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NINEVEH 



Nimes, Fiance. 1. One 01 the baths in the ancient Thermae, dating from 25 B.C. 2. Maison Carree, a Roman temple 

 elected about A.D. 1, one o! the best preserved specimens existing. 3. Roman amphitheatre, built lst-2nd century A.D., 

 containing 34 tiers of seats, capable of holding 20,000 spectators. 4. Cathedral of Notre Dame et S. Castor, built lOth-llth 



century, on the ruins of a Roman temple 



Pont du Gard, a Roman aqueduct, 

 and the remains of some baths, 

 both built under Agrippa. 



Having taken the existing village 

 from the Gauls, the Romans made 

 Nimes into one of their greatest 

 cities. Augustus, who was mainly 

 responsible for this, built its exten- 

 sive walls. After the fall of the 

 Roman empire the city suffered 

 decline. In 1185 it became part 

 of the county of Toulouse and was 

 again surrounded with walls. For a 

 short time in the 16th century 

 there was a university here. In the 

 time of the Reformation it was a 

 Protestant stronghold and the 

 scene of considerable bloodshed. 

 Four ecclesiastical councils were 

 held at Nimes, the most important 

 being the one held under the pre- 

 sidency of Pope Urban II in 1096. 

 Alphonse Daudet was one of the 

 several eminent men who were 

 born in the city. Pop. 80,500. 

 See Maison Carree. 



Nimrod. In the O.T., a son of 

 Gush, and a notable hunter and 

 warrior (Gen. 10). He ruled at 

 Shinar and is regarded as the 

 founder of the Assyrian power. 



Nine Pins. Wooden pieces with 

 which the game of skittles or nine 

 pins is played. The object of the 

 game is to knock the pins over with 

 a wooden ball at the fewest possible 

 attempts. In the U.S.A. the 

 popular game of bowling has 

 developed from nine pins. When, 



owing to the amount of gambling it 

 occasioned, this game was for- 

 bidden by law, an extra pin was 

 added, and the game continued 

 with ten pins. See Skittles. 



Nineteenth Century and 

 After, THE. British monthly re- 

 view. It was established March, 

 1877, by James T. Knowles. His 

 guiding principle was the publica- 

 tion of signed articles by men 

 and women of note. Its initial 

 issue contained a prefatory sonnet 

 by Tennyson and contributions 

 by Matthew Arnold, Gladstone, 

 Huxley, and Cardinal Manning. 

 The last two words in the title 

 were added in 1901, the Janiform 

 head on the cover being adapted 

 by Sir Edward Poynter from a 

 Greek coin of Tenedos. The review 

 has been the arena of many 

 famous discussions, notably on 

 women's suffrage and the Channel 

 tunnel. On Knowles's death in 

 1908, the control passed to his son- 

 in-law, W. Wray Skilbeck. 



'Ninety-Eight. Term used in 

 connexion with the rebellion that 

 broke out in Ireland in 1798. Eng- 

 land was at war with France, and 

 there was general unrest. A small 

 rebellion in Ulster was crushed and 

 the whole country placed under 

 martial law. Under this there was a 

 certain amount of terrorism, and 

 in May rebellion broke out in 

 Kildare. Other Leinster counties 

 followed, but the risings were 



quickly put down. In Wexford, 

 however, the movement was more 

 serious, and 15,000 rebels seized the 

 county town there and set up a 

 camp on Vinegar Hill. A large body 

 attacked and almost destroyed New 

 Ross, but the insurgents were de- 

 feated when they marched to Ark- 

 low. On June 21 General Lake at- 

 tacked their camp on Vinegar Hill, 

 and his complete victory there prac- 

 tically ended the rising. The move- 

 ment is commemorated in J. K. 

 Ingram's verses, Who fears to 

 speak of '98 ? (See Vinegar Hill.) 



In the same way the Jacobite 

 risings of 1715 and 1745 are known 

 respectively as the 'fifteen and the 

 'forty-five. See Charles Edward ; 

 Jacobites ; James Edward. 



Nineveh. Assyrian city on the 

 left Tigris bank opposite Mosul, 

 Mesopotamia. Its walls, enclosing 

 1,800 acres, with 15 gates and 

 many towers^ were protected on 

 three sides by a moat filled from 

 the Choser tributary. This crossed 

 the city to the Tigris, once flank- 

 ing its W. wall for 2 m., but now 

 separated by a broad crescent of 

 silt. A double earthwork defended 

 the E. wall. 



A remote neolithic settlement, 

 confirmed by obsidian implements 

 from the lowest Kuyunjik stratum, 

 preceded an immigration of metal- 

 using people (Gen. 10) from S. 

 Babylonia, whose fish-goddess Nina 

 gave her name to the city. Wor- 



