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National Theatre of Greece

The National Theatre of Greece (Ethniko Theatro) is the Greek state's national theater company, based in Athens and founded by an act of parliament in 1930.

National Theatre of Japan (国立劇場)

The National Theatre of Japan (Kokuritsu Gekijō) is a state-founded theater in Chiyoda, Tokyo, opened in 1966 to preserve kabuki and other traditional performing arts.

National Theatre of Nigeria

The National Theatre of Nigeria is a national theater complex in Lagos, built in 1976 for FESTAC '77 and renamed the Wole Soyinka Centre in 2025.

National Theatre, Prague

The National Theatre (Národní divadlo) is the Czech Republic's national opera, drama, and ballet institution, housed in a Neo-Renaissance building on Prague's Vltava riverfront that opened in 1881.

National theatres of the Nordic countries

The national theaters of the Nordic countries are the state-supported flagship and touring stages of the region, including Denmark's Royal Theatre, Finland's Finnish National Theatre, and Norway's touring Riksteatret.

National Three Peaks Challenge

National Three Peaks Challenge: British event climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon), the highest mountains of Scotland, England and Wales, classically within 24 hours including 462 miles of driving.

National Total Mobilization League of Korea

The National Total Mobilization League of Korea (국민총력조선연맹) was the largest government-affiliated mobilization organization in colonial Korea, created on October 16, 1940, led by the Governor-General to gather resources for Japan's war effort.

National tourism and development agency goodwill ambassador programmes

National tourism and development agency goodwill ambassador programs are honorary schemes in which national tourism ministries appoint celebrities to promote a country's tourism, culture, and development abroad.

National track cycling records: Africa and Oceania

The national track cycling records of Africa and Oceania, ratified by the CAC and Oceania Cycling Confederation, are held almost entirely by South Africa and Australia.

National traditions in bridge engineering

National traditions in bridge engineering surveys how the United States, France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and the United Kingdom design bridges, tracing each tradition from the 1716 French Corps des Ponts et Chaussées to modern codes.

National traditions in oceanography

National traditions in oceanography are the characteristic ways countries organize the study of the sea through institutions, expeditions, funding, and training, compared across the United States, the Soviet Union, India, and France.

National Trails System

The National Trails System is the U.S. network of scenic, historic, and recreation trails created by the 1968 National Trails System Act, with 11 scenic trails, 21 historic trails, and over 1,300 recreation trails.

National Transitional Council (المجلس الوطني الانتقالي)

National Transitional Council (المجلس الوطني الانتقالي), Libya's interim governing body formed in Benghazi in February 2011 during the anti-Gaddafi uprising; chaired by Mustafa Abdul Jalil, it issued the 2011 Constitutional Declaration, won broad international recognition, and dissolved itself after the July 2012 elections handed power to the General National Congress.

National Transportation Safety Board

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is an independent US federal agency, established in 1967, that investigates aviation and other transportation accidents and issues safety recommendations.

National Treasure (film)

National Treasure (2004), Jon Turteltaub's Disney/Bruckheimer adventure starring Nicolas Cage as Ben Gates, who steals the Declaration of Independence to find a Templar treasure; $347.5 million worldwide, 47% on Rotten Tomatoes.

National Treasure (franchise)

National Treasure is a Disney action-adventure franchise: two Nicolas Cage films (2004, 2007) about treasure hunter Ben Gates stealing the Declaration of Independence, plus the cancelled Disney+ series Edge of History.

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

National Treasure: Book of Secrets, also known as National Treasure 2, is a 2007 American action-adventure film directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Nicolas Cage.

National Treasure: Edge of History

National Treasure: Edge of History is a 2022–2023 Disney+ action-adventure series, the only TV expansion of the National Treasure films, created by the Wibberleys, starring Lisette Olivera as treasure hunter Jess Valenzuela; cancelled after one season.

National Treasures (song)

National Treasures is a 2026 Drake song, track 9 on ICEMAN (OVO/Republic), released May 15, 2026. A trap track sampling Gregory Hines, dissing DeMar DeRozan, it peaked at No. 6 on the Hot 100 and No. 3 in Canada, Ireland, and the UK.

National Treasury (South Africa)

The National Treasury is South Africa's government department responsible for the fiscal policy framework, budget preparation, and intergovernmental fiscal coordination, established in its present form by the Public Finance Management Act of 1999.

National Tree Collection

National Tree Collection (国树国花园, National Tree and Flower Garden) is a 1999 garden at Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China, displaying national trees and flowers of about 80 countries in six continent-based zones.

National Trust

The National Trust (National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty) is a British conservation charity founded in 1895 by Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley, caring for 500 historic places, 250,000 hectares and 890 miles of coastline with 5.35 million members.

National Trust for Historic Preservation

The National Trust for Historic Preservation is a private nonprofit, chartered by Congress in 1949, that preserves and stewards historic American sites, including about 28 sites.

National Truth Commission

The National Truth Commission (Comissão Nacional da Verdade) was a Brazilian body created in 2011 to investigate human rights violations; its 2014 report identified 434 people killed or disappeared.

National Union (Portugal)

União Nacional (National Union, later Acção Nacional Popular): Salazar's sole legal political organisation of Portugal's Estado Novo, founded 1930 as an anti-party civic association, dissolved by decree on 25 April 1974.

National Union of Journalists

National Union of Journalists (NUJ), UK and Ireland trade union for journalists and media workers founded 1907 in Manchester; over 22,000 members, seven sectors, 1936 code of conduct, UK Press Card issuer, distinct from Nigerian, Indian, Somali and Malaysian NUJs.

National Union of Mineworkers

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a British trade union for coal miners, established in 1945 from the Miners' Federation of Great Britain ahead of coal nationalisation in 1947.

National Union of Moroccan Students

The National Union of Moroccan Students (UNEM, French Union nationale des étudiants du Maroc) is a Moroccan student union founded in Rabat in December 1956, soon after independence.

National Union of Popular Forces

The National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) was a leftist Moroccan political party founded in 1959 after a split from the Istiqlal Party, led by Mehdi Ben Barka.

National Union of Students (Brazil)

The National Union of Students (União Nacional dos Estudantes, UNE) is the representative body of Brazilian university students, founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1937.