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10 unusual facts about Miranda


Bien o Mal

The song written by Julieta Venegas with the collaboration of Argentine singer Alejandor Sergi vocalist from Miranda!, the Single was released on digital download on January 10, 2010, quickly hit the top of the Mexican and Latin American radio.

Coro TV

It was created in July 2004 and can be seen in the community of Santa Ana de Coro in the Miranda Municipality of the Falcón State of Venezuela on UHF channel 68.

Elías Jaua

On 15 December 2011, following a major reshuffle of the Venezuelan political leadership, President Chávez proposed Jaua to be the PSUV candidate for governor of the state of Miranda (reported in El Universal).

Jim Howick

In addition he has been a regular guest star in various sketch comedies, including The Armstrong and Miller Show and The Kevin Bishop Show, as well as the sitcom Miranda.

Luxembourg Sinfonietta

2004: First prize: Chañaral Ortega-Miranda (Chile), second prize: Lin Wang (China), third prize: Satoru Ikeda (Japan).

Miranda, California

Besides the post office, the town boasts one restaurant, a resort, market, and gas station (all owned by the Eldridge family), a Seventh-day Adventist church, a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), a small, rural high school encompassing grades 8-12, a Community Grange, two gift shops, and an active Volunteer Fire Department.

Miranda, New South Wales

James Murphy, the manager of the Holt estate named the area after Miranda, a character in the William Shakespeare play The Tempest.

Early Australian explorer Gregory Blaxland was promised a significant parcel of land in the area as a reward for discovering a passage through the Blue Mountains.

It is believed that the character in the play was named after Miranda de Ebro, a town in Spain.

Oh L'amour

A cover version by DJ Dero featuring Alejandro Sergi (of the Argentine electropop band Miranda!) was recorded in 2007 and included on the dance music compilation Verano 2008.


Andy Panda

Lantz continued to produce Andy Panda shorts until he closed his studio in 1949; Andy's last short was Scrappy Birthday (1949), which featured his girlfriend, Miranda Panda (voiced by Grace Stafford).

Athina Onassis Roussel

Onassis de Miranda married Brazilian Olympic showjumper Álvaro de Miranda Neto in 2005.

Conny Varela

In 2010, with the death of longtime mayor of Caguas, William Miranda Marín, Varela unexpectedly presented his candidacy to the seat, challenging Miranda's son, William Miranda Torres.

Cristóbal Rojas

Cristóbal Rojas, Venezuela, a municipality in the Venezuelan state of Miranda, named after the artist

Danny Miranda

Danny Miranda Agramonte (born November 12, 1978 in Morón, Cuba) is a first baseman for Ciego de Ávila of the Cuban National Series.

Dario Chiazzolino

In 2010 took part to an original Latin Jazz project; he recorded the album named "Proposition", with Dany Noel Martinez on bass, Horacio Hernandez on drum, Ivan Bridon and Ivan Melon Lewis on piano, Carlos Sanduy on trumpet and with guest singer Concha Buika and other main Latin icons as Ramón Porrina, Jerry Gonzáles, Inoidel González, Javier Masso “Caramelo“, Fernando Favier, Diego Guerrero, Ivette Falcón Urgate, Daniel Martínez Miranda.

David Hart Dyke

In 1967 he married Diana Margaret Luce, daughter of Sir William Luce; they have two daughters, Miranda and Alice.

Dennis Miranda

In the 2006-07 Philippine Cup, Miranda was traded to the Sta. Lucia Realtors with Manny Ramos and the Coca-Cola Tigers' 2008 second round pick in exchange for Alex Cabagnot, Ricky Calimag, and Kenneth Duremdes.

Dickerson

Dickerson v. United States, a major U.S. Supreme Court case reaffirming the requirement of a Miranda warning

Diego Arias de Miranda

The son-in-law of Don Diego Arias de Miranda was executed at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.

Doll Doll Doll

"Pressure Torture" includes audio samples from the film The Cell and the "Miranda Tapes" of serial killers Leonard Lake and Charles Ng.

Eduardo Reck Miranda

Eduardo Reck Miranda, Ph.D, (born 1963), is a Brazilian composer of chamber and electroacoustic pieces but is most notable in the United Kingdom for his scientific research into computer music, particularly in the field of human-machine interfaces where brain waves will replace keyboards and voice commands to permit the disabled to express themselves musically.

Escola Secundária Sá de Miranda

Escola Secundária Sá de Miranda (Sá de Miranda Secondary school) is a Public school, located in São Vicente, Braga, Portugal.

Flag of Colombia

After Miranda later designed his flag based on this conversation, he happily recalled seeing a fresco by Lazzaro Tavarone in the Palazzo Belimbau in Genoa that depicted Christopher Columbus unfurling a similar-coloured flag in Veragua during his fourth voyage.

Gaita transmontana

Muitos defendem que o termo gaita mirandesa seja um tanto impreciso, visto que a cidade de Miranda do Douro é apenas uma pequena região do território tido como Trás-os-montes, por onde o instrumento está tradicionalmente disseminado, sobretudo nas comarcas de Vinhais, Bragança, Miranda e Mogadouro.

Geology of the Auckland Region

The Waitemata sandstones and mudstones form the cliffs around the Waitemata Harbour and East Coast Bays, and land further north up to Cape Rodney, with outcrops further south down to Mercer and Miranda.

