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Nicholas II of Russia Nicholas II of Russia (May 18, 1868–July 17, 1918)6 May 1868 to 4 July 1918 in the Julian calendar. (, Nikolay II) was the last Emperor of Russia, King of Poland,In 1831 the Russian tsars were deposed from the Polish throne, but they soon took control of the country to be a part of Russia and abolished the separate monarchy.
Nicholas II Zorzi Nicholas II Zorzi or Giorgi (Italian: Niccolò) was the Margrave of Bodonitsa, a member of the Zorzi family of the Republic of Venice, from 1410 to 1414. He was the last Venetian margrave to actually rule before the Ottoman Turkish conquest.
Nicholas III of Saint Omer Nicholas III of Saint Omer (died 1314) was the lord of Thebes in Frankish Greece from 1299 to 1311. A nephew of Nicholas II, he served on two occasions as bailiff of the Principality of Achaea (1300–1302, 1304–1307).
Nicholas III Zorzi Nicholas III (or II) Zorzi or Giorgi (Italian: Niccolò) was the Margrave of Bodonitsa, a member of the Zorzi family of the Republic of Venice, from 1416 to 1436, though the title was purely nominal by then. Before becoming margrave in an exchange with his nephew Nicholas II, he was the baron of Carystus (from 1410).
Nicholas John Vine-Hall Nicholas John Vine-Hall (August 17, 1944-October 31, 2006), also known as Nick Vine-Hall, was a recognized Australian authority in the fields of family history, genealogy and heraldry, and an enthusiastic champion of family history research in Australia.
Nicholas Johnson Nicholas Johnson is best known for his controversial term as a dissenting Federal Communications Commission commissioner, 1966-1973, and his book, How to Talk Back to Your Television Set. He currently teaches at the University of Iowa College of Law, with an emphasis on communications and Internet law.
Nicholas Jordan Nicholas Jordan (born in Aldershot) is an English footballer who plays in goal for Portsmouth. Jordan was on the substitutes bench for the first 3 league games of the 2006-07 season after injuries to Jamie Ashdown and Dean Kiely and manager Harry Redknapp failing to bring a more experienced goalie in on loan.
Nicholas Kaldor Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (Budapest, 12 May 1908 - Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, 30 September 1986) was one of the foremost Cambridge economists in the post-war period. He developed the famous "compensation" criteria called Kaldor-Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939).
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien Nicholas Kao Se Tseien (Chinese: é«ĺ¸«č¬™) (born January 15, 1897) is a Chinese catholic priest living in Hong Kong, who, according to the Guinness World Records, is both the oldest Catholic priest and oldest person to have a cataract operation in the world. In 2007, he celebrated his 110th birthday, and, in doing so, he reached supercentenarian status.
Nicholas Kemboi Nicholas Kemboi (born November 25, 1983 in Kericho) is an athlete from Qatar who specialises in long-distance running. Unlike many other Kenyan-born athletes, he kept his name when changing affiliation to the Middle Eastern country.
Nicholas Kemmer Nicholas Kemmer (7 December 1911 -- 21 October 1998) was a physicist. Born in St Petersberg, his family moved to Germany in 1922, where was educated at Bismarckschule Hanover and then at the University of Göttingen, did his doctorate at the University of Zurich before moving to the Beit Fellowship at Imperial College London.
Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash Nicholas Lash (1934 - ) is an English Roman Catholic theologian. Born to Joan Mary Moore, an Irish Catholic, and Brigadier Henry Lash, a Protestant British colonial officer, having served in the British Army, and having been briefly ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood, he held for twenty years the post of Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge from 1978 to 1999, succeeding Donald Mackinnon, and being succeeded by Denys Turner.
Nicholas Lea Nicholas Lea (born June 22, 1962 as Nicholas Christopher Schroeder. After his parent's divorce, he was raised as Nicholas Christopher Herbert) is a well-known Canadian actor best known for his work on The X-Files playing Alex Krycek.
Nicholas Longworth Nicholas Longworth (November 5, 1869 - April 9, 1931) was a prominent American politician in the Republican Party during the first few decades of the 20th century. He served as House Majority Leader from 1923 to 1925 and subsequently as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1931.
Nicholas Low Nicholas Low (March 30, 1739– November 15, 1826) was an American merchant and developer from New York City. He developed properties in upstate New York, including Lowville (in Lewis County) which was named for him.
Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater, LVO, PC (born 9 January 1942), succeeded his great-grandfather in the Viscountcy of Ullswater in 1949. He is one of very few peers to have succeeded a great-grandfather in a title.
Nicholas Luard Nicholas Lamert Luard (26 June, 1937 – 25 May, 2004) was a writer and politician, but is perhaps best known for his activities in the early 1960s: co-founding The Establishment with Peter Cook and being one of the Lords Gnome of Private Eye.
Nicholas M. Butler Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. The co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Butler was president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945, and received the Republican Party electoral votes for Vice President of the United States in the 1912 presidential race, when the nominated vice presidential candidate James S.
Nicholas Mallett Nicholas Mallett (sometimes known as Nick Mallett) was television director who worked on The Bill, Children's Ward and several episodes of Doctor Who including The Mysterious Planet section of The Trial of a Time Lord, Paradise Towers and The Curse of Fenric. He died on 30 January 1997.
Nicholas Mavrocordatos Nicholas Mavrocordatos (Greek: Νικόλαος ΜαυĎοκοĎδάτος, Romanian: Nicolae Mavrocordat; May 3, 1670—September 3, 1730) was a Greek member of the Mavrocordatos family, Grand Dragoman to the Divan (1697), and consequently the first Phanariote Hospodar of the Danubian Principalities - Prince of Moldavia, and Prince of Wallachia (both on two separate occasions). He was succeeded as Grand Dragoman (1709) by his son John Mavrocordato (Ioan), who was for a short while hospodar in both Wallachia and Moldavia.
Nicholas Mavroules Nicholas James Mavroules (1929–2003) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, November 1 1929; and graduated from Peabody High School.
Nicholas McCarthy Nicholas Augustine McCarthy (born December 13, 1974), known familiarly as Nick McCarthy, is an English musician. He is the lead guitarist, backup singer, and keyboardist of the British band Franz Ferdinand, not to be confused with Nick McCarthy, well-known Balladeer of Bansha, County Tipperary in Ireland.
Nicholas McGegan Nicholas McGegan (born January 14, 1950 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England) is a British harpsichordist, flutist, conductor and early music expert. Educated at Cambridge and Oxford, McGegan participated in some of the earliest authentic-performance recordings during the 1970s as a baroque flutist, including Christopher Hogwood's seminal recordings of Mozart symphonies.
