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26 unusual facts about Bruno


Bruno, 3rd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen

Ernst Casimir II, 2nd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen

: ∞ Prince Albrecht of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1863-1948) on 15 September 1920 in Büdingen; had issue.

: ∞ Cornelius, Baron Heyl of Herrnsheim (1874-1954) on 11 April 1907 in Büdingen; had issue.

: ∞ Botho, Prince of Stolberg-Rossla (1850-1893) on 27 September 1883 in Büdingen; had issue.

: ∞ Count Ernst of Lippe-Weissenfeld (1870-1914) on 21 November 1911 in Büdingen; had issue.

: ∞ Count Otto of Solms-Laubach (1860-1904) on 14 April 1898 in Büdingen; had issue.

: ∞ Manfred V, Prince of Collalto and San Salvatore (1870-1940) on 9 May 1901 in Büdingen; had issue.

Bruno was the eldest son of Ernst Casimir II, 2nd Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen and his wife Countess Thekla of Erbach-Fürstenau.

: ∞ Rudolf, Baron of Thüngen (1855-1929) on 25 September 1889 in Büdingen; had issue.

Bruno, Count of Harcourt

The day prior to the race, Harcourt took his Bugatti out for an early morning practice run on the road course and crashed when he ran off the first bend.

Bruno, Minnesota

Named after Bruno Township, after an early hotel owner there, the city of Bruno was incorporated on August 29, 1903.

Bruno's

The crash caused a large outpouring of grief among the Birmingham metropolitan community due to the family and the company's well-known philanthropic contributions.

The company emerged from bankruptcy in 2000 after closing a number of unprofitable stores, but acquiring three new stores from the Gregerson's chain in and around Gadsden, Alabama.

Faà di Bruno

Giovanni Matteo Faà di Bruno a musician of some importance from Casale who published two books of madrigals as well as vespers, psalms, motets and settings of the Magnificat.

Faà di Bruno is the name of an Italian noble family based in the areas of Asti, Casale, and Alessandria, which provided the Counts (later Marquises) of Bruno.

The Blessed Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825–1888), brother of Emilio, was a mathematician and priest.

Ferdinando Faà di Bruno became the first Marquis of Bruno when the county was elevated into a marquisate on 31 March 1652.

Camilla Faà di Bruno, (c.1599–1662), a society beauty who was married secretly, briefly and morganatically to Ferdinando I the Gonzaga Duke of Mantua and Monferrato; her memoirs have been described as the first prose autobiography written by an Italian woman.

I Give It a Year

He was previously been best known for co-writing the Sacha Baron Cohen films Borat and Brüno.

Jody Trautwein

Trautwein was featured in the 2009 film Brüno, where he attempted to convert Sacha Baron Cohen's flamboyantly gay character to heterosexuality through conversion therapy.

Peter-Paul Pigmans

Two of his songs were used in the soundtrack for Brüno (2009): Thunderdome Till We Die and Stravinsky's Bass.

Promenades Saint-Bruno

Outdoor tenants of Promenades Saint-Bruno include Best Buy, Sears Decor, Old Navy, Boston Pizza, Future Shop, Pier 1 Imports and Moores.

Outdoor retailers that aren't tenants of Promenades Saint-Bruno include Toys "R" Us, Rona, Staples, Walmart, Winners/Homesense, Home Depot, Home Outfitters, Canadian Tire, Dollarama and Cineplex Odeon.

Promenades Saint-Bruno has many retailers in its parking lot; a trend that started in 1992 with the arrival of Toys "R" Us.

Saint-Bruno, Quebec

: For other places named Saint-Bruno in Quebec, see Saint Bruno.

Taschereau Boulevard

Between its approach near the Jacques-Cartier Bridge and the Quebec Route 112 and Quebec Route 116 expressway that links Longueuil with the Saint-Hubert and Saint-Bruno sectors, Route 134 is a 6-lane expressway with interchanges to local areas within Longueuil and LeMoyne.


Albertoyos

As a school textbook illustrator he has worked for many publishers, both Spanish (Edelvives, Santillana, Anaya, Bruño, ESC, Almadraba, Richmond...) and international (Macmillan, Oxford University Press, Pearson Education, Kumon, Disney...).

Alive from Off Center

Notable episodes included "As Seen on TV," starring comic actor Bill Irwin as an auditioning dancer who becomes trapped in a television, wandering among daytime dramas, MTV, and PBS's own Sesame Street and the atmospheric puppet melodrama "Street of Crocodiles," adapted by the Brothers Quay from the Bruno Shultz story.

