All articles starting with N

Ng Mui (五枚)

Ng Mui (五枚, Wu Mei) is the legendary Buddhist nun and Shaolin elder credited in oral tradition with founding Wing Chun and teaching Yim Wing Chun; no historical evidence supports her existence.

Sep 19, 2026

Ng Teng Fong

Ng Teng Fong (黄廷方) was a Singapore property magnate who founded Far East Organization in 1960 and developed much of Orchard Road's shopping strip, dying in 2010.

NG-monomethyl-L-arginine

NG-monomethyl-L-arginine, also known as L-NMMA or tilarginine, is a methylated L-arginine derivative that inhibits nitric oxide synthase and became the standard tool for testing NO dependence.

NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester

NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) is a water-soluble methyl ester of L-NNA and a widely used nitric oxide synthase inhibitor, hydrolyzed by esterases to the active compound and standard for inducing experimental hypertension.

Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards

The Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards, established by Massey University in 2009 during Māori Language Week, recognized excellence in Māori writing and publishing in New Zealand.

Ngā Mōteatea

Ngā Mōteatea (The Songs) is a four-volume annotated collection of traditional Māori songs, compiled by Sir Āpirana Ngata and translated by Pei Te Hurinui Jones.

Nga wai hono i te po

Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō (Nga wai hono i te po) is the Māori Queen, eighth monarch of the Kīngitanga, raised up 5 September 2024 as daughter and successor of Kīngi Tūheitia, the second woman to hold the role.

Ngaio Marsh

Ngaio Marsh (Edith Ngaio Marsh, 1895-1982) was a New Zealand crime novelist and theatre director, one of the four Queens of Crime with Christie, Sayers, and Allingham. She wrote 32 detective novels featuring Inspector Roderick Alleyn and directed Shakespeare in Christchurch.

Oct 20, 2026

Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality

Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality (DC38) is a C2 district municipality in North West province, South Africa, seated at Mahikeng with five local municipalities, 937,723 residents (2022), and a record of adverse audit outcomes and R2.7 billion irregular expenditure in 2018-19.

Ngam Mueang

Ngam Mueang (งำเมือง) was the ninth king of Phayao in northern Thailand, reigning about 40 years from the late 1200s and allied with Mangrai of Lan Na and Ramkhamhaeng of Sukhothai.

Oct 21, 2026

Ngan Kyun

Ngan Kyun is a small island in Rakhine State, Myanmar, near the villages Pan Tu Ma and Nga Mauk Kywain, at 19.513°N, 93.815°E, elevation −3 m; GeoNames ID 1304546, Wikidata Q27698442.

Nganasan people

The Nganasans are an indigenous Samoyedic people of the Taimyr Peninsula in northern Siberia, the most northern inhabitants of the Eurasian landmass, who traditionally hunted wild reindeer and speak the endangered Nganasan language.

Ngano

Ngano is the Shona word for folk stories, an oral narrative tradition later written down and also applied to the comparable Venda folktale genre, told by a storyteller called the sarungano.

Ngāpuhi

Ngāpuhi is New Zealand's largest Māori iwi, based in Northland (Te Tai Tokerau) from Hokianga to the Bay of Islands. Descended from Rāhiri; signed He Whakaputanga 1835 and Te Tiriti 1840; fought the Crown in the 1845–46 Northern War.

Oct 21, 2026

Ngaremeduu Biosphere Reserve

Ngaremeduu Biosphere Reserve is a UNESCO biosphere reserve on Babeldaob Island, Palau, approved in 2005 as one of the Pacific's first two, protecting Micronesia's largest bay and estuary.

Ngāti Kahungunu

Ngāti Kahungunu, a Māori iwi of New Zealand's east coast from Māhia Peninsula to Cape Palliser, descends from Kahungunu of the Tākitimu canoe; third-largest iwi, 95,751 affiliates at the 2023 Census, governed by Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated.

Ngāti Porou

Ngāti Porou is a Māori iwi on New Zealand's East Coast. Its governance entity, Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou, negotiated a $110 million Treaty settlement in 2010.

Ngāti Toa

Ngāti Toa (Ngāti Toarangatira), a Tainui-descended Māori iwi from Kāwhia, migrated south under Te Rauparaha in the 1820s, dominated the Cook Strait region from Kāpiti Island, and settled with the Crown in 2014.

Sep 23, 2026

Ngawang Namgyal

Ngawang Namgyal (ངག་དབང་རྣམ་རྒྱལ), known in Bhutan as the Zhabdrung, was a Tibetan Drukpa Kagyu master who fled to Bhutan in 1616 and unified its valleys into a single state.

Oct 21, 2026

Ngaya

Ngaya is a children's mancala (sowing) board game from the Republic of Congo, played on holes dug in the ground with two or more players; players sow counters rightward, and the last player owning holes wins.

Ngazargamu

Ngazargamu, also Birni Ngazargamu, was the walled capital city of the Kanem-Bornu Empire, founded by Mai Ali Gaji in the late 1400s near the Komadugu Yobe river in present-day Yobe State, Nigeria.

NGC 1039

NGC 1039, also cataloged as Messier 34 (M34), is an intermediate-aged open star cluster in Perseus about 1,400 light years away, bright enough to see with the naked eye.

NGC 1052

NGC 1052 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus, about 20 megaparsecs away, notable for a LINER active nucleus and a double-sided radio jet seen nearly edge-on.

NGC 1052-DF2

NGC 1052-DF2, often shortened to DF2, is an ultra-diffuse galaxy in Cetus reported in 2018 to contain little or no dark matter, despite being almost as wide as the Milky Way.

NGC 1052-DF2 and NGC 1052-DF4

NGC 1052-DF2 and NGC 1052-DF4 (DF2 and DF4) are two ultra-diffuse galaxies, about 20 megaparsecs away, that appear to contain little or no dark matter.

NGC 1097

NGC 1097, also cataloged as Caldwell 67, is a barred spiral galaxy in Fornax about 45 million light-years away, hosting an actively feeding supermassive black hole.

NGC 1261

NGC 1261, also known as Caldwell 87, is a globular cluster in the southern constellation Horologium about 50,000 light-years from Earth, discovered by James Dunlop in 1826.

NGC 1275

NGC 1275, also known as Perseus A and 3C 84, is the giant elliptical galaxy at the center of the Perseus cluster, a strong X-ray and radio source 230 million light-years away.

NGC 1316

NGC 1316, also known as Fornax A, is a lenticular galaxy in Fornax about 62 to 75 million light-years away and one of the strongest radio sources in the sky.