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

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

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

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

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

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

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

VOA: standard.2010.04.07

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