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Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Nikon at Jones Beach Theater is an outdoor ampitheatre, located at Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York. It is one of two major outdoor arenas in the New York City Metropolitan Area, along with PNC Bank Arts Center.
Nikon Coolpix 5000 The Coolpix 5000 (also known as the CP5000 and E5000 in non-US markets) is a 5-megapixel digital camera from Nikon's Coolpix series. It was announced September 18, 2001 for an MSRP of $1099 USD and featured several unique features such as a fully articulating 1.
Nikon Coolpix 8400 The Nikon Coolpix 8400 is a digital camera announced September 16, 2004 succeeding the Nikon Coolpix 5400 . It is a high-end model among the brand's range of bridge cameras with eight megapixels, only below the Nikon Coolpix 8800 equipped with a more powerful zoom lens.
Nikon Coolpix 950 The Nikon Coolpix 950 was introduced in early 1999 to supersede the Coolpix 900 in the Nikon Coolpix series. It is a robust and durable camera with swivel body, 1600Ă—1200 maximum resolution, 3Ă— optical zoom and a closest focusing distance of 2 cm.
Nikon Coolpix SYSTEM ERROR Several models in the Nikon Coolpix series of digital cameras suffer from a recurring SYSTEM ERROR message, which ostensibly appears when dust, grime, or other foreign matter obstructs the mechanical workings of the camera lens. The error appears as soon as the camera turns on, and it prevents the user from taking pictures or, in some cases, fully retracting the lens assembly.
Nikon D100 The Nikon D100 is a discontinued digital SLR camera designed for professionals and advanced hobbyists. It was introduced on February 21, 2002 at the PMA Annual Convention and Trade Show as a direct competitor to the Canon D60.
Nikon D70 The Nikon D70 is a digital SLR camera model. In Spring 2004, Nikon introduced it at the 2004 PMA Annual Convention and Trade Show, as a direct competitor to the Canon EOS Digital Rebel (EOS 300D in Europe) (Digital Photography Review, 2003).
Nikon F-mount Nikon F-mount refers to a lens mount developed by Nikon for its 35mm SLR cameras. The F-mount was first introduced on the Nikon F camera in 1959, and features a three lug bayonet mount with a 44mm throat and a flange to focal plane distance of 46.
Nikon F4 The Nikon F4 is a handsome Giugiaro-designed 35mm autofocus (AF) SLR camera first introduced in 1988 as the next generation in Nikon's highly successful line of F series professional cameras. It is one of Nikon's most versatile professional models, able to accept any of Nikon's MF or AF lenses from 1959 to present, including the two F3AF lens (in Autofocus mode).
Nikon F501 The Nikon F501 (sold in North America as the N2020) was the first successful autofocus SLR camera sold by the Nikon Corporation beginning in 1986. A nearly identical, albeit manual focus version, called the Nikon F301 (N2000 in North America) was also available.
Nikon F801 The Nikon F801 (or N8008 in North America) is a 35mm SLR of the late 1980s and one of the first Nikons with autofocus. Although its autofocus mechanism is slower in comparison to modern standards, it was an improvement on Nikon's first attempt at an AF SLR, the F501 (N2020 in North America), and proved to be typically Nikon in its reliability and durability.
Nikon F90 The Nikon F90 (known as the N90 in North America) is a 'prosumer' camera. At the time of its release it was noted for its relatively fast autofocus speed compared to previous Nikon models, which had lagged behind competitor Canon's.
Nikon FM10 The Nikon FM10 is a beginner or student level, interchangeable lens, 35 mm film, focal plane shutter, manual focus, single-lens reflex (SLR) camera introduced in 1995. It is normally sold in a kit that includes a Zoom Nikkor 35-70 mm f/3.
Nikon FM3A The Nikon FM3A is an advanced semi-professional level, interchangeable lens, focal plane shutter, 35 mm film, single-lens reflex (SLR) camera. It was manufactured by Nikon Corporation exclusively in Japan, on small-volume assembly lines by trained assembly technicians, from 2001 to 2006.
