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Nihil obstat Nihil obstat is an official approval by a delegated censor of the Roman Catholic Church to publish a work dealing with faith or morals. It signifies that the publication is free from Catholic doctrinal or moral error.
Nihilist cipher In the history of cryptography, the Nihilist cipher is a manually operated symmetric encryption cipher originally used by Russian Nihilists in the 1880s to organise terrorism against the czarist regime. The term is sometimes extended to several improved algorithms used much later for communication by Moscow Centre with its spies.
Nihilist movement The Nihilist movement was an 1860s Russian cultural movement marked by the questioning of the validity of all forms of preconceived ideas and social norms. It is derived from the Latin word "Nihil", which means "nothing".
Nihilist Records Nihilist Records is a record label that releases noise music albums, and is similar to labels like Load Records and Hanson Records, though it tends to release bands that are more controversial or offensive in a sensational manner.
Nihoa Carnation The Nihoa Carnation (Schiedea verticillata) is an endangered species of carnation, endemic to the island of Nihoa in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where it was discovered in 1923 by the Tanager Expedition.
Nihoa Conehead Katydid The Nihoa Conehead Katydid (Banza nihoa) is on of the many endemic species on the island of Nihoa in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is one of the ten species in the Banza genus, all of them native to Hawaii.
Nihoa Finch The Nihoa Finch (Telespiza ultima) is one of the two endemic bird species of the tiny Hawaiian island Nihoa, the other being the Nihoa Millerbird. When it was classified in 1917, scientists thought that it would be the last endemic species named.
Nihon IBM Big Blue Nihon IBM Big Blue is a Japanese rugby union team which won promotion from the Japan East Ten league to the Top League at the end of the League's first season (2003-4) but was then automatically relegated by coming 12th in the second season (2004-5).
Nihon Jitensha Shinkokai Nihon Jitensha Shinkokai, or NJS, may be translated into English as the "Japanese Bicycling Association." This council's primary responsibility is fostering Japan's bicycle industry and regulating keirin racing in Japan.
Nihon Ki-in The Nihon Ki-in (日本棋院), also known as the Japan Go Association, is the main organizational body for Go in Japan, overseeing Japan's professional system and issuing diplomas for amateur dan rankings. The other major Go association in Japan is Kansai Ki-in.
Nihon Ki-in Hall of Fame The Nihon Ki-in Go Hall of Fame was created in 2004 as part of a celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Nihon Ki-in. Inductees need not be great players but must have made great contributions to Japanese go.
Nihon Kingendaishi Jiten Nihon Kingendaishi Jiten (日本近現代史辞典, "Dictionary of Modern and Present Japanese History") is a dictionary of contemporary Japanese history published in 1978, as the revision of Nihon Kindaishi Jiten (日本近代史辞典, "Dictionary of Japanese Modern History") of 1958. Both editions were published by Tôyô Keizai Shinpôsha (東洋経済新報社) and were edited by a committee organized by the Faculty of Letters at Kyoto University.
Nihon Minka-en is a park in the Park of Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. On display in the park is a collection of 20 traditional (farm houses) from various parts of Japan, especially thatched-roofed houses from eastern Japan.
Nihon SF Taikai The Nihon SF Taikai (日本SF大会; Japan SF Convention) is an annual science fiction convention held in Japan. Each of these conventions is officially the 第N回日本SF大会 (Nth Nihon SF Taikai), but they are more popularly known by the official nicknames given to them based on their locations, e.
Nihon Shoki The , sometimes translated as The Chronicles of Japan, is the second oldest book of classical Japanese history. It is more elaborate than Kojiki, the oldest, and has proven invaluable to historians as it includes the most complete extant historical record of ancient Japan.
Nihon University Nihon University (日本大学; Nihon Daigaku abbreviated as 日大 Nichidai) is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School (present: Department of Law) in October 1889.
Nihon-shiki Rōmaji Nihon-shiki or Nippon-shiki Rōmaji (Japanese: 日本式ローマ字, "Japan-style"; romanized as Nihon-siki or Nippon-siki in Nippon-shiki itself) is a romanization system for transcribing the Japanese language into the Latin alphabet. In discussion about Rōmaji, it is abbreviated as Nihon-shiki or Nippon-shiki. Among the major romanization systems for Japanese, Nippon-shiki is the most regular, and has a one-to-one relation to the kana writing systems.
