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10 unusual facts about Antique


Giorgos Alkaios

A song which became a huge hit and has been covered many times over the years (notably by Eleni Paparizou's band Antique and Despina Vandi.

The internationally charted song "Opa Opa", which has been covered by many singers, has been released as a single by Notis Sfakianakis, Antique, and Despina Vandi.

Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest

Since Antique's third place in 2001, the contest has grown into one of the most popular events in Greece with an estimated five million viewers each year.

Before Greece's win, the highest score was third place, achieved by duo Antique (of which Elena Paparizou was a member) in 2001 with "Die for You" and then again by Sakis Rouvas in 2004 with "Shake It".

Papa Isio

Magbuelas was the son of migrants from Panay, either Antique or San Joaquin, Iloilo, who cleared a small piece of land in the forests of Himamaylan.

Rafflesia speciosa

It was adopted as the symbol of Sibalom Natural Park and the municipality of Sibalom.

speciosa was discovered in the mountains of Sibalom Natural Park (particularly Mount Porras) in Antique, Panay by members of an outdoor club.

Vicente Piccio, Jr.

Piccio is married to Nena Hernández, an Antiqueña who lives in Belison, Antique, and together they have seven children: Vincent Bernard, Elizabeth Mary, Philip Gregory, Bernard, Robert Ephrem, Cristopher, and Paul Anthony.

Waterford, Ontario

Antiques from different historical eras can be purchased from nearby antique stores.

William Jauderell

On 16 December 1355, the prince gave him leave to travel to England by means of a pass which his family keeps as an heirloom today.


Agatha of Sicily

in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, originating probably in Autun, Burgundy; in its margin illustrations Magdalena Carrasco detected Carolingian or Late Antique iconographic traditions.

Andy Gillet

Other films include, Vieillesse ennemie (2008), Antique (2008), and La dérive (2009), in the latter he also worked as an assistant director.

Antiquities

The classicism of the Carolingian renaissance was in part inspired by appreciation of Late Antique manuscripts: the Utrecht Psalter attempts to recreate such a Late Antique original, both in its handwriting and its illustrations.

Antoine-Félix Bouré

The sculpture received attention in French-language books on art published while Bouré was active, including Émile Gebhart's Praxitèle (1864) and Wilhelm Fröhner's Notice de la sculpture antique du Musée Impérial du Louvre (1878).

Arlen Ness

The museum displays his famous Untouchable, the twin motor Two Bad, the antique inspired Ness-Tique, Blower Bike, the Italian sports car inspired Ferrari Bike, the '57 Chevy inspired Ness-Stalgia, the Bugatti-like Smooth-Ness, the Discovery Channel's Biker Build-Off bike Top Banana, and his jet-powered Mach Ness.

Baker Memorial Chapel

The wood panels of the chancel were designed to complement the antique organ console which was originally in the Bruton Parish Church, at Williamsburg, Virginia.

Bewcastle Cross

Schapiro, Meyer, Selected Papers, volume 3, Late Antique, Early Christian and Mediaeval Art, 1980, Chatto & Windus, London, ISBN 0-7011-2514-4 (includes The Religious Meaning of the Ruthwell Cross (1944), etc.

Burghley House

Lady Victoria Leatham, antiques expert and television personality, followed her father, Olympic gold-medal winning hurdler and runner, IAAF President and MP David "Burghley" Cecil, the 6th marquess by running the house from 1982 to 2007.

Derveni krater

Bernard Holtzmann and Alain Pasquier, Histoire de l'art antique : l'art grec, Documentation française, coll.

Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso

Dick Edgar Ibarra Grasso (Concordia, Entre Ríos, January 17 1917 - Buenos Aires, July 13, 2000) was an Argentine researcher who explored the possibility of colonization of the Americas by several antique ethnic groups.

Dixie Walesbilt Hotel

The interior of the building is even more ornate than the exterior, featuring shopping arcades, Italian-made ceilings and column capitals, drinking fountain by Ernest A. Batchelder, marble floors by Georgia Marble Company of Georgia Pink and Vermont Verde Antique marble a wrought iron ballistrude and a central mezzanine, etc.

Dominion House

Today it still holds to its old fashioned English pub style, covering its walls are antique knickknacks and traditional pub pictures.

Douglas Leedy

From 2003, most of his music has appeared under the name Bhisma Xenotechnites, including not only his settings for voice(s)and instruments (in Greek) of Homeric Hymns, but also such obviously anti-Western works as Ein kleines Wagner Notizbuch (2005), a collage of emasculated Wagner quotations for the same ensemble as his 1965 octet Quaderno Rossiniano, and H5N1 (2006) for extremely high-pitched instruments or whistlers and antique cymbals.

Eccles Building

In particular, an antique chandelier from the Chateau Malmaison, the retreat for Napoleon and Josephine, and owned by the Caldwell firm, was replicated for the Board members' offices.

Ernest Rides Again

After discovering an antique metal plate near a construction site, Ernest shows it to the professor who believes that it came from a giant Revolutionary War cannon called "Goliath", (named after the legendary biblical giant).

Frank Austin

Frank P. Austin (1937–2002), interior designer and antique dealer

Gérard Locardi

He has been mainly a painter who found his inspiration in antique themes, two of his paintings are exhibited in the Chapelle de la Charité in Carpentras, Provence, France.

