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Nalan Xingde

Nalan Xingde (Rongruo), a Qing dynasty poet of 1655 to 1685, was the most celebrated ci lyric poet among the Manchu bannermen and a Kangxi imperial bodyguard.

Nalanda

Nalanda (नालंदा) was a Buddhist monastic university in present-day Bihar, India, founded under the Gupta emperor Kumaragupta I in the fifth century and destroyed around the thirteenth century.

Nalanda copperplate of Devapala

The Nalanda copperplate of Devapala (नालन्दा ताम्रपत्र) is a copper-plate land grant by the Pala emperor Devapala, donating five villages to a vihara at Nalanda built by Balaputradeva.

The Nalanda inscription is a ninth-century copper-plate charter of Pala king Devapaladeva granting five villages to a Nalanda monastery built at the request of Balaputradeva of Suvarnadvipa (Sumatra).

Nalanda mahavihara

Nalanda Mahavihara in Bihar, India, a Buddhist monastic university founded about 427 CE under Kumaragupta and active for 800 years, with 11 excavated viharas and 14 temples on 23 hectares; UNESCO World Heritage site since 2016.

Nalanda under Harsha

Nalanda under Harsha covers the Buddhist monastery-university of Nalanda in present-day Bihar during the reign of the north Indian emperor Harsha, 606 to 647 CE.

Nalanda University

Nalanda University (Nalanda Mahavihara, नालंदा) names an ancient Buddhist monastic university in Bihar, India (5th–13th century CE, UNESCO site 2016) and the modern international university established by India's 2010 Act at Rajgir to revive it.

Nalapat Narayana Menon

Nalapat Narayana Menon (നാലപ്പാട്ട് നാരായണ മേനോൻ; 1887–1954) was a Malayalam poet, philosopher, and social activist from Thrissur district, Kerala, known for the elegy Kannuneerthulli (1927) and Paavangal (1925), his Malayalam translation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables.

Nalayira Divya Prabandham commentarial tradition

The Nalayira Divya Prabandham commentarial tradition is the Sri Vaishnava body of commentaries and glosses explaining the Tamil devotional corpus of the twelve Azhwars, written over roughly four hundred years.

Nalbert

Nalbert (Nalbert Tavares Bitencourt, born 1974, Rio de Janeiro), Brazilian wing spiker and "eternal captain" of the men's national team; first player to win youth, junior, and senior volleyball world titles; Olympic gold Athens 2004; Hall of Fame 2014.

Nalbuphine

Nalbuphine (NUBAIN) is a synthetic kappa-agonist, mu-antagonist opioid analgesic synthesized in 1965 and FDA-approved in 1979. Morphine-equivalent potency up to 30 mg, ceiling on respiratory depression, DEA Schedule None, boxed warning for addiction and respiratory risk.

Oct 20, 2026

Nalchik

Nalchik (Нальчик), capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, a foothill city on the Nalchik River at about 500 m elevation; founded as a Russian fortress (dates disputed, official 1724), city since 1921, federal balneological resort, City of Military Glory.

Oct 15, 2026

Nalcor Energy

Nalcor Energy was a Crown corporation of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, created in 2007 to lead development of the province's energy resources, including the Lower Churchill Project.

Oct 20, 2026

Naldemedine

Naldemedine (Symproic, S-297995) is an oral peripherally acting mu-opioid receptor antagonist derived from naltrexone, FDA approved in 2017 for opioid-induced constipation in adults with chronic non-cancer pain, dosed 0.2 mg daily.

Nale Ba (ನಾಳೆ ಬಾ)

Nale Ba (ನಾಳೆ ಬಾ), meaning "come tomorrow," is an urban legend from 1990s Bengaluru in which writing the phrase on doors keeps a female spirit away.

Naled

Naled (Dibrom, CAS 300-76-5) is an organophosphate insecticide and acaricide first registered in the US in 1959, used mainly for aerial ULV mosquito control over about 16 million acres yearly; it degrades to dichlorvos and is a cholinesterase inhibitor.

Nalfurafine

Nalfurafine (TRK-820, Remitch) is a selective kappa-opioid receptor agonist antipruritic by Toray Industries, approved in Japan 2009 and later South Korea and China for refractory dialysis and chronic liver disease itch; EMA application withdrawn 2014.

Nalgene

Nalgene is an American brand of reusable plastic water bottles and laboratory containers, introduced in 1953 in Rochester, New York, whose leakproof lab bottles were adopted by hikers and campers.

Nalgonda District

Nalgonda (నల్గొండ జిల్లా) is a district in southern Telangana, India, HQ Nalgonda town, formed 11 October 2016; area 2,449.79 sq km, population 16,18,416 (2011), home to Nagarjuna Sagar Dam and Deverakonda Fort.

Nali

Nali (نالی) was the pen-name of Mela Khidri Ehmedi Shaweysi Mikaili, a Kurdish poet born around 1800 who raised the Sorani dialect to a literary language.

Oct 15, 2026

Nalidixic Acid

Nalidixic acid is a synthetic antibacterial drug and the founding member of the quinolone antibiotics, introduced in 1964 for urinary tract infections and later abandoned as resistance grew.