In building the railway the British had to confront strong local opposition, especially from Koitalel Arap Samoei, a diviner and Nandi leader who prophesied that a black snake would tear through Nandi land spitting fire, which was seen later as the railway line.

Shaka was the first son of the chieftain Senzangakhona and Nandi, a daughter of Bhebhe, the past chief of the Elangeni tribe, born near present day Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal Province.

Oral sources record that in this period of devastation, a singular Zulu, a man named Gala, eventually stood up to Shaka and objected to these measures, pointing out that Nandi was not the first person to die in Zululand.

This magnificent temple guarded by a Nandi Bull was never completed, despite 86 years of labour.

Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or " Discipline of Kama " is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind.

One notable example is " Nandi ", a manta ray that was accidentally caught in shark nets off Durban, South Africa in 2007.

Nandi ( c. 1760 – October 10, 1827 ) was a daughter of Bhebhe, a past chief of the Langeni tribe and the mother of the legendary Shaka, King of the Zulus.

It was agreed that there would be an officially opening day in May 2011 to present queen Nandi ’ s grave after the approval of the designs suggested by abaHlongo.

Geethanjali was critically acclaimed and won the National Film Award for Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment in 1990 and fetched the Nandi Award for Best Story Writer for Ratnam.

The Western Lowland Gorilla family has been represented at Durrell since it first opened in 1959, when they had only an infant female gorilla named N ' Pongo, who was later joined by a younger infant female gorilla named Nandi, and continue today to be one of the icons of the park.

At the foot of the eastern one there is a statue of a kneeling Nandi, which confirms that Ta Keo was a Shivaite temple.

His third wife, Nandi kaBhebhe eLangeni ( Nandi, daughter of Bhebhe, from eLangeni district ), bore him his first son Shaka out of wedlock. Senzangakona was unable to acknowledge Nandi as his Chief Consort, an important status symbol among the amaZulu.

Nandi the bull can be traced back to Indus Valley civilization, where dairy farming was the most important occupation.

Chiranjeevi's new decade started with a super hit Annayya, but his next releases After a brief gap, Chiranjeevi starred in Indra released in 2002 which broke all his previous box office records of Tollywood and won him his third Nandi Award for Best Actor and sixth Filmfare Award. After that, he appeared in films which had an underlying message and a social cause like Tagore, Shankar Dada MBBS for which he won his seventh and latest Filmfare Award and Stalin. He was awarded with a Legendary Honorary Award by Filmfare for his contributions to the film industry.

In the east African Kenya Highlands in 1905, Meinertzhagen crushed a major revolt by murdering the Nandi Orkoiyot ( spiritual leader ) Koitalel Arap Samoei who was leading it.

Initially he had been able to orchestrate a cover-up and he was to be commended for the incident in which two dozen Nandi were machine-gunned.

In 322 Yang Nandi ( 楊難敵 ) suffered a defeat against Former Zhao and was degraded to Prince of Wudu ( 武都王 ) and Duke of Chouchi ( 仇池公 ).

Named " Nandi ," the manta was caught by accident in nets meant to protect the coast from sharks.

* Onandi Lowe ( born 1974 ), Jamaican footballer nicknamed Nandi

Lagat, now a Kenyan American, was born in Kaptel village, near Kapsabet town in Nandi District.

According to some puranas, Nandi was born out of the right side of Shiva resembling Shiva exactly and given as a son to the sage Salankayana.

Rono was born in Nandi Hills, Kenya, into the Nandi tribe.

The Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu Award is an annual award incorporated into Nandi Awards to recognize people for their contributions to the Telugu film industry.

The main entrance with a 50 meter gopuram faces east into a ceremonial and colonnaded street, that exends for about to a monolithic statue of Nandi.

Born in Nandi, Kenya, Julius Korir rose into the international athletics scene in 1982, when he surprisingly won the gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.

The Penner rises on the hill of Nandi Hills in Chikballapur District of Karnataka state, and runs north and east through the state of Andhra Pradesh to empty into the Bay of Bengal.

The river originates in the Nandi Hills in the Chikkaballapur district of Karnataka and flows through Tamil Nadu before entering into the Bay of Bengal.

It rises in Nandi Hills, India in Kolar district of Karnataka state, and flows 93 km in Karnataka, 33 km in Andhra Pradesh and 222 km in Tamil Nadu before its confluence into the Bay of Bengal at Vayalur about 100 km south of Chennai.

Lord Siva calmed their fears saying, " Nandi has surrendered into me so completely that he has all my powers and my protection ".

Nandi County is divided into six administrative districts:

Tradition held that upon the death of someone of Nandi ’ s stature, several servants and attendants would be wounded or killed, but in this case, the event became a cover for many people to settle old scores.

He is a Nandi, sub-tribe of the Kalenjin people.

Although these particular structures are today maintained by the Maraket subgroup of the Nandi Kalenjin Nilotes, the latter aver that they were the work of a northern people of peculiar language called the Sirikwa, who were later decimated by pestilence.

The Nandi people are pioneer athletes in Kenya.

The Nandi people have had remarkable political figures like Jean-Marie Seroney, the first MP for Nandi and Tindiret, Henry Kosgey, Samwel Ngeny, Kipruto Kirwa, Stanley Metto and Ezekiel Barng ' etuny, Dr Joseph Misoy and William Morogo Saina.

The Terik people, living east of Lake Victoria wedged in between the Nandi, Luo and Luyia, spoke or speak a dialect closely related to Pok and Bong ' om.

To the north-east, other Kalenjin people are found, mainly the Nandi.

It takes its name from the Nandi people who live in western Kenya, near where the Nandi Bear is reported as living.

The Terik people are a Kalenjin group inhabiting parts of the Kakamega and Nandi Districts of western Kenya, numbering about 120, 000 people.

In pre-colonial times, relations between the Terik and the Nandi ( their eastern neighbours ) were characterized by mutual raids for cattle, land and women, a perspective still alive among old Terik people.

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Returning to Nandi's ranch, Reynolds offers to evacuate the area with Nandi and her people, rather than face " a monster who thinks he's right with God " and who won't back down after only a single thrashing from some temporary help, but Nandi refuses to leave her hard-earned property and way of life.

As Reynolds tries to broach the subject of his and Inara's unacknowledged feelings toward each other, Inara muses about how Nandi created a family, and how that kind of shared strength and love makes people never want to break away.

An Orkoiyot is the supreme chief of the Nandi people of Kenya.

Before the colonization by the British, the Nandi had well organised administration, so much so that this allowed them to surpassed the Maasai as the fiercest people within East and Central Africa.