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3 unusual facts about Cecilia


Cecilia, Louisiana

Cecilia is the birthplace of several Louisiana political figures: state Representative and House Speaker Robert Joseph "Bob" Angelle (1896–1979), former Secretary of State of Louisiana and Lieutenant Governor Paul J. Hardy (born 1942), and former state Representative Jesse J. Guidry, who became the director of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.

The Hobos

The album featured one CD of original material and a second disk that was compiled from many different cover versions, including J. J. Cale’s "Cocaine", Bob Marley’s "I Shot the Sheriff" and Simon and Garfunkel’s "Cecilia".

Times Two

Its second single, "Cecilia" (a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's hit, featuring work by Paul Simon himself, and produced by Club Nouveau's Jay King), was less successful, reaching #79 on the Billboard Hot 100.


Acid Survivors Foundation

April 28, 2011, Dr. Monira Rahman, Murhabazi Namegabe, and Cecilia Flores-Oebanda are honored as the Children's Rights Heroes for millions of children at the Gripsholm Castle in Mariefred, Sweden.

Andrea Torres

On July 30, 2012, GMA Network announces that Torres together with Mikael Daez will reprise the role of Cecilia Fulgencio and Carlos Miguel Altamonte which originally played by Tanya Garcia and Dingdong Dantes, respectively, for the 2012 remake of the 2002 popular teledrama Sana Ay Ikaw Na Nga.

Antony Murray

He was the eldest son of Captain John Jock Challenger Murray and his wife, Cecilia (née Jerningham), and also grandson of Sir John Murray, the oceanographer.

Art Gillham

His 130 recordings included Angry, I'm Confessing, Shine On, Harvest Moon, I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, Cecilia, I'm Waiting for Ships That Never Come In, Thinking and Tenderly.

Brivius de Brokles

Francesco (1680 + 1732) married Elena Attendolo Bolognini, member of an important noble family from Milan and descendant (by mother, Cecilia Medici di Marignano) from Pope Pius IV and Gian Giacomo Medici.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

He has six children: Cecilia, Emiliano and Juan Cristobal from his first marriage; Ana Emilia, Patricio and Mateo from his second marriage.

Cécilia Cara

Cécilia was also given the task in 2004 of vocally dubbing the role Christine Daaé for the French cinema release of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera".

Cecilia Cheung

In January and February 2008, many explicit photos were found online involving Cecilia Cheung and Edison Chen.

Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden

Cecilia Johansdotter of Sweden, (fl. 1193), is the traditional name of the Queen consort of King Canute I of Sweden and mother of King Eric X of Sweden.

Cecilia Lucy Brightwell

Brightwell was born at Thorpe, near Norwich, on 27 February 1811, the eldest child of Thomas Brightwell (Ipswich 1787 – Norwich 1868), and his first wife, Mary Snell (1788 – 1815), daughter of William Wilkin Wilkin, of Costessey, near Norwich, and Cecilia Lucy (Jacomb), a lineal descendant of Thomas Jacomb.

Cecilia Maria de Candia

Cecilia Maria de Candia (* born, December 24, 1853, Brighton, England - d. May 26, 1926, Bordighera, Italy), later Mrs Godfrey Pearse, was a British-Italian writer, amateur singer and society hostess.

The de Candia family was part of the Italian nobility, and at birth, Cecilia Maria was registered as Cecilia Maria de Candia, and Noble Lady (it: Nobile Donna) of the United Kingdom of Italy.

Cecilia Milow

On several occasions, Cecilia was invited to 'Stronvar House', the baronial pile of James Carnegie on the shore of Loch Voil in the Braes O’Balquhidder, Perthshire, Scotland.

Cecilia Thackaberry

In September 1965, Sister Cecilia led a group of two other sisters who embarked on the 26 day journey to Port Harcourt in Nigeria.

Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield

Suffield was the eldest son of Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield, and his first wife Cecilia Annetta, daughter of Henry Baring, third son of Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet.

David Douglas Cunningham

He was born in 1843, in Prestonpans, the third son of the Rev. William Bruce Cunningham (1806–78) and Cecilia Margaret Douglas (1813–98), daughter of David Douglas, Lord Reston (1769–1819), the heir of Adam Smith.

David Douglas, Lord Reston

2. Cecilia Margaret Douglas (1813–98), who married the Rev. William Bruce Cunningham; amongst their children were Robert Oliver Cunningham and David Douglas Cunningham

Duncan White

White was born on 1 March 1918 in Lathpandura near Kalutara, in British Ceylon, the second of four children of John Bernard White and Cecilia Hawk White, descended from principally British lineage.

Emiliano Salinas

Emiliano Salinas is the son of former Mexican president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari and wife Cecilia Occelli.

Exultate Singers

Notable performances have included James MacMillan's Seven Last Words From The Cross; Bach's Mass in B minor and St Matthew Passion; Roxanna Panufnik's Westminster Mass; Alessandro Scarlatti's St Cecilia Mass; and Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert.

Frightwig

The current line-up is Deanna Mitchell, Mia d'Bruzzi, Cecilia Kuhn, Rebecca Sevrin and Eric Drew Feldman.

Giuseppe Branzoli

Giuseppe Branzoli (born Cento 1835, died in Rome January 21, 1909) was a violinist, mandolinist, composer, author, educator at the Liceo Musicale di St. Cecilia in Rome, and the founder of the periodical IL mandolin Romano.

