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34 unusual facts about David


Absalom, Absalom!

The title refers to the Biblical story of Absalom, a son of David who rebelled against his father (then King of Kingdom of Israel) and who was killed by David's general Joab in violation of David's order to deal gently with his son, causing heartbreak to David.

Alan Gerber

He subsequently moved to Canada and currently lives in Val-David, Quebec.

Analía Núñez

Analía Veronica Núñez Sagripanti, born (June 4, 1980) David, Chiriquí, is a Panamanian model and beauty pageant contestant winner of the Señorita Panamá 1999.

Claudia Shear

In Restoration, Shear plays "Giulia, a down-on-her-luck art restorer from Brooklyn who receives what could possibly be a career-reviving job of 'refreshing' Michelangelo’s David in time for its quincentennial celebration in Florence."

Country Boys

Country Boys is a 6-hour documentary film centered on Cody Perkins and Chris Johnson, two teenage boys from David, Kentucky.

David-Seth Kirshner

For five years, Kirshner also served as spiritual leader for the Hebrew Congregation of Fitzgerald, in Southern Georgia.

David, Kentucky

The David School is featured in the six-hour documentary film Country Boys which was broadcast in Frontline on PBS, about two residents, Chris and Cody, and their life in a poor, rural mountain town.

David, Lord of Brechin

Brechin fought in the Earl of Surrey's army at the Battle of Dunbar, and was granted lands previously owned by Alan Durward.

David's Birthday

Two pairs of friends, Matteo and Francesca & Shary and Diego, decide to spend the summer together in a beach house at the foot of Mount Circeo.

David's Mighty Warriors

For the remaining names of the list, there are some significant textual issues, the most minor of which being that the Books of Samuel lists Paarai the Arbite but the Book of Chronicles lists Naarai son of Exbai instead.

According to most manuscripts of the masoretic text, Abishai became the commander of The Three, but according to the Syriac Peshitta, and a few masoretic text manuscripts, Abishai instead became the commander of The Thirty.

David's Mother

In the UK it can often be seen on television movie channels True Movies 1 and True Movies 2.

Sally Goodson has always tried to do what is best for her autistic son David, always blaming herself for the way David is.

Elhanan

The biblical Elhanan son of Dodo, mentioned in 2 Samuel 23:24 and 1 Chronicles 11:26, one of King David's elite fighters known as The Thirty.

First Bank and Trust Tower

In front of the main entrance on Poydras Street are a pair of bronze sculptures by Enrique Alférez depicting David and a lute player.

Frank Sandford

Considered by former members and many neighbors to be a crank and an autocrat who insisted on unquestioning loyalty, Sandford—who had identified himself with the biblical Elijah and David—was convicted of manslaughter in 1911 and served seven years in a federal penitentiary.

In 1902, after once again visiting Jerusalem, Sandford received a divine message that indicated that in some way, he was also the biblical David.

Iconclass

For example, the Iconclass code "71H7131" is for the subject of "Bathsheba (alone) with David's letter", whereas "71" is the whole "Old Testament" and "71H" the "story of David".

Joe Szakos

Szakos began his work in eastern Kentucky working on housing development in David (Floyd County) in 1979.

Kalonymus Kalman Epstein

The youngest yet most celebrated of the students of Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Halevi Epstein was the son of Aaron Halevi Epstein, and an alleged descendant from both the Prophet Samuel and King David.

Kara David

Kara Patria David was born on September 12, 1973 to Professor Emeritus Randy David of the University of the Philippines Diliman and former Chairperson of the Civil Service Commission Karina Constantino-David.

Karina Constantino-David

She is also the mother of journalist Kara David and UP Diliman geology professor Dr. Carlos Primo David.

King Davids Peak

The mountain is named after the biblical ruler of Judea, King David.

Latin University of Panama

The one in Panama was opened on September 4, 1991, with facilities in Panama City and David, Chiriquí.

