Albertville 1992 Olympic Winter Games: Ski jumper Toni Nieminen, a 16-year-old Finn, used the new V-style method to capture two gold medals and one bronze.

Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was a British historian, who was most noted for his work on 18th- and 19th-century Europe. Namier immigrated to England in 1906 and studied at Balliol College, Oxford. He took British nationality and legally adopted an Anglicized name before World War I, in which he

Martin Niemöller was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and pastor, founder of the Confessing Church and a president of the World Council of Churches. The son of a pastor, Niemöller was a naval officer and commander of a German U-boat in World War I before beginning theological studies at

Martin Niemöller was a prominent German anti-Nazi theologian and pastor, founder of the Confessing Church and a president of the World Council of Churches. The son of a pastor, Niemöller was a naval officer and commander of a German U-boat in World War I before beginning theological studies at

Nian Rebellion, (c. 1853–68), major revolt in the eastern and central Chinese provinces of Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, and Anhui; it occurred when the Qing dynasty was preoccupied with the great Taiping Rebellion (1850–64) in southern and central China. An offshoot of the Buddhist-inspired White

Nyainqêntanglha Mountains, mountain range forming the eastern section of a mountain system in the southern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, southwestern China. In the west the system comprises a northern range, the Nganglong (A-ling) Mountains, and a southern range, the Kailas Range, which is

Buddhism: Pure Land: …of invoking the name Amitabha—called nembutsu in Japanese and nianfo in Chinese—became popular in China and Japan, where it was believed that the world had reached the decadent age, the so-called “latter days of the law” in which Buddhist doctrines were unclear and humans lacked the purity of heart or…

nianhao, system of dating that was adopted by the Chinese in 140 bce (retroactive to 841 bce). The nianhao system was introduced by the emperor Wudi (reigned 141–87 bce) of the Xi (Western) Han, and every emperor thereafter gave his reign a nianhao at the beginning of his accession (sometimes a new

Jacobus Nienhuys was a Dutch businessman and planter who was responsible for establishing the tobacco industry in Sumatra (now part of Indonesia). Nienhuys went to Sumatra in 1863 in hopes of purchasing tobacco as a middleman but found production there insufficient for commercial exploitation. To

Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor who was the first to make a permanent photographic image. The son of a wealthy family suspected of royalist sympathies, Niépce fled the French Revolution but returned to serve in the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte. Dismissed because of ill health, he

Nicéphore Niépce was a French inventor who was the first to make a permanent photographic image. The son of a wealthy family suspected of royalist sympathies, Niépce fled the French Revolution but returned to serve in the French army under Napoleon Bonaparte. Dismissed because of ill health, he

John R. Dunning: With Alfred Nier and other colleagues, he then showed in 1940 that it was mostly the uranium-235 isotope that was involved in the fission of the uranium nucleus. Dunning went on to direct the research team at Columbia that developed the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium-235…

Casimir IV: …nobility substantial concessions by the Privilege (statute) of Nieszawa (November 1454); these, however, became important only after his death, and royal power was not greatly diminished during his lifetime.

Lubuskie: Geography: …network is designated as the Nietoperek Bat Nature Reserve, central Europe’s most important bat hibernation site, which provides shelter to some 30,000 bats of 12 different species. Major festivals held in the region are the Summer Film Festival in Łagów, the International Folk Festival in Zielona Góra, and the International…

Tadeusz Miciński: The novel Nietota: Księga tajemna Tatr (1910; “Nietota: The Secret Book of the Tatra Mountains”) is an imaginary re-creation of Polish life at the beginning of the 20th century. In the apocalyptic visions of his novel Xiądz Faust (1913; “Father Faust”), Miciński predicted that Polish-Russian brotherhood would…

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers. His attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians,

Western philosophy: Recent trends: …argued in the essay “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” (1977), an examination of the notion of truth reveals that

Nieuwpoort, municipality, Flanders Region, western Belgium, on the Yser (IJzer) River. It was established in the 12th century as a new port for Ypres (replacing Lombardsijde). Nieuwpoort was besieged 10 times after it was first fortified in 1163. It was the scene of a Dutch victory over the Spanish

