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3 unusual facts about Irene


Cornwall Hill College

Cornwall Hill College is a private school in Irene, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa.

Irene's Cunt

The first edition was illustrated with etchings by André Masson which were aesthetically very similar to those of Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye.

Tony York

He was born in Irene, Texas to Theodore York (1888–1942) and his wife Mattie.


Agnes Chan

She had a chance to record a cover of Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game" with her elder sister, actress Irene Chan, and it became a hit song in Hong Kong.

Alexios I Komnenos

At the emperor's further insistence, and for their own protection, they took refuge at the convent of Petrion, where they were eventually joined by Maria of Bulgaria, mother of Irene Doukaina.

Atomic Energy Generation Device Case

Incidentally, the inventor of this patent application was Irène Joliot-Curie who was the eldest daughter of Madame Curie, and Irene, a party not involved in this suit, was the recipient, along with two other individuals, of a 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Aylar Lie

The members of Team Aylar originally included Elita Löfblad, Charlotte Fredriksen, Linn Irene (Linni) Meister, Cathrine Aschim, and Lisa Marie Winther.

Baltimore Convention Center

Irene E. Van Sant, then-manager of the Convention Center Hotel Project for the Baltimore Development Corporation, Baltimore's former Mayor Sheila Dixon, and Governor of Maryland Martin O'Malley—feel that a hotel adjacent to the Convention Center will make it a more appealing site for conventions.

Bardanes Tourkos

Historian Warren Treadgold further suggested that the revolt was a reaction against Nikephoros's usurpation and aimed, at least ostensibly, at the restoration of Irene.

Bisignano

An alternative version maintains that it was Skanderbeg's niece Irene Castriota, Duchess of San Pietro di Galatina and wife of Pietro Antonio Sanseverino, Prince of Bisignano, who invited Albanians to settle in the area.

Black Bike Week

Called a "a one-of-a-kind event" and "an exhibitionist's paradise" by Jeffrey Gettleman, Black Bike Week is "all about riding, styling and profiling," in the words of Mayor Irene Armstrong of Atlantic Beach, South Carolina.

Chestnut: Hero of Central Park

Chestnut: Hero of Central Park is a 2004 American family film, starring Makenzie Vega, Abigail Breslin, Christine Tucci, Justin Louis, Tony Alcantar, Irene Olga López, Ethan Phillips, Irene Karas, Barry Bostwick and directed by Robert Vince, about a Great Dane who is adopted by two orphan girls in this heartwarming family film.

Constantine IX Monomachos

At the time of Constantine's death in January 1055, the emperor had another mistress, a certain "Alan princess", probably Irene, daughter of the Georgian Bagratid prince Demetrius.

Diana Pinto

Her mother Irene Pinto hails from Moodabidri (near Mangalore), and is also a Manager in Bank of Baroda (Mumbai branch).

Does It Matter Irene?

Does It Matter Irene? is the first disc released by post-punk group The Mothmen, on Absurd Records, in 1979.

Edith Irvine

Irvine was born in Sheep Ranch, Calaveras County, California to Thomas Hanna Irvine and Mary Irene (Hills) Irvine.

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.

Fenari Isa Mosque

Several exponents of the imperial dynasty of the Palaiologos were buried there besides Theodora: her son Constantine, Empress Irene of Montferrat and her husband Emperor Andronikos II (r. 1282–1328).

Films Noirs

Marx Reloaded (in co-production with Medea Film - Irene Höfer for ZDF).

Frances Klein

She played trumpet in a number of jazz bands (most notably the all-female bands led by Irene Vermillion and Ina Ray Hutton).

Frances Rich

She was the daughter of silent screen actress Irene Frances Luther Rich and salesman Elvo Elcourt Deffenbaugh, and the adopted daughter of Irene's second husband, Charles Rich.

Gene Olaff

He joined the U.S. National Guard in order to gain his U.S. citizenship and married Irene MacGregor.

Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation

The Guntram and Irene Rinke Foundation is a German nonprofit organization based in Hamburg which awards an annual literary prize for nostalgic literature.

Heather McKillop

Heather Irene McKillop (born 1953) is a Canadian-American archaeologist, academic and Mayanist scholar, noted in particular for her research into ancient Maya coastal trade routes, seafaring, littoral archaeology, and the long-distance exchange of commodities in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica.

Helen Vincent, Viscountess D'Abernon

She is believed to have been the model for the characters of Lady Thisbe Crowborough in Max Beerbohm's story Hilary Maltby and Stephen Braxton in Seven Men (1919) and for Lady Irene Silvester in Maurice Baring's story "A Luncheon Party" (1925).

