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Niu Yixin
Niu Yixin (牛一心) is a Chinese semiconductor engineer who co-founded the graphics-chip startup Lisuan Tech in 2021 and serves as its chief technology officer, after 18 years leading GPU development at S3 Graphics.
Niu-Li Factional Struggles
The Niu-Li factional struggles (牛李党争) were rivalries between court factions of the mid-Tang dynasty, traditionally led by Niu Sengru and Li Deyu from the 810s into the 850s.
Niue
Niue, a South Pacific island state in free association with New Zealand since 1974, self-governing under the Niue Constitution Act, part of the Realm of New Zealand, not a UN member but treaty-capable, capital Alofi, population under 2,000.
Niue–United States Maritime Boundary Treaty
The Niue–United States Maritime Boundary Treaty, signed in Wellington in 1997 and in force from 2014, establishes a 279-mile equidistant maritime boundary between American Samoa and Niue.
Niuean oral literature
Niuean oral literature is the body of stories, genealogies, and chants passed down by word of mouth among the people of Niue in the South Pacific.
Niulin
Niulin (纽璘) was a Mongol commander of the Yuan dynasty who fought the Southern Song in Sichuan under Möngke khan, was made commander-in-chief after taking Chengdu, and anchored Yuan control of the southwest under Kublai.
Niumi Biosphere Reserve
Niumi Biosphere Reserve, The Gambia's first UNESCO MAB biosphere reserve, designated July 2024; 1,937 km² on the Gambia River's north bank, 178,000 people, mangroves, Kunta Kinteh Island, adjoining Senegal's Delta de Saloum.
Niurka Marcos
Niurka Marcos (Niurka Marcos Calle), Cuban vedette, singer, dancer, and actress based in Mexico since 1990; telenovela debut Vivo por Elena (1998), known for Salomé, La fea más bella, Aventurera, and La casa de los famosos.
Niushe Labyrinthus
Niushe Labyrinthus is an IAU-approved labyrinth terrain feature on Saturn's moon Titan, centered at 75.1°N, 88.1°W with a 222 km diameter, named in 2017 after a planet in Frank Herbert's Dune series.
Niutitang Formation
Niutitang Formation (牛蹄塘组), Lower Cambrian black shale of the Yangtze platform, South China; named at Zunyi, Guizhou; organic-rich, highly mature shale gas source with a polymetallic Ni-Mo ore layer.
Niutou land
Niutou land (牛头地) was the land-grant system of the Jin dynasty, under which Jurchen meng'an mouke households received farmland in proportion to their plow teams and paid the niutou tax.
Niva
Niva (Нива, "Grainfield") was a Russian weekly illustrated magazine of literature, politics, and modern life, published in St. Petersburg from 1870 to 1918 by A.F. Marx.
Nivagalskoye Oil Field
The Nivagalskoye Oil Field (Нивагальское месторождение) is an oil field in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Western Siberia, Russia, discovered in 1982 and producing since 1985 under LUKOIL-West Siberia.
Nivea
Nivea is a skin and body care brand owned by the Hamburg-based company Beiersdorf, launched in 1911 as NIVEA Creme, the world's first stable oil-and-water cream, and now the world's top skin care brand.
Nivea (singer)
Nivea (Nivea B. Hamilton, born 1982), American R&B singer from Georgia, not the Boston artist Nivea Sanai; known for "Danger (Been So Long)", "Don't Mess With My Man" (2003 Grammy nomination), albums Nivea, Complicated, Mirrors, and her 2026 leukemia diagnosis and remission.
Niveen M. Khashab
Niveen M. Khashab is a Lebanese supramolecular chemist and founding professor at KAUST in Saudi Arabia since 2009, known for smart hybrid nanomaterials for drug delivery and porous materials for separations.
Niversea Festival
Neversea Festival, or NEVERSEA, is a large electronic dance music festival held on the beach at Constanța, Romania, first staged in 2017 by the creators of UNTOLD.
Nivetha Pethuraj
Nivetha Pethuraj (நிவேதா பெத்துராஜ்), born 1991, is a Tamil-Telugu actress, Miss India UAE 2015, debutant of Oru Naal Koothu, who quit films in 2023 and returned with Sing Geetham and Mega158.
Nivetha Thomas
Nivetha Thomas (Niveda Thomas), Indian actress in Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam films; child artist in Veruthe Oru Bharya (2008), Telugu lead debut Gentleman (2016), Filmfare and Gaddar Award winner for 35 Chinna Katha Kaadu.
Nivia Sports
Nivia Sports (NIVIA) is an Indian sports equipment brand from Jalandhar, Punjab, run by Freewill Sports Pvt. Ltd., founded 1934 in Sialkot by Nihal Chand Kharabanda; maker of FIFA and FIBA approved balls and official Indian Super League match ball.
Nivin Pauly (നിവിൻ പോളി)
Nivin Pauly (നിവിൻ പോളി), born 1984, is a Malayalam film actor and producer who debuted in Malarvaadi Arts Club (2010) and became a star through Thattathin Marayathu, Premam, and later Sarvam Maya and Bethlehem Kudumba Unit.
Niviventer
Niviventer, white-bellied rats, is a Muridae rodent genus from the Himalayas, China, and the Sunda Islands, with about 17 to 23 species, flat craniums, tail tips, and cryptic species.
Nivkh people
The Nivkh, formerly known as the Gilyaks, are an indigenous people of the Russian Far East who live along the lower Amur River and on Sakhalin Island, speaking the language isolate Nivkh.
Nivky
Nivky is a neighborhood and park in the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kyiv, Ukraine, along the Syrets River, best known for Nivky Park, a nationally protected landscape park since 1972.
Nivoda
Nivoda is a business-to-business digital marketplace and supply chain for the diamond, gemstone, and jewelry trade, founded in 2017 by David Sutton and Andre Woons.
Nivolumab
Nivolumab (Opdivo, Opdivo Qvantig) is a PD-1-blocking immune checkpoint inhibitor antibody by Bristol Myers Squibb, first FDA-approved in 2014 for melanoma and later for lung cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, and many other cancers.
Nivôse
Nivôse, from the Latin nivosus meaning "snowy", was the fourth month of the French Republican calendar, first of the three winter months, running from 21 December to 19 January until the calendar was abolished in 1805.
Nivruttinath
Nivruttinath (निवृत्तिनाथ) was a thirteenth-century Marathi saint and Nath yogi of the Deccan, elder brother and guru of Dnyaneshwar, who took samadhi at Trimbakeshwar in 1297.
Niwa Fumio
Niwa Fumio (丹羽文雄, 1904–2005) was a Japanese novelist of the Shōwa era, known for customs novels of love and marriage, war reportage, and Buddhist novels including Shinran.
Niwa Nagahide
Niwa Nagahide (丹羽長秀, 1535–1585) was a Japanese samurai and senior retainer of the Oda clan who later held Echizen as a daimyo from Kitanosho Castle.