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Nelson

Definition: Nelson

Nelson

Noun

1. English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805).

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"Nelson" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a champion", "a cloud".

Date "Nelson" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1776. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Horatio Nelson

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Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (September 29, 1758 - October 21, 1805), in full "Vice Admiral of the White Sir Horatio Nelson, K.B., 1st Viscount Nelson of the Nile, Baron Nelson of the Nile" (in addition to these British titles he was also "Duke of Bronte in Sicily", "Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Ferdinand and of Merit", and "Knight of the Imperial Turkish Order of the Crescent"), was a British naval officer, responsible for several notable checks to Napoleon Bonaparte.

Horatio Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England to the Reverend Edmund Nelson and Catherine Suckling Nelson. His mother died when Nelson was nine. He learnt to sail on Barton Broad on the Norfolk Broads, and by the time he was twelve, he had enrolled in the Royal Navy. His naval career began on January 1, 1771, when as a midshipman he reported to the warship Raissonable, commanded by his maternal uncle. In 1777 he was a lieutenant, assigned to the West Indies, during which time he saw action on the British side of the American Revolutionary War. By the time he was 20, in June 1779, he made captain; the frigate Hitchenbroke was his first command.

In 1781 he was involved in an action against the Spanish fortress of San Juan in Nicaragua. A success, the efforts involved still damaged Nelson's health to the extent that he returned to England for more than a year. He eventually returned to active duty and was assigned to the Albemarle, in which he continued his efforts against the American rebels until the official end of the war in 1783.

In 1784, Nelson was given command of the 28-gun Boreas, and assigned to enforce the Navigation Act in the vicinity of Antigua. This was during the denouement of the American Revolutionary War, and enforcement of the act was problematic -- now-foreign American vessels were no longer allowed to trade with British colonies in the Caribbean Sea, an unpopular rule with both the colonies and the Americans. After seizing four American vessels off Nevis, Nelson was sued by the captains of the ships for illegal seizure. As they were supported by the merchants of Nevis, Nelson was in peril of imprisonment and had to remain sequestered on Boreas for eight months. It took that long for the courts to deny the captains their pound of flesh, but in the interim Nelson met Fanny Nesbit, a widow native to Nevis, whom he would marry on March 11, 1787 at the end of his tour of duty in the Caribbean.

Nelson lacked a commission starting in 1789, and lived on half pay for several years. But as the French Revolution began to export itself outside of France's borders, he was recalled to service. Given the 64-gun Agamemnon in 1793, he soon started a long series of battles and engagements that would seal his place in history.

He was first assigned to the Mediterranean, based out of the Kingdom of Naples. In 1794 he was shot in the face during a joint operation at Calvi, Corsica, which cost him the sight in his right eye -- his left eye suffered from the additional burden, and Nelson was slowly going blind up until his death; he would often wear a patch over his good eye to protect it.

In 1796, the command-in-chief of the fleet in the Mediterranean passed to Sir John Jervis, who tapped Nelson to be his commodore -- the captain of Jervis' flagship, HMS Captain.

1797 was a full year for Nelson. On February 14, he was largely responsible for the British victory at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. In the aftermath, Nelson was knighted a member of the Order of the Bath (hence the postnominal initials "K.B."). In April of the same year he was promoted to Rear Admiral of the Blue, the sixth highest rank in the Royal Navy. Later in the year, during an unsuccessful expedition to capture a treasure ship at Santa Cruz de Tenerife, he was shot in the right elbow with a musketball. He lost the lower half of his arm, and was unfit for duty until mid-December.

The next year, Nelson was once again responsible for a great victory over the French. The Battle of the Nile (also known as the Battle of Abukir Bay) took place on August 1, 1798, and as a result, Napoleon's ambition to take the war to the British in India came to an end. The forces Napoleon had brought to Egypt were stranded, and Napoleon himself had to be smuggled back to France. For this spectacular victory, Nelson was granted the title of Baron Nelson of the Nile (Nelson felt cheated that he was not awarded a greater title; Sir John Jervis had been made Earl St. Vincent for his part in that battle, but the British Government insisted that an officer not commander-in-chief could not be raised to any peerage higher than a barony).

Not content to rest on his laurels, he then rescued the Neapolitan royal family from a French invasion in December. During this time, he fell in love with Emma Hamilton -- the young wife of the elderly British ambassador to Naples. She became his mistress, returning to England to live openly with him, and eventually they had a daughter, Horatia. Some have suggested that a head wound he received at Abukir Bay was partially responsible for that conduct, and for the way he conducted the Neapolitan campaign -- due simultaneously to his English hatred of Jacobins and his status as a Neapolitan royalist (he had been made Duke of Bronte in Sicily by the King of Naples in 1799) -- now considered something of a disgrace to his name.

