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Nacala
Nacala, Mozambique: city in Nampula Province (pop. ~240,000) and site of Africa's east coast's largest natural deep-water port, terminus of the 912 km Nacala Corridor railway serving Malawi, Zambia, and Moatize coal exports.
NACE
NACE, from the French Nomenclature statistique des activités économiques dans la Communauté européenne, is the EU statistical classification of economic activities, in use since 1970.
Nace Leon Golding
Nace Leon Golding is a neuroscientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who studies how brainstem neurons localize sound with microsecond precision.
NACE MR0175/ISO 15156
NACE MR0175/ISO 15156 is a joint NACE and ISO standard, first published together in 2003, for selecting metallic materials that resist cracking in H₂S-containing sour oil and gas environments.
Nacee
Nacee, born Nana Kweku Osei in 1976, is a Ghanaian gospel singer, songwriter, and producer who co-founded No Tribe and won Best Gospel Artiste at the 2024 Telecel Ghana Music Awards.
Nacelle
A nacelle is the enclosed housing, or pod, that surrounds an aircraft engine and connects it to the airframe, incorporating cowling and an insulating firewall.
Nacer Chadli
Nacer Chadli, born 1989 in Liège, is a Belgian midfielder who played for FC Twente, Tottenham Hotspur, and West Bromwich Albion, and won 66 caps for Belgium.
Nach Baliye
Nach Baliye is an Indian celebrity dance competition series in which couples compete weekly, airing nine seasons from 2005 to 2019 on Star One and Star Plus.
Nach Ga Ghuma (नाच गं घुमा)
Nach Ga Ghuma (नाच गं घुमा) is a 2024 Marathi comedy-drama directed and co-written by Paresh Mokashi with Madhugandha Kulkarni, starring Mukta Barve and Namrata Sambherao as employer and house help, released 1 May 2024 by Hiranyagarbha Manoranjan.
Nachala (נחלה) (organisation)
Nachala (נחלה) is an Israeli settlement movement led by Daniella Weiss, founded by Rabbi Moshe Levinger as a continuation of Gush Emunim. It establishes West Bank outposts, campaigns to resettle Gaza, and was EU-sanctioned on 28 May 2026.
Nachchaduwa Tank
Nachchaduwa Tank (Nachchaduwa Wewa, නාච්චාදූව වැව) is an ancient irrigation reservoir on the Malwathu Oya near Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, attributed to Mahasena or Moggallana II, restored 1906 and 1958, irrigating about 2,540 ha.
Nachiketa
Nachiketa (Naciketas) is the boy seeker of the Katha Upanishad, given by his father to the god of death, Yama, and granted three boons, including knowledge of life after death.
Nachikufan
The Nachikufan is a Late Stone Age microlithic industry of central, northern, and eastern Zambia, defined by J. Desmond Clark in 1950 from Nachikufu cave.
Nachiyar Tirumoli
Nachiyar Tirumoli (நாச்சியார் திருமொழி) is a Tamil devotional poem of 143 verses by Andal, the only woman among the twelve Vaishnava Alvar saint-poets of South India.
Nachman Aronszajn
Nachman Aronszajn (1907–1980) was a mathematician who worked in functional analysis and logic, taught at the University of Kansas from 1951 to 1977, and gave reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces their systematic form.
Nachmanides
Nachmanides, also Moses ben Nahman (RaMBaN), was a Catalan rabbi, Talmudist, and physician of Girona, c. 1194–1270, famed for the 1263 Barcelona Disputation and his Torah commentary.
Nacho (footballer, born 1990)
Nacho, José Ignacio Fernández Iglesias (born 1990, Madrid), Spanish defender; Real Madrid academy graduate, 364 games, 26 trophies, six European Cups, 2024 captain; later Al Qadsiah captain in the Saudi Pro League.
Nacho (musician)
Nacho, born Miguel Ignacio Mendoza in 1983, is a Venezuelan pop and urban singer known as half of the duo Chino & Nacho until 2017, then a solo artist.
Nacho Libre
Nacho Libre (2006) is a Jared Hess comedy starring Jack Black as Ignacio, a Mexican monastery cook who secretly wrestles as a masked luchador, loosely based on the priest-wrestler Fray Tormenta; also called Nacho Libre film.
Nacho Monreal
Nacho Monreal (Ignacio Monreal Eraso, born 1986) is a Spanish retired left back who played for Osasuna, Málaga, Arsenal (three FA Cups), and Real Sociedad, won 22 Spain caps, and retired in 2022 through knee injury.
Nacho Novo
Nacho Novo (Ferrol, 1979), Spanish striker who emigrated to Scotland in 2001, starred for Dundee and Rangers (2004-2010, three league titles, 2008 UEFA Cup final), later Sporting Gijón, now Darvel FC manager.
Nacho Pérez
Nacho Pérez (Nacho Pérez Gómez), born 2008 in Turís, is a Spanish right-back for Levante UD in LaLiga; youngest Levante top-flight debutant at 17 years 167 days, Spain youth international, contract to 2028.
Nacho Varga
Ignacio "Nacho" Varga is a fictional Salamanca cartel lieutenant in AMC's Better Call Saul, played by Michael Mando across all six seasons; he betrays Hector Salamanca, becomes Gus Fring's double agent, and dies by suicide in season 6's "Rock and Hard Place" to protect his father, the "Ignacio" named in Breaking Bad.
Nacho Vidal
Nacho Vidal (Ignacio Jordà González), Spanish adult-film actor, director and producer born 1973 in Mataró; rose from Barcelona's Sala Bagdad to Hollywood with Rocco Siffredi, later convicted of drug trafficking and facing a 2027 trial.
Nachos
Nachos: tortilla chips with melted cheese and jalapeños, invented in 1943 by Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya at the Victory Club in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, for US military wives; a defining Tex-Mex dish.
NACHT C-terminal Alpha/Beta domain
NACHT C-terminal Alpha/Beta domain (NCAB1/NCAB2, Pfam PF22724/PF22726): a protein domain found C-terminal to the NACHT module in bacterial NACHT-containing defense systems, one of several modeled NACHT-flanking domains alongside the NCH helical and NNH N-terminal helical families.
NACHT C-terminal Helical domain 3
NACHT N-terminal Helical domain 2 (HD2, NACHT-associated domain) is the C-terminal helical subdomain of the NACHT ATPase domain in NLR immune proteins, key to autoinhibition, activation movements, NEK7 binding in NLRP3, and NLRP3 inhibitor binding.
Nachum Ulanovsky
Nachum Ulanovsky is a neuroscientist and professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, known for decoding how the bat hippocampus represents space.
Nacio Herb Brown
Nacio Herb Brown (Ignatius Herbert Brown, 1896–1964), American composer of MGM film musicals and popular songs; chief collaborator Arthur Freed. Wrote "Singin' in the Rain", "Broadway Melody", "Good Morning"; Songwriters Hall of Fame 1970.
Nacionalista Party
Nacionalista Party (Partido Nacionalista, NP), the Philippines' oldest political party, founded 1907 to campaign for immediate independence from American rule; dominated colonial politics, alternated with the Liberal Party 1946–1972, and is now led by Manuel Villar.