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3 unusual facts about Lover


Albion Falls

The ravine at the Albion Falls has a legend of the Lover's Leap.

Lover, You Should've Come Over

The song was also featured in the third episode of the ABC series FlashForward titled "137 Sekunden."

Lover's paradox

Francesco Alberoni, Falling in love, New York, Random House, 1983.


10:30 P.M. Summer

On their way to Madrid, they stop in a small town and are told by police that a local man who has killed his wife and her lover is on the loose in the area.

A Lady's Morals

The movie features Grace Moore as Lind, Reginald Denny as a lover, and Wallace Beery as P. T. Barnum; Beery would play Barnum again four years later in The Mighty Barnum.

A to the B

His lover walks into crystals, and comes out as a Superwoman.

Annie Lim

Lim opened her first Canadian custom-cake shop, called "Chocolate Lover Cakes", in Richmond, British Columbia.

Antin, Hautes-Pyrénées

The former Barony then Marquisate, was elevated to a duchy by Louis XIV (former lover of Mme de Montespan) in 1711 for Louis Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin and was passed down his family till its extinction in 1757 at the death of Louis Antoine's great grandson Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin (1727–1757) who died in Breme during the Seven Years' War.

CFXL-FM

The last song played on "California 103" was "Like a Lover" by Emilie-Claire Barlow and the first song played by "XL103 FM" was "Crocodile Rock" by Elton John according to Nielsen BDS.

Chair Model

Michael calls Oscar Martinez (Oscar Nunez) an "Oscar Mayer Weiner Lover", a reference to both the sausage of the same name, as well as Oscar's homosexuality.

Cooking with Elvis

Other characters include his anorexic, alcoholic wife Mam (Charlie Hardwick), their fourteen-year-old daughter Jill (Sharon Percy), and their young lover Stuart (Frank Skinner).

Cricothyrotomy

On Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman; Sully, the white man raised by Indians who is her lover and companion, performs the procedure on one of Dr. Quinn's boys using a bird's feather (the base where it is hollow).

Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover

"Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" is a hit song in the U.S. (#5) by Sophie B. Hawkins.

Death for Five Voices

The film explores the music of Carlo Gesualdo and the legends surrounding Gesualdo's personality, his cursed castle, and his murder of his wife and her lover.

Eddy Lover

Eddy Lover rose to international fame with his guest appearance on La Factoría's 2006 smash hit Perdóname.

Elvis and Andy

The song is an up-tempo in which the male narrator states that, while his lover is not from the Southern United States, she "likes Elvis and Andy / So she's fine and dandy with me." Presumably this refers to Elvis Presley and Andy Griffith/Taylor.

Gangsta Lovin'

The parody was titled "Gangsta Lover", where Eve (portrayed by former MADtv cast member Debra Wilson) talks about dating criminals.

Garfield statues

The town of Upland is erecting "Ice Cream Lover Garfield", to be placed near Ivanhoe's Restaurant, 979 S Main Street.

Helen Maud Holt

She appeared in Still Waters Run Deep (1916), Little Dorrit (1920), Such is the Law (1930), Wedding Rehearsal (1932), Early to Bed, The Girl from Maxim's, The Private Life of Henry VIII and Her Imaginary Lover (all in 1933), and The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936).

Hortense Gabel

Her judicial career came to an end after she was charged with lowering alimony payments for Carl Andrew Capasso in exchange for a position for her daughter at the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, which was then headed by Capasso's lover Bess Myerson.

Jacques-Marie Rouzet

He was the lover of Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon after the death of her husband the duke of Orleans.

John Thomas and Lady Jane

Comedian Spike Milligan also parodied the story in his According to Spike Milligan series, under the title of D. H. Lawrence's John Thomas and Lady Jane - Part II of Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Lady Flora Hastings

The unmarried Lady Flora was alleged to have had an affair with John Conroy, the "favourite" and also suspected lover of the Duchess of Kent.

Leopard's bane

Paris quadrifolia, also known as Herb Paris, True lover's Knot, a species in the family Melanthiaceae

Lover to Lover

The Ceremonials Tour version of "Lover to Lover" is an edited version of the original with further production by Chris Hayden.

Marie Touchet

Marie Touchet (1549 – March 28, 1638), Dame de Belleville, was the only mistress of Charles IX of France.

Marion Mainwaring

Her most recent work is Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton (2001), a biography of Wharton's lover.

Novio, marido y amante

Novio, marido y amante (English: Boyfriend, husband and lover) is a 1948 Argentine comedy film, directed by Mario C. Lugones and based upon Louis Verneuil's novel Mademoiselle Ma Mere.

