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NĂĽrburgring The NĂĽrburgring (alternative spelling without umlaut: Nuerburgring, but never "Nurburgring"), known as simply "the Ring" by enthusiasts, is the name of a famous motorsport race track in Germany.
Nürnberger Land Nürnberger Land is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Forchheim, Bayreuth, Amberg-Sulzbach, Neumarkt, Roth and Erlangen-Höchstadt, and by the city of Nuremberg.
NĂĽrnberger Nachrichten The NĂĽrnberger Nachrichten (NN) was originally a local daily in the Nuremberg-Erlangen-FĂĽrth area. With its regional editions it now covers the whole of Middle FranconiaMiddle Franconia and parts of Upper Franconia and the Upper Palatinate.
NĂĽTopia NĂĽTopia is a regional Burning Man event held between Toronto and Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. The event is held in May and is attended by participants from both cities, as well as from other places around the world.
NĂĽwa In Chinese mythology, NĂĽwa (Traditional Chinese: 女媧 Simplified Chinese: 女娲 Pinyin: nÇšwÄ) is mythological character best known for reproducing people after a great calamity. Other later traditions name this as a creation myth attributed to either Pangu or Yu Huang.
NĂłi AlbĂnĂłi NĂłi AlbĂnĂłi (NĂłi the Albino) is an Icelandic film by director Dagur Kári released in 2003. The film explores the life of teenage outsider NĂłi Kristmundsson (played by TĂłmas Lemarquis) in a remote fishing village in western Iceland.
NĂłlsoy NĂłlsoy is an island in central Faroe Islands, located to the east of the capital TĂłrshavn in Streymoy. There is only one settlement on the island: NĂłlsoy on the north-west coast on Stongin, a peninsula attached to the rest of the island by a metres-wide isthmus.
Nóta Nóta is a form of 19th century Hungarian popular song. It is one of a number of styles collectively referred to as cigányzene, which literally means Gypsy music but is used to refer to a number of styles Hungarian folk music that are of a debatable Gypsy musical style.
NĂŁo Wave NĂŁo Wave: Brazil Post Punk 1982-1988 is an album released on April 25, 2005 by Man Recordings. It contains a collection of songs from various artists that formed the SĂŁo Paulo post-punk movement of the early 1980s.
Núcleo de Informática Biomédica The Núcleo de Informática Biomédica (in English, Center for Biomedical Informatics) of the State University of Campinas (NIB), in Campinas, Brazil, was an interdisciplinary center for research, development and education in medical informatics, founded July 1983 by the University, under the deanship of Dr. José Aristodemo Pinotti.
NĂşcleo JosĂ© Reis de Divulgação CientĂfica The NĂşcleo JosĂ© Reis de Divulgação CientĂfica (JosĂ© Reis Nucleus for the Divulgation of Science, in Portuguese language) was created by the School of Communications and Arts of the University of SĂŁo Paulo (ECA/USP), in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, with an interdepartmental character. Among the regimental objectives of the Nucleus, the following items stand out:
NĂşrayn-i-Nayyirayn NĂşrayn-i-Nayyirayn (Arabic: نŮرين نيران, meaning "twin shining lights") are two brothers who were followers of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'Ă Faith, a global religion of Persian origin. They were beheaded in 1879 as a result of being Bahá'Ăs.
NĂşria CamĂłn NĂşria CamĂłn Farell (born March 3, 1978 in Terrassa, Catalonia) is a field hockey midfield player from Spain, who represented her native country at two consecutive Olympic Games: in 2000 and 2004. She was also a member of the Spanish national team that finished fourth at the 2006 Women's Hockey World Cup in Madrid, where CamĂłn was named Player of the Tournament.
Nácor Burgos Nácor Burgos Rojo (born April 9, 1977 in Ăvila) is a professional road racing cyclist since 1999. In 2006, he rides for the Relax-Gam professional cycling team on UCI Europe Tour and when the team is invited as a wildcard to UCI ProTour events.
Nájera Nájera (Basque: Naiara) is a small city located in the "Rioja Alta" district of La Rioja, Spain on the river Najerilla. The site interested the Romans, who built the city of Tritium on the territories that today are the municipalities of Nájera and Tricio.
Náttfari Náttfari (nightwalker) escaped from Gardar Svavarsson with a slave and a woman when Gardar Svavarson set sail to Norway from his new found land which he named Gardarsholmur, now known as Iceland, in the 9th century.
Nîmes AOC Nîmes is an AOC for wine made in and around the village of Nîmes in the Rhône wine region. It is the most southerly of the Rhône appellations and was recently allowed by the INAO to be officially considered part of the Rhône AOC proper.
Nébouzan Nébouzan (pronounced in French) (Gascon: Nebosan, pronounced ) was a small province of France located in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains, in the southwest of France. It was not a contiguous province, but it was made up of several detached territories, approximately half of them around the town of Saint-Gaudens in the south of the present-day département of Haute-Garonne, and the other half around the town of Lannemezan in the east of the present-day département of Hautes-Pyrénées.
Néel temperature The Néel temperature, TN, is the temperature at which an antiferromagnetic material becomes paramagnetic — that is, the thermal energy becomes large enough to destroy the macroscopic magnetic ordering within the material.
NĂ©grette NĂ©grette is a dark red wine grape grown primarily in southwestern France in the region between Albi and Toulouse. It is a direct descendant of mavro rootstock, a grape variety cultivated extensively on the island of Cyprus.
Négritude Négritude is a literary and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas. The Négritude writers found solidarity in a common black identity as a rejection of French colonial racism.
Nélée et Myrthis Nélée et Myrthis is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau in the form of a one-act acte de ballet. Nothing is known about the date of its composition, performance during Rameau's lifetime or the name of its librettist.
NĂ©lida NĂ©lida is a novel by Marie d'Agoult, a "thinly disguised fictional account" of her four-year affair with composer Franz Liszt. Marie later wrote several more novels as well as a distinguished history of the Revolutions of 1848 in France.
Nélida Piñon Nélida Piñon is a Brazilian writer born May 3, 1937 in Rio de Janeiro of Spanish immigrants. Her first novel was Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo (The Guidebook of Gabriel Arcanjo), written in 1961 which concerns a protagonist discussing Christian doctrine with her guardian angel.
