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Nimrod and arrived
* Nimrod ( later Bastion )-a prototype Super Sentinel that arrived from the " Days of Future Past " timeline and was later reactivated by Reverend William Stryker.

Nimrod and at
* 1909 – Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag from the South Pole, the furthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
* X-51 ( Machine Man ): Captured by Bastion and " infected " with Prime Sentinel nano-bots which reconfigured and reconstructed his systems thereby giving him similar capabilities to Nimrod, such as adapting to almost any situation and programming that at times forced him to attack mutants.
The series finale hinted at Nimrod appearing later in the show's timeline leading a new fleet of Sentinels.
" And Nimrod dwelt in Babel, and he there renewed his reign over the rest of his subjects, and he reigned securely, and the subjects and princes of Nimrod called his name Amraphel, saying that at the tower his princes and men fell through his means.
* Nimrod Line Squadron, former military service unit at RAF Kinloss
The grandest of all these and the most interesting is the temple of Nuba at Borsippa ( now Birs Nimrod ), near Babylon, which has been identified as the temple of the Seven Spheres.
Nimrod began as a halfway point for wheat traders traveling on the Wheat Trail between Shell City and the nearest railroad at Verndale.
Fearing it is Rogue's doing, they go in and find various parts of Rogue's past being projected around them, including her fight against Nimrod and being captured and beaten at Genosha.
According to the Miholjanec legend, Stephen V of Hungary had in front of his tent a golden plate with the inscription: " Attila, the son of Bendeuci, grandson of the great Nimrod, born at Engedi: By the Grace of God King of the Huns, Medes, Goths, Dacians, the horrors of the world and the scourge of God.
He confronts Nimrod and tells him face-to-face to cease his idolatry, whereupon Nimrod orders him burned at the stake.
When Nimrod appears at the head of enormous armies, Abraham produces an army of gnats which destroys Nimrod's army.
Beginning with the words: " When King Nimrod went out to the fields / Looked at the heavens and at the stars / He saw a holy light in the Jewish quarter / A sign that Abraham, our father, was about to be born ", the song gives a poetic account of the persecutions perpetrated by the cruel Nimrod and the miraculous birth and deeds of the savior Abraham.
The Irgun force commanded by Yehuda Lapidot ( Nimrod ) was to break through at The New Gate, Lehi to break through the wall stretching from the New Gate and the The Jaffa Gate, and the Beit Horon Battalion to strike from Mount Zion.
Shortly after this, and once he had rejoined his teammates, a tactic designed to disable the super-Sentinel Nimrod backfired and Kurt found himself at the mercies of an angry mob ( in a nod to his first appearance in Giant Sized X-Men # 1 ) without his teleportation ability.
Nimrod was present at this event:
Published in 1837 this often reprinted series of articles written by Nimrod in The New Sporting Magazine sell for thousands of pounds when originals or early reprints come up at auction.
Following his sister orders, Quicksilver tried to help the White House, only resulting in the death of many mutants at the hands of Nimrod Model Sentinels, which were controlled by the Reverend Stryker before his death.
Later, during the Hellfire Club's battle alongside the X-Men against Nimrod, a Sentinel from the future, Shaw was thrown into the upper atmosphere by the Sentinel, then caught by Harry Leland's power and slammed at phenomenal speed into Nimrod.

Nimrod and on
The concept of an armored SPAAG was pioneered by Hungary during World War II Hungary by producing the 40M Nimrod based on the Luftvärnskanonvagn L-62 Anti II license acquired from Sweden.
During the battle with Bastion's Nimrod Sentinels, Iceman is severely injured following an attack from one of them that reversed his ice form and left him with burns on his body.
() Ham ’ s son Cush had a son named Nimrod, who became the first man of might on earth, a mighty hunter, king in Babylon and the land of Shinar.
Although there were later tensions between Scott and Shackleton, when their polar ambitions directly clashed, in public mutual civilities were preserved ; Scott joined in the official receptions that greeted Shackleton on his return in 1909 after the Nimrod Expedition, and the two were exchanging polite letters about their respective ambitions in 1909 – 10.
Based on the Nimrod Sentinel.
While the Qur ' an does not mention the king's name, Muslim commentators have assigned Nimrod as the king based on Jewish sources, namely the Book of Jasher ( 11: 1 and 12: 6 ).
Sgt Knight was only 25 when he was killed along with 13 comrades from the 120 Squadron when the Nimrod came down near Kandahar on 2 September 2006.
Shackleton then worked hard to persuade others of his wealthy friends and acquaintances to contribute, including Sir Phillip Lee Brocklehurst, who subscribed £ 2, 000 ( 2011 equivalent £ 157, 000 ) to secure a place on the expedition, author Campbell Mackellar, and Guinness baron Lord Iveagh whose contribution was secured less than two weeks before the departure of the expedition ship Nimrod.
Although it mostly died out 1600 to 1700 years ago, Mesopotamian religion has still had an influence on the modern world, predominantly because Biblical mythology that is today found in Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Mandeanism shares some overlapping consistency with ancient Mesopotamian myths, in particular the Creation Myth, the Garden of Eden, The Great Flood, Tower of Babel and figures such as Nimrod and Lilith ( the Assyrian Lilitu ).
The real theme of the Enigma Variations which is present everywhere throughout the work in different shapes, is rather short: it consists of only nine notes ( the first nine notes of Nimrod with added crotchet rests ) on the rhythm of Edward Elgar ’ s own name (" short-short-long-long ", and the reverse of it, " long-long-short-short " and an endnote ).
The township and the Nimrods are the focus of an 8-part documentary, Nimrod Nation, which aired on The Sundance Channel.
Nimrod's city park is named Stigman's Mound, for Dick Stigman, relief pitcher on the 1965 American League Championship-winning Minnesota Twins, who was born in Nimrod.
In 1969 the special-purpose Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod, based on the de Havilland Comet airliner, was introduced into RAF service and Coastal Command duties were passed on to general squadrons.
The Nimrod was a replacement for the Shackleton and it began to do so on 2 October 1969.
" Nimrod, who was the first to be a warrior on the earth " First Book of Chronicles, 1: 10.
390, explains in Hebrew Questions on Genesis that after Nimrod reigned in Babel, " he also reigned in Arach, that is, in Edissa ; and in Achad, which is now called Nisibis ; and in Chalanne, which was later called Seleucia after King Seleucus when its name had been changed, and which is now in actual fact called Ctesiphon.
In still other versions, Nimrod does not give up after the Tower fails, but goes on to try storming Heaven in person, in a chariot driven by birds.
Muslim commentators assign Nimrod as the king based on Jewish sources.
According to tradition, Nimrod ( king ) | Nimrod had Abraham immolated on a funeral pyre, but God turned the fire into water and the burning coals into fish.
In May 1982, the Chilean government allowed RAF Nimrod MR2s to fly maritime reconnaissance sorties from the island, gathering information on the movements of the Argentine Navy.
It was later called the House of Arpad, and traditionally descends from the wise and just king Nimrod, the first king on Earth.

Nimrod and 29
In the Recognitions ( R 4. 29 ), one version of the Clementines, Nimrod is equated with the legendary Assyrian king Ninus, who first appears in the Greek historian Ctesias as the founder of Nineveh.

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