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unusual facts about Bianca


Bianca Maria

Bianca Maria is a feminine given name, a combination of the Italian name Bianca, which means "white" and is a cognate of the medieval name Blanche and of Maria, a Latin form of the Greek name Μαριαμ or Mariam or Maria, found in the New Testament.


Agnese del Maino

On 25 October 1441, Bianca Maria was married, in a magnificent ceremony at the Abbey of San Sigismondo in Cremona, to Francesco Sforza, a renowned Condottiero and member of the Condottieri Sforza family.

Alberto Randegger

In 1854 he composed another opera, Bianca Capello, at Brescia.

Alyson Cambridge

She has since appeared in several roles with that company, including Giannetta in L'elisir d'amore, a Flower Maiden in Parsifal, Karolka in Jenůfa, Crobyle in Thaïs, and Bianca in La Rondine.

Anna Pollak

She created several roles in 20th century operas including Bianca in Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia and Lady Nelson in Lennox Berkeley's Nelson.

Antonio de' Medici

Within hours of Francesco's death on 18 October 1587, Bianca Cappello was dead, too, poisoned, it was thought, at the direction of the Cardinal, who now set aside his orders and took up rule as Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.

Benjamin Wahlgren Ingrosso

He is son to Pernilla Wahlgren and Emilio Ingrosso, brother to Oliver Wahlgren Ingrosso (born 1989), Bianca Wahlgren Ingrosso (born 1994) and Theodor Wahlgren (born 2007), grandson to Christina Schollin and Hans Wahlgren and nephew to Niclas and Linus Wahlgren.

Bentivoglio Altarpiece

On the left are the daughters (from left, Camilla, Bianca, Francesca, Violante - future spouse of Pandolfo IV Malatesta, Laura, Isotta and Eleonora); on the right the four children (Ermes, Alessandro, Anton Galeazzo and the elder one, Annibale).

Bianca 27

Together with his brother, boatbuilder Holger Leth Christensen (b. 1934) he founded the Bianca Yacht in Rudkoebing in the former depot for the local railwayon the island Langeland.

Bianca Bree

Bianca Van Varenberg (born 17 October 1990), professionally known as Bianca Bree, is a Belgian-American actress, who has appeared in such films as The Shepherd: Border Patrol, Assassination Games, Six Bullets and Full Love.

Bianca Cappello

The biography of Bianca Cappello was exploited by Thomas Middleton for his tragedy Women Beware Women (published 1657).

James Chater, "Bianca Cappello and Music", in Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth (Florence, 1985), vol.

Bianca King

Aside from her Mano Po appearance, Regal Films also made Bianca to be part of I Will Always Love You starred by Richard Gutierrez and Angel Locsin.

In 2005, Bianca King also tried her hosting skills via the gender-sensitive magazine show 3R together with Iza Calzado, Bettina Carlos and Chynna Ortaleza.

Bianca Minola

Susan Penhaligon appears as Bianca in the 1980 BBC television production directed by Jonathan Miller.

Bianca of Savoy

On 28 September 1350 at Rivoli, Bianca and Galeazzo were married, he was sixteen years her senior.

In an attempt to curb the expansionist policies of Bianca's uncle John II, Marquess of Montferrat, an alliance was established on the 22 October 1349 between Savoy, governed by Amadeus III of Geneva and Louis II of Vaud with Giovanni Visconti of Milan.

Bree Amer

In May 2011 Sydney-based author, Amanda Cole, issued Who Needs Prince Charming?, a self-realisation book for women, which collated contributions from 35 Australian women including Amer, Bianca Dye, Camilla Franks, Kathryn Eisman, Bessie Bardot, Molly Contogeorge, Tania Zaetta and Cindy Pan.

Church of St. Peter, St. Albans

In the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders, Ricky and Bianca's second wedding was filmed inside and outside this church.

Cindy Pan

In May 2011, Sydney-based author, Amanda Cole, issued Who Needs Prince Charming?, a self-realisation book for women, which collated contributions from 35 Australian women including Pan, Bianca Dye, Camilla Franks, Kathryn Eisman, Bessie Bardot, Molly Contogeorge and Tania Zaetta.

Die schwarzen Brüder

Nine years later, Georgio returns home as a teacher to Sonogno with his wife - Alfredo's sister Bianca.

