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7 unusual facts about ''Harlequin''


Château de Malle

To the east of the first terrace is a small theater, decorated with figures from the Italian commedia dell'arte: Pantalone, Scaramouche and Harlequin.

Harlequin

originates with an Old French term herlequin, hellequin, first attested in the 11th century, by the chronist Orderic Vitalis, who recounts that he was pursued by a troop of demons when wandering on the coast of Normandy at night.

Los Arlequíns

Los Arlequíns (Spanish for "The Harlequins") was a Mexican professional wrestling group, called a stable, who worked as a rudo (term used for wrestlers who portray the "Bad guys") faction.

Los Arlequíns was a wrestling "concept" team, similar to the concept of a boy band, where several wrestlers are joined up and given a common ring identity; in this case all members of the group were based on the Harlequin character.

Montezuma Quail

It is also known as Mearns's Quail, the Harlequin Quail (for the male's striking pattern), and the Fool Quail (for its behavior).

The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack

"Rondo" includes a short excerpt from Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D Minor, as well as an extended quote and re-harmonization of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Blue Rondo a la Turk." "The Cry of Eugene", which was later re-recorded by Jackson's group Jackson Heights, refers to "Harlequin & Columbine".

Three Musicians

Each painting features a Harlequin, a Pierrot, and a monk, who are generally believed to represent Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Max Jacob, respectively.


American Photojournalist

The photojournalist is the film's equivalent of the "harlequin" or Russian sailor in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

Anne Hampson

She was chosen to be a launch author because she, along with Violet Winspear and Anne Mather, were the most popular and prolific of Harlequin's authors.

Antonio Sacco

Sacco's lasting influence was in requesting playwright Carlo Goldoni to lay a dramatic structure to his improvised routines, with the resulting plays Truffaldino's 32 Mishaps (1738-40), Truffaldino's Son Lost and Found (1746), and the masterpiece A Servant of Two Masters (1745-53) being the best permanent record of what was an impromptu and momentary art form.

Brenda Jackson

Throughout her writing career, Jackson has written for several publishers, including St.Martins Press, BET, Kensington, NAL, Harlequin/Silhouette and Harlequin Kimani Romance.

Carrie Weaver

In 2007, she was chosen to write two novels in the new series partnering Harlequin and NASCAR.

Celeste O. Norfleet

Celeste currently writes for Harlequin’s Kimani Press Arabesque, Harlequin Kimani Romance and Kimani Press TRU (young adult) lines.

Dongducheon Rock Festival

The line-up included Cul-de-sac, Dr.Core 911, Rust Eye, Black Syndrome, Harlequin, Blackhole, Do Won Kyoung, Sinchon Blues, Love And Peace, Boohwal, Sinawe and Yoon Do Hyun

Eugène Peters

As well as Towers of Babylon, his works regularly feature Pierrot, Harlequin and other characters from the Commedia dell'arte, as well as imaginary and real cities such as Antwerp and Turnhout.

Hamilton Harlequins

A NZ Harlequin camp, backed by the NZ Rugby Foundation and supported by the Waikato Rugby Union for approx 40-45 players, is staged at St Paul's Collegiate School annually.

Harlequin Dream

Harlequin Dream is the second studio album by the Australian indie rock band Boy & Bear.

Harlequin Games

Harlequin Games is a business which designs and moderates PBM games by email of which there Legends (PBM) engine is the most recognized.

Harlequin Games was winner of the Gamers' Choice Origins Award in 2004 for the play by email game Legends (PBM).

Hired armed ship Harlequin

In late May the privateer Harlequin, under the command of Captain Jenkins, arrived at Fowey from Oporto.

Hugh Reed and the Velvet Underpants

It was founded by Hugh O'Hagan, now commonly known as Hugh Reed, circa 1990 from an amalgam of members of The Harlequin Cabbage Bugs, Halcyon Days, The Rhythm Kittens and the Trouser Coughs including at different times Lawson Campbell, Stewart MacDonald and Lindsey Watt.

Jack-a-Boy

Through the Professor, allusions made are to Homer, Georg Autenrieth's A Homeric Dictionary, H. L. Ahrens's Griechische, Formenlehre, John Flaxman, The Trojan War, Harlequin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Artemis, John Keats, Rhesus of Thrace, Achilles, Patroclus, Aubrey Beardsley, Franz Schubert, Theseus, Centaur, Jack the Giant Killer, Golden Helen, Hector, Andromache.

Lisette Stenberg

She debuted at the Stenborg Theatre 2 April 1789, in a so-called Harlequinade, Arlequin Favirot-sultaninna (The favourite sultaness of Harlequin) at the age of nineteen.

Love Inspired

Harlequin's website states that Love Inspired is likened to Touched by an Angel, Seventh Heaven or Gilmore Girls in terms of content.

Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic

Notwithstanding his marriage in 1865 with Joséphine Scévole de Barral, the mother of these daughters, Lepic was later to take the prima ballerina Marie Sanlaville as his mistress and designed dresses for the ballets in which she danced, including the Harlequin costume for Les Jumeaux de Bergame.

Meagan McKinney

#Plain Jane and the Hotshot, 2002/Fev & in HARLEQUIN DESIRE 2 IN 1, 2004 (with Laura Wright)

#The cowboy Claims His Lady, 2002/March & in HARLEQUIN DESIRE 2 IN 1, 2004 (with Laura Wright)

R. Barri Flowers

He has written 12 romance novels under the pseudonym "Devon Vaughn Archer" and was the first male author for Harlequin's Arabesque imprint.

Shadow of the Beast

An Atari 8-bit version was in the works in 1990 to be published by Harlequin, but it was never finished due to collapse of the company.

Sir Charles Parker, 5th Baronet

From 1819 to 1822, he served in Harlequin off the coast of Ireland, and was promoted to post-captain on 23 April 1822, but saw no further service after that year.

Thomas Nashe

The anti-Martinist An Almond for a Parrot (1590), ostensibly credited to one "Cutbert Curry-knave," is now universally recognised as Nashe's work, although its author humorously claims, in its dedication to the comedian William Kempe, to have met Harlequin in Bergamo while returning from a trip to Venice in the summer of 1589.

Velvet Jones

In a later episode, Jones endorses his Harlequin romance novels, including Velvet Love, A Touch of Velvet, and Kicked in the Butt by Love.


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