NĂ©lson Veiga NĂ©lson Veiga fullname NĂ©lson CĂ©sar Tavares Rodrigues Veiga (born 9 February 1978) is a Cape Verdean football (soccer) defender, plays for Omonia Nicosia in Cyprus and Cape Verde national football team.He also hold Portugal passport.
Népszabadság Népszabadság is a major left-leaning "liberal" Hungarian newspaper, founded in 1956. "Népszabadság" literally means "People's Freedom", and is a reference to the paper's communist roots: it was the mouthpiece of the communist Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until 1989 and is often considered as supportive to the present Hungarian Socialist Party.
Néstor Cerpa Cartolini Néstor Cerpa Cartolini (August 14, 1953 – April 22, 1997) — sometimes known by the nom de guerre "Evaristo" — was a leader of the Peruvian Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) rebel movement.
NĂ©stor Mata NĂ©stor Mata is one of the Philippine's most durable journalists, with a career spanning over six decades. However, Mata will forever be remembered for his remarkable luck as the lone survivor in the 1957 plane crash that killed the immensely popular Filipino President RamĂłn Magsaysay and 25 others.
Näcip Cihanov Cihanov Näcip Äžayaz ulı (English spellin: na-JEEP JEE-hah-noff Tatar Cyrillic: Җиһанов Нәҗип Đ“Đ°ŃŹĐ· Ńлы; Russian: ЖигаĚнов НазиĚб Đ“Đ°ŃŹĚзович; in Uralsk — 2 June 1988) was a Tatar composer, teacher and statesman. He was granted the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1957) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1981).
Näckrosen Näckrosen (meaning the Water Lily) is a station on the Stockholm Metro, blue line. The station is located in Solna Municipality (northwestern end of Råsunda area), but one of the entrances is in Sundbyberg Municipality.
När en vacker tanke blir en sång The album När en vacker tanke blir en sång ("a beautiful thought becomes a song"), released in May 1971, is the fourth Swedish solo-album by Swedish pop singer Agnetha Fältskog released in 1971. With the exception of the last track, all songs were written by Agnetha herself.
Nätra Court District Nätra Court District, or Nätra tingslag, was a district of Ångermanland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Nærøysund Bridge Nærøysund Bridge (Nærøysund bru) is a suspension bridge that crosses Nærøysundet between Marøya and Vikna in Nord-Trøndelag county in Norway. Together with Marøysund Bridge it connects the islands of Vikna to the mainland.
Nærumbanen Nærumbanen is a short railway in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, now part of the Lokalbanen system. It runs light trains that connect to the S-train system at Jægersborg and serve mainly local neighborhoods in Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality and Nærum in Søllerød.
NĂ´ng Äức Mạnh NĂ´ng Äức Mạnh (born September 11, 1940) is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and has held that position since April 22, 2001. He was reappointed to that position in April of 2006.
Nöjesguiden Nöjesguiden (Swedish for "the entertainment guide") is a Nordic free-of-charge young adult magazine, available in many cities in both Sweden and Finland. In Finland, the magazine is in Finnish, but its name is still Nöjesguiden.
Nörlund-Rice integral In mathematics, the Nörlund-Rice integral, sometimes called Rice's method, relates the nth forward difference of a function to a line integral on the complex plane. As such, it commonly appears in the theory of finite differences, and also has been applied in computer science and graph theory to estimate binary tree lengths.
Nösnerland The (; ) is an historic region of northeastern Transylvania in present-day Romania centered between the Bistriţa and Mureş rivers. Since the exodus of most of the German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons in the 20th century, this particular regional designation has lost much of its cultural meaning.
Nørhald municipality Nørhald municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 201 km², and has a total population of 8.
Nørre Aaby municipality Nørre Aaby municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County on the north and west coasts of the island of Funen in southern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 65 km², and has a total population of 5,626 (2006).
Nørre Djurs municipality Nørre Djurs municipality ("Northern Djursland") is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 237 km², and has a total population of 7.
Nørre Gymnasium Nørre Gymnasium, which since 1972 has been located in Husum, Denmark, was founded in 1818 by Caroline Wroblewsky as a school for young girls, but it has by this day become one of Copenhagen’s largest gymnasiums and offers both Danish as well as international educations.
Nørre-Rangstrup Nørre-Rangstrup (German:Rangstrup), is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in South Jutland County on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 302 km², and has a total population of 9,502 (2005).
Nørrebro Nørrebro is the common name for an area in Copenhagen, Denmark located beyond the historic city center (the Indre By), and beyond the location of the old Northern Gate (Nørreport), which was near the current Nørreport station until dismantled in 1856.
Nørresundby Nørresundby is a town north of Aalborg on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy, part of the Jutland peninsula in Denmark. It is linked to Aalborg by a road bridge, an iron railway bridge, as well as a motorway (E45) passing it to the east and running under the Limfjord.
Nøstvet and Lihult cultures The Nøstvet culture (ca 6200 BC-3200 BC) and the Lihult culture are two very similar mesolithic cultures in Scandinavian prehistory derived from the earlier Fosna-Hensbacka cultures, but the culture is so shifting that it is rather a tradition than an archaeological culture.
NÄ«lakantha dhÄranÄ« The Nilakantha Dharani also known as MahÄ Karuna DhÄranÄ«, popularly known as the Great Compassion Mantra in English, and known as the Dabei Zhou (大悲咒) in Mandarin Chinese, is a dharani of Mahayana Buddhist origin. It was spoken by the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara before an assembly of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, devas and kings, according to the Mahakarunikacitta Sutra.
NÄ Pali Coast State Park NÄ Pali Coast State Park encompasses 6,175 acres (25 km²) of land and stretches sixteen miles (26 kilometers) along the northwest side of Kauai, the oldest inhabited Hawaiian Island. The pali, or "cliffs", rise as high as 4,000 ft (1,200 m) above the Pacific Ocean.
NÄga NÄga (Sanskrit:) is the Sanskrit and PÄli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very large snake, found in Hinduism and Buddhism. The use of the term nÄga is often ambiguous, as the word may also refer, in similar contexts, to one of several human tribes known as or nicknamed "NÄgas"; to elephants; and to ordinary snakes, particularly the King Cobra and the Indian Cobra, the latter of which is still called nÄg in Hindi and other languages of India.
