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Nichola Wirth
Nicola or Nichola is a Latinised version of the Greek language, Greek personal name ''Nikolaos'' (Νικόλαος), derived from the ''Nike (goddess), nikē'' meaning "victory", and ''laos'' meaning "people", therefore implying the meaning "victory of the people". Nicola is both a male and female name, depending on cultural norms. Nicola was a frequently given male personal name among the traditional Italian nobility, and was used often in the Middle Ages.''The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints'', compiled by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, 1275. First edition published 1470. The spelling Nikola is widely used in Slavic languages, Slavic language speaking areas. The English language, English form of the same name is Nicholas, with Nicolas (given name), Nicolas common in French and Spanish-speaking countries, and Nicolau in Portuguese-speaking countries. Nicola has been used as a female name since at least 1150 (the birth date of Lady Nicola de la Haie) and contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic languages, Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the list of languages by first written accounts, longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importance in the European canon. Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolette (other)
Nicolette may refer to: People Given name * Nicolette (musician) (born 1964), a UK singer/songwriter of Nigerian parentage * Nicolette Bethel, Bahamian teacher, writer and anthropologist * Nicolette Boele, Australian political candidate * Nicolette Fernandes (born 1983), Guyanese squash player * Nicolette Fraillon (born 1960), Australian conductor * Nicolette Hellemans (born 1961), former international rower from the Netherlands * Miss Florida USA, Nicolette Jennings (born 1996), American model, beauty pageant titleholder, Miss Florida USA 2019, and Top 10 Miss USA 2019 * Nicolette Krebitz (born 1972), German actress * Nicolette Larson (1952–1997), American singer * Nicolette Palikat (born 1985), Malaysian singer from Tambunan, Sabah * Nicollette Sheridan (born 1963), British actress Surname * Mike Nicolette (born 1956), American professional golfer Other uses * Nicolette (album), ''Nicolette'' (album), a 1978 album release by Nicolette Larson * Nicolette (novel), ''Nicolette'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Boem
Nicola Boem (born 27 September 1989) is an Italian former racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2013 and 2017, all for the team. He competed in the Giro d'Italia five times, winning Stage 10 of the 2015 Giro d'Italia in solo fashion after attacking his breakaway companions. Major results ;2007 : 2nd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2009 : 2nd Giro del Belvedere : 5th Coppa San Geo ;2010 : 1st Stage 6 Giro della Valle d'Aosta : 3rd Trofeo Franco Balestra : 8th Giro del Belvedere ;2011 : 1st Giro del Belvedere : 2nd Trofeo Franco Balestra : 3rd Overall Giro del Veneto e delle Dolomiti : 5th Overall Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay : 6th Trofeo Edil C ;2012 : 2nd Coppa San Geo : 2nd Trofeo Edil C ;2014 : 1st Stage 6 Danmark Rundt ;2015 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 10 ::Held after Stages 10–12 ;2017 : 1st Sprints classification Dubai Tour The Dubai Tour was an annual professional road bicycle racing race stage, stage race held in Dubai, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Blackwood-Bate
Nicola Claire Blackwood, Baroness Blackwood of North Oxford (born 16 October 1979) is a British politician of the Conservative Party. Baroness Blackwood was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Oxford West and Abingdon from 2010 to 2017. She has also been known by her married name Nicola Blackwood-Bate since 2016. Early life Blackwood was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, but has lived in the UK since she was two months old. She is the daughter of a medical doctor and a nurse. Blackwood was given a flute aged six, which led to a lifelong interest in music, later learning to sing and play the piano. At 14 she enrolled at the Trinity School of Music. She studied music at St Anne's College, Oxford and Somerville College, Oxford, and later studied for an MPhil degree in musicology at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Parliamentary career Blackwood was chosen as the Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Oxford West and Abingdon at an open primary on 13 November 2006. Bound ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Best
Nicola G. "Nicky" Best is a statistician known for her work on the deviance information criterion in Bayesian inference and as a developer of Bayesian inference using Gibbs sampling. She is a former professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at Imperial College London and is currently a biostatistician for GlaxoSmithKline. Education and career Best earned a master's degree in medical statistics from the University of Leicester in 1990 and then a PhD in biostatistics from the University of Cambridge, supervised by David Spiegelhalter. She joined the Imperial College faculty in 1996. She moved from Imperial to GlaxoSmithKline in 2014. She was editor-in-chief of the ''Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society)'', from 2001 to 2004. Recognition Best won the Guy Medal in Bronze of the Royal Statistical Society The Royal Statistical Society (RSS) is an established statistical society. It has three main roles: a British learned society for statist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Berti
Nicola Berti (; born 14 April 1967) is an Italian former Association football, footballer, who played as a midfielder. Berti's career spanned three decades, during which he played for several clubs: after beginning his career with Parma AC, Parma, he played with ACF Fiorentina, Fiorentina, and in particular Inter Milan, where he became an important figure in the club's midfield, winning a Serie A title and three UEFA Cups. After his time in Italy, he ended his career with spells in England, Spain, and Australia, at Tottenham Hotspur F.C., Tottenham, Alavés, and North West Sydney Spirit FC, Northern Spirit respectively. A dynamic, tenacious, and hard-working player, he was also regarded as a linchpin for the Italy national football team during the late 1980s and the early 1990s, notably reaching the final of the 1994 FIFA World Cup with Italy, and finishing in third place in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, 1990 edition on home soil. Club career Born in Salsomaggiore Terme, Berti star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Benedetti
