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unusual facts about Cosmopolitan



A. viridis

Amaranthus viridis, the slender or green amaranth, a cosmopolitan plant species

Alberto Angela

He accompanied his father, the well-known Italian TV announcer Piero Angela, on his trips ever since he was a child, something that allowed him to learn many European languages and to appropriate a cosmopolitan culture.

Antony Costa

In June 2006 Costa posed naked for Cosmopolitan magazine's 10 Years of Naked Male Centrefolds, alongside other stars including singer Ronan Keating, actor Danny Dyer, Labour MP Jim Devine, and TV presenter Craig Doyle.

Bhaji

Amaranth, or Bhaji in Trinidad and Tobago, a cosmopolitan genus of herbs

Buddhist modernism

Moreover, it has its own cosmopolitan lineage and canonical "scriptures," mainly the works of popular and semischolarly authors—figures from the formative years of modern Buddhism, including Soen Shaku, Dwight Goddard, D. T. Suzuki, and Alexandra David-Neel, as well as more recent figures like Shunryu Suzuki, Sangharakshita, Alan Watts, Thich Nhat Hanh, Chögyam Trungpa, and the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

Constanza Silva

She's part of Elite Model Chile's agency and she has worked as a model for John Galliano and has posed for the magazines Cosmopolitan and Elle, among others.

Cosmopolitan distribution

Copidosoma floridanum serves as another example of a cosmopolitan wasp species, also distributed around the world.

Duryea Motor Wagon

The Duryeas also won first and second place in the Cosmopolitan Race on Decoration Day, 1896 in New York City.

Elizabeth Bisland

Catching wind of this publicity stunt, John Brisben Walker, who had just purchased the three-year old and still-fledging Cosmopolitan, decided to dispatch Bisland on her own journey.

Fukuoka Prefectural Shuyukan High School

With such pedagogical emphasis and interest in the West, he sent off many gifted samurais from Shuyukan to study at cosmopolitan cities in Japan and abroad, among whom was Kentaro Kaneko, a young han-samurai at the time, who continued his studies at Harvard University and later became one of the drafters of Meiji Constitution.

Ghoti people

Whereas the southern neighborhoods, like Ballygunge, Bhowanipore, Alipore, Rashbehari Avenue, Dhakuria, Gariahat, Jadavpur, Hazra Road, Kasba, Tollygunge, Garia, and Jodhpur Park does have a slight "Bangal" influence but frequently identified with cosmopolitan Bengalis and their culture, cuisine and identity.

Gulf Tiger

The city of Dubai is the second most prosperous emirate of the United Arab Emirates, after Abu Dhabi, and with a cosmopolitan population of 1.6 million, is consolidating its preeminent role as a regional hub while aspiring to be a global city.

Helen Van Pelt Wilson

Over the course of her writing career, Helen Wilson contributed to Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Scribner’s, House Beautiful, House and Garden, Flower Grower, and Better Homes and Gardens.

History of Tunisia

Over two thousand years ago the Romans had arrived, initially allied with Berber kingdoms; their cosmopolitan Empire long governed this Africa region as part of an integrated Mediterranean world.

Homie

Manthia Diawara, author of the article "Homeboy Cosmopolitan", writes, "Hip-hop culture gives aesthetic pleasure through ironic and parodic play with mainstream images of black people".

Ian Beck

He gradually built up a clientele, working for consumer magazines like Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, and Homes and Gardens.

Jared Taylor

Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich, writing in the Intelligence Report (a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center), state that Taylor is "the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy" and "the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day Klansmen".

Jeff Lipsky

Lipsky has photographed many well-known actors and actresses for high-profile magazines, including Ellen Page for the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Mark Wahlberg for Men’s Journal, Dustin Hoffman for AARP Magazine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers for Cosmopolitan, Jeremy Renner, Harrison Ford, and Jerry Seinfeld.

Josh: Independence Through Unity

Josh is about Fatima (Aamina Sheikh), a dedicated school teacher, who is living a high cosmopolitan life in Karachi until one day her life shatters when her nanny Nusrat-bhi inexplicably disappears.

Kannitverstan

A young workman from Tuttlingen (then part of the Duchy of Württemberg) visited the cosmopolitan city of Amsterdam for the first time in his life and was impressed by a particularly stately home and a large ship laden with precious commodities.

Katharine Brush

During her career she published multiple short stories in serial magazines like College Humor and Cosmopolitan; the best known of these were collected in a book titled Night Club (1929).

Katharine Houghton

Houghton has presented lectures at venues across the country including the 2001 Fall Concert & Lectures Series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at The Cosmopolitan Club.

Kristianopel

The Greek suffix '-opel' was given to give the town a cosmopolitan ring similar to Constantinople.

