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Niger (other)
Niger is a landlocked 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 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niger
Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state Geography of Niger#Political geography, bordered by Libya to the Libya–Niger border, north-east, Chad to the Chad–Niger border, east, Nigeria to the Niger–Nigeria border, south, Benin and Burkina Faso to the Benin-Niger border, south-west, Mali to the Mali–Niger border, west, and Algeria to the Algeria–Niger border, north-west. It covers a land area of almost , making it the largest landlocked country in West Africa and the second-largest landlocked nation in Africa behind Chad. Over 80% of its land area lies in the Sahara. Its Islam in Niger, predominantly Muslim population of about million lives mostly in clusters in the south and west of the country. The capital Niamey is located in Niger's south-west corner along the namesake Niger River. Following the spread of Islam to the region, Niger was on the fringes of some states, including the Kanem–Bornu Empire ... [...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 canonisa ... [...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 * Negar (name), a Persian feminine 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 * Nigar Johar, only female general in Pakistan Army history * Nigaar Khan, Indian television actress * Nigar Nazar, Pakistani cartoonist * Nigar Rafibeyli, Azerbaijani writer * Nigar Shikhlinskaya, Azerbaijani nurse * Nigar Sultana (other) ** Nigar Sultana (actress), Indian actress * Negar Khan, Norwegian-Iranian actress in Indian cinema 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 (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigeria (other)
Nigeria is a country in West Africa. Nigeria or Nigerian may also refer to: *Nigeria national football team, the national men football team in Nigeria *Colonial Nigeria, British Colony and pretatorate *Languages of Nigeria, languages spoken in Nigeria *Nigerian cuisine, culinary traditions of Nigeria *Nigerian Pidgin, English-based creole languages * 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, a Nigerian brewing company * Nigerian Canadians * *Niger (other) Niger is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Niger may also refer to: Places * Niger River, a river in West Africa * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigga
''Nigga'' (), also known as "''the N-word''", is a colloquial term in African-American Vernacular English that is considered as a vulgar word in most contexts of its use. It began as a dialect form of the word ''nigger'', an ethnic slur against black people. As a result of reappropriation, today the word is used mostly by African-Americans in a largely non-pejorative sense as a slang term referring to another person or to themselves, often in a neutral or friendly way. The word is commonly associated with hip hop culture and since the 1990s, with gangs (especially in popular culture). The word is more often applied to men, with more select terms being used for women in the culture. In dialects of English that have non-rhotic speech (including standard British English), the hard-r ''nigger'' and ''nigga'' are usually 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-C ... [...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 Eritrean and Ethiopian highlands, and has spread to other parts of Ethiopia. Common names include noog/nug ( Ethio-Semitic and Eritrean ኑግ ''nūg'' or ኒህዩግ ''nihyug''); ramtil or ramtilla; niger or nyger seed (all pronounced ); inga seed; and blackseed. Noug has been described as semi-domesticated, self-incompatible crop with yellow flowering heads and seeds. Recent studies have revealed the regional genetic diversity of some noug populations grown in Ethiopia based on RAPD and AFLP markers. 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. Niger seeds are used ... [...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 The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom .... They were designed in 1757 by Sir Thomas Slade, 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 32-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 a Nordic countries, Nordic island country between the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between North America and Europe. It is culturally and politically linked with Europe and is the regi ... in 1942. * HMS ''Niger'' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toma Niger
Toma Niger (; or ; – ) was a Croatian humanist, diplomat, bishop of Skradin, and at the end of his life he served as the bishop of Trogir. He committed most of his life to diplomacy, trying to help crumbling Kingdom of Croatia against the Ottoman Empire. Life Toma was born in Split (at the time Spalato, part of the Republic of Venice) between 1450 and 1460. Although his father was an eminent citizen of Split who carried a title "ser", he was of common birth. Toma had brother Kristofor and a sister, whose son was also named Kristofor. He took the name "Niger/Nigris" probably as a Latinisation of his surname "Mrčić", as it was the fashion in humanism. He was probably educated in Split, and later in Italy. From 1487 he was professor of grammar in Hvar and Split. Around 1499 he became archdeacon and vicar of the archbishop of Split. Toma participated in the Fifth Council of the Lateran in 1512 as a secretary of the archbishop of Split, Bernardo Zanne. In the same year, Toma ... [...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 third) 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, studyin ... [...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] |
Ralph Niger
Ralph Niger, Latin Radulphus Niger or Radulfus Niger, anglicized Ralph the Black (c. 1140 – c. 1199), was an Anglo-French theologian and one of the English chroniclers. Little is known about Niger's early life. From around 1160 to 1166, he 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, Niger wrote two chronicles in Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
