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Nigel Searle Nigel Searle was the managing director of Sinclair Research Ltd, and one of the company's longest-serving employees. He joined Sinclair Radionics in 1973, and for most of the 1970s, Searle worked for Sinclair in the United States to promote the company's calculators and other products.
Nigel Simeon McCulloch Nigel Simeon McCulloch is the Bishop of Manchester. He was named to the post in August 2002A new bishop for Manchester, Diocese of Manchester, August 2002, took up duties later that year, and was formally installed in February 2003City's 11th bishop sworn in, BBC News Online, 1 February 2003.
Nigel Slater Nigel Slater (born in Wolverhampton, England, in the late 1950s, according to his publisher)is an award-winning British food writer and journalist. He has written a column for The Observer] Magazine for over a decade and is the principal writer for the Observer Food Monthly supplement.
Nigel Springthorpe Nigel Springthorpe BMus PhD FLCM PGCE is Director of Music at St Albans High School for Girls where he conducts the school's Senior and Chamber Orchestras as well as several choirs. He is also an examiner for the Trinity Guildhall examination board.
Nigel Stepney Nigel Stepney was a mechanic at Benetton Formula in the late 1980s and early 90s and then moved to Scuderia Ferrari with Michael Schumacher, Rory Byrne and Ross Brawn. He was Chief Mechanic at Ferrari and afterwards became Race and Test Technical Manager, a position he still holds.
Nigel Stock Nigel Stock was a veteran British actor of stage, screen, radio and television, known as a character actor in particular. He studied for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he earned the Leverhulme Exhibition, Northcliffe Scholarship, and the Principal's Medal.
Nigel Terry Nigel Terry (born August 15, 1945 in Bristol, England) is a British stage and film actor probably best known by movie audiences for his portayal of King Arthur in John Boorman's Excalibur (1981). However, he has had a long career in classical theatre.
Nigel Thrift Professor Nigel Thrift was born in 1949 and according to Warf (2004) 'Thrift has long been recognised as one of geography's most imaginative, articulate and productive scholars'. Working in a variety of respected departments of Geography Professor Thrift has made a significant contribution to Human Geography throughout his career.
Nigel Vagana Nigel Vagana (born February 7 1975 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand rugby league player for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the National Rugby League competition, Vagana also previously played for the (then) Auckland Warriors, Canterbury Bulldogs, Cronulla Sharks and Warrington Wolves.
Nigel Ward Commander Nigel "Sharkey" Ward DSC AFC RN commanded RNAS 801 Sea Harrier flight from HMS Invincible (R05) during the Falklands War, of April to June 1982, and was senior Sea Harrier adviser to the Command on the tactics, direction and progress of the air war.
Nigel Wright Nigel Wright (born 13 June 1955, in Bristol) is a record producer from England. His career as music producer, orchestrator and songwriter has scored five Number one singles, 31 Top 20 singles and a string of platinum albums with recording artists as diverse as Shakatak, Barbra Streisand, Madonna, Boyzone, Take That, José Carreras, Robson & Jerome, Michael Ball, Sarah Brightman and Cliff Richard.
Nigella Nigella is a genus of about 14 species of annual plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to southern Europe, north Africa and southwest Asia. Common names applied to members of this genus are Devil-in-a-bush or Love in the mist.
Niger at the Olympics Niger (NIG) has sent athletes to all Summer Olympic Games held since 1964 except for 1976 and 1980. Only once has the country won an Olympic medal: Issaka Daborg, who won a bronze medal in light welterweight boxing in 1972.
Niger Coast Protectorate The Niger Coast Protectorate was a British protectorate in the Oil Rivers area of present-day Nigeria, originally established as the Oil Rivers Protectorate in 1891 and confirmed at the Berlin Conference the following year, renamed on 12 May 1893, and merged with the chartered territories of the Royal Niger Company on 1 January 1900 to form the colony of Southern Nigeria.
Niger Delta Development Commission The Niger Delta Development Commission is a federal Government agency established by Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo in the year 2000 with the sole mandate of developing the oil-rich Niger Delta region of southern Nigeria.
Niger Delta province The Niger Delta province is a geologic province in the Niger Delta of West Africa also known as the Niger Delta Basin. The province contains one petroleum system, the "Tertiary Niger Delta (Akata-Agbada) Petroleum System" (classified as number 701901), the majority of which lies within the borders of Nigeria, with suspected or proven access to Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and São Tomé and Príncipe.
Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force The Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force is the largest armed group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and is composed primarily of members of the region's largest ethnic group, the Ijaw. The group emerged in the late 1990s in an attempt to gain more control over the region's vast petroleum resources, particularly in Delta State.
Niger Inland Delta The Niger Inland Delta, also known as the Macina or Inner Niger Delta, is a large area of lakes and floodplains in Mali. It is located in the middle course of the Niger River, between the bifurcated Niger and its tributary, the Bani.
Niger Innis Niger Innis is an African American conservative Republican consultant, strategist and National Spokesperson for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Innis graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor of Science (BSc.
Niger River The Niger River is the principal river of western Africa, extending over 2500 miles (about 4000 km). It runs in a crescent through Guinea, Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Oil Rivers, into the Gulf of Guinea.
Niger uranium forgeries The Niger uranium forgeries refers to falsified classified documents initially revealed by Italian intelligence. These documents depict an attempt by the regime of Iraq's Saddam Hussein to purchase yellowcake uranium from the African country of Niger during the Iraq disarmament crisis.
Niger-Congo languages The Niger-Congo languages constitute one of the world's major language families, and Africa's largest in terms of geographical area, number of speakers, and number of distinct languages. They may constitute the world's largest language family in terms of distinct languages, although this question is complicated by ambiguity in what is a distinct language.
Niger-Kordofanian languages The Niger-Kordofanian language family was proposed by Joseph Greenberg in his 1963 book Languages of Africa, originally under the name 'Congo-Kordofanian'. It was the consequence of the addition of Kordofanian as a branch coordinate to the previously established Niger-Congo family.
Nigeria Labour Congress Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) is an umbrella organisation for trade unions in Nigeria. It was founded in 1978 following a merger of four different organisations: Nigeria Trade Union Congress (NTUC), Labour Unity Front (LUF), United Labour Congress (ULC) and Nigeria Workers Council [NWC].
Nigeria Regiment The Nigeria Regiment, Royal West African Frontier Force, was thus formed by amalgamation of Northern Nigeria Regiment and Southern Nigeria Regiment on January 1st 1914. At that time, the regiment consisted of five battalions:
Nigeria Sao Tome & Principe Joint Development Authority Prior to the setting up of the Joint Development Authority between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, border conflicts were generally characterised by violent conflicts particularly in Africa. The Joint Development Authority was created to regulate the activities of exploitation and exploration of oil and gas and other related ecocomic activities in the Joint Development Zone.
Nigeria women's national football team The Nigeria national women's football team, nicknamed the Super Falcons, is the national team of Nigeria and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Association. They are the six-time African champions, and have lost only one game in their history to African competition (December 12,2002 to Ghana in Warri).
Nigerian Baptist Convention The Nigerian Baptist Convention is the second largest Baptist convention affiliating with the Baptist World Alliance, and the third largest in the world after the Southern Baptist Convention, USA, and National Baptist Convention, USA. Conservative estimates of the size of the Nigerian Baptist Convention claims three million baptized believers and a worshipping community of more than six million.
Nigerian Civil War The Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, July 6, 1967 – January 13, 1970, was a political conflict caused by the attempted secession of the southeastern provinces of Nigeria as the self-proclaimed Republic of Biafra. The war became notorious for the starvation in some of the besieged war-bound regions, and the consequent claims of genocide made by the largely Igbo people of those regions.
Nigerian diplomatic missions Nigeria, the most populous African country, has a moderately large network of diplomatic missions. The country has significant influence in Africa and in various multilateral fora, including the Organization of the Islamic Conference, OPEC, the Commonwealth and the African Union.
Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is a ministry department of the Nigerian government that regulates agriculture and rural development in the whole of Nigeria. The ministry is currently headed by Nigerian politician Alhaji Adamu Bello.
Nigerian Federal Ministry of Aviation The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Aviation is a ministry department of the Nigerian government that regulates air travel and aviation services in the whole of Nigeria. The ministry is currently headed by Nigerian politician Chief Femi Fani-Kayode.
Nigerian Federal Ministry of Commerce The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Commerce is a ministry department of the Nigerian government that regulates commerce in the whole of Nigeria. The ministry is currently headed by Nigerian politician Alhaji Idris Waziri.