Nicola Joy Nadia Benedetti (born 20 July 1987) is a Scottish classical solo violinist and festival director. Her ability was recognised when she was a child, including the award of BBC Young Musician of the Year when she was 16. She works with orchestras in Europe and America as well as with Alexei Grynyuk, her regular pianist. Since 2012, she has played the Gariel Stradivarius violin. In 2019, she founded the music education charity The Benedetti Foundation and became the first woman to lead the Edinburgh International Festival when she was made Festival Director on 1 October 2022. Early life and education Benedetti was born in West Kilbride, North Ayrshire, Scotland, to an Italian father and an Italian-Scottish mother. She has an older sister, Stephanie, who is also a violinist and a member of the pop group Clean Bandit. She started to play the violin at the age of four with lessons from Brenda Smith. At eight, she became the leader of the National Children's Orch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Barr
Nicola Barr (born 13 June 1996) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the AFL Women's competition. Early life Barr was born in Melbourne but spent most of her early years living outside of Australia. Barr's family settled in Sydney when she was 14. She began playing football while in year ten at Queenwood on Sydney's North Shore. She was selected to play in the AFL youth girls national competition in 2014. Barr played soccer at an elite level as a junior. Amateur career Barr plays state-league football with North Shore in the Sydney Women's AFL (SWAFL). In 2016, Barr won the league's Rising Star award as the best young player in the league. The following season she won the Mostyn Medal as the best and fairest player in the SWAFL. Barr represented the Sydney Swans academy in an AFL exhibition match in April 2016, winning best on ground honours. AFL Women's career Barr was drafted by with the first overall selection in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Asuni
Nicola Asuni (born 4 January 1973, in Cagliari) is a former Italian sprinter. Biography Nicola Asuni won two medals with the national relay team at the International athletics competitions. Achievements National titles Nicola Asuni has won just one time the national championship A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or competition, contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the be .... *1 win in 4×100 metres relay (1998) See also * Italy national relay team References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Asuni, Nicola 1973 births Sportspeople from Cagliari Athletes from Sardinia Italian male sprinters Living people Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Italy Athletes (track and field) at the 1991 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in athletics Athletics competitors of Centro Sportivo Carabinieri 20th-c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Amoruso
Nicola Amoruso (born 29 August 1974) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward. An elegant, technically gifted, and agile forward, known for his delicate touch on the ball and use of feints, he usually played in a central role; his nicknames were ''piede caldo'' (Hot Foot) and ''Dinamite'' (Dynamite), due to his eye for goal. He is currently the sporting director of Palermo. Club career Early years Amoruso grew up in the Sampdoria youth system, and made his Serie A debut on 12 December 1993, in a 2–0 away defeat to Inter Milan. During his first season with the club he won the Coppa Italia, scoring three goals in eight appearances throughout the competition. He has also later played with Fidelis Andria (1994–95) and Padova (1995–96). Juventus and loans Amoruso joined Juventus in 1996; he scored four goals in Juventus's 1996–97 UEFA Champions League campaign, including one each in both of the semifinal legs against Ajax. He only came o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Adams
Nicola Virginia Adams OBE (born 26 October 1982) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2017 to 2019. She retired with an undefeated record and held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) female flyweight title in 2019. As an amateur, she became the first female boxer to become an Olympic champion after winning gold at London 2012, and the first double Olympic champion following a second gold medal at Rio 2016, both in the flyweight division. As of 27 May 2016 she was the reigning Olympic, World and European Games champion at flyweight, and won the entire set of amateur championships available to her – Olympic, Commonwealth and European Games' titles, and the World, European and European Union championships. Early life Adams was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, on 26 October 1982. She was educated at Agnes Stewart Church of England High School, Ebor Gardens, Burmantofts, Leeds. She also went to Hopwood Hall College in Rochdale. Amateur career File:Nicol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Abbagnano
Nicola Abbagnano (; 15 July 1901 – 9 September 1990) was an Italian existential philosopher. Life Nicola Abbagnano was born in Salerno on 15 July 1901. He was the first-born son of a middle-class professional family. His father was a practicing lawyer in the area. He studied in Naples, and in November 1922 obtained a degree in philosophy, his thesis that became the subject of his first book ''Le sorgenti irrazionali del pensiero'' (1923). His mentor was Antonio Aliotta. In the following years, he taught philosophy and history at the Liceo Umberto I°, in Naples, and from 1917 to 1936 he was the professor of philosophy and pedagogy in the Istituto di Magistero Suor Orsola Benincasa. At the same time, he actively contributed as secretary of editorial staff to the review of ''Logos,'' edited by his mentor Aliotta. From 1936 to 1976 he was a full professor of History of Philosophy, and then in 1939 he was appointed to a full-time professorship at the Faculty of Letters and philos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
