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Niger (other)
Niger is a country in Western Africa. Niger may also refer to: Places * Niger River, a river in West Africa * Niger State, the largest state in Nigeria * Niger River (Tomifobia River tributary), a river in Estrie, Quebec, Canada * Niger Vallis, a valley on Mars that appears to have been carved by water * 8766 Niger, an asteroid People Given name * Niger Innis (born 1968), American political consultant and strategist Surname * Simeon Niger, a person in the Book of Acts in the New Testament * Pescennius Niger ( – 194), Roman usurper * Sextius Niger, Roman writer on pharmacology during the reign of Augustus * Ermoldus Nigellus or Niger (fl. 824–830), a poet at the court of Pippin of Aquitaine * Dub, King of Scotland (died 967), called Niger * Ralph Niger ( – ), Anglo-French theologian and Archdeacon of Gloucester * Roger Niger (died 1241), Bishop of London * Peter Georg Niger (1434–1481/1484), Dominican theologian, preacher and controversialist * Shmuel Niger (1883 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niger
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Ralph Niger
Ralph Niger, Latin Radulphus Niger or Radulfus Niger, anglicized Ralph the Black (c. 1140 – c. 1217), was an Anglo-French theologian and one of the English chroniclers. He was from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, and became Archdeacon of Gloucester. From around 1160 to 1166, Niger studied in Paris, where he was a student of John of Salisbury and Gerard la Pucelle, and, at some point in his life, probably also in Poitiers. At Paris, he may also have been a teacher of rhetoric and dialectics. Niger was part of Thomas Becket's entourage during the latter's exile in France in the early 1160s and played an important role in connecting the exiled archbishop with Pope Alexander III's German ally Conrad of Mainz. After the reconciliation between Henry II and Becket, he was employed by the king, but he left England for France after Becket's murder in 1170. After Henry's death in 1189, he returned to England, where he became a canon in Lincoln. Works Apart from several theological works, Nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigar (other)
Nigar may refer to: * Nigar Awards, the oldest Pakistani film awards * ''Nigar'' (magazine), Pakistan-based entertainment magazine * Nigâr, a character in Karagöz and Hacivat plays Given name * Nigar Arpadarai (born 1982), Azerbaijani politician and businesswoman *Nigâr Hanım, Turkish poet *Nigar Hasan-Zadeh, Azerbaijani poets * Nigar Jamal, Azerbaijani singer **Eldar & Nigar, Azeri pop duo which includes Nigar Jamal * Nigaar Khan, Indian television actress *Nigar Nazar, Pakistani cartoonist * Nigar Rafibeyli, Azerbaijani writer * Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani nurse * Nigar Sultana (actress), Indian actress *Negar Khan, Norwegian-Iranian actress Places *Nigar, alternate name of Negar, a city in Iran *Nigar, alternate name of Negar-e Bala, a village in Iran See also * Nigga * Nigger (other) * Niger (other) * Nigra (other) Nigra may refer to: Geography * Castelnuovo Nigra, a comune (municipality) in the Province of Turin in the Italian region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigeria (other)
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Nigeria is a country in West Africa. Nigeria or Nigerian may also refer to: * Nigeria national football team *Colonial Nigeria * Languages of Nigeria *Nigerian cuisine * Nigerian Pidgin * 45619 Nigeria, a British LMS Jubilee Class locomotive * , a light cruiser of the Royal Navy completed early in World War II * NNS ''Nigeria'', an Algerine-class minesweeper of the Nigerian Navy from 1959 to 1962 period * NNS ''Nigeria'', a frigate of the Nigerian Navy, entering service in 1965 * ''Nigeria'' (Grant Green album) * ''Nigeria'' (Oluyemi Thomas album) See also * Nigerian scam * Nigerian American *Nigerian Breweries *Nigerian Canadians * *Niger (other) Niger is a country in Western Africa. Niger may also refer to: Places * Niger River, a river in West Africa * Niger State, the largest state in Nigeria * Niger River (Tomifobia River tributary), a river in Estrie, Quebec, Canada * Niger Valli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigga
''Nigga'' () is a colloquial and vulgar term used in African-American Vernacular English that began as a dialect form of the word ''nigger'', an ethnic slur against black people. The word is commonly associated with hip hop music and African-American gang culture. In dialects of English (including standard British English) that have non-rhotic speech, ''nigger'' and ''nigga'' are often pronounced the same. Usage The use of ''nigger'' non-pejoratively within the black community was documented in the 1912 novel ''The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man'' by James Weldon Johnson, in which he recounted a scene in New York City around the turn of the century: I noticed that among this class of colored men the word "nigger" was freely used in about the same sense as the word "fellow," and sometimes as a term of almost endearment; but I soon learned that its use was positively and absolutely prohibited to white men. There is conflicting popular opinion on whether there is any me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guizotia Abyssinica
''Guizotia abyssinica'' is an erect, stout, branched annual herb, grown for its edible oil and seed. Its cultivation originated in the Eritrea, Eritrean and Ethiopian highlands, and has spread to other parts of Ethiopia. Common names include noog/nug (Ethiopian Semitic languages, Ethio-Semitic and Languages of Eritrea, Eritrean ኑግ ''nūg'' or ኒህዩግ ''nihyug''); niger, nyger, or nyjer seed (all pronounced ); ramtil or ramtilla; inga seed; and blackseed. Seed Native to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Malawi, niger seeds are also grown in India. Niger seeds resemble sunflower seeds in shape, but are smaller in size and black. It bears a fairly thick, adherent seed coat and can be stored for up to a year without deterioration. Niger seed contains proteins, oil and soluble sugars. Noug has been described as semi-domesticated, self-incompatible crop with yellow flowering heads and seeds Recent studies have used molecular markers to reveal the genetic diversity of some noug populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niger-class Frigate
