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Loch Ness takes its name from the River Ness which flows from the loch's northern end. The river's name probably derives from an old Celtic word meaning 'roaring one'. [14] William Mackay in his 1893 book Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden times in a highland parish recounts two Scottish legends that have been reported as the source of the name ...
Ness, Cheshire, England, a village; Ness, Lewis, the most northerly area on Lewis, Scotland, UK; Cuspate foreland, known in England as "ness", a coastal landform; Loch Ness, a freshwater loch in the Scottish Highlands, noted for the Loch Ness Monster; Ness Botanic Gardens, owned by the University of Liverpool and located on the Wirral Peninsula ...
The Loch Ness Monster (Scottish Gaelic: Uilebheist Loch Nis), [3] known affectionately as Nessie, is a mythical creature in Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water.
Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent known for his efforts to bring down Al Capone while enforcing Prohibition in Chicago.
Awareness and acknowledgment of the arbitrariness of Dasein is characterized as a state of "thrown-ness" in the present with all its attendant frustrations, sufferings, and demands that one does not choose, such as social conventions or ties of kinship and duty. The very fact of one's own existence is a manifestation of thrown-ness.
Ness (Irish: Neasa, Old Irish: Ness), also called Nessa, is a princess of the Ulaid and the mother of Conchobar mac Nessa in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. Her father is Eochaid Sálbuide , king of the Ulaid.
Aboutness is a term used in library and information science (LIS), linguistics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.In general, the term refers to the concept that a text, utterance, image, or action is on or of something. [1]
Haecceity (/ h ɛ k ˈ s iː ɪ t i, h iː k-/; from the Latin haecceitas, 'thisness') is a term from medieval scholastic philosophy, first coined by followers of Duns Scotus to denote a concept that he seems to have originated: the irreducible determination of a thing that makes it this particular thing.