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Nidhhi Agerwal
Nidhhi Agerwal (నిధ్హి అగర్వాల్), born 1993 in Hyderabad, is an Indian actress in Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi cinema; debut Munna Michael (2017, Zee Cine Award), breakthrough iSmart Shankar (2019), later Hari Hara Veera Mallu and The Raja Saab.
Nidhi Bisht
Nidhi Bisht (निधि बिष्ट), born 1985, is an Indian actress, casting director and writer, an early member of TVF, Creative Director 2013–2020, known for Cubicles, Bisht Please!, and Sujata Negi in Netflix's Maamla Legal Hai (2024).
Nidhi Razdan (निधि रज़दान)
Nidhi Razdan (निधि रज़दान), Indian TV journalist and author, NDTV executive editor and Left, Right & Centre anchor 1999–2022; IPI India award for Kathua reporting; later DeKoder.
Nidhi Sharma
Nidhi Sharma is a plant developmental biologist who studies the stomatal lineage of Arabidopsis thaliana, with a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and postdoctoral work at Stanford's Carnegie Institution.
Nidhi Subbaiah (ನಿಧಿ ಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ)
Nidhi Subbaiah (ನಿಧಿ ಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ) is a Kannada film actress from Kodagu, Karnataka, born February 16 (reported 1987 or 1984). Known as the "Pancharangi Girl" for the 2010 Yogaraj Bhat hit; also starred in Krishnan Marriage Story, Anna Bond, and Hindi films including Ajab Gazabb Love. Former competitive sailor and Bigg Boss Kannada 8 contestant.
Níðhöggr
Níðhöggr (Nidhogg), Old Norse Níðhǫggr, is the Norse dragon or serpent that gnaws Yggdrasil's roots, feuds with the eagle via Ratatoskr, sucks corpses at Náströnd, and flies from Niðafjöll in Völuspá's final stanza.
Nidhu Babu
Nidhu Babu (নিধু বাবু), born Ramnidhi Gupta, was a Bengali composer and singer, 1741 to 1839, who created the Bengali form of the tappa, a Hindustani classical genre.
Nidia Guenard
Nidia Guenard (Nidia), born 1979, Houston, Texas, is a retired American wrestler who co-won WWE Tough Enough season 1 (2001) with Maven, debuted on SmackDown in 2002 as Jamie Noble's on-screen girlfriend, and left WWE in 2004.
Nidji
Nidji is an Indonesian pop-rock band from Jakarta, formed in 2002 and named after the Japanese word for rainbow, best known for "Laskar Pelangi", the theme of the 2008 film.
NIDO domain
NIDO domain (InterPro IPR003886, PROSITE PS51220, SMART SM000539, Pfam PF06119): a ~180-residue extracellular protein domain of unknown function in nidogen (entactin), MUC4, alpha-tectorin, and hypothetical proteins, located in nidogen's G1 domain.
Nidrodaya Rasa
Nidrodaya rasa is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral rasa yoga (AFI Part II, 16:29) containing cannabis leaf, opium exudate, grape, amla, and a zinc-mercury cinnabar, dosed 500 mg to 1 g for insomnia, premature ejaculation, and debility.
Nidula
Nidula is a genus of bird's nest fungi (Nidulariaceae, Agaricales), described in 1902 with about seven accepted species such as N. candida and N. shingbaensis; its cordless, gel-embedded, sticky peridioles distinguish it from Cyathus and Crucibulum.
Nidularia
Nidularia (Fr. 1817) is the type genus of the bird's nest fungi family Nidulariaceae, with globose fruiting bodies whose thin peridium dehisces at maturity; peridioles lack funiculi, sit in gel, and splash only about 1.5 cm, unlike Cyathus and Crucibulum.
Nidulariaceae
Nidulariaceae, the bird's nest fungi, are saprotrophic Agaricales (Basidiomycota) with cup-shaped fruiting bodies whose peridioles are rain-splash dispersed; genera include Cyathus, Crucibulum, Nidula, Nidularia, Mycocalia, and Retiperidiolia.
