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Name That Tune
Name That Tune is an American music game show created by Harry and Roberta Salter, first on NBC Radio in 1952, famous for its Bid a Note round, and revived on Fox in 2021 with Jane Krakowski.
Name-day calendar
A name-day calendar, known in Slovakia as meniny, assigns one or more given names to each day of the year, a custom descended from the medieval Catholic calendar of saints.
Namecheap
Namecheap, also known as Namecheap.com, is an American ICANN-accredited domain registrar founded in 2000 by Richard Kirkendall and based in Phoenix, Arizona, with more than 22 million domains under management.
Named pipe
A named pipe is an interprocess communication mechanism letting unrelated processes exchange data by name, implemented as FIFO files on Unix and pipe objects on Windows.
Named tunnels: an overview
Named tunnels are specific, individually identified underground or underwater passages named after a place, engineer, or project, notable for length, age, engineering method, or cultural standing.
Named-entity recognition
Named-entity recognition (NER), also known as entity extraction, is a natural language processing task that finds proper names in text and classifies each entity's type.
Named-place treaty families and disambiguation
A named-place treaty family is the set of distinct international agreements sharing a title taken from their host city, like the many Treaties of Paris, disambiguated by year of signature.
Nameless
Nameless is the stage name of David Mathenge, a Kenyan singer and rapper known for "Ninanoki" and "Boomba Train" who helped define the kapuka sound of early-2000s Kenyan pop.
Nameless Gangster (범죄와의 전쟁: 나쁜놈들 전성시대)
Nameless Gangster (범죄와의 전쟁: 나쁜놈들 전성시대) is a 2012 South Korean crime film directed by Yoon Jong-bin, starring Choi Min-sik as a corrupt customs officer in 1980s Busan.
Nameplate (publishing)
A nameplate, also called a flag or titlepiece, is the designed title on a newspaper's front page, typically carrying the date, place of publication, and issue numbering.
Namer
Namer is an Israeli heavy armored personnel carrier built on the Merkava tank chassis, fielded by the Israel Defense Forces in late 2008 and described as the world's most heavily armored personnel carrier.
Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament
The New Testament applies more than 165 distinct names and titles to Jesus of Nazareth, most commonly Jesus, Christ, Lord, Son of God, and Son of Man.
Names and titles of Muhammad
The names and titles of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, span the Quranic names Muhammad and Ahmad, hadith self-namings, and a devotional set of ninety-nine noble names.
Names for association football
Football versus soccer: the naming of association football. "Soccer" is 1880s British Oxford slang from "association" (FA founded 1863), adopted in the US by 1905; usage now depends on rival local football codes.
Names for the number 0 in English
English has several names for the number 0: zero, the general term; oh for reading digits; nought in British use; nil for sports scores; and love in tennis.
Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe
The 660 general names and 128 battle names engraved on the Arc de Triomphe's walls and piers, inscribed 1835-1836 and extended to 1895, commemorating the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars; underlined names mark officers killed in action.
Names of China
Names of China: endonyms Zhongguo (Middle Kingdom) and Huaxia, plus exonyms Seres, Sinae, Cina, Cathay (from the Khitan), Tabghach, and modern China; etymologies, origins, and which names survived where.
Names of Germany
Names of Germany: endonym Deutschland from Old High German diutisc ("people"), versus exonyms Germany (Latin Germani), Allemagne (Alemanni), Saksa (Saxons); official name Federal Republic of Germany.
Names of God
Names of God across religions: the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH (Yahweh), Elohim, Adonai, El Shaddai; the 99 names of Allah in Islam; Waheguru in Sikhism. Covers pronunciation taboo, substitution, and scholarly theories on name usage.
Names of God in Christianity
Names of God in Christianity covers the biblical and liturgical divine names: the Tetragrammaton YHWH (Yahweh/Jehovah), Elohim and El compounds, Adonai, and Greek Kyrios/Theos, including their substitution history, New Testament use for Jesus, and the 2008 Vatican liturgical directive.
Names of God in Islam
The names of God in Islam, known as the 99 names of Allah, are the divine attributes Muslims believe God named Himself by in the Quran.
Names of God in Judaism
The names of God in Judaism, also called Hebrew names of God, are the names used in scripture and liturgy, including the Tetragrammaton YHWH, Elohim, and El Shaddai.
Names of India
Names of India: India and Bharat (भारत) are the two constitutional names under Article 1; Hindustan, from Persian for land of the Indus, is unofficial. Older names include Meluha, Jambudvipa, and Aryavarta.
Names of Istanbul
Names of Istanbul: the city's historical names from Byzantion and Constantinople (Konstantinou polis, 330–1930) to Ottoman Kostantiniyye, Dersaadet and Islambol, and the Turkish name Istanbul, derived from Greek eis ten polin or Constantinople, official since 1930.
Names of Japan
Names of Japan: the endonym 日本 (Nihon/Nippon, 'origin of the sun'), adopted as the official state name around the Taika-to-Taihō period, replacing Wa and Yamato; prewar official name Dai Nippon Teikoku; exonym Japan via Marco Polo's Zipangu.
Names of Jerusalem
Names of Jerusalem traces the city's successive names, from Salem and Amarna-era Urusalim through Hebrew Yerushalayim, Greek Hierosolyma, Roman Aelia Capitolina, and Arabic Iliya, Bayt al-Maqdis, and al-Quds, with etymologies and modern exonyms.
Names of Korea
Names of Korea: Joseon (조선), Hanguk (한국), and Korea, from Goryeo. Covers origins from Gojoseon and Samhan, the 1392 naming, Corea vs Korea spelling history, and divided North-South usage.
Names of large numbers
Names of large numbers are the English words for powers of ten beyond a thousand, coined from Latin with the -illion ending, as in million, billion, and trillion.
Names of Myanmar
The names of Myanmar are the contested English names Burma and Myanmar for the Southeast Asian country, renamed from Burma by its military government in 1989.
Names of Sri Lanka
Names of Sri Lanka: the island's titles across languages, from Ratnadipa, Sinhala-dipa, Ilangkai, and Serendib to colonial Ceylon (Portuguese Ceilão) and the 1972 adoption of Sri Lanka, official as ශ්රී ලංකා and இலங்கை.