Nieuw Nickerie, port, northwestern Suriname. It lies on the Nickerie River, near the mouth of the Courantyne (Dutch Corantijn) River, 3 miles (5 km) from the Atlantic Ocean coast. Rice is the principal crop grown in the area, and cocoa, baboen lumber, and balata, used in making golf balls, are

Sint Eustatius, island and special municipality within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is in the Lesser Antilles, in the northeastern Caribbean Sea, about 16 miles (26 km) southeast of Saba and 5 miles (8 km) northwest of the island of Saint Kitts. Its capital is Oranjestad. Sint Eustatius

Martinus Nijhoff: Nijhoff’s best volume, Nieuwe gedichten (1934; “New Poems”), shows a spiritual rebirth, an affirmation of the richness of earthly existence, which is most apparent in the optimism of the magnificent “Awater.” This tale of a mythical, biblical character set in a sober modern townscape combines a sensitive use…

Frederik Willem van Eeden: …and Albert Verwey, founded (1885) De nieuwe gids, a literary periodical devoted to modern authors and new social ideas. Later he practiced medicine at Bussum, near Hilversum, where he started a clinic for physical therapy. In 1898 he founded Walden, an agricultural colony based on the ideas of Thoreau. Van…

Rotterdam: …along both banks of the New Meuse (Nieuwe Maas) River, which is a northern distributary of the Rhine River.

harbours and sea works: The Delta Plan: …the channel known as the New Waterway from the Hook of Holland.

Julius Arthur Nieuwland was a Belgian-born American chemist whose studies of acetylene culminated in the discovery of lewisite, a chemical-warfare agent, and neoprene, the first commercially successful synthetic rubber. Nieuwland, emigrating with his parents to the United States in 1880, graduated

Nieuwpoort, municipality, Flanders Region, western Belgium, on the Yser (IJzer) River. It was established in the 12th century as a new port for Ypres (replacing Lombardsijde). Nieuwpoort was besieged 10 times after it was first fortified in 1163. It was the scene of a Dutch victory over the Spanish

Hindu Kush: Climate: …snow hummocks—called nieves penitentes or Büsserschnee (literally, “penitent snow”)—that give the illusion of kneeling human figures, sometimes two or three feet high; especially noticeable in the early morning, they are formed by the alternation of strong sunlight and rapid evaporation during the day and severe cold at night.

Italian literature: The Risorgimento and after: …of Risorgimento narrative literature is Ippolito Nievo’s Confessioni di un italiano (published posthumously in 1867; “Confessions of an Italian”; Eng. trans. The Castle of Fratta), which marks Nievo as the most important novelist to emerge in the interval between Manzoni and Giovanni Verga. Giuseppe Mazzini’s letters can still be studied…

Burgundy: of Côte-d’Or, Saône-et-Loire, Nièvre, and Yonne. In 2016 the Burgundy région was joined with the région of Franche-Comté to form the new administrative entity of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Solidarity, Polish trade union that in the early 1980s became the first independent labour union in a country belonging to the Soviet bloc. Solidarity was founded in September 1980, was forcibly suppressed by the Polish government in December 1981, and reemerged in 1989 to become the first

coordination compound: Characteristics of coordination compounds: … (NaCl) or nickel(+2) fluoride (nickel difluoride; NiF2) are not considered coordination compounds, because they consist of continuous ionic lattices rather than discrete molecules. Nevertheless, the arrangement (and bonding) of the anions surrounding the metal ions in these salts is similar to that in coordination compounds. Coordination compounds generally display…

Sudan: The rise of Muslim fundamentalism: …of the party, renamed the Islamic National Front (NIF). Turābī methodically charted the Brotherhood and the NIF on a course of action designed to seize control of the Sudanese government despite the Muslim fundamentalists’ lack of popularity with the majority of the Sudanese people. Tightly disciplined, superbly organized, and inspired…

National Ignition Facility (NIF), laser-based fusion research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, U.S. A major goal for the device is to create a self-renewing, or energy-producing, fusion reaction for the first time. If successful, it may demonstrate