In 1799 he was promoted to Rear Admiral of the Red, the fifth highest rank in the Royal Navy. He was then assigned to the Foudroyant. In July, he aided with the reconquest of Naples, and was made Duke of Bronte by the Neapolitan king. His personal problems, and upper-level disappointment at his professional conduct caused him to be rotated back to England, but public knowledge of his affection for Lady Hamilton eventually induced the Admiralty to send him back to sea if only to get him away from her.

On January 1, 1801, he was promoted to Vice Admiral of the Blue (the fourth highest rank). Within a few months he was involved in the Battle of Copenhagen (April 2, 1801), which nullified the fleet of the Danes, in order to break up the armed neutrality of Denmark, Sweden and Russia. The action was considered somewhat underhanded by some, and in fact Nelson had been ordered to cease the battle by his commander Sir Hyde Parker. In a famous incident, however, he claimed he could not see the signal flags conveying the order, pointedly raising his telescope to his blind eye. His action was approved in retrospect, and in May he became commander-in-chief in the Baltic Sea, and was awarded the title of Viscount Nelson of the Nile by the British crown.

Napoleon was amassing forces to invade England, however, and Nelson was soon placed in charge of defending the English Channel to prevent this. However, on October 22 an armistice was signed between the British and the French, and Nelson -- in poor health again -- retired to England where he stayed with his friends, Sir William and Lady Hamilton.

The Peace of Amiens was not to last long though, and Nelson soon returned to duty. He was appointed commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean, and assigned to the HMS Victory. He joined the blockade of Toulon, France, and would not again set foot on dry land for more than two years. After the French fleet slipped out of Toulon and headed for the West Indies, a stern chase failed to turn them up and Nelson's health forced him to retire to Merton in England.

Within two months his ease ended. On September 13, 1805 he was called upon to oppose the French and Spanish fleets, which had managed to join up and take refuge in the harbour of Cadiz, Spain.

On October 21, 1805, Nelson engaged in his final battle, the Battle of Trafalgar. Napoleon Bonaparte had been massing forces once again for the invasion of the British Isles. On the 19th, the French and Spanish fleet left Cadiz, intent on clearing the Channel for this purpose. Nelson, with twenty-seven ships, engaged the thirty-three opposing ships.

His last dispatch, written on the 21st, read:

At daylight saw the Enemy's Combined Fleet from East to E.S.E.; bore away; made the signal for Order of Sailing, and to Prepare for Battle; the Enemy with their heads to the Southward: at seven the Enemy wearing in succession. May the Great God, whom I worship, grant to my Country, and for the benefit of Europe in general, a great and glorious Victory; and may no misconduct in any one tarnish it; and may humanity after Victory be the predominant feature in the British Fleet. For myself, individually, I commit my life to Him who made me, and may his blessing light upon my endeavours for serving my Country faithfully. To Him I resign myself and the just cause which is entrusted to me to defend. Amen. Amen. Amen.

As the two fleets moved towards engagement, he then ran up a thirty-one flag signal to the rest of the fleet which spelled out the famous phrase "England expects that every man will do his duty".

After crippling the French flagship Beaucentaure, the Victory moved on to the Redoutable. The two ships entangled each other, at which point snipers in the rigging of the Redoutable were able to pour fire down onto the deck of the Victory. Nelson was one of those hit: a bullet entered his shoulder, pierced his lung, and came to rest at the base of his spine. Nelson retained consciousness for some time, but died soon after the battle was concluded with a British victory. The Victory was then towed to Gibraltar, with Nelson's body on board preserved in a barrel of brandy. Upon his body's arrival in London, Nelson was given a state funeral and entombment in St. Paul's Cathedral. According to urban legend, the rum used to preserve his body was illicitly half drunk by the time it reached London. This may be related to the nickname given to Naval rum rations later, "Nelson's Blood", a possibly deliberate echo of the Communion ritual.

Nelson was noted for his considerable ability to inspire and bring out the best in his men, to the point that it gained a name: "The Nelson Touch". Famous even while alive, after his death he was lionized like almost no other military figure in British history (his only peers are the Duke of Marlborough and Nelson's contemporary, the Duke of Wellington). The monumental Nelson's Column and the surrounding Trafalgar Square are notable locations in London to this day, and Nelson was buried in St. Pauls Cathedral. However the monument to Nelson in Dublin was destroyed by a terrorist bomb (see Nelson's Column, Dublin). The Victory is in existence, and is in fact still kept on active commission in honour of Nelson -- it is the flagship of the Second Sea Lord; she can be found in Number 2 Dry Dock of the Portsmouth Naval Base, in Portsmouth, England. Nelson eclipsed Admiral Robert Blake as the most famous British Admiral, though Nelson himself - obviously a modest man - said "I do not reckon myself equal to Blake".

Nelson is included in the top 10 of the 100 Greatest Britons poll sponsored by the BBC and voted for by the public.

