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Nations at the 2022 Winter Paralympics
Nations at the 2022 Winter Paralympics: 558 athletes from 46 NPCs competed in Beijing, where Azerbaijan, Israel, and Puerto Rico debuted and Russia and Belarus were excluded.
Nations at the 2026 Winter Paralympics
Nations at the 2026 Winter Paralympics covers the 55 National Paralympic Committees and 611 athletes at Milano Cortina 2026, the largest Winter Paralympics by both measures.
Nations at the early Summer Paralympics (1960–1976)
The early Summer Paralympics (1960–1976) were the first five editions of the Paralympic Games, held in Rome, Tokyo, Tel Aviv, Heidelberg, and Toronto, growing from 23 to 40 nations.
Nations at the IPC-era Summer Paralympics, 1992–2000
Nations at the IPC-era Summer Paralympics, 1992–2000 covers the national delegations at Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996, and Sydney 2000, when former Soviet and Yugoslav successor states first competed under their own flags.
Nations at the Summer Paralympics, 2004–2012
Nations at the Summer Paralympics, 2004–2012 tracks participation growth from 135 countries at Athens 2004 to 146 at Beijing 2008 and 164 at London 2012.
Nations at the Summer Universiade
The list of nations at the Summer Universiade tracks which countries entered each edition from Turin 1959 to Rhine-Ruhr 2025, from 45 nations to a record 174 at Daegu 2003.
Nations at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships: Africa and Oceania
African and Oceanian nations at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships: Australia ranks 6th all-time, and South Africa is the only African nation in the top 50.
Nations at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships: Americas
Overview of American nations' participation in the UCI Track Cycling World Championships, covering teams, entries, and debuts, with eight American-hosted editions from Montevideo 1968 to Santiago 2025.
Nations at the World Games
Nations at the World Games qualify sport by sport through international federations rather than National Olympic Committees, growing from 58 nations in 1981 to 118 in 2025.
Nations Championship
Nations Championship: biennial men's rugby union tournament launched July 2026, pitting the six Six Nations unions plus SANZAAR sides, Japan, and Fiji across July and November windows, with a Twickenham Finals Weekend and a linked World Rugby Nations Cup second tier.
Nations in the UEFA Nations League
The nations in the UEFA Nations League are UEFA's member associations, placed in tiers A through D with promotion and relegation since the first edition in 2018–19.
NationsBank
NationsBank was a Charlotte, North Carolina bank formed in 1991 from NCNB and C&S/Sovran, which merged with BankAmerica in 1998 to create Bank of America.
Nationwide Arena
Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio: home of the NHL's Columbus Blue Jackets, opened 2000, privately financed at $150 million after a 1997 referendum defeat; publicly owned by the FCCFA and anchor of the Arena District; $400 million modernization planned.
Nationwide Building Society
Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual building society owned by its saving and borrowing members, the UK's largest, which acquired Virgin Money in 2024.
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, also known as Nationwide Insurance, is a Fortune 100 mutual insurance and financial services company based in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1926 as a farm-bureau auto insurer.
Nationwide Mutual Usage Service (交通系ICカード全国相互利用サービス)
The Nationwide Mutual Usage Service is a Japanese scheme, launched in 2013, letting one transport IC card like Suica or ICOCA ride trains and buses nationwide.
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2020 Democratic primaries tracked Biden, Sanders, Warren, and others across a record field. Pew, Quinnipiac, Marist, and aggregator data showed Biden leading early, Sanders surging in February, and AAPOR finding winner calls mostly right but margins off in South Carolina and Super Tuesday states.
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2024 United States presidential election
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2024 US presidential election, also called Biden-Trump then Harris-Trump polling, tracked a near-tied race; averages showed a narrow Democratic lead that underestimated Donald Trump's win.
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2028 Democratic Party presidential primaries
2028 Democratic primary polls track a hypothetical field led nationally by Kamala Harris (about 26% average), followed by Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg, with early polls weighted toward name recognition and a South Carolina leadoff on Jan 22, 2028.
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2028 Republican Party presidential primaries
Nationwide opinion polling for the 2028 Republican presidential primaries tracks Republican primary voter preferences, with JD Vance leading Marco Rubio and Donald Trump Jr. through 2026.
Natisha Hiedeman
Natisha Hiedeman (T-Spoon), born 1997, Green Bay, Wisconsin, is an American WNBA guard, 5-8, drafted 18th overall in 2019 by Minnesota, traded to Connecticut Sun; Marquette's 2019 unanimous BIG EAST Player of the Year; now with the Seattle Storm.
Native advertising
Native advertising, also called sponsored content, is paid advertising designed to match the form, function, and feel of the surrounding content, such as in-feed ads and sponsored articles.
Native American Church
The Native American Church, also known as Peyotism or the Peyote Religion, is a pan-Indian religion whose central sacrament is peyote, first incorporated in Oklahoma in 1918.
Native American cultures in the United States
Native American cultures in the United States: diverse lifeways of 575 federally recognized tribes, spanning 15,000+ years, distinct languages, sovereignty, and federal policy eras from treaties to self-determination.
Native American disease and epidemics
Native American disease and epidemics: Old World diseases (smallpox, measles, influenza) introduced after 1492 caused virgin-soil epidemics and demographic collapse of 50–90%+ among Indigenous peoples of the Americas, magnified by violence, enslavement, and displacement.
Native American gaming
Native American gaming (Indian/tribal gaming): gambling by federally recognized tribes on Indian lands under the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, three gaming classes, NIGC oversight, $43.9 billion FY 2024 revenue.
Native American genocide in the United States
Native American genocide in the United States: scholarly debate over applying genocide to US treatment of Indigenous peoples, centering on Benjamin Madley's California case study, federal removal and boarding-school policies, and opposing ethnic-cleansing interpretations.
Native American Languages Act of 1990
Native American Languages Act of 1990 (NALA), Public Law 101-477 Title I, US federal law codified at 25 U.S.C. 2901-2907 declaring policy to preserve Native American languages, granting use rights, and funding revitalization via ANA grants.
Native American literature of the American Indian Movement era
The Native American literature of the American Indian Movement era is the fiction, poetry, and drama Native authors produced in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Native American mascot controversy
Native American mascot controversy: dispute over Native American names, logos, and imagery in sports, from about 2,400 US schools to pro teams; covers psychological research, NCAA 2005 policy, Washington and Cleveland name changes, and state bans.