Nikon SB-800 The Nikon SB-800 is a flash made by Nikon for their digital and film single-lens reflex cameras. It has electronic interfaces for through-the-lens automatic exposure and automatic zoom to match lens focal lengths from 24 to 105 mm (35 mm equivalent) as well as film speed in the range from ISO 25 to 1000.
Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year The Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year Award recognises newsworthiness, impact, technical superiority, creativity and originality in news photography. It was first awarded in 1969 as a separate award, but in 2000 merged with the Walkley Awards to create the current prize.
Nikonos Nikonos was the name given to a series of 35 mm film cameras specifically designed for underwater photography use. The Nikonos cameras were based on a prototype designed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Jean de Wouters in 1963: their "Calypso-Phot" was subsequently licensed by Nikon, and took on the moniker Nikonos in all subsequent models.
Nikopol Nikopol () is a city in Ukraine, in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, on the right bank of Dnieper river, about 100 km south-west of Dnipropetrovsk. It has about 128,900 inhabitants (2006 estimate 1911] edition of [[Encyclopædia Britannica gave the following description of Nikopol:
Nikopol Point Nikopol Point (Nos Nikopol 'nos ni-'ko-pol) is located on the S coast of Livingston Island, projecting 600 m into Bransfield Strait. The point is snow free in summer and was named after the town of Nikopol in Northern Bulgaria.
Nikopol, Bulgaria Nikopol (Никопол) is a town in northern Bulgaria, part of Pleven Province, on the right bank of the Danube river, 4 km downstream from the mouth of the Osam river. It spreads at the foot of steep chalk cliffs along the Danube and up a narrow valley.
Nikos Alefantos Nikos Alefantos (Greek: Νίκος Αλέφαντος), (born January 3, 1939 in Athens) is a famous Greek football coach. He is well-known in Greece as a cult figure, due to his temperamental style, “colorful” language and controversial views on coaching.
Nikos Barlos Nikos Barlos (Greek: Νίκος Μπάρλος; born July 12, 1979 in Patras, Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player who currently plays for Olympiacos BC. He was a member of the national team that won the silver medal in the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Nikos Beloyannis Nikos Beloyannis (Greek: Νίκος Μπελογιάννης) was a Greek communist and resistance leader born in Amalias (Peloponnese, Greece) in 1915. He was jailed in the Akronauplia prison (Nauplion) by the Ioannis Metaxas nationalist regime in the 1930s and transferred to the Germans after the Nazi Occupation of the country (1941).
Nikos Engonopoulos Nikos Engonopoulos (October 21, 1907 – October 31, 1985) was a modern Greek painter and poet. He is one of the most important members of the Greek Generation of '30 as well as a major representative of the surrealistic movement in Greece.
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas (in Greek Νίκος Χατζηκυριάκος – Γκίκας ) (February 26, 1906 – September 3, 1994) was a leading Greek painter, sculptor, engraver, iconographer, writer and academic.
Nikos Hadjinikolaou Nikos Hadjinikolaou (Greek:Νίκος Χατζηνικολάου) is a Greek journalist; president, head of the news department and basic News Anchor in the Alpha TV. Before his job in Alpha, he was for almost a decade the news Anchor for Mega Channel.
Nikos Karavitis Nikos Karavitis was the secretary general of the National Statistical Service of Greece from 1996 to 2002. It was under his direction that Greek government deficit and debt figures were massively underestimated.
Nikos Karvelas Nikos Karvelas (born on September 8, 1951) is one of the most famous living composers in Greece. His talent is well known to the Greek audience and his passion for music has created great and memorial songs in Greek discography.
