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Nights of Cabiria

Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria), Fellini's 1957 black-and-white drama starring Giulietta Masina as a Rome prostitute, won the 1958 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and Cannes Best Actress.

Nights of Plague

Nights of Plague (Turkish: Veba Geceleri) is a historical novel by Orhan Pamuk, published in 2021, tracing a 1901 plague outbreak on a fictional Ottoman island.

Nightshade (DC Comics)

Nightshade (Eve Eden) is a DC Comics superheroine created by David Kaler and Steve Ditko, debuting in Charlton's Captain Atom #82 (1966). A shadow-manipulating princess of the Land of Nightshades, she joined the Suicide Squad and Shadowpact and inspired Watchmen's Silk Spectre.

Nightshift (song)

Nightshift is a 1984 song by the American band the Commodores. It topped the R&B charts and was written as a tribute to Marvin Gaye and Jackie Wilson.

Nightshift Superstar

Nightshift Superstar is a 2026 disco-funk single by Muse, fifth from the album The Wow! Signal; produced with Dan Lancaster and BloodPop, influenced by Daft Punk, Justice, and ABBA, with a prominent Chris Wolstenholme slap bassline.

Nightstalker

Nightstalker is the stage name of Chris Muniz, a Los Angeles drum & bass DJ and music journalist who has been a resident DJ for promoter Insomniac since the mid-2000s.

Nightwing

Nightwing is the DC Comics superhero identity of Dick Grayson, the original Robin, created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez in Tales of the Teen Titans (1984). Based in Blüdhaven, known for leading the Titans, briefly becoming Batman, and the Eisner-winning Tom Taylor run.

Nightwing (comic book)

Nightwing (comic book) refers to DC Comics solo series about Dick Grayson as Nightwing, from the 1995 O'Neil/Land miniseries and the 153-issue 1996 Dixon series in Blüdhaven to the Eisner-winning Tom Taylor run and Dan Watters' ongoing 2016 series.

Nightwish

Nightwish: Finnish symphonic metal band formed 1996 in Kitee by Tuomas Holopainen; fronted successively by Tarja Turunen, Anette Olzon, and Floor Jansen; tenth album Yesterwynde (2024); Jansen departed October 2026.

Nightwish discography

Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band formed in 1996. Its discography features ten studio albums and various releases spanning three principal lead vocalists: Turunen, Olzon, and Jansen.

Nigina Amonqulova

Nigina Amonqulova (Нигина Амонқулова), also transliterated Nigina Amonkulova, is a Tajik pop singer born in 1986 in Panjakent, best known for retro Tajik and Persian repertoire, including Rumi's poetry.

Nigo

Nigo (ニゴー), born Tomoaki Nagao in 1970, is the Japanese designer behind A Bathing Ape, Billionaire Boys Club, and Human Made, and since 2021 the artistic director of LVMH's Kenzo. Also a DJ and producer, he released I Know Nigo! in 2022 and received a Design Museum retrospective in 2026.

Nigorie

Nigorie (にごりえ), translated as Troubled Waters, is an 1895 short story by the Japanese writer Higuchi Ichiyō that follows Oriki, a courtesan at a low-class Tokyo establishment.

Nigrinianis/Candidiana

Nigrinianis/Candidiana: Roman mansio and castellum on the right bank of the Danube at Malăk Preslavec, Silistra province, Bulgaria; founded under Domitian, renamed Candidiana under Diocletian, destroyed by Avars and Slavs in the late 6th century.

Nigrita

Nigrita is a valid genus of African estrildid finches (Estrildidae, Passeriformes) established by Strickland in 1843, containing four species including the Chestnut-breasted Nigrita, Nigrita bicolor, listed Least Concern by the IUCN.

Nigrodha-Kappa

Nigrodha-Kappa (Pali: Nigrodhakappa) is an elder in the Sutta Nipāta who was the preceptor of the poet-monk Vaṅgīsa and died at the Aggāḷava Shrine at Āḷāvī.

Nigrostriatal pathway

Nigrostriatal pathway: dopaminergic tract from the substantia nigra pars compacta (A9) to the dorsal striatum (caudate and putamen), governing motor control and associative learning; its degeneration causes Parkinson's disease, and it also contributes to reward.

Nigrum Pullum

Nigrum Pullum (Nigropullo), Roman limes castellum at Zwammerdam, Netherlands, in Germania Inferior. Founded after AD 47 under Corbulo; three building phases; six Roman ships found 1971; burned around 275.

Nigula Nature Reserve

Nigula Nature Reserve (Nigula looduskaitseala), established 11 July 1957 in Pärnu County, Estonia, protects a 6,430.9 ha West Estonian raised bog, old forests, and bog islands; Ramsar site since 1997, Natura 2000 since 2004, with bird monitoring since 1968.

NIH 3T3

NIH 3T3 (NIH/3T3, NIH3T3) is a spontaneously immortalized mouse embryonic fibroblast cell line from an NIH Swiss mouse, contact-inhibited, doubling in about 20 hours, and a standard recipient for DNA transfection and ras oncogene transformation assays.

NIH Public Access Policy

The NIH Public Access Policy is a US National Institutes of Health rule requiring NIH-funded research articles to be made freely available in PubMed Central, mandatory since 2008.

Niha, Zahlé

Niha, ancient Nihata, is an archaeological site in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon, where two Roman temples of the first or second century CE formed a rural sanctuary of Hadanares and Atargatis.

Nihachu

Nihachu (Niki Nihachu), German Twitch streamer and YouTuber Nikita, born 2001; rose via Love or Host 2020 and the Dream SMP; known for calm Minecraft and Just Chatting streams, mental health advocacy, and Guild Esports and Team Liquid ties.

Nihal Altan-Bonnet

Nihal Altan-Bonnet is a cell biologist and virologist who studies how viruses exploit host-cell membranes and lipids; she leads a laboratory at the NIH and won a PECASE award at Rutgers in 2012.

Nihal Chand

Nihal Chand (1710–1782) was chief painter at the Kishangarh court in Rajasthan, best known for the Bani Thani portrait, later featured on a 1973 Indian postage stamp.

Nihal Sarin (നിഹാൽ സരിൻ)

Nihal Sarin (നിഹാൽ സരിൻ), born 2004 in Thrissur, Kerala, is an Indian chess grandmaster since 2018 (12th-youngest ever), peak classical rating 2723, and a dominant online blitz and bullet player.

Nihang (ਨਿਹੰਗ)

Nihang (ਨਿਹੰਗ), or Akali Nihang, is a traditional Sikh warrior order. It is known for its blue garments, swords, and historical role in defending the Sikh panth.

Nihar Ranjan Gupta

Nihar Ranjan Gupta (নীহাররঞ্জন গুপ্ত; 1911–1986) was an Indian Bengali physician and popular novelist, creator of the detective Kiriti Roy, who wrote over 200 books.

Nihari (نہاری)

Nihari (نہاری), a slow-cooked stew of beef or lamb shank and bone marrow from late-18th-century Old Delhi's Mughal kitchens, is now a signature breakfast dish of Pakistan and northern India, thickened with wheat flour and garnished with ginger, chilies and lime.

Niharica Raizada

Niharica Raizada (निहारिका रॉयजादा), born 1990 in Luxembourg, is an Indian-Luxembourgish actress and qualified cardiologist, granddaughter of composer O. P. Nayyar, known for Sooryavanshi, Total Dhamaal, and IB 71.