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3 unusual facts about Lydia


Alberto Piazza

In 2007 Piazza and colleagues studied the Y chromosome of men in areas of Tuscany where Etruscans had concentrated: his team found they were more closely genetically related to men from Turkey than to other regions of Italy, suggesting that the ancient Greek historian Herotodus may have been correct to claim that Etruscans came from Lydia.

Sunndi

No single religion dominates this region, but significant deities worshipped include Pelor, Trithereon, Lydia, the Oeridian agricultural gods, the elvish, dwarvish and gnomish pantheons, Ulaa, Fortubo, Jascar, Norebo and Boccob.

This Century

Produced by Colby Wedgeworth (The Maine, Lydia), their second full-length album includes hits “Bleach Blonde” and “Skeletons” as well as 11 new tracks.


Agnes Grey

Anne found a post at Thorp Green, Little Ouseburn, near York, around 70 miles away, just as Agnes' second position is further from home, with older pupils—Lydia Robinson, 15.

Aryenis

She was given in marriage to Astyages to seal a treaty between Cyaxares of Media and Alyattes II of Lydia, following the Battle of the Eclipse.

Atide

Atide is an opera in three acts by Josef Mysliveček set to a libretto by Tomaso Stanzani that is based on Greek legends about Atys, an ancient king of Lydia.

Cattleya aclandiae

Cattleya aclandiae ("Lady Ackland's Cattleya") is a species of orchid from the genus Cattleya, named in honor of Lady Lydia Elizabeth Acland, wife of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet who was the first European to grow the plant successfully.

Charles Chipiez

Chipiez with the help of architect, hellenist, and architectural historian Georges Perrot wrote some of the most detailed description of the architectural achievements of the ancient world in such places as Egypt, Greece, Persia, Lydia, Lycia and Assyria.

Charles Horace Watkins

Watkins was born in 1884 to Samuel and Lydia (Dutton) Watkins of Cardiff.

Charles James Watkin Williams

Williams was the eldest son of Peter Williams, rector of Llansannan, Denbighshire, and his wife Lydia Sophia Price, daughter of the Rev. James Price of Plas-yn-Lysfaen, Denbighshire.

Constance Jackson

In 2008, Ms. Jackson also authored a book about abolitionist Lydia Maria Child with the same title, Over the River…Life of Lydia Maria Child, Abolitionist for Freedom.

Cresus

Croesus was a notoriously wealthy king of Lydia from 561/560 to 547 BC, and participates in the show as a resurrected, computer-generated skeleton that interjects insults and additional knowledge alongside Lagaf'.

Derek Prince

Lydia Prince herself disapproved, and as stories of abuses came out the movement was condemned by Pat Robertson, Kathryn Kuhlman, and the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International.

Eğirdir

Eğirdir lies between Lake Eğirdir and the Mount Sivri, and contains a castle said to have been built by Croesus, king of Lydia, although additions were built by the Romans, Byzantines, and Seljuks.

Gérard Patris

The late muse of Picasso, Sylvette David (now in her 70s and known as Lydia Corbett, see Sylvette) and Marie-Claire Schaeffer, his first wife, were the two mothers.

Lady Carcas

One of the earliest was the 6th century BCE Greek Bias of Priene who successfully sent off the Lydian king Alyattes by fattening up a pair of mules and driving them out of the besieged city.

Lawrie Tatum

He was born to Quaker parents George and Lydia Tatum near Mullica Hill, New Jersey in 1822 and moved to Goshen, Ohio in 1831 followed by a move to Cedar County, Iowa in 1844.

Lionel Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington

Lord Portarlington married the Honourable Harriett Lydia, daughter of Henry Montagu, 6th Baron Rokeby, in 1855.

Lisa Hoffman

Together, the couple have four children — Jacob Edward (born 1981), Rebecca Lillian (born 1983), Maxwell Geoffrey (born 1984), and Alexandra Lydia (born 1987).

Lovers Speak

Lydia Vanderloo of Barnes & Noble called Lovers Speak a "confident, understated album that spotlights the depth of Armatrading's voice and verse".

Lydia Bilbrook

Lydia followed Felicity back to the UK in 1948 and lived most of her subsequent life in Suffolk, near her sister Norma Stoner of Walberswick.

Lydia Darrah

Lydia Darragh (1729 – December 28, 1789) was an American woman said to have crossed British lines during the British occupation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War, delivering information to George Washington and the Continental Army that warned them of a pending British attack.

Lydia Lithos Dance Theatre

The group’s aim is to face every performance as a procedure for the artist and the audience to find their own authenticity and as a medium (soul) cleanliness, as is metaphorically presented by the title “Lydia Lithos” (Touchstone).

