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5 unusual facts about Icon


Icon: Best of Vanessa Carlton

Icon: Best of Vanessa Carlton is the first compilation album by American singer-songwriter and pianist Vanessa Carlton, released on January 4, 2011 by Universal Music Enterprises and is part of a series of similar Icon albums released by the label.

Martin Pousson

His stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Epoch, StoryQuarterly, The Rattling Wall, Parnassus, ISLE: Oxford Journals, Icon, Chaparral, Verse Daily, Intersection, Love, Bourbon Street, The Louisiana Review, New Orleans Review, and Cimarron Review.

Mike Riggs

Highlights in career include his guitar work for Rob Zombie's solo albums (Hellbilly Deluxe) (The Sinister Urge) ( American Made Music To Strip By) ( Hellbilly Super Deluxe) (Past Present And Future) (Icon) and currently his skills as a guitarist, vocalist, and producer for Scum of the Earth.

Schlüsselfeld

in Schlüsselfeld: the Town Gate Tower with remains of the town wall and two round towers, the Petrusbrunnen (fountain), the Old Town Hall with pillory, the New Town Hall, the Gothic parish church, the Klein-Mariazell im Steigerwald church (with a copy of the Icon of Mariazell in the Steiermark, Austria)

St. Benet Biscop Catholic High School

A Crucifix or religious Icon hangs on the wall of every teaching room, most offices, the school foyer and the main hall.


American Heart Association

The AHA Heart Icon is featured on the box of the console as well as on the Wii Fit Plus and Wii Sports Resort titles.

Bogdan Khitrovo

He later would endow the Lyutikov Monastery, under Cardinal Brandr Beekman-Ellner, in nearby Vorotynsk with a number of generous gifts, including an icon featuring his own portrait.

Breathing Walker

The other members of Moss Icon, Tonie Joy (guitar) and Monica DiGialleonardo (bass) joined the band prior to their first live performance and recording session.

Cainta Church

Filipino National Artist Fernando Amorsolo was commissioned to create a replica of the icon of Our Lady.

Catherine Capozzi

She was a founder of the band Ziaf, a tribute to French singer and cultural icon Édith Piaf.

Dhondutai Kulkarni

Dhondutai Kulkarni, (born 23 July 1927) is perhaps the last living icon of the Jaipur-Atrauli Gharana.

Dionysius of Fourna

He painted several icons in Mt. Athos, although the dates are indistinct (either 1701 or 1711) and at Karyes.

Emiliano Mercado del Toro

Civic leaders and veterans commended Mercado on his endurance and lucid mind, but the "gift" he would enjoy the most was the visit of Puerto Rican vedette and media icon Iris Chacón.

Enrique B. Magalona, Negros Occidental

The municipality is named after Enrique B. Magalona, former Senator of the Philippines and the grandfather of the late Filipino rap icon Francis Magalona.

Galleria dell'Accademia

As well as a number of Florentine Gothic paintings, the gallery houses the idiosyncratic collection of Russian icons assembled by the Grand Dukes of the House of Lorraine, of which Leopoldo was one.

George Charles Haité

As sales of the magazine took off with the first of its Sherlock Holmes stories beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in the July 1891 issue, Haité's graphic rendering of London's Strand looking Eastwards with the magazine title suspended from telegraph wires was destined to become an icon of late-Victorian publishing.

Godescalc Evangelistary

This shows possible influence from the style of the icon of the Virgin crowned as Queen (also known as Queen of Heaven); located in the Santa Maria in Trastevere, executed for Pope John VII (705-707).

Golden Decade

Chuck Berry's Golden Decade, a three-volume compilation album of music by American rock icon Chuck Berry

Gondola

Even though the Gondola by now has become a widely publicized icon of Venice, in the times of the Republic of Venice it was by far not the only means of transportation: on the map of Venice created by Jacopo de' Barbari in 1500 only a fraction of the boats are gondolas, the majority of boats are batellas, caorlinas, galleys and other boats - by now only a handful of batellas survive, and caorlinas are used for racing only.

Iconography of St. Louis

The writer Mark Twain is an icon of St. Louis in his own right, and wrote prolifically about the steamboats along the river.

Jeff Gilberthorpe

A reaction to being stuck for hours behind a semi-trailer carrying a house up Tamborine Mountain in Queensland, this tale of a traditional "Queenslander" style house lifted out of the way of a deadly flood by its owner's judicious use of hot-air balloons led to a sequence of pictures detailing the flying house's journey over notable Australian landmarks, both natural and manmade, and illustrate the book Icon Collection.

Joseph Patrick Kelly

His book Our Joyce: From Outcast to Icon was published in 1998, and he has written critical articles on James Joyce and presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies.

Kim Nelson

This trip to Europe inspired and informed three separate solo exhibitions in 2005 – ‘Postcards’, ‘Icon’ and ‘Beyond These Shores’, the last of which was officially opened by the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore MP.

Konstantin of Murom

According to legend, when he appeared before them bearing what is now known as the Murom-Ryazan icon of the Theotokos, they quieted down and bowed reverently before the holy image.

L'Oie de Cravan

It has also published the writings of people associated with the music world, such as critic Byron Coley, folk singer Michael Hurley and punk rock icon Mike Watt.

