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6 unusual facts about Daphne


Dafne

The story of Apollo falling in love with the eponymous nymph, Daphne, the opera was written for an elite circle of humanists in Florence, the Florentine Camerata, between 1594 and 1597, with the support, and possibly the collaboration, of the composer and patron Jacopo Corsi.

De tribus puellis

Thus, when the narrator of the poem says to the girl, da michi, queso, tua virginitate frui ("grant me, I beg, your virginity for my enjoyment"), the reader (or listener) is supposed to laugh at the play on Daphne's request that her father da mihi perpetua ... virginitate frui ("grant ... that I may enjoy perpetual virginity") in the Metamorphoses (I.486–87).

John Danyel

His surviving works include "Coy Daphne Fled", about the nymph Daphne and her fate, and "Like as the lute delights".

Mezerein

The toxins mezerein and daphnetoxin are both present in the Daphne genus.

Nicolas-Sébastien Adam

A series of narrative reliefs on Apollo: Apollo et Daphne, Latona and the Farmers, Apollo and the Sibyl, Apollo and Coronis (c. 1753), bas-reliefs for the Hôtel de la Bouëxière in Paris, Château de Bagatelle et Musée Carnavalet

Zarmanochegas

This writer states that at Antioch, near Daphne, he met with ambassadors from the Indians, who were sent to Augustus Caesar.


Alec Clunes

He was twice married: to actress Stella Richman, later a television producer, and Daphne Gyllian Acott (married 1956-13 March 1970) with whom he had one son.

Are You an Egghead?

Chris seemed to be making it a one-sided affair, despite Pam's amazing Lazarus-esque comeback in the Sport round, but despite both players messing up on their first General Knowledge question, Daphne's advice gave Chris the win.

Armando Favazza

Collaborators with Favazza on his publications in this area include Karen Conterio, Daphne Simeon, and Richard Rosenthal.

Ashley Jones

She is probably most recognized for her roles as Daphne on HBO's critically acclaimed drama True Blood, as Megan Dennison on The Young and the Restless and as Dr. Bridget Forrester on The Bold and the Beautiful.

Babies switched at birth

On the ABC Family series Switched at Birth, the characters Bay and Daphne were switched at birth.

Cherchez la femme

Also the phrase was used twice by the character Daphne Castle played by Maggie Smith in the 1982 film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 'Evil Under The Sun' whilst advising Hercule Poirot which of her hotel guests to question regarding the murder of Arlena Stewart.

Cyril Raikes

He had two daughters Iris Mary Raikes (born 1 March 1909, died 9 June 1995, living on Exmoor) and Daphne Veronica Raikes, a physiotherapist (born 29 January 1911, and lucidly living to 101 in Beccles, Suffolk, she died 16 October 2012), both without issue.

Daniel Lewis Williams

He has recently added Strauss's Die schweigsame Frau to his repertoire, and in June 2005, he sang in a production of Strauss's Daphne in La Fenice theater in Venice, Italy with June Anderson.

Daphne Barak Erez

Daphne Barak was born in the United States to Israeli parents, and became a citizen by birthright of the United States.

Daphne Island

Daphne is home to a variety of other birds including Galápagos Martins, Blue-footed Booby, Nazca Booby, Short-eared Owls, Red-billed Tropicbirds and Magnificent Frigatebirds.

Daphne Pollard

Daphne Pollard (19 October 1892 in Fitzroy, Melbourne – 22 February 1978 in Los Angeles) was an Australian actress in American films, mostly short comedies.

Daphne Wayans

On September 12, 2012, television network VH1 announced the addition of Daphne to the cast of the reality television series Hollywood Exes.

De Winter

Mrs de Winter, narrator and protagonist of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca

Edward Marten Dunne

In 1899 he married Grace Daphne Rendel, daughter of Lord Rendel, former Liberal MP for Montgomeryshire.

Everything's Tuesday

"Everything's Tuesday" is a song and single produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland and written by them (using the pseudonym Edyth Wayne) with Daphne Dumas and Ron Dunbar and performed by American group, Chairmen of the Board.

Galapagos Hawk

Due to human disturbance to their natural habitat, a dwindling food supply because of new predators introduced to the islands, and predation by humans, they are now extinct on the islands of Baltra, Daphne, Floreana, San Cristobal, and Seymour.

Geoffrey T. Hellman

(Coincidentally, Daphne's only child with first husband Harry Bull was also a musician—prominent folk guitarist Sandy Bull, who died in 2001 at age 60. Daphne Hellman died a year later, at age 86.)

