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Necker Island Standing Stones
Necker may refer to: * Necker (surname) * ''Necker'' (ship), several ships * Necker (Thur), a tributary of the River Thur in Switzerland * Neckerchief, cloth worn round the neck * Necker cube, optical illusion * Necker Island (Hawaii) * 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 real estate, ... * Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital See also * Neker (other) * Neckar (other) * Neckertal, Switzerland, from the valley of the Necker {{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 *Suzanne Curchod, 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 (December 25 1730 – 30 December 1793), German 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 term ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thur (Rhine)
The Thur is a river in north-eastern Switzerland and a tributary of the High Rhine (). Name The name was first attested in 886 A.D. as Dura. In the 13th century, the spelling Turia appears, and in the 14th century Thûr, Tûr. The name has been interpreted as an Old European hydronymy, Old European hydronym, from *durâ or *duriâ “river” from the Indo-European root *dhu “to run, to hurry”. Turgowe, a village in the Duchy of Alamannia, was named after a body of water. The first mention of the village is slightly older than the earliest mention of the body of water. Around 745, it was cited in the village of Durgaugen. This led to the eventual naming of the canton as Thurgau. Course The river's source is near Wildhaus in the south-east of the Toggenburg region in the cantons of Switzerland, canton of canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, south of Säntis mountain (Alpstein). Near Unterwasser, it forms Thur waterfalls, two waterfalls. Subsequently, it flows mainly nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neckerchief
A neckerchief (from ''neck'' (n.) + ''kerchief''), also kerchief, scarf, and bandana, 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. History Terracotta Army The figures of the Terracotta Army, dating from the 3rd century BCE, are notable for prominently featuring neckerchiefs, as each of the approximately 7,500 statues is depicted wearing one. This detail is particularly unusual, as no comparable artistic or sculptural evidence of neck cloths appears in Chinese or other world cultures for many centuries thereafter. Contemporary Chi ... [...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. With the cube on the left, most people see the lower-left face as being in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Necker Island (Hawaii)
Necker Island ( "branched island") is a small uninhabited 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 real estate, 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 in the eastern section of the British Virgin Islands, about north of Virgin Gorda and northeast of Prickly Pear (British Virgin Islands), 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 southeast of Miami, Florida, due east of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and about northwest of Saint Barthélemy, St. Barts. History The island was named after the 17th-century Dutch squadron commander Jonathan de Neckere. It remained uninhabited until the late 20th cen ... [...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 Staël and wife of Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's finance minister. 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 in ... [...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 (; , ) 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 provinces, Belgian province of Liège (province), Liège. The river ... See also * Necker (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neckar (other)
Neckar is river in Germany. Neckar may also refer to: * Neckar (car) NSU-Fiat was a German automobile manufacturer which produced Fiat vehicles under license at a plant acquired from NSU in Heilbronn from 1929 to 1957, and between 1957 and 1971 as Neckar Automobilwerke AG. In 1957, following a complicated litig ..., produced in Heilbronn, Germany * Neckář, Czech surname See also * Necker (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
