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Nederlandse Spoorwegen
Nederlandse Spoorwegen, also known as Dutch Railways or NS, is the principal passenger railway operator of the Netherlands, headquartered in Utrecht and owned by the Dutch state.
Nedim
Nedim (نديم), born Ahmed, was an Ottoman poet and scholar of the Tulip Era under Sultan Ahmed III, dying in the 1730 Patrona Halil Rebellion.
Nedim Gürsel
Nedim Gürsel, born 1951 in Gaziantep, is a Turkish novelist and critic who has lived in Paris since 1971, teaching Turkish literature at the Sorbonne and working at CNRS.
Nedim Remili
Nedim Remili (born 1995, Créteil) is a French handball right back and centre back for One Veszprém HC; 2017 world champion, Tokyo 2020 Olympic gold medalist, and MVP of Euro 2024, withdrawn injured from Euro 2026.
Nedjeh
Nedjeh is a name, or possibly a title, attached in two Second Intermediate Period inscriptions to a ruler of Kush, the Kerma-based kingdom that dominated Lower Nubia.
Nedjemibre
Nedjemibre, also spelled Nedjemibra, was an obscure king of Egypt's Thirteenth Dynasty, dated to about 1780 BC and known essentially from a single entry in the Turin King List.
Nedjma
Nedjma (نجمة, "star") is a 1956 novel in French by the Algerian writer Kateb Yacine, often called the founding novel of Algerian literature and a turning point in Maghrebi fiction.
nEDM@PSI
nEDM@PSI is a series of experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland that search for a permanent electric dipole moment of the neutron using ultracold neutrons.
Nedo Nadi
Nedo Nadi (1893-1940), Italian fencer, brother of Aldo Nadi; won six Olympic golds, and at Antwerp 1920 became the only fencer to win gold in foil, épée, and sabre at one Games.
Nedocromil
Nedocromil is a synthetic cromone drug that stabilizes mast cells and reduces inflammation, developed by Fisons in the 1970s and sold as the asthma inhaler Tilade and eye drops Alocril.
Nedolya Tesserae
Nedolya Tesserae (Недоля), a 1,200 km tile-like tessera terrain feature on Venus at 5.0N, 294.0E, IAU-approved 1997 and named for the East Slavic bad fate goddess.
Nedra Talley
Nedra Talley (Nedra Yvonne Talley Ross), born 1946, was a founding member and last survivor of the Ronettes, singing "Be My Baby" with cousins Ronnie Spector and Estelle Bennett, then turning to gospel music.
Nedre Dalälven River Landscape Biosphere Reserve
Nedre Dalälven River Landscape (Älvlandskapet Nedre Dalälven), a UNESCO biosphere reserve in central Sweden designated 2011, spanning 170 km of the lower Dalälven across nine municipalities, with Färnebofjärden National Park as core area and four sustainability focus areas.
Nedre Eiker
Nedre Eiker, former Norwegian municipality in Buskerud with center Mjøndalen, population 24,963 (2019); merged with Drammen and Svelvik into Drammen kommune on 1 January 2020 under the municipal reform.
Neds
Neds (NEDS, Non-Educated Delinquents) is Peter Mullan's 2010 drama about Glasgow schoolboy John McGill's fall into 1970s gang violence; Golden Shell winner, starring Conor McCarron.
Nedstack
Nedstack Fuel Cell Technology is a Dutch manufacturer of PEM fuel cell stacks in Arnhem, founded in 1999 by AkzoNobel and ECN, declared bankrupt in 2024.
Nedum Onuoha
Nedum Onuoha, born 1986 in Warri, Nigeria, is an English retired defender of Manchester City, Sunderland, QPR, and Real Salt Lake, now an ESPN soccer analyst and podcast host.
Nedumudi Venu
Nedumudi Venu (നെടുമുടി വേണു), born Kesavan Venugopal (1948–2021), was a Malayalam film actor in over 500 films; debut Thambu (1978), three National Film Awards, six Kerala State Awards, Padma Shri.
Nedunalvadai
Nedunalvadai (நெடுநல்வாடை), meaning "the long, good north wind," is a classical Tamil Sangam poem of 188 lines by Nakkīrar, the seventh of the Pattuppattu, praising the Pandya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ.
Neecha Nagar (नीचा नगर)
Neecha Nagar (नीचा नगर), 1946 Hindi drama, Chetan Anand's debut based on Gorky's The Lower Depths; shared the Grand Prix (Palme d'Or) at the first Cannes festival, the only Indian film to do so, but was never properly released in India.
Need
Need (psychology): a biological or psychological requirement whose deprivation motivates goal-directed action. Covers Murray's need taxonomy, Maslow's 1943 hierarchy, McClelland's nAch/nAff/nPow, and self-determination theory's autonomy, competence, relatedness.
Need for Speed
Need for Speed is a racing video game franchise published by Electronic Arts since 1994, known for arcade street racing, car customization, and police pursuit gameplay, with over 150 million copies sold.
Need for Speed (2015 video game)
Need for Speed (2015) is Ghost Games' reboot, the series' 20th main entry, released November 3, 2015 on PS4 and Xbox One. Night-only Ventura Bay street racing, Five Ways to Play, live-action cutscenes, always-online requirement, mixed reviews.
Need for Speed (film)
Need for Speed is a 2014 American action film directed by Scott Waugh, starring Aaron Paul and Dominic Cooper, adapted from the Electronic Arts racing game franchise.
Need for Speed Heat
Need for Speed Heat (NFS Heat) is a 2019 open-world street racing game by Ghost Games and EA for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, set in Palm City with day races for Bank, night races for Rep, and police pursuit; Metacritic 72.
Need for Speed Payback
Need for Speed Payback is a 2017 Ghost Games/EA open-world arcade racing game for PC, PS4, and Xbox One, set in Fortune Valley against the cartel The House, with a criticized random Speed Card upgrade system and mixed reviews (Metacritic PC 62).
Need for Speed Rivals
Need for Speed: Rivals (2013), Ghost Games' open-world cop-versus-racer racer with the AllDrive shared-world system. Metacritic 75-80; EA shut down its online servers October 7, 2025, leaving offline play.
Need for Speed Unbound
Need for Speed Unbound (NFS Unbound) is Criterion Games' 2022 open-world street racing game for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC, set in Lakeshore City, with anime graffiti effects, A$AP Rocky, Lakeshore Online, and Volume 9 as its final update.
Need for Speed: Carbon
Need for Speed: Carbon is a 2006 EA Black Box street racing game set in Palmont, introducing crew racing, canyon duels, and Autosculpt customization; released October 31, 2006 on 10+ platforms, Metacritic 77.
Need for Speed: Carbon – Own the City
Need for Speed: Carbon – Own the City is EA's 2006 handheld-exclusive spinoff of NFS Carbon for PSP, DS, GBA, and Zeebo, set in Coast City with a revenge story, wingmen crews, and free roam, distinct from the console game.