Vinton's team also created the Nomes and the Nome King for Disney's " Return to Oz " feature, for which they received an Academy Award Nomination for Special Visual Effects.

Nephthys also was the goddess of the " Mansion of the Sistrum " in Hwt-Sekhem ( Gr. Diospolis Parva ), the chief city of Nome VII.

Former villagers from King Island also live in Nome.

Nome also is home to Alaska's oldest newspaper, the Nome Nugget.

There are also smaller roads to communities up to from Nome, yet no road connection to the other major cities of Alaska.

The most famous event in the history of Alaskan mushing is the 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the " Great Race of Mercy.

The Nome Trilogy, also known in both the UK and the US as The Bromeliad Trilogy, is a trilogy of children's books by Terry Pratchett, consisting of

General Guph also tells the Nome King that Glinda " commands the spirits of the air ,".

She also published several poetry books and anthologies, including: Poesia, Dual, Livro Sexto, Coral, Dia do Mar, No Tempo Dividido, Grades, O Nome das Coisas, As Ilhas, Antologia, Geografia, Navegações, O Búzio de Cós.

It was once the capital of the 6th Nome ( Pharaonic province ) of Upper Egypt, and was also named Nikentori or Nitentori, which signifies willow wood or willow earth.

During the 1925 serum run to Nome, also known as the " Great Race of Mercy ", 20 mushers and about 150 sled dogs relayed diphtheria antitoxin by dog sled across the U. S. territory of Alaska in five and a half days, saving the small city of Nome and the surrounding communities from an incipient epidemic.

The Russians who arrived in Alaska also frequently visited shopping areas in Fairbanks and Nome, and contingents visited the aircraft manufacturing plants in the United States.

As a result of their concern about a possible Japanese attack upon the Soviet Union that might also include the occupation of St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea and of nearby Nome and its adjacent airfields on the Alaskan mainland.

Sheryl Nome from Macross Frontier also resembles Misa Hayase.

Nome has a subarctic climate ( Köppen Dfc ), with long, very cold winters, and short, cool summers.

Total gold production for the Nome district has been at least 3. 6 million ounces.

* Nome Airport-public-use airport located two nautical miles ( 3. 7 km ) west of the central business district of Nome, it has two asphalt paved runways: 3 / 21 measures 5, 576 by 150 feet ( 1, 700 x 46 m ) and 10 / 28 is 6, 001 by 150 feet ( 1, 829 x 46 m ).

* Nome City Field-a public-use airport located one nautical mile ( 1. 85 km ) north of the central business district of Nome, it has one runway designated 3 / 21 with a gravel surface measuring 1, 950.

Nome has a seaport, used by freight ships and cruise ships, located at 64 ° 30 ’ N and 165 ° 24 ’ W on the southern side of the Seward Peninsula in Norton Sound.

The Nome Small Boat Harbor has a depth of 10 feet ( MLLW ) and offers protected mooring for recreational and fishing vessels alongside 2 floating docks.

Guph believes that against the many magicians and magicks of Oz ( the reputation of which has grown in the telling ), the Nome Army has no chance alone.

The expedition journeys to the underground kingdom of the Nomes, where the Nome King reveals that he has turned the royal family into ornaments around his palace.

The book actually has little to do with Tik-Tok and is primarily the quest of the Shaggy Man ( introduced in The Road to Oz ) to rescue his brother, and his resulting conflict with the Nome King.

The Nome King ( who has recovered from having drunk the Water of Oblivion in The Emerald City of Oz ) is aghast at this group coming toward his underground kingdom.

Most intriguingly, in The Emerald City of Oz, when the Nome King considers invading Oz, he is told by a minion, General Guph, that Glinda the Good's castle is located " at the north of the Emerald City ," when it has been established that Glinda rules the South.

The desert has nonetheless been breached numerous times, both by children from our world ( mostly harmless ), by the Wizard of Oz himself, and by more sinister characters, such as the Nome King, who attempted to conquer Oz.

The Nome King has tried to conquer Oz on several occasions.

Winter temperatures are significantly higher than at other places within Chukotka such as Uelen and Ushakovskoye, because it is a more southerly settlement with greater maritime influence from the Bering Sea, as with nearby Nome which has similar winter moderation.

Taking charge, Tik-Tok explains that King Scarecrow is missing and has been captured by the Nome King.

Although the Wicked Witch of the West is the most famous of Oz's villains ( thanks to the popular 1939 film The Wizard of Oz ), the Nome King is the closest the book series has to a main antagonist.

In Bill Willingham's Vertigo comic book series Fables, the Nome King has sided with the Adversary and is now the ruler of Oz.

In Blade: Trinity, Zoe is read the Oz books by her mother, and she later compares Drake to the Nome King in that he is bad simply because he has never tried to be good.

Kim Ryholt recently has argued that Kamose probably never advanced farther than the Anpu or Cynopolis Nome in Middle Egypt ( around the Faiyum and the city of Saka ) and did not enter either the Nile Delta, nor Lower Egypt proper.

Council is the nearest site to Nome that has trees, and some Nome residents cut spruce trees at Council for use as Christmas trees.

Seven pairs were made for the filming: two pairs, size one, for Ozma ( Ridley ), three size twos for Dorothy ( Balk ), and two men's size 11 for the Nome King ( Nicol Williamson ).

The Nome General Guph visits three nations ; the Whimsies, the Growleywogs, and the Phanfasms.

Most of the action takes place on three islands — Pingaree, Regos, and Coregos — and within the Nome King's caverns.

The Nome King offers Dorothy's group a chance to locate the Scarecrow, but three guesses wrong and they will be turned to ornaments as well.

After overcoming three near-catastrophes, Balto makes it back to Nome in time to save the children, guided by Jenna's aurora beacon.

Other assignments during the three year tour of duty that Bertholf commanded the Bear included hydrographic surveys, shipwreck rescues and transporting 143 destitute men and women from Nome to Seattle.

Togo and Seppala traveled 170 miles ( 274 km ) from Nome in three days, and picked up the serum in Shaktoolik on January 31.

He had previously made the run from Nome to Nulato in a record-breaking four days, won the All-Alaska Sweepstakes three times, and had become something of a legend for his athletic ability and rapport with his Siberian huskies.

Gold at Nome was concentrated in three ancient beach lines, now inshore, above sea level, and buried under roughly fifty feet of permafrost overlain by two feet of tundra.

It comprises three municipalities: Bø, Sauherad and Nome.

In 1992 Joe was the voice of Masklin in the TV adaptation of Truckers, the first of Terry Pratchett's three books in The Nome Trilogy.