X-Nico

3 unusual facts about Cleopatra's Needle


Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument

It is believed that Cleopatra's Needle is the only larger single-stone work in the United States.

Embankment tube station

The station is adjacent to Victoria Embankment Gardens and is close to Charing Cross station, Embankment Pier, Hungerford Bridge, Cleopatra's Needle, the Royal Air Force Memorial, the Savoy Chapel and Savoy Hotel and the Playhouse and New Players Theatres.

Oahspe: A New Bible

Ward, who claimed to have deciphered the hieroglyphics on the Cleopatra's Needle obelisk in Central Park.


Adam and the Ants

Lyrically it addressed subjects such as fetishism, historical figures like Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy and Cleopatra as well as art history, particularly the Futurism movement.

Anna Christy

Christy sings a variety of lyric roles, such as Susanna, Papagena and Cleopatra, but especially coloratura roles such as Cunegonde in Candide and Oscar in Un ballo in maschera.

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.

Carrie Snodgress

She also appeared in All the Way Home, Oh! What a Lovely War, Caesar and Cleopatra, Tartuffe, The Balcony and The Boor (all at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago); and Curse of the Starving Class at the Tiffany Theatre (in Los Angeles).

Cesare Danova

He tested for a part in Ben Hur, but his big break was the role of Apollodorus, Cleopatra's personal servant in the 1963 film, Cleopatra directed by Joseph Mankiewicz and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and Rex Harrison.

Claude Renoir

Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977).

Cleopatra of Macedon

A frustrated Antipater publicly accused Cleopatra of being involved with Perdiccas in her half sister Cynane's death.

Cleopatra Selene

Cleopatra Selene II, also known as Cleopatra VIII, daughter of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony

Cleopatra Stratan

Everybody was stunned so they ended up recording the song with Cleopatra performing the lead vocals, and suggested that as she is younger than Shirley Temple, she should be included in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest talent ever to perform on stage and record her own album named that Cleopatra Stratan.

Constance Collier

On 27 December 1906, Beerbohm Tree's extravagant revival of Antony and Cleopatra opened at His Majesty's Theatre, with Tree as Mark Antony and Constance Collier as Cleopatra, a performance for which she received much critical praise.

Donations of Alexandria

For the finale of the festivities, the whole city was summoned to the Gymnasium of Alexandria, where Antony and Cleopatra, dressed as Dionysus-Osiris and Isis-Aphrodite, sat on golden thrones.

Ella Leya

Her new CD, "Secret Lives of Women," -- celebrates six of history’s most famous and infamous femme fatales: Princess Diana * Mata Hari * Cleopatra * Anne Boleyn * Sappho * Sarah Bernhardt.

Flore Revalles

By her mid-twenties Revalles was a singer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève until the set and costume designer Léon Bakst enticed her to join the European tour of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in productions such as Cleopatra, Thamar and Scheherazade .

Four continents

Africa, by contrast (illustration, below right) wears the elephant headdress (worn by rulers depicted on Hellenistic Bactrian coins) and is accompanied by a lion, the scorpion of the desert sands and Cleopatra's asps.

Francesca Cuzzoni

He created nine roles for her, the most famous today being Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and the title-role in Rodelinda.

Herod the Great

He and Cleopatra owned a monopoly over the extraction of asphalt from the Dead Sea, which was used in shipbuilding.

Home After Three Months Away

Ian Hamilton, who wrote a biography on Lowell, suggests that the poem owes something to W.D. Snodgrass' poem "Heart's Needle" since "Heart's Needle," which came out prior to Life Studies, focused on Snodgrass' relationship with his child.

Il Sodoma

When Leo X became pope (1513), Sodoma presented him with a picture of the Death of Lucretia (or of Cleopatra, according to some accounts).

Jack Martin Smith

Other big productions to bear his name there include Peyton Place (1957), Return to Peyton Place (1961), Cleopatra (1963, his first Oscar win), Von Ryan's Express (1965), the science fiction epic Fantastic Voyage (1966, which earned him his second Oscar), Planet of the Apes (1968), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and MASH (1970).

Jennifer Sky

She is known for her role as Sarah Webber on General Hospital (1997–1998) and Cleopatra, the title character in the campy science fiction series Cleopatra 2525.

John William Weidemeyer

In 1841 he wrote a play entitled The Vagabonds, which was produced at the Franklin Theatre in New York City and the Arch Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and at one point he was preparing Cæsar and Cleopatra, an acting drama.

Maria Dahvana Headley

In early 2010, Dutton purchased Headley's debut novel Queen of Kings, which explores "the transcendent powers of love even beyond death, entwining the true story of Antony and Cleopatra and Rome's invasion of Alexandria with a narrative in which the Queen of Egypt sacrifices her soul to save her fallen husband and in return is transformed into an immortal goddess bent on the destruction of the Roman Empire".