NÄm JapĹŤ NÄm JapĹŤ (), refers to the meditation, vocal singing of Hymns from the Sri Guru Granth Sahib or of the various Names of God, specially the chanting of the word Waheguru, which means Wonderful Lord. Singing of hymns generally is also referred to a â€NÄm Jap’, sometimes also called â€NÄm Simran’.
NÄnÄkuli, Hawai'i NÄnÄkuli is a town and valley and census-designated place (CDP) in the Waianae District on the Island of Oahu, City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii. In Hawaiian, nÄnÄ kuli means literally "look at knee".
NBA 2K NBA 2K is a basketball video game series that was initially exclusive for the Sega Dreamcast starting in 1999. The series was originally published by Sega, under the label Sega Sports and developed by Visual Concepts.
NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad is a program which airs on Saturday afternoons on ABC. The program details the behind-the-scenes activities of NBA players, coaches and officials, and serves as a replacement for NBA Inside Stuff.
NBA All-Star Weekend The National Basketball Association (NBA) holds its All-Star Weekend each February in a predetermined location. The 2006 event was held in Houston, Texas, home of the NBA's Houston Rockets, from February 16-February 20, with the 55th Annual All-Star Game being held on February 19.
NBA Coast to Coast NBA Coast to Coast (formerly known as NBA Fastbreak Tuesday and NBA Nation) is a weekly NBA-themed studio program which airs Tuesday nights on ESPN2. The program is different from other studio programs, such as Baseball Tonight, in that it contains live cut-ins to NBA games in-progress as well as interviews with players after games end.
NBA Conference Finals The National Basketball Association Conference Finals occur at the conclusion of the NBA Playoffs when the final four teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences face off. The winners of the Conference Finals receive a silver trophy and advance to the NBA Finals.
NBA dress code On October 17, 2005, National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern, implemented a mandatory dress code for all NBA and NBA Development League players. This was especially noteworthy because the NBA became the first major professional sports league to implement such a rule, although National Hockey League rules state that a player is supposed to wear a jacket and tie to games and on charters if not told otherwise by the head coach or general manager.
NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award The National Basketball Association's Defensive Player of the Year Award has been handed out since 1983. The winner is selected by a panel of 125 sportswriters, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections.
NBA Draft The NBA Draft is an annual North American event in which the National Basketball Association's (NBA) thirty teams (29 in the United States and one in Canada) can select young players who wish to join the league. These players usually come from college level, but in recent drafts a greater number of international and high school players have been drafted.
NBA Draft Lottery The NBA Draft Lottery is an annual event selecting the top three picks of the following NBA Draft. First established in 1985, it was at first a chance drawing for all first-round picks, with all non-playoff teams (in 1985 there were seven non-playoff teams in the National Basketball Association) having equal chance of landing the number one pick.
NBA Europe Live Tour The NBA Europe Live Tour was an international basketball exhibition and competition produced jointly by the National Basketball Association and the Euroleague. The tour featured four NBA teams training and playing matches against Euroleague teams in Germany, Russia, France, Italy, and Spain.
NBA first overall draft pick The National Basketball Association's first overall pick is the player who is selected first amongst all eligible draftees by a team during the annual player draft. The first pick is awarded to the team that wins the NBA Draft Lottery, often the direct result of having losing season record.
NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association, played under a best-of-seven playoff format. The team winning the Eastern Conference Finals earns one of the two berths in the championship round, with the other going to the team that wins the Western Conference Finals.
NBA Friday NBA Friday is a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on ESPN. Once known as NBA Friday Coast to Coast, the program starts the first Friday of the NBA season, and typically runs uninterrupted throughout the entire season.
NBA high school players Ever since its inception in 1946, the National Basketball Association has long had a preference for players who played basketball at the collegiate level; the vast majority of players to play in the NBA have had college experience. However, there have been numerous notable players who attended high school in the United States and then jumped directly to the NBA, without playing collegiate ball.
NBA In The Zone '98 NBA In The Zone '98 (Also known as NBA Pro 98 in Australia) is a basketball game for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation, it was released in 1998, and developed and published by Konami. The game is probably more well known for having no Michael Jordan in it, with a character named "ROSTER GUARD" taking his place.
NBA Inside Stuff NBA Inside Stuff is a television program (debuting in 1990) that now airs on NBA TV and previously aired on NBC for many years, then on ABC, featuring behind the scenes activities of NBA players. The program also includes features on fitness and fundamentals of basketball.
NBA International Recently, the National Basketball Association has been trying to promote its game internationally. As more and more international players are making the NBA rosters, the league is getting more attention outside of the U.
NBA Live series The NBA Live series of basketball games, published by EA Sports, is currently one of the leading National Basketball Association simulations on the market. Its only major competitor is Take-Two Interactive's NBA 2K series.
NBA on Christmas Day The National Basketball Association has played games on Christmas Day since 1949 (previous to 1949, the league was known as the Basketball Association of America). In recent years, these games have become a showcase for the premiere teams and players in the league.
NBA Playoffs The NBA Playoffs are four rounds of competition between sixteen teams in the Eastern Conference and Western Conferences (called Divisions, pre-1970) of the National Basketball Association. The winners of the First Round (or conference quarterfinals) advance to the Conference Semifinals, and the winners of the Conference Semifinals go on to the NBA Conference Finals.
NBA Rookie of the Year Award The National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year Award, first given after the 1952-1953 NBA season, is given to the top first-year player in the league. The winner of this award receives the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy.
NBA Salary Cap The NBA Salary Cap is the limit to the total amount of money that NBA teams are allowed to pay their players. While this seems simple enough in concept, the salary cap is in actuality extremely complex, and contains many obscure rules and loopholes.
NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award The NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award is the award given by the National Basketball Association to the league's most valuable player for his team coming off the bench as a substitute (sixth man). To be eligible for the award, a player must come in off of the bench in more games than he starts.
NBA TV NBA TV is a television network that is dedicated to showcasing the sport of basketball in the United States. The network is financially backed by the National Basketball Association (NBA), which also used NBA TV as a way of advertising their Pay Per View programming.
NBAP Signalling protocol responsible for the control of the Node-B by the RNC is called NBAP (Node-B Application Part). Sometimes NBAP is subdivided into Common and Dedicated NBAP (C-NBAP and D-NBAP), where Common NBAP controls overall Node-B functionality and Dedicated NBAP controls separate cells or sectors of the Node-B.
