X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Cassandra


Cassandra's Ears

The core members of the band were Jan Hellriegel (ex-Working With Walt; lyrics, vocals, guitar and keyboards), Flick Rhind (bass), Zan Wright (backing vocals), Venessa Anich (drums) and Leanne Ibell (guitar).

Josiah Tucker

The policy pleased nobody in England, and Tucker, though his views were approved in later years by many of the laisser-faire economists, was for a time treated as a Cassandra, a name under which he published in the newspapers.


Aaron Fike

On July 7, 2007, Fike and his long-time girlfriend and fiancee, Red Horse crew member Cassandra "Casi" Davidson, were arrested in the parking lot of Kings Island in Mason, Ohio.

Alberto Assa

In his weekly column El Rincón de Casandra (Cassandra’s Corner) (he adopted the pseudonym in an allusion to the priestess of the Greek Mythology), published in the El Nacional, del Caribe and El Heraldo newspapers, he defended and promoted culture and education in Barranquilla for more than 40 years.

Albuquerque Little Theatre

During Thomas's years as director, he brought many popular comedies, and a fair assortment of dramas as well, and he exposed Albuquerque audiences to some unusual fare as well, including the world premiere of David Madden's Cassandra Singing.

American Psycho 2

When Cassandra reveals that her affair with Professor Starkman has guaranteed her the TA position, Rachael decides to murder her as well.

And Then There Was Silence

The song is based on The Iliad by Homer and on the Aeneid by Virgil, and narrates the final days of Troy, as foreseen by Cassandra, daughter of the king of the destroyed city.

Annalie Forbes

Annalie or Ali for short was 1st runner-up at the Binibining Pilipinas 2012 pageant with co-winners, Miss Universe Philippines Janine Mari Tugonon, Binibining Pilipinas International Nicole Cassandra Schmitz, Binibining Pilipinas Tourism Katrina Jayne Dimaranan, and Miss Supranational Philippines Elaine Kay Moll.

Ashley Madekwe

Madekwe landed her first motion picture in the 2007 Woody Allen film Cassandra's Dream, opposite Colin Farrell and Ewan McGregor.

Baroness Tuputupu Vaea

Tuputupu Vaea and her late husband, Baron Vaea, had seven children and one adopted daughter: Queen Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho, 'Alipate Tu'ivanuavou Vaea, 'Amelia Luoluafetu'u Vaea, Luseane Luani, Moimoikimofuta Kaifahina Vaea and Cassandra Tuku'aho.

Baughurst

She wrote about her visit in a letter to her sister Cassandra.

Candice Wiggins

When her father Alan retired, he and his wife Angela, daughters Cassandra and Candice, and son Chris moved to San Diego, California.

Cassandra B. Whyte

Cassandra Bolyard Whyte had three siblings: Eldora Marie Bolyard Nuzum, married Jack Robert Nuzum; Vonda Jean Bolyard Norris married Clyde Dale Norris; and Robert Glen Bolyard married Jacqueline Westfall Bolyard.

Cassandra Webb

For the fictional character named Cassandra Webb, see Madame Web.

Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos

Both the mother and sister of Jane Austen were named after Cassandra, to celebrate their link with a ducal family; Jane's mother was the grand-daughter of the first Cassandra's sister-in-law, Mary Brydges.

Dionysus Aesymnetes

It was kept in a chest, and Cassandra, or, according to others, Aeneas, left this chest behind when she quit the city, because she knew that it would do injury to anyone who possessed it.

Does My Head Look Big in This?

Her mother, Cassandra, is a Brit who converted to Islam, and her father, Tariq, is a Pakistani.

Elisha Southwick

Elisha Southwick was a direct descendent of Lawrence Southwick and Cassandra Southwick who, because of their Quaker beliefs, were banished from Salem, Massachusetts by the Puritans in 1659.

Eric Garcia

As of October 2011, Garcia has signed on to write and executive produce a pilot for a TV series adapted from his novel Cassandra French's Finishing School For Boys for MTV, along with actress Krysten Ritter as a fellow exec.

Garabit viaduct

The Garabit Viaduct was used to represent the condemned "Cassandra Crossing" bridge in the 1976 film The Cassandra Crossing.

