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6 unusual facts about Christina


Christina's Ghost

Christina's Ghost is a novel written by Betty Ren Wright.

Christina's World

The house depicted in the painting is known as the Olson House, and is located in Cushing, Maine.

In Romeo + Juliet (1996, dir. Baz Luhrmann), when Romeo learns that Juliet is dead, he falls into the golden grass before a setting sun and screams, "Then I defy you, stars!" The camera pauses above and behind him so that he and the trailers on the hill sort of resemble the position of the painting's buildings, except that the trailers should be farther to the right and the horizon should be much higher.

In The Hypnotist (2012, dir. Lasse Hallström), during Simone's hypnosis sequence we can see her on a hill with a house in the background, composition and light mimicking the painting.

In the fourth novel of Stephen King's series The Dark Tower, one of the gunslingers is reminded of this painting when one of his company finds a new wheelchair.

Pierre Bourdelot

When Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé, because of actions during the Fronde against Absolutism, was captured by Mazarin, he took off; in 1652 he was in Stockholm, while Christina, Queen of Sweden had a lot of mental and physical problems.


1811 in poetry

Mary Russell Mitford, Christina, the Maid of the South Seas

Albertina

In the 1820s Archduke Charles, the foster son of Duke Albert and Maria Christina, initiated further modifications of the building by Joseph Kornhäusel, which affected mostly the interior decoration.

Anna Sundström

Anna Sundström, born as Anna Christina Persdotter, (born in Kymlinge, Spånga, 26 February 1785 - 1871), was a Swedish chemist.

Asylum Street Spankers

Founded by Christina Marrs, Wammo and Guy Forsyth after a party at the Dabbs Hotel along the Llano River in Texas in 1994.

Büsbach

The well known German singer and song writer Christina Klein, better known under her stage name LaFee, was born in Büsbach.

Carolyn Cowan

While in her early 20s, Cowan met members of the Italian group Krisma, a New Wave band formed in 1976 with Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser.

Charles William, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

He was the eldest son of Prince Charles of Nassau-Usingen and his wife, Christina Wilhelmina, the daughter of Duke John William III of Saxe-Eisenach.

Chris Abani

Poets Kwame Dawes, Christina Garcia, Kate Durbin, Karen Harryman, Uche Nduka, Percival Everett, Khadijah Queen and Gabriela Jauregui have all been published by Black Goat.

Christina Aguilar

In 2010, Christina performed with various artists (for example Tata Young, Mai Charoenpura, Marsha, Jetrin Wattanasin, Dan etc.) on Special Project "THIS IS IT THE CONCERT".

In late of 2008, Christina has a special project album "Mai - Tina: Beauty on the Beat", collaborating with one of the most successful Thai female artists and her former rival(from a rumour news), Mai Charoenpura.

Christina Lindberg

In her introduction to Daniel Ekeroth's book Swedish Sensationsfilms: A Clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers, and Kicker Cinema, Christina Lindberg explains that after leaving exploitation films behind, she has been busy with numerous other projects.

Christina of Salm

However, when Francis married Christina, he was only the third son of Duke Charles III, destined for the countship of Vaudémont as appanage rather than for the sovereignty of Lorraine.

Christina Oiticica

Christina Oiticica (born on 23 November 1951 in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artist.

Christina Rokiczana

Christina plays a major role in the novel King of the peasants (1884), by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski.

Christina Sampanidis

Christina Sampanidis (born 12 May 1988) is a German female football player of Greek and Serb origin currently playing for ŽFK Mašinac PZP Niš.

Christina Sussiek

Christina Sussiek (born 4 March 1960 in Werther) is a retired athlete who represented West Germany.

Christina Vukicevic

Ljubica Christina Vukicevic (Serbian: Ljubica Kristina Vukičević, Љубица Кристина Вукићевић; born 18 June 1987 in Lørenskog) is a Norwegian hurdler of Serbian descent.

Frank Rost

He comes from a sporting family background; his father Peter won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympic Games in handball, and his mother Christina, also a handball player, won the silver at the 1976 Summer Olympics and bronze at the 1980 Games.

Gonzaga Cameo

It was subsequently acquired, with the rest of Christina's art collection, by Livio Odescalchi, Duke of Bracciano and nephew of Innocent XI.

Greenbank Middle School

Christina Organista-Martin's grade 7 French Immersion class decided that it wants to help prevent global warming and decided that it will make a project selling reusable bags and giving profits to the Institute of Environmental Sciences at Carleton University for research and education into reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Gregory Kealey

Gregory Kealey has supervised more than 20 PhDs to completion at Dalhousie, MUN and UNB, including Craig Heron, John Manley, Sean Cadigan, Mark Leier, Christina Burr, Michael Smith, Miriam Wright, Andrew Parnaby, Dominique Clement, Michelle McBride, Janis Thiessen, Michael Butt, Fred Winsor, Richard Rennie, Kurt Korneski, Kirk Niergarth, Benjamin Isitt, Christopher Powell and David Foord.

Harald Olafsson

-- The previous sentence does is not supported by the citation in the sentence --> Although Óláfr is known to have had two wives, and no contemporaneous source names Haraldr's mother, she may have been Óláfr's second wife—Christina, daughter of Ferchar, Earl of Ross.

