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4 unusual facts about Edna


Edna, Texas

The City of Edna is served by the Edna Independent School District, including one elementary school, a middle school, and a high school.

Edna's Goldfish

In November 2011, Connecticut's Asbestos Records and Chicago, IL's Underground Communiqué Records launched a fundraiser together on Kickstarter to release "Before You Knew Better" on vinyl, among other third-wave ska classics from Pilfers, The Pietasters, and Suburban Legends.

Léon Bernier

For CBC Television he served as music director of the programs Les Coqueluches, Allo Boubou, Zoum, and Les Démons du midi, and composed music for the television dramas Edna, Le Vélo devant la porte, Pâques, Le Misanthrope, and Coup de sang among others.

Texana Presbyterian Church

Texana Presbyterian Church is a historic church at Apollo Drive and Country Club Lane in Edna, Texas.


14th Lambda Literary Awards

Nancy Mitford, Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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.

Anona Winn

Anona Winn MBE (born Anona Edna Wilkins, 5 January 1904 – 2 February 1994) was an Australian-born actress, broadcaster and singer, who spent most of her career in the UK.

Barra Head

In 2008 the Barra RNLI Life Boat, Edna Windsor was featured on a series of Royal Mail stamps.

Bigfat

The family rushes to where Peter left a doll of Edna Garrett from The Facts of Life (though Chris also reminds everyone that Edna Garrett was first seen in Diff'rent Strokes) and find him in the bushes acting like a nonspeaking feral beast with long hair, a long beard, a partially muddy body, and wearing what's left of his underwear.

Bill Ramsay

William and Edna were married October 22, 1921, in Lewis County, Washington.

Biometrics

The Disney, Pixar 2004 film The Incredibles shows a scene where Mrs Incredible visits Edna Mode (a fashion designer for superhero costumes) at her mansion.

Craig Zadan

On the soundtrack, Lake joins Nikki Blonsky and Marissa Jaret Winokur ("Tracy" from the Broadway production) to sing "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now" over the closing credits, and Harvey Fierstein (Broadway's "Edna") can be heard briefly soon after.

Crimmins

Eileen M. Crimmins, gerontologist and Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology at the University of Southern California

Crow v Wood

Mrs Edna Crow, Stone House Farm of North Riding, sued Mr Robin Wood, or Wether Cote Farm, Hawnby, for his sheep straying into her land, alleging cattle trespass.

David Howarth

Edna Howarth is a magistrate in Cambridge Magistrates' Court who was involved in the sentencing of Stephen Fry for a speeding offence.

Don Coldsmith

In addition, Coldsmith and his 2nd wife Edna were cattle ranchers and breeders of Appaloosa horses.

Edna Birch

As a devout Christian, Edna was horrified when local vicar Ashley Thomas (John Middleton) began dating pub landlady Bernice Blackstock (Samantha Giles) and was one of a group of people who opposed the match.

Edna Buckman Kearns

Over the years Edna Kearns worked with many suffrage activists on Long Island, including Rosalie Jones, Ida Sammis, Ida Craft, Elisabeth Freeman, Alva Belmont, Irene Davison, and many others.

Edna was in the ninth generation of Buckmans in America whose ancestors immigrated to Philadelphia with William Penn on the ship Welcome in 1682.

Edna Moyle

Edna Moyle (19 January 1942 - 21 May 2013) was a Caymanian politician who served as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for the district of North Side from 1992 to 2009, including a tenure the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands from May 2005 until May 2009.

Edna Purviance

Edna Purviance (pronounced Purr-VYE-ance) was born in Paradise Valley, Nevada, to Louis and Madison Gates Purviance.

Esther Béjarano

At the beginning of the 1980s, with her daughter Edna and son Joram, she created the musical group Coincidence.

Fred Albert Shannon

They had five children; Lucile, Mary, Edna, Marjory and Frederick A. Shannon, M.D., herpetologist.

Hawaii State Library

The Edna Allyn Children's Room houses murals by artist Juliette May Fraser depicting Hawaiian legends while the garden courtyard features a mosaic of ocean currents by Hiroki Morinoue.

Helen F. Holt

Holt was born on August 16, 1913 in rural Illinois to Gridley, Illinois Mayor William E. and Edna M. (née Gingerich) Froelich.