Hog's Back

Jane Austen, in a letter to her sister Cassandra dated Thursday 20 May 1813 from her brother's house in Sloane Street, wrote of her journey to London in a curricle via "the Hog's-back" and said

Joseph Mazzinghi

His mother's sister, Cassandra Frederich (afterwards Mrs. Wynne), a pianist, interested herself in his musical training, and he was a pupil of Johann Christian Bach, and later of Bertolini, Sacchini, and Anfossi.

Józef Michał Poniatowski

Jozef Michal Poniatowski (Joseph Michael Xavier Francis John) was born Giuseppe Michele Saverio Francesco Giovanni Luci in Rome, the son of Stanisław Poniatowski and Cassandra Luci.

Kasandrin Glas

Kasandrin Glas (Serbian Cyrillic: Касандрин Глас; trans. Cassandra's Voice) were a Serbian progressive/gothic rock band from Beočin.

KC Concepcion

KC Concepcion (born Maria Kristina Cassandra Cuneta Concepcion on April 7, 1985) is an actress and singer from the Philippines who is currently a National Ambassador Against Hunger of the UN's World Food Programme.

Michael Jarrell

His "spoken opera" Cassandre, which is based on Christa Wolf's novel Cassandra, was performed at Ojai Festival, CA, June 2008.

Miranda Raison

She has voiced several video game characters, including Cassandra Pentaghast in Dragon Age.

Pammon

Apollodorus says that Priam had nine sons and four daughters by Hecuba, the sons being Hector, Paris, Deiphobus, Helenus, Pammon, Polites, Antiphus, Hipponous, Polydorus, and the daughters Creusa, Laodice, Polyxena, and the prophetess Cassandra.

Pierre Woodman

Many starlets became famous for their contract with Private, which includes scenes for the "Castings X" series, including Silvia Saint, Alexa May, Tania Russof, Judith Fox, Anita Blond, Monica Sweet, Monique Covét, Lenka Gaborova, Cassandra Wilde, Dora Venter, Claudia Ferrari, Cayenne Klein, Anetta Keys, Eve Angel, Nikky Andersson, Angel Dark etc..

Portage Area School District

It serves Portage and Cassandra Boroughs, as well as Portage Township.

Radu cel Frumos

Radu features in the first novel of the Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance and the Dorina Basarab series, as a slightly effeminate young man.

Sibyl

The number of sibyls so depicted could vary, sometimes they were twelve (See, for example, the Apennine Sibyl), sometimes ten, e.g. for François Rabelais, “How know we but that she may be an eleventh Sibyl or a second Cassandra?” Gargantua and Pantagruel, iii.

Svetlana Khodchenkova

She became known after starring in Stanislav Govorukhin's movie Bless the Woman (2004), for which she received a nomination for the Nika Award and continued her career with the role of clairvoyant Cassandra in the historic television series Mascot Love (2005).

The Good Witch's Family

Cassandra Nightingale (Catherine Bell) lives in the small town of Middleton with her husband Sheriff Jake Russell (Chris Potter) and Brandon (Matthew Knight) and Lori (Hannah Endicott-Douglas), his children by an earlier marriage.

The Omega Code

Television reporter and talk show host Cassandra Barris (Catherine Oxenberg) introduces Dr. Gillen Lane (Casper Van Dien) as her show's guest.

The writing on the wall

In the novel City of Ashes, part of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, Clary uses her stele to write a rune on Valentine's boat.

X-Men: The End

Marvel Girl summons her residual Phoenix Force energies and engages Cassandra in psychic battle.

Jean Grey (Phoenix), Marvel Girl, Gambit and Rogue, Havok and Lorna, Alpha Flight, Professor X and Cassandra, Storm, Archangel with Husk, Cyclops, Madelyne, Dust, Cable, Lilandra, Sage, Colossus, Hub, and a few others are shown above the crowd looking down from the other side, as it were.

Yuppy Love

Embarrassed at the thought of Cassandra seeing their council flat in Nelson Mandela House, Rodney instead leads her to The King's Avenue, an expensive and very up-market road, implying that he lives there and has to stand in the driveway, being seen by the homeowners.

Yuri Kara

Yuri Kara became known in Russia with his movies Thieves within the Law (1988) and The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (1990), and with his conflict with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) which was caused by his film The Prize is a Trip into Space, based on the novel Cassandra's Brand written by the Russian author Chinghiz Aitmatov.


see also