Goodwin Heart Pine

After a diver friend gave him antique long leaf pine logs found in the Suwanee River for his own project, the idea to reclaim logs from rivers was expanded into a sawmill operation in Micanopy, Florida.

House clearance

Frequently high value antique items are discovered and appeared on shows such as Antiques Roadshow and Bargain Hunt in the UK.

İbradı

This area was once part of the antique kingdom of Pisidia, near the river Melas.

Johann and Wendelin of Speyer

It is superior to the later antique type, which deteriorated through desire to save space, and it is almost equal to the beautiful type of Jenson.

John Parker Boyd

In 2008 a Mississippi woman, Charlotte Dillard, purchased at a Goodwill store in Georgia for slightly more than seven dollars an antique two-volume Bible inscribed "Symphonia A. Little presented by her uncle General Boyd." At the time of the purchase, Dillard planned to keep the books and display them at her home.

Josef Petersen

As the only Danish writer he thrice won Olympic silver medals of art for his prose-lyric tales with Antique Greek athletic motives Euryale (1924), Argonauterne (Eng. The Argonauts) (1932) and Den Olympiske Mester (eng. The Olympic Champion) (1948).

Kalimath

The temple is other ancient temples to Laxmi, Saraswati, Gauri Shankar and many antique Shivlings, idols of Nandi, Ganesh etc.

Living Computer Museum

Using vintage Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) systems and XKL systems, it provides registered users with the opportunity to telnet into these devices and experience computing on "antique" mainframes.

Mera Me Ti Mera

:"Opa Opa" was the first CD single from the album and the debut song by Antique.

Neil Rutherford

Also killed by gunshot wounds were the hotel owner, Linda Simcox (52); ex merchant seaman Johnny Gore Green (55), an antique dealer from Bay City, Texas; Simcox's daughter, Lorna (24); and her husband, Alastair McIntyre (55).

Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles

Expanded to the present 2 bd/2ba configuration, the interior now features a rustic antique heart pine interior,inspired by James Cagney's 1930 cabin in Lake Arrowhead.

Oliwa Cathedral

The interior also holds Rococo chapels of the Holy Cross and St John of Nepomuk, an ambo, tombstones, epitaphs, the Pomeranian Dukes tomb, the Kos family tomb, bishop’s crypt, antique chandeliers, canopies, and many other antiquities, including a feretory of great cultural value, showing Our Lady of Oliwa with an Infant Jesus.

Parfums Lubin

Its wares and antique documents can be found displayed in Musées de Grasse's International Perfume Museum in Grasse, France.

Pioneer City

Weiss bought a 19th Century-style (it was not actually made in the 19th Century) steam locomotive in Pennsylvania and two paddle-wheel boats built in Miami for the park, as well as refurbished antique fire engines and a Wells Fargo stagecoach.

Quilts of the Underground Railroad

Barbara Brackman, author of Clues in the Calico, considered to be the "Bible of dating antique quilts", has written a book, Facts and Fabrications.

Red Hat Society

In 1997, Cooper gave a friend a 55th birthday gift consisting of a red bowler purchased at an antique store along with a copy of Jenny Joseph's poem "Warning".

Remo Lauricella

Upon his death, his antique Vesuvio Stradivarius (ex antonio brosa) violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1727, was left to the Italian town of Cremona.

Robert Van Kampen

A family foundation owns one of the largest private collections of rare and antique Bibles in North America, presently housed in the Scriptorium at the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida.

Robin Dods

He built for himself a house at Edgecliff, described by a contemporary as "charming in its quiet Georgian character, well planned, and forming an attractive setting for the antique furniture he had collected for many years."

Sandwich Fair

Two parades are part of the fair: an antique auto parade on Saturday and then the "Grand Street Parade" on Sunday, including marching bands from Inter-Lakes High School and Moultonborough Academy.

Sloane-Stanley Museum

The Sloane-Stanley Museum in Kent, Connecticut, is a museum featuring the studio and antique collections of Eric Sloane.

Speciálník Codex

The manuscript is currently in the Hradec Králové Museum, which acquired it from a Prague antique dealer in 1901.

Staatliche Antikensammlungen

An outstanding example for antique jewellery is the gold Funerary Garland from Armento (4th century BC).

Stephen Guernsey Cook Ensko

At the time he was working as an antique dealer at 598 Madison Avenue, and he was living in Freeport, New York on Long Island.

Thomas Whitcombe

The Dictionary of 18th Century British Painters, Ellis Waterhouse, published by Antique Collectors' Club Ltd, 1981, ISBN 0-902028-93-6

Timeline of the People Power Revolution

Oppositionist ex-Governor Evelio Javier of Antique is murdered in front of the provincial capitol where canvassing is being held.

Tlalmanalco

In October 2008, the town held its first International Festival of Antique Music, inviting vocalist Rita Guerrero, flutist Horacio Franco, the Alharaca Ensamble among others.

Trombetto

The final version was custom-crafted using additional tubing attached to a rare, antique 4th valve for the purpose of completing the horn’s lower registry capability, by brass technician, Ted Weir at the former Brass & Woodwind Shop in Carnegie, Pennsylvania.

Vernay

Arthur Stannard Vernay (1877–1960), American antique collector, hunter and explorer