NBBC >nbbc (the National Broadband Company) is a marketplace for digital video syndication. It connects owners of digital video content (content licensors) with owners of websites that want video content (distributors).
NBC chimes The NBC chimes of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network in the United States was/were the first ever audio trademark (and the first service mark of any kind, in as much as it denotes a non-tangible form of commerce) to be accepted by the U.S.
NBC logos NBC has used numerous logos at various times; this article shows all of its television logos, including the peacock design (originally for color broadcasts only) that led to it being nicknamed "the Peacock network" and eventually became its logo.
NBC Mystery Movie The NBC Mystery Movie was an American / Universal Studios television series that aired on NBC from 1971 to 1977. At times throughout its run, it split into several versions that ran concurrently on different nights of the week and were entitled The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie and The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie.
NBC Radio City Studios NBC Radio City Studios is the name given to both a radio and television studio complex in New York's Rockefeller Center and the former radio-TV complex located at the northeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
NBC suit An NBC suit is a type of protective suit giving protection inclusively against direct contact with and contamination by radioactive, biological and chemical substances, though depending on the design may or may not give protection against radiation.
NBC Sports Figure Skating NBC Sports Figure Skating is a mobile game developed by Ziggurat Interactive and published by Abandon Mobile in 2006. This game, which was released for both Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless cell phones, involves making a figure skater execute moves by carefully timing the correct keypresses against a series of numbers, each associated with a particular maneuver, as the numerals scrolled along the bottom of the screen.
NBC Sports Heads-Up Poker NBC Sports Heads-Up Poker is a mobile game based on the National Heads-Up Poker Championship that was developed by SpiderMonk Entertainment and published by Abandon Mobile. First released for Verizon Wireless cell phones on April 11, 2006, this poker game features three playing modes: Heads-Up, in which you play a single game against one of six computer players of your choices; Heads-Up Tournament, in which you play against each of opponents in a series of six games; and Texas Hold'Em Showdown, in which you play against all six opponents at once.
NBC Sports Real Golf NBC Sports Real Golf is a mobile game developed by Lucky Chicken Games, a division of the game's publisher, Abandon Mobile. With a license from NBC Sports, this golf features photorealistic graphics, variable course conditions, and multiple club selections.
NBC Studios NBC Studios are the two television studio facilities belonging to the National Broadcasting Company, with one of them being located inside the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in New York City, and the other located in Burbank, California, just outside of Los Angeles. A third NBC production facility, the NBC Tower, is located in Chicago, Illinois.
NBC Sunday Night Football NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with John Madden as the color commentator, and Andrea Kremer serving as the sole sideline reporter.
NBC Talknet NBC Talknet was the name for a programming service consisting of several talk radio programs aired on the NBC radio network during the evening and overnight hours in the 1980s and early- to mid-1990s. Talknet consisted of advice-oriented programs, and was one of the first to introduce national talk radio to the American radio audiences.
NBC Universal NBC Universal is a media and entertainment company formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric's NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, part of the French Media Group, Vivendi SA. GE owns 80% of NBC Universal with the remaining 20% owned by Vivendi SA and Barry Diller.
NBC Universal Television NBC Universal Television (also known as NBC Universal Television Studio, NBC Universal Television Stations, NBC Universal Television Distribution, and NBC Universal International Television), is an American and global television production/distribution company and a subsidiary of NBC Universal. Previously known as Revue Studios, NBC, Universal Television and MCA TV.
NBC Universal Television Distribution NBC Universal Television Distribution is a TV distribution arm of NBC Universal Television in the United States, and is a subsidiary of General Electric. Previously known as NBC Enterprises, MCA TV, Avco Embassy Television, Multimedia Entertainment, PolyGram Television, USA Cable Entertainment, and Universal Domestic Television.
NBC Universal Television Studio NBC Universal Television Studio is the sister television arm of NBC Universal, formerly known in other incarnations as NBC Studios (formerly NBC Productions), Revue Studios, Studios USA, PolyGram Television, and Universal Television.
NBC Weather Plus NBC Weather Plus is a 24-hour weather-oriented broadcast/cable television network jointly owned by NBC Universal and its broadcast affiliates. It debuted on November 15 2004 and is the first-ever 24/7, all-digital national-local broadcast network.
NBD-TMA NBD-TMA ([2-(4-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-7-yl)aminoethyl]trimethylammonium) is a small (139 AMU), positively charged (+1) fluorescent dye. It was also known as EAM-1 (N,N,N,-Trimethyl-2[(7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl)amino]ethanaminium iodide) when it was briefly supplied by Macrocyclics Company as an iodide complex.
NBH NBH is an old graffiti crew operating in and around Halifax, West Yorkshire in the UK, standing for North-side Bong Heads. It is believed that they then became 'PC' or 'Pez-core' and are currently operating under the name 'URT' or 'Urban Riot Team'/'Urban Redevelopment Team'.
NBL (Australia) 20th Anniversary Team In celebration of the league's 20th Anniversary in 1998 a special 20th Anniversary team was named by the NBL. Five years later a 25th Anniversary team was selected by the league with noticeable differences to this squad.
NBL (Australia) 25th Anniversary Team To mark its 25th anniversary during the 2003-2004 season, the National Basketball League (NBL) announced its 25th Anniversary All-Time team on December 9, 2003. As a way of recognising the single best and most influential player in league history, the player who received the most first-placed votes in the voting process for this team was also named the NBL 25th Anniversary Most Valuable Player.
NBL (Australia) All-Star Game The NBL All-Star Game is a special event basketball game run as part of the Australian National Basketball League. The All-Star game is usually held once a season between two teams comprised of star players from that season.
NBN Television NBN Television is an Australian commercial television broadcasting company, broadcasting from its main studios in Newcastle, transmitting to the northern half of New South Wales (including the Central Coast, Newcastle and The Gold Coast).
NBName NBName is a computer program that can be used to carry out denial-of-service attacks that can disable NetBIOS services on Windows machines. It was written by Sir Dystic of CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) and released July 29, 2000 at the DEF CON 8 convention in Las Vegas.
Nürnberger Land Nürnberger Land is a district in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Forchheim, Bayreuth, Amberg-Sulzbach, Neumarkt, Roth and Erlangen-Höchstadt, and by the city of Nuremberg.
