Elliot also authored several off-Broadway plays, including A Nickel for Picasso ( 1981 ), which was based on and dedicated to his mother and his famous brother.

Nickel was once a common component of coins, but has largely been replaced by cheaper iron for this purpose, especially since the metal has proven to be a skin allergen for some people.

In 1864 nickel was discovered on the banks of the Diahot River and with the establishment of the Société Le Nickel in 1876 mining began in earnest.

The album, featuring such songs as " Stealing Rosemary ", " Ride the Ride ", " Nickel Romeo ", and the single " Something That You Said ", was released in early 2003.

* Greater Sudbury, Ontario, was formed in 2001 by the amalgamation of the former Regional Municipality of Sudbury, comprising the municipalites of Sudbury, Nickel Centre, Valley East, Capreol, Rayside-Balfour, Onaping Falls and Walden, plus a number of previously unamalgamated townships.

He was president of Orford Copper, which later merged into the International Nickel Company of Canada, of which he served as chairman.

In Blackford County, passenger service on the Lake Erie and Western Railroad line ( owned by the Nickel Plate Road by that time ) was discontinued in 1931, and the last interurban train ran on January 18, 1941.

Later, the city was served by the Wabash and Nickel Plate Railroads.

Claypool was previously an important rail transportation hub because it was located at the junction of the Big Four and the Nickel Plate railroad lines.

The Norfolk Southern line through Silver Creek was formerly operated by the Norfolk and Western Railway, successor to the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ( Nickel Plate Road ), the original line.

It was given its name by an Irish immigrant, George Nickel, who wanted to open a post office there in 1890.

During the first half of the 20th century, Bellevue was a busy railroad hub of the Nickel Plate Road, and it remains today as a hub for the Norfolk Southern Railway, which operates a massive railroad yard in Bellevue.

In 1972 the band members decided to choose a new name when they signed to Wooden Nickel Records after a talent scout at a concert at St. John Of The Cross Church in Western Springs IL, James Young's home town. Several suggestions were made, and according to DeYoung, the name Styx ( the river in Greek mythology between Earth and the Underworld ) was chosen because it was " the only one that none of us hated ".

ET on weekends ) included Video Comic Book, and the long-running Pinwheel ( now formatted as a daily hour-long series that ran in a 3 – 5 hour block format, and was a precursor to the Nick Jr. block ) along with other shows such as America Goes Bananaz, Nickel Flicks and By the Way.

In some mines, Nickel and Cobalt are treated with CCD, after the original ore was treated with concentrated Sulfuric acid and steam in Titanium covered autoclaves, producing nickel cobalt slurry.

In 1926 he and Miff Mole began a prodigious stint of recording with a variety of bands, most of them known as “ Red Nichols and His Five Pennies .” Very few of these groups were actually quintets ; the name was simply a pun on “ Nickel ,” since there were “ five pennies ” in a nickel.

It was Kokane who appeared on the Deep Cover soundtrack with a song that was produced by Cold 187um called Nickel Slick Nigga, there was a video done for & a remix of the song was done by Dr. Dre.

It was Styx's lowest charting album since its early Wooden Nickel albums.

He continued in research until 1943, first at the Fuel Research Station in Greenwich in 1936 and then, the following year, with the Mond Nickel Laboratories in London where he was appointed senior physicist carrying out research in the fields of physics, metallurgy and mechanical engineering.

The first houses were built for skilled workers in the ' mineral ' streets ( Silver Street, Nickel Street etc .).

Nickel silver first became popular as a base metal for silver-plated cutlery and other silverware, notably the electroplated wares called EPNS ( electro-plated nickel silver ).

Nickel silver was first known and used in China.

Nickel Creek's first performance was at That Pizza Place in Carlsbad, California in 1989 with Scott Thile, Chris's father, playing string bass.

Nickel Creek's first two albums were Little Cowpoke ( 1993 ) and Here to There ( 1997 ).

The International Nickel Company of Canada, Ltd., first began using the trade name Inco in 1919.

The nickel-titanium alloys were first developed in 1962 – 1963 by the United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory and commercialized under the trade name Nitinol ( an acronym for Nickel Titanium Naval Ordnance Laboratories ).

In 1975, after using his big eraser on his first try at cutting an album, Clark made his recording debut on RCA Records with Old No. l, ten critically applauded originals built to last, including " L. A. Freeway ," " Desperados Waiting for a Train ," " Texas, l947 ," " Instant Coffee Blues ," " Rita Ballou ," " She Ain't Goin ' Nowhere ," " Let Him Roll ," " A Nickel for the Fiddler ," " That Old Time Feeling " and " Like a Coat From the Cold.

The town's first and only reeve, John Franklin, served until the creation of Nickel Centre in 1973.

Garson Mine, which is now owned by Vale Inco was first developed in 1911 by the Mond Nickel Company.

* The progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek covered Terror Twilight's first single, " Spit on a Stranger " on their 2002 album, This Side.

Laughren was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the provincial election of 1971, defeating Progressive Conservative incumbent Gaston Demers by just under 2, 000 votes in the Sudbury-area riding of Nickel Belt.

The Nickel Plate ran its first trains over the entire system on October 16, 1882.

On October 25, 1882, ( a few days after the first trains ran ) the Seney Syndicate sold the Nickel Plate to Vanderbilt for 7. 2 million dollars, equal to $ today.

" These were the first locomotives for the Nickel Plate that were not painted black since the early 1900s.

: Numerous legends have grown about when and how the name " Nickel Plate " was first applied.

Nickel Eye ’ s first performance was on October 15, 2008 at London ’ s Borderline venue.

Produced by John Ryan and Bill Traut, who had produced the band's first two albums, this would be the band's last original album on the independent Chicago-based label Wooden Nickel Records before moving to the major label A & M.

* October 16 – The Nickel Plate Road runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago, Illinois.

* March 2-The Nickel Plate Road runs its first mainline freight train powered by diesel locomotives, as two yard switchers are pressed into service to handle a train from Peru, Indiana, to Michigan City.

Among the luminaries who appeared on Mountain Stage before they were famous or whose first national-exposure in the US on Mountain Stage are Sarah McLachlan, Norah Jones, Crash Test Dummies, Barenaked Ladies, Ben Harper, Paula Cole, Nickel Creek, Cassandra Wilson, Counting Crows, Phish and R. E. M., which is the band that gave Mountain Stage its first national exposure.

Weeklies in the city include the Midlands Business Journal ( weekly business publication ), American Classifieds ( Formerly Thrifty Nickel ), a weekly classified newspaper, The Reader ( newspaper ), and Omaha Magazine, as well as The Omaha Star.

The company's holdings include one daily newspaper, the Peninsula Daily News, as well as the Tacoma Daily Index government listings publication ; The Bellingham Business Journal ; the Little Nickel and Nickel Ads classified listings ; the military publications Kitsap Navy News and Whidbey Crosswind ; The Bellevue Scene magazine ; and Recreationland, a tourist guide.

Nickel metal is classified as " Harmful ".