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4 unusual facts about Charmian


Charmian

Charmion (1875–1949), American vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman

"The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion", an 1839 science fiction short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Charmian Campbell (1942–2009), British socialite and portrait painter

Charmin, a brand of toilet paper owned by Procter & Gamble


Ben Walden

In 1999, he acted in Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra at the Bankside Globe Theatre in London with Paul Shelley; Mark Rylance (Cleopatra); John McEnery; Danny Sapani (Charmian); Mark Lewis Jones; and Toby Cockerell (Octavia) in the cast.

Charmian London

In 1877, after her mother died when she was six years old, Charmian's father sent her to Berkeley, California.

Elizabeth Kahanu Kalanianaʻole

In Jack London and Hawaii by Charmian London, Princess Elizabeth is described as:... a gorgeous creature that eclipsed the handsome look of her husband Kuhio.

The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion

Eiros and Charmion are named after Cleopatra's attendants, Iras and Charmion (or Charmian); they are mentioned by the Roman historian Plutarch in his biography of Mark Antony (in his work Parallel Lives); they appear in Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra, and John Dryden's play about Antony and Cleopatra, All for Love.


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