Nikos Kavvadias Nikos Kavvadias (Greek: Νίκος Καββαδίας) (January 11, 1910 – February 10, 1975) was a Greek poet and writer; currently one of the most popular poets in Greece, who, used his travels around the world as a sailor, and the idealised life at sea and its adventures, as powerful metaphors for the escape of ordinary people outside the boundaries of reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis Nikos Kazantzakis (Νίκος Καζαντζάκης in Greek) (February 18, 1883, Heraklion, Crete, Greece - October 26, 1957, Freiburg, Germany), author of poems, novels, essays, plays, and travel books, was arguably the most important and most translated Greek writer and philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he did not become truly well known until the 1964 release of the Michael Cacoyannis film Zorba the Greek, based on Kazantzakis's novel whose English translation has the same title.
Nikos Lorentzos Nikos Lorentzos is a Greek professor of Informatics. He is a specialist on the Relational Model of Database Management, having made significant contributions in the field of temporal databases, where he has co-authored an important book with Hugh Darwen and Christopher J Date.
Nikos Nioplias Nikolaos (Nikos) Nioplias or Nioblias, born on 17 January 1965 is a Greek footballer. The playmaker's career began with OFI Crete FC in 1982, winning the Greek Cup in 1987, and he remained for a decade before moving to Panathinaikos FC.
Nikos Sampson Nikos Sampson (1935 – May 9 2001) was the coup d'état-installed dictator of Cyprus, after the overthrow of President Makarios in 1974. Sampson was well known as a fanatical Greek Nationalist and member of EOKA-B, which sought enosis (union) of Cyprus with Greece.
Nikos Tselios Nikos "The Grim Sleeper" Tselios (born January 20 1979, Oak Park, Illinois, USA) is a American professional ice hockey defenceman. He was drafted in the first round of the 1997 NHL Entry Draft as the 22nd pick overall by the Carolina Hurricanes.
Nikos Tzouannis Nikos Tzouannis (Νίκος Τζουάννης in Greek), born in Athens, Greece on September 8, 1980, is a sport journalist. He is a Greek citizen, with roots from a village called Agrapidochori in the province of Ilia.
Nikos Xanthopoulos Nikos Xanthopoulos (Nίκος Ξανθόπουλος) (born 31 August 1934) is a Greek actor, known for his roles in the sixties era Greek Drama Cinema. He was also a famous singer of Greek folk bouzouki, having released many albums and singles.
Nikos Xilouris Nikos Xylouris (Greek Νίκος Ξυλούρης, 7 July, 1936 - 8 February, 1980) was a Greek composer and singer from the village of Anoghia in Crete and also the older brother of another great musician of Cretan music, Antonis Xilouris or Psarantonis. He was part of the movement that brought down the Greek military Junta of 1967.
Nikuhitsuga Nikuhitsuga (肉筆画) were a form of Japanese painting in the ukiyo-e printmaking style. Though the woodblock prints of this genre have become so famous in the West as to become almost synonymous with the term "ukiyo-e", in fact most ukiyo-e artists were painters as well as printmakers, with much the same style and subjects.
Nikujaga Nikujaga (Japanese:肉じゃが) (meaning meat-potato) is a Japanese dish of meat, potatoes and onion stewed in sweetened soy, sometimes with ito konnyaku and vegetables. Thinly sliced beef is the most common meat used, although mince is also popular.
Nikuman A nikuman (肉まん derived from 肉饅頭 (niku (meat) manjū) is a kind of chūka man (中華まん lit. Chinese-style manjū) similar to Chinese baozi (包子), and a Japanese culinary creation made from flour paste, and stuffed with cooked ground pork or other sumptuous ingredients.
Nikumaroro Nikumaroro, formerly Gardner Island, is part of the Phoenix Group, Kiribati in the western Pacific Ocean, a remote, elongated, triangular coral atoll with profuse vegetation and a large central marine lagoon, located at . Nikumaroro is approximately 6 km long by less than 2 km wide.
Nikumbha Nikumbha (निकुम्‍भ) is a demon in Hindu mythology and is the son of Kumbha. He was instructed by Kubera to watch over the Pisacas, (a type of evil spirit), and the Nilamata Purana refers to him as "the noble and strong lord of the Pisacas.
