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5 unusual facts about Cyril


Barhadbshabba Arbaya

Barhadbshabba Arbaya was a sixth-century Syrian historian, whose History is important for the arian controversy and the dispute between Cyril and Nestorios.

Jacob Bar-Salibi

Of his writings probably the most important are his exhaustive commentaries on the text of the Old and New Testaments, in which he skillfully interwove and summarized the interpretations of previous writers such as Ephrem, Chrysostom, Cyril, Moses Bar-Kepha and John of Dar, whom he mentions together in the preface to his commentary on St Matthew.

Magic X

Chris Gongora and Rico de la Vega served as Co-Executive Producers on the show and they, along with Justin Kredible, and Cyril are the only members of Magic X to appear as series regulars.

Chris Gongora and Rico de la Vega served as producers on the show and they, along with Cyril, Justin Kredible, Lisa de la Vega, Danny Cole, Michael Grasso, Jason Neidstadt, and Thomas Meier performed magic on the show.

Pope Leo I

In 445, Leo disputed with Patriarch Dioscorus, St. Cyril's successor as Patriarch of Alexandria, insisting that the ecclesiastical practice of his see should follow that of Rome on the basis that Mark the Evangelist, the disciple of Saint Peter and founder of the Alexandrian Church, could have had no other tradition than that of the prince of the apostles.


Alexandre Havard

Alexandre Havard's father, Cyril Havard (1929-), is the son of Russian emigrants, Pavel Havard-Dianin (1903-1980) and Nina Anossova (1903-1998), who fled Saint Petersburg during the Bolshevik Revolution and settled, in the early 1920s, in Paris.

Alice Verlet

Other members included contralto Edna Thornton and pianist Mark Hambourg; the accompanist was Cyril Towsey of Wellington, New Zealand, who had carved out a career performing in such ad hoc groups.

Archibald Corble

Corble, as well as the previous owners, such as Cyril Matthey, Alfred Hutton, JR Garcia Donnell, Frederick Pollock and Jacopo Gelli, opted for new personal bindings, added ex-libri to their copies.

Arthur Ponsonby, 11th Earl of Bessborough

Cyril Myles Brabazon Ponsonby, second son of Edward Ponsonby, 8th Earl of Bessborough, and his wife Rita Narcissa Longfield, daughter of Lt. Col. Mountifort John Courtenay Longfield.

Autobiography of a Princess

An Indian Princess (Madhur Jaffrey), long-divorced and living in self-enforced exile in 1970's London, spends time with her father's ex-tutor, Cyril Sahib (James Mason), watching film footage of Royal India and talking of a past world.

Beirut I Love You

Following season two it was announced that the show would be put on hold while Mounia and Cyril complete Masters of Fine Arts in Directing/Screenwriting at Columbia University in New York.

Big Tom and The Mainliners

In 2004, Big Tom’s son Dermot McBride took Ginger Morgan's place on Bass Guitar, Peter McCarthy took Ronnie Duffy's place on drums and Robert Browne, a second keyboardist in the band, appeared to took Cyril McKevitt's place on Trombone (however both were performing for the band in their Q4 2005 tour).

Bristol Type 101

Continued as a private venture, it first flew at Filton on 8 August 1927, piloted by Cyril Uwins, registered G-EBOW.

Charlie Creath

Charles Cyril "Charlie" Creath (December 30, 1890, Ironton, Missouri – October 23, 1951, Chicago) was an American jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, accordionist, and bandleader.

Cinnamon budgerigar mutation

A stuffed Cinnamon Light Green budgerigar hen owned by Mrs Ellis of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, in 1935 and said then to be at least 50 years old was thought by Cyril Rogers to be wild-caught when he examined it

Constantine the Philosopher

See Saints Cyril and Methodius for St. Cyril, born Constantine, 9th-century Byzantine Greek scholar of Thessaloniki

Cy Touff

Cyril James Touff (March 4, 1927, Chicago – January 24, 2003, Evanston, Illinois) was a jazz bass trumpeter.