Nigerian literature Nigeria has produced many prolific writers. Many have won accolades for their writing abilities, including Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Cyprian Ekwensi, ChukwuEmeka Ike, Buchi Emecheta, Wunmi Sofola and Elechi Amadi.
Nigerian military juntas of 1966-1979 and 1983-1998 The two Nigerian Military Juntas of 1966-1979 and 1983-1998 were a pair of military dictatorships in the African country of Nigeria that were led by the Nigerian Military, having a chairman or president in charge. The first one began on January 16, 1966, when Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi overthrew current president Nnamdi Azikiwe in a coup d'Ă©tat, and declared himself Head of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria.
Nigerian military school The history of the Nigerian Military School Zaria dates back to 1954 when the Boys-Company of Nigeria was established under the auspices of Nigerian Regiment Training centre of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF). The school was established along with three others in the British Colonial West Africa in Gambia, Gold Coast (now Ghana), and Sierra-Leone.
Nigerian Mobile Police The Nigerian Mobile Police (MOPOL) force is a paramilitary arm of the Nigerian police and operate under orders from Nigeria's federal government. The Mobile Police have been widely reported as brutal violators of human rights, particularly during the 1990s, which has earned them the nickname "Kill-and-Go" amongst the Nigerian population (this is because they are known to gun down innocent civilians and simply walk away with impunity).
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) , sometimes known as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, is the state oil corporation through which the federal government of Nigeria regulates and participates in the country's petroleum industry.
Nigerian Oil Crisis In 2004, Nigeria was rocked by a crisis in the oil industry which, coupled with the continuing problems in Iraq and contracted petrol supplies offered by Saudi Arabia and other OPEC countries, has serious implications for the entire world community. In 2004, world consumption of crude oil is on track to surpass 82 million barrels (13,000,000 m³) per day, 30 billion barrels (4.
Nigerian Pidgin Nigerian Pidgin is a dialect of English spoken as a kind of lingua franca across Nigeria that is referred to simply as "Pidgin", "Broken English" or "Brokan". It is not considered a creole language since there are no "native" speakers, although children do learn it early.
Nigerien Self-Management Party The Nigerien Self-Management Party (French: Parti Nigérien pour l’Autogestion-Al'ouma) is a political party in Niger. It contested the legislative elections of 4 December 2004 in an alliance with the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism.
Nigger Head Island (Queensland) Nigger Head is a small island in the Northern part of Shelburne Bay in far north Queensland, Australia about 30km North of Cape Grenville, Cape York Peninsula in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Queensland, Australia.
Niggerball Niggerball is a colloquial and former brand name for a popular variety of gobstopper (a form of confectionery known as a "jawbreaker" in the United States) produced in South Africa during the twentieth century by specialist hard candy and confectionery producers such as Poirette, Crystal Confectionery, Chapelat, and the Transvaal Confectionery Company of Johannesburg.
Night & Day Big Band Night and Day: Big-Band is an album by American rock band Chicago that was released in 1995. Their twenty-second official album, it marked the band's abandonment of Top 40 material for a more thematic project, the focus here being classic big band and swing music.
Night (book) Night is an autobiographical work by Elie Wiesel based on his experience, as a young Orthodox Jew, of being sent with his family to the German death camp at Auschwitz, and later to the concentration camp at Buchenwald. "Winfrey selects Wiesel’s ‘Night’ for book club", Associated Press, January 16, 2006.
Night air Prior to the Nineteenth Century, night air was widely considered dangerous in America and some other western cultures. Based in "zymotic" theory, it was believed that vapors called "miasmas" rose from the soil and spread diseases.
Night and Day (album) Night and Day is Joe Jackson's fifth album, released in 1982. The title is from a Cole Porter song, and the album reflects a transition from Jackson's early punk/New Wave influences to a more sophisticated level of songwriting.
Night and Fog (film) Night and Fog (original French title Nuit et brouillard) is a 1955 documentary film contrasting the placidity of the post-Holocaust concentration camp at Auschwitz with the events that occurred there during World War II, and musing on the diffusion of guilt. The film is in French, in color and black and white, is 32 minutes long, and was directed by Alain Resnais.
