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Nam tiến
Nam tiến (南進, "Southern Advance") is the historiographical term for Vietnam's southward expansion from the Red River Delta, running from the eleventh to the nineteenth century.
Nam Woo-hyun (남우현)
Nam Woo-hyun (남우현) is a South Korean singer and actor, main vocalist of INFINITE (debut 2010). Solo debut 2015 with 'Write..' and title track 끄덕끄덕; full albums WHITREE (2023) and 2X8 (2026), the latter with 16 self-composed songs.
Nam-Gyu Park
Nam-Gyu Park (박남규) is a South Korean chemical engineer and professor at Sungkyunkwan University who reported the first long-term stable solid-state perovskite solar cell in 2012.
Nam-Joon Cho
Nam-Joon Cho is a materials scientist and bioengineer at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, known for QCM-D studies of lipid membranes and membrane-targeting antiviral peptides against Zika virus.
Nam‐Hai Chua
Nam-Hai Chua (蔡南海) is a plant molecular biologist trained at Singapore and Harvard, Mellon Professor Emeritus at Rockefeller University, known for phytochrome signaling and the 35S promoter.
Nam‐Soon Choi
Nam-Soon Choi (최남순) is a South Korean battery researcher and KAIST Endowed Chair Professor known for electrolyte additives for lithium-ion and lithium-metal batteries, after research at Samsung SDI and UNIST.
Namadgi National Park
Namadgi National Park: 106,095-hectare national park in the Australian Capital Territory on Ngunnawal Country, gazetted 3 October 1984 after a campaign led by NPA ACT and Nancy Burbidge; protects Canberra's water catchment.
Namak
Namak (FEOW ecoregion 447) is a Palearctic freshwater ecoregion covering the endorheic basin of Namak Lake, a 1,800 km2 salt lake in north-central Iran, with endemic fishes and declining low flows.
Namak Halaal (नमक हलाल)
Namak Halaal (नमक हलाल), also spelled Namak Halal, is a 1982 Hindi action-comedy directed by Prakash Mehra, starring Amitabh Bachchan as hotel waiter Arjun Singh, with Shashi Kapoor, Smita Patil, and Waheeda Rehman; music by Bappi Lahiri, including "Pag Ghunghroo Baandh".
Namak Haraam (नमक हराम)
Namak Haraam (नमक हराम), 1973 Hindi drama by Hrishikesh Mukherjee starring Rajesh Khanna and Amitabh Bachchan; adaptation of Becket about class conflict, with R.D. Burman music; distinct from the 2023 HUM TV series Namak Haram.
Namakkal Kavignar
Namakkal Kavignar (நாமக்கல் கவிஞர்), born V. Ramalingam Pillai (1888–1972), was a Tamil poet and freedom fighter whose nationalist songs called Tamils to Gandhi's non-violent struggle.
Namamugi Incident
The Namamugi Incident (生麦事件) was the killing of British merchant Charles Lennox Richardson by Satsuma samurai at Namamugi village near Yokohama on 14 September 1862.
Namangan (city)
Namangan (Uzbek: Namangan) is a city in eastern Uzbekistan, administrative center of Namangan Region in the Fergana Valley; first mentioned late 15th century, city from 1610, taken by Russia in 1875, population about 728,000 in 2026.
Namangan (district)
Namangan district (Namangan tumani), a district of Namangan Region, Uzbekistan, center Tashbulak; formed 29 September 1926, population 183,800 (2022), second-densest district in the region.
Namara inscription
The Namara inscription (كتابة النمارة) is a five-line Arabic epitaph dated 328 CE, carved in Nabataean script for Imru' al-Qays, "king of all the Arabs", and held in the Louvre.
Namaste (नमस्ते)
Namaste (नमस्ते), also namaskar, is the Sanskrit greeting of the Indian subcontinent meaning "I bow to you," spoken with anjali mudra, palms joined at the chest; attested from the Rigveda and Natya Shastra, used across India and Nepal and globally through yoga.
Namaste England (नमस्ते इंग्लैंड)
Namaste England (नमस्ते इंग्लैंड) is a 2018 Hindi romantic comedy-drama by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, a follow-up to Namastey London, starring Arjun Kapoor and Parineeti Chopra as a Punjabi couple chasing a London visa; it earned ₹8.02 crore and IMDb 2.1/10.
Namastey London (नमस्ते लंदन)
Namastey London (नमस्ते लंदन) is a 2007 Hindi romantic comedy-drama directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah, starring Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif, about a Punjabi farmer's arranged marriage to a Westernized Indian girl in London.
Namazga-Tepe
Namazga-Tepe, also written Namazga-Depe, is a large multi-period tell in the Kopet Dag foothills of southern Turkmenistan, occupied from the Chalcolithic through the Bronze Age.
Namazu
Namazu (鯰, Ōnamazu 大鯰) is the giant underground catfish of Japanese folklore whose thrashing causes earthquakes, restrained by the Kashima deity's kaname-ishi stone; it inspired the 1855 Ansei Edo earthquake catfish prints (namazu-e) and catfish-based prediction research.
Nambi
Nambi was the first rakryan patih, or prime minister, of the Majapahit kingdom in eastern Java, serving founder Raden Wijaya and King Jayanagara until he was killed at Lamajang in 1316.
Nambi Andar Nambi
Nambi Andar Nambi (நம்பி ஆண்டார் நம்பி) was a Shaivite scholar and priest of the Chola kingdom who compiled the Tirumurai, the Tamil Shaiva canon called the Tamil Veda.
Nambi Dorsum
Nambi Dorsum, a wrinkle-ridge system (dorsum) on Venus, IAU-approved 1994, centered at 72.5 S, 213 E, 1125 km across, named for a Ugandan sky goddess.
Nambi Narayanan
S. Nambi Narayanan is an Indian aerospace engineer who led development of the Vikas engine at ISRO and was falsely arrested in the fabricated 1994 espionage case.
Nambour
Nambour is a hinterland town on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, Australia, formerly called Petrie's Creek and renamed in 1891. Known for its sugar-mill heritage, rail line, Nambour General Hospital, and 2021 census population of 20,918.
Nambu Line (南武線)
The Nambu Line (南武線), or Nanbu Line, is a JR East railway line in Tokyo and Kanagawa running from Kawasaki Station to Tachikawa, opened in 1927.
Nambu pistol
The Nambu pistol, or Nambu automatic pistol, is a family of Japanese semi-automatic pistols developed by Kijiro Nambu, best known for the Type 14 adopted in 1925.
Nambu–Goto action
The Nambu–Goto action is the classical action of a relativistic string, defined as the string tension times the area of the worldsheet the string sweeps out in spacetime.
Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model
The Nambu–Jona-Lasinio model (NJL model) is a field theory of fermions interacting through a contact four-fermion term, proposed in 1961 to explain how particle masses arise dynamically.
Nambubi Fluctus
Nambubi Fluctus is an 850-km-wide lava flow field (fluctus) on Venus at 61S, 135E, IAU-approved in 1997 and named for a Ganda goddess, mother of Mukasa; its lava appears sourced from Latmikaik Corona.