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Napier AI
Napier AI is a London-based regulatory technology company founded in 2015 by Julian Dixon, selling AI-powered financial crime compliance software to banks, insurers, and wealth managers.
Napier Deltic
The Napier Deltic is a British opposed-piston two-stroke diesel engine by D. Napier & Son, with cylinder banks in a triangle, powering Royal Navy craft and Class 55 locomotives.
Napier Mountains
Napier Mountains: Antarctic range in Enderby Land, East Antarctica, near 66°30'S 53°40'E; discovered 1930 by Mawson's BANZARE, named for Sir John Mellis Napier; highest peaks about 2,300 m; Archaean Napier Complex gneisses.
Napier Shaw
Napier Shaw, or Sir William Napier Shaw, was a British meteorologist who directed the UK Meteorological Office from 1905 to 1920, introduced the millibar, and devised the tephigram.
Napier, New Zealand
Napier (Ahuriri) is a port city of about 66,400 on Hawke Bay, New Zealand, seat of the Hawke's Bay Region. Founded 1855, rebuilt in Art Deco style after the 1931 magnitude 7.8 earthquake that killed 162 in the city.
Napier's bones
Napier's bones, also called Napier's rods, are numbered calculating rods described by Scottish mathematician John Napier in 1617, designed to reduce multiplication and division to simple addition.
Napir-Asu
Napir-Asu was a queen of Elam, wife of the Middle Elamite king Untash-Napirisha, known from a life-size bronze statue found at Susa in 1903 and displayed in the Louvre.
Napis
Napis ("Inscription") is the fourth poetry volume by the Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert, published in Warsaw in 1969 and closing the first phase of his career.
Napkins (The Bear)
"Napkins" is season 3, episode 6 of The Bear (aired June 26, 2024), Ayo Edebiri's directing debut, written by Catherine Schetina; a flashback of Tina's layoff and hiring at The Beef, earning Edebiri a historic Emmy nomination.
Naplanum
Naplanum (Naplanûm) is the figure the Larsa King List names as the first ruler of Larsa, credited with a 21-year reign c. 2025–2005 BC that no contemporary record confirms.
Naples
Naples (Napoli), major port city in southern Italy, capital of Campania; founded as Neapolis in 470 BC, UNESCO World Heritage historic centre since 1995, Italy's third most populated city, flanked by Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei volcanoes.
Naples Aquarium
The Naples Aquarium (Acquario di Napoli), opened in 1874 in Naples, Italy, is the country's first public aquarium and the only one dedicated exclusively to Mediterranean fauna and flora.
Naples International Airport
Naples International Airport, commonly called Capodichino after its district, is the international airport serving Naples, Italy, and the busiest in southern Italy, with a record 12.6 million passengers in 2024.
Naples prognostic score
The Naples prognostic score (NPS) is a prognostic scoring system in oncology that combines albumin, total cholesterol, and two blood-cell ratios to predict survival in cancer patients.
Naples Sulcus
Naples Sulcus, a sulcus (groove system) on Miranda, Uranus's innermost large moon; named for Naples in Shakespeare's The Tempest, IAU-approved, imaged by Voyager 2 in 1986, formed by extensional faulting.
Naples, Florida
Naples, Florida: Gulf-coast city in Collier County, incorporated 1923, population about 20,000, median age 67.3, wealthy retirement destination with $1.5 million median home values, NCH hospital, and hurricane and sea-level-rise exposure.
Naplimma
Naplimma, also rendered Napilima, was a Bronze Age king of Qatna in inland Syria, known only from temple treasure inventories found at Tell Mishrife near Homs in 1927.
Napo
Napo (Río Napo), Andes-to-Amazon tributary rising near Quito, Ecuador, flowing ~885–1,125 km through Ecuador and Loreto, Peru, into the Amazon; ~6,300 m³/s discharge, Curaray its main tributary, Yasuní and Cuyabeno protected areas.
Napo Sumaco UNESCO Global Geopark
Napo Sumaco UNESCO Global Geopark, Ecuadorian Amazon geopark in Napo province designated April 10, 2025; 1,800 km², 55 geosites, Sumaco Volcano 3,830 m, Kichwa community geotourism, Pushak Runas guides.
Napo Vallis
Napo Vallis is an 87.5-km-long valley (vallis) on Mars at 25.97S, 78.03E in quadrangle mc21, IAU-approved October 12, 2014, named for the Napo River in Ecuador; it drains southwestern Tyrrhena Terra into Hadriacus Palus.
Napoca
Napoca: Roman town in Dacia on the site of modern Cluj-Napoca, also Colonia Aurelia Napoca. Hadrianic municipium on the Apulum-Porolissum road, seat of Dacia Porolissensis's procurator, declined after 260-270.
Napoleon
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821), also Napoleon I, Emperor of the French: Corsican-born general who became First Consul in 1799, Emperor in 1804, created the Napoleonic Code, conquered much of Europe, and fell at Waterloo in 1815.
Napoléon (1927 film)
Napoléon (1927), Abel Gance's French silent epic on Napoleon Bonaparte's rise, famed for its Polyvision three-screen triptych finale; released in multiple 1927 versions and reconstructed in 2024 as a 7-hour Grande Version by the Cinémathèque française.
Napoleon (2023 film)
Napoleon, also known as Ridley Scott's Napoleon, is a 2023 historical epic directed by Ridley Scott, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Bonaparte alongside Vanessa Kirby as Josephine.
Napoleon (actor)
Napoleon (Kumaresan Duraisamy, born 1963, Tiruchirappalli) is a Tamil film actor of 100+ films, debut Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu (1991); also DMK politician, Union Minister of State, and founder of Jeevan Technologies. Distinct from Napoleon Bonaparte and Napoleon Dynamite.
Napoleon (Animal Farm)
Napoleon is the Berkshire boar and main antagonist of Orwell's Animal Farm (1945), the allegorical stand-in for Joseph Stalin who seizes power with trained dogs, propaganda from Squealer, and rewritten commandments.
Napoleon (board game)
Napoleon (Napoléon: The Waterloo Campaign, 1815) is a 1974 Tom Dalgliesh block wargame from Columbia Games in which 2-3 players refight the 1815 Waterloo campaign with wooden blocks providing fog of war and step reduction.
Napoleon (rapper)
Napoleon (Mutah Wassin Shabazz Beale), American rapper from Newark, New Jersey, member of Tupac Shakur's Outlawz; converted to Islam in 2002, left music, moved to Saudi Arabia, and founded a nonprofit building a masjid in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
Napoleon Abueva
Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva was a Filipino sculptor from Bohol who became the youngest National Artist in 1976 and is called the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture.
Napoleon at Waterloo (board wargame)
Napoleon at Waterloo, also Napoleon at Waterloo 1971, is a free SPI introductory hex-and-counter wargame of the Battle of Waterloo published with Strategy & Tactics in 1971; two players, French versus Anglo-Allies with Prussian reinforcements, second edition 1979.