Nicholas McKenna Media Nicholas McKenna Media/NMM is a small operation headquartered in Washington, DC with a development lab in San Diego, CA. The lab in California produces Pufftags, one of Nicholas McKenna Media's most popular creations.
Nicholas Meyer Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945 in New York City, USA) is a film writer, producer, director and novelist best known for his involvement in the Star Trek films. He is also well known as the director for the landmark 1983 TV-Movie The Day After, for which he was nominated for a Best Director Emmy Award.
Nicholas Miller Nicholas (Nick) Miller, an artist born in London, moved to Ireland in 1984. In 1992, he moved to Kilmactranny, Geevagh, County Sligo, and has taken much inspiration from the rugged but beautiful landscape for his art.
Nicholas Minue Nicholas Minue (died 28 April 1943) received the Medal of Honor for military service on behalf of the United States of America in World War II. He received this recognition for charging a group of German soldiers that had a machine-gun position near Medjez El Bab, Tunisia.
Nicholas Muller Nicholas Muller (November 15, 1836 - December 12, 1917) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, he attended the common schools in the city of Metz and afterward the Luxemburg Athenaeum.
Nicholas Myrepsos Nicholas Myrepsos (Late 13th Century) was a Byzantine physician who compiled and revised Ancient Greek scripts including, but not limited to Galen, as well as writing his own compendium on Medical Science which remained the principal pharmaceutical code of the Parisian medical faculty until 1651.
Nicholas Mystikos Nicholas I Mystikos or Nicholas I Mysticus (Greek: Νικόλαος Α΄ ΜυĎτικός, Nikolaos I Mystikos), (852–May 15, 925) was the Patriarch of Constantinople from March 901 to February 906 and from May 912 to his death in 925.
Nicholas N. Cox Nicholas Nichols Cox was a American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the Tennessee's 7th congressional district. He was born in Bedford County, Tennessee on January 6, 1837.
Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943) is an architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. He is the younger brother of John Negroponte, former United States Director of National Intelligence.
Nicholas of Cusa Nicholas of Cusa (1401– August 11, 1464) was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, a philosopher, jurist, mathematician, and an astronomer. He is widely considered as one of the greatest geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century.
Nicholas of Ely Nicholas of Ely was Lord Chancellor of England, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of Winchester, and Lord High Treasurer in the 13th century. He was appointed chancellor by Henry III, but then sacked in favour of Walter de Merton; also, he served at the See of Worcester, before being transferred to Winchester.
Nicholas of Lynn Nicholas of Lynn or Lynne, also known as Nicolas de Linna (the name may be derived from the city of King's Lynn) (fl. 1360) was a Minorite "priest with an astrolabe" from Oxford who is thought to have visited the northern lands around Greenland around 1360, returning to Bergen in 1364 in the company of 8 others.
Nicholas O'Shaughnessy Nicholas Jackson O'Shaughnessy is a Professor of Marketing and Communication at Brunel University (UK) Nicholas O'Shaughnessy's CV Retrieved 29 April 2006, though he is due to take up a post at Queen Mary, University of London in January 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and has previously been a Professor at Keele University and a Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
Nicholas Padfield Nicholas Padfield is a British lawyer, QC, and is currently deputy High Court judge. He made headlines in 2006 by heading a business consortium named AV06, its being one of the parties interested in taking over the running of the British association football club Aston Villa F.
Nicholas Palace Nicholas Palace (Russian: Nikolayevsky dvorets, НиколаевŃкий дворец) was one of several St Petersburg palaces designed by Andreas Stackensneider (1802-65) for the children of Nicholas I of Russia. The palace of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich of Russia forms part of a sprawling complex incorporating a palacial church, a manege, and several outbuildings separated from Labour Square by a cast-iron fence.
Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev (Russian: Николай Павлович Đгнатьев) (17 January Old Style (29 January on Western calendar) 1832 – 20 June Old Style (3 July on Western calendar) 1908) was a Russian statesman and diplomat. During his career he was sometimes at odds with another Corps of Pages alumni, Count Pyotr Shuvalov.
Nicholas Payton Nicholas Payton (born September 26, 1973) is a jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton, he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father.
Nicholas Perricone Nicholas Perricone (IPA pronunciation: ) is a dermatologist who has written several books, primarily on the subjects of weight loss and maintaining the appearance of youth. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, from which he also received his MD.
Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers, PC (born 21 January 1938) is a British judge who was Master of the Rolls from 2000 to 2005 and has been Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales since 1 October 2005.
Nicholas Pieck Nicholas Pieck was the son of John Pieck and Henriea Clavia, devout Catholics. He was sent to college at Bois-le-Duc, and as soon as he had completed his classical studies he received the habit of the Friars Minor at the convent in that town.
Nicholas Pileggi Nicholas Pileggi (born February 22, 1933 in New York City, New York) is an American author and screenwriter, best known for writing the book Wiseguy, which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas, and for writing the book and screenplay Casino. The movie versions of both were directed by Martin Scorsese.
Nicholas Piramal Nicholas Piramal India Limited (Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL) is India's second largest Pharmaceutical Healthcare company is a leader in the Cardio-vascular segment. It has a strong presence in Antibiotics and Respiratory segments, Pain management, Neuro-psychiatry and Anti-Diabetics segments.
Nicholas Purcell of Loughmoe Nicholas Purcell, Baron of Loughmoe (1652 – 4 March 1722) was the nephew of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde. A member of the King's Privy Council, Purcell was the right hand man of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan.
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz (born November 28, 1970) is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He writes and teaches in the fields of constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and federal jurisdiction.
Nicholas reaction The Nicholas reaction is an organic chemical reaction where a propargylic cation is stabilized by condensation with Hexacarbonyl Di-Cobalt. The propargylic group is then more susceptible to attack by a Nucleophile.
Nicholas Remy Nicholas Remy (aka RĂ©my and Remigius) (1530 - 1616) was a French magistrate who became famous as a hunter of witches comparable to Jean Bodin and De Lancre. After studying law at the University of Toulouse Remy practice in Paris from 1563 to 1570.
Nicholas Rescher Nicholas Rescher (born July 15, 1928 in Hagen, Germany) is an American philosopher, affiliated for many years with the University of Pittsburgh, where he is currently University Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Center for the Philosophy of Science. He is among the most prolific of contemporary scholars, having written about 400 articles and 100 books, over a dozen of which have been translated into other languages, ranging over many areas of philosophy.
