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Nudisiri
Nudisiri, formally Alva's Nudisiri (ಆಳ್ವಾಸ್ ನುಡಿಸಿರಿ), is an annual national Kannada literature conference in Moodubidri, Karnataka, whose name combines the Kannada words for word and wealth.
Nudity
Nudity, the state of wearing little or no clothing, spans biology, culture, law, and art. Key facts: clothing emerged by 700,000 years ago; Barnes v. Glen Theatre (1991); naturism linked to wellbeing; norms vary widely cross-culturally.
Nudity and protest
Nudity and protest: deliberate public nakedness as a political tactic, from the 1903 Doukhobor marches and 1929 Igbo Women's War to Manipur 2004, Uganda, FEMEN, and the World Naked Bike Ride.
Nudity and sexuality
Nudity and sexuality covers how cultures link the unclothed body to sexual meaning: naturism, Elias's civilizing process, the artistic nude, US nudity law, body-image research, and digital consent.
Nudity in film
Nudity in film: depiction of naked bodies in movies, from Méliès's Le Bain (1896) and the Hays Code ban through the 1968 rating system, NC-17, gender asymmetry, BBFC classification, and SAG-AFTRA intimacy coordinator protections.
Nudity in India
Nudity in India is a ritual practice, not a private one: sky-clad Digambara Jain monks renounce clothing as doctrine, and Naga sadhus go naked at the Kumbh Mela.
Nudity in religion
Nudity in religion explores the unclothed body in various faiths, such as the sky-clad Digambara monks, Hindu Naga Sadhus, and the innocence myth of Adam and Eve.
Nudivirus
Nudiviruses (family Nudiviridae, order Lefavirales) are enveloped, rod-shaped dsDNA viruses of insects and crustaceans with circular 96–232 kbp genomes, nuclear replication, and 28 core genes shared partly with baculoviruses.
NUDT15
NUDT15 (nudix hydrolase 15, MTH2), gene at 13q14.2 encoding a Nudix hydrolase that detoxifies thiopurine metabolites; loss-of-function variants, especially p.Arg139Cys (NUDT15*3), predict severe thiopurine myelosuppression and guide CPIC thiopurine dosing.
Nue (鵺)
Nue (鵺), the night chimera of Japanese legend: a monkey-headed, tanuki-bodied, tiger-limbed, snake-tailed monster shot from a black cloud over the imperial palace by Minamoto no Yorimasa in The Tale of the Heike, later the subject of Zeami's Noh play Nue.
Nueces County
Nueces County, Texas: Gulf Coast county with seat and largest city Corpus Christi; formed 1846 from San Patricio County, named for the Nueces River; 353,178 residents (2020), home of the Port of Corpus Christi and a planned 704 MW data center campus.
Nueces River
The Nueces River is a 315-mile South Texas river rising on the Edwards Plateau and draining about 16,800 square miles to Nueces Bay; named Río de las Nueces in 1689, it supplies Corpus Christi via Choke Canyon and Lake Corpus Christi.
Nueltin
Nueltin Lake, a 2,279 km2 glacial lake straddling the Manitoba-Nunavut border at 60.5N 99.5W, drained by the Thlewiaza River to Hudson Bay and protected by Nueltin Lake Provincial Park in Manitoba.
Nuer language
Nuer (Thok Nath, ISO 639-3 nus) is a West Nilotic language of Nilo-Saharan spoken by about 1.7 million people in South Sudan and Ethiopia's Gambella region, with ternary vowel length, breathy voice contrast, tone, and complex non-concatenative morphology.
Nuer people
The Nuer are a Nilotic ethnic group of the upper Nile in South Sudan, chiefly pastoralists centered on cattle; Evans-Pritchard's 1930s fieldwork made them famous in anthropology.
Nuerland (بلد النوير)
Nuerland (بلد النوير) is the homeland of the Nuer people in South Sudan's Upper Nile and western Ethiopia: flat clayey savanna with the Sudd and Machar swamps, cattle-centered villages, tribal sections, and the White Army militia history.
Nuestra América Convoy
The Nuestra América Convoy was a 2026 international solidarity mission organized by the Progressive International that delivered humanitarian aid to crisis-stricken Cuba by sea and air.
Nuestra Familia
Nuestra Familia (NF, "Our Family") is a California prison gang founded in 1968, rival of the Mexican Mafia, ruled by a seven-member General Council, controlling Norteño street gangs through regiments and tax collection.
Nuestra Señora de Atocha
Nuestra Señora de Atocha was a Spanish treasure galleon that sank in a hurricane off Key West in 1622 and was rediscovered by Mel Fisher in 1985.
Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes (ship)
Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes was a Spanish Navy frigate built at Havana in 1788 and sunk by a British squadron off Cádiz in 1804.
Nueva canción
Nueva canción, Spanish for "new song," is a politically engaged, folk-rooted Latin American song movement that arose in the Southern Cone in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Nueva corónica y buen gobierno
Nueva corónica y buen gobierno is an illustrated 1,200-page manuscript chronicle by Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, completed in 1615 and addressed to King Philip III of Spain.
Nueva Ecija
Nueva Ecija: landlocked Central Luzon province, Philippines, the 'Rice Granary of the Philippines'. Capital Palayan City; largest city Cabanatuan. 2,395,816 people (2024), 5 cities, 27 municipalities, 5,689.69 km².
Nueva Esparta
Nueva Esparta is Venezuela's only island state, formed by Margarita, Coche, and Cubagua in the Caribbean, capital La Asunción, 1,150 km², semi-arid, tourism and fishing economy, chronic water shortages supplied by submarine aqueduct from the mainland.
Nueva novela histórica
Nueva novela histórica is a label for Latin American historical fiction since 1979 marked by distortion of the historical record and metafiction, systematized by critic Seymour Menton in 1993.
Nueva Vizcaya
Nueva Vizcaya, a landlocked first-class province in Cagayan Valley, Philippines, capital Bayombong; created 1839, named after Spain's Biscay; 15 municipalities, 530,106 people (2024), PhP 67.24 billion GDP in 2025.
Nuevas Ideas
Nuevas Ideas (NI), New Ideas, is El Salvador's ruling movement party founded in 2017 by Nayib Bukele after his FMLN expulsion; it won the 2021 legislative supermajority, dominates the Assembly, and ratified Bukele's 2027 third-term candidacy.
Nuevayol
NUEVAYoL is the opening track of Bad Bunny's 2025 album DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, sampling El Gran Combo's Un Verano en Nueva York over Dominican dembow in tribute to the Nuyorican diaspora; it peaked at No. 5 on the Hot 100.
Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo is a city in Tamaulipas, Mexico, across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. Founded in 1848, it anchors the busiest commercial crossing on the US–Mexico border.
Nuevo León
Nuevo León: northeastern Mexican state, capital Monterrey, 51 municipalities, statehood 7 May 1824, population 5,784,442 (2020); industrial economy, manufacturing-led exports, and a 2022 water crisis.