The Nose (Akutagawa)

Introduction

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The nose is a protuberance in vertebrates which admits and expels air for respiration and contains olfactory receptors for sensing odors.

Nose may also refer to:

Places
  • Noše, a settlement in Slovenia
  • Nose, Osaka, a town in Japan
  • The Nose (El Capitan), a climbing route on El Capitan, California, United States
  • The Noses, Big Nose and Little Nose, two steep bluffs on the Mohawk River in Mohawk, New York, United States
Arts, entertainment, and media
  • "The Nose" (Akutagawa short story), a 1916 short story by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  • "The Nose" (Gogol short story), an 1836 short story by Nikolai Gogol
  • The Nose (film), a 1977 Soviet TV film
  • The Nose (magazine), a 1989–1995 satirical California-based magazine
  • The Nose (opera), a 1930 opera by Dmitri Shostakovich based on Gogol's short story
Transportation
  • Nose Electric Railway, a subsidiary of Hankyu Railway, a Japanese private railway
  • Nose Station, a train station in Tsubata, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan
People
  • Alberto Nosè (born 1979), Italian pianist
  • Seiki Nose (born 1952), Japanese judoka
  • Nose Yoritsugu (1562–1626), Japanese samurai
Other uses
  • Nose, a perfumer
  • Nose, a Python unit test framework
  • Nose cone or nose, the forward part of an aircraft or spacecraft
  • Nose or Cuberdon, a Belgian candy
See also
  • Big Nose George (died 1881), an American Old West cattle rustler
  • Big Nose Kate (1850–1940), common-law wife of Old West figure Doc Holliday
  • Jack McCall (1852 or 1853–1877), aka "Crooked Nose Jack" or "Broken Nose Jack", murderer of Old West legend "Wild Bill" Hickok
  • List of noses, locations which are called "nose"
  • Noses Creek, Cobb County, Georgia
  • All pages with titles beginning with nose
  • All pages with titles containing nose

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