Angelo Bruno

Born in Villalba, Province of Caltanissetta, Sicily, Bruno emigrated to the United States in his teens and settled in Philadelphia.

August Gaul

On close terms with art dealers like Bruno and Paul Cassirer, he became a leading figure in the Berlin art scene before World War I.

Bree Cuppoletti

Randolph Bruno "Bree" Cuppoletti (born June 19, 1910 – September 22, 1960) was a professional American football player who played guard for six seasons for the Chicago Cardinals and Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.

Bruno Bouchet

Bruno was fired in July 2012 following insensitive comments he made on Twitter about the 2012 Aurora shooting.

Bruno Candido Farias

Bruno Candido Farias, commonly known as Bruno Farias (born 20 November 1987 in Panorama, São Paulo) is a Brazilian football player at the position of midfielder.

Bruno Correa

Bruno César Correa (born 22 March 1986) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for UAE Pro-League side Dubai CSC.

Bruno Étienne

Bruno Étienne was a researcher in Cairo and was a teacher at the ENA-Algiers, at the Law Faculty of Algiers and the universities of Casablanca and Marmara.

Bruno Fornaroli

Bruno Fornaroli Mezza (born 7 September 1987 in Salto) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Danubio F.C. in the Uruguayan Primera División as a forward.

Bruno Maag

Bruno Maag (born 1962) is a Swiss type designer and founder of type design company Dalton Maag.

Bruno Magli

Bruno Magli shoes were in the spotlight during the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

Bruno Matias

Bruno Filipe Santos Matias (born 4 March 1989 in Santarém) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for FC Etzella Ettelbruck, as a midfielder.

Bruno Mussolini

In September, before the Kingdom of Italy invaded the Ethiopian Empire, Air Sergeant Bruno Mussolini, 17, Air Second Lieutenant Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and Air Captain Count Nobile Galeazzo Ciano, 32, sailed from Naples to Africa aboard the MS Saturnia.

Bruno of Querfurt

While in Rome for Otto's imperial coronation, Bruno met Saint Adalbert of Prague, the first Apostle of the Prussians, killed a year later, which inspired Bruno to write a biography of St Adalbert when he reached the recently Christianized and consolidated Kingdom of Hungary himself.

Bruno Saltor Grau

On 25 June 2012, after a further 33 league appearances for Valencia in two seasons combined, free agent Bruno signed a two-year contract for Football League Championship side Brighton & Hove Albion.

Castaway Entertainment

Former Blizzard North members who joined Castaway Entertainment include Michael Scandizzo, Stefan Scandizzo, Alan Ackerman, Steven Woo, Rick Seis, Ted Bisson, Bruno Bowden, Peter Brevik, Michael Huang, Kelly Johnson (artist), Michio Okamura, Tom Ricket (Shirt Guy Tom, of Sluggy Freelance fame), and Fredrick Vaught (after whom the Halls of Vaught in Diablo II were named).

Computer Economics

It was founded in 1979 by Bruno Bassi and is currently headquartered in Irvine, California, USA.

Danny Bruno

Since then, Bruno has had major roles in hundreds of plays throughout the Northwest at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, New Rose Theater, Artists Repertory Theatre, Oregon Repertory Theatre, Lakewood Theatre, Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Actor's Cabaret of Eugene, Northwest Classical Theatre, Profile Theatre and Stark Raving Theatre among others.

Edgar Bruno da Silva

Edgar Bruno da Silva, simply known as Edgar (born 3 January 1987 in São Carlos, São Paulo), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Al Shabab Al Arabi Club in the UAE Pro-League, as a striker.

Eliot Slater

In 1934 Slater was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation travelling fellowship, which he used to study psychiatric genetics under Bruno Schulz at the Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie (Psychiatric Research Institute) in Munich.

Eternity and a Day

Alexander (Bruno Ganz), a bearded poet, leaves his seaside apartment in Thessaloniki after learning he has a terminal illness and must enter a hospital the next day for an unspecified "test".

European Parliament election, 1979

The following were elected as Vice-Presidents: Danielle De March, Basil de Ferranti, Bruno Friedrich, Guido Gonella, Gérard Jacquet, Hans Katzer, Poul Møller, Pierre Pflimlin, Bríd Rodgers, Marcel Albert Vandewiele, Anne Vondeling and Mario Zagari.

George V. Grigore

In movies he plays the most important characters of the history of being like: Nostradamus, Leonardo da Vinci, Jesus Christ, Rasputin, Pugachov, Hagendorf, John the Apostle and the fiction character like vampire Bruno, Malik The Profet, and many priest and monk characters.

