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4 unusual facts about Åbo


Giorgi Kvinitadze

Nino (b. 1920) married (1955) a Dutchman Peter Claude Holland d'Abo (b. 7 October 1917); they are the parents of the British-French actress and former Bond Girl, Maryam d'Abo.

Something Is Out There

He learns that the crimes are being committed by a monstrous alien insectoid prisoner known as a xenomorph, possessing shape-shifting and physical possession abilities, who has escaped from an alien prison starship passing by the solar system, and he teams up with a beautiful medical officer from that ship, Ta'Ra (Maryam d'Abo), to track the villain down.

Topsy Turvy Tales

The Girl With Liquid Eyes and The Man With The Stolen Heart have been adapted into short animations featuring the voices of actors Maryam d'Abo and Bill Nighy.

Vienna Volksoper

In 1987, the opera house was used for a scene set in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now part of Slovakia), for the James Bond film The Living Daylights, where Timothy Dalton made his debut as Bond near the very beginning of the film, where he first spotted the key female character Kara Milovy (played by Maryam d'Abo).


Erik Tengström

Tengström was born in Motala, Sweden, and was a descendant of the first archbishop of Åbo Jacob Tengström.

Gabra Manfas Qeddus

Gabra Manfas Qeddus (Amharic: ጋብራ ማንፋስ ቀድዱስ; also familiarly called Abo) was an Ethiopian Christian saint, and the founder of the monastery of Zuqualla.

Mike Vickers

From 1992 to 1999, he was a member of The Manfreds, an amalgamation of 1960s Manfred Mann members and associates that featured both Paul Jones and his successor Mike d'Abo on vocals, the latter also playing keyboards.

The Sea Change

The Sea Change is a 1998 British-Spanish comedy film directed by Michael Bray and starring Maryam d'Abo, Sean Chapman and Ray Winstone.

The Whole Wide World

Olivia d'Abo, star of Conan the Destroyer, was intended for the role but was pregnant when shooting began.


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