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Nebeus

Nebeus is a crypto-backed lending and payments company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Barcelona with a London presence, offering loans collateralized by cryptocurrency, multi-currency payments, crypto-friendly IBANs, wallets, and cards.

Nebfaure

Nebfaure, also known as Khakherewre Nebfaure, was a pharaoh of Egypt's Fourteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1704 BC and known only from the Turin King List.

Nebiryaw I

Sewadjenre Nebiryaw I, also written Nebiriau I or Nebiryraw I, was a pharaoh of the Theban Sixteenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning about 26 years.

Nebiryaw II

Nebiryaw II, also written Nebiriau II or Nebiryerawet II, was a pharaoh of Egypt's 16th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, placed around 1601 BC and known only from the Turin King List.

Nebit

Nebit was a vizier of Egypt's 12th Dynasty during the Middle Kingdom, known chiefly from his mastaba at Dahshur, north of King Senwosret III's pyramid complex.

Nebius

Nebius, formerly Yandex N.V., is an Amsterdam-based, Nasdaq-listed AI infrastructure company created in 2024 from Yandex's non-Russian assets, with major contracts from Microsoft and Meta.

Nebius Group

Nebius Group is a Dutch company near Amsterdam that builds AI infrastructure through its Nebius cloud platform, renamed from Yandex N.V. and relisted on Nasdaq in 2024.

Nebius–Microsoft deal

The Nebius–Microsoft deal is a five-year commercial agreement, announced in 2025, under which Nebius provides Microsoft dedicated GPU infrastructure capacity from its new Vineland, New Jersey data center.

Nebivolol

Nebivolol, sold under the brand names Bystolic and Nebilet, is a third-generation, β1-selective beta blocker used to treat hypertension, approved in Europe in 1995 and in the United States in 2007.

Nebka

Nebka is the throne name of a pharaoh of Egypt's Third Dynasty, recorded first in the Abydos king list and Turin Canon, though scholars debate whether he was Sanakht.

Nebkaure Khety

Nebkaure Khety was a pharaoh of the Herakleopolitan Ninth or Tenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, c. 2160–2130 BC, known almost entirely from one inscribed weight.

Nebmaatre (pharaoh)

Nebmaatre is a poorly attested pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, tentatively assigned to the Seventeenth Dynasty and known only from a lion figure in the Petrie Museum.

Nebmaatre (prince)

Nebmaatre was an ancient Egyptian prince and High Priest of Re at Heliopolis in the 20th Dynasty, likely a son of Ramesses IX, known from a door lintel naming them together.

Nebnefer (foreman of Deir el-Medina)

Nebnefer, also written Nebnufer, was a foreman of the right side of the royal tomb crew at Deir el-Medina, son and successor of the foreman Neferhotep, in Dynasty 19.

Nebojsa Popovic

Nebojša Popović (Небојша Поповић) names several Balkan athletes: a handballer born 1947, Olympic gold 1972 with Yugoslavia, and a basketball pioneer 1923–2001, founder of KK Crvena zvezda.

Nebpu (High Priest of Ptah)

Nebpu was an ancient Egyptian priest of Ptah at Memphis during the Twelfth Dynasty, known from a sandstone family group statue now in the Louvre.

Nebra (Egyptian pharaoh)

Nebra, also written Raneb and called Kakau in later king lists, was the second king of Egypt's Second Dynasty, reigning around 2800 BCE and the first ruler to place the sun god in his royal name.

Nebra sky disc

The Nebra sky disc (Himmelsscheibe von Nebra) is an Early Bronze Age bronze disc with gold sun, crescent, and star symbols, buried near Nebra in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, around 1600 BC.

Nebraska

Nebraska is a Great Plains US state, admitted March 1, 1867, capital Lincoln, population about 2.0 million (2025 estimate). Agriculture is its leading industry; it has a unicameral tradition, prairie grasslands, and first-in-nation Medicaid work requirements.

Nebraska (album)

Nebraska is Bruce Springsteen's sixth studio album (Columbia, 30 September 1982), recorded solo on a four-track cassette in Colts Neck, New Jersey; it peaked at No. 3 in the US and UK and became a landmark home-recording record.

Nebraska (film)

Nebraska (2013) is Alexander Payne's black-and-white road comedy-drama, written by Bob Nelson, starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte, and June Squibb. Woody Grant travels from Billings, Montana to Lincoln, Nebraska chasing a $1 million sweepstakes prize; the film won Dern the Cannes Best Actor award and earned six Oscar nominations.

Nebraska City Station

Nebraska City Station is a two-unit, coal-fired power plant about five miles southeast of Nebraska City, Nebraska, owned and operated by the Omaha Public Power District since 1979.

Nebraska Cornhuskers football

Nebraska Cornhuskers football, also known as Nebraska football, is the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's intercollegiate team, playing since 1890 and winning five national championships, most recently in 1997.

Nebraska Democratic Party

Nebraska Democratic Party (NDP), state Democratic affiliate chaired by Jane Kleeb; organized via county parties and State Central Committee; heavily outnumbered by Republicans but competitive in Omaha's 2nd District and backing independent Dan Osborn in 2026.

Nebraska Department of Transportation

The Nebraska Department of Transportation (NDOT) is the state agency responsible for Nebraska's highways, bridges, rail, transit, and aviation, formed in 2017 by merging the Department of Roads with the Department of Aeronautics.

Nebraska Furniture Mart

Nebraska Furniture Mart is a home-furnishings retailer owned by Berkshire Hathaway, founded by Rose Blumkin in Omaha in 1937 and bought by Warren Buffett in 1983.

Nebraska Legislature

The Nebraska Legislature (the Unicameral) is the only single-house, officially nonpartisan state legislature in the United States, with 49 senators serving four-year terms, adopted by voters in 1934 and first convened January 5, 1937 after George Norris's campaign.

Nebraska Medical Center

The Nebraska Medical Center is a 718-bed academic hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, formed in 1997 by merging Clarkson and University hospitals; it is the University of Nebraska Medical Center's teaching hospital.

Nebraska Public Media

Nebraska Public Media, formerly NET, is Nebraska's statewide PBS and NPR broadcaster founded November 1, 1954 as KUON-TV, the ninth U.S. public TV station, governed by the Nebraska Educational Telecommunications Commission and the University of Nebraska.

Nebraska Public Power District

Nebraska Public Power District is a publicly owned, not-for-profit electric utility headquartered in Columbus, Nebraska, serving about 530,000 people across 84 of the state's 93 counties.