Gretta Taylor

Taylor studied under Douglas Bodle, Walter Buczynski (Canada), and Daphne Clifford (Trinidad) and completed courses in London, England, at the Hereford Summer School of Music and the Talbot Lampson School for Choral Conductors & Accompanists, where she won the Richard Wood Award.

Heather North

North was the second actress to voice Daphne; Indira Stefanianna Christopherson voiced the character during the first season of Scooby-Doo, Where are You! in 1969.

Jack Stewart-Clark

His eldest daughter, Daphne, was a bridesmaid at the 1966 wedding of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

Jackie Jormp-Jomp

NBC page Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) discloses that he fantasizes about marrying a TGS dancer, named Daphne (Danielle Flora), but discovers that "Dot Com" Slattery (Kevin Brown) is dating her.

Jonathan Guinness, 3rd Baron Moyne

Moyne and his daughter, Daphne, both had letters published in the same edition of The Daily Telegraph (16 August 2003) attacking the writer Andrew Roberts over his criticism in the same newspaper on the 13th inst.

Kate Reid

Daphne Kate Reid was born in London, England, the daughter of Canadian parents, Helen Isabel (née Moore) and Walter Clarke Reid, who was a former Bengal Lancer in the Indian army and a retired colonel.

Lia Ices

The album's second track, "Daphne", features a duet with Bon Iver frontman, Justin Vernon.

Look Who's Talking Now

Unlike the previous films, it does not feature the voice-over talents of Bruce Willis, Roseanne Barr, or Joan Rivers as the children's interior monologues; rather, Danny DeVito and Diane Keaton provide voice-over roles for the couple's newly acquired dogs, Rocks and Daphne, respectively, and the film focuses more on the life of the family pets.

Loxley, Alabama

Loxley is becoming a popular location for the expansion of the suburbs from Daphne and Spanish Fort, Alabama, because it is served by an Interstate 10 exit and is almost directly in between the large cities of Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida.

Maria Reining

There are a number of recordings of Reining: her Arabella (Salzburg, 1947, under Karl Böhm), Daphne (Vienna, 1944, Böhm), Ariadne (Vienna, 1944, Böhm), Eva in Die Meistersinger (Vienna, 1937, Toscanini), Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier (Salzburg, 1949, George Szell; Salzburg, 1953, Clemens Krauss; Vienna, 1954 (Studio), Erich Kleiber; Vienna, 1955, Knappertsbusch) are all on disc.

Momversation

Regular contributors to the Momversation show include Heather Armstrong of the website Dooce, Alice Bradley, Daphne Brogdon, Asha Dornfest, Jessica Gottlieb, Giyen Kim, Dana Loesch, Maggie Mason, Mindy Roberts, Heather Spohr, Karen Walrond, and Rebecca Woolf.

Mystery Scene

:Articles focus on writers (Stuart Neville, Edgar Allan Poe, Daphne du Maurier), characters (Trixie Belden, Jack Reacher), films and TV shows (“The Three Maltese Falcons”, Rockford Files, David Simon, humorous mystery movies), and subgenres (legal thrillers, romantic suspense, crime novels of the Civil Rights era), among other topics.

Peneus

Daphne, in an Arcadian version of the myth, was, instead, the daughter of the river god Ladon.

Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton

The oldest son of John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton and Daphne Strutt, daughter of Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh, he was educated at St George's College, Harare in Zimbabwe and at Trinity College, Oxford, from which he emerged with a Bachelor of Arts in 1963 (later, he would receive a Master of Arts from the same institution).

Rowena Farre

This is confirmed by family trees published on Ancestry.com and elsewhere which show Daphne Lois Macready as the daughter of Brig. Gen. John Macready (1887-1957) and Marguerite Mary Milling (1890-1982).

Scooby-Doo! Music of the Vampire

After solving the mystery of a Cockroach Monster that terrorized a factory, Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby decide to take a much needed vacation.

Scrappy-Doo

On the soundtrack album, Family Guy: Live in Vegas, Jason Alexander reports that Scrappy is the product of a drunken encounter between Scooby-Doo and Daphne.

The House on the Strand

It is set in and around Kilmarth (where Daphne du Maurier lived from 1967) near the Cornish village of Tywardreath, which in fact translates from the Cornish language as "House on the Strand".

The Loving Spirit

Daphne du Maurier began work on the book in October 1929 at Ferryside, the du Mauriers' holiday home in Bodinnick, Cornwall.


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