Night and Fog in Japan Night and Fog in Japan is a 1960 film from Japanese director Nagisa Oshima. It is an intensely political film- both in subject matter (Zengakuren opposition in 1950 and 1960 to the AMPO Treaty) and in thematic concerns such as political memory and the interpersonal dynamics of social movements.
Night and the City Night and the City is a 1950 film based on the novel by Gerald Kersh, directed by Jules Dassin, starring Richard Widmark and Gene Tierney. Shot on location in London, the plot evolves around an ambitious hustler whose plans keep going wrong.
Night attack formation Night attack formation refers to the arrangement of soldiers in advancing in attack at night. With the advances in arms that led to trench warfare, daytime attacks across open ground toward defensive positions became prohibitive and often futile.
Night After Night Night After Night is a 1932 Paramount Pictures drama motion picture starring George Raft and Constance Cummings. Others in the cast include Wynne Gibson, Mae West, Alison Skipworth, Roscoe Karns, Louis Calhern, and Bradley Page.
Night Caste The Night Caste is one of five castes of the Solar Exalted. First detailed in White Wolf's Exalted (ISBN 1-56504-623-4), and later expanded upon in its own supplement Caste Book: Night (ISBN 1-58846-662-0), the Night Caste is filled with those who favor cunning, wit, and skill over raw power.
Night Castle Night Castle is a future album of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra that is currently in production. It will include a version of "O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff, which was previewed live by the band since 2004.
Night Cry Night Cry was a short-lived but highly-regarded horror and fantasy fiction companion to The Twilight Zone Magazine published quarterly in the mid 1980s; unlike TZ, Night Cry was a digest-sized magazine rather than a "standard" 8.5 x 11" magazine.
Night diving Night diving is a type of recreational diving which takes place in darkness. The diver may see more and has a different underwater experience at night because many marine animals are nocturnal and the diver is forced to concentrate on smaller, nearby objects.
Night Divides the Day - The Music of the Doors Night Divides the Day - The Music of the Doors is the thirteenth album of pianist George Winston. It features only piano covers of rock band The Doors, and it has been well-received by Ray Manzarek, Door's keyboard player.
Night Dragon Night Dragon (ISBN 0-14-036407-2) is a single player roleplaying gamebook written by Keith Martin, illustrated by Tony Hough and originally published in 1993. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series, numbered 52 in the original Puffin printing and not yet included in the Wizard reissuing.
Night Drive Night Drive is a very late night / early morning television program made for Global CanWest's CFMT in the late 1980's to replace test patterns. The show featured film of Toronto's streets and highways late at night from the viewpoint of a person driving late at night set to smooth jazz music.
Night flight in the UK Along with many countries, the UK does not allow civilian aircraft to fly at night under Visual Flight Rules. However, unlike many countries with a similar night VFR ban it does not require pilots to be Instrument Rated to fly at night.
Night Fever "Night Fever", was a song that was written and performed by The Bee Gees that was on the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever that came from the trio, and the album's third hit single (after "How Deep Is Your Love" and "Stayin' Alive"). In the United States, "Night Fever" was the latest in a string of number-one hits for the trio; in the United Kingdom, it was their first chart-topper in nearly ten years.
Night Fighter Series This is a series of six novels written by David Sherman and is loosely based on the kind of activities experienced by the US Marines and Vietnamese Popular Forces units of the combat-outpost type of the Combined Action Program of the United States Marine Corps. Sherman admits that the exploits recorded in these novels did not resemble those which he experienced as part of the CAP program.
Night Flight (song) "Night Flight" is a song by English rock band Led Zeppelin from their 1975 album Physical Graffiti. Originally recorded in 1971, it was intended for Led Zeppelin IV but was held over and placed on Physical Graffiti to fill up the double album.
Night glow A night glow is an event that is often held as a climax to a hot air balloon festival. The balloons are set up at sunset in the launch area, an open field, or a football stadium and are inflated as if they are going to take off.
Night Girl Night Girl is a fictional character in the DC Universe, a member of the Legion of Substitute Heroes in the 30th century. Her real name is Lydda Jath and her home planet is Kathoon, a world which is in perpetual darkness, heated by an internal power source.
Night Heat Night Heat was a Canadian police drama series, which aired on CTV from 1985 to 1991. The show also aired on CBS in the United States, and was the first Canadian-produced drama series to air on an American network.
