Thursday, February 7, 2013

Nemo Is Coming



 Nemo hits New England on February 8th.
February 8th is Jules Verne's birthday.




Nemo is a Latin word meaning "no man" or "no one" or "nobody." The forecasted blizzard set to hit over the weekend on the East Coast has been Weather Channel-named "Nemo."



Blizzard Nemo is will hit New England on February 8-9, 2013.


What other connections have been made to Nemo?

What does Wikipedia have to say?
Fiction 
Captain Nemo, captain of the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne's novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Mysterious Island (1870)
Little Nemo, protagonist of the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay (1905)
Nemo, a minor character from the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House (1852)
MSA-003 Nemo, a mobile suit from the anime series Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (1985)
Nemo, the protagonist of the video game Ace Combat 3 (1999)
Nemo, the main character in the film Finding Nemo (2003)
Nemo Nobody, the title character of the film Mr. Nobody (2009)
Quentin Nemo, a warlock from the novel Orphans of Chaos (2005)
Judge Nemo, main villain of the video game Disgaea 4 (2011)
Captain Nemo, captain of the futuristic submarine Nautilus in the Japanese animated series Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water (1991)
Music 
Nemo (band), a Brooklyn, New York-based band
Nemo (Belgian band), a former Belgian rock band
"Nemo" (song), a song by Nightwish from their album Once
"Nemo", a song by Umphrey's McGee from their album Safety in Numbers
Geography 
Nemo Peak, a volcano in the Kuril Islands
Mount Nemo Conservation Area in Burlington, Ontario
Nemo, South Dakota, an unincorporated community
Nemo, Texas, an unincorporated community
Point Nemo, the oceanic pole of inaccessibility
People 
Nemo Gaines, U.S. Naval officer and Major League Baseball player
Gina Nemo, actress
Henry Nemo, musician
Nemo, screen name of actor who appeared in Bollywood films from the 1930s through 1950s
Nickname of Hayley Palmer, New Zealand swimmer
Nickname of Antti Niemi, NHL goalie for the San Jose Sharks
Nickname of Everett Ruess, a mysterious poet and traveler of the 30s
Other uses 
Nemo, the Classic Comics Library, a magazine devoted to classic comic strips
Citroën Nemo, a small truck
Nemo 33, a diving center in Uccle, Belgium
Caisson Nemo, a former French rocket launch pad off the Riviera coast
Nemo-3D, an authoring tool for 3D realtime applications; succeeded by Virtools 
Nemo, an arcade game by Capcom based on Little Nemo in Slumberland
NEMO Equipment, Inc., a manufacturer of outdoor tents and shelters
Nemo Rangers GAA, a Football and Hurling from Cork, IrelandNemo Documents, a calender-based file manager for Microsoft Windows.
Nemo (file manager) a file manager for Linux distributions forked from Nautilus.

As an acronym 
IKBKG or NF-Kappa-B Essential Modulator (NEMO), a protein 
NEMO (video game console), a never released VHS system video game console
NEMO (museum), a national science museum in Amsterdam
Patria NEMO, a mortar system
Neutrino Ettore Majorana Observatory, a neutrino-related experiment in Modane, France
NEMO 3-D, a tool for nanoelectronics modeling
Network for the Establishment and Maintenance of Order, a fictional DC Comics organization created by the extraterrestrial Controllers
See also 
NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations), a program studying human survival in an underwater laboratory.
Source.

Some people have had fun with Nemo:



Thanks to Matthew Deagle for pointing to the Charles Manson video.


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