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Nix (package manager)
Nix is a purely functional package manager created by Eelco Dolstra that builds software reproducibly from declarative instructions and underlies NixOS, a Linux distribution configured entirely in its language.
Nixdorf Computer
Nixdorf Computer AG was a German computer company founded by Heinz Nixdorf in 1952, a leading European maker of mid-range computers, taken over by Siemens in 1990.
Nixie (folklore)
The nixie (German Nixe, feminine of Nix) is a female water spirit of Germanic folklore, cognate with the neck, näcken, and nøkken; a shapeshifting, music-luring river and lake being associated with drowning, known from Beowulf's nicor to Grimm and Kittelsen.
Nixie tube
A Nixie tube is a cold-cathode, neon-filled display tube whose wire cathodes shaped as digits glow, standard on test equipment from the mid-1950s to the 1970s.
Nixon (film)
Nixon is a 1995 American biographical drama directed by Oliver Stone, starring Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon, which follows the president from his California youth to his resignation over Watergate.
Nixon shock
The Nixon shock was President Richard Nixon's August 15, 1971 package suspending the dollar's convertibility into gold, with a wage and price freeze and import surcharge.
Nixon White House tapes
The Nixon White House tapes, also called the Watergate tapes, are roughly 3,700 hours of secret Oval Office recordings made between 1971 and 1973, whose disclosure led to Nixon's 1974 resignation.
Nixon's Enemies List
Nixon's Enemies List: White House memoranda of 1971-1972, also called the Master List of Nixon's Political Opponents, naming critics targeted with IRS audits and FBI inquiries; revealed June 27, 1973, and cited in the impeachment abuse-of-power article.
NixOS
NixOS is a Linux distribution built with the Nix package manager, using declarative configuration files. Each rebuild creates an immutable system generation allowing for full rollbacks.
Nixtamalization
Nixtamalization (Nahuatl nextli + tamali) is the alkaline lime- or ash-cooking and steeping of maize to make nixtamal and masa. It releases bound niacin, adds calcium, cuts mycotoxins, and prevents pellagra.
Niya (kingdom)
Niya, also written Nii, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom in the middle Orontes valley of western Syria, known almost entirely from Hittite cuneiform texts.
Niyamana
Niyamana (नियमन), also Niyāmana, is the seventh of the eighteen samskaras of mercury in Rasa Shastra, the Ayurvedic alchemical tradition; a steaming procedure with herbs and sour gruel in a dolayantra that restrains mercury's motility and volatility.
Niyas Backer
Niyas Backer (നിയാസ് ബക്കർ) is a Malayalam film and television actor and mimicry artist, elder brother of Kalabhavan Navas and son of actor Aboobacker, best known for Marimayam and films like Ishtam and Jawan of Vellimala.
Niyazi
Niyazi, full name Niyazi Zulfugar oglu Tagizade-Hajibeyov, was an Azerbaijani conductor and composer, founder of the Azerbaijani school of conducting, who led the Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra for 46 years.
Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi
Niyazi Serdar Sariçiftçi, born 1961 in Konya, Turkey, is an Austrian-Turkish chemist at Johannes Kepler University Linz credited with inventing bulk heterojunction plastic solar cells.
Niyâzî-i Mısrî Divanı
Niyâzî-i Mısrî Divanı (Dîvân-ı İlâhiyât) is the collected Turkish and Arabic mystical poetry of Niyâzî-i Mısrî, a Halveti Sufi who died in 1694, and among the most widely circulated 17th-century Ottoman divans.
Niyi Osundare
Niyi Osundare, born in 1947 in Nigeria, is a Nigerian poet and professor whose accessible, Yoruba-rooted verse made him a leading figure of the alternative generation.
Niykee Heaton
Niykee Heaton, stage name of Nicolet Aleta Heaton (born 1994), American pop-R&B singer discovered via YouTube acoustic covers; her "Love Sosa" cover hit WorldStarHipHop in 2012, leading to the gold-certified single "Bad Intentions" and the 2016 Billboard 200 mixtape The Bedroom Tour Playlist.
NiYO
NiYO is a Bengaluru-based consumer fintech founded in 2015 by Vinay Bagri and Virender Bisht. It is known for its Niyo Global zero-markup international travel cards.
Nizam al-Din Ahmad
Nizam al-Din Ahmad (نظامالدین احمد) was a Mughal court officer and historian who served Akbar as bakhshi and wrote the Tabaqat-i Akbari, a general history of Muslim rule in India.
Nizam al-Din Shami
Nizam al-Din Shami (نظامالدین شامی) was a Persian chronicler born near Tabriz who served Timur and wrote the Zafarnama, a chronicle of Timur's conquests, in AH 804 (1401–1402).
Nizam al-Jadid
Nizam al-Jadid (النظام الجديد, "the new order") was the regular conscript army of early nineteenth-century Egypt, established by Muhammad Ali Pasha and trained in the European style.
Nizam al-Mulk (نظام الملك)
Nizam al-Mulk (نظام الملك), Abu ʿAli Hasan Tusi (1018–1092), Persian vizier of Seljuk sultans Alp Arslan and Malikshah, founder of the Nizamiyya madrasas and author of the Siyasatnama, assassinated in 1092.
Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II
Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (آصف جاہ دوم نظام علی خان), ruled Hyderabad from 1762 to 1803, deposing his brother Salabat Jung and allying with the British.
Nizam of Hyderabad
Nizam of Hyderabad: hereditary title (from Arabic for order/administration) of the rulers of Hyderabad state, 1724–1948, founded by Asaf Jah; largest princely state in British India, ended by Operation Polo in 1948.
Nizam Shahi dynasty
The Nizam Shahi dynasty was one of the five Deccan sultanates, founded in 1490 with its capital at Ahmadnagar and annexed by the Mughals in 1636.
Nizam-i Cedid
Nizam-i Cedid (نظام جديد, "new order") was the reform program of Ottoman sultan Selim III, creating a Western-trained regular infantry corps; it was abolished in the Janissary revolt of 1807.
Nizam-i Cedid army
The Nizam-i Cedid army ("New Order army") was an Ottoman regular infantry corps founded by Sultan Selim III in 1792 and abolished after the 1807 revolt that deposed him.
Nizam-ı Cedid Army
The Nizam-ı Cedid Army (Nizam-i Cedid Ordusu, "New Order army") was a Western-trained regular infantry corps created by Sultan Selim III, reaching about 30,000 men before its abolition in 1807.
Nizam-ı Cedid reforms
The Nizam-ı Cedid (نظام جدید, "New Order") was the reform program of Ottoman sultan Selim III, creating a European-style army with its own treasury before ending in 1807.