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New Year's resolution
New Year's resolution: a self-improvement pledge made at the year's start, with roots in Babylonian Akitu promises and Roman Janus vows; research shows 55% one-year success, approach goals outperforming avoidance goals.
New Zealanders
New Zealanders are the people of Aotearoa New Zealand: Māori descendants of Polynesian settlers (1250–1300 CE), later British settlers, and post-1970s Pacific, Asian and other immigrants. 2023 Census population 4,993,923; 67.8% European, 17.8% Māori, 17.3% Asian.
Newar people
Newar people (Newa, Newāḥ), indigenous inhabitants of Nepal's Kathmandu Valley, 5.6% of Nepal's 1991 population; Tibeto-Burman Nepal Bhasa speakers with caste-organized Hindu-Buddhist society, guthi associations, Newar Buddhism, and the Indra Jatra Kumari festival.
Next of kin
Next of kin means the people with the nearest legally acknowledged relation to someone, notified after death and often asked to make basic decisions on their behalf.
Nextdoor
Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is a hyperlocal social network of verified neighborhoods, launched in 2011, public via SPAC in 2021, with 22.9 million weekly users, 1 in 3 U.S. households, and 2025 revenue of $258 million.
Nez Perce
The Nez Perce (Nimiipuu, "we the people") are a Columbia Plateau tribe of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Key facts: 1855 Walla Walla treaty reservation of about 7.5 million acres, the 1863 "Thief Treaty" shrinkage by 90%, the 1,170-mile Flight of 1877 ending at Bear Paw, and the modern Nez Perce Tribe at Lapwai, Idaho.
Nganasan people
The Nganasans are an indigenous Samoyedic people of the Taimyr Peninsula in northern Siberia, the most northern inhabitants of the Eurasian landmass, who traditionally hunted wild reindeer and speak the endangered Nganasan language.
Ngāpuhi
Ngāpuhi is New Zealand's largest Māori iwi, based in Northland (Te Tai Tokerau) from Hokianga to the Bay of Islands. Descended from Rāhiri; signed He Whakaputanga 1835 and Te Tiriti 1840; fought the Crown in the 1845–46 Northern War.
Ngāti Kahungunu
Ngāti Kahungunu, a Māori iwi of New Zealand's east coast from Māhia Peninsula to Cape Palliser, descends from Kahungunu of the Tākitimu canoe; third-largest iwi, 95,751 affiliates at the 2023 Census, governed by Ngāti Kahungunu Iwi Incorporated.
Ngāti Porou
Ngāti Porou is a Māori iwi on New Zealand's East Coast. Its governance entity, Te Rūnanganui o Ngāti Porou, negotiated a $110 million Treaty settlement in 2010.
Ngāti Toa
Ngāti Toa (Ngāti Toarangatira), a Tainui-descended Māori iwi from Kāwhia, migrated south under Te Rauparaha in the 1820s, dominated the Cook Strait region from Kāpiti Island, and settled with the Crown in 2014.
Nguni people
The Nguni (also Ngoni) are a southern African Bantu-speaking people group including the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Ndebele, historically settled along the east coast between the Drakensberg and the sea, dispersed widely by the 19th-century Mfecane.
Niantic people
The Niantic (Nehantic) were an Algonquian-speaking Native American people of eastern Connecticut and western Rhode Island, split into Eastern and Western divisions by Pequot expansion and devastated in the Pequot and King Philip's wars.
Nicarao migration into Nicaragua
The Nicarao migration was the movement of Nahuat-speaking peoples from central and southern Mexico into Pacific Nicaragua, conventionally dated to about AD 1200 within a broader migration wave of AD 700 to 1350.
Nice guy
Nice guy: a kind, agreeable man, subject of the "nice guys finish last" proverb from Leo Durocher's 1946 baseball remark, and internet slang for a man expecting sex for kindness; studied in dating, income, and power research.
Nick McKenzie
Nick McKenzie, Australian investigative journalist at The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, ABC cadet from 2002, twenty-time Walkley winner whose Roberts-Smith war crimes reporting survived a landmark defamation case.
Nicola Forrest
Nicola Forrest AO is an Australian philanthropist, CEO and co-founder (with Andrew Forrest) of the Minderoo Foundation, first Australian Giving Pledge signatories, donor of the $400 million 2017 gift, separated from Andrew Forrest in July 2023.
Niece and nephew
Niece and nephew are English kinship terms for a sibling's daughter and son, from Latin neptis and nepos via Old French; both once meant grandchild before narrowing in the 1600s; second-degree relatives sharing about 25% of DNA; gender-neutral term nibling.
Nigerian Americans
Nigerian Americans are Americans of Nigerian birth or ancestry, formed largely by post-1965 immigration. Known for very high educational attainment, strong hometown and ethnic organizations, and distinctive dual Nigerian-American identity.
Nigerian diaspora
The Nigerian diaspora is the population of people of Nigerian nationality or descent living outside Nigeria, estimated at 2 to 17 million and remitting over $20 billion a year.
Nigerians
Nigerians: citizens of Nigeria and people of Nigerian ancestry, a civic nationality of 250+ ethnic groups (Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo largest), about 237 million people, half Muslim and half Christian, with a 15-17 million diaspora sending $25 billion in remittances (2019).
Night Wolves (Ночные волки)
Night Wolves (Ночные волки) is a Russian nationalist motorcycle club founded in Moscow, officially named 31 May 1989, led by Alexander "The Surgeon" Zaldostanov, with about 5,000 members and dozens of chapters, close Kremlin ties, Wolf Holding businesses, and US, Canadian, and EU sanctions.
Nihilism
Nihilism, from Latin nihil (nothing), is a family of philosophical positions denying meaning, objective value, knowledge, or purpose. Covers its varieties, origins with Obereit and Jacobi, Turgenev, the Russian movement, Nietzsche, and contemporary debates.
Nikah mut'ah (نكاح المتعة)
Nikah mut'ah (نكاح المتعة), or sigheh, is a fixed-term temporary marriage contract lawful in Twelver Shi'i (Ja'fari) law but void in Sunni law. Both traditions agree it was permitted in early Islam; they dispute whether Muhammad or Caliph Umar prohibited it. It is legally recognized in Iran.
Nikki Haskell
Nikki Haskell (born 1941) is an American socialite, one of Wall Street's first female stockbrokers, host of The Nikki Haskell Show, a Studio 54 fixture, and StarCap diet-pill entrepreneur bankrupted by NFL players' bumetanide lawsuits.
Nilotic peoples
Nilotic peoples are groups across South Sudan and East Africa defined by speaking Nilotic languages, including the Dinka, Nuer, Shilluk, Luo, Maasai, and Turkana, mostly semi-nomadic herders.
Nilza Iraci
Nilza Iraci is a Brazilian Black feminist, a founding member of Geledés – Instituto da Mulher Negra, nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize campaign.
Nina Dyer
Nina Dyer (Nina Sheila Dyer, 1930-1965), Anglo-Indian fashion model and Pierre Balmain favorite; married Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza then Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan; died by suicide in 1965.
Nina Rindt
Nina Rindt (née Lincoln, born 1943), Finnish fashion model, wife of Jochen Rindt; timed his laps from the pit wall, was widowed at Monza in 1970, and accepted the only posthumous F1 championship trophy.
Ninbetsu aratame
Ninbetsu aratame (人別改) was an Edo-period Japanese population survey in which village and town officials registered commoner households, producing the household register known as the ninbetsu-chō.