Nippur, ancient city of Mesopotamia, now in southeastern Iraq. It lies northeast of the town of Ad-Dīwānīyah. Although never a political capital, Nippur played a dominant role in the religious life of Mesopotamia. In Sumerian mythology Nippur was the home of Enlil, the storm god and representation

Niflheim, in Norse mythology, the cold, dark, misty world of the dead, ruled by the goddess Hel. In some accounts it was the last of nine worlds, a place into which evil men passed after reaching the region of death (Hel). Situated below one of the roots of the world tree, Yggdrasill, Niflheim

Niflheim, in Norse mythology, the cold, dark, misty world of the dead, ruled by the goddess Hel. In some accounts it was the last of nine worlds, a place into which evil men passed after reaching the region of death (Hel). Situated below one of the roots of the world tree, Yggdrasill, Niflheim

Agostino Nifo was a Renaissance philosopher noted for his development from an anti-Christian interpreter of Aristotelian philosophy into an influential Christian apologist for the immortality of the individual soul. While attending the University of Padua about 1490, Nifo studied the Averroist

Fujitsu Limited: …telecommunications activities by launching the NIFTY Corporation in equal partnership with the Nissho Iwai Corporation. In 1999 Fujitsu acquired all of Nissho Iwai’s shares in NIFTY, which by then had expanded from corporate communications and information services to Internet-related services for the public. Today NIFTY SERVE is Japan’s largest comprehensive…

eflornithine: …the combination of eflornithine with nifurtimox, a nitrofuran compound that is used in the treatment of Chagas disease, which is caused by T. cruzi, an organism closely related to T. brucei.

Indian philosophy: Background: Protests were also voiced by Nigantha Nataputta, who believed in salvation by an ascetic life of self-discipline and hence in the efficacy of deeds and the possibility of omniscience, and, finally, Sanjaya Belathiputta, the skeptic, who, in reply to the question “Is there an afterlife?” would not say “It is…

Battle of Nicopolis, a catastrophic military defeat for Christian knights at the hands of the Ottoman Turks on September 25, 1396. It brought an end to massive international efforts to halt Turkish expansion into the Balkans and central Europe. After their victory at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389,

Niğde, city, south-central Turkey. It lies at an elevation of 4,100 feet (1,250 metres) below a hill crowned by a ruined 11th-century Seljuq fortress on the road between Kayseri and the Cilician Gates, north-northwest of Adana. The city is thought by some historians to be on the site of Nakida,

love-in-a-mist, (Nigella damascena), an annual herbaceous plant of the buttercup family (Ranunculaceae). Native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, it is now grown in gardens throughout temperate regions of the world. It grows 45 to 60 cm (18 to 24 inches) tall and has lacelike leaves. The delicate

black cumin, (Nigella sativa), annual plant of the ranunculus family (Ranunculaceae) grown for its pungent seeds, which are used as a spice and in herbal medicine. The black cumin plant is found in southwestern Asia and parts of the Mediterranean region and Africa, where it has a long history of

Niger, state, west-central Nigeria, bounded to the south by the Niger River. It is also bounded by the states of Kebbi and Zamfara to the north, Kaduna to the north and northeast, Kogi to the southeast, and Kwara to the south. The Abuja Federal Capital Territory is on Niger state’s eastern border,

Niger, western African landlocked country. It is bounded on the northwest by Algeria, on the northeast by Libya, on the east by Chad, on the south by Nigeria and Benin, and on the west by Burkina Faso and Mali. The capital is Niamey. The country takes its name from the Niger River, which flows

Africa: Niger basin: The Niger basin is the largest river basin of western Africa. The Niger River, which rises in the mountains of Guinea and enters the sea through its delta in southern Nigeria, is about 2,600 miles in length. Rapids interrupt its course at several…

Mali: Drainage and soils: …the southeast, known as the Niger Bend, and flows past Gao and Ansongo to the Niger border at Labbezanga.