Nidzhat Rakhimov
Nidzhat Rakhimov (Nicat Rəhimov, Ниджат Рахимов), Azerbaijani-born Kazakh weightlifter, born 1993 in Baku. 2010 Youth Olympic gold; won 2016 Rio 77 kg gold with a 214 kg clean & jerk world record, stripped in 2022 for urine substitution.
Nie Bao
Nie Bao (聂豹, 1486–1563) was a Ming dynasty official and Neo-Confucian philosopher who rose to Minister of War and led the "return to quiescence" school of Wang Shouren's teaching.
Nie Er (聂耳)
Nie Er (聂耳, 1912–1935), born Nie Shouxin in Kunming, was a Chinese left-wing composer who wrote the March of the Volunteers, now the PRC national anthem, plus 36 songs and 6 instrumental pieces before drowning in Japan at 23.
Nie Hualing
Nie Hualing (聶華苓, 1925–2024), also Hualing Nieh Engle, was a Chinese novelist, translator, and editor who co-founded the University of Iowa's International Writing Program with Paul Engle in 1967; her novel Mulberry and Peach won the 1990 American Book Award.
Nie Rongzhen
Nie Rongzhen (聂荣臻, 1899–1992) was a Chinese Communist military commander and statesman who became a Marshal in 1955 and directed China's atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb, and satellite programs.
Nie Shicheng
Nie Shicheng (聂士成) was a Qing dynasty general from Hefei, Anhui, who fought the Nian rebellion, the French, and the Japanese, and died defending Tianjin against the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900.
Nie Tengyun
Nie Tengyun (聂腾云, born 1976) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Yunda Express in 1999 and chairs Yunda Holding, one of China's largest express delivery companies.
Nie Xiaoqian (聂小倩)
Nie Xiaoqian (聂小倩) is a ghost tale from volume 2 of Pu Songling's Liaozhai zhiyi, in which an enslaved female ghost falls in love with the scholar Ning Caichen; it inspired the 1960 and 1987 A Chinese Ghost Story films.
Nie Yunchen
Nie Yunchen (聂云宸) is a Chinese entrepreneur, born in 1991, who founded the cheese-topped fresh-tea chain Heytea in Jiangmen, Guangdong in 2012 and grew it into a chain of several thousand stores.
Nie Zheng
Nie Zheng (聶政) was a Warring States period assassin who, serving the retired Han noble Yan Zhongzi, killed the Han chancellor Xia Lei in broad daylight and then destroyed his own face.
Niebla Roman Bridge
Puente Romano de Niebla, a Roman bridge over the Río Tinto at Niebla, Huelva, Spain, on the Antonine Itinerary to Itálica and Hispalis; dedicated to Minerva, rebuilt in 1936 after an arch was blown up in the Civil War, a Bien de Interés Cultural.
Niece and nephew
Niece and nephew are English kinship terms for a sibling's daughter and son, from Latin neptis and nepos via Old French; both once meant grandchild before narrowing in the 1600s; second-degree relatives sharing about 25% of DNA; gender-neutral term nibling.
Niechmirów-Mała Wieś
Niechmirów-Mała Wieś, site 1 near the Warta river in Sieradz province, Poland: a large Lusatian culture and Przeworsk culture cemetery excavated by Anna Kufel-Dzierzgowska's Sieradz museum team, with urn graves from Bronze Age III to the Roman period.
Niecy Nash
Niecy Nash-Betts (Carol Denise Ensley, born 1970) is an American actress and host known for Reno 911!, Clean House, Getting On, Claws, When They See Us, and her Emmy-winning Glenda Cleveland in Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story.
Niederaussem power station
Niederaussem power station (Kraftwerk Niederaußem) is a lignite-fired power plant in Bergheim, Germany, owned by RWE since 1963, with unit K setting a 43-percent efficiency record.
Niederberg
Kastell Niederberg, a Roman auxiliary fort in Koblenz-Niederberg, Germany, on the right bank of the Rhine opposite the Moselle mouth; garrisoned by Cohors VII Raetorum equitata, a 2.8-ha stone fort of 177 x 158 m occupied from the mid-1st to mid-3rd century and excavated in 1895.