Nelson had no legitimate children; his illegitimate daughter by Lady Hamilton, Horatia, subsequently married the Rev. Philip Ward and died in 1881. Nelson's brother William Nelson (1757 - 1835) inherited Nelson's hereditary honours (Viscount Nelson of the Nile, Baron Nelson of the Nile, and Duke of Bronte in Sicily) and was created Earl Nelson of Trafalgar in 1805; on his death, William's daughter Charlotte Mary (1787 - 1873), wife of Samuel Hood, 2d Baron Bridport (1788 - 1868), became Duchess of Bronte in Sicily, while the earldom, viscountcy, and barony passed to William's nephew Thomas Bolton (1786 - 1835), who took the name Nelson.

See also

This page has incorporated information taken from the public domain text of the 1911 Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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Nelson

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Nelson is the name of several towns, counties, regions and cities around the world

There are several people who are known by the name Nelson

Nelson College is a secondary school in New Zealand.

Nelson were a hair metal band formed by twin brothers Gunnar and Matthew Nelson.

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Nelson (town), Wisconsin

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Nelson is a town located in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 586.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 201.0 km² (77.6 mi²). 183.0 km² (70.7 mi²) of it is land and 18.0 km² (6.9 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 8.95% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 586 people, 221 households, and 167 families residing in the town. The population density is 3.2/km² (8.3/mi²). There are 265 housing units at an average density of 1.4 persons/km² (3.8 persons/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.29% White, 0.17% African American, 0.00% Native American, 1.19% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.34% from two or more races. 1.71% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 221 households out of which 31.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 68.3% are married couples living together, 5.0% have a woman whose husband does not live with her, and 24.0% are non-families. 19.5% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.64 and the average family size is 3.04. In the town the population is spread out with 22.5% under the age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 28.0% from 25 to 44, 29.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 114.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 114.2 males. The median income for a household in the town is $44,063, and the median income for a family is $49,000. Males have a median income of $27,750 versus $22,917 for females. The per capita income for the town is $23,633. 7.6% of the population and 4.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 14.0% are under the age of 18 and 19.8% are 65 or older.

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Nelson (village), Wisconsin

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Nelson is a village located in Buffalo County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 395.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.8 km² (1.5 mi²). 3.8 km² (1.5 mi²) of it is land and 0.0 km² (0.0 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.68% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 395 people, 181 households, and 97 families residing in the village. The population density is 104.5/km² (270.0/mi²). There are 201 housing units at an average density of 53.2 persons/km² (137.4 persons/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 99.24% White, 0.00% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.51% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.00% from two or more races. 0.25% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 181 households out of which 26.0% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.3% are married couples living together, 7.2% have a woman whose husband does not live with her, and 45.9% are non-families. 38.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 17.7% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.18 and the average family size is 2.98. In the village the population is spread out with 23.8% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 26.8% from 25 to 44, 24.6% from 45 to 64, and 17.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 104.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 100.7 males. The median income for a household in the village is $30,833, and the median income for a family is $37,917. Males have a median income of $31,375 versus $20,000 for females. The per capita income for the village is $14,958. 11.3% of the population and 6.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 9.7% are under the age of 18 and 15.4% are 65 or older.

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Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (born July 18, 1918) is a former President of South Africa and one of its chief anti-apartheid activists. He spent his childhood in the Tembu chiefdom before embarking on a career in law.


Nelson Mandela

Early life

Rolihlala Mandela was born in Qunu, in the Transkei. At the age of seven, he became the first member of his family to attend school, where he was given the English name "Nelson" by the Methodist teacher. His father died shortly after, and he attended a Wesleyan mission school next door to the palace of the Regent. He was initiated, as is the Xhosa custom, at age 16, and attended Clarkebury Boarding Institute, learning about Western culture. He completed his Junior Certificate in two years, instead of the usual three.

At age 19, in 1934, he moved to the Wesleyan College in Fort Beaufort, which most Thembu royalty attended, and took an interest in boxing and running. After matriculating, he began a BA degree at Fort Hare University, where he met Oliver Tambo, who became a lifelong friend and colleague.

At the end of his first year he became involved in a boycott of the Students' Representative Council against the university policies, and was asked to leave Fort Hare. He left to go to Johannesburg, where he completed his degree with the University of South Africa (UNISA) via correspondence, and thereafter began a Law degree at Wits University.

Political activity

It was as a young law student that Mandela became involved in political opposition to the white minority regime's denial of political, social and economic rights to South Africa's black majority. Joining the African National Congress in 1942, he founded its more dynamic Youth League two years later together with Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and others.

After the 1948 election victory of the Afrikaner-dominated National Party with its apartheid policy of racial segregation, Mandela was prominent in the ANC's 1952 Defiance Campaign and the 1955 Congress of the People, whose adoption of the Freedom Charter provided the fundamental programme of the anti-apartheid cause.

Initially committed to non-violent mass struggle and acquitted in the marathon Treason Trial of 1956 - 1961, Mandela and his colleagues accepted the case for armed action after the shooting of unarmed protesters at Sharpeville in March 1960 and the subsequent banning of the ANC and other anti-apartheid groups.