NĂĽrnberger Nachrichten The NĂĽrnberger Nachrichten (NN) was originally a local daily in the Nuremberg-Erlangen-FĂĽrth area. With its regional editions it now covers the whole of Middle FranconiaMiddle Franconia and parts of Upper Franconia and the Upper Palatinate.
NĂĽTopia NĂĽTopia is a regional Burning Man event held between Toronto and Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. The event is held in May and is attended by participants from both cities, as well as from other places around the world.
NĂĽwa In Chinese mythology, NĂĽwa (Traditional Chinese: 女媧 Simplified Chinese: 女娲 Pinyin: nÇšwÄ) is mythological character best known for reproducing people after a great calamity. Other later traditions name this as a creation myth attributed to either Pangu or Yu Huang.
NĂłi AlbĂnĂłi NĂłi AlbĂnĂłi (NĂłi the Albino) is an Icelandic film by director Dagur Kári released in 2003. The film explores the life of teenage outsider NĂłi Kristmundsson (played by TĂłmas Lemarquis) in a remote fishing village in western Iceland.
NĂłlsoy NĂłlsoy is an island in central Faroe Islands, located to the east of the capital TĂłrshavn in Streymoy. There is only one settlement on the island: NĂłlsoy on the north-west coast on Stongin, a peninsula attached to the rest of the island by a metres-wide isthmus.
Nóta Nóta is a form of 19th century Hungarian popular song. It is one of a number of styles collectively referred to as cigányzene, which literally means Gypsy music but is used to refer to a number of styles Hungarian folk music that are of a debatable Gypsy musical style.
NĂŁo Wave NĂŁo Wave: Brazil Post Punk 1982-1988 is an album released on April 25, 2005 by Man Recordings. It contains a collection of songs from various artists that formed the SĂŁo Paulo post-punk movement of the early 1980s.
Núcleo de Informática Biomédica The Núcleo de Informática Biomédica (in English, Center for Biomedical Informatics) of the State University of Campinas (NIB), in Campinas, Brazil, was an interdisciplinary center for research, development and education in medical informatics, founded July 1983 by the University, under the deanship of Dr. José Aristodemo Pinotti.
NĂşcleo JosĂ© Reis de Divulgação CientĂfica The NĂşcleo JosĂ© Reis de Divulgação CientĂfica (JosĂ© Reis Nucleus for the Divulgation of Science, in Portuguese language) was created by the School of Communications and Arts of the University of SĂŁo Paulo (ECA/USP), in SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, with an interdepartmental character. Among the regimental objectives of the Nucleus, the following items stand out:
NĂşrayn-i-Nayyirayn NĂşrayn-i-Nayyirayn (Arabic: نŮرين نيران, meaning "twin shining lights") are two brothers who were followers of Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'Ă Faith, a global religion of Persian origin. They were beheaded in 1879 as a result of being Bahá'Ăs.
NĂşria CamĂłn NĂşria CamĂłn Farell (born March 3, 1978 in Terrassa, Catalonia) is a field hockey midfield player from Spain, who represented her native country at two consecutive Olympic Games: in 2000 and 2004. She was also a member of the Spanish national team that finished fourth at the 2006 Women's Hockey World Cup in Madrid, where CamĂłn was named Player of the Tournament.
Nácor Burgos Nácor Burgos Rojo (born April 9, 1977 in Ăvila) is a professional road racing cyclist since 1999. In 2006, he rides for the Relax-Gam professional cycling team on UCI Europe Tour and when the team is invited as a wildcard to UCI ProTour events.
Nájera Nájera (Basque: Naiara) is a small city located in the "Rioja Alta" district of La Rioja, Spain on the river Najerilla. The site interested the Romans, who built the city of Tritium on the territories that today are the municipalities of Nájera and Tricio.
Náttfari Náttfari (nightwalker) escaped from Gardar Svavarsson with a slave and a woman when Gardar Svavarson set sail to Norway from his new found land which he named Gardarsholmur, now known as Iceland, in the 9th century.
Nîmes AOC Nîmes is an AOC for wine made in and around the village of Nîmes in the Rhône wine region. It is the most southerly of the Rhône appellations and was recently allowed by the INAO to be officially considered part of the Rhône AOC proper.
Nébouzan Nébouzan (pronounced in French) (Gascon: Nebosan, pronounced ) was a small province of France located in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains, in the southwest of France. It was not a contiguous province, but it was made up of several detached territories, approximately half of them around the town of Saint-Gaudens in the south of the present-day département of Haute-Garonne, and the other half around the town of Lannemezan in the east of the present-day département of Hautes-Pyrénées.
Néel temperature The Néel temperature, TN, is the temperature at which an antiferromagnetic material becomes paramagnetic — that is, the thermal energy becomes large enough to destroy the macroscopic magnetic ordering within the material.
NĂ©grette NĂ©grette is a dark red wine grape grown primarily in southwestern France in the region between Albi and Toulouse. It is a direct descendant of mavro rootstock, a grape variety cultivated extensively on the island of Cyprus.
Négritude Négritude is a literary and political movement developed in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas. The Négritude writers found solidarity in a common black identity as a rejection of French colonial racism.
Nélée et Myrthis Nélée et Myrthis is an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau in the form of a one-act acte de ballet. Nothing is known about the date of its composition, performance during Rameau's lifetime or the name of its librettist.
NĂ©lida NĂ©lida is a novel by Marie d'Agoult, a "thinly disguised fictional account" of her four-year affair with composer Franz Liszt. Marie later wrote several more novels as well as a distinguished history of the Revolutions of 1848 in France.
Nélida Piñon Nélida Piñon is a Brazilian writer born May 3, 1937 in Rio de Janeiro of Spanish immigrants. Her first novel was Guia-Mapa de Gabriel Arcanjo (The Guidebook of Gabriel Arcanjo), written in 1961 which concerns a protagonist discussing Christian doctrine with her guardian angel.
NĂ©lson Veiga NĂ©lson Veiga fullname NĂ©lson CĂ©sar Tavares Rodrigues Veiga (born 9 February 1978) is a Cape Verdean football (soccer) defender, plays for Omonia Nicosia in Cyprus and Cape Verde national football team.He also hold Portugal passport.