Lee Cowling

After a brief stint at Mansfield Town, the club at which his father, Dave Cowling started his career, a reoccurring knee injury forced him to retire in his early twenties.

Nad Niemnem

There are almost no books mentioned in the work, only Anzelm keeps three books: Pan Tadeusz, David's Psalter and Ogrody Północne.

Panamanian spiny pocket mouse

Panamanian spiny pocket mice are found only in southern and western Panama, along the Pacific coast between David and Chepo, and inland as far as the headwaters of rivers flowing into the Atlantic.

Peter Annet

He distinguished himself by being extremely critical of the character and reputation of King David and the Apostle Paul.

Randy David

David is married to Karina Constantino-David who served until 2008 as the Chairperson of the Civil Service Commission (CSC) of the Philippines.

Standard 52-card deck

The United States Playing Card Company suggests that in the past, the King of Hearts was Charlemagne, the King of Diamonds was Julius Caesar, the King of Clubs was Alexander the Great, and the King of Spades was the Biblical King David (see King (playing card)).

Timbrel

The tabret or timbrel was a favorite instrument of the women, and was used with dances, as by Miriam, to accompany songs of victory, or with the harp at banquets and processions; it was one of the instruments used by King David and his musicians when he danced before the

Tropical Storm Alma

The city of David, Chiriquí in western Panama reported 5.75 inches (141 mm) of precipitation in 48 hours.

Uri-On

He also uses his costume belt and bracelet pellets as a sling, evoking the weapon used by King David against Goliath, with which he is able to control forces of nature.

Zadok Ben-David

He was born in Beihan, Yemen; his family immigrated to Israel when he was an infant.


Amedisys Home Health and Hospice Care

As of Nov. 6, 2011, the members of the board of directors of Amedisys are: William F. Borne, chairman; Don Washburn, lead director; Ronald LaBorde; Jake L. Netterville, CPA; David Pitts, and Peter Ricchiuti.

Bournville School

Gulliver McGrath, actor, who was recently cast as David Collins in the hit film Dark Shadows (film) alongside Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.

Canalipalpata

The earliest known member of the Canalipalpata is Terebellites franklini, which was found in the Clouds Rapids Formation of Newfoundland, and dates from the mid Cambrian (St David's series).

Cavalier Mustang

In 1957, newspaper publisher David Lindsay (1922–2009) formed Trans Florida Aviation Inc.

Conservative Judaism

This situation was resolved due to the efforts of Cyrus Adler, professor of Semitic languages at Johns Hopkins University and founder of the Jewish Publication Society, who convinced a number of wealthy German Reform Jews including Jacob Schiff, David and Simon Guggenheim, Mayer Sulzberger, and Louis Marshall, to contribute $500,000 to the faltering JTS.

Dan Jewett

The album She Likes the Weather was produced by Jewett from a December 1991 studio recording and their original demo tape, produced by Counting Crows guitarist David Bryson.

Daniel Hopkin

His son Sir David Hopkin (1922–1997) was also a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate for over 20 years, but is probably best known as the Chairman and later President of the British Boxing Board of Control.

David Baron

Harold Pinter (1930–2008), English playwright, and actor under the stage name David Baron

David de Gorter

Later, Linnaeus named the plant genus Gorteria after David de Gorter and his father, the physician Johannes de Gorter.

David de Rothschild

David de Rothschild is the name of several members of the renowned family of bankers founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild family

David Norris

Bud Norris (David Norris, born 1985), American baseball player

David Ross McCord

He was the fourth child of John Samuel McCord (1801-1865), Judge of the Supreme Court, and Anne Ross, a daughter of David Ross (1770-1837) Q.C., of Montreal, Seigneur of St. Gilles de Beaurivage.

David Saxe

Writing and developing acts came naturally to David and at the age of 17, he launched his sister's show Melinda Saxe - First Lady of Magic at Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino making him the youngest producer in Las Vegas’ history.

