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Naira Marley
Naira Marley (Azeez Adeshina Fashola, born 1994, Agege, Lagos) is a Nigerian Afrobeats and street-pop artist, founder of Marlian Records (2019), leader of the Marlians fan movement, and hitmaker of "Issa Goal" and "Soapy".
Naira Singhania Goenka
Naira Singhania Goenka is a fictional character in the television series Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, played by Shivangi Joshi from 2016 to 2021 and anchoring the show's second generation.
Nairang-e-Khayal
Nairang-e-Khayal (نیرنگ خیال, "The Wonder-Show of Imagination") is an Urdu literary magazine launched in Lahore in July 1924 under editor Hakim Muhammad Yusuf Hasan, publishing fiction, poetry, and criticism.
Nairo Quintana
Nairo Quintana (Nairo Quintana Rojas) is a Colombian road racing climber who won the 2014 Giro d'Italia and the 2016 Vuelta a España, retiring in 2026.
Nairobi
Nairobi, capital of Kenya and East Africa's most populous city (about 3.5 million), founded 1899 as Uganda railway headquarters; county of 696.1 km2 at 1,798 m altitude with 17 sub-counties, governed by a county assembly and governor.
Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack
The Nairobi DusitD2 complex attack (January 15–16, 2019) was an al-Shabaab assault on the DusitD2 hotel and offices at 14 Riverside Drive, Nairobi, killing 21 people; the first such operation led by non-Somali Kenyans.
Nairobi Expressway
The Nairobi Expressway is a 27.1 km tolled highway in Nairobi, Kenya, opened in 2022 and cutting airport-to-downtown travel from 2 hours to 20 minutes.
Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks
The Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks is a maritime treaty adopted in Nairobi in 2007 and in force since 2015, letting coastal states remove hazardous shipwrecks.
Nairobi National Park
Nairobi National Park, Kenya's first national park (gazetted 1946, first in East Africa), a 117 km² savannah park 7–10 km from Nairobi's city center, fenced except on the open southern Mbagathi River boundary toward the Kitengela plains, home to black rhinos, lions, and 400+ bird species.
Nairobi sheep disease
Nairobi sheep disease (NSD), caused by Nairobi sheep disease virus (NSDV, Ganjam virus), is a tick-borne orthonairovirus disease of sheep and goats with hemorrhagic gastroenteritis and up to 90% mortality in naive animals; first described in Kenya in 1910, proposed for delisting by WOAH in 2025.
Nairobi–Mombasa Road
The Nairobi–Mombasa Road (A109) is Kenya's main highway, linking the capital to the port of Mombasa over roughly 480 km as part of the Northern Corridor.
NAIRU
NAIRU, the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment, is the unemployment rate at which inflation is stable; below it inflation accelerates, and it is estimated, not observed.
Nais (Lydia)
Nais was a minor town of ancient Lydia in western Anatolia, in modern Turkey, known chiefly through its association with the Naeitenses, whose dependent settlement lay in southeastern Lydia.
Naisar
Naisar denotes two unrelated sites: Naresar, a group of about 20 early Pratihara stone temples in Morena district, Madhya Pradesh, India, and Niasar, an Iranian village near Kashan with a Sasanian chahartaq fire temple and a Parthian-era Mithraic cave.
Naisen ittai
Naisen ittai (內鮮一體, 내선일체, "Japan and Korea as One Body") was the official assimilationist slogan of Japanese colonial rule in Korea, adopted by Governor-General Minami Jiro in August 1936.
NAISH
Naish: watersports equipment brand founded in 1979 in Hawaii by Robby Naish, spanning kiteboarding, windsurfing, SUP, foil and wing gear; first inflatable-strut kite licensee (1999), owned by Kubus Sports since 2023.
Naishadhacharita
Naishadhacharita (नैषधीयचरितम्, Naiṣadhīyacarita), also called Naishadhakavya, is a 12th-century Sanskrit court epic by Śrīharṣa, one of the five great mahākāvya poems, retelling the story of Nala and Damayantī.
Naishadhiyacharita
Naishadhiyacharita, also called Naishadha-charita, is a 12th-century Sanskrit epic poem by Śrīharṣa that retells the story of Nala and Damayantī from the Mahābhārata in 22 cantos.
Naismith College Player of the Year
Naismith College Player of the Year: annual Atlanta Tipoff Club trophy (men since 1969, women since 1983) for the top US college basketball players; first winner Lew Alcindor, 2026 winners Cameron Boozer and Sarah Strong.
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, also called the Basketball Hall of Fame: a 501(c)(3) museum in Springfield, Massachusetts, honoring basketball players, coaches, and contributors. Founded 1959, three buildings (1968, 1985, 2002), 475 inductees, 200,000 annual visitors.
Naismith's rule
Naismith's rule, devised 1892 by William W. Naismith of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, estimates hiking time as 1 hour per 5 km plus 1 hour per 600 m of ascent, with Langmuir, Tranter, Tobler, and Scarf refinements.
Naitasiri Province
Naitasiri Province, Fiji: a Central Division province on Viti Levu, about 1,666 km2, 16 districts, 91 villages, headquarters Vunidawa; population grew from 160,760 (2007) to about 178,000 (2017).
Naivasha
Naivasha, from the Maasai Nai'posha (rough water), is a town in Nakuru County, Kenya, on Lake Naivasha in the Rift Valley about 90 km northwest of Nairobi, a hub of cut-flower horticulture, Olkaria geothermal energy, and conference tourism.
Naïve art
Naïve art: self-taught painting outside academic training, marked by bright color and flattened perspective; archetypal figure Henri Rousseau (Le Douanier); distinct from folk, outsider, and art brut categories.
Naive B cell
Naive B cell: a mature, antigen-inexperienced B lymphocyte co-expressing IgM and IgD BCRs, recirculating through lymphoid tissues; 40–60% of human blood B cells, CD27−IgD+, activated only with antigen plus T cell help.
Naive Bayes classifier
The naive Bayes classifier is a fast machine learning algorithm that applies Bayes' theorem assuming features are independent, famously used for spam filtering and document classification.
Naive T cell
Naive T cell (naive T lymphocyte): mature T cell not yet exposed to antigen, CCR7+, CD45RA+, CD127+, CD62L-high; thymus-derived, maintained by IL-7 and tonic self-pMHC signaling; pool and TCR repertoire decline with age.
Naivedya
Naivedya (নৈবেদ্য, also transliterated Naibedya, meaning "Offerings") is a 1901 collection of 100 Bengali devotional poems by Rabindranath Tagore, 15 of which reappear in his English Gitanjali.
Naivo
Naivo is the pen name of Naivoharisoa Patrick Ramamonjisoa, a Malagasy writer best known for Beyond the Rice Fields, the first novel from Madagascar translated into English.
Naiyer A Rizvi
Naiyer A Rizvi is a Canadian-trained American physician-scientist who led the CheckMate 063 trial behind nivolumab's lung cancer approval and served as Director of Thoracic Oncology at Columbia.