Nil (Japanese band) nil is a rock trio that started in 1998 by Takano Tetsu (ex-Malice Mizer), ex-Mega8Ball, ex-Zigzo), Hiroyuki Kashimoto and Kyoshii Moro. Initially, however, the intent of nil was to become Tetsu's main solo unit and even though it has become a full fledged band all lyrics and songwriting has been solely handled by Tetsu.
Nil by Mouth (film) Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British film surrounding the life of Raymond and his family in South London. It was the debut of Gary Oldman as a writer, director and producer (partnered with Douglas Urbanski); who based the film on his own life growing up in the area.
Nil by Mouth (charity) Nil by Mouth is an anti-sectarian charity based in Glasgow, Scotland. It was established in August, 2000 by Cara Henderson, whose boyfriend, Mark Scott a Glasgow schoolboy and Celtic fan, was the victim of a sectarian murder in 1995.
Nil Köksal Nil Köksal is a Canadian television journalist for CBC News: Morning since November 2005 and where she has worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation since 2001. She is a graduate of University of British Columbia where she graduated with a bachelor's degree and from Ryerson University with a Bachelor of Applied Arts in journalism.
Nil per os Nil per os (also /Nihil/Non/Nulla Per Orem) (NPO) is Latin for a medical instruction meaning to withhold oral food and fluids from a patient for various reasons (verbatim it translates: "nothing through the mouth" or "not through the mouth"). In the UK it is translated as Nil By Mouth (NBM).
Nil sine numine Nil sine numine (Latin "Nothing without God") is a state motto of Colorado. The Latin phrase appears to be an adaptation from Virgil's "Aeneid" where in Book II, line 777 the words "...
Nil Sorsky Nil Sorsky (Russian: Нил Сорский, also Nilus of Sora; birth name Николай Майков or Nikolai Maikov) (c. 1433 - 1508) was a leader of the Russian medieval movement opposing ecclesiastic landownership.
Nilai Memorial Park Nilai Memorial Park is a public memorial park in Nilai, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. It is situated along the "Nilai Layby" of the North-South Expressway Southern Route and become the first closed tolled expressway public memorial park in Malaysia.
Nilakanta Sri Ram Nilakanta Sri Ram or Nilakantha Sri Ram (N. Sri Ram) (* 15 December 1889 in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India; † 8 April 1973 in Adyar, India) was a freemason, theosophist and president of the Theosophical Society Adyar.
Nilakantha Somayaji Nilakantha Somayaji (नीलकण्ठ सोमयाजि) (1444-1544), from Kerala, was a major Indian mathematician and astronomer of the Kerala School of astronomy and mathematics and was a student of Damodara. Later, he lived in Tryambakeshwar.
Nilamba The Nilamba are an ethnic and linguistic group based in Shinyanga Region in northern Tanzania. In 1987 the Nilamba population was estimated to number 440,000, including 50,000 speakers of the Lambi dialect of Nilamba groups in Tanzania]
Niland Brothers The Niland Brothers were a group of four American brothers from Kenmore, New York serving in the military during World War II. Of the four, two survived the war, but for a time it was believed that only one, Frederick Niland, had survived.
Nilópolis Nilópolis is a city and a municipality located in the Rio de Janeiro state's southwestern region, bordering São João de Meriti, Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro state, and with a population of 153,712 inhabitants living in an area of 19.16 km².
Nile The Nile (, , Ancient Egyptian iteru, Coptic piaro or phiaro) is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river, though not the most voluminous, in the world.River Encarta (Accessed 3 October 2006) The Nile has two major tributaries, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and fertile soil, but the former being the longer of the two.
Nile Clumps On the 1 August 1798, a British fleet, under Admiral Nelson, defeated a French fleet, under Francois Paul Brueys, in Aboukir Bay, in the Battle of the Nile. The French fleet consisted of thirteen ships of the line and four frigates.