In 1961 he became the commander of the ANC's armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation", or MK). In August 1962 he was arrested and jailed for five years for illegal travel abroad and incitement to strike. In June 1964 he was sentenced again, this time to life imprisonment, for his involvement in planning armed action.

Refusing an offer of conditional release in return for renouncing armed struggle (February 1985), Mandela remained in prison until February 1990, when sustained ANC campaigning and international pressure led to his release on February 11 on the orders of state president F.W. de Klerk and the ending of the ban on the ANC. He and de Klerk shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

As president of the ANC (July 1991 - December 1997) and first black president of South Africa (May 1994 - June 1999), Mandela presided over the transition from minority rule and apartheid, winning international respect for his advocacy of national and international reconciliation, though the social achievements of his term of office disappointed some radicals, and there was criticism of the government's alleged ineffectiveness in stemming the AIDS crisis.

Mandela was also criticized for his close friendship with dictators such as Fidel Castro and Moammar_Al_Qadhafi, whom he called his "comrades in arms." His decision to commit South African troops to defeat the 1998 coup of Lesotho also remains a topic of some controversy.

Mandela has been married three times. His first marriage to Evelyn Ntoko Mase ended in divorce in 1957 after 13 years, and his 38-year marriage to Winnie Madikizela in separation (April 1992) and divorce (March 1996) fuelled by political estrangement. On his 80th birthday he married Graca Machel, widow of Samora Machel, the former Mozambican president and ANC ally killed in an air crash 15 years earlier.

After his retirement as President in 1999, Mandela went on to become an advocate for a variety of social, and human-rights organizations. He received many foreign honors, including the Order of St. John from Queen Elizabeth II and the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush.

He is the only other person non-Indian origin (Mother Teresa being the other) to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian award, in 1990.

In February 2003, Mandela declared the United States "a threat to world peace," and that President Bush wished to "plunge the world into holocaust." Mandela accused Bush of "ignoring the U.N." and speculated that this was occurring because the current Secretary General (Kofi Annan of Ghana) was "a black man." Further more he said:

"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings,"
This speech, which contained several factual innaccuracies, was quite controversial even among many of his supporters.

Awards

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Nelson River

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The Nelson River is a river of north-central North America, in the Canadian province of Manitoba. The river, 664 km long, drains Lake Winnipeg and its watershed into Hudson Bay.

The river flows through the Canadian Shield out of Playgreen Lake at the northern tip of Lake Winnipeg, and flows through Cross Lake, Sipiwesk Lake, Split Lake, and Stephens Lake.

Since it drains Lake Winnipeg, it is the last part of the large Saskatchewan River system, as well as that of the Red River and Winnipeg River. It therefore has a flow at its mouth of 2066 m3/s.

Besides Lake Winnipeg, its primary tributaries include the Grass River, which drains a long area north of Lake Winnipeg, and the Burntwood River, which passes at Thompson, Manitoba.

The river flows into Hudson Bay at York Factory, Manitoba. Other communities upriver from there include Bird, Sundance, Long Spruce, Gillam, Split Lake, Arnot, Crosslake, and Norway House.

The lake was named by Sir Thomas Button, an English explorer who wintered at its mouth in 1612, after Robert Nelson, a ship's master who died there. The area was fought over for the fur trade, though the Hayes River, whose mouth is near the Nelson's, became the main route inland.

Today, the Nelson River's huge volume and long drop make it useful for generating hydroelectricity. This has provoked bitter polemics with the First Nations of the area, whose lands past projects have flooded and future projects threaten.

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Nelson Rockefeller

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Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (July 8, 1908 - January 26, 1979) was a Governor of New York and the forty-first Vice President of the United States of America from December 19, 1974 to January 20, 1977.

He was the son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr, the grandson of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island (for whom he was named), the brother of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas, and the uncle of Governor and Senator John Davison Rockefeller, IV of West Virginia. Nelson Rockefeller was born on the same day as his paternal grandfather, and from childhood was the leader of the five Rockefeller brothers.

He served as governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 (elected to four terms, he served three and a half), and then as the 41st Vice President of the United States of America under Gerald Ford (1974-1977). He was the 2nd Vice President to be appointed to the position under the 25th Amendment.

Rockefeller's dream was the presidency; he spent millions in attempts in 1960, 1964, and 1968. Rockefeller was considered the front-runner for the 1964 campaign, but his divorce and quick remarriage to a woman (who had until then been married to someone else) twenty years his junior turned many people off. The divorce/remarriage and conservative surge gave the nomination to Barry Goldwater of Arizona.

As governor of New York, he pushed for extremely strict laws against possession of drugs; these laws, still in force, mandate longer prison sentences for drug possession than for most other felonies. He was considered one of the leaders of the moderate wing of the Republican Party of the United States, and is hailed as an example of one of the chief figures of the "1960s and 1970s Republican" movement.

