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NES Classic Edition
NES Classic Edition (Nintendo Classic Mini NES) is Nintendo's 2016 microconsole with 30 pre-loaded NES games, HDMI output, Suspend Point saves, $59.99 price; discontinued April 2017 after 2.3 million units.
NES Four Score and Satellite
NES Four Score and NES Satellite: Nintendo's two official four-player multitap adapters for the NES. The 1990 wired Four Score adds turbo; the earlier infrared Satellite needs six C batteries and line of sight.
NES Zapper
NES Zapper: Nintendo's 1984/1985 NES light gun peripheral (Famicom Beam Gun), a single-photodiode gun detecting hits via black-frame and white-box CRT flashes; CRT-only, 17 games including Duck Hunt, grey then orange from 1989.
Nesactium
Nesactium (Nezakcij, Vizače) was the Iron Age capital of the Histri on Glavica hill near Valtura, Istria, destroyed by Rome in 177 BCE under King Epulon, later a Roman municipium, abandoned after 7th-century Avar-Slavic raids.
Nesamun (priest of Amun)
Nesamun was a Second Prophet of Amun at Thebes at the end of the 20th Dynasty, son of the High Priest Ramessesnakht, attested under Ramesses IX and Ramesses XI.
NESARA
NESARA (National Economic Stabilization and Recovery Act) is a 1990s reform proposal by Harvey F. Barnard that would replace the income tax with a 14 percent national sales tax; it was never introduced in Congress.
Nesbitt Hagood
Nesbitt W. Hagood IV is an American aeronautical engineer and former MIT professor who founded the Active Materials and Structures Laboratory and later the display company Pixtronix, acquired by Qualcomm.
Nescafé
Nescafé is Nestlé's instant and ready-to-drink coffee brand, launched in Switzerland on April 1, 1938 from Max Morgenthaler's soluble coffee process; it spans Classic, Gold, Dolce Gusto, 3 in 1 and Espresso Concentrate, backed by the Nescafé Plan sustainability program.
NESCAV syndrome
NESCAV syndrome, formerly autosomal dominant intellectual disability type 9, is a rare neurodegenerative KIF1A disorder beginning in infancy, causing developmental delay, absent speech, and progressive lower-limb spasticity.
Nescio
Nescio, Latin for "I don't know", was the pen name of Dutch writer Jan Hendrik Frederik Grönloh (1882–1961), best known for the novellas De uitvreter and Titaantjes.
Neserkauhor
Neserkauhor was a prince of ancient Egypt's Fifth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom, reported as a son of King Djedkare Isesi and buried in the royal necropolis at Abusir.
Neşet Ertaş
Neşet Ertaş (1938–2012), who wrote under the pen name Garip, was a Turkish Abdal folk singer and bağlama player from Kırşehir, known as Bozkırın Tezenesi, the plectrum of the steppe.
Neseuretus
Neseuretus (Hicks, 1873) is a genus of Ordovician calymenid trilobites, type species N. ramseyensis, abundant on Gondwana's shallow shelves; Armorican species N. avus, N. tristani, and N. tardus form a biostratigraphic sequence.
Neshat Esfahani
Neshat Esfahani (نشاط اصفهانی), full name Mirza Abdolvahab Mousavi, was a Qajar-era Iranian poet, calligrapher, and statesman who served as Iran's first foreign minister under Fath-Ali Shah.
Neshor
Neshor, also written Nesuhor, was a general and administrator of Egypt's 26th Dynasty under Psamtik II and Apries, appointed governor of the Door of the Southern Countries at Elephantine.
Nesiarchos
Nesiarchos, or nesiarch (Greek νησίαρχος), was the civilian head of the League of the Islanders, a Cycladic federation under Ptolemaic patronage in the early 3rd century BC.
Nesil Caliskan
Nesil Caliskan, born Nesil Cazimoglu, is a British Labour politician who has been MP for Barking since 2024 and was leader of Enfield Council from 2018.
Nesimi
Nesimi (نسیمی) was a Hurufi poet of the late 14th and early 15th centuries who wrote in Azerbaijani Turkic and Persian and was flayed alive in Aleppo around 1417.
Nesippaya (நெசிப்பாயா)
Nesippaya (நேசிப்பாயா, 'Will you love me?') is a 2025 Tamil romantic action thriller directed by Vishnuvardhan, starring debutant Akash Murali and Aditi Shankar; released 14 January 2025 for Pongal, set in Portugal, music by Yuvan Shankar Raja.
Nesiritide
Nesiritide (Natrecor) is a recombinant form of human B-type natriuretic peptide, approved by the FDA in 2001 as an intravenous treatment for acutely decompensated heart failure.
Nesisti-Pedubast
Nesisti-Pedubast was a High Priest of Ptah at Memphis in Ptolemaic Egypt, appointed in 263/2 BC; he is the earliest high priest known from the Ptolemaic era.
Nesitanebetashru
Nesitanebetashru is the name of two Egyptian women of the late 21st Dynasty, 10th century BC, one buried in the Royal Cache at Deir el-Bahari.
Nesitaudjatakhet
Nesitaudjatakhet is an obscurely attested royal woman of ancient Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, a family of Libyan descent that ruled the eastern Delta from Tanis and Bubastis from 945 BC.
Nesjavellir Power Station
The Nesjavellir Power Station (Nesjavallavirkjun) is a geothermal combined heat and power plant in southwest Iceland, 30 km east of Reykjavik, with 120 MW of electrical capacity.
Neskhons
Neskhons, also known as Nesykhonsu, was a principal wife of the High Priest of Amun Pinedjem II at Thebes during Egypt's 21st Dynasty, around 988–966 BC.
Neslihan Atagül
Neslihan Atagül (born 1992, Istanbul) is a Turkish actress known for Yaprak Dökümü, Fatih Harbiye, Kara Sevda (first Turkish International Emmy winner) and Sefirin Kızı, and for Araf's Tokyo Best Actress award; married to Kadir Doğulu.
Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds (Институт элементоорганических соединений имени А. Н. Несмеянова)
Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds (INEOS RAS, Институт элементоорганических соединений), a Russian Academy of Sciences chemistry institute in Moscow founded 1954 by Aleksandr Nesmeyanov; first worldwide institute of organoelement chemistry, Order of Lenin 1967, known for dinitrogen fixation and carbyne.
Nesmith Ankeny
Nesmith Cornett Ankeny (1927–1993) was an American analytic number theorist and MIT professor, known for his 1952 bound on the least quadratic non-residue and the Ankeny–Artin–Chowla conjecture.
Neso
Neso (Neptune XIII, S/2002 N 4) is a small retrograde irregular moon of Neptune discovered in 2002 with the Blanco telescope. It orbits about 48.4 million km out with a 9,374-day period, eccentricity 0.495, and may be a fragment of a broken larger moon.
Neso Brands
Neso Brands was a Singapore-based house of direct-to-consumer eyewear brands launched by Lenskart in May 2022 with over $100 million in seed funding, and was acquired back by the Lenskart Group in 2024.