Isabel Jay

Her roles during these years included Olivia in Liza Lehmann's The Vicar of Wakefield (1906, based on the novel of the same name), Sally in Miss Hook of Holland (1906, running for a very successful 462 performances), Paulette in My Mimosa Maid (1908), Princess Marie in King of Cadonia (1908), Christina in Dear Little Denmark (1909), and Princess Stephanie in The Balkan Princess (1910).

J. M. Wendt

Wendt was born in Itzehoe, a small town in Holstein, then a Danish province, son of Joachim Matthias Wendt and his wife Christina, née Schlichting.

Jacob Bancks

His parents were Lawrence Bengston Bancks of Stockholm, commissioner of customs, and his wife Christina.

James Stewart House

James Stewart, Jr., House, Christina, Delaware, listed on the NRHP in New Castle County, Delaware

Jammers Minde

Jammers Minde (literally A Memory of Lament), translated into English as Memoirs of Leonora Christina, is an autobiography completed in 1674 by Leonora Christina, daughter of Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk.

José Herrera Uslar

He married Clementina Velutini Couturier (1906–1998), had 3 children: Jose Herrera Velutini, Julio Herrera Velutini and Christina Herrera, and 9 grandchildren: Mercedes Clementina, José Henrique, Santiago and Andrés Herrera Titeux, Julio Herrera Velutini, Carlos Alberto Herrera Velutini and Jose Francisco Kolster Herrera, Cristina Herrera Pantin of Kochen and Andrés Kochen.

Kalmar Nyckel

The modern ship, designed by naval architects Thomas C. Gillmer, Melbourne Smith, Joel Welter, and Ken Court, was built at a shipyard in Wilmington on the Christina River near the original 1638 Swedish settlers' landing site at Fort Christina.

Kristen Connolly

In 2013, she had a starring role as Christina Gallagher on the Netflix series House of Cards alongside Kevin Spacey.

KXXT

In January 2011, after the attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords (see 2011 Tucson shooting ), KXXT National Talk Show Host Steve Sanchez of The Steve Sanchez Show offered 30 minutes of airtime to Westboro Baptist Church in exchange for the Church agreeing not to protest at the funeral of 9 year old Christina Green who was killed during the assassination attempt.

Lady Mary Holborow

Lady Mary Christina Holborow, DCVO (born 19 September 1936), née Stopford, is a daughter of the 8th Earl of Courtown and the former Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.

Lena Yada

After the WWE, Yada won her first singles match against Christina Von Eerie at Pro Wrestling Revolution's show on June 6, 2009 in San Francisco as part of ChickFight, pinning Christina with a schoolgirl roll-up.

Michael Dahl

At several occasions, Christina let Dahl paint her portrait and she was able to establish an opportunity for Dahl to show a specimen of his work to Pope Innocent XI.

Nayemont-les-Fosses

The 1550s found the powerful regent Christina, Danish born widow of the former Duke of Lorraine, residing at Spitzemberg Castle.

Preston Lea

At its back, though, is a tributary of the Christina River, known as Brandywine Creek.

Road Rules: Down Under

Currently, Christina is a writer and round table panelist for E! entertainment's late night talk show, Chelsea Lately.

Robert Morrison MacIver

Robert Morrison MacIver was born in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland on April 17, 1882 to Donald MacIver, a general merchant and tweed manufacturer, and Christina MacIver (née Morrison).

Rodney Pocceschi

In the evening of June 23, 2003, Christina Marie Tatem, an 18-year-old IHOP employee, let two men into the back door of the restaurant: her boyfriend and convicted felon LeKeith Devon Speller, 21, and his accomplice Shawn Anthony Zhe.

See You Later

The second (slower) half of the piece features vocals by Jon Anderson and a narrative in Italian, by Krisma (Maurizio Arcieri and Christina Moser).

Shanghai Foreign Language School

The so-called "going out" means that a number of students are provided with opportunities to study abroad as exchange students at locations like Sukura Nobirin College in Japan, Christina College in Hamburg, Germany, La Salle College, Hong Kong, and The Culver Academies, in Indiana US.

The Fortune of Christina McNab

The Fortune of Christina McNab is a 1921 British silent comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino and starring Nora Swinburne, David Hawthorne and Francis Lister.

The Home and Family Show

It was originally co-hosted by Paige Davis, who left after six weeks on November 16, 2012 with her final episode being taped the day before, and was replaced by original co-host Christina Ferrare.

The Violent Kind

The Violent Kind is a 2010 American horror film directed by The Butcher Brothers (Mitchell Altieri and Phil Flores), written by The Butcher Brothers and Adam Weis, and starring Cory Knauf, Taylor Cole, Bret Roberts, Christina Prousalis, Tiffany Shepis, Joseph McKelheer, Samuel Child, and Joe Egender.

William Randolph Hearst II

New York Times; October 23, 2005; Heather Disbrow Carlton, 33, the daughter of Christina and Merritt Carlton of Fernandina Beach, FL, was married yesterday at the Hearst Ranch in San Simeon, California, to Jason Gooch Hearst, the son of Jennifer Rowe of Hope, Maine, and William Randolph Hearst II of San Luis Obispo, California.

Zerocoin

According the Zerocoin's website, its developers include Ian Miers, Christina Garman, Matthew Green, and Aviel Rubin.


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