Nihonbashi , or Nihombashi, is a business district of Chuo Ward, Tokyo, Japan, surrounding a famous bridge of the same name. The district covers a large area to the north and east of the bridge, reaching Akihabara to the north and the Sumida River to the east.
Nihonjin gakko Nihonjin gakko (日本人学校 Nihonjin Gakkō), also called Japanese School, is a full day school outside of Japan for native speakers of Japanese. It is an expatriate school, designed for children whose parent is working on a diplomatic, business or educational mission overseas and have a plan to go back to Japan for good.
Nihonjinron Nihonjinron (, "discourse on, theories about, the Japanese") is a highly popular genre of writing purporting to examine the characteristics—national, social, cultural, behavioural and spiritual—which are presumed to be unique to the Japanese people. The essential premise of nihonjinron is that the Japanese people and their culture are unlike any other in the world—unlike especially either Westerners (frequently typified by Americans) or Asians such as the Chinese and the Koreans.
Nichane Nichane (meaning Direct in Moroccan Arabic and Berber:نيشان) (formerly Aljareeda Alokhra) is a Moroccan weekly arabophone and darijophone (in Moroccan arabic) magazine. It is a sister publication of the French-language Tel Quel magazine.
Niche (architecture) The niche in classical architecture is an exedra or an apse that has been reduced in size, retaining the half-dome heading usual for an apse. Nero's Domus Aurea (AD 64-69) was the first semi-private dwelling that possessed rooms that were given richly varied floor plans, shaped with niches and exedras; sheathed in dazzling polished white marble, such curved surfaces concentrated or dispersed the daylight.
Niche construction Niche construction is the process in which an organism alters its own (or other species') environment, often but not always in a manner that increases its chances of survival. Traditionally, niche construction has been viewed as simply being an aspect of the organism's phenotype, and not having any special role in evolution.
Niche differentiation The term niche differentiation (synonymous with niche segregation and niche separation), as it applies to the field of ecology, refers to the process by which natural selection drives competing species into different patterns of resource use or different niches. This process allows two species to partition certain resources so that one species does not out-compete the other as dictated by the competitive exclusion principle; thus, coexistence is obtained through the differentiation of their realized ecological niches.
Niche microdifferentiation Niche Microdifferentiation is an example of how evolutionary variation in genes is maintained. It simply means that an advantage for one animal in one area is not an advantage for another animal in a diffenret location.
Niche real estate A niche is specialized sector of the property market. Examples include income property, garden real estate, condos, equestrian property, vacation property, farm property, golf property, waterfront homes, beach houses and luxury homes.
Nichi nichi kore kōnichi Nichi nichi kore kōnichi (日々是好日) is a Japanese Zen Buddhist proverb at least 300 years old which means "Every day is a good day." It was a favorite saying of the avant-garde composer John Cage.
Nichi Vendola Nicola (Nichi) Vendola (born 26 August 1958), is an Italian politician and the president of Apulia region (he refused in fact to use in public the title of governor, commonly attributed to former tenants of the post).
Nichi-Ran jiten Nichi-Ran jiten (in Kyūjitai: 日蘭辭典) is a Japanese-Dutch dictionary compiled by Peter Adriaan van de Stadt and originally published by the Taiwanese branch of Nan’yō Kyōkai in 1934. It has about 33,800 entries.
Nichia Corporation The is a Japanese chemical manufacturing company that is most widely known for producing phosphors. The company achieved a certain amount of notoriety for a bonus of 20,000 Yen (-US$180) given to Shuji Nakamura for his invention of the first high brightness blue-light LED.
Nichicon () is a manufacturer of capacitors of various types and applications and is one of the largest manufacturers of capacitors in the world, headquartered in Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. In 1950, it separated from the Nii Works Co.
Nichifor Crainic Nichifor Crainic (December 22 1889, Bulbucata, Giurgiu County—August 20 1972) was a Romanian writer, editor, philosopher, poet and theologian. Crainic was also a professor of theology at the Bucharest Theological Seminary and the Chişinău Faculty of Theology.
Nichigo Press Nichigo Press, established 1977, is Australia's longest established Japanese language newspaper. The word 'nichigo' is a romanisation of the Japanese, 日豪（にちごう or nichi'gō）, which literally means 'Japan-Australia'.
Nichiren Nichiren (日蓮) (February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282), born Zennichimaro (善日麿), later Zeshō-bō Renchō (是聖房蓮長), and finally Nichiren (日蓮), was a Buddhist monk of 13th century Japan. A controversial figure during his lifetime, he is founder of Nichiren Buddhism, a major Japanese Buddhist stream encompassing several schools of often widely conflicting doctrine.