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

By 1900, Coteau-Saint-Louis had become very cosmopolitan, and counted several Protestant churches and synagogues.

Louis-Ernest Dubois

The British reacted to this incident by sending a naval squadron, thus giving rise to the Perote saying (Pera was the diplomatic and cosmopolitan quarter of Constantinople) "les Anglais ont envoyé de l'acier et les Français Dubois".

Love Love?

Naoto Ohizumi is the screenwriter for the all-female Super Sentai TV show, The Super Transforming Cosmopolitan Prayers ("Cosprayers"), although this is only known by the show's producer.

Malay Camp, Kimberley

The Malay Camp in Kimberley, South Africa, with a history similar to Cape Town's District Six, Johannesburg's Sophiatown and Port Elizabeth's South End, was a cosmopolitan suburb originating in the early days of Kimberley's existence but subject to forced 'slums clearance' after the owner of the land (De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd) donated the area to the Kimberley Municipality in 1939.

Meet the Romans with Mary Beard

Beard takes the Via Appia to cosmopolitan Rome to show the lives of the ordinary citizens in Imperial times who would be in the top seats of the Colosseum, take a boat to Rome's port Ostia importing goods from all over the Mediterranean and takes us into the bowels of Monte Testaccio.

Menegazzia

The genus has a sub-cosmopolitan distribution (excluding Antarctica), but is concentrated in Australasia, Melanesia, and southern South America.

Menemerus bivittatus

Menemerus bivittatus is cosmopolitan in distribution being common in most tropical regions.

Michael Bywater

He was a long-running columnist for The Independent on Sunday, an early futurist for The Observer, spent ten years on the staff of Punch, where he wrote a regular computer column and the anonymous "Bargepole" column, as well as having written regularly for The Times, and been a contributing editor to Cosmopolitan and Woman's Journal.

Middenheim

Middenheim is a cosmopolitan place, with a sizable population of Dwarfs, many Halfling and even a few Elves.

Mikhail Katkov

During the twenty-four years of editorship he exercised considerable influence on public opinion and even on the Government, by representing with great ability the moderately Conservative spirit of Moscow in opposition to the occasionally ultra-Liberal and always cosmopolitan spirit of St Petersburg.

Museum of Modern Art in Egypt

The town of Port Said has an international history of being a cultural crossroads and cosmopolitan community, located at the confluence of the Suez Canal and Mediterranean Sea, on the easternmost edge of the Nile Delta region.

Mycology

For example the cosmopolitan (worldwide) genus Fusarium and their toxins associated with fatal outbreaks of alimentary toxic aleukia in humans were extensively studied by Abraham Joffe.

Nick Nuttall

Before joining UNEP, he was the Environment and Technology Correspondent at The Times from 1989 and before that worked for various newspapers and magazines including The Daily Telegraph; The Independent; the Evening Standard and London Evening News, Woman and Cosmopolitan.

Nicole Fiscella

She has appeared on the covers of various beauty and fashion magazines, including Elle and Cosmopolitan, as she has also featured in campaigns for Pantene and GAP Body.

Peggy Levitt

She claims that immigration globalizes American religion as well as economics and politics and creates a more pluralistic, cosmopolitan American society.

Rona Jaffe

During the 1960s, she also wrote cultural pieces for Cosmopolitan as the new editor, Helen Gurley Brown, markedly changed its character.

Sabrina Dhawan

Dhawan is most well known for Monsoon Wedding, a 2001 film directed by Mira Nair; and for Cosmopolitan, a 2003 American cross-cultural romance film directed by Nisha Ganatra and broadcast on PBS.

Samuel P. Carter

Temple, Oliver P. Notable Men of Tennessee, New York: Cosmopolitan Press, 1912, p.

Shawlands Academy

It is situated in Shawlands, the heart of Glasgow’s cosmopolitan South Side, between Pollok Park (and its world-famous Burrell Collection) and Queen's Park, named after Mary Queen of Scots who fought her final battle on Scottish soil at the Battle of Langside on 13 May 1568.

Simon Ghraichy

After a cosmopolitan childhood and teenage life (Lebanon, Mexico, Canada), Simon Ghraichy landed in Paris and enters the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Boulogne-Billancourt at the age of 16.

The Great Reset

Cities with cosmopolitan bases such as Austin, Boston, and San Francisco are seeing large increases in population, with a heavy concentration of creative people.

The Vinyl Records

In a land where Bollywood rules, all-girl four-piece The Vinyl Records (TVR) are making a whole lot of noise all their own, exciting the ears of India’s Rolling Stone, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire magazine editors (who have featured TVR on their pages) in the process.

Xi Ming Temple

The Temple is located in Chang'an, current day Xi'an, which was located at the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, and placed within a cosmopolitan metropolis.


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