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People

• Nimrod (king) or Nemrod or Namrood, a Mesopotamian king mentioned in the Bible, an eponym for the location
• Pseudonym of Charles James Apperley (1777–1843), English sportsman and author

In the Bible and in legend, Nimrod (Standard Hebrew נִמְרוֹד Nimrod, Tiberian Hebrew נִמְרֹד Nimrōḏ), son of Cush, son of Ham, son of Noah, was a Mesopotamian monarch and a mighty hunter before the Lord. He is mentioned in the Table of Nations (Genesis 10), in the First Book of Chronicles, and... An eponym is the name of a person, whether real or fictitious, which has (or is thought to have) given rise to the name of a particular place, tribe, discovery or other item. ... Charles James Apperley (1777-May 19, 1843), English sportsman and sporting writer, better known as Nimrod, the pseudonym under which he published his works on the chase in the turf, was born at Plasgronow, near Wrexham, in Denbighshire, in 1777. ...

Places

• Nimrud, an ancient city in Mesopotamia, originally built at some time before 2200BC, and becoming the capital of Assyria in the 13th century BC
• Nimrod Fortress, on Golan Heights
• Nimrod, Israel, a village on Golan Heights
• Nimrod, Minnesota
• Nimrod, Oregon
• Mount Nimrod, in Maungati, New Zealand

Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris. ... Mesopotamia refers to the region now occupied by modern Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and Southwest Iran. ... Relief from Assyrian capital of Dur Sharrukin, showing transport of Lebanese cedar (8th century BC) In the earliest historical times, the term Assyria (Syriac:ܐܬܘܖ̈) referred to a region on the Upper Tigris river, named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur. ... A section of the Nimrod Fortress The Nimrod Fortress (Arabic: Qalaat al-Subeiba or Qalaat Namrud; Hebrew: Mivtzar Nimrod מבצר נמרוד), is an ancient fortress situated in the northern Golan Heights, on a ridge rising some 800 metres (2600 feet) above sea level. ... view of Mount Hermon from the village Nimrod is a small Jewish village in the Golan heights on the southern slopes of mount Hermon. ... Nimrod is a city located in Wadena County, Minnesota. ... Nimrod is an unincorporated community in Lane County, Oregon, United States, on the McKenzie River. ... Mount Nimrod is a mountain standing 6 km SSE of Mount Saunders in the Dominion Range. ...

Military aircraft

• Hawker Nimrod, a 1930s British fighter aircraft
• Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod, a Royal Air Force maritime patrol aircraft now supported by BAE Systems

The Hawker Nimrod was a British carrier-based fighter aircraft built between the First and Second World Wars. ... The BAE Systems (formerly Hawker-Siddeley) Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft is derived from the De Havilland Comet, the worlds first jet airliner. ... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ...

Other

• The Nimrods, a mascot for Watersmeet Township, Michigan's schools featured in ESPN advertisements.
• Nimrod (ship), the ship used by Ernest Shackleton during his 1908 Antarctic expedition
• The 9th variation in the composition Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar
• nimrod., an album by Green Day
• Nimrod (Doctor Who), a villain in Doctor Who audio plays
• Nimrod (comics), a fictional robot mutant hunter originating from Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men
• Nimrod (dracula), a vampire from the black-and-white Marvel Comics Dracula Lives! series
• Nimrod (computing), early computer to play Nim
• Nimrod (distributed computing), tools for distributed parametric modelling
• Nimrod (font), a serif typeface and font designed for early laser printing
• A song by Pixies called Nimrod's Son
• Nimrod Gaunt, a character from Philip Kerr's Children of the Lamp
• Nimrod (band), thrash metal band based in Uppsala, Sweden
• Nimrod (slang), a silly or foolish person
• Nimrod (synchrotron), 8 GeV proton synchrotron which operated at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory until 1978.
• 9.3X82 RWG Nimrod, a black powder cartidge dating back to the 1890s. It was designed for use in a single-shot rifle for game the size of small deer.
• Nimrod (person), a fictional character from an episode of Hogan's Heroes - Hogan made the Germans think that Colonel Klink was Nimrod - an undercover British spy so that they would trade him for the head of the underground.
• Nimrod (television), the name of the railroad car used by Jim West and Artemus Gordon in the television series The Wild Wild West[1].

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