Nichiren Buddhism Nichiren Buddhism (日蓮系諸宗派: Nichiren-kei sho shūha) is a branch of Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th century Japanese monk Nichiren (1222–1282). Nichiren Buddhism is a comprehensive term covering several major schools and many sub-schools, as well as several of Japan's new religions.
Nichiren Shōshū Nichiren Shōshū (日蓮正宗) is a branch of Nichiren Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th century Japanese monk Nichiren (1222–1282). Nichiren Shōshū claims Nichiren as its founder through his disciple Nikkō (1246–1333), the founder of the school's Head Temple Taiseki-ji.
Nichita Stănescu Nichita Stănescu (born Nichita Hristea Stănescu) (March 31 1933, Ploieşti—December 13 1983, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet and essayist. He is the most acclaimed contemporary Romanian language poet, beloved by the public and generally held in esteem by literary critics.
Nichola Holt Nichola Holt was born 13 August 1971 in Bromley Cross, Bolton, England. She worked as a self-employed textile artist and art teacher, tax officer, cleaner, packer, life model, bar waitress, care worker, 3-D artist and a costume designer before making her appearance on the first series of Big Brother.
Nicholaos Gysis Nicholaos Gysis (1842-1901) is considered one of Greece's most important nineteenth century painters and and is most famous for his work Eros and the Painter: his first genre painting, recently auctioned at Bonham's in London and last exhibited in Greece in 1928.
Nicholas Abram Nicholas Abram was a Jesuit theologian, born in 1589, at Xaronval, in Lorraine, died at 7 September, 1655. He taught rhetoric at Pont-Ă -Mousson, then engaged in missionary work, and finally taught theology at Pont-Ă -Mousson for seventeen years.
Nicholas Adontz Nicholas Adontz (, Nikoghayos Adontz; January 10, 1871 – January 27,1942) was a prominent Armenian historian, specialist of Byzantine studies and philologist. He is also known under his Russianized name Adontz Nikolay Georgievich ().
Nicholas Appert Award The Nicholas Appert Award has been awarded every year since 1942 by the Chicago Section of the Institute of Food Technologists. Given for lifetime and consistent achievement in food technology, it is named after Nicolas François Appert, the French inventor of airtight food preservation.
Nicholas Arnesson Nicholas Arnesson (Old Norse Nikolás Árnason), died 1225, was a Norwegian bishop and nobleman during the Norwegian civil war era. He was a leader in the oppositon against king Sverre of Norway and founder of the Bagler party.
Nicholas Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury Nicholas Edmund Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 12th Earl of Shaftesbury, also known as nick ac (born 3 June 1979) succeeded his brother as Earl of Shaftesbury. Their father had been murdered in November 2004, but his body was not discovered until early 2005.
Nicholas Asselta Nicholas Asselta (born August 17, 1951) is an American Republican Party politician, who has served in the New Jersey State Senate since 2004, where he represents the 1st Legislative District. Senator Asselta is a member of the State Government Committee, the Community & Urban Affairs Committee, and the Wagering, Tourism, and Historic Preservation Committee.
Nicholas Bacon Sir Nicholas Bacon (1509–February 20, 1579) was an English politician during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, notable as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and as the father of philosopher/statesman Sir Francis Bacon.
Nicholas Bachynsky Nicholas Volodymir (Val) Bachynsky (born September 16, 1887 in Eastern Galicia; died August 14, 1969) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1922 to 1958, and was Speaker of the Assembly for most of Douglas Campbell's administration.
Nicholas Barker Nicholas Barker is an English drummer. He is the former drummer of the British metal band Cradle of Filth, who went on to play with Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir as well as Brujeria, Old Man's Child and Lock Up.
Nicholas Bianco Nicholas "Nicky" Bianco (21 March 1932 – 14 November 1994) was originally a Brooklyn-based mobster and a member of the Colombo crime family. Bianco was associated with family renegade Joey Gallo before eventually moving to Rhode Island to became one of Raymond L.
Nicholas Biwott Kipyator Nicholas Kiprono arap Biwott (born 1941) is a wealthy Kenyan businessman and politician. Biwott and the former president of Kenya Daniel arap Moi (1978-2002) are from the same Kalenjin tribal background, but different sub-tribes.
