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unusual facts about Fanny



A New World Record

Patti Quatro, Brie Brandt, both of Fanny, and Addie Lee sang uncredited backing vocals at various points on this entire album.

Andrew Shaffer

Shaffer wrote Fifty Shames of Earl Grey under the pen name “Fanny Merkin.” Fifty Shames of Earl Grey is a parody of E. L. James’ popular trilogy, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Andries Mac Leod

Andries Mac Leod was born in Ledeberg, a suburb of Ghent, as a son of Julius Mac Leod, a botanist and professor at Ghent University, and of Fanny Mac Leod born Maertens, who was translator from English into Dutch of two books by

Arved von Schultz

Schultz married Hella Fanny Gertrude Suhr (born 24 April 1893 Grünfelde; died 2 September 1952 in Düsseldorf-Benrath) on 4 April 1914 at Green Field at Stuhm in West Prussia.

Avondale, Harare

The first official marriage ceremony in Zimbabwe took place on Avondale farm in 1894 when the Count de la Panouse was married to Fanny Pearson (Countess Billie) by Lt Col. Marshall Hole, the Chief Magistrate of Salisbury.

Ayton Castle

He remarried (2) Fanny Augusta (1821–1902) daughter of James Vine, in Puckaster, Isle of Wight.

Bertie Kirby

His father, Henry Kirby, was a 51 year-old gardener, born in Prestbury, Gloucestershire and his mother, Fanny, was aged 54 and had been born in Gloucester.

Bitch and Animal

Their last album, Sour Juice and Rhyme was produced in collaboration with June Millington of the groundbreaking 1970s all-women band Fanny.

Braziers Park

In 1839, Frances Eliza (Fanny) Grenfell (1814–1891), later a biographer, was living at Braziers Park with her sisters, and was visited by novelist Charles Kingsley (1819–1875), then a Cambridge undergraduate.

Charles Wedderburn Dickson

On arrival he purchased Friars Carse in Dumfrieshire which remained the family home until Fanny sold it to the Post Office (presumably as a retirement home) and moved to the Station Hotel where she lived for the rest of her life.

Diamonds and Toads

When Fanny arrived home, she told her story to her mother and disgusting toads and vipers fell from her mouth with each word.

Fanny Blomé

Fanny Blomé (born 1990) is a Swedish model and the current Miss Earth Sweden titleholder, succeeding Ivana Gagula.

Fanny Cerrito

While in Milan, Fanny began her collaboration with Jules Perrot, during which they choreographed Ondine, ou La naïade (1843) as well as Alma (1842) and Lalla Rookh (1846).

Fanny Deakin

Her advocacy of mother and child welfare issues was recognised when Fanny Deakin Maternity Home was opened in 1947 in Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough.

Fanny Deakin (1883–1968) was a politician from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England, noted for her campaigns for better nourishment of young children and maternity care for mothers.

Fanny Fitzwilliam

Fanny had two children from her marriage to Edward - a son, musical composer Edward Francis Fitzwilliam and a daughter, actress and singer Kathleen Fitzwilliam.

Fanny Kelly

Fanny began to fear that the Sihasapa intended to attack Fort Sully and not give her up.

Fanny Mendelssohn Quartet

The Munich Fanny Mendelssohn String Quartet, Renate Eggebrecht 1st violin, Mario Korunic 2nd violin, Stefan Berg viola, Friedemann Kupsa violoncello, was founded in 1989 in the occasion of the performance and publication of Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel's String Quartet in E-flat major and Piano Quartet in A-flat major at the Gasteig/Munich.

Fanny Truchelut

Yvette "Fanny" Truchelut is part owner of a bed-and-breakfast type of hostel in the department of Vosges, France.

Fanny Walden

Frederick Ingram "Fanny" Walden (1 March 1888 – 3 May 1949) was an English professional footballer who played on the right-wing for Northampton Town, Tottenham Hotspur and at international level for England during the 1910s and 1920s.

Fanny Waterman

Dame Fanny Waterman, DBE (born 22 March 1920) is a piano teacher, and the founder, Chairman and Artistic Director of the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition.

Flora Klickmann

Flora Klickmann was born in Brixton, London, one of six children of German-born Rudolf Klickmann and his wife, Fanny Warne.

Frances Parker

In July of that year, Fanny Parker and a fellow campaigner, Ethel Moorhead attempted to set fire to Burns Cottage in Alloway.

Gary Wright

The title role of Fanny was originated by Florence Henderson who later gained worldwide fame as matriarch Carol Brady in the long-running TV series, The Brady Bunch.

Graham Balfour

Indeed, Sidney Colvin originally wished to complete the biography, but disputes with Fanny led him to drop the project.