Oil Rivers, area comprising the delta of the Niger River in modern Nigeria, western Africa. The Oil Rivers Protectorate was established by the British in 1885. It was renamed the Niger Coast Protectorate in 1893 and in 1900 was joined to the Nigerian territories administered by the British

Niger Dams Project, series of three dams and reservoirs built in the second half of the 20th century in Kwara, Niger, and Kebbi states, northwestern Nigeria, on the Niger and Kaduna rivers. The first of the dams was built at Kainji in 1969. Its reservoir, Kainji Lake, supports irrigation and

western Africa: Pre-European slave trading: …exported—as has been seen—from the Niger delta region. The communities of Ijo (Ijaw), Ibibio, and Efik fishermen and salt makers, who controlled the waterways to the interior, developed city-states whose whole fortunes came to be bound up with the slave trade. Most of their slaves were brought from their immediate…

ebony: …and hard heartwood known as black ebony, as billetwood, or as Gabon, Lagos, Calabar, or Niger ebony.

Benin: Relief: The Niger plains, in the northeast of Benin, slope down to the Niger River valley. They consist of clayey sandstones.

Niger, western African landlocked country. It is bounded on the northwest by Algeria, on the northeast by Libya, on the east by Chad, on the south by Nigeria and Benin, and on the west by Burkina Faso and Mali. The capital is Niamey. The country takes its name from the Niger River, which flows

Niger River, principal river of western Africa. With a length of 2,600 miles (4,200 km), it is the third longest river in Africa, after the Nile and the Congo. The Niger is believed to have been named by the Greeks. Along its course it is known by several names. These include the Joliba (Malinke:

Niger River: Transportation: …is the responsibility of the Niger River Commission, formed in 1963. The Commission has sponsored a study of the navigational possibilities of the middle Niger from Gao (Mali) to Yelwa (Nigeria). Moreover, in Nigeria several river basin development authorities have been established to develop more irrigation and fishing projects.

horizontally striped orange-white-green national flag with an orange sun on the centre stripe. The flag’s width-to-length ratio is approximately 6 to 7.Modern political development was hindered in Niger by conflict between the French military and guerrilla resistance, the lack of political parties

history of Niger, a survey of the notable events and people in the history of Niger. The country, located in western Africa, is landlocked and takes its name from the Niger River, which flows through the southwestern part of its territory; the name Niger derives in turn from the phrase gher

Ségou: …is the headquarters of the Office du Niger, an extensive irrigation system begun in 1932. The region in which Ségou is situated is important agriculturally because of the efforts of the Office du Niger. Irrigated rice cultivation in the region has been expanded, and other crops include cotton, sugar, millet,…

Pescennius Niger was a rival Roman emperor from 193 to 194. An equestrian army officer from Italy, Niger was promoted to senatorial rank about 180. Most of his earlier service had been in the eastern provinces, but in 185–186 he commanded an expeditionary force against deserters who had seized

Niger, western African landlocked country. It is bounded on the northwest by Algeria, on the northeast by Libya, on the east by Chad, on the south by Nigeria and Benin, and on the west by Burkina Faso and Mali. The capital is Niamey. The country takes its name from the Niger River, which flows

Niger, western African landlocked country. It is bounded on the northwest by Algeria, on the northeast by Libya, on the east by Chad, on the south by Nigeria and Benin, and on the west by Burkina Faso and Mali. The capital is Niamey. The country takes its name from the Niger River, which flows

Niger-Congo languages, a family of languages of Africa, which in terms of the number of languages spoken, their geographic extent, and the number of speakers is by far the largest language family in Africa. The area in which these languages are spoken stretches from Dakar, Senegal, at the

Niger-Congo languages: Classification of Niger-Congo languages: …classification published in 1989 as The Niger-Congo Languages, which is followed here.

Africa: Languages: …now considered to be Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afro-Asiatic, and Khoisan.

Nigeria, country located on the western coast of Africa. Nigeria has a diverse geography, with climates ranging from arid to humid equatorial. However, Nigeria’s most diverse feature is its people. Hundreds of languages are spoken in the country, including Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, Hausa, Edo, Ibibio,

vertically striped green-white-green national flag. Its width-to-length ratio is 1 to 2.From the late 17th century in what is today Nigeria, the British carried on slave trade with native states and eventually acquired protectorates over many of them. These states did not have national flags, and

history of Nigeria, a survey of notable events and people in the history of Nigeria. The country, located on the Atlantic coast in western Africa, has a diverse geography, with climates ranging from arid to humid equatorial. Also diverse is its population: Nigeria is home to some 250 ethnic groups,

Enugu: The University of Nigeria was founded at Nsukka in 1960. Pop. (2006) 3,257,298.

