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8 unusual facts about Mermaid


Ann Blyth

She played the part of Regina Hubbard in Another Part of the Forest (a 1948 prequel to The Little Foxes), and achieved success playing a mermaid in Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid.

Mermaid's Pool

Henry Kirke White wrote a poem about a young man who drowned in the pool after he had fallen in love with her.

Part of Your World

"Part of Your World" is a song written by composer Alan Menken and lyricist Howard Ashman for Walt Disney Picture's twenty-eighth animated feature film The Little Mermaid (1989).

Scandinavian folklore

Mermaids in most mythology have a bad reputation of luring men to their watery demise.

Stepan Davydov

In the field of secular music Davydov participated in the composing of opera tetralogy Mermaid (together with Ferdinand Kauer and Catterino Cavos, 1803–1807, providing the additional music for the 1st, 3rd and 4th parts).

The Longest Journey

Thence she is taken prisoner by the Maerum, a Mermaid-like species related to the Alatian, but currently their enemies.

The Sims 3: Island Paradise

Mermaids are the new life state introduced in Island Paradise.

Victor Sokovnin

Actively participated in the performances delivered by this remarkable Russian tenor in the opera Labour team and was his stage partner in the operas "La Traviata", "Mermaid" and other operas, which have documented are not installed.


Aleph Samach

During the “Club War” of 1913-1914, Aleph Samach allied itself with The Cornell Daily Sun, Sphinx Head and Quill and Dagger in an effort to suppress the growing influence of the following “social clubs” or drinking societies at Cornell: Majura, Beth l’Amed, Kappa Beta Phi, Bench and Board, Gemel Kharm, Yonan, Mermaid, Krug and Tafel, and the Climax.

Anne Stokes

Morten Veland from the Norwegian gothic metal band Sirenia was surfing the internet when he found Stokes mermaid picture.

Arcata Theatre

Inside details were in the Art Deco style, including cumulus clouds painted on the ceiling and Murals of swimming mermaids painted on the walls.

Barbara Buchholz

She played the theremin in various contemporary works, like The Little Mermaid, a ballet by John Neumeier, music by Lera Auerbach, and in the operas Linkerhand by Moritz Eggert and Bestmann-Opera by Alex Nowitz.

Cambridge Gulf

The HMS Mermaid spends many days during which King discovered, mapped and named the Cambridge Gulf, of which historians tell us was named after the Duke of Cambridge.

Cedar Shoals High School

Quentin Moses defensive lineman for the Georgia Bulldogs and the NFL
Tituss Burgess Broadway actor known for playing Sebastian in The Little Mermaid

Celebrate the Magic

The summer months will show films such as The Little Mermaid and Lilo & Stitch, in addition, segments featuring Disney Princesses and couples for Valentine's Day and Disney Villains for Halloween are also planned to be shown.

Chobits

The ending themes are "Raison d'être" (Reason to Be) by Rie Tanaka (episodes 1–13), "Ningyo-hime" (Mermaid Princess) by Rie Tanaka (episodes 14–25), and "Katakoto no Koi" (Awkward Love) by Rie Tanaka and Tomokazu Sugita (episode 26).

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

2000: Comic book artist Kieron Dwyer was sued by Starbucks Coffee for parodying their famous mermaid logo within his comic book Lowest Common Denominator. Although the judge ruled that Starbucks could not sue a parody and the case settled out of court, Dwyer was forced to comply with the ruling that he could no longer use his logo for its confusing similarity to that of Starbucks.

Coney Island Mermaid Parade

Like the much larger annual Village Halloween Parade, the Mermaid Parade embodies the spirit and artistry of Mardi Gras.

Electoral district of Mermaid Beach

A compact urban, coastal electorate, Mermaid Beach includes the Gold Coast suburbs of Mermaid Beach, Mermaid Waters, Broadbeach Waters, Merrimac, Florida Keys, Miami Keys and parts of Robina.

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion

Characters confirmed to appear in the game are the DuckTales interpretation of Scrooge McDuck from the Duck universe, Ariel, Ursula and Sebastian from The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan, Rapunzel from 2010's Tangled, Jafar from Aladdin, the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland, and Timon, Pumbaa, and Zazu from The Lion King.

Fiji mermaid

The Fiji mermaid came into Barnum's possession via his Boston counterpart Moses Kimball, who brought it down to Barnum in late spring of 1842.

However the exhibit which created the Fiji mermaid concept was popularized by P. T. Barnum, but has since been copied many times in other attractions, including the collection of Robert Ripley.

Fisherman's Village

A date scene for an episode of More to Love was filmed aboard the Tiki Mermaid Charter boat in 2009.

Freya Lim

However, Living Alone (一個人生活) was the more popular song from Freya, as it was also the ending theme song of TV series The Beauty Mermaid (天地傳說之魚美人), the song has a Mandarin and Cantonese cover version My Feelings (感應) sung by Hong Kong singer Vincy Chan.