Night Hours The Night Hours are the fixed times of prayer in the Divine Office of the Roman Catholic Church, that take place after sunset and before sunrise. In the Latin Rite, the main Office is traditionally Matins, said in the early hours of the morning, and which is joined to the office of Lauds, which is concluded shortly before dawn.
Night Island (Queensland) Night Island is part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park West of Cape Melville, Queensland and East of Coen between the first three mile opening and the second three mile opening of the Barrier Reef about 100km South East of LockhartRiver
Night lizard Night lizards (family name Xantusiidae) are a group of very small, viviparous (live-bearing) lizards, averaging from less than 4 cm to over 12 cm long. It has only three genera, with approximately 23 living species.
Night Limited The Night Limited was an express passenger train that operated in New Zealand between Wellington and Auckland, utilising the entire length of the North Island Main Trunk. It commenced service in 1924 and was replaced by the Silver Star in 1971 and supplemented by the Northerner in 1975.
Night market The Night markets or night bazaars are street markets operating at night mainly in urban or suburban areas that are generally dedicated to more leisurely strolling, shopping, and eating than more businesslike day markets.
Night markets in Taiwan Night markets in Taiwan are similar to those in China and other areas inhabited by ethnic Chinese such as Southeast Asia, and Chinatowns worldwide. A few such as Huaxi Street Tourist Night Market (or Snake Alley) utilize purpose-built marketplaces but most occupy either sidewalks (pavements) adjacent to streets or entire streets that are normal thoroughfares by day.
Night monkey The Night monkeys, also known as the Owl monkeys or Douroucoulis, are the members of the genus Aotus of New World monkeys (monotypic in family Aotidae). They are widely distributed in the forests of Central and South America, from Panama south to Paraguay and northern Argentina.
Night Man Night Man (or NightMan) was an American television program running from September 1997 to May 1999, loosely based on a comic book published by Malibu Comics and created by Steve Englehart (the original comic title was "The Night Man") and developed for television by Glen A. Larson.
Night Monster Night Monster was a 73-minute, 1942, United States, black-and-white horror film, produced and distributed by Universal Pictures Company. It was an original story and screenplay by Clarence Upson Young, produced and directed by Ford Beebe.
Night Moves (song) "Night Moves" is a song written and performed by heartland rocker Bob Seger, from his 1976 album Night Moves. Released as a single, it began charting in early 1977, and eventually reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart.
Night Nurse (comics) Night Nurse is a character in the Marvel Comics universe known for her willingness to help injured superheroes, who first appeared in Daredevil (vol. 2) #58 and was created by Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev.
Night of Desirable Objects Night Of Desirable Objects was Snakefinger's fourth and final studio album, recorded with the Vestal Virgins and released by Ralph Records in 1987. It featured a variety of styles including jazz, folk, rock, gospel and polka, and displayed a compositional maturity.
Night of Champions Night of Champions (NOC) is a bodybuilding contest held every year in New York City, USA. It began in 1978 and is considered one of the top professional bodybuilding events, with the top five finalists qualifying for the Mr.
Night of January 16th Night of January 16 was a play written by Ayn Rand, inspired by the death of the "Match King", Ivar Kreuger. First published in 1934, it took place entirely in a court room and was centered on a murder trial.
Night of Knives Night of Knives is the first novel by Canadian author Ian Cameron Esslemont. It is set in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, a ten-volume epic fantasy series by Esslemont's friend and colleague Steven Erikson.
Night of My Life "Night of My Life" is the title of the debut single for 2006 Australian Idol winner Damien Leith. This single was performed by the final two contestants - Leith and Jessica Mauboy - during the penultimate episode of Australian Idol 2006, and both contestants recorded and had their versions pressed by Sony BMG, ready for the winner's version to be released immediately after the competition.
Night of the Big Heat (1967 film) Night of the Big Heat is a 1967 British sci-fi horror film released by Planet Film Productions, based on a 1959 novel of the same name by John Lymington. It was released in the United States in 1971 under the title Island of the Burning Doomed and was double-billed with Son of Godzilla.
Night of the Big Wind The Night of the Big Wind (Irish: OĂ­che na Gaoithe MĂłire) was a severe European windstorm which swept across Ireland on the night of January 6 - January 7, 1839 causing severe damage to property and several hundred deaths.
