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unusual facts about Bright Star


Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art

In the Covert Affairs episode "Speed of Life" (Season 3, Episode 4) the character Simon Fischer admits to Annie Walker that the tattoo on his upper left shoulder blade of Ursa Minor was inspired by John Keats's poem.


Sally Reeve

Sally got an agent, Morgan & Goodman, in 1998 and has worked professionally in The Basil Brush Show for BBC TV, feature films include Maybe Baby with Hugh Laurie, Everything To Dance For with Brendan Cole, Travis Oliver and Sasha Jackson, Bright Star, directed by Jane Campion.


see also

Beta Pictoris

Beta Pictoris is a star in the southern constellation of Pictor, the Easel, and is located to the west of the bright star Canopus.

Louise Freeland Jenkins

Frank Schlesinger and Louise F. Jenkins, Yale Bright Star Catalogue, 2nd edition.

Operation Bright Star

Among the U.S. participants for Bright Star 08 were the 42nd Infantry Division of the New York Army National Guard, the only U.S. National Guard division headquarters to have deployed to Iraq at that time, and the 48th Brigade Special Troops Battalion of the Georgia Army National Guard.

Phil Brogan

To test Brogan’s science knowledge, Sawyer pointed out a bright star on the horizon and asked its name, Brogan replied that it was the planet Venus.

Serius Jones

"Serius" comes from the extremely bright star of the same name, Sirius.

UK Film Council

Funded films included Jane Campion's Bright Star; Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold's second feature Fish Tank; Armando Iannucci's In The Loop; and Sam Taylor Wood's Nowhere Boy, written by Matt Greenhalgh.