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unusual facts about Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke


Jane Assimakopoulos

The writers whose works she has translated into English include Thanassis Valtinos, Yiannis Kontos, Sotiris Dimitriou, Ioannis G. Tsatsaris and Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke.


Faulknor-class flotilla leader

They were returned to the friendly nation of Chile in 1920, at which point the Thornycroft type leader Rooke was renamed Broke to maintain this famous name (that of Admiral Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke of the Shannon) in the Navy List.

Giles Rooke

Rooke presided at the trial at the York Lent assizes in 1795 of Henry Redhead Yorke for conspiracy against the government.

Irene Rooke

Rooke was in films beginning with her role opposite Nigel Playfair in Lady Windermere's Fan (1916).

Jill the Reckless

Other characters include wealthy clubman Freddie Rooke and dramatist Wally Mason, her childhood friends; her financially inept uncle Major Christopher Selby; her fiancé at the beginning of the book, the M.P Derek Underhill, and his domineering mother, Lady Underhill; Jill's unpleasant Long Island, N.Y. relatives, Elmer, Julia and Tibby Mariner; Drones Club member Algy Martyn, various chorus girls, composers and other theatrical types, and, of course, miscellaneous servants.

Joburg Art Fair

Johannesburg, South Africa: Goodman-galery, Everard Read-gallery, David Krut, Warren Siebrits, Art on Paper, Rooke-galery, Gallery Momo, Art Extra.

Joseph Drew

Drew's daughter Fanny Eliza married organist William Rooke and their daughter Mabel Wells Annie Rooke was the mother of Agnès Humbert.

Ronnie Rooke

The Football League programme resumed in 1946, and despite being nearly 35 and having never played in the top flight, Rooke was signed by Arsenal (Cyril Grant going in the other direction), who despite their pedigree from the 1930s, were struggling to score goals.

William Yelverton, 4th Viscount Avonmore

He married, secondly, Mrs. Emily Marianne Forbes (née Ashworth), daughter of Maj.-Gen. Sir Charles Ashworth and Mary Anne Rooke, on 26 June 1858, in Trinity Chapel, Edinburgh, Scotland; Emily Forbes, at the time of the marriage, was the widow of Prof. Edward Forbes, the naturalist.


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