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3 unusual facts about Nimrod


HMS Nimrod

During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars the Admiralty also made use of hired armed cutters with the name of Nimrod.

Nimrod

However, in another version, the Homilies (H 9.4-6), Nimrod is made to be the same as Zoroaster.

Remote, Oregon

Like Oregon communities Nimrod and Boring, Remote is often cited on lists of odd place names.


British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3

The scandal over the collapse of the Nimrod AEW project was a major factor in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's stance to open up the UK defence market to competition.

Canaanism

Some of the artists who took after the movement were the sculptor Yitzhak Danziger (whose Nimrod became a visual emblem of the Canaanite idea), novelist Benjamin Tammuz, writer Amos Kenan, novelist and translator Aharon Amir, thinker and linguist Uzzi Ornan and many others.

Henry Thomas Alken

He created prints for the leading sporting printsellers such as S. and J. Fuller, Thomas McLean, and Rudolph Ackermann, and often collaborated with his friend the sporting journalist Charles James Apperley (1779–1843), also known as Nimrod.

Minnesota State Highway 227

Minnesota State Highway 227 is a highway in north-central Minnesota, which runs from its intersection with U.S. Highway 71 and Wadena County Road 8 in Sebeka and continues east to its eastern terminus at its intersection with Wadena County Roads 12 and 14 in Nimrod near the Crow Wing River.

Nimrod Islands

The Nimrod Islands were a group of islands first reported in 1828 by Captain Eilbeck of the ship Nimrod while sailing from Port Jackson around Cape Horn.

Nimrod Kovacs

Nimrod Kovacs (born October 27, 1949) after finishing his Masters, started out as an Ad Man on Madison Avenue, continued on as a Cable Guy in Denver, worked around the world setting up and managing Cable, Media and Telecom businesses, till retiring to his native city of Budapest.

Upon the sale of United to Tele-Communications Inc., Nimrod became a partner with the Schneiders in United International Holdings Inc. (UIH) and together focused on cable TV greenfield investments, mostly in Europe.

Nimrod Racing Automobiles

For 1982, with the evolved NRA/C2, Nimrod Racing would turn to the IMSA GT Championship in North America due to EMKA Racing taking over Aston Martin's factory-backed efforts in Europe with their own car.

Operation Kedem

The Irgun force commanded by Yehuda Lapidot (Nimrod) was to break through at The New Gate, Lehi to break through the wall stretching from the New Gate and the The Jaffa Gate, and the Beit Horon Battalion to strike from Mount Zion.

Project Lazarus

At the Forge on Dartmoor, Nimrod conducts a terrible experiment on the Doctor, attempting to force him to regenerate by electrocution.

Purifiers

Finally, the Purifiers obtained advanced weaponry included fully automatic rifles, anti-tank weapons and Vibranium-based weaponry to aid them in their crusade, and specially targeted Wallflower and Dust, the two mutants the Nimrod data showed would be instrumental in the defeat of the Purifiers.

Raphèl maí amèche zabí almi

With other mythological giants, Nimrod forms a ring surrounding the central pit of Hell, a ring that Dante from a distance mistakes as a series of towers which he compares to those of Monteriggioni (40–45).

Robert Marion Berry

Berry also made headlines when he called Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Florida) a "Howdy Doody looking nimrod" while on the House floor.

Silvius I Nimrod, Duke of Württemberg-Oels

Silvius I Nimrod, Duke of Württemberg-Oels (2 May 1622, Weiltingen – 24 April 1664, Brzezinka in Silesia) was the first Oels-Wuerttemberg.

The Matlock Paper

Its protagonist, James Barbour Matlock, is an English professor in his 30s who is recruited by the Department of Justice to investigate a drug smuggling ring, led by a mysterious figure named "Nimrod." The novel is set at the fictitious Carlyle University in Connecticut, a thinly disguised Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ludlum's alma mater.


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