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n. - A genus of Psittacidae; (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy.

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  • Nestor is the link to two original filmmakers who share a birthday today (Nov 30).
  • Nestor comes from the distant state of Tampaulipas on Mexico’s East Coast.
  • Judge Malachy Mannion called Nestor "clearly, unequivocally a serious danger to witnesses in this case."
  • That is how within the space of the shortest episode, the seventeen leaves of "Nestor," ten erasures went unrecorded in 1984.
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