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3 unusual facts about Crist


Crist

Christ, in Old English Crist, is the title given to a triad of Old English religious poems in the Exeter Book comprising a total of 1664 lines and dealing with Christ's Advent, Ascension and Last Judgment.

:Christ II (also Christ B), poem written by the Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf on Christ's Ascension.

Eärendil

The Old Norse together with the Anglo-Saxon evidence point to an astronomical myth, the name referring to a star, or a group of stars, and the Anglo-Saxon in particular points to the morning star as the herald of the rising Sun (in Crist Christianized to refer to John the Baptist).


Åke Ohlmarks

Åke Joel Ohlmarks (June 3, 1911 in Kristianstad, Sweden – 1984 in Crist di Niardo, Brescia, Italy) was a Swedish author, translator and scholar of religion.

Ches Crist

He was named for Chester A. Arthur, who was President of the United States at the time of Crist's birth.

Christ II

The poem Christ was originally thought to be one piece completed by a single author.

George B. Crist

By 1963, Crist had returned to the 2nd Marine Division, where he deployed with an infantry battalion to the Caribbean during the Cuban missile crisis.

James E.C. Perry

He was appointed by Governor Charlie Crist in March 2009 to replace retiring Justice Charles T. Wells and was Crist's fourth appointment to the supreme court.

Jason Gonzalez

In 2008-2009 Gonzalez was the chief advisor to Governor Crist on the appointments of four Florida Supreme Court Justices: Justice Charles Canady; Justice Ricky Polston; Justice Jorge Labarga; and Justice James E.C. Perry.

Joe Pickens

He was appointed by Governor Crist to represent Florida on the Southern Regional Education Board.

Jorge Labarga

His term on that court was cut short when Governor Crist quickly elevated Labarga to the Florida Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Harry Lee Anstead.

Judith Crist

Crist was born Judith Klein in The Bronx, borough of New York City, New York, the daughter of Helen (née Schoenberg), a librarian, and Solomon Klein, a manufacturing jeweler.

Noche Crist

Working with acrylic paints on wooden cut-outs and transparent polyester resin small sculptures, Crist created images reminiscent of her childhood at her family's country estate, Ograda, near Ploesti.

Lassman recreated Noche’s pink boudoir installation in the center of this posthumous retrospective and incorporated edited video and audio DVDs of interviews with Crist and her friends.

Old Folks at Home

Crist then encouraged state Senator Tony Hill, who was the leader of the legislature's Black Caucus, to find a new song.

Rob Sheffield

Most of Love is a Mix Tape takes place in Charlottesville, Virginia, where Sheffield met and married his late wife Renée Crist, a fellow DJ at radio station WTJU, and continues in New York City after Crist's death in 1997.

The Glorious Unseen

In 2010 lead singer Ben Crist started an internship with the International House of Prayer in Kansas City.

The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat

The book is a ‘tell-all’ autobiography about how Crist left the Republican Party following his time as the Governor of Florida.


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