Orlando: A Biography

A semi-biographical novel based in part on the life of Woolf's lover Vita Sackville-West, it is generally considered one of Woolf's most accessible novels.

Paul Mark Elliott

After appearing in the 1991 episode of Press Gang “Holding On,” he went on to play estate agent Trevor, Becky’s (Fiona Gillies) lover, in two seasons of Steven Moffat’s Joking Apart.

Peter Fribbins

A number of his key works are literary-inspired, and much of his music is for strings, notable exceptions being the early wind quintet 'In Xanadu' from 1992 (after Coleridge), 'Porphyria’s Lover' (1999) for flute and piano (after Browning), and the clarinet and piano '...That Which Echoes in Eternity' (after lines from Dante's Divine Comedy).

Pimmalione

Pimmalione was specially commissioned by the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte to show off the talents of two of his favourite singers, the famous castrato Girolamo Crescentini and the contralto Giuseppina Grassini (who had been Napoleon's lover).

Princess Winona

Princess Winona (Princess We-Noh-Nah) is the central Native American character in a "Lover's Leap" romantic legend set at Maiden Rock on the Wisconsin side of Lake Pepin in the United States.

Rachele Mussolini

Donna Rachele Mussolini (11 April 1890 – 30 October 1979) was the mistress, wife, and widow of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

After the death of her father, her mother became the lover of the widowed Alessandro Mussolini.

Riyadh Al-Azzawi

Al-Azzawi said his spouse's former lover, Egyptian business tycoon and member of Egyptian Parliament Hisham Talaat Moustafa had offered Suzanne Tamim $50m to lure her away from Al-Azzawi and marry him — and threatened to pay $2m to a hitman to have Suzanne killed in revenge if she refused to marry him.

Robin Hood's Death

This version inspired the film Robin and Marian, where it is his lover, Maid Marian, now a nun, who is his downfall.

Roland Barthes

Jeffrey Eugenides's "The Marriage Plot" draws out excerpts from Barthes's "A Lover's Discourse: Fragments" as a way to depict the unique intricacies of love that one of the main characters, Madeleine Hanna, experiences throughout the novel.

Savage Messiah

Much of the content of Ede's book came from letters sent between Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and his lover Sophie Brzeska.

She Lover of Death

She Lover of Death is a novel by Russian author Boris Akunin.

Show People

Though one of the great comic talents of her day, featured in many of the decade's successful comedies, such as Tillie the Toiler (1927), she too often appeared in extravagant, costly period romance films at the behest of her newspaper tycoon lover William Randolph Hearst, who supposedly enjoyed seeing his mistress in fancy costume.

Sir John Burke, 2nd Baronet

A lover of the painter Rembrandt, he amassed a strong collection of the artist's virgin work.

Skipping a Beat

Mike Wass of Idolator called the track "an infectious mid-tempo pop song with urban roots" comparing it to Ariana Grande's hit single The Way "with an edge", and added that the track "seems to be an ode to her man. “You’re my lover, you’re my friend, you’re my gangsta,” she purrs over tinny synths and piano. It takes a couple of listens but the multitude of hooks pull you in and before you’re singing along. Always the sign of a great pop song".

Solomon's knot

Because the knot seems to be two entwined figures, it is sometimes interpreted as a Lover's Knot, although that name may indicate another knot.

Stranger in a Strange World

The two flirt and it is revealed that the woman is Xena, the Sovereign's mistress.

The Elfin Knight

Omnia Performed this song, on Alive! (2007), as "The Elven Lover"

The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster

The title poem uses just four lines to draw a parallel between the 1958 Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia and the use by the author's lover of birth control pills, in that both leave life, with all of its potential, buried forever.

Trekkie Parsons

Trekkie (Ritchie) Parsons (15 June 1902 – 24 July 1995) was an English artist and lithographer, perhaps best known as the lover of Leonard Woolf after his wife Virginia's death.

Tryphena Sparks

Tryphena Sparks (20 March 1851 - 17 March 1890), born in Puddletown, Dorset, the youngest child of James and Maria Sparks, was Thomas Hardy's cousin and possible lover.

Western Dream

The album features guest vocal performances from "World's Greatest Lover" singer Farrell Lennon, Reggae artist Gary 'Nesta' Pine, Steve Edwards, Ron Carroll and MZ Toni.

When Your Lover Has Gone

Sue Raney - When Your Lover Has Gone/Songs For A Raney Day (1997)

Zona Roja

In a whorehouse in Acapulco, lives Leonor (Fanny Cano), a young and beautiful woman who is awaiting to reunite with an old lover.


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