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NYX (2024 series)
NYX (2024 series) is a ten-issue Marvel Comics X-Men title by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Francesco Mortarino, part of the From the Ashes relaunch, following young mutants including Ms. Marvel and Wolverine in post-Krakoa New York.
Nyx (Νύξ)
Nyx (Νύξ), Roman Nox, is the primordial Greek goddess and personification of night, born of Chaos, mother with Erebus of Aether and Hemera, and feared even by Zeus.
Nyx Mons
Nyx Mons, a large shield volcano on Venus in Bell Regio at 30°N, 48.5°E, named for the Greek goddess of night; site of the 2026 Magellan radar evidence for a ~1 km-wide subsurface lava tube.
NZ Transport Agency
NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi, known as NZTA, is the New Zealand Crown entity that funds land transport, manages state highways, and regulates road transport, formed in 2008.
Nzambi Corona
Nzambi Corona is a 225-km-diameter corona, a volcano-tectonic feature, at 45°S 287.5°E in the Themis Regio quadrangle (V-53) of Venus, named in 1997 for the Congo (Bantu) ancestor goddess, with mapped sheet-like lava flows from interior vents.
Nzame (crater on Rhea)
Nzame is a 119.40-km-diameter impact crater on Rhea, Saturn's second largest moon, centered at 9.00 degrees latitude, 24.90 degrees longitude. IAU-approved April 23, 2010, named for the Fang (Gabon) sky god and creator; also a Rhea atlas quadrangle (Sr-6).
Nzema
The Nzema are a coastal Akan people of southwestern Ghana and southeastern Côte d'Ivoire, split by an 1893 border along the Tano River and known for the Kundum festival.
Nzema Kingdom
The Nzema Kingdom, called the Kingdom of Appolonia by Europeans, was a state formed in the early 1700s among the Akan-speaking Nzema of the western Gold Coast.
Nzérékoré
Nzérékoré (N'Zérékoré), capital of Guinea's Forest Region near the Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire borders; multiethnic commercial hub of roughly 270,000–316,000 people, seat of Nzérékoré Region and Prefecture, with a regional airport and university.
Nzimbu
Nzimbu, also spelled zimbo, was the shell currency of the Kingdom of Kongo, made from small seashells gathered on Luanda Island and used for taxes and salaries.
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba
Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, also known as Njinga Mbandi, was a queen of the Mbundu kingdoms in northern Angola. She spent nearly forty years resisting Portuguese conquest.
Nzinga's embassy to Luanda
Nzinga's embassy to Luanda was a 1622 diplomatic mission in which Njinga Mbandi of Ndongo negotiated a peace treaty with Portuguese governor Joao Correia de Sousa in Luanda.
Nzingha Corona
Nzingha Corona is a 140 km wide corona (ring-shaped volcano-tectonic feature) on Venus at 68.7°N, 205.7°E, IAU-approved 1997, renamed from Nzingha Patera, and named for Queen Nzinga (Ann Zingha) of Angola (1582-1663).
NZR RM class
The NZR RM class, RM for "rail motor", was New Zealand Railways' classification covering all its railcars, from 1920s experiments to the Silver Fern railcars of 1972.
NZS 1170
NZS 1170 is the New Zealand structural design actions standard, a joint Australian/New Zealand series (AS/NZS 1170) specifying loads, wind, snow, and earthquake actions for building design.
NZS 3101
NZS 3101 is New Zealand's joint standard for the design of concrete structures, first issued in the early 1970s and internationally known for its earthquake capacity design provisions.
NZX Limited
NZX Limited is a for-profit, publicly held New Zealand company, licensed by the Financial Markets Authority, that operates the country's listed securities markets and provides trading, clearing, settlement, and information services.
NZXT
NZXT is an American computer hardware company founded by Johnny Hou in 2004, based in City of Industry, California, that makes PC cases, coolers, and prebuilt gaming PCs.
Nǃxau ǂToma
Nǃxau ǂToma (Gcao Tekene Çoma), Namibian San farmer-actor born about 1944 at Tsumkwe, starred as Xi in The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) and sequels, was paid $300 then 600,000 rand, and died of tuberculosis in July 2003.
Nω-Nitro-L-arginine
Nω-Nitro-L-arginine (L-NNA, NOLA) is a synthetic derivative of L-arginine and one of the first inhibitors of nitric oxide synthase, extensively used in pharmacology research.