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10 unusual facts about Alexandra


Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg

In the summer of 2005 there were reports and pictures of Alexandra together with 14 years younger Martin Jørgensen (b. 2 March 1978 in Valby), who is a photographer and the son of Jacob Jørgensen.

Dark City Sisters

The group was named after Alexandra Township, known at the time as 'Dark City' due to its lack of street lighting.

David Koloane

The artist David Nthubu Koloane was born on 5 June 1938 in the township of Alexandra, a suburb of Johannesburg in South Africa.

Les Stillman

Walter Leslie Stillman (born 5 October 1949 in Alexandra) is a former Australian first-class cricketer who represented Victoria and South Australia.

Princess Alexandra of Denmark

Her Excellency Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, formerly Princess Alexandra of Denmark (1964- ), née Alexandra Christina Manley - ex-wife of Prince Joachim of Denmark

Princess Alexandra of Hanover

Alexandra, Princess of Leiningen (b. 1959), daughter of Ernest Augustus IV, Prince of Hanover, wife of Andreas, 8th Prince of Leiningen

Rabie Ridge

It is located in Region A, around the Midrand area, it is a township formed due to forced removals of the coloured community from Alexandra.

SA Waste Holdings

On 12 May 2005, Gauteng environment minister Khabisi Mosunkutu paid a surprise visit to their recycling plant in Marlboro, near Alexandra (North of Johannesburg).

Seymour-FM

The southern half of the shire is served by Melbourne radio stations, however the availability of media north of the 'Great Divide' is severely limited, with only scratchy reception from Shepparton (ONE-FM) and Alexandra (UG-FM) based community radio, and the two Shepparton based commercial stations, and ABC.

Stephen Gellatly

Gellatly made his State Shield debut on 3 January 2008 against the Otago Volts at Molyneux Park, Alexandra, and his State Championship debut on 6 March 2008, scoring 67* as Wellington beat Auckland by an innings.


AJ Leitch-Smith

He made his debut on 29 September 2009 for Crewe Alexandra in their 3–2 home defeat to Bury in the League Two, replacing Joel Grant in the 80th minute as a substitute.

Aleksey Igudesman

In a project named Violins Of The World Igudesman has performed his violin duets with Gidon Kremer, Julian Rachlin, Janine Jansen, Vadim Repin, Pavel Vernikov and Alexandra Soumm.

Alexander Kirk

Sherryl Woods (born 1944), author who used the pseudonym Alexandra Kirk

Alexandra Lacrabère

Alexandra Lacrabère (born 27 April 1987) is a French handball player, who has played for the French national team.

Alexandra Milton

Alexandra Milton is married to the writer and historian, Giles Milton, who wrote the text for Call Me Gorgeous and Good Luck Baby Owls.

Alexandra Music Hall

Alexandra Music Hall was a music hall situated in the Cowcaddens area of Glasgow, Scotland.

Alexandra Nechita

In addition to talk show appearances, Alexandra was featured on the teen sitcom Boy Meets World in the 1998 episode "Better Than The Average Cory," starring as herself.

Alexandra Park, Harare

Alexandra Park is the name of a low density leafy residential suburb in the North of Harare, Zimbabwe.

Located in Alexandra Park are: The National Botanic Garden (Zimbabwe) and National Herbarium; National Parks and Wildlife services of Zimbabwe (Head Office); St George's College (private secondary boys school); Alexandra Park Primary School; Hartmann House (private boys primary school); Embassy of Bulgaria.

Alexandra Prinzessin von Hannover

Alexandra married Prince Welf Henry of Hanover, the fourth son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick and his wife Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, on 20 September 1960 at Büdingen, Hesse, Germany, in a civil marriage ceremony.

Alexandra Ripley

Alexandra Ripley, née Braid (January 8, 1934 – January 10, 2004) was an American writer best known as the author of Scarlett (1991), the sequel to Gone with the Wind.

Cromwell Cup

It was held in February 1868 and named after Oliver Cromwell, manager of the local Alexandra Theatre (not the famous Lord Protector), who donated the cup.

Don't Live as You Like

On January 12, 1885 it was first shown in Saint Petersburg's Alexandrinsky Theatre, with Pyotr Stepanov (as Pyotr), Alexandra Chitau (Dasha), Yulia Linskaya (Afimya), Alexander Martynov as Yeremka.

Dora Levy Mossanen

She extensively researched the Tsarist era, the political upheavals and long-drawn revolutions that led to the rise of the Bolsheviks, fall of the Romanovs, and the execution of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children.

E.M.M.A.

In the Spring of 2006, two of the former band members (Martina Ståhl and Alexandra Pettersson) formed a new group since the breakup of E.M.M.A. The group was named "B-Tween" and are labelled as singing pop/disco house/R&B style music.

Eh?

Eh? starred Dustin Hoffman as Valentine Brose, Alexandra Berlin as Betty Dorrick, Dana Elcar as Price, Carl Gabler as Aly, Joseph Maher as Reverend Mort, and Elizabeth Wilson as Mrs. Murray.

Ellen Tarry

Tarry published four picture books: 1940's Janie Belle (illustrated by Myrtle Sheldon), 1942's Hezekiah Horton (illustrated by Oliver Harrington), 1946's My Dog Rinty in collaboration with Caldecott Medal winner Marie Hall Ets (photographs by Alexander and Alexandra Alland), concerning a Harlem family and their mischievous pet, and 1950's The Runaway Elephant (again illustrated by Harrington), which continued the relationships started in Hezekiah Horton.