Népszabadság Népszabadság is a major left-leaning "liberal" Hungarian newspaper, founded in 1956. "Népszabadság" literally means "People's Freedom", and is a reference to the paper's communist roots: it was the mouthpiece of the communist Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party until 1989 and is often considered as supportive to the present Hungarian Socialist Party.
Néstor Cerpa Cartolini Néstor Cerpa Cartolini (August 14, 1953 – April 22, 1997) — sometimes known by the nom de guerre "Evaristo" — was a leader of the Peruvian Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) rebel movement.
NĂ©stor Mata NĂ©stor Mata is one of the Philippine's most durable journalists, with a career spanning over six decades. However, Mata will forever be remembered for his remarkable luck as the lone survivor in the 1957 plane crash that killed the immensely popular Filipino President RamĂłn Magsaysay and 25 others.
Näcip Cihanov Cihanov Näcip Äžayaz ulı (English spellin: na-JEEP JEE-hah-noff Tatar Cyrillic: Җиһанов Нәҗип Đ“Đ°ŃŹĐ· Ńлы; Russian: ЖигаĚнов НазиĚб Đ“Đ°ŃŹĚзович; in Uralsk — 2 June 1988) was a Tatar composer, teacher and statesman. He was granted the titles of People's Artist of the USSR (1957) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1981).
Näckrosen Näckrosen (meaning the Water Lily) is a station on the Stockholm Metro, blue line. The station is located in Solna Municipality (northwestern end of Råsunda area), but one of the entrances is in Sundbyberg Municipality.
När en vacker tanke blir en sång The album När en vacker tanke blir en sång ("a beautiful thought becomes a song"), released in May 1971, is the fourth Swedish solo-album by Swedish pop singer Agnetha Fältskog released in 1971. With the exception of the last track, all songs were written by Agnetha herself.
Nätra Court District Nätra Court District, or Nätra tingslag, was a district of Ångermanland in Sweden. The provinces in Norrland were never divided into hundreds and instead the court district (tingslag) served as the basic division of rural areas.
Nærøysund Bridge Nærøysund Bridge (Nærøysund bru) is a suspension bridge that crosses Nærøysundet between Marøya and Vikna in Nord-Trøndelag county in Norway. Together with Marøysund Bridge it connects the islands of Vikna to the mainland.
Nærumbanen Nærumbanen is a short railway in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, now part of the Lokalbanen system. It runs light trains that connect to the S-train system at Jægersborg and serve mainly local neighborhoods in Lyngby-Taarbæk municipality and Nærum in Søllerød.
NĂ´ng Äức Mạnh NĂ´ng Äức Mạnh (born September 11, 1940) is the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and has held that position since April 22, 2001. He was reappointed to that position in April of 2006.
Nöjesguiden Nöjesguiden (Swedish for "the entertainment guide") is a Nordic free-of-charge young adult magazine, available in many cities in both Sweden and Finland. In Finland, the magazine is in Finnish, but its name is still Nöjesguiden.
Nörlund-Rice integral In mathematics, the Nörlund-Rice integral, sometimes called Rice's method, relates the nth forward difference of a function to a line integral on the complex plane. As such, it commonly appears in the theory of finite differences, and also has been applied in computer science and graph theory to estimate binary tree lengths.
Nösnerland The (; ) is an historic region of northeastern Transylvania in present-day Romania centered between the Bistriţa and Mureş rivers. Since the exodus of most of the German-speaking Transylvanian Saxons in the 20th century, this particular regional designation has lost much of its cultural meaning.
Nørhald municipality Nørhald municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 201 km², and has a total population of 8.
Nørre Aaby municipality Nørre Aaby municipality is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Funen County on the north and west coasts of the island of Funen in southern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 65 km², and has a total population of 5,626 (2006).
Nørre Djurs municipality Nørre Djurs municipality ("Northern Djursland") is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 237 km², and has a total population of 7.
Nørre Gymnasium Nørre Gymnasium, which since 1972 has been located in Husum, Denmark, was founded in 1818 by Caroline Wroblewsky as a school for young girls, but it has by this day become one of Copenhagen’s largest gymnasiums and offers both Danish as well as international educations.
Nørre-Rangstrup Nørre-Rangstrup (German:Rangstrup), is a municipality (Danish, kommune) in South Jutland County on the Jutland peninsula in south Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 302 km², and has a total population of 9,502 (2005).
Nørrebro Nørrebro is the common name for an area in Copenhagen, Denmark located beyond the historic city center (the Indre By), and beyond the location of the old Northern Gate (Nørreport), which was near the current Nørreport station until dismantled in 1856.
Nørresundby Nørresundby is a town north of Aalborg on the island of Vendsyssel-Thy, part of the Jutland peninsula in Denmark. It is linked to Aalborg by a road bridge, an iron railway bridge, as well as a motorway (E45) passing it to the east and running under the Limfjord.
Nøstvet and Lihult cultures The Nøstvet culture (ca 6200 BC-3200 BC) and the Lihult culture are two very similar mesolithic cultures in Scandinavian prehistory derived from the earlier Fosna-Hensbacka cultures, but the culture is so shifting that it is rather a tradition than an archaeological culture.
NÄ«lakantha dhÄranÄ« The Nilakantha Dharani also known as MahÄ Karuna DhÄranÄ«, popularly known as the Great Compassion Mantra in English, and known as the Dabei Zhou (大悲咒) in Mandarin Chinese, is a dharani of Mahayana Buddhist origin. It was spoken by the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara before an assembly of Buddhas, bodhisattvas, devas and kings, according to the Mahakarunikacitta Sutra.
NÄ Pali Coast State Park NÄ Pali Coast State Park encompasses 6,175 acres (25 km²) of land and stretches sixteen miles (26 kilometers) along the northwest side of Kauai, the oldest inhabited Hawaiian Island. The pali, or "cliffs", rise as high as 4,000 ft (1,200 m) above the Pacific Ocean.
NÄga NÄga (Sanskrit:) is the Sanskrit and PÄli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very large snake, found in Hinduism and Buddhism. The use of the term nÄga is often ambiguous, as the word may also refer, in similar contexts, to one of several human tribes known as or nicknamed "NÄgas"; to elephants; and to ordinary snakes, particularly the King Cobra and the Indian Cobra, the latter of which is still called nÄg in Hindi and other languages of India.
