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Necker Hospital For Sick Children
Necker may refer to: * Necker (surname) * ''Necker'' (ship), several ships * Neckerchief, cloth worn round the neck * Necker cube, optical illusion * Necker Island (Hawaii) * Necker Island (British Virgin Islands) * Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital See also *Neker (other) Neker may be: *an Old Swedish name for the nix water spirits *a Limburgish name for the river Jeker The Jeker (; french: Geer, ) is a river in Belgium and in the Netherlands. It is a left-bank tributary to the river Meuse. The source of the Jeker ... * Neckar (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necker (surname)
Necker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Jacques Necker (1732–1804), French-Swiss banker, and French Minister of Finance under Louis XVI *Madame Necker (1737–1794), French-Swiss salonist and writer. Wife of Jacques Necker. * Louis Albert Necker (1786–1861), Swiss crystallographer * Albertine Necker de Saussure (1766–1841), Swiss writer and educationalist *Noël Martin Joseph Necker Noel or Noël may refer to: Christmas * , French for Christmas * Noel is another name for a Christmas carol Places *Noel, Missouri, United States, a city *Noel, Nova Scotia, Canada, a community * 1563 Noël, an asteroid * Mount Noel, Britis ... (December 25 1730 – 30 December 1793), Belgian physician, and botanist. Fictional characters: * Evelyn Necker, character from the Marvel UK imprint of Marvel Comics {{surname, Necker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necker (ship)
Several vessels have been named ''Necker'' (or ''Neckar''), probably for the French statesman Jacques Necker. * was a French privateer operating out of Dunkirk. She made several cruises before she was herself captured early in 1781. *''Necker'' was a French privateer that in late 1781 or early 1782 captured ''Jamaica Packet'' after a severe engagement that lasted two hours in which ''Jamaica Packet'' suffered three men killed and two wounded. ''Jamaica Packet'' had been sailing from Quebec to Jamaica when captured and her captor sent her into Port-au-Prince. *''Necker'' or ''Neker'' was an armed transport that captured off the Cape of Good Hope on 25 October 1781. The British Royal Navy commissioned her as . She disappeared, presumed foundered, circa December 1781 on her way from Saint Helena to the East Indies. * was a French whaler A whaler or whaling ship is a specialized vessel, designed or adapted for whaling: the catching or processing of whales. Terminology The te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neckerchief
A neckerchief (from ''neck'' (n.) + ''kerchief''), sometimes called a necker, kerchief or scarf, is a type of neckwear associated with those working or living outdoors, including farm labourers, cowboys and sailors. It is most commonly still seen today in the Scouts, Girl Guides and other similar youth movements. A neckerchief consists of a triangular piece of cloth or a rectangular piece folded into a triangle. The long edge is rolled towards the point, leaving a portion unrolled. The neckerchief is then fastened around the neck with the ends either tied or clasped with a slide or woggle. Naval Neckerchiefs worn by sailors are shaped like a square, and are folded in half diagonally before rolling, with rolling occurring from the tip of the resulting triangle to its hypotenuse. Either neckerchief is then placed on the wearer's back, under or over the shirt collar with the ends at the front of the wearer. The rolled ends then pass around the neck until they meet in front of it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necker Cube
The Necker cube is an optical illusion that was first published as a Rhomboid in 1832 by Swiss crystallographer Louis Albert Necker. It is a simple wire-frame, two dimensional drawing of a cube with no visual cues as to its orientation, so it can be interpreted to have either the lower-left or the upper-right square as its front side. Ambiguity The Necker cube is an ambiguous drawing. Each part of the picture is ambiguous by itself, yet the human visual system picks an interpretation of each part that makes the whole consistent. The Necker cube is sometimes used to test computer models of the human visual system to see whether they can arrive at consistent interpretations of the image the same way humans do. Humans do not usually see an inconsistent interpretation of the cube. A cube whose edges cross in an inconsistent way is an example of an impossible object, specifically an impossible cube (compare Penrose triangle). With the cube on the left, most people see the lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necker Island (Hawaii)
Necker Island, in Hawaiian Mokumanamana ("Branched Island"), is a small island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is located at in the Pacific Ocean, northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, northwest of Nihoa, and north of the Tropic of Cancer. It is part of the State of Hawaii in the United States. It contains important prehistoric archaeological sites of the Hawaiian culture and is part of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge within the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The United States Census Bureau reports Necker Island's land area as . [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)
Necker Island is a island in the British Virgin Islands just north of Virgin Gorda. The island is entirely owned by Sir Richard Branson, chairman of the Virgin Group, and is part of the Virgin Limited Edition portfolio of luxury properties. The whole island operates as a resort and can accommodate up to 40 guests, with additional room for six children. Location Necker Island is located at latitude 18.55 north and longitude 64.35 west in the eastern section of the British Virgin Islands. It is about north of Virgin Gorda and north-east of Prickly Pear Island and also Mosquito Island (sometimes spelled Moskito Island), which is also owned by Branson. The British Virgin Islands (BVI) are a group of islands about south-east of Miami, Florida, due east of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and about north-west of St. Barts. History The island was named after the 17th-century Dutch squadron commander Jonathan de Neckere. It remained uninhabited until the late 20th century. In 1965, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital
The Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital ( ) is a French teaching hospital in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. It is a hospital of the Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris group and is affiliated to the Université Paris Cité. Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital was created in 1920 by the merger of Necker Hospital (), which was founded in 1778 by Suzanne Necker, with the physically contiguous Sick Children's Hospital (), the oldest children's hospital in the Western world, founded in 1801. History The ''Hôpital Necker'' was founded in 1778 by Madame Necker, born Suzanne Curchod, mother of Madame de Stael and wife of Jacques Necker, minister of Louis XVI. Jacques Necker was a leader in the movement to reform crowded hospitals by building smaller treatment centers closer to the patients' neighborhoods. Madame Necker subsequently remodeled an old monastery into the hospital, which prior to the French Revolution was known as the Hospice de Charité. It was a Catholic institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neker (other)
Neker may be: *an Old Swedish name for the nix water spirits *a Limburgish name for the river Jeker The Jeker (; french: Geer, ) is a river in Belgium and in the Netherlands. It is a left-bank tributary to the river Meuse. The source of the Jeker is near the village of Geer, in the Belgian province of Liège. The river is approximately long, ... See also * Necker (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