German destroyer Z8 Bruno Heinemann

Bruno Heinemann had been fitted with four of the new weapons and they were removed after gunnery trials off Ålesund were completed.

Il Sorpasso

Thus begins a cruise along the Via Aurelia, the Roman road which also gives the name to Bruno's beloved car.

Lhotse

It also included two Austrians (cartographer Erwin Schneider and Ernst Senn) and two Swiss (Bruno Spirig and Arthur Spöhel), and was the first expedition in the Everest area to include Americans (Fred Beckey, George Bell, and Richard McGowan).

Ludwig von 88

The band had different line-ups, among which the most famous from the late 80’s featured Karim Berrouka on vocals, Nobru (real name Bruno Garcia, his new pseudonym is Sergent Garcia) on guitars, Laurent and then Charlu on bass, and Jean-Mi on programming.

Mark Strizic

Strizic and other post-war immigrant photographers Wolfgang Sievers, Henry Talbot, Richard Woldendorp, Bruno Benini, Margaret Michaelis, Dieter Muller, David Mist and Helmut Newton brought modernism to Australian photography.

Nicholas Trübner

His own works include, besides the catalogues and bibliographies already mentioned, translations from Flemish of Hendrik Conscience's Sketches of Flemish Life, 1846, from German of part of Brunnhofer's Life of Giordano Bruno, Scheffel's Die Schweden in Rippoldsau, and Eckstein's Eternal Laws of Morality; and a memoir of Joseph Octave Delepierre, Belgian consul in London, whose daughter he married.

Parti citron candidates, 1994 Quebec provincial election

Bruno Fortier received 342 votes (1.28%), finishing third against Parti Québécois incumbent Jacques Léonard.

Paul Cassirer

Cassirer moved to Berlin, and he and his cousin Bruno, while still in their mid 20's, opened their gallery on the ground floor of Paul's house in the up-market Viktoriastrasse.

Rainer Crone

The artist suggested a Red Self-Portrait, which had been recently acquired by Warhol's largest European dealer and Interview magazine co-owner Bruno Bischofberger and signed, dated and dedicated to "Bruno B."

Ransom Canyon, Texas

Three models, Raquel Zimmermann, Toni Garrn and brother Niklas Garrn, were photographed by Steven Klein in and around Robert Bruno's steel house, sometimes wearing Google Glass.

Rogelio Salmona

Upon graduating, he enrolled in the architecture program at the National University of Colombia, then led by German and Italian architects Leopoldo Rother and Bruno Violi.

Ronnie Bruno

He was a founder of the Bruno's Memorial Classic, now known as the Regions Charity Classic, a Champions Tour golf tournament.

San Bruno Park Elementary School District

San Bruno Park Elementary School District was created in 1906 in San Bruno, California to meet the needs of a growing population following the San Francisco earthquake and fire.

Saraya

Tony Bruno has been the most prolific of all the band members, playing, writing and recording with, as well as producing, many prominent artists in the music industry, from Joan Jett to Enrique Iglesias to Rihanna.

Schnorbach

This noble house appeared with Count Bruno in 1081, then holding a county in what is now the Netherlands on the Meuse’s left bank between Roermond and Venlo.

The Wallypug of Why

The book was illustrated by Harry Furniss, who had collaborated with Lewis Carroll on Sylvie and Bruno (1889) and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (1893).

Three Arrows Cooperative Society

Notable Three Arrows members include author Bruno Fischer, labor leader Israel Kugler, political activist Samuel H. Friedman and poet Peretz Kaminsky.

Tony Rey

Tony "Bruno" Rey is a guitarist/writer/producer/arranger who has worked with bands including Saraya, the Mike Pont Band, Danger Danger, Billy Joel, Enrique Iglesias, Joan Jett & the Black Hearts, Kathie Lee, Taylor Dayne, Anastacia and Rihanna.

Transporte Urbano

Días chose a few young, Santo Domingo-based musicians for this project: Juan Francisco Ordóñez on electric guitar, Guy Frómeta on drums, Héctor Santana on bass (later replaced by Peter Nova), Bruno Ranson on sax and percussionist José Duluc.

Under the Influence of Giants

Aaron Bruno, David Amezcua, and Drew Stewart are currently in the band Awolnation who released their debut EP Back from Earth in 2010 on iTunes.

University of Louisiana System

The large Finance & Facilities Planning Division was headed by Nick Bruno, Vice President for Business & Finance, for five years from 2005 to 2010, whereupon Bruno was selected to serve as president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Villafranca Tirrena

The French writer Alexandre Dumas take inspiration from his life for the novel “Pascal Bruno”.