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Narita Taishin (ナリタタイシン)

Narita Taishin (ナリタタイシン), Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse (1990-2020), 1993 Satsuki Sho winner from the BNW classic generation with Biwa Hayahide and Winning Ticket; 15 starts, 4 wins, later unsuccessful stallion, died aged nearly 30.

Narita Top Road (ナリタトップロード)

Narita Top Road (ナリタトップロード), Japanese racehorse foaled 1996 by Soccer Boy out of Floral Magic; won the 1999 Kikuka Sho (G1), 8 wins from 30 starts, rival of T.M. Opera O, later a stallion.

Narivetta (നരിവെട്ട)

Narivetta (നരിവെട്ട) is a 2025 Malayalam action thriller directed by Anuraj Manohar, written by Abin Joseph, starring Tovino Thomas as a CRPF constable in a tribal land-protest story inspired by the 2003 Muthanga stir; released 23 May 2025, streaming on SonyLIV.

Narkomfin Building

The Narkomfin Building (Дом Наркомфина) is a constructivist apartment complex on Novinsky Boulevard in Moscow, built 1928–1930 by Moisei Ginzburg with Ignaty Milinis for finance commissariat employees.

Narla Mohandas

Narla Mohandas, also known as Mohandas Narla, is an American hematologist and red cell physiologist who heads the Laboratory of Red Cell Physiology at the New York Blood Center.

Narlaprevir

Narlaprevir is a second-generation hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease inhibitor derived from boceprevir by Schering-Plough and Merck, reaching phase 3 trials before development was discontinued outside Russia.

Narlumosbart

Narlumosbart (JMT103, Jinlitai, 津立泰) is a fully human IgG4 anti-RANKL monoclonal antibody by Shanghai JMT-Bio/CSPC, conditionally approved in China in 2023 for unresectable giant cell tumor of bone, with 93.5% tumor response rate.

Narmad Yuga

Narmad Yuga (નર્મદયુગ, the Age of Narmad) is the first phase of modern Gujarati literature, within the Sudhara Yug reform age, named for poet Narmad (1833–1886), who turned poetry toward the self alongside Dalpatram.

Narmada Bachao Andolan (नर्मदा बचाओ आंदोलन)

Narmada Bachao Andolan (नर्मदा बचाओ आंदोलन), the Save the Narmada Movement, is an Indian movement founded by Medha Patkar in 1985 that opposed large dams on the Narmada river.

Narmada Canal

The Narmada Canal is the main irrigation and water-supply canal of the Sardar Sarovar Project, carrying Narmada River water 532 km across Gujarat into Rajasthan.

Narmada River (नर्मदा नदी)

Narmada River (नर्मदा नदी), also Narbada, India's longest west-flowing river, 1,312 km from Amarkantak to the Gulf of Khambhat; site of the Sardar Sarovar Dam, its irrigation network, and the Narmada Bachao Andolan displacement controversy.

Narmada Valley Development Project

The Narmada Valley Development Project is a scheme of 30 large and over 3,000 dams on India's Narmada River, whose displacement controversy prompted a World Bank withdrawal in 1993.

Narmada-Tapti

Narmada-Tapti (FEOW ecoregion 708), a freshwater ecoregion covering the Mahi, Narmada, and Tapi river basins of India draining to the Gulf of Khambhat; intense monsoon flood regime, no endemic fishes, largest river basin of Madhya Pradesh.

Narmadashankar Dave

Narmadashankar Dave (નર્મદાશંકર દવે), known as Narmad, was a Gujarati poet and social reformer of Surat, regarded as the first proponent of modern Gujarati literature.

Narmer

Narmer, also identified by many Egyptologists with Menes, was the first king of Egypt's First Dynasty around 3100-3000 BC, known from the Narmer Palette found at Hierakonpolis, which shows him in both the White and Red Crowns as unifier of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Narmer Macehead

The Narmer Macehead is a limestone ceremonial macehead attributed to King Narmer of Egypt's First Dynasty, about 3050 BC, found at Hierakonpolis and held at Oxford.

Narmer Palette

Narmer Palette: siltstone ceremonial cosmetic palette, 64 x 42 cm, from the Horus temple at Hierakonpolis, found 1897-1898 by Quibell and Green; shows King Narmer in both White and Red crowns, earliest hieroglyphs, now Cairo JdE 32169.

Narnia (world)

Narnia is the fantasy world of C.S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia books (1950-1956), created and ruled by Aslan the lion, entered via wardrobe and other portals, with over 120 million copies sold and a 2027 film adaptation.

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew

Narnia: The Magician's Nephew is Greta Gerwig's 2027 Netflix fantasy film, the first-ever adaptation of C. S. Lewis's 1955 novel, an origin story of Narnia starring David McKenna, Beatrice Campbell, Emma Mackey, Daniel Craig, and Meryl Streep as Aslan.

Naro Shankar

Naro Shankar (नारो शंकर), also recorded as Naro Shankar Motiwale, was a Maratha administrator and commander who served the Peshwas, governed Jhansi from 1742, and built much of its fort.

Naro Space Center

The Naro Space Center (나로우주센터) is South Korea's national spaceport on Oenaro Island, operated by KARI and opened in 2009 as the country's only orbital launch site.

Naro Vallis

Naro Vallis is a 393-km-long valley (vallis) on Mars near the equator at about 4°S, 60.6°E, in quadrangle mc21, named in 1985 after the ancient name of the Neretva River in Yugoslavia.

Naroda Patiya massacre

Naroda Patiya massacre: killing of Muslim residents of Naroda Patiya, Ahmedabad, on February 28, 2002, during the post-Godhra Gujarat riots; 2012 trial convicted 31, including Maya Kodnani and Babu Bajrangi; Kodnani acquitted on appeal in 2018.

Naroditsky Memorial 2026

Naroditsky Memorial 2026, inaugural Rapid & Blitz festival July 3-5 in Charlotte, NC honoring GM Daniel Naroditsky; $50,000 prize fund; Javokhir Sindarov won rapid and blitz, Bartholomew the Creator Invitational.

Narodnaya Volya (Народная воля)

Narodnaya Volya (Народная воля, People's Will), Russian revolutionary populist conspiracy founded 1879 from Zemlya i Volya's split; Executive Committee of about 30 assassinated Alexander II on 1 March 1881; seven attempts, five hangings, collapse by 1882.

Narodnost

Narodnost (народность), roughly "nationality," is a nineteenth-century Russian concept of a people's distinctive qualities, central to literary debates and to Uvarov's 1832 official doctrine of Orthodoxy, autocracy, and narodnost.

Narodowy Bank Polski

Narodowy Bank Polski is the central bank of Poland, founded in 1945 and headquartered in Warsaw, which sets monetary policy through a nine-member Monetary Policy Council to keep prices stable.

Narodychi Raion

Narodychi Raion (Народицький район) was a district in northeastern Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Narodychi; created 1923, heavily contaminated by Chernobyl, abolished 2020 into Korosten Raion.

Narok

Narok is a town in southwestern Kenya and the capital of Narok County, in the Great Rift Valley on the road to the Maasai Mara National Reserve.

Naropa

Naropa (नारोपा) was an eleventh-century Indian Buddhist master and mahasiddha, disciple of Tilopa, who taught at Nalanda and Vikramashila and whose Six Yogas shaped the Kagyu order.