NÄm JapĹŤ NÄm JapĹŤ (), refers to the meditation, vocal singing of Hymns from the Sri Guru Granth Sahib or of the various Names of God, specially the chanting of the word Waheguru, which means Wonderful Lord. Singing of hymns generally is also referred to a â€NÄm Jap’, sometimes also called â€NÄm Simran’.
NÄnÄkuli, Hawai'i NÄnÄkuli is a town and valley and census-designated place (CDP) in the Waianae District on the Island of Oahu, City & County of Honolulu, Hawaii. In Hawaiian, nÄnÄ kuli means literally "look at knee".
NBA 2K NBA 2K is a basketball video game series that was initially exclusive for the Sega Dreamcast starting in 1999. The series was originally published by Sega, under the label Sega Sports and developed by Visual Concepts.
NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad is a program which airs on Saturday afternoons on ABC. The program details the behind-the-scenes activities of NBA players, coaches and officials, and serves as a replacement for NBA Inside Stuff.
NBA All-Star Weekend The National Basketball Association (NBA) holds its All-Star Weekend each February in a predetermined location. The 2006 event was held in Houston, Texas, home of the NBA's Houston Rockets, from February 16-February 20, with the 55th Annual All-Star Game being held on February 19.
NBA Coast to Coast NBA Coast to Coast (formerly known as NBA Fastbreak Tuesday and NBA Nation) is a weekly NBA-themed studio program which airs Tuesday nights on ESPN2. The program is different from other studio programs, such as Baseball Tonight, in that it contains live cut-ins to NBA games in-progress as well as interviews with players after games end.
NBA Conference Finals The National Basketball Association Conference Finals occur at the conclusion of the NBA Playoffs when the final four teams in the Eastern and Western Conferences face off. The winners of the Conference Finals receive a silver trophy and advance to the NBA Finals.
NBA dress code On October 17, 2005, National Basketball Association commissioner David Stern, implemented a mandatory dress code for all NBA and NBA Development League players. This was especially noteworthy because the NBA became the first major professional sports league to implement such a rule, although National Hockey League rules state that a player is supposed to wear a jacket and tie to games and on charters if not told otherwise by the head coach or general manager.
NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award The National Basketball Association's Defensive Player of the Year Award has been handed out since 1983. The winner is selected by a panel of 125 sportswriters, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections.
NBA Draft The NBA Draft is an annual North American event in which the National Basketball Association's (NBA) thirty teams (29 in the United States and one in Canada) can select young players who wish to join the league. These players usually come from college level, but in recent drafts a greater number of international and high school players have been drafted.
NBA Draft Lottery The NBA Draft Lottery is an annual event selecting the top three picks of the following NBA Draft. First established in 1985, it was at first a chance drawing for all first-round picks, with all non-playoff teams (in 1985 there were seven non-playoff teams in the National Basketball Association) having equal chance of landing the number one pick.
NBA Europe Live Tour The NBA Europe Live Tour was an international basketball exhibition and competition produced jointly by the National Basketball Association and the Euroleague. The tour featured four NBA teams training and playing matches against Euroleague teams in Germany, Russia, France, Italy, and Spain.
NBA first overall draft pick The National Basketball Association's first overall pick is the player who is selected first amongst all eligible draftees by a team during the annual player draft. The first pick is awarded to the team that wins the NBA Draft Lottery, often the direct result of having losing season record.
NBA Finals The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association, played under a best-of-seven playoff format. The team winning the Eastern Conference Finals earns one of the two berths in the championship round, with the other going to the team that wins the Western Conference Finals.
NBA Friday NBA Friday is a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on ESPN. Once known as NBA Friday Coast to Coast, the program starts the first Friday of the NBA season, and typically runs uninterrupted throughout the entire season.
NBA high school players Ever since its inception in 1946, the National Basketball Association has long had a preference for players who played basketball at the collegiate level; the vast majority of players to play in the NBA have had college experience. However, there have been numerous notable players who attended high school in the United States and then jumped directly to the NBA, without playing collegiate ball.
NBA In The Zone '98 NBA In The Zone '98 (Also known as NBA Pro 98 in Australia) is a basketball game for the Nintendo 64 and PlayStation, it was released in 1998, and developed and published by Konami. The game is probably more well known for having no Michael Jordan in it, with a character named "ROSTER GUARD" taking his place.
NBA Inside Stuff NBA Inside Stuff is a television program (debuting in 1990) that now airs on NBA TV and previously aired on NBC for many years, then on ABC, featuring behind the scenes activities of NBA players. The program also includes features on fitness and fundamentals of basketball.
NBA International Recently, the National Basketball Association has been trying to promote its game internationally. As more and more international players are making the NBA rosters, the league is getting more attention outside of the U.
NBA Live series The NBA Live series of basketball games, published by EA Sports, is currently one of the leading National Basketball Association simulations on the market. Its only major competitor is Take-Two Interactive's NBA 2K series.
NBA on Christmas Day The National Basketball Association has played games on Christmas Day since 1949 (previous to 1949, the league was known as the Basketball Association of America). In recent years, these games have become a showcase for the premiere teams and players in the league.
NBA Playoffs The NBA Playoffs are four rounds of competition between sixteen teams in the Eastern Conference and Western Conferences (called Divisions, pre-1970) of the National Basketball Association. The winners of the First Round (or conference quarterfinals) advance to the Conference Semifinals, and the winners of the Conference Semifinals go on to the NBA Conference Finals.
NBA Rookie of the Year Award The National Basketball Association's Rookie of the Year Award, first given after the 1952-1953 NBA season, is given to the top first-year player in the league. The winner of this award receives the Eddie Gottlieb Trophy.
NBA Salary Cap The NBA Salary Cap is the limit to the total amount of money that NBA teams are allowed to pay their players. While this seems simple enough in concept, the salary cap is in actuality extremely complex, and contains many obscure rules and loopholes.
NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award The NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award is the award given by the National Basketball Association to the league's most valuable player for his team coming off the bench as a substitute (sixth man). To be eligible for the award, a player must come in off of the bench in more games than he starts.
NBA TV NBA TV is a television network that is dedicated to showcasing the sport of basketball in the United States. The network is financially backed by the National Basketball Association (NBA), which also used NBA TV as a way of advertising their Pay Per View programming.
NBAP Signalling protocol responsible for the control of the Node-B by the RNC is called NBAP (Node-B Application Part). Sometimes NBAP is subdivided into Common and Dedicated NBAP (C-NBAP and D-NBAP), where Common NBAP controls overall Node-B functionality and Dedicated NBAP controls separate cells or sectors of the Node-B.