Fort Pasir Panjang

This location was near the Alexandra area where the main ammunition stores and a military hospital were situated.

Glanford Park

The stadium was officially opened at the start of the 1988–89 season by Princess Alexandra.

Hotel Alexandra

Hotel Alexandra is a historic hotel in the village of Loen in the municipality of Stryn in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway.

Hotel Café

Grey's Anatomy music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas has used both the website and club itself as sources for discovering artists and songs she uses on the show.

Inter Dominion

The 2011 series was held at Alexandra Park in Auckland, with the original venue of Addington in Christchurch deemed unsuitable due to the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

John Kenneally

John Patrick Kenneally was born as Leslie Jackson at 104 Alexandra Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham.

Lady Alexandra

Although Alexandra had been designed primarily as an summer-time day excursion steamer, the company had intended to use the ship, which had a 300 ton cargo capacity, as a freighter in the off-season to transport canning supplies to, and pick up packed salmon from, the many canneries along the coast of British Columbia north of Vancouver Island.

LearnVest.com

The company hosted its first live event, LearnVest LIVE, in New York City in October 2012, featuring lectures by fashion designer Cynthia Rowley, Cosmo editor and Project Runway mentor Joanna Coles, Top Chef judge Gail Simmons and Gilt Groupe cofounder Alexandra Wilkis Wilson.

Lyle Best

From 1991-2000 he was Chairman of the Board and Director of the Royal Alexandra HospitalRoyal Alexandra Hospital Foundation.

Mangotsfield United F.C.

Darren Carr Mangotsfield United, Bristol Rovers, Newport County, Sheffield United, Crewe Alexandra, Chesterfield, Gillingham, Brighton & Hove Albion.

Manos family

Aspasia Manos (1896–1972), daughter of Petros (above), wife of King Alexander of Greece, mother of Alexandra, Queen of Yugoslavia and grandmother of the current Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia

Maria Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn

Lady Alexandra Phyllis Hamilton (1876–1918), who had The Princess of Wales as sponsor at her baptism, she was lost at sea aboard RMS Leinster, unmarried.

Melinda Jacobs Grodnick

Born in Minneapolis, Jacobs is the third child of five to Alexandra and global entrepreneur Irwin L. Jacobs.

Mustafa Ertuğrul Aker

The commander of Paris II, Henri Rollin, taken prisoner by Ertuğrul's unit after his ship's sinking, had also presented a detailed official report on Paris II and Alexandra at the end of the war in 1918.

Nelly Kamwelu

Nelly Alexandra Kamwelu (born 1991) is a Tanzanian model and beauty queen who won the Miss Universe Tanzania and Miss Southern Africa International titles in 2011.She represented her country in Miss Universe 2011 in São Paulo, Brazil, Miss International 2011 in China, Miss Earth 2011 in Manila, Philippines, and Miss Tourism Queen International in China.

Oliver Crosthwaite-Eyre

He married, in 1939, Baroness Maria Alexandra, the daughter of Baron Heinrich von Puthon, of Schloss Mirabel, Salzburg, and had two sons and two daughters.

Petra Hultgren

Petra Cecilia Alexandra Hultgren (born 21 April 1972, in Värmdö, Stockholm County) is a Swedish actress.

Prince Felix

Prince Felix of Denmark (born 2002), son of Prince Joachim of Denmark and his former wife, Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg

Prince Johannes Heinrich of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

# Felicitas Franziska Johanna Maria Gabriela Elisabeth Pauline Helene Stephanie Leopoldine Alexandra Sophie Mathilde Josepha Anna Karoline Immaculata Emanuela (b. Sorengo, 6 April 1958), married on 15 November 1987 to Sergei Trotzky, and has issue.

Princess Alexandra of Denmark

Her Royal Highness Alexandra of Denmark (1844-1925), wife of Edward VII; later Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom

Royal Doulton

When the Anglican St. Alban's Church was built in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1887 with Alexandra, Princess of Wales as one of the driving forces, Doulton donated and manufactured an altarpiece, a pulpit and a font.

Samantha Downie

Downie was the second runner up after being eliminated in episode 10 after being deemed too commercial and not as high fashion compared to Alexandra Girdwood and Demelza Reveley.

Sønderborg Castle

The room is still used for special events, such as in connection with the marriage of Queen Margrethe II's niece, Princess Alexandra of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg to Count Jefferson-Friedrich von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth in 1998.

The City in Europe and the World

Contributions from: Graham Bishop, Alex Brassey, Mario Cerrato, Patrick Diamond, Brendan Donnelly, Howard Flight, Alexandra Forter, Chris Huhne, Mario Jung, Angela Knight, Peter Mandelson, Agnes Oestrich, Giancarlo Perasso, Alice Rogers, Sanjiv Sachdev, L.V. Spagnolo, Richard Woodward.

The Magic Show

It originally began life as Spellbound produced by Ivan Reitman with a book by David Cronenberg and music by Howard Shore at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto in 1973 starring Henning and Jennifer Dale.

Thomas Nkobi

He was one of the main volunteers who traveled from village to village collecting demands of the African population that were incorporated into the ANC Freedom Charter; he attended the 1955 Congress of the People in Kliptown that drew up the Freedom Charter as a delegate from Alexandra.

Twitches Too

Tia Mowry as Alexandra Nicole "Alex" Fielding aka Artemis DuBaer

William Aberhart

Aberhart was to become principal of Mount Royal School, but it was not yet complete at the time of his arrival, so he became the principal of Alexandra Public School immediately on his arrival.