HMS Princess Irene

Princess Irene was built by William Denny and Brothers Ltd, Dumbarton for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

HMS Princess Irene was a 5,394 GRT ocean liner which was built in 1914 by William Denny and Brothers Ltd, Dumbarton, Scotland for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Irene Curzon, 2nd Baroness Ravensdale

Mary Irene Curzon, Baroness Ravensdale, CBE (20 January 1896 – 9 February 1966) was the eldest child of George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston and Mary Victoria Leiter, a daughter of Levi Ziegler Leiter.

Irene Dalby

Irene Karine Dalby (born 31 May 1971 in Stange, Hedmark) is a former international swimmer from Norway, who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Irene Daye

Irene Daye (January 17, 1918 in Lawrence, Massachusetts - November 1, 1971 in Greenville, South Carolina) was an American jazz singer.

Irene Hazard Gerlinger

Irene Hazard married George T. Gerlinger at the end of her senior year of college on October 21, 1903.

Irene Hendriks

Irene Desiree Hélène Hendriks (born 13 April 1958, Ngaliema, Belgian Congo) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who won the golden medal with the National Women's Team at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

Irene Incident

In an attempt to surprise the pirates of Bias Bay, about sixty miles from Hong Kong, Royal Navy submarines attacked the merchant ship SS Irene, of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, which had been taken over by the pirates on the night of October 19.

Irene van Dyk

Irene van Dyk is a Christian and supported the "Lifeathon" fund-raising event for Christian music radio network Life FM.

Irene Ware

Irene appeared in 29 films between 1932-1940, and is mostly remembered for her roles as Princess Nadji in Chandu the Magician (1932) with Edmund Lowe and Bela Lugosi, and as Boris Karloff's and Lugosi's leading lady in 1935's The Raven.

J. W. Grant

In the Republican primary, Grant ran against Hillsborough County Commissioner Brian Blair, Irene Guy, and Tom Aderhold.

Jan Jacobszoon Hinlopen

Irene Groeneweg reasons that the bird, held by the boy, is a Cuban Amazon parrot.

Joe Ferrante

Then in 1981, Joe and Irene decided to move up to Prince George, in northern British Columbia.

Keith Forsey

Keith co-wrote "Flashdance... What a Feeling" with Moroder and Irene Cara, who also performed the track, for the movie "Flashdance".

Mandie

She was born on June 6, 1888 and grew up in a log cabin in Swain County, North Carolina, with her beloved father Jim Shaw, her stepmother Etta, and her stepsister Irene in this slight adaptation to the Cinderella fairy tale.

Maurice Bennett Flynn

She was the youngest sister of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor and of Irene Langhorne, who was married to the artist Charles Dana Gibson.

Neville Lewis

He married Countess Rosa Cecilie Karoline-Mathilde Irene Sibylla Anna zu Solms-Baruth, daughter of Friedrich, 3rd Prince of Solms-Baruth and his wife Princess Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, on 3 November 1955 and settled on Rowan Street, Stellenbosch where their children Caroline and Frederick Henry Lewis attended school.

Niketas Scholares

The next day Michael was sent to captivity at Oinaion, and a few days later the dethroned Irene was put on a Frankish ship for Constantinople.

Pauline Yates

Alongside her were Tessa Peake-Jones, James Warwick, Peter Sallis, Amanda Harris, Ian Gelder, Sean Chapman, Julia Deakin, and Irene Sutcliffe.

Prince Feodor Alexandrovich of Russia

Princess Irene Feodorovna (born 7 May 1934 in Fontenay, France); married 1st Biarritz 23 December 1955 (divorced 1959) Andre Jean Pelle (born Biarritz 29 November 1923); married 2d Le Pin 26 December 1962 (divorced) Victor-Marcel Soulas (born Saint-Méen-le-Grand 26 August 1938).

Sophie Irene Loeb

Sophie Irene Loeb (July 4, 1876, Rivne, Volhynia, Russia (now Ukraine) – January 18, 1929) was a US journalist and social-welfare advocate.

The Pure Hell of St Trinian's

The judge, however, is keen on leggy blonde Rosalie (Julie Alexander), and under her influence the girls are freed when Professor Canford of the University of Bagdad (Cecil Parker) claims he can rehabilitate the girls with the tutelage of teacher Miss Harker-Packer (Irene Handl), and requests they be placed in his custody for a 12-month probationary period.

The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle

The film tells of novice American dancer Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers) who convinces New York-based British vaudeville comic Vernon Castle (Fred Astaire) to give up slapstick comedy in favor of sophisticated ballroom dancing.

Wanda Cochran

She went on to appear in the title role of the musical Irene, touring in Europe, and, back in New York in 1947–48, she appeared in the original production of Brigadoon.

Wolfgang Degenhardt

He migrated to Greta, New South Wales in the Hunter Valley in January 1955, with his wife Irene and sons Fred and Alex after the second world war.


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