I Know I've Been Changed

Fanny (Ann Nesby), is a mother divorcing her husband after becoming a famous singer.

James Parton

With Ellen (and previously Fanny Fern), he raised Ethel, the daughter of Grace Eldrege (Fanny Fern's daughter) and writer Mortimer Thomson (also known as Philander Doesticks).

John William North

It is thought that John (then 14) and his two siblings, Charles and Fanny, were looked after by various relatives including an uncle in Walham Green, and a great uncle who owned a farm near Kimpton in Hertfordshire.

Joseph Stanley Snowden

He was the eldest son of Joseph Snowden and Fanny Ruth Snowden of Morecambe and Heysham, Lancashire.

La Morte Vivante

La Mort Vivante (also released as The Living Dead Girl) is a 1982 French horror film directed by Jean Rollin and starring Marina Pierro, Francoise Blanchard, Mike Marshall, Carina Barone, Fanny Magier, Patricia Besnard-Rousseau, and Sam Selsky.

Levi Strauss

Levi's sister Fanny and her husband David Stern moved to St. Louis, Missouri, while Levi went to live in Louisville and sold his brothers' supplies in Kentucky.

Lord Fanny

Similar to her meeting with the god Mictlantecuhtli, during which she is granted a great deal of magical powers because she made the death-god laugh, Fanny and Jack Frost dance for an entity called "Harlequinade", who gives them an artifact known as the "Hand of Glory" in exchange.

Louvain-la-Neuve

After his death in 1983, Hergé's widow, Fanny, led the efforts, undertaken at first by the Hergé Foundation and then by the new Studios Hergé, to catalogue and choose the artwork and elements that would eventually become part of the Museum's exhibitions.

Lydia Sokolova

In 1945, Henry Gibbs dedicated to Sokolova his book Affectionately Yours Fanny: Fanny Kemble and the Theatre (Jarrolds Publishers, London, 1945); she had helped him trace "authoritative material" (author's note, p. 8).

Memoirs v. Massachusetts

The book in question in this case was Fanny Hill (or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, 1749) by John Cleland and the Court held in Memoirs v. Massachusetts that, while it might fit the first two criteria (it appealed to prurient interest and was patently offensive), it could not be proven that Fanny Hill had no redeeming social value.

Morris Pashman

In a 1964 decision, Pashman upheld Bergen County prosecutor Guy W. Calissi's decision to ban the sale of the John Cleland book Fanny Hill in New Jersey, calling the book "sufficiently obscene to forfeit the protection of the First Amendment of the Constitution."

Mr. Skeffington

Jerome Cowan as Edward Morrison, one of Fanny's four persistent suitors

Mujeres

The first live performance was on November 30, 2013, Fanny was host in the competition Chica HTV 2013 on Medellin, along the Venezuelan duo Chino & Nacho, during the show she perform "Mujeres".

My man

"Mon Homme", song first sung by Mistinguett, popularized in English as "My Man" by Fanny Brice (and by Barbra Streisand playing Brice in Funny Girl)

Philip V. Holberton

Fanny, who married Thomas Henry Holberton, a doctor, was a member of the well-known family of tea merchants, Twinings of the Strand in London.

Stacey Oristano

She currently stars in Amy Sherman-Palladino's Bunheads as Truly Stone, the unhinged Sparkles clothing boutique owner and close friend to Fanny & Michelle.

Sweet Fanny Adams

Fanny Adams (1859–1867), murdered by Frederick Baker, from whom comes the euphemism "Sweet Fanny Adams" meaning "nothing at all"

The Libertine

Le Libertin or The Libertine, a 2000 French film starring Vincent Pérez and Fanny Ardant

Thomas T. Minor

She married on January 2, 1900, at Seattle's Trinity Episcopal Parish Church, Bernard Pelly, who was born on June 5, 1860, at Little Hallingbury, England, to Justinian Pelly and Fanny Ingleby.

Villa Kerylos

Villa Kerylos in Beaulieu-sur-Mer is a Greek-style property built in the early 1900s by French archaeologist Theodore Reinach, and his wife Fanny Kann, a daughter of Maximilien Kann and Betty Ephrussi, of the Ephrussi family.

William de Leftwich Dodge

This work enabled him to marry Francesca (Fanny) Theodora Bland Pryor, daughter of Sara Agnes Rice Pryor and Roger Atkinson Pryor of Virginia and New York.

William Nightingale

In 1817, when he was 23 and she 29, he married Frances "Fanny" Smith (1789–1880), from Parndon in Essex, daughter of the abolitionist, Whig member of Parliament, William Smith.


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