Nicholas Robinson Nicholas Robinson is an Irish author, historian, solicitor and poltical cartoonist. He is the husband of Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland.
Nicholas Roerich Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: Николай КонŃтантинович Рёрих), was a Russian painter and spiritual teacher. He was the father of Tibetologist George Roerich (a.
Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia Nicholas Romanovich Romanov or Nikolai Romanovich Romanov (Николай Романович Романов), (born September 13, 1922) is the President of the Romanov Family Association. He styles himself His Highness Prince Nicholas Romanovich of Russia and claims to be a member of the Imperial House of Romanov.
Nicholas Roosevelt Nicholas Isaac Roosevelt (1767 - 1854), a member of the distinguished New York family of Dutch descent, was a major investor in Upstate New York land. He and his brother John sold a large tract of land in Oswego County, New York, for instance, to Geroge Scriba in 1793 (now the Town of Scriba).
Nicholas Rowe (actor) Nicholas James Sebastian Rowe is an English actor. He has appeared in numerous movies, television programs and theatre plays, though he is most recognized as Sherlock Holmes in Steven Spielberg production Young Sherlock Holmes.
Nicholas Rudall D. Nicholas Rudall is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Committees on General Studies in the Humanities and Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1966.
Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell Nicholas Lyulph Russell, 6th Earl Russell (born 12 September 1968), styled Viscount Amberley between 1987 and 2004, is the elder son of Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell. He succeeded to the Earldom of Russell on his father's death on 13 October 2004.
Nicholas Salos of Pskov Nicholas Salos of Pskov (Russian: Николай СалоŃ) was a Russian self-styled prophet ("Fool-for-Christ") in opposition of czar Ivan IV's oprichnina. In 1570, Ivan IV retailated by raiding Pskov.
Nicholas Sand Nicholas "Nick" Sand was a underground chemist and "alchemist to the Neo-American Church" at the Millbrook estate in New York state. Sand spent time as a fugitive in Canada, and served prison time in Canada and the United States from 1996 to 2000 for the manufacture of psychedelic drugs including, but not limited to, MDMA, MDA, DMT, LSD, and mescaline.
Nicholas Seafort Nicholas Ewing "Nick" Seafort (4 September 2177- ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of David Feintuch's Seafort Saga series of novels. All the books of the series with the exception of Voices of Hope and Children of Hope are written in the first person from Seafort's point of view, and give a detailed insight into the charter's motivation.
Nicholas Shackleton Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (23 June 1937—24 January 2006) was a British geologist and climatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton and the son of the noted geologist Robert Millner Shackleton.
Nicholas Shaffer Nicholas Shaffer is an American television and film actor. He has appeared in such TV shows as LAX, Coach, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Murder, She Wrote and films such as Intolerable Cruelty and the comedy film spoof Pearl Harbor II: Pearlmageddon.
Nicholas Sheehy Nicholas Sheehy (1728 - 1766) was an 18th century Irish Roman Catholic priest who was executed on charge of accessory to murder. Father Sheehy was a prominent opponent of the British Penal Laws, which persecuted Catholics in Ireland.
Nicholas Schaffner Nicholas Schaffner (January 28 1953 – August 29 1991) was an American non-fiction author, journalist, and singer-songwriter. As an author, his works include the biographies The Beatles Forever and A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey as well as the children's book The Boys from Liverpool: John, Paul, George, Ringo.
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences is one of seven graduate and professional schools at Duke University. A secondary facility is maintained in the coastal town of Beaufort, North Carolina.
Nicholas Soames Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, known as Nicholas Soames or Fatty Soames, (born 12 February 1948) is a British Conservative politician. He is Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex and was Minister of State for the Armed Forces.
Nicholas Spano Nicholas Spano represented District 35 in the New York State Senate until 2007. Formerly the Senior Assistant Majority Leader, Senator Spano was first elected in 1986, and served on the Rules, Transportation, Finance, Education, Health, and Racing, Gaming, and Wagering committees in addition to chairing the Senate Investigations Committee.
Nicholas Spanos Nicholas Spanos hypothesized that the behaviors associated with hypnosis are acted out knowingly by the person. He believes that all acts that are performed are done under the complete control of the hypnotized person.
Nicholas Stern Sir Nicholas Stern, FBA (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and is now a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom.
Nicholas Street Gaol The Nicholas Street Gaol was the main jail of Ottawa, Canada for over a century. The structure at 75 Nicholas Street was built as the Carleton County Gaol in 1862 next door to the court house to which it was connect by a tunnel.
Nicholas Stryk Nicholas John Stryk (born December 17, 1896 in western Ukraine; died 1950) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1941 to 1945, and again from 1949 until 1950.
Nicholas Stuart Gray Nicholas Stuart Gray (October 23, 1922, Scotland - March 17, 1981) was a British actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his work in children's theatre in England. He was also an author of children's fantasy; he wrote a number of novels, a dozen plays, and many short stories.
Nicholas Tate Dr. Nicholas Tate is a historian who was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and at the universities of Bristol and Liverpool and currently is the Director General of the International School of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland.
Nicholas Throckmorton Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (or Throgmorton) (c. 1515/1516 – 12 February, 1571) was an English diplomat and politician, who was an ambassador to France and played a key role in the relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots.
Nicholas Tongue Walter Nicholas ("Nick") Henry Tongue (born April 8, 1973 in Auckland) is a former freestyle swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia for his native country.
Nicholas Tower Nicholas Tower, situated on Independence Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago is the tallest building in the English-speaking Caribbean. It has an elliptical floor plate and stands 21Chouti, Sandra, Changing the face of PoS, Trinidad Guardian, February 9, 2006.
Nicholas von Hoffman Nicholas von Hoffman is an American journalist and author of German-Russian extraction, descendant of Melchior Hoffman and son of Carl von Hoffman. He became famous as a columnist for the Washington Post and later well-known to TV audiences as a "Point-Counterpoint" commentator for CBS's 60 Minutes, from which he was fired by Don Hewitt in 1974.
Nicholas Van Dyke (governor) Nicholas Van Dyke (September 25 1738 – February 19 1789) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, as a Continental Congressman from Delaware, and as President of Delaware.
Nicholas Van Dyke (senator) Nicholas Van Dyke (December 8, 1770 – May 21, 1826) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, and as U.
Nicholas Vardy Nicholas Vardy is Managing Director at London based Hayek Capital Management. He is also editor of The Global Guru, a weekly e-letter with over 70,000 subscribers, as well as Global Bull Market Alert, a weekly trading service, published by Washington DC based Eagle Publishing.