Nicholas Blincoe Nicholas Blincoe is an English author, critic and screenwriter. He is the author of six novels, Acid Casuals (1995), Jello Salad (1997), Manchester Slingback (1998), The Dope Priest (1999), White Mice (2002), Burning Paris (2004).
Nicholas Brady Nicholas Brady (October 28, 1659–May 20, 1726), Anglican divine and poet, was born at Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. He received his education at Westminster School and at Christ Church, Oxford; but he graduated at Trinity College, Dublin.
Nicholas Brown (Brown University) Nicholas Brown (1769-1841) was a Providence, Rhode Island businessman and philanthropist. He graduated from the College of Rhode Island in 1786, and became such a great benefactor to the school that it was renamed Brown University for him in 1804.
Nicholas Burns (British actor) Nicholas Burns (born 1977, Derbyshire) is an English comic actor best known for playing Nathan Barley in the show of the same name, as well as playing Nick Mayer in television series Absolute Power. He is currently appearing in Man Stroke Woman.
Nicholas Callan Nicholas Callan (20 December 1799 – 14 January 1864), an Irish physicist, invented the induction coil in 1836. Callan was a Roman Catholic priest and the professor of natural philosophy at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, from 1826 until his death.
Nicholas Callaway Nicholas Callaway is a publisher, television producer, writer, and photographer. He is the CEO of Callaway Arts & Entertainment, a leading creator of family entertainment properties across all media, including book publishing, animation, and children's lifestyle products.
Nicholas Cardinal Wiseman Nicholas Patrick Stephen Cardinal Wiseman (August 2, 1802 - February 15, 1865) was an English churchman, who became the first Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster upon the Re-establishment of the Catholic Hierarchy in England and Wales in 1850.
Nicholas Ciarelli Nicholas Ciarelli is a journalist and Editor-In-Chief of Think Secret, a website he has owned and operated since the age of thirteen. Prior to January 2005, Ciarelli was known only by the pen name "Nick dePlume" (a pun on "Nom de Plume", a French term meaning "pen name") that he uses on his website.
Nicholas Civella Nicholas Civella (March 19, 1912-March 12, 1983) was a Kansas City mobster involved in union racketeering and tax evasion. He was the brother of mobster Carl "Cork" Civella and the uncle of Anthony "Tony" Thomas Civella.
Nicholas Clapp Nicolas Clapp is a Los Angeles, California based film-maker, photographer and amateur archaeologist. He has often been called the "real Indiana Jones" and he has received 70 film awards (including Emmys) and several Academy Award nominations.
Nicholas Close Nicholas Close (died 1452) was an English priest, Bishop of Carlisle from 1450 to 1452 and Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield for a short time before his death in 1452. He was educated at King's College, Cambridge, being elected a fellow in 1443, and served as a commissioner to Scotland in 1449.
Nicholas Colasanto Nicholas Colasanto (January 19, 1924 - February 12, 1985) was an American actor, known primarily for his role as Coach Ernie Pantusso on the long-running sitcom Cheers. Feature films include Fat City and Raging Bull.
Nicholas Conyngham Tindal Sir Nicholas Conyngham Tindal (12 December, 1776-6 July, 1846) was a celebrated English lawyer who successfully defended Queen Caroline at her trial for adultery in 1820. He was later made Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas, an office he held with distinction from 1829 to 1846.
Nicholas Cowdery Nicholas Richard Cowdery AM QC (born March 19, 1946) is the Director of Public Prosecutions for the Australian state of New South Wales, a position he has held since 1994. Cowdery also served as President of the International Association of Prosecutors from 1999 to 2005.
Nicholas Culpeper Nicholas Culpeper (18 October 1616 – 1654 in London) was an English botanist, herbalist, physician, and astrologer. His published books, The English Physitian (1652) and the Complete Herbal (1653), contain a rich store of pharmaceutical and herbal knowledge.
Nicholas de Genova Nicholas de Genova is an assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University. His research centers primarily on the experience of Mexican-Americans in both Mexico and the United States, especially the transnational urban and conceptual spaces they inhabit.
Nicholas de Giers Nikolay Karlovich Giers (1820-1895) was a Russian Foreign Minister during the reign of Alexander III. He was one of the architects of the Franco-Russian Alliance, which was later transformed into the Triple Entente.
Nicholas de la Fontaine Nicholas de la Fontaine was a Protestant refugee in Geneva and entered the service of John Calvin, by whom he was employed a secretary. De la Fontaine brought Michael Servetus to trial on August 14, 1553 on the charges of heresy against Calvinism, as Calvin himself at this point was too incapacitated with various health problems to personally appear at the trial.
