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  • n ... Nabī Shuʿayb, Mount Al-
  • Nabiam, Nuno Gomes ... Nadeem, Arshad
  • Nadel, S.F. ... Nagarakertagama
  • Nāgarakṛtāgama ... Nahj al-balāghah
  • Nahl, Johann August ... Naja haje
  • Naja kaouthia ... naked mole rat
  • Naked Needle, A ... Namban picture
  • Nambane ... Nan Yüeh
  • Nan Yunhe ... Naning War
  • Nanini, Giovanni Maria ... Nanto-Bordelaise Company
  • Nanton, Joe ... Napoléon le Petit
  • Napoleon of Notting Hill ... narcissism
  • narcissistic number ... Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea
  • Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries ... nasal turbinal
  • Nasalis larvatus ... Nāṣira, an-
  • Nasirabad ... Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
  • Natator depressa ... National Arboretum
  • National Archaeological Museum ... National Basketball Association
  • National Basketball Association Championship ... National Council of American Indians
  • National Council of Churches ... national flag
  • National Flag Day ... National Institutes of Health
  • National Insurance Act ... National Museum of American History
  • National Museum of Anthropology ... National Portrait Gallery
  • National Portrait Gallery ... National Socialism
  • National Socialist Council of Nagaland ... National Woman’s Party
  • National Women’s Hall of Fame ... Native Son
  • Native Son ... Natural Law and Natural Rights
  • natural logarithm ... natya
  • natyadharmi ... Naval War with France
  • naval warfare ... Naxçıvan
  • Naxçıvan ... NC
  • NC curve ... NEA
  • NEA ... Nebrija, Antonio de
  • Nebrisa ... Nectogale elegans
  • nectophore ... Neer, Aernout van der
  • Neer, Aert van der ... Negretti, Jacopo
  • Negri Sembilan ... Neijiang
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson on bringing science to the masses ... Nelson, Willie
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art ... Nemtsov, Boris
  • Nemtsov, Boris Yefimovich ... neoconservatism
  • neocorporatism ... Neoregelia carolinae
  • Neorhabdocoela ... nephridium
  • nephrite ... Nero Claudius Drusus
  • Nero Deep ... Nestor meridionalis
  • Nestor notabilis ... network
  • Network ... Neumann, Franz Ernst
  • Neumann, János ... neurone
  • neuronlike computing ... neutron-activation analysis
  • neutron-gamma reaction ... New Abnormal, The
  • New Acropolis Museum ... New Day Has Come, A
  • New Day Rising ... New Grass Revival
  • New Grub Street ... New Left
  • new liberalism ... New Party
  • New Patriotic Party ... New Testament
  • New Testament Apocrypha ... New York Bakeshop Act
  • New York Bench Show of Dogs ... New York University Tisch School of the Arts
  • New York v. Cathedral Academy ... Newcastle disease
  • Newcastle disease virus ... Newport
  • Newport ... Newtonian reflector
  • Newtonian relativity ... NGC 104
  • NGC 1432 ... Nguyen Sinh Cung
  • Nguyen Tat Thanh ... Niani
  • Niantic ... Nicholas Of Cusa
  • Nicholas of Damascus ... Nicodemus
  • Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain, Saint ... NIE
  • Nie Rongzhen ... Niger basin
  • Niger Bend ... Night of the Living Dead
  • Night of the Long Knives ... nigre
  • Nigrinus ... Nikolaus von Cusa
  • Nikolay Aleksandrovich ... Nimbarka
  • Nimbarka ... Ningsia
  • Ningsia plain ... Nippon Tetsudō Gurūpu
  • Nipponia nippon ... Nithard, Juan Everardo
  • Nithsdale ... Nivedita
  • Nivedita, Sister ... Nkhotakota
  • nkisi ... No Man’s Meat and The Enchanted Pimp
  • No me preguntes cómo pasa el tiempo ... Nobel Foundation
  • Nobel Industries AB ... Nocturnal Animals
  • nocturnal emission ... nōkan
  • Nokhai ... non sequitur, fallacy of
  • Non-Aligned Movement ... Nondual Tantra
  • nondurable good ... nonrepresentational art
  • nonreturn valve ... Norbertine
  • NORC ... Norfolk plover
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  • Normand, Mabel ... North American Baptist Association
  • North American bog turtle ... North Central University
  • North Ch’ungch’ŏng ... North of Boston
  • North of Dawn ... North-West
  • North-West Frontier Province ... Northern Dancer
  • northern drama ... Northern Pursuit
  • northern quahog ... Northwest
  • Northwest ... Norwegian Nobel Committee
  • Norwegian Pavilion ... Not on Our Watch
  • Not One Less ... Nothing Was the Same
  • Nothing’s Impossible ... Notre-Dame, Cathedral of
  • Notre-Dame, Cathedral of ... nouvelle Carthage, La
  • nouvelle critique ... novel of manners
  • novel of sensibility ... Novopolotsk
  • Novorosiysk ... NPC
  • NPCC ... Ntsay, Christian
  • NTSC ... nuclear recoil
  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission ... Nueva
  • Nueva Antología poética ... Numb3rs
  • numbat ... Nun singen sie wieder
  • Nun’s Priest’s Tale, The ... Nūri
  • Nuri al-Said ... nutrient broth
  • nutrient circulation ... Nyakyusa
  • Nyala ... nymph
  • nymph ... NZZ
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