Jeff Capel III

Capel is married to fellow Duke alumna Kanika Réale Blue, daughter of Daniel T. Blue, Jr. and Edna E. Blue.

Jesús Colón

Edna Acosta-Belen, professor of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Albany and Virginia Sanchez Korrol, associate professor and Chair of the Department of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College, put together a booklet of Colón's writings called "The Way it was and Other Writings".

Joe Rollins

In addition to his wife of sixty-four years, he was survived by a son, Guy Rollins (born March 15, 1946) of Wimberley in Hays County near San Marcos, Texas; two daughters, Sally Sodal of Boulder and Edna Gary Thomas of Doha, Qatar.

June Moon

The cast included Tom Fitzsimmons as Fred, Barbara Dana as Edna, Jack Cassidy as Paul, and Susan Sarandon as Eileen, with Kevin McCarthy, Lee Meredith, Estelle Parsons, Austin Pendleton, and Stephen Sondheim in supporting roles.

Kevin Barron

Kevin Barron, the son of Richard and Edna Barron, was born at Hazlewood Castle in Tadcaster, Yorkshire.

Lynda Chuba-Ikpeazu

In 1987 she was the first Nigerian in Miss Universe since Edna Park in 1964, and her biggest pageant achievement was when she was crowned Miss Africa in the same year.

Nick Stewart

He and his wife, Edna Stewart, also founded Los Angeles' Ebony Showcase Theatre, which provided a venue for numerous black performers, including John Amos, Nichelle Nichols and Isabel Sanford.

Peignoir

A peignoir is said to be also worn by Miss Edna Pontellier, protagonist of the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin.

Radisson Hotels

The original Radisson Hotel, founded by heiress Edna Dickerson, was opened on December 15, 1909 at 41 South Seventh Street in Minneapolis.

Reassignment centers

The Simpsons episode "The Ned-Liest Catch" features teacher Edna Krabappel being sent to a rubber room after hitting a student.

Reform School Girls

They are immediately confronted with Charlie Chambliss (Wendy O. Williams) who is the de facto leader of the school and has an exceedingly close relationship with the head of the ward, Edna (Pat Ast).

Richard McKinley

Richard was married to Edna Elrod on May 18, 1907 in Clark County in the State of Indiana.

Roy Vernon Scott

Scott was born to Roy J. Scott and the former Edna Dodson in Wrights, an unincorporated community in Greene County in west-central Illinois.

Sally Spode

Later that day, Terry informed Ashley that Sally has left but he and Edna were shocked to find his house wrecked with 'burn in hell' painted on the wall but Ashley fears that it may be too late to save his marriage.

Schoolboy Rowe

During a September 13, 1934, nationally broadcast interview on the Eddie Cantor radio show, Rowe asked his fiancee, "How'm I doing, Edna honey?"

South Branch, New Jersey

Diamond Jim Brady once lived in the house known as the South Branch Hotel, which he purchased for his mistress, Edna Maculey in 1903 paying $68,000 for it and altering it to suit his taste, "Going down to Brady's Farm" became the fashionable thing to do and Anna Held, Flo Ziegfeld, Lillian Russell and other famous personalities of the days were frequent guests.

South Hampstead

Barry Humphries, Australian celebrity known for playing Dame Edna Everage

The Foretelling

Richard asks his eldest (and favourite) son, Lord Harry Plantagenet, Earl of March, for his younger son's name, but mistakenly calls him "Edna", starting a long-running gag throughout the series.

The Ned-Liest Catch

However, Homer then makes a reference to Edna's extensive dating history, and Ned is surprised that she has been with many of Springfield's men, including Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer.

Tilly Vosburgh

Vosburge played the role of the younger Edna Wallace and the play also included other ex EastEnders actors Bill Treacher, Edna Doré, Todd Carty and Joe Absolom.

Warlock Moon

Warlock Moon is a 1973 horror-thriller feature film starring Laurie Walters, Joe Spano and Edna MacAfee which loosely follows the story of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale Hansel and Gretel.

Zee and Co.

Clive Hirschhorn felt that the film was sabotaged by the director's "indulgent" take on it, thereby skewing Edna O'Brien's screenplay to its detriment (Hirshhorn, 1989: 298).


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