Rockefeller was a great collector of modern art. He continued his mother's work at the Museum of Modern Art and turned the basement of his Kykuit mansion into a first-class museum. While he was overseeing construction of the State University of New York system, he agreed with his lifelong friend Roy Neuberger to build a museum on the campus of SUNY Purchase College. The Neuberger Museum, designed by Philip Johnson, hosted several paintings collected by Neuberger and helped popularize several artists. His decision to pay and then destroy Diego Rivera's mural at Rockefeller Center is still controversial.

Rockefeller allegedly suffered a heart attack during sexual congress with his mistress Megan Marshak. Marshak was afraid to call the police and so left him on the floor of his apartment, where he may have lingered for minutes if not hours. It is believed that had Marshak called an ambulance promptly Rockefeller may have survived.

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Nelson, British Columbia

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Nelson is a town of approximately 10,000 people located in the southeast corner of British Columbia, Canada. The town is the #1 Small Arts Community in Canada, #4 in North America and the Heritage Capital of British Columbia.

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Nelson, Georgia

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Nelson is a city located in Cherokee County, Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 626.

Geography


Nelson is located at 34°22'54" North, 84°22'17" West (34.381562, -84.371303)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.3 km² (0.9 mi²). 2.3 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 626 people, 254 households, and 188 families residing in the city. The population density is 268.6/km² (695.0/mi²). There are 275 housing units at an average density of 118.0/km² (305.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 89.94% White, 9.42% African American, 0.16% Native American, 0.16% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.32% from two or more races. 0.16% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 254 households out of which 27.2% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.2% are married couples living together, 8.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 25.6% are non-families. 22.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.46 and the average family size is 2.88. In the city the population is spread out with 19.3% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 28.9% from 25 to 44, 27.2% from 45 to 64, and 16.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 42 years. For every 100 females there are 93.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 90.6 males. The median income for a household in the city is $44,250, and the median income for a family is $51,806. Males have a median income of $35,066 versus $30,450 for females. The per capita income for the city is $20,604. 3.7% of the population and 1.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 1.1% are under the age of 18 and 8.5% are 65 or older.

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Nelson, Illinois

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Nelson is a village located in Lee County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 163.

Geography


Nelson is located at 41°47'47" North, 89°36'17" West (41.796494, -89.604646)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²). 0.6 km² (0.2 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 163 people, 64 households, and 49 families residing in the village. The population density is 273.6/km² (719.0/mi²). There are 70 housing units at an average density of 117.5/km² (308.8/mi²). The racial makeup of the village is 96.32% White, 0.61% African American, 0.61% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 2.45% from two or more races. 6.13% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 64 households out of which 31.3% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 60.9% are married couples living together, 9.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 21.9% are non-families. 17.2% of all households are made up of individuals and 14.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.55 and the average family size is 2.90. In the village the population is spread out with 24.5% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.4% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 41 years. For every 100 females there are 111.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.6 males. The median income for a household in the village is $35,833, and the median income for a family is $37,500. Males have a median income of $33,125 versus $21,250 for females. The per capita income for the village is $15,043. 30.0% of the population and 15.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 60.0% are under the age of 18 and 9.1% are 65 or older.

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Nelson, Minnesota

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Nelson is a city located in Douglas County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 172.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²). 1.9 km² (0.7 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 172 people, 73 households, and 44 families residing in the city. The population density is 91.0/km² (235.8/mi²). There are 76 housing units at an average density of 40.2/km² (104.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 98.26% White, 0.00% African American, 1.16% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.58% from two or more races. 0.58% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 73 households out of which 24.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.7% are married couples living together, 6.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 38.4% are non-families. 28.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.36 and the average family size is 2.96. In the city the population is spread out with 23.8% under the age of 18, 11.6% from 18 to 24, 32.0% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 9.9% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 120.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 114.8 males. The median income for a household in the city is $34,375, and the median income for a family is $35,694. Males have a median income of $26,964 versus $28,438 for females. The per capita income for the city is $13,419. 23.1% of the population and 22.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 35.6% are under the age of 18 and 8.7% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nelson, Minnesota."

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Nelson, Missouri

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Nelson is a city located in Saline County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 212.

Geography


Nelson is located at 38°59'43" North, 93°1'55" West (38.995330, -93.031928)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²). 0.9 km² (0.3 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 212 people, 83 households, and 58 families residing in the city. The population density is 248.0/km² (640.5/mi²). There are 100 housing units at an average density of 117.0/km² (302.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 93.40% White, 6.13% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.47% from two or more races. 0.00% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 83 households out of which 28.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.0% are married couples living together, 9.6% have a female householder with no husband present, and 30.1% are non-families. 16.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.4% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.55 and the average family size is 2.95. In the city the population is spread out with 24.1% under the age of 18, 5.7% from 18 to 24, 33.0% from 25 to 44, 25.0% from 45 to 64, and 12.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 98.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 96.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $28,214, and the median income for a family is $31,250. Males have a median income of $24,219 versus $16,500 for females. The per capita income for the city is $12,886. 11.8% of the population and 6.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 22.2% are under the age of 18 and 10.5% are 65 or older.

