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2 unusual facts about Adam Egede-Nissen


Adam Egede-Nissen

In Toronto he enlisted in the anti-Nazi struggle and was sent first to Reykjavík and later to New York City.

Having qualified as a medical doctor in 1858 and having been active as a military physician in the Italian liberation struggle led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, by 1863 the father was practicing medicine in Tromsø; by 1867 he was a commissioned officer with the rank of major and was a regimental surgeon stationed with the army at Levanger.


Frisian literature

Also the North Frisian mainland produced authors in Frisian language such as Johannes Hansen from the Bredstedt area or Moritz Momme Nissen from Enge.

Frithjof M. Plahte

Through his mother's lineage he was a first cousin of Erika (Nissen), Ida and Thomasine Lie, and a nephew of Erik Røring Møinichen.

Generación de la Ruptura

Prominent members of the movement include José Luis Cuevas, Vicente Rojo Almazan, Roger von Gunten, Alberto Gironella, Vlady, Juan Soriano, Lilia Carrillo, Arnaldo Coen, Pedro Coronel, Enrique Echeverria, Manuel Felguérez, Fernando Garcia Ponce, Brian Nissen, Gabriel Ramirez, Kazuya Sakai and Gustavo Arias Murueta.

Johan Nissen

During this time Johan Nissen became lifelong friends with the Danish illustrator Thomas Warming and Documentary film director Tao Nørager

Margret Nissen

Nissen had no contact with her father who was released from Spandau Prison in October 1966.

Mark Muñoz

Muñoz was one of the chosen few to be relocated to WEC's sister promotion—which is also owned and produced by Zuffa—along with light heavyweight champion Steve Cantwell, light heavyweight contenders Brian Stann and Steve Steinbeiss and middleweight contenders Chael Sonnen and Nissen Osterneck.

Medical device

A 2011 study by Dr. Diana Zuckerman and Paul Brown of the National Research Center for Women and Families, and Dr. Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that most medical devices recalled in the last five years for “serious health problems or death” had been previously approved by the FDA using the less stringent, and cheaper, 510(k) process.

Nissen hut

A Nissen hut is a prefabricated steel structure, made from a half-cylindrical skin of corrugated steel.

Peter Norman Nissen

Nissen was born in the United States (North Carolina or New York?) in 1871 to a Norwegian father (Georg H. Nissen of Bergen, Norway) and English mother (Lavina Litch).

Sparkwell Naval Camp

The Naval camp consisted of 20 Nissen-type huts for the soldiers' living quarters, a NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institute) canteen which was also used as a cinema and sometimes a dance hall as well as a sick bay with a morgue.

Steven Nissen

Starting with linked COX-2 inhibitors, such as Vioxx (rofecoxib) in 2001, Nissen was one of the first physicians to link it to an increased risk of heart attacks and strokes.

The Flying Sorcerers

Pull'nissen god of duels - Poul Anderson, a founding member of the Society for Creative Anachronism; he was a Knight of the SCA, therefore skilled in one-on-one combat.


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