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Naum Gabo (Наум Габо)
Naum Gabo (Наум Габо), born Naum Pevsner (1890–1977), Russian-American Constructivist sculptor and theorist, co-author of the 1920 Realistic Manifesto, pioneer of transparent plastic and kinetic sculpture, creator of the 25-meter Rotterdam Bijenkorf construction.
Naum Korzhavin
Naum Korzhavin, pen name of Naum Mandel, was a Russian dissident poet who was arrested under Stalin, emigrated to the United States in 1973, and died in 2018.
Naum of Preslav
Naum of Preslav (Наум Преславски) was a Bulgarian cleric and saint, a disciple of Cyril and Methodius who organized the Preslav literary school and founded a monastery on Lake Ohrid.
Naumachia
Naumachia (ναυμαχία) was the Roman staged naval battle spectacle, and the basin staging it; first held by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, largest under Claudius (19,000 combatants, Fucine Lake, AD 52), fought by naumachiarii, condemned criminals and war captives, last recorded under Philip the Arab in AD 248.
Nauman Zakariya
Nauman Zakariya (Nauman Zakaria) is a Pakistan Army lieutenant general, Armoured Corps, who commanded I Corps (Mangla)/Central Command from May 2024 and headed the Army Rocket Force Command; false 2025 rumors named him army chief.
Naumann Circle
Naumann Circle (Naumann-Kreis): liberal reform circle around Friedrich Naumann (1860–1919), centered on the Nationalsozialer Verein and Die Hilfe, opposing Stoecker's conservatism and feeding German social liberalism.
Naumburg Cathedral
Naumburg Cathedral (Naumburger Dom) is a medieval cathedral in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, whose west choir holds twelve founder statues carved by the Naumburg Master; it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2018.
Naumburg Founder Figures
The Naumburg Cathedral donor figures are twelve life-size sculptures of medieval nobles in the west choir of Naumburg Cathedral, Germany, created by the Naumburg Master up to 1249.
Naunakhte
Naunakhte, also spelled Naunakht, was a woman of the workmen's village of Deir el-Medina in Thebes who declared her will before the village court around 1145 BC.
Naunet Fluctus
Naunet Fluctus is a 200 km-wide lava flow field on Venus, near its south pole, named for the Egyptian goddess Naunet and approved in 2000.
Nauny
Nauny, also written Nany or Naun, was a royal woman of Egypt's early 21st Dynasty, probably a daughter of Painedjem I, buried around 1050 BCE at Deir el-Bahri in Thebes.
NAURA Technology Group
NAURA Technology Group (北方华创) is a Beijing-based maker of semiconductor manufacturing equipment and China's largest, founded in 2001 and ranked sixth globally by 2024 revenue.
Naurangabad
Naurangabad is an ancient settlement mound in Bhiwani district, Haryana, India, an important town of the Yaudheya Republic occupied from about the 1st century BC to the 5th century AD.
Nauri Decree
The Nauri Decree, also called the Nauri Stela, is a 128-line rock inscription of Year 4 of Seti I, about 1290 BCE, protecting his Abydos temple foundation.
Nauru
Nauru (Naoero), a 21 sq km raised coral island in the South Pacific, is the world's smallest island republic: 9,930 people, no official capital (Yaren District), independent 1968, phosphate-boom wealth then collapse, now reliant on Australian payments.
Naurzum Lake System
Naurzum Lake System (Наурзум), Ramsar site no. 1872 in Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan: about 26 shallow steppe lakes of 139,714 ha within Naurzum State Nature Reserve, a Saryarka World Heritage component and key Siberian Crane stopover, designated 12 July 2009.
Nausea
Nausea, also called emesis-related queasiness, is the unpleasant sensation that vomiting is imminent. It affects over 50% of adults yearly, is three times more common in women, and becomes chronic when persisting over 4 weeks.
Nausea (novel)
Nausea (La Nausée), Jean-Paul Sartre's first novel (Gallimard, 1938), is a diary-form existentialist novel in which Antoine Roquentin, in Bouville, confronts the contingency of existence; originally titled Melancholia after Dürer's engraving.
Nausea or vomiting
Nausea or vomiting (ICD-11 MD90): nausea is the urge to vomit, vomiting the forceful expulsion of gastric contents. Common symptoms with central and peripheral mechanisms, caused by gastroenteritis, drugs, pregnancy, and many other conditions.
Naushad (नौशाद अली)
Naushad Ali (नौशाद अली), 1919–2006, Indian Hindi-film music director born in Lucknow; pioneered raga-based film songs and large orchestration for Baiju Bawra, Mother India, Mughal-e-Azam, and Pakeezah; won the first Filmfare Best Music Director award and the 1981 Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
Nausharo
Nausharo is an archaeological site in the Bolan basin, Kachi plain, Pakistani Balochistan, occupied from about 2700 to 1300 BC and bridging Mehrgarh and the Mature Harappan cities.
Nausicaa
Nausicaa (Ναυσικάα), Phaeacian princess of Scheria in Odyssey Book 6, daughter of Alcinous and Arete, finds the shipwrecked Odysseus; later contested by Butler's authoress theory and echoed in Joyce's Ulysses.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ) (film)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ) is Hayao Miyazaki's 1984 animated film based on his Animage manga, produced by Isao Takahata at Topcraft; its success founded Studio Ghibli, and its cut US version Warriors of the Wind shaped Ghibli's no-edits policy.
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ) (manga)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ) is Hayao Miyazaki's epic manga, serialized in Animage 1982-1994 in 7 volumes and 59 chapters; far darker and more complex than his 1984 film, it won the Japan Cartoonist Association grand prize and sold over 17 million copies.
Naustathmos
Naustathmos (ναύσταθμος, "naval station"): Greek term for a ship station, and name of several ancient places, chiefly Ras al-Hillal in Cyrenaica, Libya, with a Justinianic Byzantine church, and a Pontic Black Sea station east of the Halys.
Nauta Capital
Nauta Capital is a pan-European early-stage venture capital firm, founded in 2004, investing in B2B software from London and Barcelona and managing more than €550 million.
Nautanki Saala! (नौटंकी साला!)
Nautanki Saala! (नौटंकी साला!) is a 2013 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Rohan Sippy, starring Ayushmann Khurrana and Kunaal Roy Kapur, adapted from the French film Après Vous, released 12 April 2013.
Nautch (नाच)
Nautch (नाच, naach) is the anglicized Hindi word for dance, used by the British as an umbrella term for Indian dancing entertainments and performers. Once patronized by colonial elites, it was criminalized by the 1892 anti-nautch campaign and survives in Kathak and baiji traditions.
Nautica
Nautica is an American apparel and lifestyle brand founded in 1983 by designer David Chu, acquired by VF Corporation in 2003 and owned by Authentic Brands Group since 2018.
Nautical Almanac
The Nautical Almanac is an annual ephemeris published jointly by the US and UK Nautical Almanac Offices, giving mariners data for celestial navigation with a sextant.