Nicholas Victor Louis Oudinot-Odinet Nicholas Victor Louis d'Oudinot-Odinet, Marquis d'Odinet (born August 16, 1863; died February 20, 1927) was born in Bordeaux, France a grand-nephew of Napoleon's Marshal Oudinot, Duc de Reggio of a junior branch of the Oudinot family of the French Nobility (Odinet). He was married to Eugenie d'Esting and had four children.
Nicholas Webster Nicholas Webster (24 July 1912 — 12 August 2006) was an American film and television director. Chiefly remembered for his CBS program The Violent World of Sam Huff (1960; featuring the first use of a wireless microphone on television); the ABC Close Up documentary Walk in My Shoes (1961), nominated for an Emmy as the best television program of the year it was the first time the story of African American]s was told in their own words on television; Purlie Victorious (1963; also known as Gone Are the Days), the film version of [[Ossie Davis' acclaimed stage play starring Davis, Ruby Dee, and Alan Alda in his first film role); and the feature film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), a children's favorite for more than 40 years and noteworthy to trivia buffs as Pia Zadora's first film.
Nicholas Whitlam Nicholas Richard Whitlam born 6 December 1945, is an Australian businessman, the son of former Prime Minister Edward Gough Whitlam and Margaret Whitlam. He first became publicly prominent in 1981 when he was appointed chief executive of the State Bank of New South Wales Subsequent roles include an investment banking partnership with Malcolm Turnbull, Whitlam Turnbull & Co, and the chairmanship of the NRMA Group, NRMA.
Nicholas Winterton Sir Nicholas Raymond Winterton, (born March 31, 1938, Rugeley, Staffordshire) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Macclesfield. Sir Nicholas undertook his National Service 1957-1959 and was commissioned into the 14/20 Kings Hussars serving in Germany.
Nicholas Winton Sir Nicholas Winton MBE (born May 19 1909) is a Briton who organized the rescue of 669 Jewish Czech children from their doomed fate in the Nazi death camps prior to the outbreak of World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.
Nicholas Wolterstorff Nicholas Wolterstorff (born January 21, 1932 in Bigelow, Minnesota) is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, and Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on metaphysics, aesthetics, political philosophy, epistemology and theology and philosophy of religion.
Nicholas Wotton Nicholas Wotton (c.1497 – January 261567), English diplomat, was a son of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, and a descendant of Nicholas Wotton, lord mayor of London in 1415 and 1430, and member of parliament for the city from 1406 to 1429.
Nicholas Young (executive) Nicholas Efram Young (September 12 1840 - October 31 1916) was an American executive, manager and umpire in professional baseball who served as president of the National League from 1885 to 1902. Born in Amsterdam, New York at Johnson Hall, the estate of Sir William Johnson, he served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and later was employed in the U.
Nicholaus von Below Nicolaus von Below (1907 – 1983) was Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant from 1937 through 1945. Von Below, with the rank of colonel, was one of the few of Hitler's entourage to continually serve in close capacity for so many years.
Nichole Robinson Nichole Robinson, also known as Nichole Mercedes Robinson, is an African American actress and model. She has had a recurring role on the Showtime television series Huff, and before that appeared in roles that showcased her bikini body beauty with a supporting role in the 2003 movie Love Don't Cost a Thing and as one of the 3 main girls (along with Jaime Pressly and Kim Smith) in the Aerosmith video for their single Girls of Summer off of the O, Yeah!
Nichols cap guns Though there were many famous cap gun companies like George Schmidt, Hubley, Kenton, Kilgore, Wyandotte, and others, one of the enduring companies which attracts a lot of toy collectors was the toy cap gun company in Texas, Nichols Industries-later Nichols Industries, Inc.
Nichols plot A Nichols plot is a graph used in signal processing in which the logarithm of the magnitude is plotted against the phase of a frequency response on orthogonal axes. This plot combines the two types of Bode plot — magnitude and phase — on a single graph, with frequency as a parameter along the curve.
Nichols radiometer A Nichols radiometer is the apparatus used by Nichols and Hull in 1901 for the measurement of radiation pressure. It consisted of a pair of small silvered glass mirrors suspended in the manner of a torsion balance by a fine quartz fibre within an enclosure in which the air pressure could be regulated.
Nichols' Regiment of Militia Nichols' Regiment of Militia also known as the 5th New Hampshire Militia Regiment was called up on July 21, 1777 at Winchester, New Hampshire for Gen. John Stark's Brigade gathering at Charlestown, New Hampshire during the Saratoga Campaign.
Nicholson Baker Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is a contemporary American novelist, whose writings focus on minute inspection of the narrator's stream of thought. His unconventional novels deal with topics like voyeurism and planned assassination, but generally de-emphasize traditional aspects of plot.
Nicholson Museum The Nicholson Museum houses the University of Sydney's collection of antiquities, one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. It is located at the southern entrance to the Quadrangle of the Main Campus of the University of Sydney.
Nicholson Road, Perth Nicholson Road is a major north-south road in the southeastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting Albany Highway in Cannington with the large residential areas of Thornlie and Canning Vale, before leaving the Perth urban area and terminating in Oakford. Until the construction of Kwinana Freeway to Thomas Road in 1993, Nicholson Road was one of southern Perth's most important routes.
Nichrome Nichrome is a brand name for nickel-chromium resistance wire, a non-magnetic alloy of nickel and chromium. A common alloy is 80% nickel and 20% chromium, but there are many others to accommodate various applications or lower cost.
Nichya Nichya (Ничья in Russian Cyrillic; translates as "No one's"), is a singing/songwriting/producing duet made up of Elena Kiper and Oleg Borschevskiy. They have released two singles and one album so far in their blossoming career.
Nii Lamptey Nii Odartey Lamptey (born December 16, 1974) is a Ghanaian football player. He is known foremost for his erratic career, in which he became a superstar as a teenager and then suffered a long string of failures which burnt him out well before his time.
Nicholas II Zorzi Nicholas II Zorzi or Giorgi (Italian: Niccolò) was the Margrave of Bodonitsa, a member of the Zorzi family of the Republic of Venice, from 1410 to 1414. He was the last Venetian margrave to actually rule before the Ottoman Turkish conquest.
Nicholas III of Saint Omer Nicholas III of Saint Omer (died 1314) was the lord of Thebes in Frankish Greece from 1299 to 1311. A nephew of Nicholas II, he served on two occasions as bailiff of the Principality of Achaea (1300–1302, 1304–1307).
