair of United States panel surveys, sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that follow young people for decades.
National Lottery (United Kingdom)
The UK National Lottery, launched 19 November 1994 under John Major and run by Camelot until 2024, is now operated by Allwyn under the Fourth Licence (2024–2034), funding good causes with 23p of every £1.
National Magazine Awards
The National Magazine Awards, known as the Ellies, are presented annually by the American Society of Magazine Editors to honor editorial excellence in US magazines since 1966.
National Mall
The National Mall is the monumental park in Washington, D.C., running from the U.S. Capitol to the Washington Monument and West Potomac Park. Shaped by the 1791 L'Enfant and 1902 McMillan Plans, it hosts museums, memorials, inaugurations, and protests, with turf managed by the National Park Service.
National Maritime Day
National Maritime Day is a United States observance held each May 22 to honor the merchant marine and maritime industry, commemorating the steamship Savannah's 1819 transatlantic voyage.
National Maritime Historical Society
The National Maritime Historical Society is an American nonprofit founded in 1963 to preserve US maritime heritage, headquartered in Peekskill, New York, and publishing Sea History magazine.
National Maritime Museum
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, part of Royal Museums Greenwich, is Britain's national maritime history museum, founded by the 1934 Act and opened by George VI on 27 April 1937, with free entry and world-leading British-at-sea collections.
National Maritime Research Institute
The National Maritime Research Institute, also known as Kaijō Gijutsu Anzen Kenkyūjo, is Japan's national maritime research institute in Mitaka, Tokyo, with about 150 researchers and one of the world's largest towing tanks.
National Maximum Speed Law
The National Maximum Speed Law was a US federal policy, in force from 1974 to 1995, that tied federal highway funding to state speed limits of 55 mph.
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
The National Medal of Technology and Innovation (NMTI) is the United States' highest honor for technological achievement, presented by the president and administered by the USPTO since 1985.
National Media Authority (الهيئة الوطنية للإعلام)
Egyptian National Media Authority (الهيئة الوطنية للإعلام), known as Maspero, is Egypt's state broadcasting body under Law 178/2018; distinct from the UAE authority of the same name created in 2025.
National Medical Association
The National Medical Association, founded in 1895, is the oldest and largest US organization representing African American physicians, publishing the Journal of the National Medical Association since 1909.
National Medical Center
The National Medical Center (국립중앙의료원) is a public general hospital in Jung-gu, Seoul, opened in 1958 with Scandinavian and UN aid after the Korean War.
National Medical Products Administration
National Medical Products Administration (NMPA, 国家药品监督管理局), formerly CFDA, is China's regulator of drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics under SAMR, handling registration, approvals, inspections, and the revised device GMP effective 2026.
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, known as Punchbowl, is a VA national cemetery in an extinct volcano in Honolulu, Hawaii, opened in 1949 with over 13,000 World War II dead, Courts of the Missing, and Pearl Harbor unknowns.
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, also called the National Lynching Memorial, is a Montgomery, Alabama memorial opened by EJI on April 26, 2018, with 800-plus hanging steel columns naming over 4,000 racial terror lynching victims.
National Merit Scholarship Program
The National Merit Scholarship Program, also called the National Merit Scholarship Competition, is an annual American academic competition run by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation since 1955, recognizing high-scoring U.S. high school students.
National Metrology Institute of Japan
The National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ; 計量標準総合センター) is Japan's national metrology institute, a center within AIST in Tsukuba responsible for the country's national measurement standards.
National military trainer programmes
A national military trainer program is a country's organized effort to design, build, or procure the aircraft fleet with which it trains its military pilots, from first flight to frontline assignment.
National Military Union
The National Military Union (Narodowe Zjednoczenie Wojskowe, NZW) was a Polish underground organization of the national movement that fought communist rule from late 1944 until the mid-1950s, reaching about 30,000 members.
National Minimum Drinking Age Act
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 (Public Law 98-363) withholds federal highway funds from states allowing alcohol purchase under 21; upheld in South Dakota v. Dole; all states complied by 1988.
National Mobilization Law
The National Mobilization Law (国家総動員法) was a 1938 Japanese law authorizing the government to control the nation's human and material resources for war without Diet approval.
National Monument (Indonesia)
Monumen Nasional (Monas), Jakarta's 132-meter marble obelisk in Merdeka Square, begun 1961 under Sukarno, opened 1975, topped by a gold-coated bronze flame, housing a diorama museum and the original Proclamation text.
National monuments in the South Central states
The national monuments in the South Central states are National Park System monuments in six states, including Russell Cave, Poverty Point, Camp Nelson, and Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley.
National monuments of the Midwest (NPS)
The National monuments of the Midwest are three National Park Service sites protecting cultural resources: Effigy Mounds in Iowa, and Pipestone and Grand Portage in Minnesota.