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unusual facts about Benevolent



Alcina

The background of the opera comes from the poem Orlando Furioso. The heroic knight Ruggiero is destined to a short but glorious life, and a benevolent magician is always whisking him away from the arms of his fiancée, Bradamante.

Alfred Bulltop Stormalong

The name of Stormalong first appeared in a cycle of sea shanties that Stan Hugill, in his Sea Shanties of the Seven Seas, traces back to African-American folk songs of the 1830s and '40s. Bearing names like "Mister Stormalong", "Way Stormalong John", and "Yankee John, Stormalong", these sailors' work songs generally featured praise for a deceased seaman and for his benevolent son.

Ancient Ganja Gate

The inscriptions in Kufi Arabic on the surviving leaf of the gate read: "With the name of Allah, the merciful and benevolent. The Excellency Sayyid Shawur ibn Al-Fazl - May Allah keep his supremacy longer! - ordered this door to be built with the help of Abul Faraj Muhammad ibn Abdulla - Let Allah give success to him too. Smith Ibrahim ibn Osman Angaveyh's work. (1063)".

Benevolent Society

1821: Benevolent Asylum opens on the site of Sydney's Central Station: a refuge for homeless older men, deserted women and children and the mentally ill

Claiming Crown

The Claiming Crown, held under the auspices of the National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association and Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association, has for much of its existence been run at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minnesota.

David Dayan Fisher

As a voice actor, Fisher notably provided the voice of the villainous Xaldin, a member of Organization XIII in Kingdom Hearts II and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, as well as Xaldin's more benevolent original being, Dilan, in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.

Dr. Phibes Rises Again

Louis Heyward also tried to interest NBC in a "Phibes" television series, with a Goldstein-written pilot, that would have recast the doctor as a benevolent crimefighter who uses his makeup and technological wizardry to ensnare criminals.

Drury Lane Theatrical Fund

The Drury Lane Theatrical Fund (DLTF) is a benevolent fund for established in 1766 by members of the Theatre Royal in London, England, "for the relief and support of such performers and other persons belonging to the said theater, as, through age, infirmity, or accident, should be obliged to retire from the Stage".

Edinburgh International Television Festival

One of the best remembered speeches was given in 1993 by an ill Dennis Potter, who attacked the chairman and director general of the BBC of the day by saying: "you cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke."

Frederick Rolfe

His seminary, the Scots College, was quite close to Plüschow's studio in via Sardegna, just off the via Veneto, and when Rolfe was expelled from the College and came under the benevolent patronage of the Duchess Sforza Cesarini, he began his own photographic efforts in imitation of von Gloeden and Plüschow.

Gilbert Cesbron

In 1955, Cesbron's book Chiens perdus sans collier, the story of an orphan boy and a benevolent judge, was made into a movie starring Jean Gabin and Robert Dalban.

Harry S. Robins

Robins co-wrote the film Kamillions with director Mike B. Anderson, in addition to playing Nathan, the Wingate family patriarch and benevolent mad scientist.

History of scrolls

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History of the Irish in Saint Paul

A number of strong fraternal organizations had chapters in Saint Paul including the Benevolent Society of Erin and Shields Guards, a militia named for James Shields.

History of the Jews in Northern Ireland

Due to the influx of Russian and Polish Jews near the turn of the century, the Jewish community set up "a board of guardians (1893), a Hebrew ladies' foreign benevolent society (1896), and a "Hebrew National school" (1898).

Instituto Nacional de Colonización

Many of the new villages were given a name related to the nearest river or even a name with an explicit reference to the Caudillo in order to cast a benevolent image of dictator Francisco Franco, like Llanos del Caudillo, Villafranco del Delta, a village in the Montsià comarca nowadays rechristened as El Poblenou del Delta or Isla Mayor near Seville, the former Villafranco del Guadalquivir.

Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story

Jack is left stranded in the giant world after the beanstalk dissolves, apparently cut down by someone back on Earth, and discovers that the giant Thunderdell (Bill Barretta) was an extremely benevolent person: kind, honest, and a loving friend and father who had also adopted Ondine and raised her as his own daughter.

