Nestor
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- Nestor (mythology)Nestor (mythology)In Greek mythology, Nestor of Gerenia was the son of Neleus and Chloris and the King of Pylos. He became king after Heracles killed Neleus and all of Nestor's siblings...
, the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris in Greek mythology - "Nestor", a chapter in the novel UlyssesUlysses (novel)Ulysses is a novel by the Irish author James Joyce. It was first serialised in parts in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December 1920, and then published in its entirety by Sylvia Beach on 2 February 1922, in Paris. One of the most important works of Modernist literature,...
by James Joyce - Nestor StudiosNestor StudiosThe Nestor Motion Picture Company was a motion picture studio/production company located in Bayonne, New Jersey, and Hollywood, California, which was owned and operated by David Horsley and his brother, William Horsley....
, first-ever motion picture studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles - Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas DonkeyNestor, The Long-Eared Christmas DonkeyNestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey is a Christmas television special produced in stop motion animation by Rankin-Bass. It was first aired in 1977, and its plot is similar to an earlier Rankin-Bass special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.- Plot :...
, a Christmas television program - A fictional race in the movie Battle Beyond the StarsBattle Beyond the StarsBattle Beyond the Stars is a Roger Corman-produced science fiction film, directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and released in 1980. The film, intended as a "Magnificent Seven in outer space," is a pastiche of The Magnificent Seven, the Western remake of Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai...
Fictional characters
- Nestor (Tintin character)Nestor (Tintin character)Nestor is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the series of classic Belgian comic books written and illustrated by Hergé. He is the long-suffering butler of Marlinspike Hall....
, from The Adventures of Tintin series of comic books by Hergé - Nestor BurmaNestor BurmaNestor Burma is a fictional character created by French crime novelist Léo Malet. In the series of crime novels featuring him one can isolate a subset of novels each set in a different quarter of Paris which Malet dubbed the "New Mysteries of Paris", homaging the most famous feuilleton of the 19th...
, created by French crime novelist Léo Malet - Nestor, a character in the animated television series Shorty McShorts' ShortsShorty McShorts' ShortsShorty McShorts' Shorts is a Disney Channel animated anthology series, which consists of 5-minute shorts. The first episode aired on July 28, 2006. In Latin America, it is broadcast on Jetix.- Summary :...
- Néstor, a fictional penguin from the film Happy FeetHappy FeetHappy Feet is a 2006 American-Australian computer-animated family film with music, directed and co-written by George Miller. It was produced at Sydney-based visual effects and animation studio Animal Logic for Warner Bros., Village Roadshow Pictures and Kingdom Feature Productions and was released...
- A nickname of NS-series robots in the series of short-stories and film I, RobotI, RobotI, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950. The stories are...
- Prince Nestor, a character in the animated television series World of QuestWorld of QuestWorld of Quest is an animated series based on the graphic novel story by Jason Kruse published by Komikwerks . The series was created by Cookie Jar Entertainment, and was animated by Mercury Filmworks East, for season 1. Season 2 was produced by Vancouver's Atomic Cartoons...
- Nestor Willow, a character in the Caprica television series
People and names
- Nestor (surname)Nestor (surname)Nestor is an Irish surname.The original form of the name was Mac Girr an Adhastair, meaning son of the short man of the bridle. It was sometimes shortened to Mac an Adhastair. It may have originated from an ancestor responsible for a chief's horse.The surname is most common in County Galway and...
, anglicised form of Mac an Adhastair, and Irish family - Nestor (given name)Nestor (given name)Nestor is a given name of Greek origin. It comes from that of the son of Neleus, the King of Pylos and Chloris in Greek mythology.- People with the name :** Nestor the Chronicler , reputed author of the earliest East Slavic chronicle...
, a name of Greek origin, from Greek mythology- Nestor the ChroniclerNestor the ChroniclerSaint Nestor the Chronicler was the reputed author of the Primary Chronicle, , Life of the Venerable Theodosius of the Kiev Caves, Life of the Holy Passion Bearers, Boris and Gleb, and of the so-called Reading.Nestor was a monk of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev from 1073...
(c.1056-c.1114), reputed author of the earliest East Slavic chronicle - Nestor of Magydos or Saint Nestor, Christian saint
- Nestor of ThessalonikiNestor of ThessalonikiNestor of Thessaloniki was a companion of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki . St. Nestor's feast day is celebrated on October 27.Having been moved to act against the mighty Lyeios , a most feared gladiator who mocked and tormented the Christians in the arena, Nestor went to see the imprisoned St....
, another saint - NestoriusNestoriusNestorius was Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to 22 June 431.Drawing on his studies at the School of Antioch, his teachings, which included a rejection of the long-used title of Theotokos for the Virgin Mary, brought him into conflict with other prominent churchmen of the time,...
(c.386–c.451), Patriarch of Constantinople, 428-431
- Nestor the Chronicler
Science and technology
- Nestor (genus)Nestor (genus)The genus Nestor is the only genus of the Nestorini tribe. Together with the Kakapo in the Strigopini tribe, they form the small parrot family Strigopidae. The genus Nestor contains two extant parrot species from New Zealand and two extinct species from Norfolk Island, Australia and Chatham...
, a genus of parrots in ornithology - NESTOR ProjectNestor ProjectThe NESTOR Project is an international scientific collaboration whose target is the deployment of a neutrino telescope on the sea floor off Pylos, Greece.-Neutrino:...
, an international scientific collaboration for the deployment of a neutrino telescope - NESTOR (encryption), a family of voice encryptionEncryptionIn cryptography, encryption is the process of transforming information using an algorithm to make it unreadable to anyone except those possessing special knowledge, usually referred to as a key. The result of the process is encrypted information...
devices used by the United States during the Vietnam War era
Other uses
- NestorasNestorasNestor is a former municipality in Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Pylos-Nestor, of which it is a municipal unit. Population 5,552 . The seat of the municipality was in Chora....
, a municipality in Messenia, Greece - Nestor (solitaire)Nestor (solitaire)Nestor is a Patience game where the object is the removal of pairs.- Rules :Cards are dealt into eight columns of six cards. They are dealt in such a way that no two cards in the same column have the same rank...
, a card game - HMS NestorHMS NestorThree ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Nestor, after Nestor, a figure in Greek mythology: was a 28-gun sixth rate, formerly the French privateer Franklin. She was captured in 1781 and sold in 1783. was an Admiralty M-class destroyer launched in 1915 and sunk during the Battle of...
, the name of three ships of the Royal Navy - A West Cornwall Railway steam locomotive
- NestorianismNestorianismNestorianism is a Christological doctrine advanced by Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 428–431. The doctrine, which was informed by Nestorius's studies under Theodore of Mopsuestia at the School of Antioch, emphasizes the disunion between the human and divine natures of Jesus...
, a doctrine that Jesus exists as two persons, one divine and the other human