Nile Delta The Nile Delta (Arabic:دلتا النيل) is the delta formed in Northern Egypt where the Nile River spreads out and drains into the Mediterranean Sea. It is one of the world's largest river deltas—from Alexandria in the west to Port Said in the east, it covers some 240 km of Mediterranean coastline—and is a rich agricultural region.
Nile Level Texts The Nile Level Texts (or Nile Quay Texts) are inscribed on the cult terrace (the so-called "quay") at the temple of Karnak, in Thebes, Egypt. This cult terrace itself was constructed during the time of Ramesses II, but the kings of the 22nd to the 26th Dynasties recorded the height of the Nile on its western side.
Nile mosaic of Palestrina The Nile mosaic of Palestrina is an ancient mosaic depicting the Nile from Ethiopia to the Mediterranean. It is dated to around 100 BCE, and is thought to have been the work of Demetrius the Topographer, a Greek artist from Ptolemaic Egypt who visited Rome.
Nile Rodgers Nile Gregory Rodgers (born September 19 1952 in New York City) is a prolific and influential musician, composer, arranger, guitarist and music producer, and co-founding member of the seminal multi-platinum hit R&B band CHIC, with influential bassist, the late Bernard Edwards.
Niles Canyon Niles Canyon is a canyon in the San Francisco Bay Area formed by Alameda Creek. The canyon is largely in unincorporated Alameda County, while the western portion of the canyon lies within the city limits of Fremont and Union City.
Niles Canyon Railway The Niles Canyon Railway is a heritage railway running through Niles Canyon, from Sunol to Fremont in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, USA. It restores and operates historic railroad equipment, and runs tourist excursions with both steam and diesel locomotives along its track.
Niles East High School Niles East High School, formerly in Skokie, Illinois, was originally known as Niles Township High School until Niles West High School opened in 1959. Niles East's sports teams mascot was known as the Trojans.
Niles North High School Niles North High School, or NNHS, is a public four-year high school located in Skokie, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Niles Township Community High School District 219, which also includes Niles West High School.
Niles Welch Niles Welch, (Niles Eugene Welch) also known as Niles Welsh, (29 July 1888 - 21 November 1976) was a performer in Broadway, and a leading man in a number of silent and early talking motion pictures from the early 1910's through the 1930's.
Niles West High School Niles West High School, or NWHS, is a public four-year high school located in Skokie, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Niles Township Community High School District 219, which also includes Niles North High School.
Nilesat 102 Nilesat 102 is an Egyptian owned geosynchronous communications satellite that was launched by an Ariane 44LP rocket from Kourou, French Guiana on August 17, 2000 at 23:16 UTC by the European Space Agency. It was manufactured by the European company Matra Marconi Space (Astrium), and started official broadcasting in 12 September 2000 with an Expected Life Time of 15 years.
Nilgiri Christian Guest Homes Association This is a protestant trust of uncertain origins that was set up to run some guest houses in the scenic Nilgiri Hills or blue mountains of Southern India. It is a non-profit venture that provides places of rest and relaxation to Evangelical Protestant missionaries on the field.
Nilgiri Langur The Nilgiri Langur (Trachypithecus johnii) is a lutung (a type of Old World monkey) found in the Nilgiri hills of the Western Ghats in South India. Its range also includes Kodagu in Karnataka, Palani Hills in Tamil Nadu and many other hilly areas in Kerala.
Nilgiri Marten The Nilgiri Marten (Martes gwatkinsii) is a species of marten found in southern India. It is the only species of marten found in south India and is found in the hills of the Nilgiris and parts of the Western Ghats.
Nilgiri tea Nilgiri tea is a dark intensely aromatic and flavorful tea grown in the southern portion of the Western Ghats mountains of Southern India. Most of the cultivation and production occurs in the hills of The Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu, though there are numerous tea plantations further south in Kerala state.
