" Columbus won the national contest " America in Bloom " in 2006, and in 2004 it was named one of " The Ten Most Playful Towns " by Nick Jr. Family Magazine.

The first practical visible-spectrum ( red ) LED was developed in 1962 by Nick Holonyak, Jr., while working at General Electric Company.

When Kazan received an Honorary Academy Award in 1999, the audience was noticeably divided in their reaction, with some including Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Ian McKellen and Amy Madigan refusing to applaud, and many others, such as actors Kathy Bates, Meryl Streep and Warren Beatty and producer George Stevens, Jr. standing and applauding.

Noggin soon after became a timeshare service ( in the same vein as Nickelodeon is by carrying Nick at Nite over the same channel space ) starting the teen-oriented The N that fall, which became a separate channel from Noggin on December 31, 2007 with Noggin becoming a 24-hour channel for preschoolers ; the Noggin channel was rebranded Nick Jr. on September 28, 2009.

It was first shown in the United States on Nick Jr. from April 2003 to April 2007 ( see History ) and later re-aired on PBS Kids.

* 1962 Nick Holonyak Jr. develops the first practical visible-spectrum light-emitting diode

* Nick Long Jr. as Basil Newcombe

** Performed by Buddy Ebsen, Vilma Ebsen, June Knight, Nick Long Jr., and Eleanor Powell

** Performed by June Knight, Nick Long Jr., and chorus

A guinea pig named Rodney, voiced by Chris Rock, was a prominent character in the 1998 film Dr. Dolittle and Linny the Guinea pig is a co-star on Nick Jr .' s Wonder Pets.

* Nick Holonyak, Jr. ( Lemelson-MIT Prize )

The series was first broadcast in the UK from Monday 22 October 2007 at 8. 00 am on satellite channel Nick Jr.

The Disney Junior channel is a direct competitor to Nickelodeon's Nick Jr. channel, NBC and ION's qubo and PBS and Comcast's PBS Kids Sprout.

On May 26, 2010 Disney-ABC Television Group announced the launch of a new 24-hour preschool-targeted digital cable and satellite channel called Disney Junior, which made its debut on March 23, 2012 ; the Disney Junior channel ( which is commercial-free, like parent network Disney Channel but unlike SOAPnet, which it replaced, and Disney XD ) will compete with other preschooler-skewing cable channels such as Nick Jr., qubo and PBS Kids Sprout.

The company is led by G. Nicolas ( Nick ) Hayek, Jr., son of the late co-founder and chairman Nicolas Hayek.

* www. exitwounds. com Official website of Hubert Selby, Jr. and Nick Tosches.

** Nickelodeon operates three digital channels separate from the main feed: Nick Jr., a channel devoted to preschool programming ; TeenNick, aimed at teenagers with mostly live-action programs ( which includes a two hour 1990s block in late night ); and Nicktoons, which primarily ( although not exclusively ) runs animated programming.

In the UK there is CBBC, CBeebies, CITV, Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior, Nick Jr., POP, Tiny Pop, Cartoonito, Disney Cinemagic, Pop Girl and Kix !.

In Australia there is ABC3, KidsCo, Disney Channel, Cbeebies, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., and Cartoon Network.

Then-resident Nick Nelson Jr. modeled for Brackman's " Boy from Main Street " painting and others of Brackman's paintings.

When CBS was purchased by Viacom, which also owned Nickelodeon, Viacom simply repurposed much of the Nick Jr. lineup — in addition to adding a Saturday edition of the CBS morning-news program The Early Show.

The first visible wavelength laser diode was demonstrated by Nick Holonyak, Jr. later in 1962.

In this adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's " The Farewell Murder ", Nick ( William Powell ) and Nora ( Myrna Loy ) Charles are back in New York with Asta and a new arrival-Nicky Jr.

Also, in this film their son Nick Jr. ( Dickie Hall ) is old enough to figure in the comic subplot.

Nick watched her somewhat enviously as she efficiently cut the engines, and started the auxiliary motor.

Nick wondered if Elaine had bought them, but he said nothing.

Silently, Elaine picked up her keys from the table and went out into the cockpit, Poet behind her, Nick trailing behind him.

Nick asked, apprehensively, staring at the weapon.

Poet nodded to Nick and entered the water in a similar fashion.

For a while Nick followed the twisting course of the bubbles, wondering which set came from Elaine.

The small helicopter with its two steel skids churned offshore and Nick raised up to watch it heading south.

Nick recalled stories that the two best fishing spots in Southern California were over the La Jolla Deep and the Redondo Deep, two spots where the ocean dropped off to fantastic depths almost from the shoreline.

Turning quickly toward Elaine, Nick saw that she, too, stood in shocked surprise.

And then Nick knew that all of them knew Elaine, himself and Poet.

Elaine recovered first, so quickly that Nick thought he might have imagined her sudden reaction.

Nick sensed it.

At the same instant, Nick hit the barrel and threw himself upon the smaller man.

At the same instant, Elaine screamed wildly, the sound ending abruptly as Nick went off the boat and into the water on top of the frantic, struggling Poet.

The moment the sea closed over Nick, some atavistic sense warned him that he would survive in this alien element only if he did not panic.

Poet would escape, Nick thought grimly, because he wore the apparatus which would keep him alive under water.

But Nick would not let go.

For a split second, Nick relaxed his grip and Poet's slippery body spun completely around before Nick could stop him, holding him now from the rear.

The discovery struck Nick like a blow.

Desperately, Nick flashed one hand up, catching Poet's neck in the bend of his elbow.

Relentlessly, Nick held on, sucking on the hose, inhaling the air that belonged to Poet.

Poet was not fighting Nick now.

He broke that boy ( Air Force fullback Nick Arshinkoff ) in two and knocked him loose from the football ''.

-- Nick Skorich, the line coach for the football champion Philadelphia Eagles, was elevated today to head coach.