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Nelson, Nebraska

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Nelson is a city located in Nuckolls County, Nebraska. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 587. It is the county seat of Nuckolls County6.

Geography


Nelson is located at 40°12'7" North, 98°4'0" West (40.202000, -98.066750)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²). 2.1 km² (0.8 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 587 people, 271 households, and 150 families residing in the city. The population density is 279.8/km² (724.8/mi²). There are 312 housing units at an average density of 148.7/km² (385.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 99.49% White, 0.00% African American, 0.00% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 0.51% from two or more races. 1.19% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 271 households out of which 22.9% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 46.1% are married couples living together, 7.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 44.6% are non-families. 41.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 25.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.01 and the average family size is 2.73. In the city the population is spread out with 20.3% under the age of 18, 3.9% from 18 to 24, 21.0% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 31.2% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 50 years. For every 100 females there are 80.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 75.9 males. The median income for a household in the city is $32,500, and the median income for a family is $40,469. Males have a median income of $25,417 versus $22,500 for females. The per capita income for the city is $17,221. 9.4% of the population and 5.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 14.8% are under the age of 18 and 8.5% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nelson, Nebraska."

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Nelson, New Hampshire

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Nelson is a town located in Cheshire County, New Hampshire. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 634.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 60.2 km² (23.2 mi²). 56.6 km² (21.9 mi²) of it is land and 3.6 km² (1.4 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 5.94% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 634 people, 247 households, and 162 families residing in the town. The population density is 11.2/km² (29.0/mi²). There are 400 housing units at an average density of 7.1/km² (18.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.48% White, 0.63% African American, 0.32% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.16% from other races, and 1.42% from two or more races. 1.58% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 247 households out of which 33.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 59.5% are married couples living together, 4.0% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.4% are non-families. 26.3% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.57 and the average family size is 3.19. In the town the population is spread out with 27.1% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 26.3% from 45 to 64, and 10.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there are 105.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 101.7 males. The median income for a household in the town is $41,250, and the median income for a family is $59,464. Males have a median income of $40,577 versus $25,000 for females. The per capita income for the town is $31,625. 12.2% of the population and 9.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 16.3% are under the age of 18 and 3.2% are 65 or older.

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Nelson, New York

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Nelson is a town located in Madison County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,964.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 114.1 km² (44.0 mi²). 111.7 km² (43.1 mi²) of it is land and 2.4 km² (0.9 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 2.11% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 1,964 people, 731 households, and 549 families residing in the town. The population density is 17.6/km² (45.6/mi²). There are 1,020 housing units at an average density of 9.1/km² (23.7/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 98.27% White, 0.20% African American, 0.10% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.56% from other races, and 0.87% from two or more races. 1.22% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 731 households out of which 38.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 64.6% are married couples living together, 6.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 24.8% are non-families. 18.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.5% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.69 and the average family size is 3.07. In the town the population is spread out with 28.3% under the age of 18, 5.6% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 27.5% from 45 to 64, and 9.6% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 38 years. For every 100 females there are 103.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 103.6 males. The median income for a household in the town is $49,022, and the median income for a family is $55,458. Males have a median income of $37,083 versus $24,653 for females. The per capita income for the town is $21,378. 5.1% of the population and 2.8% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 4.9% are under the age of 18 and 6.5% are 65 or older.

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Nelson, New Zealand

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Nelson is located on the eastern side of Tasman Bay at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand. Nelson is named after the 1st Viscount Nelson.

Many people believe Nelson has the best climate in New Zealand, in that it regularly tops the national stats for sunshine hours, with an annual average total of over 2400 hours.

Nelson has good beaches and a sheltered harbour. It is close to mountains, Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa in the Nelson Lakes National Park, and is the gateway to the Abel Tasman National Park and the Kahurangi National Park . The geographical Centre of New Zealand is said to be located in Nelson; on a hilltop suspiciously convenient to the centre of the city.

It is a centre for arts and crafts, and each year hosts popular events such as the Nelson Arts Festival and the World of WearableArt Awards. Nelson also has a good music scene, with bands such as Mother Guru, The Housewives, Monkey Puzzler and Everthirst performing regular gigs around the region.

Nelson is the birthplace of Ernest Rutherford, and he attended Nelson College.

The first rugby match in New Zealand was played at the Botanic Reserve in Nelson on May 14, 1870, between the Nelson Football Club and Nelson College.

The Nelson urban area, which includes the adjacent town of Richmond, has a population of approximately 50,000 - and is the second fastest growing region in New Zealand.