John Jamison

Benevolent organisations benefited from his generosity, and in 1830 he helped establish Sydney College - an important educational facility which gave rise to both Sydney Grammar School and the University of Sydney.

Joseph Lebeau

By proposing the election of Leopold of Saxe-Coburg as King of the Belgians he secured a benevolent attitude on the part of the United Kingdom, but the restoration to the Netherlands of part of the duchies of Limburg and Luxembourg provoked a heated opposition to the 1839 Treaty of London, and Lebeau was accused of treachery to Belgian interests.

Kandor Graphics

The Missing Lynx (2008) - Plot: Follows the adventures of a group of animals in their quest to escape from being kidnapped by an unscrupulous hunter, hired by a benevolent millionaire to start a new Noah's ark.

Korean dragon

In either case they are said to be large, benevolent, python-like creatures that live in water or caves.

Lady Rose McLaren

Through her friendship with the fabulously outrageous lesbian, Muriel Belcher (who George Melly called "a benevolent witch"), she was drawn into and became part of an artistic, but quite dissolute set who were habitués of Soho and in particular the Colony Room.

Lao Ma

(Note that in reality, Lao Tzu was a revered Chinese philosopher, but in the TV series Lao Ma left her wisdom in his name so that he can be remembered as a benevolent ruler. Also, while Chinese tradition considers his real-life namesake to be the author of the Tao Te Ching, the ancient book which Lao Ma's sayings allude to, Western scholarship does not recognise him as the book's author; in fact, its authorship is unknown.)

Lü Clan Disturbance

Further, and more importantly, Emperor Wen became an effective, thrifty, hard-working and benevolent ruler, and the reigns of Emperor Wen and his son Emperor Jing were generally regarded as one of the golden ages of Chinese history.

Mega Man Xtreme

The series follows the exploits of Mega Man X and his partner Zero, a pair of "Maverick Hunters" led by the benevolent Dr. Cain.

Mohammed Chhel

Basically he was a Pir of a known Dargah and was involved his whole life in benevolent works.

Moran Eye Center

The Moran Eye Center is the result of a $3,500,000 donation from University of Utah alumnus John A. Moran, which became the foundation of a further fundraising effort involving patients, friends of the University, and benevolent organizations.

New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund

The New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund was created in 1985 by former New York Mets player Rusty Staub and Paddy Burns, who was then the Vice President of the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.

Ogboni

Though versions or lodges of this fraternal group are found among the various types of Yoruba polities - from highly-centralized kingdoms and empires like Oyo, to the independent towns and villages of the Ègbá and the Èkiti(EDO)benin city) - the Ogboni are recognizable for their veneration of the personified earth (Ilè or Odua) and their emphasis on both gerontocratic authority and benevolent service to the community.

Rameswarpur

The family direct bloodline relates to the Luminaries like Annada Shankar Ray whose father incidentally had shifted base to Dhenkanal, also in Orissa following a family feud.The Mahashays were famous for benevolent activities.

Shabrang

After his death, his son Kai Khosrow, eventually became the ruler of Persia and was among the most magnificent and benevolent rulers according to Shahnameh.

The Once and Future Duck

There, the ducks meet "King Arthur"—Artorius Riothamus, the last descendant of Lucius Artorius Castus, and find out that he is nowhere near the glorious benevolent ruler history has made him to be; instead, he's a common warlord without much morals to speak of.

The Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong

The Samaritan Befrienders Hong Kong is named after the Good Samaritan, who is a biblical character who was generous and benevolent to help people in difficulty described in the Bible.

Vegetarianism in the Romantic Era

In Animal Food, Joseph Ritson concludes, “The only mode in which man or brute can be useful or happy, with respect either to the generality or to the individual, is to be just, mild, merciful, benevolent, humane, or, at least, innocent or harmless, whether such qualities are natural or not”.

Western Wall

The Ottomans had a benevolent attitude towards the Jews, having welcomed thousands of Jewish refugees who had recently been expelled from Spain by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in 1492.


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