Nicholas III Zorzi Nicholas III (or II) Zorzi or Giorgi (Italian: Niccolò) was the Margrave of Bodonitsa, a member of the Zorzi family of the Republic of Venice, from 1416 to 1436, though the title was purely nominal by then. Before becoming margrave in an exchange with his nephew Nicholas II, he was the baron of Carystus (from 1410).
Nicholas John Vine-Hall Nicholas John Vine-Hall (August 17, 1944-October 31, 2006), also known as Nick Vine-Hall, was a recognized Australian authority in the fields of family history, genealogy and heraldry, and an enthusiastic champion of family history research in Australia.
Nicholas Johnson Nicholas Johnson is best known for his controversial term as a dissenting Federal Communications Commission commissioner, 1966-1973, and his book, How to Talk Back to Your Television Set. He currently teaches at the University of Iowa College of Law, with an emphasis on communications and Internet law.
Nicholas Jordan Nicholas Jordan (born in Aldershot) is an English footballer who plays in goal for Portsmouth. Jordan was on the substitutes bench for the first 3 league games of the 2006-07 season after injuries to Jamie Ashdown and Dean Kiely and manager Harry Redknapp failing to bring a more experienced goalie in on loan.
Nicholas Kaldor Nicholas Kaldor, Baron Kaldor (Budapest, 12 May 1908 - Papworth Everard, Cambridgeshire, 30 September 1986) was one of the foremost Cambridge economists in the post-war period. He developed the famous "compensation" criteria called Kaldor-Hicks efficiency for welfare comparisons (1939).
Nicholas Kao Se Tseien Nicholas Kao Se Tseien (Chinese: é«ĺ¸«č¬™) (born January 15, 1897) is a Chinese catholic priest living in Hong Kong, who, according to the Guinness World Records, is both the oldest Catholic priest and oldest person to have a cataract operation in the world. In 2007, he celebrated his 110th birthday, and, in doing so, he reached supercentenarian status.
Nicholas Kemboi Nicholas Kemboi (born November 25, 1983 in Kericho) is an athlete from Qatar who specialises in long-distance running. Unlike many other Kenyan-born athletes, he kept his name when changing affiliation to the Middle Eastern country.
Nicholas Kemmer Nicholas Kemmer (7 December 1911 -- 21 October 1998) was a physicist. Born in St Petersberg, his family moved to Germany in 1922, where was educated at Bismarckschule Hanover and then at the University of Göttingen, did his doctorate at the University of Zurich before moving to the Beit Fellowship at Imperial College London.
Nicholas Langrishe Alleyne Lash Nicholas Lash (1934 - ) is an English Roman Catholic theologian. Born to Joan Mary Moore, an Irish Catholic, and Brigadier Henry Lash, a Protestant British colonial officer, having served in the British Army, and having been briefly ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood, he held for twenty years the post of Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge from 1978 to 1999, succeeding Donald Mackinnon, and being succeeded by Denys Turner.
Nicholas Lea Nicholas Lea (born June 22, 1962 as Nicholas Christopher Schroeder. After his parent's divorce, he was raised as Nicholas Christopher Herbert) is a well-known Canadian actor best known for his work on The X-Files playing Alex Krycek.
Nicholas Longworth Nicholas Longworth (November 5, 1869 - April 9, 1931) was a prominent American politician in the Republican Party during the first few decades of the 20th century. He served as House Majority Leader from 1923 to 1925 and subsequently as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1925 to 1931.
Nicholas Low Nicholas Low (March 30, 1739– November 15, 1826) was an American merchant and developer from New York City. He developed properties in upstate New York, including Lowville (in Lewis County) which was named for him.
Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater, LVO, PC (born 9 January 1942), succeeded his great-grandfather in the Viscountcy of Ullswater in 1949. He is one of very few peers to have succeeded a great-grandfather in a title.
Nicholas Luard Nicholas Lamert Luard (26 June, 1937 – 25 May, 2004) was a writer and politician, but is perhaps best known for his activities in the early 1960s: co-founding The Establishment with Peter Cook and being one of the Lords Gnome of Private Eye.
Nicholas M. Butler Nicholas Murray Butler (April 2, 1862 – December 7, 1947) was an American philosopher, diplomat, and educator. The co-winner with Jane Addams of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Butler was president of Columbia University from 1902 to 1945, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1925 to 1945, and received the Republican Party electoral votes for Vice President of the United States in the 1912 presidential race, when the nominated vice presidential candidate James S.
Nicholas Mallett Nicholas Mallett (sometimes known as Nick Mallett) was television director who worked on The Bill, Children's Ward and several episodes of Doctor Who including The Mysterious Planet section of The Trial of a Time Lord, Paradise Towers and The Curse of Fenric. He died on 30 January 1997.
Nicholas Mavrocordatos Nicholas Mavrocordatos (Greek: Νικόλαος ΜαυĎοκοĎδάτος, Romanian: Nicolae Mavrocordat; May 3, 1670—September 3, 1730) was a Greek member of the Mavrocordatos family, Grand Dragoman to the Divan (1697), and consequently the first Phanariote Hospodar of the Danubian Principalities - Prince of Moldavia, and Prince of Wallachia (both on two separate occasions). He was succeeded as Grand Dragoman (1709) by his son John Mavrocordato (Ioan), who was for a short while hospodar in both Wallachia and Moldavia.
Nicholas Mavroules Nicholas James Mavroules (1929–2003) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, November 1 1929; and graduated from Peabody High School.
Nicholas McCarthy Nicholas Augustine McCarthy (born December 13, 1974), known familiarly as Nick McCarthy, is an English musician. He is the lead guitarist, backup singer, and keyboardist of the British band Franz Ferdinand, not to be confused with Nick McCarthy, well-known Balladeer of Bansha, County Tipperary in Ireland.
Nicholas McGegan Nicholas McGegan (born January 14, 1950 in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England) is a British harpsichordist, flutist, conductor and early music expert. Educated at Cambridge and Oxford, McGegan participated in some of the earliest authentic-performance recordings during the 1970s as a baroque flutist, including Christopher Hogwood's seminal recordings of Mozart symphonies.
Nicholas McKenna Media Nicholas McKenna Media/NMM is a small operation headquartered in Washington, DC with a development lab in San Diego, CA. The lab in California produces Pufftags, one of Nicholas McKenna Media's most popular creations.
Nicholas Meyer Nicholas Meyer (born December 24, 1945 in New York City, USA) is a film writer, producer, director and novelist best known for his involvement in the Star Trek films. He is also well known as the director for the landmark 1983 TV-Movie The Day After, for which he was nominated for a Best Director Emmy Award.