Early History of Nelson

The settlement of Nelson was planned by the New Zealand Company in London. They intended to buy cheaply from the Maori some 200 00 acres, 80 000 hectares, which would be divided into one thousand lots and sold at considerable profit to intending settlers. The orfits were to beused to finance the free passage of artisan and labourers and their families and for the construction of public works. However by September 1841 only about one third of the lots had been sold. Despite this the Colony pushed ahead.

Three ships sailed from London under the command of Captain Arthur Wakefield. Arriving in New Zealand they discovered that the new Governor of the colony, William Hobson was not prepared to give them a free hand to purchase vast areas of land from the Maori or indeed to decide where the colony would be situated. However after some delay he allowed the Company to investigate the Tasman Bay area at the north end of the South Island. The site now occupied by Nelson City was chosen because it had the best harbour in the area. The major drawback was the lack of suitable arable land; Nelson is right on the edge of a mountain range while the nearby Waimea Plains amount to only about 60 000 acres, less than one third of the area required by the Company plans.

A vague and undetermined area but including Nelson, Waimea, Motueka, Riwaka and Whakapuaka were peurchased from the Maori for eight hundred pounds. This allowed the settlment to begin but the lack of definition was to be the source of much future conflict. The three colony ships sailed into Nelson Haven during the first week of November 1841. When the first immigrant ships arrived three months later they found the town already laid out streets, some wooden houses, tents and rough sheds. Within eighteen months the Company had sent out eighteen ships with 1052 men, 872 women and 1384 children. However less than ninety of them were potential landowners with capital.

After a brief initial period of prosperity the inherent problems, the lack of land and the lack of capital caught up with the settletment and it entered prolonged period of relative depression. Organised immigration was suspended until the 1850's and the wages of the laborers was cut by a third. By the end of 1843 artisans and laborers began leaving Nelson and by 1846 some twenty five percent of the iimigrants had moved away.

The pressure to find more arable land was intense. To the south east of Nelson were the wide and fertile plains of the Wairau Valley. The New Zealand Company tried to claim that they had purchased the land. The Maori owners were quite adamant that the Wairau Valley had not been included in the original land sales and made it clear they would resist any attempts by the settlers of occupy the area. The Nelson Settlers lead by Arthur Wakefiled and Henry Thompson attempted to do just that. The result was the Wairau Massacre when twenty two of them were killed. The subsequent Government enquiry exonerated the Maori and found that the Nelson settlers had no legitimate claim to any land outside Tasman Bay.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nelson, New Zealand."

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Synonyms: Nelson

Synonyms: Horatio Nelson (n), Viscount Nelson (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nelson

English words defined with "Nelson": Amy Lyon ♦ battle of Trafalgar ♦ Hamilton, hypertext ♦ Lady Emma Hamilton ♦ Trafalgar. (references)
Specialty definitions using "Nelson": cybercrud ♦ frost-active soil ♦ GIM-1, GNU BC, Grandison ♦ Horse-shoes ♦ Modula-2 , Modula-2*, Modula-3, Modula-3* ♦ NAPOLEON ♦ Odd and Even ♦ Pascal-F, P-code, propeller head. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Nelson" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Czech (Nelson), French (Nelson, Nelson River), Serbo-Croatian (nelson), Swedish (Nelson).

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Modern Usage: Nelson

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Lisa likes Nelson! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

I've been in jail longer than Nelson Mandela (The Rock; writing credit: David Weisberg; Douglas Cook)

Broken nose ain't gonna kill ya, Nelson. (Something Wild; writing credit: E. Max Frye)

Jesus saves, George Nelson withdraws (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Ida Nelson, you get out of my house (Female Trouble; writing credit: John Waters)

Movie/TV Titles

Nelson Cavaquinho (1969)

Pernille og Mr. Nelson (1962)

Baby Face Nelson (1957)

Ozzie Nelson and His Orchestra (1943)

Dora Nelson (1939)

Song Titles

To All The Girls I've Loved Before (performing artist: Julio Iglesias & Willie Nelson)

Pancho & Lefty (performing artist: Merle Haggard / Willie Nelson)

After The Rain (performing artist: Nelson)

LISBON ANTIGUA  (performing artist: Nelson Riddle )

Believe What You Say (performing artist: Ricky Nelson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Nelson

DomainTitle

References

  • Taylor Nelson Sofres PLC: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

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Books

  • Miss Nelson Is Missing! (reference)

  • Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics: 16th Edition (reference)

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Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Willie Nelson - Live in Amsterdam (reference)

  • Leaders in Battle: Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson (reference)

  • Great Commanders: Horatio Nelson - The Battle of Trafalgar (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

  

Consumer Goods

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Image Slideshow: Nelson

Photos:
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Photo Album: Nelson

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Plate 234. The Bull-Head. Amiurus vulgaris (Thompson), Nelson. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

The riparian area surrounding Nelson Creek in the McGraw Creek Wilderness Study Area. OR 6-1. Credit: Conrad.