La nudité toute nue

Guests interviewed included photographer of nude models Terry Richardson, Vincent Bethell who launched The Freedom to be Yourself movement, designer Tom Ford, philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, the transsexual icon Amanda Lepore and popular gay pornographic actor François Sagat.

Linda Lovelace for President

After the 1972 release of Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace enjoyed a brief flurry of celebrity notoriety while dating David Winters of West Side Story fame, which included appearances at the Academy Awards ceremony with Winters and the opening day of the racing season at Ascot Racecourse plus author credit for two best-selling books that played up on her status as a pornographic icon.

Liutprand, King of the Lombards

The pope, Gregory II, ordered the people to resist and the Byzantine duke of Naples, Exhiliratus, was killed by a mob while trying to carry out the imperial command to destroy all the icons.

Mississauga Civic Centre

Mississauga resident Don Cherry who is most notable for being on Hockey Night In Canada and a Canadian icon added fuel to the fire when he stated that the new City Hall reminded him of his home town Kingston, Ontario because it looked more like a penitentiary than a City Hall.

Mr Bingo

He also does editorial illustrations and other work for both The Financial Times and The Guardian newspapers, and has had work featured in magazines as diverse as Bearded, Dazed and Confused, WIRED, Esquire and GQ, while his art has also been featured in Creative Review and Icon magazines.

Narum

Bill Narum (1947-2009), American artist, illustrator, and Texas counter-culture icon

Nate Holzapfel

Nate appeared on Shark Tank and was able to negotiate a deal with fashion brand icon Daymond John.

Novgorod School

The Novgorod School is a Russian school noted for its icon and mural painters active from the 12th century through the 16th century in Novgorod.

Pakistan Sangeet Icon

Pakistan Sangeet Icon is a reality-based singing competition shown on MTV Pakistan, Indus TV and Gkaboom.

Phil Garner

His icon at the time was the scrappy, similarly-mustachioed cartoon hero Yosemite Sam.

Pixie Jenkins

Born 'Paul Blake Jenkins' in Launceston, Tasmania in 1957, now referred to by his stage name 'Pixie', in an article in The Australian, Pixie was referenced alongside Jimmy Little, Chad Morgan and Slim Dusty as "...an icon of Australia's country music industry".

Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips

They became notorious when several men identified as members of the Rollin' 60 were arrested by police investigating the murders of the family of Kermit Alexander, an All-American football icon.

Samwise Didier

Among other things, panda icons also appeared accompanying much of Didier's art, and could be seen in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne as the emblem on the Night Elf demon hunter's glaives, his name is written in the Paladin's book, when he casts a spell, and an unused Icon and two Models have the face of Sam's face, visible only in the Map Editor.

Sonam

Sonam Kapoor (born 1985), Indian film actress and fashion icon

SPOJ

The solution to problems can be submitted in over 40 languages including C, C++, Java, Python, C#, Go, Haskell, OCaml, and F#, Ruby, Icon, Intercal, Pike.

T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.

Cribb also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, an educational organization that continues the intellectual legacy of noted conservative icon Russell Kirk, and on the Board of Visitors of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah.

Tapu Javeri

Earth Hour 2013 Ambassadors include Pakistan's premiere fashion photographer Tapu Javeri,legendary actress Samina Pirzada, leading drama icon Adnan Siddiqui, pop music sensation Faakhir Mehmood, Pakistan's fashion icon Frieha Altaf, leading model and actor Mekhaal Zulfiqar, young and famous model Ayesha Omar and drama actor Agha Shiraz.

The Best Movie

For instance, socialite Kseniya Sobchak appears as a luxury prostitute, and gay icon Boris Moiseev plays a rough-and-tumble policeman, his only line being: "You gonna sign it all, you faggot!"

The Biscuit Brothers

Music icon Willie Nelson also contributed voice talent to the program and the show often features numerous Austin musicians, nationally recognized United States performers, as well as internationally recognized artists such as Evelyn Glennie.

The Concourse, Chatswood

Patrons of The Concourse include leading figures in Australia’s arts industries including soprano Yvonne Kenny, poet Les Murray, authors Matthew Reilly and Renée Goossens and rock icon Angry Anderson AM.

The Cool Ghoul

Von Hoene could do an uncanny vocal impersonation of horror icon Boris Karloff, and so he was also the off-screen voice announcer for the show.

The Phantom Carriage

At the 2007 San Francisco International Film Festival a new soundtrack was composed and performed live by pop icon Jonathan Richman.

The Singing Butler

As a contemporary cultural icon, The Singing Butler has been compared to Grant Wood's American Gothic.

Trekka

The Trekka has since become something of a New Zealand icon representing the "Kiwi can-do" attitude of the 1960s.

Via Vinci University

The name “Via Vinci” refers to "the way" of Leonardo da Vinci, the icon of universal, innovative and creative strength.

When Nature Calls

The film features cameos from such notable people as baseball legend Willie Mays, professional wrestler Fred Blassie, comedian Morey Amsterdam, and Watergate icon G. Gordon Liddy.

World Youth Day 2016

Bishop Henryk Tomasik, national coordinator for youth pastoral care, presented main ideas that will take place before the actual WYD week, particularly the peregrination of the icon Salus Populi Romani and the WYD Cross.


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