Nicholas Miller Nicholas (Nick) Miller, an artist born in London, moved to Ireland in 1984. In 1992, he moved to Kilmactranny, Geevagh, County Sligo, and has taken much inspiration from the rugged but beautiful landscape for his art.
Nicholas Minue Nicholas Minue (died 28 April 1943) received the Medal of Honor for military service on behalf of the United States of America in World War II. He received this recognition for charging a group of German soldiers that had a machine-gun position near Medjez El Bab, Tunisia.
Nicholas Muller Nicholas Muller (November 15, 1836 - December 12, 1917) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, he attended the common schools in the city of Metz and afterward the Luxemburg Athenaeum.
Nicholas Myrepsos Nicholas Myrepsos (Late 13th Century) was a Byzantine physician who compiled and revised Ancient Greek scripts including, but not limited to Galen, as well as writing his own compendium on Medical Science which remained the principal pharmaceutical code of the Parisian medical faculty until 1651.
Nicholas Mystikos Nicholas I Mystikos or Nicholas I Mysticus (Greek: Νικόλαος Α΄ ΜυĎτικός, Nikolaos I Mystikos), (852–May 15, 925) was the Patriarch of Constantinople from March 901 to February 906 and from May 912 to his death in 925.
Nicholas N. Cox Nicholas Nichols Cox was a American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the Tennessee's 7th congressional district. He was born in Bedford County, Tennessee on January 6, 1837.
Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943) is an architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. He is the younger brother of John Negroponte, former United States Director of National Intelligence.
Nicholas of Cusa Nicholas of Cusa (1401– August 11, 1464) was a German cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, a philosopher, jurist, mathematician, and an astronomer. He is widely considered as one of the greatest geniuses and polymaths of the 15th century.
Nicholas of Ely Nicholas of Ely was Lord Chancellor of England, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of Winchester, and Lord High Treasurer in the 13th century. He was appointed chancellor by Henry III, but then sacked in favour of Walter de Merton; also, he served at the See of Worcester, before being transferred to Winchester.
Nicholas of Lynn Nicholas of Lynn or Lynne, also known as Nicolas de Linna (the name may be derived from the city of King's Lynn) (fl. 1360) was a Minorite "priest with an astrolabe" from Oxford who is thought to have visited the northern lands around Greenland around 1360, returning to Bergen in 1364 in the company of 8 others.
Nicholas O'Shaughnessy Nicholas Jackson O'Shaughnessy is a Professor of Marketing and Communication at Brunel University (UK) Nicholas O'Shaughnessy's CV Retrieved 29 April 2006, though he is due to take up a post at Queen Mary, University of London in January 2007. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce and has previously been a Professor at Keele University and a Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
Nicholas Padfield Nicholas Padfield is a British lawyer, QC, and is currently deputy High Court judge. He made headlines in 2006 by heading a business consortium named AV06, its being one of the parties interested in taking over the running of the British association football club Aston Villa F.
Nicholas Palace Nicholas Palace (Russian: Nikolayevsky dvorets, НиколаевŃкий дворец) was one of several St Petersburg palaces designed by Andreas Stackensneider (1802-65) for the children of Nicholas I of Russia. The palace of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaievich of Russia forms part of a sprawling complex incorporating a palacial church, a manege, and several outbuildings separated from Labour Square by a cast-iron fence.
Nicholas Pavlovich Ignatiev Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev (Russian: Николай Павлович Đгнатьев) (17 January Old Style (29 January on Western calendar) 1832 – 20 June Old Style (3 July on Western calendar) 1908) was a Russian statesman and diplomat. During his career he was sometimes at odds with another Corps of Pages alumni, Count Pyotr Shuvalov.
Nicholas Payton Nicholas Payton (born September 26, 1973) is a jazz trumpet player from New Orleans, Louisiana. The son of bassist and sousaphonist Walter Payton, he took up the trumpet at the age of four and by the time he was nine he was playing in the Young Tuxedo Brass Band alongside his father.
Nicholas Perricone Nicholas Perricone (IPA pronunciation: ) is a dermatologist who has written several books, primarily on the subjects of weight loss and maintaining the appearance of youth. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, from which he also received his MD.
Nicholas Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers Nicholas Addison Phillips, Baron Phillips of Worth Matravers, PC (born 21 January 1938) is a British judge who was Master of the Rolls from 2000 to 2005 and has been Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales since 1 October 2005.
Nicholas Pieck Nicholas Pieck was the son of John Pieck and Henriea Clavia, devout Catholics. He was sent to college at Bois-le-Duc, and as soon as he had completed his classical studies he received the habit of the Friars Minor at the convent in that town.
Nicholas Pileggi Nicholas Pileggi (born February 22, 1933 in New York City, New York) is an American author and screenwriter, best known for writing the book Wiseguy, which he adapted into the movie Goodfellas, and for writing the book and screenplay Casino. The movie versions of both were directed by Martin Scorsese.
Nicholas Piramal Nicholas Piramal India Limited (Nicholas Piramal India Limited (NPIL) is India's second largest Pharmaceutical Healthcare company is a leader in the Cardio-vascular segment. It has a strong presence in Antibiotics and Respiratory segments, Pain management, Neuro-psychiatry and Anti-Diabetics segments.
Nicholas Purcell of Loughmoe Nicholas Purcell, Baron of Loughmoe (1652 – 4 March 1722) was the nephew of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde. A member of the King's Privy Council, Purcell was the right hand man of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan.
Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz (born November 28, 1970) is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He writes and teaches in the fields of constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and federal jurisdiction.
Nicholas reaction The Nicholas reaction is an organic chemical reaction where a propargylic cation is stabilized by condensation with Hexacarbonyl Di-Cobalt. The propargylic group is then more susceptible to attack by a Nucleophile.
Nicholas Remy Nicholas Remy (aka RĂ©my and Remigius) (1530 - 1616) was a French magistrate who became famous as a hunter of witches comparable to Jean Bodin and De Lancre. After studying law at the University of Toulouse Remy practice in Paris from 1563 to 1570.
Nicholas Rescher Nicholas Rescher (born July 15, 1928 in Hagen, Germany) is an American philosopher, affiliated for many years with the University of Pittsburgh, where he is currently University Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Center for the Philosophy of Science. He is among the most prolific of contemporary scholars, having written about 400 articles and 100 books, over a dozen of which have been translated into other languages, ranging over many areas of philosophy.