Nicholas de Lamotte Nicholas de Lamotte (1755-1831), originally Antoine-Nicolas de la Motte (de Lamotte), was a 18th century Frenchman known for his part as a conman in the affair of the diamond necklace and as the husband of Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Remy. While he claimed to be a nobleman and gave himself the title of Comte (Count), his family's claim to nobility is dubious.
Nicholas de Lange Nicholas Robert Michael de Lange (often known simply as N. de Lange) (August 7, 1944, Nottingham) is Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies at the University of Cambridge, known as a historian and author who wrote several authoritative books about Judaism, as well as various papers.
Nicholas de Moffat Nicholas de Moffat († 1270) was a 13th century cleric who was twice bishop-elect of Glasgow. He had been archdeacon of Teviotdale, and was elected (actually, he was postulated) to the bishopric of Glasgow on the first occasion in early 1259.
Nicholas D. Kristof Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27, 1959) is a political scientist, author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist specializing in East Asia. He is currently a columnist for The New York Times and previously served as the as The New York Times' Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo.
Nicholas Daniloff Nicholas Daniloff was a journalist who graduated from Harvard University and was most prominent in the 1980s for his work in and about the Soviet Union. He came to international attention when he was arrested by the KGB in 1986 and accused of espionage.
Nicholas Davatzes Nicholas Davatzes is president and CEO of A&E Network, who created and developed two of the brightest gems among cable's programming crown jewels: The A&E Network and The History Channel. A&E was formed in 1983 through the merger of ABC and Hearst's ARTS Network and NBC's Entertainment Channel creating a partnership as unlikely as it has been successful.
Nicholas Dawidoff Nicholas Dawidoff (born November 30, 1962) is an American writer. Author of three books and editor of an anthology of baseball literature, he has also contributed to various publications such as The New Yorker, The American Scholar, and Sports Illustrated.
Nicholas Dirks Nicholas Dirks is the Franz Boas Profressor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University, dean of the university's faculty, and Vice President of its Arts and Sciences division. Dirks is the author of numerous books on South Asian history and culture, primarily concerned with the impact of British colonial rule.
Nicholas Donin Nicholas Donin (Nicolas Donin) of La Rochelle, a Jewish convert to Christianity in early thirteenth-century Paris, is known for his role in the 1240 Disputation of Paris, which resulted in a decree to publicly burn all available manuscripts of the Talmud.
Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon Nicholas Eden, 2nd Earl of Avon (October 3, 1930 – August 17, 1985) was a British Conservative politician and younger son of Prime Minister Anthony Eden and his first wife, Beatrice (née Beckett). He succeeded his father as 2nd Earl in 1977, his elder brother Simon having been killed in action in 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War.
Nicholas Evans Nicholas Evans (born 1950 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England) is an English journalist, screenwriter TV/film producer and novelist. Evans was educated at Bromsgrove School but before studying at Oxford University, he served in Africa with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO).
Nicholas Evans (linguist) Nicholas Evans teaches in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. In terms of language area, his main specialisation is in the study of Australian Aboriginal languages: he has published detailed grammars of two (Kayardild, and Bininj Gun-wok) and dictionaries of Kayardild and Dalabon, as well as over sixty other publications on aspects of Australia's indigenous languages.
Nicholas Fish II Nicholas Fish (1846–1902) was the grandson of American Revolutionary War soldier Nicholas Fish and son of the Secretary of State Hamilton Fish. He was born in New York City and educated at Columbia and at Harvard Law School.
Nicholas Freeman Nicholas Freeman (25 July 1939 - November 1989), OBE (1985) was the Conservative Party leader of the London Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council in the United Kingdom from 1977 until 1989; he was also its Mayor in 1988.
Nicholas Gargano Nicholas ("Nick") Gargano (born November 1, 1934) is a former boxer from Great Britain, who won the bronze medal in the welterweight division (– 67 kg) at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia. Two years earlier he captured the gold medal in the same weight category at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
Nicholas Gilodi-Johnson Nicholas Piers Gilodi Johnson (generally known as Nicholas Gilodi-Johnson) (b. July 31, 1971 in Britain) was the Managing Director of Farepak and the largest shareholder of Farepak's parent company European Home Retail after inheriting a sizeable shareholding from his father, Farepak founder Bob Johnson.