Marina, Egypt

The Egyptian government is also working to convert nearby Taposiris Magna, the suspected burial place of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, into a museum.

Marlborough, Queensland

Marlborough is famous for producing the world's finest chrysoprase, a semi-precious gem once coveted by Alexander the Great and Cleopatra.

Matt Goss

By January 2010, the live show had moved to Caesars Palace, playing at Cleopatra's Barge every Friday and Saturday night.

Medea, the Musical

Before Medea, the Musical he wrote and directed Mary! (a musical take on Mary Stuart), Oresteia: The Musical, Cleopatra: the Musical, and Napoleon: The Camp-Drag-Disco-Musical Extravaganza (in which upon discovering that Joséphine de Beauharnais is actually a man, Napoeon decides he is gay and liberates Europe so that all gays can be free).

Narrative ballet

Ben Stevenson, Artistic Director of Texas Ballet Theater, has choreographed many narrative ballets with lavish sets and costumes in recent years, including Cleopatra, Dracula, and The Snow Maiden, based on a Russian folktale, as well as his own versions of narrative story ballets.

Pavel Stratan

Stratan is now living in Pipera in the capital of Romania, Bucharest with his wife Rodica, an engineer, daughter Cleopatra (b. October 2002), and son, Cezar (b.December 2008).

Peter Sliker

On September 16, 1966 he appeared as the Sentinel in the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra for the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House with Leontyne Price as Cleopatra and Justino Díaz as Anthony.

Professor Chronotis

Here Chronotis is so old and forgetful that he has no idea who or what he originally was, though he has vague memories of Cleopatra (who he claims wore outrageous earrings and reeked of cat food and death), and believes that he achieved his position after his retirement from "something pretty good".

Ptolemy VIII Physcon

About 124 BC, Physcon sent his second daughter by Cleopatra III, Tryphaena, to marry Antiochus VIII Philometor.

Samuel Pordage

The plot was borrowed from Josephus and the romance of ‘Cleopatra.’ In 1678 appeared ‘The Siege of Babylon, by Samuel Pordage of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., author of the tragedy of “Herod and Mariamne.”’ This play had been licensed by Roger L'Estrange on 2 November 1677, and acted at the Duke's Theatre not long after the production at the Theatre Royal of Nathaniel Lee's ‘Rival Queens;’ and Statira and Roxana, the ‘rival queens,’ were principal characters in Pordage's rhymed tragedy.

Sarah Fielding

As a biographer, she wrote The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia in 1757, a history, written from Greek and Roman sources, on the lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, two famous women from Roman times.

Seduction

Eve herself was verbally seduced by the serpent, believed in Christianity to be Satan; the Sirens of Greek mythology lured sailors to their death by singing them to shipwreck; Cleopatra beguiled both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony, Dionysus was the Greek God of Seduction and wine, and Persian queen Scheherazade saved herself from execution by story-telling.

Skull Cave

The Skull Cave includes two treasure rooms, The Minor Treasure room with gold and jewels, and the major treasure room which includes invaluable, historical treasures, like the snake that killed Cleopatra, Excalibur, sword of King Arthur, the diamond cup of Alexander The Great, Shakespeare's original Hamlet script, and much more, including one of Alfred Nobel's first sticks of dynamite.

Stephanie Coontz

Her book, Marriage, A History: How Love Conquered Marriage, traces the history of marriage from Anthony and Cleopatra (not a love story, she argues) to debates over same-sex marriage.

Teo Gebert

Gebert made his stage debut in Reg Livermore's musical Big Sister in 1990, and has appeared at the Sydney Theatre Company in Trackers of Oxyrhinicus, Antony and Cleopatra, Lost in Yonkers, Galileo and Blackrock.

The Asiatic Society

Some masterpieces, like Joshua Reynolds’ Cupid asleep on Cloud , Guido Cagnacci's Cleopatra, Thomas Daniell's A Ghat at Benares and Peter Paul Rubens’ Infant Christ are also in the possession of this museum.

The Dark Lady Players

According to the study by Peter Milward, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, Richard III, Henry VIII all include detailed Apocalypse allegories.

The Entourage Music and Theater Ensemble

In 1976, noted choreographer Murray Louis commissioned the group to create a two-hour original score based on the ballet Cleopatra for the Royal Danish Ballet.

The Notorious Cleopatra

The Notorious Cleopatra is a grossly inaccurate sexploitation film, made in 1970 by Harry Novak.

There Was a Crooked Man...

This was the only western made by Mankiewicz, director of such notable films as All About Eve, Guys and Dolls and Cleopatra.

Tracey Dey

The song was a timely cash-in on the press and fan interest surrounding the Elizabeth Taylor film, "Cleopatra" and became a national hit.


see also