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Caricaturist for "Le Charivari" in 1848.
In 1849 he created the "Revue comique" and the "Petit journal pour rire"
He took his first photographs in 1853.
In 1858, Nadar became the first person to make aerial photographs.
By 1863, Nadar built a huge (6000 m3) hot air balloon named "Le Géant", thereby inspiring Jules Verne's "Cinq semaines en ballon" ("Five Weeks in a Balloon"). "Le Géant" was unsuccessful and, convinced him that the future belonged to heavier-than-air machines. "The Society for the Encouragement of Aerial Locomotion by Means of Heavier than Air Machines," with Nadar as president and Jules Verne as secretary.
He lent his photo studio to a group of painters, thus making possible the first exhibition of the Impressionists in April, 1874.
He photographed Victor Hugo on his death-bed in 1885.
He is credited with having published (in 1886) the first photo-interview, and also took erotic photographs.
The character of "Michel Ardan" in "De la Terre à la Lune" is inspired by Nadar.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nadar."
Date "NADAR" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1870. (references) |
"NADAR" is a common misspelling or typo for: nadir. |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NADAR | English | North America Airborne Data Recorder | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Crosswords: NADAR |
| Non-English Usage: "NADAR" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Occitan (swim), Portuguese (bathe, float, swim), Provencal (to swim), Spanish (float, floatage, flotage, swim, swimming). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nadar contra la corriente (2002) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
nadar ralph | 23 |
nadar shiv | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-n-r" | |
-1 letter: darn, nada, nard, rand. | |
-2 letters: ana, and, rad, ran. | |
-3 letters: aa, ad, an, ar, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-n-r" | |
+1 letter: canard, dharna, radian, randan. | |
+2 letters: adrenal, aneared, araneid, armband, bandora, canards, darshan, dharnas, drayman, gardant, garland, grandad, grandam, grandma, grandpa, handcar, hardpan, laniard, lanyard, madrona, mansard, manward, monarda, nadiral, pandora, pandura, radians, radiant, randans, sandbar, sardana, tankard, tanyard, vanward, veranda, yardman. | |
+3 letters: abradant, abrading, acaridan, adrenals, advancer, alderman, antidora, arachnid, araneids, arcadian, arcading, armbands, arranged, awarding, bandager, bandoras, bankcard, barnyard, boardman, calendar, carangid, cardamon, cardigan, cardinal, dairyman, darshans, dracaena, dragoman, drainage, farmhand, farmland, flancard, gadarene, gardenia, garlands, graduand, grandads, grandame, grandams, granddad, granddam, grandmas, grandpas, guardant, guardian, hairband, handcars, handcart, handrail, hangared, hardpans, harridan, intraday, landgrab, landmark, landward, laniards, lanyards, largando, madronas, mandarin, mandator, mandrake, mansards, manwards, marinade, monardas, mridanga, narrated, pandoras, panduras, parading, paranoid, parkland, parlando, prandial, qindarka, quadrans, quadrant, quandary, radiance, radiancy, radiants, radicand, radioman, rainband, sandarac, sandbars, saraband, sardanas, standard, tamarind, tankards, tanyards, unafraid, vanguard, verandah, verandas, yardland, yardwand, zamindar. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 41 44 41 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .- -.. .- .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01000001 01000100 01000001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N A D A R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0041 0044 0041 0052 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4835383552 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Abbreviations 7. Acronyms 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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