Hiking trail along Nelson Creek in the McGraw Creek Wilderness Study Area. OR 6-1. Credit: Conrad.

Caption: Nelson Durand with Ediphone; Unknown Date; {10.133/12} (jpg).

Caption: Portrait of Nelson C. Durand; Unknown Date; {10.133/18} (jpg).

[Omar Nelson Bradley] / P. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Fabian Bachrach..

[J. Nelson Clark]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Photographed 17 March 1944. They are (bottom row, left to right): Ensign James E. Hare, USNR; Ensign Samuel E. Barnes, USNR; Ensign George C. Cooper, USNR; Ensign William S. White, USNR; Ensign Dennis D. Nelson, USNR; (middle row, left to right): Ensign Graham E. Martin, USNR; Warrant Officer Charles B. Lear, USNR; Ensign Phillip G. Barnes, USNR; Ensign Reginald E. Goodwin, USNR; (top row, left to right): Ensign John W. Reagan, USNR; Ensign Jesse W. Arbor, USNR; Ensign Dalton L. Baugh, USNR; Ensign Frank E. Sublett, USNR. Credit: NAVY.

Seaman Lawrence W. Overton loading magazines for his M-16 rifle from 5.56x45mm ammunition stripper clips, as he assumes the watch, May 1969. Harnett County was then operating on the Vam Co Dong River, Republic of Vietnam. Photographed by JOCS Ed Nelson. Credit: NAVY.

Nelson. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Nelson
 

"Nelson Mandela Bridge 2" by Laura Kennedy
Commentary: "Johannesburg has the largest cable-stayed bridge in southern Africa. Who else to name it after but Nelson Mandela, the man who led South Africa across the apartheid divide? Opened July 21, 2003 ."

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Familiar Quotations: Nelson

AuthorQuotation

Byron Nelson

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

Nelson A. Rockefeller

Maybe this [Watergate] is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.

Nelson Mandela

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts.
Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Nelson

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Nelson W. Alternative Cancer Treatments. (references)

Black JE, Jones TA, Nelson CA, Greenough WT. Neuronal plasticity and the developing brain. (references)

Business

The Nelson index ranges between 4 and 6. The refineries are connected to the major refineries through pipes that make possible the catalytic processing of the distilled fractions and their supply with raw materials for processing. (references)

Taylor Nelson Sofres Modus research shows, organisations having Internet access use the service for mainly e-mailing, web-browsing, gathering financial, economic market information and communicating with their clients through the company’s homepage. (references)

Civil Liberties

Colombia

Prosecutors are appealing the decision of a Valledupar judges to absolve suspected paramilitaries Rodolfo Nelson Rosado Hernandez (alias "El Pichi") and Jorge Eliecer Espinal Velasquez ("El Parce") for the 1999 murder of newspaper editor Guzman Quintero Torres in Valledupar, Cesar department. (references)

Venezuela

President Chavez warned Globovisión's director Alberto Federico Ravell and its owner Nelson Mezerhane that if they did not reconsider their broadcasts, he would "be forced to activate mechanisms in defense of the national interest, truth and public order" and that their actions might have "legal consequences." President Chavez noted that the "airwaves belong to the State," announced that he had ordered the National Telecommunications Commission (Conatel) to investigate the station, and warned that the station's broadcast licenses might be reviewed. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

In June 1999, Nelson Mandela retired, and Thabo Mbeki was elected President of South Africa. (references)

Human Rights

Peru

In May 2000, police in Tacna arrested Nelson Diaz Marcos on charges of public intoxication and allegedly tortured him before killing him. (references)

Cuba

State security officials intercepted activists Carlos Alberto Dominguez and Nelson Vazquez Obregon on their way to the court and transported them to another part of Havana far from the court. (references)

United Kingdom

The four cases are those of Pat Finucane, a defense attorney who was killed by members of the Ulster Defense Association in 1989; Billy "King Rat" Wright, a loyalist paramilitary leader who was killed in prison in 1997 by republican inmates; Robert Hamill, who in 1997 was killed by a loyalist mob while nearby police allegedly failed to act; and Rosemary Nelson, a defense attorney killed in 1999 by a car bomb planted by the Red Hand Defenders. (references)

Political Rights

South Africa

In 1999 the ANC leader, Thabo Mbeki, succeeded Nelson Mandela as President and Head of State. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nelson

"Nelson" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.90% of the time. "Nelson" is used about 995 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Noun (proper)99.9%9947,395
Noun (singular)0.1%1339,140
                    Total100.00%995N/A

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Name Usage Frequency: Nelson

The following table summarizes the usage of "Nelson" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons		Rank in USA
NelsonFirst name Male61,000251
NelsonLast name162,00039
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Derived & Related Names: Nelson

"Nelson" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a champion", "a cloud".
 
The following table summarizes names related to "Nelson."
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