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Captain Nemo is the protagonist of Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea ( 1870) and its sequel, Mysterious Island ( 1874).

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He is prince Dakkar, the son of an Indian rajah and nephew of Tippoo Sahib, having a deep hatred of the British conquest of India. After the Sepoy mutiny, he devotes himself to scientific research and develops an advanced electric submarine, the Nautilus. He and a crew of his loyals cruise the seas, battling injustice, especially slavery. The gold of Spanish ships sunk at the Bay of VigoVigo is the largest city in the Galicia region of northwestern Spain. As of 2003 census, the population of the city of Vigo proper was 292,566, and the population of the entire urban area was estimated to be 420,672, ranking as the 14th-largest urban area provided them with money.

The character appears in the comic book The League of Extraordinary GentlemenThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a comic book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Kevin O'Neill, published under the America's Best Comics imprint of DC Comics. As of 2004 it comprises twelve issues (published as two six-issue mini-ser where it is revealed that he was not really dead after the events of Mysterious Island and joins the League. However after the end of the tales, he withdraws again to that island. He also appears in its 20032003 is a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar), and also: The International Year of Freshwater The European Disability Year Summary Perhaps the defining global event of the year 2003 was the Invasion of Iraq launched by the U feature film adaptation, in which he was played by Naseeruddin ShahNaseeruddin Shah (born July 20, 1950) is one of the icons of New Indian Cinema along with Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi and Om Puri. Shah was born in Delhi and educated at the National School of Drama in Delhi. Like many of the other actors of his genre, Nase.

He has also been the subjects of a song by Sarah BrightmanSarah Brightman (born August 14, 1960 in Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire) is an English soprano and actress. Brightman is the oldest of six children. Her ambition to be an artist was clear from a very early age. She often took ballet lessons and was an excell and another by the band Ace of BaseAce of Base are a Swedish pop band composed of Jonas Berggren (Joker), Ulf Ekberg (Buddha), Linn Berggren and Jenny Berggren; the three Berggrens are siblings. They sold over 21 million copies of their debut LP Happy Nation released in 1993. The quartet f. The song Nemo by NightwishNightwish is a Finnish power metal band, formed in 1996. While the songs are mostly written by the band's leader, Tuomas Holopainen, their success is also widely attributed to the vocals. These are performed by Tarja Turunen, who has studied classical sin is also about him.

His name is the Latin for "nobody"Nemo is: The Latin word for nobody or no-one''. Undoubtedly, it was for this reason that Jules Verne named his mysterious sea captain " Captain Nemo". The name of a character in Pixar's animated feature Finding Nemo''. A game for the CPS-1. A science muse.

The clownfish character Nemo in the animated movie Finding Nemo is named after him.



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