The ISO (International Standards Organisation) assigns a two character code to each country name. These codes are used by Internet 'whois' databases (these two character abbreviations are the whois country codes) and also other applications.
The ne-ne or Hawaiiangoose is a species of goose, genus Branta sandvicensis of the order Anseriformes, related to the Canadagoose but with shorter wings and reduced webs on the feet. About 100 years ago, around 25,000 ne-nes lived on Hawaii, but the introduction of pigs, cats, dogs, rats, and mongooses has almost led to the extinction of this ground-nesting bird. Research Ne-ne
Apelles was the most famous of the painters of ancient Greece and of antiquity. He lived in the fourth century BC, probably at Colophon. Ephorus of Ephesus was his first teacher, but attracted by the renown of the Sicyonian school he went and studied at Sicyon. In the time of Philip he went to Macedonia, and there a close friendship between him and Alexander the Great was established. The most admired of his pictures was that of Venus rising from the sea and wringing the water from her dripping locks. His portrait of Alexander with a thunderbolt in his hand was no less celebrated. His renown was at its height about 330 BC. Among the anecdotes told of Apelles is the one which gave rise to the Latin proverb, 'Ne sutor supra crepidam' -' Let not the shoemaker go beyond his shoe.' Having heard a cobbler point out an error in the drawing of a shoe in one of his pictures he corrected it, whereupon the cobbler took upon him to criticise the leg, and received from the artist the famous reply. Research Apelles
Earl Charles John Canning was a British statesman. He was born in 1812 and died in 1862. The son of George Canning, ne was educated at Eton and Oxford. In 1841 he was appointed under-secretary of state for foreign affairs in Peel's government, and in 1846 commissioner of woods and forests. In the Aberdeen ministry of 1853, and under Palmerston in 1855, he held the postmaster-generalship, and in 1856 went out to India as governor-general. Throughout the mutiny he showed a fine coolness and clear-headedness, and though his carefully-pondered decisions were sometimes lacking in promptness, yet his admirable moderation did much to re-establish the British Empire in India. He was raised to the rank of earl and made viceroy, but returned to England with shattered health in 1862, dying in the same year. Research Charles Canning
Delphine Gay was a French novelist. She was born in 1804 and died in 1855. The daughter of the novelist Madame Sophie Gay, and first wife of Emile de Girardin, she wrote the novels Le Lorgnon, Le Marquis de Pontanges, La Canne de M de Balxac, Ilne faut pas jouer avec Douleur, and Marguerite; contributed to the Presse newspaper, and wrote for the stage Lady Tartuffe and La Joie fait peur, and other pieces. Research Delphine Gay
Thomas Chatterton was an English poet. He was born in 1752 at Bristol and died in 1770. Of poor parents, ne was educated at a charity school. He exhibited great precocity, became extremely devoted to reading, and was especially fond of old writings and documents. At the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to an attorney. In 1768, when the new bridge at Bristol was completed, he inserted a paper in the Bristol Journal entitled A Description of the Friars' First Passing over the Old Bridge, which he pretended he had found along with other old manuscripts in an old chest in St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol. He also showed his friends several poems of similarly spurious antiquity which he attributed to one Rowley.
In 1769 he ventured to write to Horace Walpole, then engaged upon his Anecdotes of Painters, giving him an account of a number of old Bristol painters which was clever enough to deceive Horace Walpole for a time. Dismissed from the attorney's office, he left with his manuscripts for London, where a favourable reception from the booksellers gave him high hopes. For them he wrote numerous pamphlets, satires, letters, etc, but got no substantial return, and his situation became daily more desperate. At last, after having been several days without food, he poisoned himself, on the 25th of August 1770. The most remarkable of his poems are those published under the name of Rowley, spurious antiques, such as The Tragedy of AElla, The Battle of Hastings, The Bristow Tragedy, etc. Research Thomas Chatterton
Neon is a highly stable gaseous element with the symbolNe. It is one of the rare components of the atmosphere and is used in some forms of discharge tubes and lamps, in which it gives a characteristic red glow. Research Neon
The Piper Grasshopper (USAAF designation L-4, US Navy designation NE-1) was an American two-seater light observation and liaison aircraft of the Second World War developed from the civilian Piper Cub trainer aircraft. The Piper Grasshopper was a high-wing braced monoplane powered by a Continental O-170-3 4-cyclinder horizontally opposed air-cooled engine providing a top speed of 139 kmh and a range of 416 km. Research Piper Grasshopper
English Shillings were first struck in 1504 of 925 (sterling) silver. In 1919 the English shilling was reduced to silver of a 500 fineness and in 1947 they ceased to be made of silver at all.
In America shillings were first issued from the mint at Boston. Its coins were of the value of 12d, 6d and 3d pieces, and 'every shilling weighing the three-penny trojweight and lesser peeces proportionably'. The first struck were mere planchets stamped near the border NE, and on the reverse the value indicated by XII, similarly impressed. The first struck were known as the New England Shilling and these were followed by the Willow Tree, Oak Tree and Pine Tree coins. Their weight was 72 grains, and their value 18.25 cents. The tree coins all bore the same date, the Pine Tree being the most conspicuous.
Maryland also, in 1659, had shillings coined in London by LordBaltimore; their weight was 66 grains, and their value 16.73 cents. They bore a profilebust of LordBaltimore, an escutcheon with his arms and the figure XII denoting the value.
There was also the Bermuda shilling or Hogge penny, one of the earliest coins used in America.
NE is an abbreviation for Niger
NE is an abbreviation for New England
NE is an abbreviation for North-East
NE is an abbreviation for Nebraska
NE is an abbreviation for No Effects
NE is an abbreviation for Noise Equivalent
Ne is an abbreviation for Neon Research NE
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