NBBC >nbbc (the National Broadband Company) is a marketplace for digital video syndication. It connects owners of digital video content (content licensors) with owners of websites that want video content (distributors).
NBC chimes The NBC chimes of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network in the United States was/were the first ever audio trademark (and the first service mark of any kind, in as much as it denotes a non-tangible form of commerce) to be accepted by the U.S.
NBC logos NBC has used numerous logos at various times; this article shows all of its television logos, including the peacock design (originally for color broadcasts only) that led to it being nicknamed "the Peacock network" and eventually became its logo.
NBC Mystery Movie The NBC Mystery Movie was an American / Universal Studios television series that aired on NBC from 1971 to 1977. At times throughout its run, it split into several versions that ran concurrently on different nights of the week and were entitled The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie and The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie.
NBC Radio City Studios NBC Radio City Studios is the name given to both a radio and television studio complex in New York's Rockefeller Center and the former radio-TV complex located at the northeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
NBC suit An NBC suit is a type of protective suit giving protection inclusively against direct contact with and contamination by radioactive, biological and chemical substances, though depending on the design may or may not give protection against radiation.
NBC Sports Figure Skating NBC Sports Figure Skating is a mobile game developed by Ziggurat Interactive and published by Abandon Mobile in 2006. This game, which was released for both Verizon Wireless and Cingular Wireless cell phones, involves making a figure skater execute moves by carefully timing the correct keypresses against a series of numbers, each associated with a particular maneuver, as the numerals scrolled along the bottom of the screen.
NBC Sports Heads-Up Poker NBC Sports Heads-Up Poker is a mobile game based on the National Heads-Up Poker Championship that was developed by SpiderMonk Entertainment and published by Abandon Mobile. First released for Verizon Wireless cell phones on April 11, 2006, this poker game features three playing modes: Heads-Up, in which you play a single game against one of six computer players of your choices; Heads-Up Tournament, in which you play against each of opponents in a series of six games; and Texas Hold'Em Showdown, in which you play against all six opponents at once.
NBC Sports Real Golf NBC Sports Real Golf is a mobile game developed by Lucky Chicken Games, a division of the game's publisher, Abandon Mobile. With a license from NBC Sports, this golf features photorealistic graphics, variable course conditions, and multiple club selections.
NBC Studios NBC Studios are the two television studio facilities belonging to the National Broadcasting Company, with one of them being located inside the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in New York City, and the other located in Burbank, California, just outside of Los Angeles. A third NBC production facility, the NBC Tower, is located in Chicago, Illinois.
NBC Sunday Night Football NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. Al Michaels serves as the play-by-play announcer, with John Madden as the color commentator, and Andrea Kremer serving as the sole sideline reporter.
NBC Talknet NBC Talknet was the name for a programming service consisting of several talk radio programs aired on the NBC radio network during the evening and overnight hours in the 1980s and early- to mid-1990s. Talknet consisted of advice-oriented programs, and was one of the first to introduce national talk radio to the American radio audiences.
NBC Universal NBC Universal is a media and entertainment company formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electric's NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, part of the French Media Group, Vivendi SA. GE owns 80% of NBC Universal with the remaining 20% owned by Vivendi SA and Barry Diller.
NBC Universal Television NBC Universal Television (also known as NBC Universal Television Studio, NBC Universal Television Stations, NBC Universal Television Distribution, and NBC Universal International Television), is an American and global television production/distribution company and a subsidiary of NBC Universal. Previously known as Revue Studios, NBC, Universal Television and MCA TV.
NBC Universal Television Distribution NBC Universal Television Distribution is a TV distribution arm of NBC Universal Television in the United States, and is a subsidiary of General Electric. Previously known as NBC Enterprises, MCA TV, Avco Embassy Television, Multimedia Entertainment, PolyGram Television, USA Cable Entertainment, and Universal Domestic Television.
NBC Universal Television Studio NBC Universal Television Studio is the sister television arm of NBC Universal, formerly known in other incarnations as NBC Studios (formerly NBC Productions), Revue Studios, Studios USA, PolyGram Television, and Universal Television.
NBC Weather Plus NBC Weather Plus is a 24-hour weather-oriented broadcast/cable television network jointly owned by NBC Universal and its broadcast affiliates. It debuted on November 15 2004 and is the first-ever 24/7, all-digital national-local broadcast network.
NBD-TMA NBD-TMA ([2-(4-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-7-yl)aminoethyl]trimethylammonium) is a small (139 AMU), positively charged (+1) fluorescent dye. It was also known as EAM-1 (N,N,N,-Trimethyl-2[(7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl)amino]ethanaminium iodide) when it was briefly supplied by Macrocyclics Company as an iodide complex.
NBH NBH is an old graffiti crew operating in and around Halifax, West Yorkshire in the UK, standing for North-side Bong Heads. It is believed that they then became 'PC' or 'Pez-core' and are currently operating under the name 'URT' or 'Urban Riot Team'/'Urban Redevelopment Team'.
NBL (Australia) 20th Anniversary Team In celebration of the league's 20th Anniversary in 1998 a special 20th Anniversary team was named by the NBL. Five years later a 25th Anniversary team was selected by the league with noticeable differences to this squad.
NBL (Australia) 25th Anniversary Team To mark its 25th anniversary during the 2003-2004 season, the National Basketball League (NBL) announced its 25th Anniversary All-Time team on December 9, 2003. As a way of recognising the single best and most influential player in league history, the player who received the most first-placed votes in the voting process for this team was also named the NBL 25th Anniversary Most Valuable Player.
NBL (Australia) All-Star Game The NBL All-Star Game is a special event basketball game run as part of the Australian National Basketball League. The All-Star game is usually held once a season between two teams comprised of star players from that season.
NBN Television NBN Television is an Australian commercial television broadcasting company, broadcasting from its main studios in Newcastle, transmitting to the northern half of New South Wales (including the Central Coast, Newcastle and The Gold Coast).
NBName NBName is a computer program that can be used to carry out denial-of-service attacks that can disable NetBIOS services on Windows machines. It was written by Sir Dystic of CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) and released July 29, 2000 at the DEF CON 8 convention in Las Vegas.
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