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Ngrin
Ngrin is a three-in-a-row alignment board game played by children in the Republic of Congo, documented by Klepzig 1972 and playable in the Ludii game database as DLP.Games.1193.
NGRIP (ice core)
NGRIP, or North Greenland Ice Core Project, is a 3,085-meter ice core drilled in northwestern Greenland from 1996 to 2003, providing the only continuous Greenlandic record of the Eemian interglacial.
NGTL System
The NGTL System is a natural gas gathering pipeline network in Alberta and northeastern British Columbia, owned by TC Energy and regulated by the Canada Energy Regulator.
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp
Ngư Tiều y thuật vấn đáp is a 3,644-line Vietnamese narrative poem by poet and physician Nguyễn Đình Chiểu that teaches traditional Eastern medicine in verse.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (James Thiong'o Ngũgĩ, 1938-2025), Kenyan novelist and playwright, wrote early novels in English, then switched to Gikuyu after imprisonment in 1977; author of Decolonising the Mind and Wizard of the Crow.
Ngujima-Yin
Ngujima-Yin is a floating production storage and offloading vessel operated by Woodside Energy, producing oil from the Vincent field and the Greater Enfield tieback offshore Western Australia since 2008.
Ngulungu
Ngulungu is a mancala-style sowing board game played by Basanga and Baluba children in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo, on a 4x7 board with three counters per hole, won by capturing all opponent pieces.
Ngungunhane
Ngungunhane (uNgungunhane kaMzila), also written Gungunhana, was the last emperor of the Gaza Empire in southern Mozambique, reigning from 1884 until his capture by the Portuguese in 1895.
Nguni people
The Nguni (also Ngoni) are a southern African Bantu-speaking people group including the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Ndebele, historically settled along the east coast between the Drakensberg and the sea, dispersed widely by the 19th-century Mfecane.
Nguni praise poetry
Nguni praise poetry, known as izibongo in isiZulu and isiXhosa, is the oral panegyric tradition of southern Africa's Nguni peoples, recited by a specialist called the imbongi to honor and define a person, clan, or ruler.
Người lái đò Sông Đà
Người lái đò Sông Đà (The Boatman of the Da River) is a Vietnamese tùy bút essay by Nguyễn Tuân, published in his 1960 collection Sông Đà.
Ngurah Rai International Airport
Ngurah Rai International Airport, also called Denpasar or Bali International Airport, serves Bali, Indonesia from Tuban, about 13 km from Denpasar, as the country's main tourist gateway.
Nguyen
Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn, character 阮) is the most common Vietnamese surname, borne by an estimated 30 to 39 percent of Vietnam's population, and the family name of its last royal dynasty.
Nguyen Anh's conquest of Vietnam
Nguyen Anh's conquest of Vietnam was the roughly quarter-century war in which Nguyen Anh, heir of the southern Nguyen lords, defeated the Tay Son dynasty and united Vietnam.
Nguyen Anh's recapture of Gia Dinh
Nguyen Anh's recapture of Gia Dinh was his 1788 reconquest of Saigon from the Tay Son, the base from which he became Emperor Gia Long.
Nguyen Anh's restoration movement
Nguyen Anh's restoration movement was the campaign led by Nguyen Phuc Anh from 1777 to 1802 to restore Nguyen rule after the Tay Son killed his family.
Nguyễn Bính
Nguyễn Bính (1918–1966) was a Vietnamese poet of the New Poetry movement, known for verse in the folk lục bát meter drawn from village life.
Nguyen Binh Khiem
Nguyen Binh Khiem (Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, 1491–1585) was a Vietnamese scholar and philosopher, known as Trang Trinh, who placed first in the 1535 imperial examinations and served the Mac dynasty.
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
Nguyen Cao Ky (Nguyễn Cao Kỳ), South Vietnamese air force general, prime minister 1965–1967 and vice president 1967–1971 under Nguyen Van Thieu; fled Saigon by helicopter in 1975, ran a liquor store in California, and returned to Vietnam in 2004.
Nguyễn Chí Thanh
Nguyễn Chí Thanh, born Nguyễn Vịnh (1914–1967), was a Vietnamese Senior General who led the General Political Department and then commanded the war in South Vietnam from 1964.
Nguyễn Công Hoan
Nguyễn Công Hoan (1903–1977) was a Vietnamese writer and journalist, a leading figure of Vietnamese critical realism, with over 200 short stories and nearly 30 novels and novellas.
Nguyen conquest of Champa
The Nguyen conquest of Champa was the step-by-step absorption of the Champa kingdom by the Nguyen lords of southern Vietnam, ending with the last uprising in 1835.
Nguyen Dang Quang
Nguyen Dang Quang (Nguyễn Đăng Quang) is a Vietnamese businessman who co-founded Masan Group, a Ho Chi Minh City consumer goods and retail conglomerate, and serves as its chairman.
Nguyen Dinh Chieu
Nguyen Dinh Chieu (Nguyễn Đình Chiểu), commonly called Do Chieu, was a blind Vietnamese poet, teacher, and physician best known for the verse tale Luc Van Tien.
Nguyen Du
Nguyen Du (Nguyễn Du) was a Vietnamese poet and mandarin who served the early Nguyen court from 1802 to 1820 and wrote the classical poem the Tale of Kieu.
Nguyễn Duy
Nguyễn Duy (Nguyễn Duy Nhuệ, born 1948) is a Vietnamese poet best known for the poem Ánh trăng and for modernizing the traditional lục bát verse form.
Nguyễn dynasty (阮朝)
The Nguyễn dynasty (阮朝, Nhà Nguyễn) was Vietnam's last imperial dynasty, 1802–1945. Founded by Gia Long after defeating the Tây Sơn, it ruled from Huế with 13 emperors, became a French protectorate in 1883, and ended with Bảo Đại's 1945 abdication.
Nguyễn dynasty's southern colonization program
The Nguyễn dynasty's southern colonization program was the state policy that settled the Mekong Delta in the first half of the 19th century through migration, military colonies, and canal building.
Nguyen expansion into the Mekong Delta
The Nguyen expansion into the Mekong Delta (Mở rộng về phương Nam) moved Vietnamese settlers into Khmer-ruled Mekong lands from the 1620s, ending with Gia Dinh phu in 1698.
Nguyen Gia Thieu
Nguyen Gia Thieu (Nguyễn Gia Thiều), also titled On Nhu Hau, was a Vietnamese military officer and poet of the Le–Trinh court, attributed author of Cung oán ngâm khúc.