Nimrod
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Nimrod may refer to:
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[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Military aircraft
- Hawker Nimrod, a 1930s British fighter aircraft
- Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod, a Royal Air Force maritime patrol aircraft now supported by BAE Systems
[edit] 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 Heros - Hogan made the Germans think that Col Klink was Nimrod - an undercover British spy so that they would trade him for the head of the underground.