Nollywood, the Nigerian filmmaking industry and the second largest global film industry in terms of output, after that of India (see Bollywood). The term Nollywood, a portmanteau of “Nigeria” and “Hollywood,” can encompass Nigerian films made outside Nigeria as well as English-language Ghanaian

The Nigerian Civil War was fought from 1967 to 1970 between Nigeria’s federal government and the secessionist state Biafra. Ethnic conflict, economic inequality, and educational disparities were among the factors that contributed to the start of the war, which killed an estimated 500,000 to

Mbari Mbayo Club: …by a group of young writers with the help of Ulli Beier, a teacher at the University of Ibadan. Mbari, an Igbo (Ibo) word for “creation,” refers to the traditional painted mud houses of the area, which must be renewed periodically. The Ibadan club operated an art gallery and theatre…

advance fee fraud: It was sometimes called 419 fraud, after the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code. The 419 fraud scheme was a variation of the confidence swindle, which preys on peoples’ greed and naïveté.

Nigerian theatre, variety of folk opera of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria that emerged in the early 1940s. It combined a brilliant sense of mime, colourful costumes, and traditional drumming, music, and folklore. Directed toward a local audience, it uses Nigerian themes, ranging from

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti: …school, she helped organize the Abeokuta Ladies Club (ALC), initially a civic and charitable group of mostly Western-educated Christian women. The organization gradually became more political and feminist in its orientation, and in 1944 it formally admitted market women (women vendors in Abeokuta’s open-air markets), who were generally impoverished, illiterate,…

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti: …school, she helped organize the Abeokuta Ladies Club (ALC), initially a civic and charitable group of mostly Western-educated Christian women. The organization gradually became more political and feminist in its orientation, and in 1944 it formally admitted market women (women vendors in Abeokuta’s open-air markets), who were generally impoverished, illiterate,…

The Nigerian Civil War was fought from 1967 to 1970 between Nigeria’s federal government and the secessionist state Biafra. Ethnic conflict, economic inequality, and educational disparities were among the factors that contributed to the start of the war, which killed an estimated 500,000 to

chimpanzee: Taxonomy: troglodytes schweinfurthii); and the Nigerian-Cameroon chimpanzee (P. troglodytes ellioti, which was formerly classified as P. troglodytes vellerosus).

Niger: Military coup and return to civilian rule: The Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism–Tarayya (Parti Nigérien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme–Tarayya; PNDS), an established opposition party, won the greatest representation in the National Assembly by a single party with 39 seats; they were followed by the MNSD with 26 seats. No one…

Cosimo II: Under Cosimo also the architect Matteo Nigetti worked on the funeral chapel of the Medici (according to designs by Cosimo I’s brilliant natural son, the younger Giovanni, who also won fame as a soldier and as a diplomat); and the sculptor Pietro Tacca began his bronzes for the monument to…

Nigg, village, Highland council area, historic county of Ross-shire, historic region of Ross and Cromarty, northeast coast of Scotland. It is closely associated with and heavily dependent on the offshore petroleum industry. Construction of a huge dry dock began at Nigg in 1972, utilizing a

N.W.A, American hip-hop group from Compton, California, whose popular, controversial music included explicit references to gang life, drugs, sex, and distaste for authority, especially the police. Its five core members were Eazy-E (byname of Eric Wright; b. September 7, 1964, Compton, California,

The Nigger of the “Narcissus”, novel by Joseph Conrad, published in 1897. The work was based on Conrad’s experiences while serving in the British merchant navy. All life on board the Narcissus revolves around James Wait, a dying black sailor. Other members of the crew include the strong Captain

Paul Niggli was a Swiss mineralogist who originated the idea of a systematic deduction of the space group (one of 230 possible three-dimensional patterns) of crystals by means of X-ray data and supplied a complete outline of methods that have since been used to determine the space groups. Niggli

Edna O’Brien: Other novels: … (1965), Casualties of Peace (1966), Night (1972), Johnny I Hardly Knew You (1977; U.S. title I Hardly Knew You), The High Road (1988), House of Splendid Isolation (1994), Down by the River (1996), In the Forest (2002), and The Light of Evening (2006). Many of these

Michelangelo: The Medici Chapel: …trying to emerge into life; Night is asleep, but in a posture suggesting stressful dreams.