Nilgiri Tahr The Nilgiri Tahr (Nilgiritragus hylocrius) ungulate native to the Nilgiri Hills and the southern portion of the Western Ghats range in Tamil Nadu and Kerala states of southernmost India. It is known locally as the Nilgiri Ibex or simply ibex.
Nilgiri Wood-pigeon The Nilgiri Woodpigeon (Columba elphinstonii) is a bird endemic to moist deciduous forests and sholas of the Western Ghats in southwestern India. They are identified in the field by the checkerboard pattern on their napes.
Nilgiris (mountains) The Nilgiri (Tamil : நீலகிரி or literally: Blue Mountains) are the name given to a range of mountains panning across the states of Tamilnadu and Kerala in Southern India. They are part of the larger Western Ghats mountain chain making up the western edge of the Deccan Plateau.
Nili Nili (Hebrew language: ניל"י, an acronym of a phrase from the Hebrew Bible in I Samuel 15:29: נצח ישראל לא ישקר, transliterated: Netzakh Yisrael Lo Yishaker, literal translation: "The Eternal One of Israel does not lie") was a Jewish espionage network which assisted the United Kingdom in its fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Land of Israel during World War I.
Nili Chatri Nilli Chhatri Temple (nili chatri) is a Hindu temple in New Delhi dedicated to Lord Shiva. It is believed that the eldest Pandava brother, Prince Yudhisthira, established the temple and the Nigambodh Ghat adjacent to it, and conducted Aswamedha yajna from here.
Nilima Ibrahim Nilima Ibrahim (Bangla: নীলিমা ইব্রাহীম) (1921-2002) was a Bangladeshi educationist, literateur and social worker. She is well known for her outstanding scholarship on Bangla literature but even more so for her depiction of raped and tortured women in the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War in her book Ami Virangona Bolchhi (I, the heroine, speak).
Nilo-Saharan languages The Nilo-Saharan languages are a group of African languages spoken mainly in the upper parts of the Chari and Nile rivers (whence the term "Nilo-"), including historic Nubia, north of where the two tributaries of Nile meet. Its member languages extend, however, through 17 nations in the northern half of Africa: from Algeria and Mali in the northwest; to Benin, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the south; and Egypt to Tanzania in the east (excluding Somalia).
Nilometer Nilometer is the name given to one of several devices that are different in design but that all serve the same function: measuring water levels in the River Nile and thus allowing the keeping of comparative historic records.
Nilotic Nilotic refers to a number of indigenous East African peoples originating in northeast Africa in the region of the Nile River. Included are groups such as the Dinka, Kalenjin, Luo, Masai, Nuer, Hima, Turkana and Tutsi.
Nilotic languages The Nilotic languages are a group of Eastern Sudanic languages spoken across a wide area between southern Sudan and Tanzania by the Nilotic peoples, particularly associated with cattle-herding. They are divided into three subgroups:
Nilotinib Nilotinib, also known as AMN107, is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor under investigation as a possible treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). In June 2006, a Phase I clinical trial found nilotinib has a relatively favorable safety profile and shows activity in cases of CML resistant to treatment with imatinib (Gleevec®), another tyrosine kinase inhibitor currently used as a first-line treatment.
Nilpotent group In group theory, a nilpotent group is a group having a special property that makes it "almost" abelian, through repeated application of the commutator operation, [x,y] = x-1y-1xy. Nilpotent groups arise in Galois theory, as well as in the classification of groups.
Nils Brahe Count Nils Brahe (October 14, 1604 - November 21, 1632) was a Swedish soldier and younger brother of Per Brahe. He served with distinction under King Gustavus Adolphus, who regarded him as the best general in the Swedish army after Lennart Torstenson.