Nicholas Robinson Nicholas Robinson is an Irish author, historian, solicitor and poltical cartoonist. He is the husband of Mary Robinson, the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and former President of Ireland.
Nicholas Roerich Nicholas Roerich, (October 9, 1874 - December 13, 1947) also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh (Russian: Николай КонŃтантинович Рёрих), was a Russian painter and spiritual teacher. He was the father of Tibetologist George Roerich (a.
Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia Nicholas Romanovich Romanov or Nikolai Romanovich Romanov (Николай Романович Романов), (born September 13, 1922) is the President of the Romanov Family Association. He styles himself His Highness Prince Nicholas Romanovich of Russia and claims to be a member of the Imperial House of Romanov.
Nicholas Roosevelt Nicholas Isaac Roosevelt (1767 - 1854), a member of the distinguished New York family of Dutch descent, was a major investor in Upstate New York land. He and his brother John sold a large tract of land in Oswego County, New York, for instance, to Geroge Scriba in 1793 (now the Town of Scriba).
Nicholas Rowe (actor) Nicholas James Sebastian Rowe is an English actor. He has appeared in numerous movies, television programs and theatre plays, though he is most recognized as Sherlock Holmes in Steven Spielberg production Young Sherlock Holmes.
Nicholas Rudall D. Nicholas Rudall is Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Committees on General Studies in the Humanities and Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1966.
Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell Nicholas Lyulph Russell, 6th Earl Russell (born 12 September 1968), styled Viscount Amberley between 1987 and 2004, is the elder son of Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell. He succeeded to the Earldom of Russell on his father's death on 13 October 2004.
Nicholas Salos of Pskov Nicholas Salos of Pskov (Russian: Николай СалоŃ) was a Russian self-styled prophet ("Fool-for-Christ") in opposition of czar Ivan IV's oprichnina. In 1570, Ivan IV retailated by raiding Pskov.
Nicholas Sand Nicholas "Nick" Sand was a underground chemist and "alchemist to the Neo-American Church" at the Millbrook estate in New York state. Sand spent time as a fugitive in Canada, and served prison time in Canada and the United States from 1996 to 2000 for the manufacture of psychedelic drugs including, but not limited to, MDMA, MDA, DMT, LSD, and mescaline.
Nicholas Seafort Nicholas Ewing "Nick" Seafort (4 September 2177- ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of David Feintuch's Seafort Saga series of novels. All the books of the series with the exception of Voices of Hope and Children of Hope are written in the first person from Seafort's point of view, and give a detailed insight into the charter's motivation.
Nicholas Shackleton Sir Nicholas John Shackleton FRS (23 June 1937—24 January 2006) was a British geologist and climatologist who specialised in the Quaternary Period. He was the great-nephew of the explorer Ernest Shackleton and the son of the noted geologist Robert Millner Shackleton.
Nicholas Shaffer Nicholas Shaffer is an American television and film actor. He has appeared in such TV shows as LAX, Coach, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Murder, She Wrote and films such as Intolerable Cruelty and the comedy film spoof Pearl Harbor II: Pearlmageddon.
Nicholas Sheehy Nicholas Sheehy (1728 - 1766) was an 18th century Irish Roman Catholic priest who was executed on charge of accessory to murder. Father Sheehy was a prominent opponent of the British Penal Laws, which persecuted Catholics in Ireland.
Nicholas Schaffner Nicholas Schaffner (January 28 1953 – August 29 1991) was an American non-fiction author, journalist, and singer-songwriter. As an author, his works include the biographies The Beatles Forever and A Saucerful of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey as well as the children's book The Boys from Liverpool: John, Paul, George, Ringo.
Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences is one of seven graduate and professional schools at Duke University. A secondary facility is maintained in the coastal town of Beaufort, North Carolina.
Nicholas Soames Arthur Nicholas Winston Soames, known as Nicholas Soames or Fatty Soames, (born 12 February 1948) is a British Conservative politician. He is Member of Parliament for Mid Sussex and was Minister of State for the Armed Forces.
Nicholas Spano Nicholas Spano represented District 35 in the New York State Senate until 2007. Formerly the Senior Assistant Majority Leader, Senator Spano was first elected in 1986, and served on the Rules, Transportation, Finance, Education, Health, and Racing, Gaming, and Wagering committees in addition to chairing the Senate Investigations Committee.
Nicholas Spanos Nicholas Spanos hypothesized that the behaviors associated with hypnosis are acted out knowingly by the person. He believes that all acts that are performed are done under the complete control of the hypnotized person.
Nicholas Stern Sir Nicholas Stern, FBA (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic. He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and is now a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom.
Nicholas Street Gaol The Nicholas Street Gaol was the main jail of Ottawa, Canada for over a century. The structure at 75 Nicholas Street was built as the Carleton County Gaol in 1862 next door to the court house to which it was connect by a tunnel.
Nicholas Stryk Nicholas John Stryk (born December 17, 1896 in western Ukraine; died 1950) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1941 to 1945, and again from 1949 until 1950.
Nicholas Stuart Gray Nicholas Stuart Gray (October 23, 1922, Scotland - March 17, 1981) was a British actor and playwright, perhaps best known for his work in children's theatre in England. He was also an author of children's fantasy; he wrote a number of novels, a dozen plays, and many short stories.
Nicholas Tate Dr. Nicholas Tate is a historian who was educated at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and at the universities of Bristol and Liverpool and currently is the Director General of the International School of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland.
Nicholas Throckmorton Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (or Throgmorton) (c. 1515/1516 – 12 February, 1571) was an English diplomat and politician, who was an ambassador to France and played a key role in the relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots.
Nicholas Tongue Walter Nicholas ("Nick") Henry Tongue (born April 8, 1973 in Auckland) is a former freestyle swimmer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia for his native country.
Nicholas Tower Nicholas Tower, situated on Independence Square, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago is the tallest building in the English-speaking Caribbean. It has an elliptical floor plate and stands 21Chouti, Sandra, Changing the face of PoS, Trinidad Guardian, February 9, 2006.
Nicholas von Hoffman Nicholas von Hoffman is an American journalist and author of German-Russian extraction, descendant of Melchior Hoffman and son of Carl von Hoffman. He became famous as a columnist for the Washington Post and later well-known to TV audiences as a "Point-Counterpoint" commentator for CBS's 60 Minutes, from which he was fired by Don Hewitt in 1974.
Nicholas Van Dyke (governor) Nicholas Van Dyke (September 25 1738 – February 19 1789) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, as a Continental Congressman from Delaware, and as President of Delaware.
