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unusual facts about Agatha


Sint-Agatha-Berchem

The Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme was born and raised here; this is also the site of the Cité Moderne a housing project from 1922-1925 designed by the great Belgian architect Victor Bourgeois.


2010 Pacific hurricane season

Agatha made landfall that afternoon near Champerico, Guatemala with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h).

Agatha Christie Ltd.

Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard, was heir to the copyright to some of his grandmother's literary work (including The Mousetrap) and is still associated with Agatha Christie Limited.

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime

The series' original run was immediately preceded by transmission on 9 October 1983 of the same production team's adaptation of Christie's second novel The Secret Adversary, which also starred Annis and Warwick in the same roles and which acted as an introduction for viewers to Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime.

Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime is a 1983 British television series based on the short stories of the same name by Agatha Christie.

Agatha Harkness

In a sequence during the Avengers Disassembled storyline, Wanda, again having no memory of her children, angrily confronted Agatha about their existence.

Agatha of Sicily

For communities named after St. Agatha, see Sainte-Agathe.

Agatha Welhouk

Agatha Welhouk (1637–1715) was the central figure of a court case in the Netherlands, where she and her father sued each other regarding whether a marriage should be considered legal if it had taken place without the consent of the parent.

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As such, it has appeared in the television adaptations of Agatha Christie's The Mystery of the Blue Train and Murder on the Orient Express, disguised to appear as a continental locomotive, and featured in the music video for Big Country's Fields of Fire.

Calu Rivero

Rivero's modeling career boomed, being the face of both national and international companies such as Nike, TOMS Shoes, Agatha Ruíz de la Padra, La Casa de las Botas, Sweet Victorian, Todo Moda, 47 Street and Roho.

Christoph von Stadion

Christoph von Stadion was born in Schelklingen in Mid-March 1478, the son of Nikolaus von Stadion (d. 1507) and his wife Agatha von Gültlingen (d. 1504).

Coniine

Coniine is the poison used to kill Amyas Crale in Five Little Pigs (published in 1943), also known as Murder in Retrospect, one of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot mysteries.

Diana Sowle

Sowle also does the voice acting for the character Agatha in the game Fallout 3, released in 2008.

Dybbuk

In the comic series Girl Genius, the forcible insertion of the mind of Agatha's mother, the main villain Lucrezia Mongfish/"The Other", into her own was compared to a Dybbuk by one of her followers when reporting the situation to someone else.

Eugene Washington

UK Tour) alongside Casualty's Simon MacCorkindale and EastEnders Dean Gaffney for Bill Kenwright Ltd (making Eugene the first black actor to star in a professional Agatha Christie production in the UK).

Gaylord Larsen

He is well known for his fictional murder mystery Dorothy and Agatha, incorporating the well-known mystery novelists Dorothy L. Sayers and Agatha Christie as title characters, where Sayers must solve a crime when a man is murdered in her dining room.

How About You

Vanessa Redgrave, who plays Georgia, is in another Christie adaptation, Murder on the Orient Express and plays Christie herself in Agatha.

Klaas Reimer

Reimer was born in 1770 to Heinrich Reimer and Agatha Epp (b. 1745) in the Vistula delta Mennonite settlement of Petershagen, Prussia, located about 35 km east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk).

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The locomotive made an appearance at the beginning of the 2005 black comedy movie Keeping Mum, and during the 1991 episode of 'The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge' by Agatha Christie starring David Suchet.

Lord Worplesdon

Percival "Percy" Craye, later Earl of Worplesdon, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves stories of British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse, being Agatha Gregson's second husband, who would have been her first but for Agatha's discovering that he had behaved shamefully at a ball at Covent Garden, whereupon she broke their engagement and married Spenser Gregson instead.

Maisie Dobbs

Maisie Dobbs (2003) was chosen as one of Publishers Weeklys Best Mysteries of 2003, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2003, an Edgar Award nominee for Best Novel 2003, and the Agatha Award winner for Best First Novel in 2003.

Official Airline Guide

The OAG business dates back to 1853 when it first published the ABC Alphabetical Railway Guide, later to inspire Agatha Christie’s novel The ABC Murders.

Pattie Brooks

In 1979 Pattie branched out from disco by singing "Close Enough For Love", the title song to the Vanessa Redgrave movie Agatha.

Peril at End House

This episode was filmed in Salcombe, Devon (near Agatha Christie's hometown of Torquay), rather than on the actual Cornish Coast where the story is set.

Robert Dolling

In 1885 a difficulty as to the relation of his mission to Holy Trinity Parish, Stepney, led to his resignation, and he next accepted the charge of St Agatha's, Landport, the Winchester College mission.

Salem's Seven

The next Halloween, Wanda attempted to commune with Agatha Harkness's spirit, but was drawn through into the land of the dead, where she was confronted with spirits of the Seven (except Gazelle) who had aligned themselves with a being that called itself Samhain.

Sir Edward Ruggles-Brise, 1st Baronet

Firstly to Agatha Gurney (1881-1937), daughter of John Henry Gurney Jr., a member of the Gurney family of Keswick Hall, Norfolk.

Sophie Nyweide

Nyweide also had a guest appearance in Law & Order as Agatha Archer in the episode "Charity Case".

Tamzin Merchant

In 2007, while studying at the University of Cambridge, she performed in an audio production of Lady Windermere's Fan as Lady Agatha, while in 2008 she appeared in the ensemble drama Radio Cape Cod in which she plays a summer theatre camper.

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and Four and Twenty Blackbirds have been turned into Anime, on the series Agatha Christie no Meitantei Poirot to Marple (2004).

The Convent of Hell

She sees Sister Agatha, a nun at the convent in the past, performing a summoning ritual which blasts a large hole in the storeroom wall, from which a demon, Beelzebub, emerges.

The Yellow Iris

Joyce Grenfell reviewed the play in The Observers edition of 7 November 1937 when she said, "I had hoped to say such nice things about Agatha Christie's Yellow Iris" but found that Holles was, "the only happy thing in the broadcast".

Themes in Minority Report

The cast includes Tom Cruise as Precrime officer John Anderton, Colin Farrell as Department of Justice agent Danny Witwer, Samantha Morton as the senior precog Agatha, and Max von Sydow as Anderton's superior Lamar Burgess.

Victoria Niarchos

She is a daughter of Patrick Benjamin Guinness (1931-1965) (himself half-brother of the Aga Khan IV) and his wife (and stepsister), the former Dolores Guinness, Dolores Maria Agatha Wilhelmine Luise, Freiin von Fürstenberg-Hedringen (1936-2012), herself the daughter of the socialite Gloria Guinness (1912-1980) and Count Franz-Egon von Fürstenberg-Herdringen (1896-1975).


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