The ''Niger''-class frigates were 32-gun sailing frigates of the fifth rate produced for the Royal Navy. They were designed in 1757 by Sir Thomas Slade Sir Thomas Slade (1703/4–1771) was an English naval architect, most famous for designing HMS ''Victory'', Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Early life He was the son of Arthur Slade (1682–1746) and his wife Hannah ..., and were an improvement on his 1756 design for the 32-gun s. Slade's design was approved in September 1757, on which date four ships were approved to be built to these plans - three by contract and a fourth in a royal dockyard. Seven more ships were ordered to the same design between 1759 and 1762 - three more to be built by contract and four in royal dockyards. ''Stag'' and ''Quebec'' were both reduced to 28-gun sixth rates in 1778, but were then restored to 32-gun fifth rates in 1779. Ships in class * ** Ordered: 19 September 1757 ** Built by: Thomas Stanton & Company, Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Niger
Seven ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS ''Niger'' after the Niger River, whilst another was planned. * was a 33-gun fifth rate launched in 1759, reduced to sixth rate, converted to a prison ship in 1810, and renamed ''Negro'' in 1813. She was sold in 1814. * was a 38-gun fifth rate, launched in 1813 and broken up in 1820. * was a wood screw sloop launched in 1846 and sold in 1869. * was a composite paddle vessel launched in 1880, renamed ''Cockatrice'' in 1881, ''Moorhen'' in 1896, and sold in 1899. * was a torpedo gunboat launched in 1892, converted to a minesweeper in 1909, and sunk in 1914 by the German submarine near Deal. * was a launched in 1936 and sunk by a mine near Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ... in 1942. * HMS ''Niger'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shmuel Niger
Shmuel Niger (also Samuel Niger, pen name of Samuel Charney, 1883-1955) was a Yiddish writer, literary critic and historian and was one of the leading figures of Yiddish cultural work and Yiddishism in pre-revolution Russia. Life Shmuel Niger was born Shmuel Ṭsharni on 15 June 1883 in Dukora, a small village in Minsk Governorate, to Zev Volf and Brokhe Tsharni (née Hurwitz). His father, a fervent Lubavitcher Hasid, died in 1889, leaving Shmuel’s mother a widow with five sons (he being the fourth) and a daughter.Leyb Vaserman, "Niger, Shmuel,” in ''Leksikon fun der nayer yidisher literatur'', vol. 6, cols. 190–210 (New York, 1965) Niger’s two younger brothers also achieved renown. Baruch Charney Vladeck (1886–1938) became a leading socialist agitator and theoretician, general manager of ''The Jewish Daily Forward'' and New York City alderman while Daniel Charney (1888–1959) was a celebrated Yiddish poet, writer and journalist. Niger was a child prodigy, studying Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Georg Niger
Peter Nigri ( Latinized from Schwartz), known also as Peter George Niger (b. 1434 at Kaaden in Bohemia; d. between 1481 and 1484), was a Dominican theologian, preacher and controversialist. Life He studied at different universities (Salamanca, Montpellier, Bologna, etc.) and entered the Dominican Order in 1452 at Eichstätt, Bavaria. After his religious profession he took up philosophy and theology at Leipzig, where he also produced his first literary work ''De modo praedicandi'' (1457). In 1459 he defended publicly in Freiburg a series of theses so successfully that the provincial chapter then in session there sent him to the University of Bologna for advanced courses in theology and canon law. Recalled after two years, he was made lector of theology and engaged in teaching and preaching. In 1465 he taught philosophy and was regent of studies in Cologne; in 1467 taught theology at Ulm; in 1469 or 1470 was elected prior in Eichstätt, on 31 May 1473, the newly founded Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Niger
Roger Niger (died 1241) was a thirteenth-century cleric who became Bishop of London. He is also known as Saint Roger of Beeleigh. Life In 1192 Niger was named a canon of St Paul's Cathedral, London, and he held the prebend of Ealdland in the diocese of London. In 1218 he was promoted to Archdeacon of Colchester.Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Archdeacons: Colchester' He was elected Bishop of London in 1228, and was consecrated bishop on 10 June 1229.Fryde, et al. ''Handbook of British Chronology'' p. 258Greenway Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London: Bishops' Niger died on 29 September 1241 or on 2 October 1241 and during his burial in Old St Paul's Cathedral, there was an eclipse of the sun. There was a tomb memorial to him in the quire there. His heart was taken to Beeleigh Abbey near Maldon in Essex. Both sites became places of pilgrimage and he was referred to as a saint, although no formal canonisatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dub, King Of Scotland
Dub mac Maíl Coluim ( Modern Gaelic: ''Dubh mac Mhaoil Chaluim'', ), sometimes anglicised as Duff MacMalcolm, called ''Dén'', "the Vehement" and, "the Black" (born c. 928 – died 967) was king of Alba. He was son of Malcolm I and succeeded to the throne when Indulf was killed in 962. While later chroniclers such as John of Fordun supplied a great deal of information on Dub's life and reign, and Hector Boece in his 'The history and chronicles of Scotland' tell tales of witchcraft and treason, almost all of them are rejected by modern historians. There are very few sources for the reign of Dub, of which the Chronicle of the Kings of Alba and a single entry in the Annals of Ulster are the closest to contemporary. The Chronicle records that during Dub's reign bishop Fothach, most likely bishop of St Andrews or of Dunkeld, died. The remaining report is of a battle between Dub and Cuilén, son of king Ildulb. Dub won the battle, fought "upon the ridge of Crup", in which Duchad, ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