David Tai Bornoff

David accepted an offer to complete high school at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts where he took early classes in Computer graphics and became the youngest Graphics editor of the Association for Computing Machinery.

David Taylor Model Basin

The new navy modeling facility — named for David Taylor — was built in 1939 in today's community of Carderock just west of Bethesda, Maryland in Montgomery County.

DeMaurice Smith

Although Smith lacked football experience, his ties to presidential power and business experts helped give him an advantage over other potential candidates like Troy Vincent, Trace Armstrong, and sports attorney David Cornwell.

Don't Dress for Dinner

This production of the Roundabout Theatre is directed by John Tillinger, and features Ben Daniels, Patricia Kalember, Adam James, Jennifer Tilly, David Aron Damane, and Spencer Kayden.

Edgar Chías

He has written a number of plays including De insomnio y media noche, which was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 2006 under the title On Insomnia and Midnight (English translation by David Johnston).

February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

Nationally broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS, it tells the story of The Greensboro Four, four young college freshman, Joe McNeil, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Ezell Blair Jr. now Jibreel Khazan, who staged a sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960 to protest segregation practices.

Fictive art

Notable practitioners and projects include David Wilson (The Museum of Jurassic Technology), Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick (The Circular River), Beauvais Lyons (The Hokes Archives), Joan Fontcuberta (Sputnik), Eve Andree Laramee (Yves Fissiault), and Jim Shaw (O-ism).

Floyd Weaver

David Floyd Weaver (May 12, 1941 – November 17, 2008) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who was born in Ben Franklin, Texas.

Gailen David

On April 1, 2013, Savvy Stews ran an April Fool article claiming that David, Laurie and "Sassy Stew" Shawn Kathleen had been selected as flight attendants on Lindsay Lohan's private jet.

Geoff Grover

Geoffrey David "Geoff" Grover (born 19 September 1943), is a business and marketing expert, currently working in real estate on the Queensland Sunshine Coast.

George W. Littlefield

Works on Littlefield include David B. Gracy, II, George Washington Littlefield: A Biography in Business (Ph.D. dissertation; Texas Tech University, 1971) and J. Evetts Haley's George W. Littlefield, Texan (1943; through the University of Oklahoma Press in Norman, Oklahoma).

Howard T. Odum

Odum's students have carried on his work at institutions around the world, most notably Mark Brown at the University of Florida, David Tilley and Patrick Kangas at the University of Maryland, Daniel Campbell at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Enrique Ortega at the UNICAMP in Brazil, and Sergio Ulgiati at the University of Siena.

I Need More of You

"I Need More of You" is the title of a song written David Bellamy, and recorded by American country music duo The Bellamy Brothers.

Jerry Brightman

Major recording artists with Jerry appearing on include: Buck Owens, Susan Raye, Tony Booth, Arlo Guthrie, and David Frizzel.

Jigda-Khatun

Jigda-Khatun's involvement in the government of Georgia was occasioned by David's departure for the court of Batu Khan, when she, together with the courtier Jikur, was left in charge of regency.

John Trobaugh

In Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship, Trobaugh's work was shown alongside Dread Scott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sue Coe, Lynda Benglis, Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, Alma Lopez, John Jota Leaos, Benita Carr, Anita Steckel, Renee Cox, Gayla Lemke, Marilyn Zimmerman, John Sims, The Critical Art Ensemble, Eric Fischl, Tom Forsythe, Nancy Worthington, David Avalos, Scott Kessler, Louis Hock and Elizabeth Sisco.

Joseph Wijnkoop

Joseph David Wijnkoop (Amsterdam, 14 August 1842 - Amsterdam, 1 October 1910) was a Dutch rabbi and scholar in Jewish studies.

Karel David

Karel David (born February 8, 1964 in Nový Jičín, Czechoslovakia) is a retired long-distance runner from the Czech Republic, who won the 1991 and 1992 edition of the Vienna Marathon.