Emily Biggs

In 2010, Emily became a member of the new girl group Parade, featuring Jessica Agombar, Sian Charlesworth, Bianca Claxton and Lauren Deegan.

Girolamo Riario

Girolamo had six sons, Ottaviano, who officially inherited the lordship of Imola, Cesare, Giovanni Livio, Galeazzo, Francesco, and a daughter, Bianca by his wife, Caterina, and lastly an illegitimate son by another woman, named Scipio.

Hamburg Blue Angels

Jasmin Wagner (the singer Blümchen), as well as Bianca Hanif (Super Moonies) and Gabriela Gottschalk (first with the Super Moonies and now Hot Banditoz) began their careers as cheerleaders for the Blue and Grey Angels.

James Kelsey Cogswell

Cogswell's sister Bianca Cogswell was married to Senator John L. Mitchell, the father of General Billy Mitchell.

Lauren O'Neil

Her stage debut came at the Royal National Theatre where she played Bianca in Marianne Elliot's revival of Women Beware Women.

Love's Sacrifice

Phillippo Caraffa, Duke of Pavia, has accidentally caught sight of a beautiful young woman named Bianca, the daughter of a Milanese gentleman, while he was hunting.

Margery Sharp

Her most famous work is The Rescuers series about a mouse named Miss Bianca, which was later adapted in two animated feature films, The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under by Disney.

Marzemina bianca

As Marzemino was first documented growing in the Veneto in 1553, more than a hundred years before Marzemina bianca, ampelographers now believe that Marzeminia bianca is the offspring with further DNA profiling showing that the Soave grape Garganega (described by the Italian writer Pietro de' Crescenzi in the 13th century) likely being the other parent.

Movie violence

In the movie 10 Things I Hate About You younger sister Bianca punches a fellow student in the nose for hurting some people close to her.

Oliver Ingrosso

His younger siblings Bianca Wahlgren-Ingrosso (born 1994) and Benjamin Wahlgren Ingrosso (born 1997) are both singers.

Pier Ferdinando Casini

Casini ran on a purely 'centrist' platform, founding the new Union of the Centre party along with Savino Pezzotta's Rosa Bianca.

Pierantonio Tasca

His first opera, Bianca, premiered in 1885, to a libretto by Enrico Golisciani.

Ralph Uwazuruike

On the 28th of April 2010, he was visited in prison by Chukwuemeka Odimegwu Ojukwu and his wife, Bianca.

Reese Williams and Bianca Montgomery

Bianca's mother, Erica's red dress was designed by Gustavo Cadile.

Renée Asherson

She returned to the New Theatre for the 1947–1948 season, appearing in such roles as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, The Queen in Richard II, and Marya Antonovna in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector.

Romeo's Blue Skies

Drawing upon an old favor the King owed Alfredo's father, Alfredo and Bianca, with the help of Romeo and their friends, manage to thwart the villains, but Alfredo dies near the end of the series from a terminal disease.

Secret Diary of an American Cheerleader

The elite group include Maddie Gardner, Kiara Nowlin, Gabi Butler, Whitney Love, Kelsey Rule, Cami Branson, Erica Englebert, and Bianca Treger.

Shy Carlos

She plays as Bianca who is an ex- girlfriend of Jeric that is played by Khalil Ramos.

Sonia Fowler

Sonia herself briefly leaves Walford in 1997, following her brother Billie (Devon Anderson)'s kidnapping, but returns to visit her family, eventually moving back permanently to live with her sister Bianca (Patsy Palmer), in 1998.

Tiffany Butcher

One trailer saw Bianca singing The Jackson 5 hit "I Want You Back" and performing a dance routine along with her four children.

Virginia Williams

With this experience she parlayed her talents into several primetime roles, including the leading role of Bianca on Lifetime's Monarch Cove, Claudia on five episodes of the hit series How I Met Your Mother, Shelley Long's daughter who was snubbed at the altar in the film Honeymoon with Mom, and two seasons on Comedy Central's Strangers with Candy.

Women Beware Women

A modern adaptation by Howard Barker at the Royal Court Theatre in 1986, in which the first two-thirds of Middleton's play were preserved but the ending was entirely revamped; among other changes, Sordido rapes Bianca before her wedding.


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