Nicholas Grimald Nicholas Grimald (or Grimoald) (1519-1562), English poet, was born in Huntingdonshire, the son probably of Giovanni Baptista Grimaldi, who had been a clerk in the service of Empson and Dudley in the reign of Henry VII.
Nicholas Grimshaw Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Baron Grimshaw of Peterloo (born 9 October, 1939) is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including the international railway terminal at London's Waterloo Station and the Eden Project in Cornwall. In late 2004, he was elected President of the Royal Academy.
Nicholas Gruner Nicholas Gruner (1942- ) is a believer in the Marian apparition related to Our Lady of Fatima, a manifestation of the Virgin Mary at Fatima, Portugal in 1917, particularly its anti-communist aspects during the Cold War.
Nicholas Guy Nicholas Guy (fl. 1612 – 1631) settler, most likely born England was one of the first settlers at John Guy's Cuper's Cove, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Canada and the father of the first English child born in Newfoundland and subsequently all of Canada.
Nicholas Hagger Nicholas Hagger, born Nicholas Osborne Hagger in 1939, is a British author, philosopher, cultural historian who has lectured in English Literature at universities in Iraq; Japan and Libya. He purchased and restored Otley Hall in Suffolk and has created a private school system at three locations in England.
Nicholas Hammond (historian) Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond (November 14, 1907 – March 24, 2001) was a British historian — teaching at Cambridge and Bristol — who specialized in Greece and Macedonia. He was known for his works about Alexander the Great and for suggesting the relationship of Vergina with Aegae, the ancient Macedonian royal city, before the archaeological discoveries.
Nicholas Harding Nicholas Harding (1956- ), Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 2001 with a portrait of John Bell as King Lear. He also won the people's choice award at the 2005 Archbald, with "Bob's Daily Swim".
Nicholas Hartwig Nicholas Genrikhovich Hartwig (Russian: Николай Генрихович Гартвиг) (December 16,1857–July 10,1914) was a Russian ambassador to Persia (1906-1908) and Serbia (1909-1914). An ardent Pan-Slavist, he was said to be "more Serbian than the Serbs" and in the period prior to World War I was thought by many to practically control the policy of the Serbian government.
Nicholas Henderson Sir Nicholas Henderson GCMG, KCVO (born 1919) is a retired British career diplomat and writer. Educated at Stowe School and Hertford College, Oxford he joined the British Diplomatic Service in 1946 and rose to become Private Secretary to the Foreign Secretary in 1963.
Nicholas Henry Darnell Nicholas Henry Darnell (1807–1885) was an American politician in Tennessee and Texas. He was the only person to serve as Speaker of the House of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives and the State of Texas House of Representatives.
Nicholas Herkimer Nicholas Herkimer (circa 1728 – August 16, 1777) was a militia general in the American Revolutionary War, who died of wounds after the Battle of Oriskany. He was the son of immigrants Catherine and Johan Jost Herchheimer (one of various spellings) from the German Palatinate living in German Flatts in the Mohawk Valley in the Colony of New York.
Nicholas Hill Nicholas Hill (also Nichaolas Hyll, Montanus or van de bergh) was a native of the Low Countries who came to England in 1519 and took out letters of denization in 1544. In 1546 the first book with his name in the imprint was issued, and between then and 1553 he printed twenty-three books, mostly for other people.
Nicholas Hope Nicholas Hope (born 1958 in Manchester, England is an Australian] actor currently living in [[Norway. He is probably best known for his role in Bad Boy Bubby (1993), for which he won the Australian Film Institute Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994.
Nicholas Humphrey Professor Nicholas Keynes Humphrey (b. 27 March,1943) is a British psychologist who in 2004 held a School Professorship at the London School of Economics (LSE) and a half-time Professorship at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Nicholas I of Montenegro King Nikola I Mirkov Petrović-Njegoš (Serbian Cyrilic: Краљ Никола I Мирков Петровић-Његош) ( – March 1, 1921) was the only king of Montenegro, reigning as a king from 1910 to 1918 and as a prince from 1860 to 1910. He was also a poet, notably penning Onamo, 'namo, the popular anthem of Montenegro.
Nicholas I Zorzi Nicholas I Zorzi or Giorgi (Italian: Niccolò; died 1345) was the Margrave of Bodonitsa, first member of the Zorzi family of Venice to hold the post, from 1335 to his death. In 1335, he married Guglielma Pallavicini, heiress of Bodonitsa and widow of Bartolommeo Zaccaria.

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