Kingdom of Cyprus

Even the Republic of Venice briefly entertained the idea of setting up Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, the brother-in-law of England's King Edward IV (who was secretly negotiating a marriage to the Scottish princess Cecilia on Anthony's behalf), as a claimant by purchasing the rights of former Cypriot queens Charlotte and Catarina Cornaro.

Krister Henriksson

He also runs the film production company Tåbb Ltd together with his partner Cecilia Nilsson and he is co owner of the audiobook publisher Svenska Ljud Audioförlag (www.svenskaljudclassica.se) together with Carlson Invest Ltd (www.cinvest.se), Frekvens Produktion Ltd (www.frekvens.se) and the actors Katarina Ewerlöf and Johan Rabaeus.

Lina Bruna Rasa

Bruna Rasa created the roles of Atte in Mascagni's Nerone, Cecilia Sagredo in Franco Vittadini's La Sagredo and Saint Clare in Licinio Refice's 1926 oratorio, Trittico Francescano.

Melliangee Pérez

In the zarzuela genre, her roles include Cecilia Valdés (Cecilia Valdés), Santa (Alma Llanera), Constance (El huésped del sevillano), and Aurora (Las leandras).

Nuestra Belleza Coahuila 2010

At the conclusion of the final night of competition, Cecilia Flores of Torreón was crowned the winner.

Paolo Ravaglia

For all of these reasons, he received his main conservatory degree in clarinet, a degree in jazz music, and a degree in electronic music at the Conservatory of S.Cecilia in Rome.

Petra Hultgren

Petra Cecilia Alexandra Hultgren (born 21 April 1972, in Värmdö, Stockholm County) is a Swedish actress.

Philharmonia Zurich

List of Specialist Classical Albums Chart number ones of the 2010s, Artist: Cecilia Bartoli, Orchestra La Scintilla, Giovanni Antonin / Album: Bellini Norma / Label: Decca / Reached No. 1: 16 June 2013

Philippe Chéry

He painted 'The Annunciation' in the church of Generville, 'St. Benedict receiving the Viaticum,' and two other religious subjects, which are in the church of Boulogne-sur-Mer, 'St. Cecilia,' in the Benedictine Convent in the same town, and several other scriptural and religious subjects.

Princess Cecilia of Sweden

Cecilia of Sweden, (Swedish: Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa) (Stockholm, 16 November 1540 – Brussels, 27 January 1627), was Princess of Sweden as the daughter of King Gustav I and his second queen, Margaret Leijonhufvud, and Margravine of Baden-Rodemachern through marriage with Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern.

Rhenopyrgus

A new species, R. piojoensis, was described by Colin D. Sumrall, Susana Heredia, Cecilia M. Rodríguez and Ana I. Mestre in 2012, from 116 specimens collected from the Los Espejos Formation in the Loma de Los Piojos locality near San José de Jáchal, Argentina.

Robert Brooke, Sr.

Brooke married second, on May 11, 1635, Mary Mainwaring, daughter of Roger Mainwaring (1582–1653), Dean of Worcester and Bishop of St David's, and his wife Cecilia Proper.

Robert Dimsdale

Dimsdale married Cecilia Jane Southwell and lived at Essendon Place, Essendon, Hertfordshire which was the family seat.

Santa Cecília, Porto Alegre

Santa Cecília is home to the Campus Saúde (meaning Health Campus) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, which contains the Faculties of Medicine, Nursing, Psychiatry, Odontology and Pharmacy buildings, as well as the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre.

Sarah Carr

Sally Carr, born Sarah Cecilia Carr, lead singer of the 1970s pop group "Middle of the Road"

Seven Sisters, Sussex

They are also featured at the beginning of the film Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, and at the end of the film Atonement where Robbie and Cecilia always wanted to live.

St John Brodrick, 1st Earl of Midleton

His sister, the Honourable Marian Cecilia Brodrick, married Sir James Whitehead, son of the inventor Robert Whitehead.

Stephen Keynes

In 1955 he married Mary Cecilia Knatchbull-Hugessen, daughter of the Canadian senator Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen.

Suffield, Alberta

Established by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in 1884, Suffield was named after Charles Harbord, 5th Baron Suffield who married in 1854, Cecilia Annetta, the sister of Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke, who assisted in financing the railway.

Well-Schooled in Murder

Chas didn't want anyone to find out about his relationship with Cecilia, and the fact that he was the father of Cecilia's child, which has Apert syndrome.

Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

On 23 January 1376 Wenceslas married Cecilia of Carrara (d. 1435), daughter of Francis of Carrara (born 29 September 1325 in Padua – died 6 October 1393 in Monza), Count of Padua.

Wilbur Wade Card

Card was born in Franklinton, North Carolina on October 29, 1873 to Sabert Henry Card and Cecilia Bennett Fuller.

Wong Pow Nee

He was born in Bukit Mertajam, Penang, the son of Cecilia Foo and Wong Ee Chin, a hardworking Hakka timber merchant and building developer of the Catholic faith.

Youngmi Kim

In 1998, she was in Rome’s Santa Cecilia Orchestra Opera for Matan’s Shooter and Tokyo at the New National Opera stage performing La traviata.

Zdenka Cecília Schelingová

Blessed Zdenka Cecília Schelingová (December 24, 1916 – July 31, 1955), was a Slovak nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia.


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