Cyril Desbruslais

Apart from St Ignatius, Pedro Arrupe sj has inspired him most.As Cyril puts it,"He helped the Society come alive for me. He taught me about the inseparable link between faith and justice. He was a true contemplative in action. He was able to meet this charismatic personality twice, when he visited DNC and one of my treasured possessions is a book with his signature in it. Just to re-read one of his writings (especially “On Our Way of Proceeding”) fires me with enthusiasm and fervor all over again."

Cyril Domoraud

In 2001, Domoraud founded his own football school in Bouaké, the Cyril Domoraud Centre.

Cyril Mango

Cyril Alexander Mango (born 14 April 1928) is a British scholar in the history, art, and architecture of the Byzantine Empire.

Cyril Nzama

Cyril "Skhokho" Nzama (born June 26, 1974 in Soweto, Gauteng) is a retired South African football (soccer) defender who last played for Batau FC.

Cyril O'Reily

Li Chen - Stabbed to death by Cyril for attacking Ryan and threatening to rape Suzanne Fitzgerald, Cyril for sentenced to death for the death of Li Chen.

Cyril of Alexandria

These monks' violence had already been used, 15 years before, by Theophilus (Cyril's uncle) against the "Tall Brothers"; furthermore, it is said that Cyril had spent five years among them in ascetic training.

Cyril of Turaw

Hypothetically, each work can be allocated to one of several real Kirills and Cyrils: Cyril of Jerusalem (ca. 315-386); Cyril of Alexandria (d. 444); Cyril of Scythopolis (mid-sixth century); Constantine-Cyril, apostle of the Slavs(d. 869); Metropolitan Kirill I of Kiev (1223–1233); Metropolitan Kirill II of Kiev (1243–1290); Bishop Kirill of Rostov (1231–1262); Kirill of Turov.

Cyril Takayama

On August 26, 2012, Cyril and Hong Kong movie star Andy Lau performed an illusion at the Miss Hong Kong Pageant 2012.

Cyril the Swan

Cyril appeared as the pet of the Emperor of China, in a British pantomime of Aladdin.

Cyril Wool-Lewis

Cyril Eric Wool-Lewis (1906 – 1975) was a British Colonial administrator whose responsibilities included the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Daiwa Adrian Prize

University of Portsmouth: David Wands, Marco Bruni, Robert Crittenden, Kazuya Koyama, Roy Maartens, Cyril Pitrou

Federal Telegraph Company

Founded in Palo Alto, California in 1909 by Cyril Frank Elwell, it would eventually merge in August 1927 with the Mackay Companies.

Freddie Jameson

In 1951 whilst still in the RAF Freddie was coached by Alfie Noakes of the Geraldo Orchestra, and began professional engagements on trumpet with the Joe Loss 'Ambassadors', and went on to play with Billy Ternent, Harry Parry, Joe Loss, Sidney Lipton, the Cyril Grantham Orchestra at the Park Lane Hotel, Claude Cavalotti, Nat Temple, and Geraldo - for whom he also appeared on the cruise liner Queen Mary, making seventeen return trips to New York.

Georges-Mathieu de Durand

He published alone or in collaboration 13 bilingual volumes, relating particularly to the Trinity (Hilary, De Trinitate, Basil, Contra Eunomium and Cyril of Alexandria, De Trinitate Dialogi) and to Christology (Cyril of Alexandria, De Incarnatione, Quod Unus Sit Christus).