Lydia Longley

Lydia Longley (Sainte-Madeleine) (1674 – 20 July 1758), is known to many as "The First American Nun" after Helen A. McCarthy Sawyer of Groton, Massachusetts published her biographical novel written for Roman Catholic children, The First American Nun, in 1958.

Lydia Veicht

Lydia Veicht worked also as an actress in the movies Schwarzwaldmädel (1950) and Der Bunte Traum (1952).

Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev

Lydia Yudifovna Berdyaev ( 20 August 1871, Kharkov, Russian Empire - September 1945, Clamart, France) was a Russian poet, member of Russian apostolate and leader of the Russian diaspora in France.

Lydians

Niobe, daughter of Tantalus and Dione and sister of Pelops and Broteas, had known Arachne, a Lydian woman, when she was still in Lydia/Maeonia in her father's lands near to Mount Sipylus, according to Ovid's account.

Marlaine Gordon

One of her most notable television credits was playing Aisha Pinnock in the BBC sitcom Us Girls (1992), but she is most famous for playing the role of Lydia, the bubbly girlfriend of Steve Elliot (Mark Monero), in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders (1995–1996).

Moss Kent Dickinson

He was born in Denmark, New York in 1822 to parents Barnabus and Lydia Dickinson.

Nicolas Roche

Roche, who was born in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France, is the son of former cycling champion Stephen Roche and his former wife, Lydia, nephew of former cycling professional Lawrence Roche and cousin of 2008 Irish road champion Daniel Martin.

Olga Deterding

Her mother was Deterding's second wife, the White Russian Lydia Pavlovna Koudoyaroff (1904–80), a former mistress of his rival Calouste Gulbenkian.

Ornithoptera croesus

The specific epithet of Ornithoptera croesus, is named after Croesus, the king of Lydia from 560 to 547 BC.

Parvin Darabi

Parvin along with Lydia Sparksworthy co-authored a book "Women of Truckee Making History" which chronicles the lives of 30 influential women in Truckee, California.

Phanes of Halicarnassus

Cambyses II: King of Persia (Lydia, Babylonia, Persis, Anshan, and Media).

Poindexter Dunn

Born near Raleigh, North Carolina, Dunn was the son of Grey and Lydia Baucum Dunn.

Princess Lucia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies

::*Maria Luce Lydia Frioli (born 15 August 1978 in São Paulo)

Pruinescence

In the Common Whitetail and Blue Dasher dragonflies (Plathemis lydia and Pachydiplax longipennis), males display the pruinescence on the back of the abdomen to other males as a territorial threat.

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

On the Umbrella Security Service team there is: Vector (Andrew Kishino), the team's recon expert and is equipped with a cloaking ability; Beltway (Ramon Fernandez), who is proficient in the use of explosives; Bertha (Lydia Look), the medic; Spectre (David Cooley), the marksman; Four Eyes (Gwendoline Yeo), the scientist, with the ability to program the bio-organic weapons (BOWs); and Lupo (Nika Futterman), who is the team leader.

Robert Anderson Van Wyck

The son of William Van Wyck and his wife, he had a brother Augustus and sister Lydia Van Wyck.

Robert Walker Macbeth

He married Lydia Esther Bates on 9 August 1887 with whom he had a daughter, Phillis Macbeth, better known as the actress Lydia Bilbrook.

Saint Lydia

See Philetus, for Lydia, 2nd-century Illyrian Christian martyr

ShadowCatcher Entertainment

They have entered into an agreement with Lydia Pilcher to adapt Alice Hoffman’s novel The Probable Future.

Silver coin

The earliest coins of the western world were minted in the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor around 600 BC.

Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 11th Baronet

Acland was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 10th Baronet, and his wife Lydia Elizabeth Hoare, daughter of Henry Hoare, a partner in the banking firm of C. Hoare & Co.

Sylvette

The model for the painting was (Lydia) Sylvette David, also known by her married name Lydia Corbett, a French woman who worked in a pottery studio near Picasso's studio in Vallauris, in the summer of 1953.

The Luminaries

Wells is married to hotel keeper Lydia Wells, who initially met Anna when she disembarked from a British passenger vessel at Port Chalmers.

The Unicorn in the Garden

In the episode, William Windom as John Monroe tells the story to his daughter Lydia (Lisa Gerritsen) as his accompanying drawings come to life for the viewer.

Wells–Bennett–Grant family

He married seven wives: Eliza Rebecca Robison; Louisa Free, former wife of John D. Lee; Martha Givens Harris; Lydia Ann Alley; Susan Hannah Alley, sister of Lydia; Hannah Corrilla Free, sister of Louisa; and Emmeline Blanche Woodward


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