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Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden
Nia Liston: The Merciless Maiden (凶乱令嬢ニア・リストン) is a Japanese light novel series by Umikaze Minamino about a god-slaying hero reincarnated as a sickly noble girl; published by Hobby Japan (HJ Bunko), translated by J-Novel Club, adapted as a TV anime premiering October 6, 2026.
Nia Long
Nia Long (Nitara Carlynn Long, born 1970) is an American actress known for Boyz n the Hood, Love Jones, Friday, The Best Man franchise, Fresh Prince, Third Watch, and MICHAEL.
Nia Mensa
Nia Mensa is a 95-km-wide sedimentary mesa in eastern Candor Chasma, Valles Marineris, Mars; IAU-approved April 17, 2015, named for Antoniadi's classical albedo feature Nia, one of Mars' tallest sedimentary mounds.
Nia Nal
Nia Nal, alias Dreamer, is a DC superhero created for The CW's Supergirl in 2018, played by Nicole Maines; the first transgender superhero on TV, an ancestor of Nura Nal/Dream Girl, later written into DC Comics by Maines.
Nia Peeples
Nia Peeples (Virenia Gwendolyn Peeples, born 1961) is an American actress, singer, and dancer known for Fame, Walker Texas Ranger, Pretty Little Liars, the 1988 dance hit Trouble, and hosting Top of the Pops and The Party Machine.
Nia Sharma
Nia Sharma (born Neha Sharma, 1990, Delhi) is an Indian television actress known for Ek Hazaaron Mein Meri Behna Hai, Jamai Raja, Naagin 4, the Khatron Ke Khiladi Made in India win, and her 2024 comeback in Suhagan Chudail.
Nia Sioux
Nia Sioux (Nia Sioux Frazier), born 2001 in Pittsburgh, is an American dancer, singer, actress, and author, the longest-running original cast member of Dance Moms (2011–2017), later a UCLA graduate, Bold and the Beautiful actress, and author of the 2025 memoir Bottom of the Pyramid.
NIA Valencia
NIA Valencia: the NIA Bukidnon Irrigation Management Office in Bagontaas, Valencia City, Bukidnon, Philippines, managing the Pulangui River Irrigation System and recent canal and flume construction projects.
Nia Vallis
Nia Vallis is a 140 km valley on Mars near the Argyre basin, IAU-approved in 1991 as a Lowell canal and classical river name; a small outflow channel entering the basin.
Nia Vardalos
Nia Vardalos (Antonia Eugenia Vardalos), born 1962 in Winnipeg, is a Greek-Canadian actress-screenwriter who created and starred in My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002), the Oscar-nominated indie hit that became the top-grossing romantic comedy.
Niagara (1953 film)
Niagara (1953) is a Henry Hathaway Technicolor film noir from Twentieth Century-Fox, starring Marilyn Monroe in her first top-billed, color role as murderous wife Rose Loomis, with Joseph Cotten and Jean Peters, shot on location at Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Niagara (The Office)
Niagara (The Office), parts 1 and 2: hour-long season 6 episode (episodes 4-5) written by Greg Daniels and Mindy Kaling, directed by Paul Feig, aired October 8, 2009 on NBC; Jim and Pam wed at Niagara Falls with the 'Forever' aisle dance.
Niagara County
Niagara County, New York: westernmost-tier county founded 1808 from Genesee County, seat Lockport since 1823, home to Niagara Falls; 212,666 residents (2020), 3 cities and 12 towns, tourism- and manufacturing-driven economy bordering Canada.
Niagara Escarpment
The Niagara Escarpment is a dolostone-capped cuesta over 1,000 km long through Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario, and New York, forming Niagara Falls, carved by Pleistocene ice streams, and protected by Ontario's 1985 Niagara Escarpment Plan and a 1990 UNESCO Biosphere Reserve designation.
Niagara Falls
Niagara Falls: three waterfalls (Horseshoe, American, Bridal Veil) on the Canada-US Niagara River between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario; 57 m Horseshoe drop, 168,000 m3/min peak flow, 1950 Treaty flow limits, hydropower, and 12,500-year erosion history.
Niagara Falls Bridge Commission
The Niagara Falls Bridge Commission is a bi-national agency operating the three international bridges over the Niagara River between Ontario and New York, created in 1938.
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge
The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, also called the International Suspension Bridge, was designed by John A. Roebling and completed in 1855 as the world's first working railway suspension bridge.
Niagara Falls, New York
Niagara Falls, New York: border city in Niagara County, site of America's oldest state park (1885), Tesla's 1895 Adams Power Plant, and the Love Canal Superfund legacy; population fell 51% from its 1960 peak to about 47,000.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls, Ontario is a city of 94,415 beside the Niagara Falls waterfalls, known as the Honeymoon Capital of the World and drawing about 14 million visitors a year.
Niagara Mohawk (NIMO)
Niagara Mohawk (NIMO) is Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, a regulated electric utility in upstate New York with about 3.2 million customers, owned by National Grid since 2002.
Niagara River
The Niagara River connects Lake Erie to Lake Ontario along the New York–Ontario border, drops 160 feet at Niagara Falls, and is governed by the 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty and 1950 Niagara Diversion Treaty, which split power diversions equally while preserving scenic flow.
Niagara Scow
Niagara Scow, also called the Iron Scow or Old Scow: a steel dumping barge stranded in the upper Niagara River rapids since August 6, 1918, about 600 meters above Horseshoe Falls, site of a famous breeches-buoy rescue.
Niagara-on-the-Lake
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario town at the mouth of the Niagara River, formerly Newark and Niagara; first capital of Upper Canada 1792-1796, national historic site with 1815-1859 buildings, Shaw Festival, and wine country.
NiAl
NiAl (nickel aluminide) is an intermetallic compound of nickel and aluminum with a high melting point, low density, and excellent oxidation resistance, but brittle at room temperature.
Nialamide
Nialamide (Niamid) is a hydrazine-derived, non-selective monoamine oxidase inhibitor marketed by Pfizer as one of the first antidepressant drugs from 1959 until its withdrawal in 1963 over food-interaction side effects.
Niall Dillon
Niall Dillon is a chromatin and gene-regulation biologist, professor at Imperial College London, who led the Gene Regulation and Chromatin Group at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre.
Niall Ferguson
Niall Ferguson, British-American historian (born 1964), Hoover Institution senior fellow and Belfer Center faculty fellow; author of The Pity of War, Empire, The Ascent of Money, Civilization, and the authorized Kissinger biography; knighted 2024.
Niall Horan
Niall Horan, Irish singer-songwriter (born 1993, Mullingar), former One Direction member and solo artist behind Flicker, Heartbreak Weather, The Show, and Dinner Party.
Niall Mac Dowell
Niall Mac Dowell is Professor of Future Energy Systems at Imperial College London, where he models carbon capture, storage, and removal, and advised the UK government on net zero.
Niall Matter
Niall Matter, born 1980 in Edmonton, Alberta, is a Canadian actor best known as Zane Donovan on Eureka, lead Evan Cross in Primeval: New World, Mothman in Watchmen, and as a Hallmark movie regular.