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3 Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3 is a 2005 comedy film written and directed by James Riffel, and starring Alexandria DeFabiis as "Ginger", with Stacy Dunn and Ian George. The film uses the footage from The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) with the audio completely dubbed over in a new, comedic soundtrack.
Night of the Ghouls Night of the Ghouls is a 1959 Ed Wood horror film, a sequel of sorts to Bride of the Monster. The film was not publicly exhibited until 1987, as Wood could not afford to process the negatives, and they were held at a post-production house.
Night of the Living Dead (EP) Night Of The Living Dead was the third EP, and fourth release, by the New Jersey punk band The Misfits. It was released on October 31 at a Halloween show at Irving Plaza in New York, NY, 1979 by the bands' own Plan 9 Records, catalog number PL1011.
Night of the Living Drag Queens Night of the Living Drag Queens is the second full-length release by North Carolina punk band the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. It was originally released on Uncle God Damn Records in 1998, and was later re-released on Century Media Records in collaboration with People Like You Records in 1999 as a Digi-Pack.
Night of the Long Knives The Night of the Long Knives (Saturday June 30 and Sunday July 1, 1934) (German, Nacht der langen Messer), also known as Reichsmordwoche, "Operation Hummingbird" or "the Blood Purge", was a lethal purge of Adolf Hitler's potential political rivals in the Sturmabteilung (SA; also known as storm troopers or brownshirts). The SA was the paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that had helped the Nazis rise to power in the Twenties, culminating with Hitler being appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933.
Night of the Long Knives (Arthurian) The Night of the Long Knives is the name Geoffrey of Monmouth gave to the (possibly apocryphal) slaughter of British chieftains by Jute, Anglo and Saxon mercenaries at a monastery (or perhaps Stonehenge) on Salisbury Plain in ca. 460.
Night of the Murdered Poets The Night of the Murdered Poets () refers to the night of 12 to 13 August 1952, when thirteen of the most prominent Yiddish writers, poets, artists, musicians and actors of the Soviet Union were secretly executed on the orders from Josef Stalin in the basement of the Lubyanka prison in Moscow.
Night of the proms The Night of the Proms is a series of concerts held yearly in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and Spain. The concerts consist of a combination of pop music and popular classical music (often combined) and various well-known musicians and groups usually participate.
Night of the Pencils The Night of the Pencils (in Spanish, Noche de los Lápices) was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances followed by torture of a number of young students by the Argentine police, during the last dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process).
Night of the Radishes The Night of the Radishes (Noche de Rabanos) is a festival celebrated in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico every December 23, the day before Christmas Eve. Artists carve huge Mexican radishes into nativity scenes and pictures of Oaxacan life, and the city awards a prize to the best display.
Night on Bald Mountain Night on Bald Mountain (, Ivanova noch' na lïsoy gore, St. John's Night on the Bare Mountain) usually refers to one of two compositions – either a seldom performed early (1867) tone poem by Modest Mussorgsky, or a later (1886) and very popular "fantasy for orchestra" by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, based almost entirely on Mussorgsky's themes.
Night photography Night photography refers to photographs taken outdoors between twilight and dawn. Night photographers generally have a choice between using artificial light or using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds or even minutes, in order to give the film enough time to capture a usable image, and to compensate for reciprocity failure.
Night Parrot The Night Parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis) is (or was, depending on opinion) a small broad-tailed parrot endemic to the continent of Australia. The species was originally placed within its own genus (Geopsittacus) (e.
Night Patrol (movie) Night Patrol is a 1984 movie starring Linda Blair, Pat Paulsen, Billy Barty, and Murray Langston. Perhaps the filthiest comedy to see release in the 80s, Night Patrol is a cult-classic, raunch comedy that follows the misadventures of The Unknown Comic (Langston) who moonlights as a cop at night.
Night shark The night shark, Carcharhinus signatus, is a requiem shark of the family Carcharhinidae, found in subtropical western Atlantic Ocean waters between latitudes 43° N and 43° S, from the surface to 600 m. Its length is up to about 2.
Night sky Night sky is a commonly used term most often employed to refer to the sky as it is seen at night. The term is usually associated with an astronomy or related context, with reference to views of stars, the Moon and planets that become visible on a clear night after the Sun has set.

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