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Nazarene movement
The Nazarene movement (Lukasbund, Brotherhood of Saint Luke): German Romantic religious painters founded in Vienna in 1809 by Overbeck and Pforr, active in Rome, revivalists of Dürer, Perugino, and Raphael, distinguished from the Church of the Nazarene.
Nazareth (band)
Nazareth (band), Scottish hard rock band formed 1968 in Dunfermline, also called Nazareth rock group. Hits "Hair of the Dog" and "Love Hurts"; founded by McCafferty, Charlton, Agnew, and Sweet; Pete Agnew remains the sole constant member.
Nazareth (الناصرة)
Nazareth (الناصرة, an-Nasira) is a city in Lower Galilee, Israel, the New Testament hometown of Jesus and today Israel's largest Arab city, about 78,000 residents, one third Christian, centered on the Basilica of the Annunciation.
Nazarín
Nazarín (1959) is Luis Buñuel's Mexican black-and-white drama adapted from Benito Pérez Galdós's 1895 novel, starring Francisco Rabal as a quixotic priest; it won the International Prize at Cannes 1959 and appears on the 1995 Vatican film list.
Nazario Martín
Nazario Martín is a Spanish organic chemist, full professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and deputy director of IMDEA Nanociencia, known for fullerene chemistry and molecular electronics.
Nazario Moreno González
Nazario Moreno González (El Chayo, El Más Loco), born 1970 in Apatzingán, co-founded and led La Familia Michoacana, built its pseudo-Christian ideology around Eldredge's Wild at Heart and his own Pensamientos, and was reported killed by federal forces on 9 December 2010, a death later disputed.
Nazarov cyclization
The Nazarov cyclization is an acid-catalyzed organic reaction, named after Russian chemist I. N. Nazarov, that converts divinyl ketones into cyclopentenones through a 4π conrotatory electrocyclization.
Nazarovskaya power station
Nazarovskaya power station (Nazarovskaya GRES) is a 1,373 MW coal-fired power station in Nazarovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Opened in 1961, it burns local brown coal and supplies most of Nazarovo's heat.
Nazca culture
The Nazca culture, also spelled Nasca, was a pre-Columbian society on Peru's south coast from about 100 BC to AD 700, known for polychrome ceramics and the Nazca Lines.
Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are large geoglyphs of animals, plants, and geometric figures made on Peru's arid coastal plain south of Lima between 500 BC and AD 500.
Nazca Plate
The Nazca Plate is an oceanic tectonic plate in the southeastern Pacific, formed from the Farallon Plate about 23 million years ago, that subducts beneath South America.
Nazca pottery
Nazca pottery, also spelled Nasca pottery, is the polychrome slip-painted ceramic ware of the Nasca culture of pre-Hispanic Peru, made from about 200 BCE to 650 CE.
Nazca Ridge
Nazca Ridge: volcanic aseismic ridge on the Nazca plate, ~1,100 km long, part of the Salas y Gómez hotspot trail (1.4-30 Ma lavas), now subducting flat-slab beneath southern Peru; 1996 Mw 8.0 earthquake; high marine endemism.
Nazem Kadri
Nazem Kadri (born 1990, London, Ontario) is a Canadian NHL center, drafted seventh overall by Toronto in 2009, a 2022 Stanley Cup champion with Colorado, later Calgary's scoring leader, and traded back to the Avalanche in March 2026.
Nazgûl
The Nazgûl (Black Speech "Ringwraiths"), also the Nine Riders or Black Riders, are Sauron's nine wraith-servants in Tolkien's Middle-earth, once mortal kings enslaved by Rings of Power; only the Witch-king and Khamûl are named.
Nazhat Shameem
Nazhat Shameem Khan (born 1960, Suva), Fijian jurist and diplomat; first woman DPP (1994) and High Court judge (1999) of Fiji, first UN Geneva ambassador, 2021 Human Rights Council President, ICC Deputy Prosecutor since 2021.
Nazi architecture
Nazi architecture: the building production of Nazi Germany 1933–1945, dominated by monumental classicism under Paul Ludwig Troost and Albert Speer, including the unrealized Germania plan for Berlin, the New Reich Chancellery, Tempelhof, and the Nuremberg rally grounds.
Nazi book burnings
Nazi book burnings: 1933 public burnings of "un-German" books by pro-Nazi German student groups (DSt, NSDStB), climaxing May 10, 1933 with about 20,000 volumes burned at Berlin's Opernplatz and over 25,000 in 34 university towns.
Nazi chic
Nazi chic: the use of Third Reich uniform styles, symbols, and imagery in fashion, from Nazi-era propaganda clothing to punk/goth shock wear, coded extremist brands (Lonsdale, Thor Steinar), and controversial runway and retail designs.
Nazi concentration camp badge
Nazi concentration camp badges, also called concentration camp symbols, were color-coded inverted triangles sewn onto prisoner uniforms from 1937–38 so SS guards could see the reason for imprisonment.
Nazi concentration camps
Nazi concentration camps (Konzentrationslager, KZ): SS-administered extralegal detention camps established from 1933, starting with Dachau, expanding to over 44,000 sites, sites of forced labor, murder, and postwar memorialization.
Nazi crimes against children
Nazi crimes against children: systematic murder of over 1 million Jewish children, the child euthanasia program killing at least 10,000 disabled German children, Auschwitz deportations of 232,000 minors, kidnapping for Germanization, and Hitler Youth indoctrination.
Nazi eugenics
Nazi eugenics, or racial hygiene (Rassenhygiene), was the Nazi regime's application of eugenic theory through the 1933 compulsory sterilization law, about 400,000 sterilizations, and the Aktion T4 murder of an estimated 250,000 disabled patients.
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany: the German dictatorship under Hitler and the Nazi Party, January 30, 1933 to May 7, 1945, also called the Third Reich; one-party terror state that launched World War II and perpetrated the Holocaust.
Nazi gold
Nazi gold, or Raubgold, is the gold looted by Nazi Germany in World War II from occupied central banks and from persecuted civilians and camp victims.
Nazi gold train
The Nazi gold train, also known as the Wałbrzych gold train, is a legendary armored train said to carry looted gold and art, hidden near Wałbrzych, Poland, in 1945.
Nazi gun control argument
The Nazi gun control argument claims Third Reich gun registration enabled the Nazis' rise and the Holocaust. Fact-checkers and scholars, citing Harcourt's analysis of the 1938 Weapons Law, rate it false: the law relaxed rules for most Germans while disarming Jews.
Nazi human experimentation
Nazi human experimentation: nonconsensual, often lethal medical experiments by German doctors on concentration camp prisoners, 1933–1945, at Dachau, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and other camps; prosecuted at the 1946–47 Doctors' Trial, which produced the ten-point Nuremberg Code.
Nazi hunter
Nazi hunter: term for people and organizations tracking Nazi war criminals after WWII. Key figures: Simon Wiesenthal, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld. Private leads, US DOJ OSI (1979), German Ludwigsburg office, last major case 2022.
Nazi Lowriders
Nazi Lowriders (NLR, The Ride): white supremacist prison and street gang founded in California Youth Authority facilities in the late 1970s, tied to the Aryan Brotherhood, dominant white gang in California prisons by the 1990s, active in meth trafficking.