Frizzle Sizzle

For example, she voiced Gloria in Madagascar, Prinses Jasmine in Aladdin, Thumbelina in Thumbelina (1994), Robyn Starling in Tom and Jerry: The Movie & Ariel in The Little Mermaid).

Hello Kitty murder

After a month of imprisonment and torture, she was killed, dismembered and her skull was stuffed into a giant Hello Kitty mermaid doll.

King Expedition of 1817

From Port Jackson, Mermaid sailed south down the east coast, then west through Bass Strait and along the south coast.

Continuing north-east along the coast, the Mermaid eventually passed the northernmost tip of Arnhem Land, reaching a point on Cobourg Peninsula that King named Port Essington.

Legend of Sudsakorn

Charlie Trairat, the young male lead from Fan Chan, portrays the title character, a boy who is the son of a mermaid who is sent on a magical quest to find his father, a prince.

Liz Kessler

Liz Kessler is a British author of children's books, most notably a series about a half-mermaid called Emily Windsnap.

Lori Lemaris

In Lori's appearances in the mid-to-late 1990s, Lori had been magically altered so that she would be human when dry and a mermaid when wet, much like Madison, Daryl Hannah's character in the 1984 movie Splash.

Masumi Okada

Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen" and wife of the statue's sculptor, Edvard Eriksen.

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy were created and designed by Stephen Hillenburg.

MermaidFX

MermaidFX also produces a line of mermaid home videos including The Weeki Wachee Springs Archives and is the distributor of selected Annette Kellerman films.

Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name

and Mrs. Is the Name is a 1935 animated Merrie Melodies cartoon, starring Buddy and Cookie (as two mermaid kids), and is noted to be the only Buddy cartoon in Technicolor.

Mütter

Mütter is the fourth studio album released by Maria Doyle Kennedy on Mermaid Records in 2007.

Night Tide

The role of Mora the Mermaid (played by Linda Lawson in the film) was originally to be played by Susan Harrison, who had been the lead in Sweet Smell of Success (1957).

Part of Your World

Originally recorded by American actress and singer Jodi Benson in her film role as Ariel, "Part of Your World" is a Broadway-style ballad in which the film's heroine, a mermaid, expresses her desire to become human.

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

Gary Braver, bestselling author of Skin Deep, said “Paul’s writing in The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen has the humanity of Somerset Maugham, the adventure of Joseph Conrad, the perception of Paul Theroux, and a self-effacing voice uniquely his own.”

Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid

Roxy Hunter and the Myth of the Mermaid is a 2008 Nickelodeon Original Movies that aired on July 13, 2008, and is the third edition to the Roxy Hunter movies, plus a direct sequel to the previous movie Roxy Hunter and the Secret of the Shaman.

Russalka Memorial

The Russalka Memorial is a bronze monument sculpted by Amandus Adamson, erected on 7 September 1902 in Kadriorg, Tallinn, to mark the ninth anniversary of the sinking of the Russian warship Rusalka, or "Mermaid", which sank en route to Finland in 1893.

Saint Mungo Cup

The Corporation of Glasgow who had organised the tournament and provided the cup named after Glasgow's patron saint as their donation to the Festival of Britain were left red faced when the triumphant players and manager Jimmy McGrory discovered, on closer examination, that the cup was decorated with ornate life belts and mermaids.

Serena Valentino

Now she is returning to the fairy tale format with artist Camilla d'Errico, featuring stories about a sleeping beauty, a captured mermaid and the infamous Blue Beard.

Shane Embury

He was a fan of the band before he joined, first seeing them perform at Midlands venue The Mermaid the previous year and becoming close friends of the members of the band, particularly Mick Harris.

Sinéad Lohan

"No Mermaid", the title track of the aforementioned album, was also used in the movie Message in a Bottle and performed by Joan Baez on her 1997 release Gone from Danger, the 2009 reissue of which features a bonus disc containing live performances from 1997 of Baez and Lohan duets on Lohan's "No Mermaid" and "Who Do You Think I Am", and on Bob Dylan's "To Ramona."

The progressive bluegrass band Nickel Creek covered her song "Out Of The Woods" (also from the album No Mermaid) on their Nickel Creek album (2000).

Spin Aqua

The band debuted with the single Unchained, which was followed up with Spin Aqua's first concert was held in December at the Tokyo Bay NK Hall at the Devilock '02 concert. This single was followed up five months later with Mermaid and then three months after, the single PAPER MOON.

Out of these three singles, Mermaid was the only one that charted on Oricon charts (peaking at No. 197).

Striped beakfish

In the anime series One Piece, the mermaid "Ishilly"' is a black-and-white-striped beakfish mermaid.

Suntory Mermaid II

At approximately 1100 (Honolulu time) on March 16, 2008, then 69-year-old Japanese sailor and environmentalist Kenichi Horie left the Hawaii Yacht Club, Honolulu, in the Suntory Mermaid II, bound for Japan.


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