Elie Wiesel: …Wiesel’s first book, in Yiddish, Un di velt hot geshvign (1956; “And the World Has Remained Silent”), abridged as La Nuit (1958; Night), a memoir of a young boy’s spiritual reaction to Auschwitz. It is considered by some critics to be the most powerful literary expression of the Holocaust. His…

Robert Bly: … form in the poems comprising The Night Abraham Called to the Stars (2001) and My Sentence Was a Thousand Years of Joy (2005). He also released a volume of poems protesting the Iraq War, The Insanity of Empire (2004). Bly dubbed the poems in Turkish Pears in August (2007) “ramages,”…

adder: Night adders (Causus) are small relatively slender vipers found south of the Sahara and are typically less than 1 metre (3 feet) long. They are active at night and feed nearly exclusively on frogs and toads.

Archie Mayo: Films of the 1930s: …West in her film debut, Night After Night. The romantic drama featured one of West’s most famous lines: a hatcheck girl exclaims, “Goodness!” after seeing the jewelry of West’s character, who responds, “Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.”

Hong Chau: Other roles from the early 2020s: …role on the Netflix series The Night Agent (2023). “I’ve had opportunities to be in bigger tent-pole movies, which I have politely passed on,” Chau told The New York Times in 2017. “That’s what I want to continue to do: really odd films, with interesting filmmakers.”

Cole Porter: …songs and lyrics as “Night and Day,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Begin the Beguine,” “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “In the Still of the Night,” “Just One of Those Things,” “Love for Sale,” “My Heart Belongs to Daddy,” “Too Darn Hot,” “It’s Delovely,” “I Concentrate…

Virginia Woolf: Early fiction: Night and Day (1919) answers Leonard’s The Wise Virgins, in which he had his Leonard-like protagonist lose the Virginia-like beloved and end up in a conventional marriage. In Night and Day, the Leonard-like Ralph learns to value Katharine for herself, not as some superior being.…

Tom Stoppard: …Good Boy Deserves Favour (1978), Night and Day (1978), Undiscovered Country (1980, adapted from a play by Arthur Schnitzler), and On the Razzle (1981, adapted from a play by Johann Nestroy). The Tony-winning The Real Thing (1982), Stoppard’s first romantic comedy, deals with art and reality and features a playwright…

Alain Resnais: …his documentary about concentration camps, Nuit et brouillard (1956; Night and Fog), with a commentary by a former inmate, the contemporary poet Jean Cayrol, stressed “the concentrationary beast slumbering within us all.” Le Chant du styrène (1959; “The Song of Styrene”), written by author and critic Raymond Queneau, nominally publicizing…

Night and Fog Decree, secret order issued by Adolf Hitler on December 7, 1941, under which “persons endangering German security” in the German-occupied territories of western Europe were to be arrested and either shot or spirited away under cover of “night and fog” (that is, clandestinely) to

Jules Dassin: Blacklist and exile: …one of his best movies, Night and the City (1950). A dark film noir, it starred Richard Widmark as an American hustler involved in London’s wrestling racket, Gene Tierney as his singer girlfriend, and Mike Mazurki as a wrestler who eventually seals Widmark’s doom.

Ricky Gervais: …For Your Consideration (2006) and Night at the Museum (2006). With Ghost Town (2008), he starred in his first leading role in a feature film, playing a man who emerges from a near-death experience with an ability to see ghosts. Gervais also wrote and directed (with Matthew Robinson) The Invention…

Amy Adams: Breakthrough and stardom: …appearing as Amelia Earhart in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009), Adams starred in Julie & Julia (2009), portraying a frustrated secretary who turns to Julia Child (played by Meryl Streep) for inspiration. She then starred in the romantic comedy Leap Year (2010) and in The Fighter…