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Napoleon Chagnon
Napoleon Chagnon (1938–2019) was an American anthropologist best known for more than three decades of fieldwork among the Yanomamö and evolutionary explanations of warfare and marriage.
Napoleon complex
Napoleon complex, or short man syndrome: the belief that short men compensate for height with domineering aggression. Named for Napoleon Bonaparte, who was of average height; evidence from psychology is mixed and partly contradicted.
Napoleon Crossing the Alps
Napoleon Crossing the Alps (Le Premier Consul franchissant les Alpes au col du Grand-Saint-Bernard) is Jacques-Louis David's five-version equestrian series of Napoleon, 1801–1805, a Spanish commission he painted without sittings; versions hang at Malmaison, Charlottenburg, Versailles, and Vienna.
Napoleon Cybulski
Napoleon Nikodem Cybulski (1854–1919) was a Polish physiologist who held the chair of physiology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and co-discovered the adrenal hormone adrenaline.
Napoleon Dynamite
Napoleon Dynamite (2004) is a Jared Hess comedy starring Jon Heder as an awkward Idaho teen helping friend Pedro run for class president. Made for roughly $200,000-$400,000 by BYU film students, it grossed $44.5M and spawned the 'Vote for Pedro' craze.
Napoleon Dynamite (TV series)
Napoleon Dynamite (TV series): 2012 Fox animated sitcom by Jared and Jerusha Hess with Mike Scully; original film cast voiced six episodes, canceled after mixed-negative reviews (32% Tomatometer, Metacritic 46).
Napoleon Harris
Napoleon Harris III, born in 1979, is a Democratic Illinois state senator for the 15th district and a former NFL linebacker who started in Super Bowl XXXVII.
Napoleon Hill
Napoleon Hill (Oliver Napoleon Hill, 1883–1970), American self-help author of Think and Grow Rich (1937) and The Law of Success (1928). Known for the disputed claim that Andrew Carnegie commissioned his success research; historians, including Carnegie biographer David Nasaw, found no evidence of the meeting.
Napoleon II
Napoleon II (Napoléon François Charles Joseph, 1811-1832), also King of Rome, Prince de Parme, and Duke of Reichstadt, was the only son of Napoleon I and Marie Louise; titular Emperor of the French in 1815 who never ruled, raised in Vienna, died of tuberculosis at 21.
Napoleon III
Napoleon III (Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, 1808-1873), nephew of Napoleon I, was the first elected President of France, seized power by the December 1851 coup, ruled the Second Empire from 1852 to 1870, modernized Paris and the economy, and fell at Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War.
Napoleon Solo
Napoleon Solo is the fictional American U.N.C.L.E. agent played by Robert Vaughn in the 1964-68 TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E.; Ian Fleming supplied the name, and Henry Cavill played him in the 2015 film.
Napoleon Ta
Napoleon Ta is a Partner at Founders Fund, the San Francisco venture capital firm, where he focuses on growth investing and reportedly drives its best-performing growth-stage investments.
Napoleon XIV
Napoleon XIV was the stage name of Jerry Samuels (1938–2023), American singer and producer behind the 1966 novelty hit "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!", No. 3 Billboard, No. 4 UK, with a reversed B-side.
Napoleon: Total War
Napoleon: Total War (Total War: NAPOLEON) is a 2010 Creative Assembly/SEGA PC strategy game, a standalone follow-up to Empire: Total War covering Napoleon's Italian, Egyptian, Peninsular, and Grand Campaigns with historical battles like Waterloo.
Napoleon's exile to St. Helena
Napoleon's exile to St. Helena (1815–1821): the final captivity of Napoleon Bonaparte, sent by British Admiralty orders via HMS Bellerophon and Northumberland, held at Longwood House under Governor Hudson Lowe, commemorated by the Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène and the 1840 retour des cendres.
Napoleon's first abdication
Napoleon's first abdication, April 1814 at Fontainebleau: conditional abdication of 4 April in favor of Napoleon II, unconditional renunciation of 6 April, Treaty of Fontainebleau of 11 April, and exile to Elba.
Napoleon's penis
Napoleon's penis is a putative relic allegedly removed at the emperor's 1821 autopsy on Saint Helena, kept by the Vignali family, sold in 1916, displayed in New York in 1927, bought by urologist John Lattimer in 1977, and identified by a 2022 study as likely a tendon.
Napoleon's Syrian campaign
Napoleon's Syrian campaign (الحملة الفرنسية على الشام) was the French invasion of Palestine and coastal Syria from Egypt in 1799, ending in failure at Acre.
Napoleone Ferrara
Napoleone Ferrara is a cell biologist and physician at UC San Diego, best known for isolating VEGF in 1989 and developing anti-VEGF therapies for cancer and blinding eye disease.
Napoleone Orsini
Napoleone Orsini (c. 1262/3–1342) was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Orsini family and a nephew of Pope Nicholas III, serving nearly 54 years as cardinal-deacon of Sant'Adriano.
Napoleonic Code
Napoleonic Code (Code civil des Français), French civil code promulgated 21 March 1804 with 36 laws and 2,281 articles in three books; renamed Code Napoléon in 1807, still in force in amended form, and the foundation of many civil law systems including Louisiana's.
Napoleonic era
Napoleonic era (c. 1800–1815, some dating from 1797): Napoleon Bonaparte's rule as First Consul and Emperor of the French, the Napoleonic Wars, Continental System, Code Civil, satellite kingdoms, and the 1814–1815 collapse and Waterloo.
Napoleonic looting of art
Napoleonic looting of art was the state-organized seizure of cultural property from conquered territories to France between 1794 and 1813, sparking early debates on art restitution.
Napoleonic Wars
Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815): European conflicts between Napoleonic France and successive coalitions, continuing the Revolutionary Wars; defined by mass conscription, Trafalgar, Austerlitz, Leipzig, Waterloo, and the Congress of Vienna settlement.
Napoli (ballet)
Napoli is a three-act ballet by August Bournonville, premiered 29 March 1842 by the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. Music by Helsted, Paulli, and Gade; famous for its Act III pas de six and tarantella; considered Denmark's national ballet.
Napolioni Bolaca
Napolioni Bolaca is a Fijian rugby sevens player who won gold with Fiji at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and led the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series in points.
Naporafenib
Naporafenib (LXH254) is an oral type II pan-RAF inhibitor (BRAF/CRAF potent, ARAF-sparing) developed by Novartis and Erasca for MAPK-driven tumors; best results in NRAS-mutant melanoma with trametinib, development stopped 2026.
Nappe
A nappe is a large, sheet-like body of rock that has moved far from its original position by thrust faulting or recumbent folding, a structure typical of mountain ranges.
Nappily Ever After
Nappily Ever After is a 2018 Netflix comedy-drama directed by Haifaa al-Mansour, starring Sanaa Lathan as Violet Jones, based on Trisha R. Thomas's 2000 novel about a Black ad executive who shaves her hair after a failed proposal.
Napping (sensory evaluation)
Napping is a sensory evaluation method in which assessors arrange product samples on a sheet, so that closer placement means perceived similarity, yielding a product map.