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Naked singularity

A naked singularity is a gravitational singularity not hidden behind an event horizon, visible to distant observers in principle and the subject of Penrose's 1969 cosmic censorship conjecture.

Naked Video

Naked Video was a BBC Scotland sketch comedy series on BBC2, 1986–1991, created by Colin Gilbert as a TV spin-off of Naked Radio; it launched Rab C. Nesbitt, The Baldy Man, and Only An Excuse?.

Naked Weapon (赤裸特工)

Naked Weapon (赤裸特工, Chek law dak gung) is a 2002 Hong Kong action thriller directed by Ching Siu-Tung, written by Wong Jing, starring Maggie Q, Anya, and Daniel Wu as assassins trained by Madame M.

Naked yoga, or nagna yoga, is yoga practiced without clothing, alone or in classes. Ancient roots in India, 1960s US revival, modern studios like Bold & Naked Yoga NYC; promoted for body acceptance, with general yoga research showing modest body-image benefits.

Nakharas of Karnataka

The Nakharas (ನಖರ) were town-level merchant guilds of medieval Karnataka, associations of traders and artisans of the same craft that appear in inscriptions alongside the larger Deccan corporations.

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (Naxçıvan Muxtar Respublikası): Azerbaijan's exclave bordering Turkey and Iran, separated by Armenian territory, governed by a Supreme Majlis, and central to the 2025 TRIPP corridor agreement.

Nakhchivan Khanate

The Nakhchivan Khanate (Naxçıvan Xanlığı) was a feudal state in the South Caucasus that existed from 1747 to 1828, ruled by the Kangarli dynasty from the town of Nakhchivan.

Nakhchivan literary milieu

The Nakhchivan literary milieu (Naxçıvan ədəbi mühiti) is the community of writers, poets, and scholars centered on Nakhchivan, an Azerbaijani exclave, with major figures including Jalil Mammadguluzadeh and Huseyn Javid.

Oct 15, 2026

Nakhla Oil Field

Nakhla Oil Field (النخلة; also written An Nakhlah) is an onshore oil field in Concession 97 in Libya's Sirte Basin, discovered in 1970, developed by Wintershall, and currently mothballed.

Oct 21, 2026

Nakhodka

Nakhodka (Находка) is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, on Nakhodka Bay in the Sea of Japan, about 85 km east of Vladivostok. Founded as a city in 1950, it is Russia's major Far Eastern port hub with Vostochny Port and Kozmino.

Oct 15, 2026

Nakhodkinskoye Gas Field

The Nakhodkinskoye Gas Field (Находкинское месторождение) is a natural gas field in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of western Siberia, producing since April 2005 under LUKOIL.

Oct 21, 2026

Nakhon Pathom Municipality Zoo

Nakhon Pathom Municipality Zoo (สวนสัตว์เทศบาลนครนครปฐม), also called Nakhon Pathom Youth Center Zoo, is a free municipal zoo in Nakhon Pathom, Thailand, established 1959, holding 127 animals of 30 species on about 1.2 hectares.

Nakhon Ratchasima

Nakhon Ratchasima (นครราชสีมา), also called Korat, is a city in northeastern Thailand, capital of its province, founded under King Narai of Ayutthaya by merging Mueang Sema and Korakhapura; it became the Northeast's first-class frontier province and railway hub.

Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom

The Nakhon Si Thammarat Kingdom (อาณาจักรนครศรีธรรมราช), known to Europeans as Ligor, was a kingdom in present-day southern Thailand that emerged in the 12th or 13th century as successor to Tambralinga.

Nakhshikh

Nakhshikh (नखशिख) is a South Asian poetic convention, prominent in Riti-period Hindi poetry, describing a deity or heroine limb by limb from toenail to head.

Nakht (scribe of Amun)

Nakht was an ancient Egyptian scribe and astronomer of Amun who served at Karnak under Thutmose IV, known almost solely from his painted tomb TT52 at Thebes.

Nakhtefmut (Second Prophet of Amun)

Nakhtefmut was a hereditary priest of Amun-Re at Thebes, buried about 892 BC; his gilded mummy case, found at the Ramesseum in 1896, is in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Nakhtmin (general under Tutankhamun)

Nakhtmin, also written Min-nakht, was a general and king's scribe of Egypt's 18th Dynasty under Tutankhamun and Ay, later promoted to King's Son and proposed as Ay's heir.

Nakhtneith

Nakhtneith, also spelled Naktneith, was a royal woman of Egypt's 1st Dynasty around 3000 BC, known only from a name-stela found in King Djer's funerary complex at Umm el-Qaab, Abydos.

Nakhtpaaten

Nakhtpaaten, also called Nakht, meaning "Strong is the Aten", was a vizier of Egypt under Akhenaten in the 18th Dynasty, known from his large mansion and unfinished tomb at Amarna.

Nakhtubasterau

Nakhtubasterau was an ancient Egyptian queen consort, a wife of Pharaoh Amasis II of the 26th Dynasty, known from an inscribed ushabti found at Giza.

Nakhy

Nakhy, transliterated Nahy, was a high priest of Ptah at Memphis in ancient Egypt, known only from a rose-granite sarcophagus in the State Hermitage Museum, first published in 2019.

Nakib al-ashraf

The nakib al-ashraf (نقیب‌الاشراف) was the Ottoman office supervising seyyids and sherifs, descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, recording genealogies and issuing proof-of-descent certificates from 1494.

Oct 15, 2026

Nakilat

Nakilat, the Qatar Gas Transport Company, is a Qatari maritime shipping company established in 2004, owning one of the world's largest LNG fleets with 66 carriers plus ship repair and marine services.

Nakisa

Nakisa (نکیسا), also known as Nagisa, was a court musician, described as a harpist, at the Sasanian court of Khosrow II in the early 7th century.

Nakisa Bidarian

Nakisa Bidarian, Iranian-born former UFC CFO and Morgan Stanley/Mubadala finance executive, is co-founder and CEO of Most Valuable Promotions with Jake Paul, promoter of women's boxing and the Paul-Tyson Netflix fight.

Nakiso

Nakiso (なきそ) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer who began making music in 2018 while in high school, known for experimental songs like ド屑 (Dokuzu) and いますぐ輪廻 (Ima Sugu Rinne).

Nakkaş Osman

Nakkaş Osman was an Ottoman court painter who directed the imperial painting atelier under Murad III (1574–1595), credited with miniatures of the Şemâilnâme, Şehinşahnâme, and Hünernâme chronicles.

Nakkirar

Nakkirar (நக்கீரர்) was a Tamil poet of Madurai, counted among the third Sangam academy, remembered for the Tirumurukarruppatai and Nedunalvatai and for a commentary on the Iraiyanar Akapporul.