Nils Dacke Nils Dacke was the leader of a 16th century peasant revolt in SmĂĄland, southern Sweden called the Dacke War (Swedish: Dackefejden), fought against the Swedish king Gustav Vasa. It was the most widespread and serious civil war in Swedish history and almost toppled the king
Nils Ericson Nils Ericson (31 January 1802 – 8 September 1870) was a Swedish inventor and mechanical engineer, like his brother, John Ericsson. Nils Ericson, born in Långbanshyttan, Värmland, Sweden, was raised to the untitled nobility by king Oscar I of Sweden in 1854, which made him revert to a spelling of his surname with only one "s".
Nils Ericson Terminal The Nils Ericson Terminal is the major bus terminal in Gothenburg, Sweden. It is placed in the city centre just next to the central railway station (Centralstationen) and across the street from the main shopping centre Nordstan.
Nils Gabriel Sefström Nils Gabriel Sefström (June 2, 1787 - November 30, 1845) was a Swedish chemist. Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel, in 1830 he discovered a new chemical element, which he gave the name vanadium.
Nils Gustaf Ekholm Nils Gustaf Ekholm (9 October 1848 – 5 April 1923) was a Swedish meteorologist who led a Swedish geophysical expedition to Spitsbergen in 1882–1883.The biography is based on Anders Ångström, "Ekholm, Nils Gustaf", in Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, vol.
Nils Gustafsson Nils Wilhelm Gustafsson (born May 10, 1942 in Vantaa, Finland) is the sole survivor of the Lake Bodom murders in Finland in 1960. Gustafsson is a bus driver and lived a relatively normal life afterwards until 2004 when he was arrested suspected for the murders.
Nils Langhelle Nils Langhelle (1907-1967) was the Norwegian Minister of Labour 1945-1946, Minister of Transport and Communications 1946-1951 and 1951-1952, Minister of Defense 1952-1954, and Minister of Trade and Shipping 1954-1955.
Nils Lid Hjort Nils Lid Hjort (born 1953) is a Norwegian statistician, and has been a professor of mathematical statistics at the University of Oslo since 1991. Hjort's research themes are unusually varied, with particularly noteworthy contributions in the fields of Bayesian probability (Beta processes for use in non- and semi-parametric models), density estimation (local likelihood methodology), and model selection (focussed information criteria and model averaging).
Nils Liedholm Nils Liedholm (born October 8, 1922 in Valdemarsvik) was a Swedish football midfielder and coach, famous for being part of Sweden's "Gre-No-Li" trio of strikers along with Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl at A.C.
Nils Middelboe Nils Middelboe (October 5, 1887 - September 21, 1976) was a Danish athlete and football player as well as a football referee, who most prominently represented the Denmark national football team at the 1908, 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics, winning silver medals in 1908 and 1912. He became the first ever goalscorer for the Danish national football team, when he scored in Denmark's debut game at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Nils no Fushigi na Tabi The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Japanese: ニルスのふしぎな旅) is an anime adaptation of the novel The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by the Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. which ran on the Japanese network NHK from January 8, 1980–March 17, 1981.
Nils Petter Molvær Nils Petter Molvær (born 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer and producer. He is considered a pioneer in the fusion of jazz and electronic music, showcased on his best-selling album Khmer, released by the German record label ECM in 1998.
Nils Slaatto Nils Slaatto (June 23 1923 – 2002), was for more than two decades one of Norway's most prominent and influential Norwegian architects making a strong and distinctive impression on Norwegian architecture. He not only developed a series of highly individual styles; he also for more than two decades influenced the whole course of Norwegian architecture and building.
Nils Täpp Nils Täpp (Oct 27 1917 - Oct 23 2000) was a Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the late 1940's and early 1950's. He won two medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics, with a gold in 1948 and a bronze in 1952.
Nils Trædal Nils Trædal (1879-1948) was a Norwegian cleric and politician for the agrarian party Bondepartiet, later renamed to Centre Party, and leader of the party from 1938 to 1948. He was Minister of Education and Church Affairs 1931-1932 and 1932-1933, as well as acting Prime Minister and acting Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1932.

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