Nestor may refer to:
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Nestor (mythology)
In Greek mythology Nestor of Gerenia ( grc, Νέστωρ Γερήνιος, ''Nestōr Gerēnios'') was a legendary king of Pylos. He is a prominent secondary character in Homer's ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'', where he appears as an elderly warrior ...
, King of Pylos in Greek mythology
Arts and entertainment
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"Nestor" (''Ulysses'' episode) an episode in James Joyce's novel ''Ulysses''
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Nestor Studios
The Nestor Film Company, originally known as the Nestor Motion Picture Company, was an American motion picture production company. It was founded in 1909 as the West Coast production unit of the Centaur Film Company located in Bayonne, New Jersey ...
, first-ever motion picture studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Nestor, the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey'', a Christmas television program
Geography
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Nestor, San Diego
Nestor is a residential neighborhood in the South San Diego, southern section of San Diego, and part of the Otay Mesa-Nestor community planning area. It neighbors Palm City, San Diego, Palm City and Otay Mesa West, San Diego, Otay Mesa West to ...
, a neighborhood of San Diego, California
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Mount Nestor (Antarctica) Mount Nestor may refer to:
* Mount Nestor (Antarctica), a mountain in the Achaean Range of Antarctica
* Mount Nestor (Alberta), a mountain in Alberta, Canada
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, in the
Achaean Range
Achaean Range () is a mountain range rising to in the central part of Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago. It is bounded on the east by Iliad Glacier and Trojan Range and on the west by Marr Ice Piedmont, and extends northwest from Mount A ...
of Antarctica
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Mount Nestor (Alberta), a mountain in Alberta, Canada
People
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Nestor (surname), anglicised form of Mac an Adhastair, an Irish family
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Nestor (given name), a name of Greek origin, from Greek mythology
Science and technology
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''Nestor'' (genus), a genus of parrots
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NESTOR Project, an international scientific collaboration for the deployment of a neutrino telescope
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NESTOR (encryption)
NESTOR was a family of compatible, tactical, wideband secure voice systems developed by the U.S. National Security Agency and widely deployed during the Vietnam War through the late Cold War period of the 1980s. NESTOR consists of three syst ...
, a family of voice encryption devices used by the United States during the Vietnam War era
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659 Nestor, an asteroid
Ships
* , three ships of the Royal Navy
** , a Second World War Royal Australian Navy destroyer which remained the property of the British Royal Navy
* , a number of ships of this name
* , an LNG carrier
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''Nestor'' (sternwheeler), a steamboat that operated in Oregon and Washington State
Other uses
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Nestor (solitaire), a card game
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Tropical Storm Nestor The name Nestor has been used for two tropical cyclones worldwide.
In the Atlantic Ocean:
* Tropical Storm Nestor (2019), a short lived tropical storm that affected the Southeastern United States.
In the Western Pacific Ocean:
* Typhoon Nestor (1 ...
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Typhoon Nestor (1997)
The 1997 Pacific typhoon season was a record-breaking season featuring 11 tropical cyclones reaching super typhoon intensity, tying the record with 1965 with the most violent tropical cyclones globally. It has no official bounds; it ran year-roun ...
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West Cornwall Railway
The West Cornwall Railway was a railway company in Cornwall, Great Britain, formed in 1846 to construct a railway between Penzance and Truro. It purchased the existing Hayle Railway, and improved its main line, and built new sections between Pen ...
steam locomotive
See also
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Dniester
The Dniester, ; rus, Дне́стр, links=1, Dnéstr, ˈdⁿʲestr; ro, Nistru; grc, Τύρᾱς, Tyrās, ; la, Tyrās, la, Danaster, label=none, ) ( ,) is a transboundary river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and th ...
, a river in Eastern Europe
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Nester (disambiguation)
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Nestori, a given name
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Nestorianism
Nestorianism is a term used in Christian theology and Church history to refer to several mutually related but doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings. The first meaning of the term is related to the original teachings of Christian theologian ...
, a Christian theological doctrine condemned as heretical at the Council of Ephesus in 431
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Nestorius
Nestorius (; in grc, Νεστόριος; 386 – 451) was the Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to August 431. A Christian theologian, several of his teachings in the fields of Christology and Mariology were seen as controve ...
, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople 428–431
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