Two of his names -- Santa Claus and Saint Nicholas -- both come from the Dutch who settled in New York long ago.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Sixteen-year-old violinist Nicholas Black joined after he read a story about the group in a local newspaper.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

And French President Nicholas Sarkozy has decided to return France to NATO's military command for the first time in more than forty years.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

Instead,Harvard's Nicholas Lange says the team looked at the circuitry -- the chemical and electrical pathways that link the different parts of the brain.

VOA: special.2010.12.08

Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler based the study on the emotional health of almost 5,000 people.

VOA: special.2009.01.21

Nicholas Johnson is chief scientist for orbital debris for the United States space agency.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Nicholas Negroponte established the One Laptop Per Child project in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

One of the winners is nineteen year old Nicholas Godfrey from Rome,Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Nicholas Conard from the University of Tubingen led the team of researchers.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

Santa Claus also has some other names: Saint Nicholas,St.Nick, Kris Kringle,Pelznickel.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Another of the giants was the Polish scientist Nicholas Copernicus.

VOA: special.2011.06.01

Here Nicholas Godfrey reads his winning poem "When Simplicity Dies."

VOA: special.2010.04.05

Nicholas Benson is a skilled stone carver.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

Nicholas Godley is an American clothing designer.

VOA: special.2009.10.30

meaning fur,and "nickel" for Nicholas.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

And so,to the Germans of Pennsylvania, Saint Nicholas or Pelznickel was a man dressed in fur who came once a year with gifts for good children.Soon, people began to feel that the love and kindness Pelznickel brought should be part of a celebration honoring the Christkindl, as the Germans called the Christ child.

VOA: special.2009.12.20

Yet Nicholas Szechenyi of the Center for Strategic and International Studies says Washington's softer approach is not all soft.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

The houses of worship that joined this year's event included Sikh and Buddhist temples, churches,and the Orthodox Christian Cathedral of St.Nicholas.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Dr.Nicholas says before he left the FDA, he and other scientists warned against the routine use of CT scans.

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

French President Nicholas Sarkozy urged Mr.Assad, during a conference in France last July, to use his influence to help resolve Iran's nuclear standoff with the West.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

Dr.Julian Nicholas is a scientist, formerly with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

But Nicholas Minot at the International Food Policy Research Institute notes that these countries have relatively well-established regulatory systems to oversee livestock health, meat processing and food safety.

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

French President Nicholas Sarkozy even told an interviewer that he might walk out of the summit, if nations fail to agree on stricter regulation of global financial markets.

VOA: standard.2009.04.01

Nicholas Simani is the commission's public relations officer.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

Nicholas Lardy, an economist and senior fellow at the Washington-based Peterson Institute, says China's unwillingness to adopt derivative loans and other high-risk financial products helped to shield it from the impact of the world economic downturn.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10