I Enjoy the World With You

Lead actors: Július Satinský (Albert Horák), Jana Šulcová (Kateřina Horáková), Václav Postránecký (Michal Adámek), Eliška Balzerová (Dáša Adámková), Pavel Nový (Pepa Bednář), Zdena Studenková (Gábina Bednářová), Květa Fialová (grandmother), Jan Faltýnek (taxi-driver), Zuzana Gutheisová (Dášenka), Marta Buchtíková (Kačenka), Václav Korda (Míša), Cyril Křupala (Pepíno), Lukáš Pelánek (Matýsek), Marek Dvořák (Bertík)

Jozef Tomko

He co-founded the religious journal of the Institute of SS Cyril and Methodius, and became a professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Maurice Reckitt

Prospect for Christendom: Essays in Catholic Social Reconstruction (Faber and Faber, 1945) editor, with F. N. Davey, V. A. Demant, E. L. Mascall, T. S. Eliot, Philip Mairet, Patrick McLaughlin, T. M. Heron, Ruth Kenyon, David G. Peck, William G. Peck, Charles Smyth, Cyril E. Hudson, Henry Balmforth, Rosalinde Wilton, P. E. T. Widdrington

Orientales Ecclesiae

Patriarch Cyril of Constantinople

Cyril Lucaris (Patriarch Cyril I Lucaris), patriarch for six terms between 1612 and 1638

Patrophilus of Scythopolis

In 354-5 AD he acted together with Acacius of Caesarea to depose the bishop of Jerusalem, Maximus, who supported the Nicene Creed, and replaced him with Cyril, who they thought was also an Arian.

Play Dirty

So Douglas departs on what first seems like a fantasy adventure when he is taken to a Senussi cafe, which is a front for Masters HQ, there Douglas bumps into Cyril Leech.

Prague 2

Important sights:Charles Square- the biggest square in Prague and also among the biggest squares in Europe - with the New City Hall / Gothic town hall, Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Botanical Gardens and several Charles University buildingsin Albertov, as well as the Baroque Villa America.

Prince Alemayehu

He moved to Rugby School with Jex-Blake in 1875, where one of his tutors was Cyril Ransome (the future father of Arthur Ransome).

Richard Anthony Parker

Originally from Chicago, he attended Mt. Carmel High School (then known as St. Cyril) with acclaimed author James T. Farrell.

Russell Schulz-Widmar

Reviews of books by Richard Arnold, Fred Pratt Green, Marion J. Hatchett, Robin Leaver, Alan Luff, Cyril Taylor, and Arthur Wenk.

Six Strings Down

"Six Strings Down" is a song written by Art Neville, Eric Kolb, Aaron Neville, Cyril Neville, Kelsey Smith, and Jimmie Vaughan, and which first appeared on Jimmie Vaughan's album Strange Pleasure in 1995.

Solomon Cyril

Cyril was not selected as a Tamil National Alliance candidate for the April 2010 parliamentary election.

At the April 2004 parliamentary election Cyril was a candidate in Jaffna District but failed to get elected.

Sri Lanka Armoured Corps

General S. Cyril Ranatunge, VSV, SLAC - former GOC, Joint Operations Command and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence

Such, Such Were the Joys

Orwell headed the school prize list in 1916 with Classics, while Cyril Connolly won the English prize, Cecil Beaton won the drawing prize, Walter Christie won the history prize and Rupert Lonsdale won the scripture prize.

Syd Little

Syd Little (born Cyril Mead on 19 December 1942) is an English comedian and was once the straight man in the double act Little and Large, with Eddie Large.

The British Encyclopedia

The work was prepared under the general editorship of J. M. Parrish, M.A. (Oxon.), John R. Crossland, F.R.G.S., and Angelo S. Rappoport, Ph.D., B. es L., and contains an Introduction by Cyril Norwood, then Headmaster of Harrow School.

The Phoenix and the Carpet

It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane and the Lamb.

Theoktistos

It was during this regency that Leo the Mathematician, Photios who taught Greek Philosophy, and later Constantine-Cyril, taught at the university.

They Just Had to Get Married

The screenplay was written by Gladys Lehman, H.M. Walker, and an uncredited Preston Sturges, based on the Broadway play A Pair of Silk Stockings (1914) by Cyril Harcourt.


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