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Nectanebo II's resistance to Persia
Nectanebo II's resistance to Persia, also called the defense of Egypt against Artaxerxes III, ended sixty-five years of Egyptian independence when Artaxerxes III reconquered Egypt around 343 BC.
Nectar
Nectar is a sugar-rich fluid produced by plants in glands called nectaries as a reward for pollinators, while extrafloral nectar attracts ants that defend the plant against herbivores.
Nectar in a Sieve
Nectar in a Sieve is a 1954 novel by the Indian writer Kamala Markandaya, telling of Rukmani, a tenant farmer's wife whose rural life is undone by poverty and industrialization.
Nectar Woode
Nectar Woode (Nectar Abena Nyantekyewaa Woode, born 1999) is an English neo-soul singer-songwriter from Milton Keynes of Ghanaian-English heritage, signed to Since '93/Sony; EPs Nothing to Lose, Head Above Water, It's Like I Never Left, and the 2026 mixtape Naturally featuring Elton John.
Nectarine cultivars
Nectarine cultivars are named, propagated varieties of the smooth-skinned form of peach, differing from peaches by a single recessive gene and bred for flesh color and ripening season.
Nectarinia
Nectarinia is a genus of sunbirds (Nectariniidae) established by Illiger in 1811, once a vast genus of about 80 species but reduced after molecular phylogenies showed it non-monophyletic, with many species moved to Cinnyris; it retains the malachite sunbird.
Nectaris Fossae
Nectaris Fossae is a system of tectonic fractures and graben on Mars, on Thaumasia Planum south of the Valles Marineris canyons, named by the IAU in 1985.
Nectaris Montes
Nectaris Montes, a 220-km-wide montes (mountain) region on Mars in Coprates Chasma of Valles Marineris, centered at -14.64°, 305.35°E; IAU-named 2015 from Antoniadi's classical albedo feature Nectaris, with HiRISE-imaged dunes.
Nectarius
Nectarius, a Cilician senator and former praetor, was patriarch of Constantinople from 381 to 397, chosen by Emperor Theodosius I while still unbaptized and succeeded by John Chrysostom.
NECTIN1
NECTIN1 (PVRL1, CD111) encodes nectin-1, an immunoglobulin-superfamily cell adhesion molecule at adherens junctions, the main HSV-1/HSV-2 entry receptor, and the gene mutated in CLPED1 cleft lip-palate ectodermal dysplasia.
NECTIN2
NECTIN2 (PVRL2, CD112, PRR2, HVEB), gene at 19q13.32 encoding nectin-2, an Ig-superfamily adherens junction adhesion protein, herpes/pseudorabies virus entry receptor, and ligand for TIGIT, CD226, CD96, and PVRIG in cancer immunology.
NECTIN4
NECTIN4 (Nectin-4, PVRL4) is a transmembrane cell adhesion protein overexpressed in bladder, breast, lung, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers and the target of the approved antibody-drug conjugate enfortumab vedotin for urothelial carcinoma.
Nectomys
Nectomys (Neotropical water rats), genus Peters 1861 of sigmodontine cricetid rodents; 3 semiaquatic South American species including N. squamipes and N. rattus, with partially webbed feet, eating crabs, fruit, and fungi in swamps and riparian forest.
Nectria
Nectria (Fr.) Fr. 1849, type N. cinnabarina, a genus of Nectriaceae fungi (Hypocreales) that are saprophytes or weak parasites of woody plants, causing coral spot, twig blight, and Nectria canker; not the sea-star genus Nectria Gray, 1840.
Necturus
Necturus (mudpuppies, waterdogs) is a genus of neotenic, fully aquatic Proteidae salamanders of eastern North America, retaining reddish external gills for life; the mudpuppy N. maculosus is Canada's largest salamander, with several species of conservation concern.
Neculai Taga
Neculai Taga (Neculai Țaga, Nicolae Taga), Romanian rower born 1967, won gold in the coxed four and bronze in the coxed pair at Barcelona 1992, placed seventh in the eight at Atlanta 1996, and won world titles in 1993, 1996, and 1999.
Necuvintele
Necuvintele, Romanian for "The Non-Words," is a 1969 poetry volume by Nichita Stănescu, built around invented "non-words" naming things directly and winning the 1969 Writers' Union of Romania Prize.
Ned (Scottish)
Ned is a derogatory Scottish informal term for a lout or young hooligan in sportswear, recorded from the early 19th century; 'non-educated delinquent' is a folk backronym, and Ned Culture was a Glasgow youth subculture of c. 1995-2008.
Ned A. Porter
Ned A. Porter is an American organic chemist at Vanderbilt University known for working out how lipids oxidize by free radicals, linking the chemistry to disease.
Ned Barnholt
Edward W. (Ned) Barnholt (born 1943) is an American business executive who spent 33 years at Hewlett-Packard before leading Agilent Technologies as CEO from its 1999 spin-off until 2005.
Ned Beatty
Ned Beatty (Ned Thomas Beatty) was an American character actor whose films included Deliverance (1972), Network (1976), and Superman (1978); he was nominated for an Academy Award for Network.
Ned Cummins
Ned Cummins (Edward McClellan Cummins, 1886-1926), American golfer of Chicago's Exmoor Country Club; won 1904 Olympic team gold with the Western Golf Association and placed =17 in the individual event.
Ned Flanders
Ned Flanders (Nedward Flanders, Jr.), The Simpsons' cheerful evangelical Christian neighbor voiced by Harry Shearer; debuted 1989, runs the Leftorium, and gave his name to the trope "Flanderization".
Ned H. Kalin
Ned H. Kalin is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist, chair of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin since 1991, known for research on the brain mechanisms of anxiety.
Ned Kelly
Ned Kelly (Edward Kelly, 1854/1855–1880), Australian bushranger and leader of the Kelly Gang; Stringybark Creek murders, Euroa and Jerilderie robberies, Jerilderie letter, Glenrowan siege in plough-steel armour; hanged 11 November 1880.
Ned Kelly (2003 film)
Ned Kelly (2003) is an Australian-British biographical drama directed by Gregor Jordan, starring Heath Ledger as the bushranger, adapted from Robert Drewe's novel Our Sunshine, released March 2003, with Orlando Bloom, Naomi Watts and Geoffrey Rush.
Ned Lamb
Ned J. C. Lamb is a molecular biologist and CNRS research director in Montpellier, known for 1990–1991 Cell papers on cyclin A and p34cdc2 kinase.
Ned Lamont
Ned Lamont (Edward Miner Lamont Jr.), 89th governor of Connecticut since January 2019, Democratic politician and former telecom entrepreneur who defeated Senator Joe Lieberman in the 2006 primary, cut income taxes, ran the COVID-19 response, and seeks a third term.
Ned Leeds
Ned Leeds (Edward Leeds) is a Marvel Comics Daily Bugle reporter created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #18 (1964); revealed as a brainwashed Hobgoblin stand-in for Roderick Kingsley, and the name of Peter Parker's MCU best friend played by Jacob Batalon.
Ned Luke
Ned Luke (born 1958, Danville, Illinois) is an American actor and voice actor, the voice, motion-capture performer, and character model of Michael De Santa in Grand Theft Auto V and GTA Online.