Nicholas Van Dyke (senator) Nicholas Van Dyke (December 8, 1770 – May 21, 1826) was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, Delaware. He was a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly, and as U.
Nicholas Vardy Nicholas Vardy is Managing Director at London based Hayek Capital Management. He is also editor of The Global Guru, a weekly e-letter with over 70,000 subscribers, as well as Global Bull Market Alert, a weekly trading service, published by Washington DC based Eagle Publishing.
Nicholas Victor Louis Oudinot-Odinet Nicholas Victor Louis d'Oudinot-Odinet, Marquis d'Odinet (born August 16, 1863; died February 20, 1927) was born in Bordeaux, France a grand-nephew of Napoleon's Marshal Oudinot, Duc de Reggio of a junior branch of the Oudinot family of the French Nobility (Odinet). He was married to Eugenie d'Esting and had four children.
Nicholas Webster Nicholas Webster (24 July 1912 — 12 August 2006) was an American film and television director. Chiefly remembered for his CBS program The Violent World of Sam Huff (1960; featuring the first use of a wireless microphone on television); the ABC Close Up documentary Walk in My Shoes (1961), nominated for an Emmy as the best television program of the year it was the first time the story of African American]s was told in their own words on television; Purlie Victorious (1963; also known as Gone Are the Days), the film version of [[Ossie Davis' acclaimed stage play starring Davis, Ruby Dee, and Alan Alda in his first film role); and the feature film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), a children's favorite for more than 40 years and noteworthy to trivia buffs as Pia Zadora's first film.
Nicholas Whitlam Nicholas Richard Whitlam born 6 December 1945, is an Australian businessman, the son of former Prime Minister Edward Gough Whitlam and Margaret Whitlam. He first became publicly prominent in 1981 when he was appointed chief executive of the State Bank of New South Wales Subsequent roles include an investment banking partnership with Malcolm Turnbull, Whitlam Turnbull & Co, and the chairmanship of the NRMA Group, NRMA.
Nicholas Winterton Sir Nicholas Raymond Winterton, (born March 31, 1938, Rugeley, Staffordshire) is a British politician, and Conservative Member of Parliament for Macclesfield. Sir Nicholas undertook his National Service 1957-1959 and was commissioned into the 14/20 Kings Hussars serving in Germany.
Nicholas Winton Sir Nicholas Winton MBE (born May 19 1909) is a Briton who organized the rescue of 669 Jewish Czech children from their doomed fate in the Nazi death camps prior to the outbreak of World War II in an operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.
Nicholas Wolterstorff Nicholas Wolterstorff (born January 21, 1932 in Bigelow, Minnesota) is the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, and Fellow of Berkeley College at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theological interests, he has written books on metaphysics, aesthetics, political philosophy, epistemology and theology and philosophy of religion.
Nicholas Wotton Nicholas Wotton (c.1497 – January 261567), English diplomat, was a son of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, and a descendant of Nicholas Wotton, lord mayor of London in 1415 and 1430, and member of parliament for the city from 1406 to 1429.
Nicholas Young (executive) Nicholas Efram Young (September 12 1840 - October 31 1916) was an American executive, manager and umpire in professional baseball who served as president of the National League from 1885 to 1902. Born in Amsterdam, New York at Johnson Hall, the estate of Sir William Johnson, he served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and later was employed in the U.
Nicholaus von Below Nicolaus von Below (1907 – 1983) was Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant from 1937 through 1945. Von Below, with the rank of colonel, was one of the few of Hitler's entourage to continually serve in close capacity for so many years.
Nichole Robinson Nichole Robinson, also known as Nichole Mercedes Robinson, is an African American actress and model. She has had a recurring role on the Showtime television series Huff, and before that appeared in roles that showcased her bikini body beauty with a supporting role in the 2003 movie Love Don't Cost a Thing and as one of the 3 main girls (along with Jaime Pressly and Kim Smith) in the Aerosmith video for their single Girls of Summer off of the O, Yeah!
Nichols cap guns Though there were many famous cap gun companies like George Schmidt, Hubley, Kenton, Kilgore, Wyandotte, and others, one of the enduring companies which attracts a lot of toy collectors was the toy cap gun company in Texas, Nichols Industries-later Nichols Industries, Inc.
Nichols plot A Nichols plot is a graph used in signal processing in which the logarithm of the magnitude is plotted against the phase of a frequency response on orthogonal axes. This plot combines the two types of Bode plot — magnitude and phase — on a single graph, with frequency as a parameter along the curve.
Nichols radiometer A Nichols radiometer is the apparatus used by Nichols and Hull in 1901 for the measurement of radiation pressure. It consisted of a pair of small silvered glass mirrors suspended in the manner of a torsion balance by a fine quartz fibre within an enclosure in which the air pressure could be regulated.
Nichols' Regiment of Militia Nichols' Regiment of Militia also known as the 5th New Hampshire Militia Regiment was called up on July 21, 1777 at Winchester, New Hampshire for Gen. John Stark's Brigade gathering at Charlestown, New Hampshire during the Saratoga Campaign.
Nicholson Baker Nicholson Baker (born January 7, 1957) is a contemporary American novelist, whose writings focus on minute inspection of the narrator's stream of thought. His unconventional novels deal with topics like voyeurism and planned assassination, but generally de-emphasize traditional aspects of plot.
Nicholson Museum The Nicholson Museum houses the University of Sydney's collection of antiquities, one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. It is located at the southern entrance to the Quadrangle of the Main Campus of the University of Sydney.
Nicholson Road, Perth Nicholson Road is a major north-south road in the southeastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting Albany Highway in Cannington with the large residential areas of Thornlie and Canning Vale, before leaving the Perth urban area and terminating in Oakford. Until the construction of Kwinana Freeway to Thomas Road in 1993, Nicholson Road was one of southern Perth's most important routes.
Nichrome Nichrome is a brand name for nickel-chromium resistance wire, a non-magnetic alloy of nickel and chromium. A common alloy is 80% nickel and 20% chromium, but there are many others to accommodate various applications or lower cost.
Nichya Nichya (Ничья in Russian Cyrillic; translates as "No one's"), is a singing/songwriting/producing duet made up of Elena Kiper and Oleg Borschevskiy. They have released two singles and one album so far in their blossoming career.
Nii Lamptey Nii Odartey Lamptey (born December 16, 1974) is a Ghanaian football player. He is known foremost for his erratic career, in which he became a superstar as a teenager and then suffered a long string of failures which burnt him out well before his time.
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