Kathleen Chalfant

They have a son, David Chalfant, who was the bass player for the folk-rock band, The Nields, and a daughter, Andromache, who is a set designer in New York.

La Dentellière

It was translated into English by George Crowther in 1976 as A Web of Lace and in 2006 by David Dugan.

Lightstone

The Lightstone, a novel by David Zindell, the first of the EA Cycle

Mario Ancona

Ancona also undertook roles composed by Leoncavallo (Silvio and Tonio), Puccini (Lescaut and Marcello), Mascagni (Alfio and David in L'amico Fritz), Giordano (Gerard in Andrea Chénier), Mozart (Don Giovanni and Figaro) and Wagner (Wolfram, Telramund and even, on occasion, Hans Sachs).

Marshall Earle Reid

He was born on 31 August 1887 in Philadelphia to Betsey Holmes Marshall and David Christopher Reid.

Mostar Round-Trip

A year after 17-year-old Yuval leaves home in Israel to attend the United World College in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, filmmaker David Fisher, his father, follows.

Mount Fentale

The date of these eruptions is fixed by the investigations of the early 19th century explorer William Cornwallis Harris, whom David Buxton states first encountered this volcano and its lava beds in 1842.

One Lucky Elephant

The film focuses on the extraordinary human-animal bond between Circus Flora founder, Ivor David Balding, and Flora an endangered African elephant, and their journey to find her a permanent home that leads them to The Elephant Sanctuary (Hohenwald).

Our Lady of Victory Catholic School

The recognition came from the teachings of Deacon David Jones, whose 5th grade art class curriculum that school year was based on the works of noted artist Bob Ross, host of the American PBS television show The Joy of Painting.

Pinacoteca di Brera

Raphael's Sposalizio (the Marriage of the Virgin) was the key painting of the early collection, and the Academy increased its cultural scope by taking on associates across the First French Empire: David, Pietro Benvenuti, Vincenzo Camuccini, Canova, Thorvaldsen and the archaeologist Ennio Quirino Visconti.

Saint David

It is a seven-movement work best known for the classical crossover series Adiemus, which intersperses movements reflecting the themes of David's last sermon with those drawing from three Psalms.

Sándor Jemnitz

Jemnitz: Trio for violin, viola and guitar – Benjamin Hudson (violin); Kim Kashkashian (viola); David Starobin (guitar); A Song from the East, Bridge Classics BDG 9004 (1987); David Starobin Favorite Tracks Vol.

Sarah Palin email hack

The FBI and Secret Service began investigating the incident and on September 20, it was revealed that they were questioning David Kernell, a 20-year-old economics student at the University of Tennessee and the son of Democratic Tennessee State Representative Mike Kernell from Memphis.

Solomon ben David

Solomon, Solomon ben David, son of King David who succeeded his father as King of Israel and founded the line of the Kings of Judah, 10th century BCE

Stanley Awramik

In 2003, he, Frank Corsetti and David Pierce published evidence in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of fossilized microbiota in Cryogenian rocks, a revelation which has cast doubt on the notion of the near elimination of life during potential equatorial glaciation during that period (commonly referred to as Snowball Earth).

Sudeki

David Leonard's review for PopMatters expresses considerable concern about the Orientalist packaging of the Asian setting of the game as well as the currents of "female hypersexuality", "racism, sexism and simulations of the war on terror".

Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival

Past winners included Gary Walkow (Notes from Underground), Constance Marks (Green Chimneys), Chris Eyre (Smoke Signals), David Riker (La Ciudad), Daniel Yoon (Post Concussion), and a lifetime achievement award for Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

Third Age Foundation

The radio show's hosts are founders Peter Brill and David Debin, and also features the actress Anne Francis.

Tulsa Shock

Tulsa Pro Hoops LLC, composed of Bill Cameron and David Box (majority owners), and Chris Christian, Pat Chernicky, Sam and Rita Combs, Pat and Don Hardin, Paula Marshall, Stuart and Linda Price, and Katie and Scott Schofield (2010–present)