Il Discotto Records

It released material by many well-known artists like Gary Low, Doctor's Cat, Brand Image, Martinelli, Paul Sharada, Betty Miranda, Reeds, Mike Rogers, Raggio Di Luna, Hot Cold, Eugene, Max Coveri, as well as obscure Italo disco acts.

José Rijo

In December 2011, German Miranda, who heads the Dominican Republic's Anti-Money Laundering unit, said Rijo had been subpeonaed in relation to his business dealings with Matías “Daniel” Avelino Castro and any information he might have about the abduction and murder of journalist José Silvestre, a.k.a. “Gajo”, of Caña TV.

King of California

Armed with a metal detector and a stack of treasure-hunting books, Charlie soon finds reason to believe that the gold resides underneath the local Costco, and encourages Miranda to get a job there so that they can plan a way to excavate after hours.

Kissing You

"Kissin U", a song by Miranda Cosgrove from Sparks Fly

Lía Bermúdez

She been awarded the Order of the Liberator Knighthood, an award from the University of Carabobo, Zulia Governor's Award, Order of Maracaibo City in the first class, Order of Francisco de Miranda, Ana Maria Campos decoration and the National Prize of Plastic Arts of Venezuela 2007 amongst others.

Los Dug Dug's

Los Dug Dug's are a Mexican rock group which started off in the early sixties as a high school band called Xippos Rock, with members Roberto Miranda and Moises Munoz.

Mario Miranda

Miranda's big break came in 1974, when, at the invitation of the United States Information Services, he travelled to America, which enabled him to promote his art and interact with other cartoonists in the United States and also got a chance to work with Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts) and met Herblock, the editorial cartoonist of the Washington Post.

Miranda do Douro Municipality

It was in Miranda that the Treaty of Alcanices was signed between Denis and Ferdinand IV of Castile, setting the border between the two kingdoms.

Miranda Grosvenor

As "Miranda," Walton engaged in late-night telephone conversations with such stars as Billy Joel, Warren Beatty, Bob Dylan, Buck Henry, Eric Clapton, Michael Apted, Bono, Mike Nichols, Vitas Gerulaitis, Ted Kennedy, Johnny Carson, Art Garfunkel, Peter Gabriel, Robert De Niro, Rush Limbaugh, and Richard Gere, telling them that she was a blonde Tulane University student, wealthy socialite, and international model.

Miranda Hobbes

Dr. Robert Leeds (Blair Underwood) is a successful sports medicine doctor for the New York Knicks, whom Miranda meets while interviewing him with fellow members of her building's tenant board to occupy a vacant apartment.

Although Steve begs for forgiveness, Miranda insists on splitting up, and she moves to the Lower East Side.

Miranda House

Miranda House also appears in Neeraj Pandey's Akshay Kumar starrer "Special 26" .

Miranda Seymour

Miranda Seymour was two years old when her parents moved into Thrumpton Hall, the family's ancestral home in Nottinghamshire.

Naomi Battrick

Battrick's first television appearance was in a guest role on The Bill as Miranda Roscoe, following which she won the part of 15 year-old band member Toyah Swann in the 2009 CBBC show My Almost Famous Family, starring alongside Dominique Moore and Rakie Ayola.

Nina Miranda

Nina Miranda has worked with a variety of artists, and has guested on tracks for Da Lata, Nitin Sawhney, Cirque du Soleil, Bebel Gilberto, Daniel Jobim, Antonio Chainho, Shrift, Spiller, Faze Action, Jah Wobble, Les Gammas, Troubleman, Arkestra 1, Hajime Yoshizawa and Robert Miles.

Oklahoma State University men's basketball team plane crash

This crash should not be confused with a second plane crash that happened on November 17, 2011, that killed head coach Kurt Budke and Assistant Coach Miranda Serna, of the OSU Women's Basketball team, as well as State Senator Olin Branstetter.

Pia Miranda

Pia Miranda co-starred with fellow prominent Australian actors Kick Gurry, Anthony LaPaglia, Greta Scacchi, Elana Cotta and Matthew Newton.

Post Impact

NUNS President Miranda Harrison recruits Parker to lead an expedition—including ex-SAS Sarah Henley and Anna Starndorf, Gregor Starndorf's daughter, to find out who controls the satellite and destroy it.

Raising Miranda

Raising Miranda is the story of Donald Marshack (James Naughton), a Racine, Wisconsin contractor who suddenly found himself a single parent when his wife Bonnie had abandoned him and their 15 year old daughter, Miranda (Royana Black), in order to go and "find herself".

Ramster

In 1922, Sir Henry and Lady Norman purchased Ramster, and is now cared for by their granddaughter Miranda Gunn, and her husband.

Renan Miranda

Renan Junior Miranda Leite Silva (born January 23, 1986 in Várzea Grande, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer, playing as right middlefielder, for Cuiabá Esporte Clube at the Campeonato Estadual Mato-grossense (Local championship of Mato Grosso State) and Brasileiro Série C (the third division of Brazilian League).

Station House Opera

Julian Maynard Smith (son of the evolutionary geneticist John Maynard Smith) and Miranda Payne founded the company in 1980, and Maynard Smith remains its artistic director.

Stephen Latchford

Stephen Latchford was born on February 4, 1883 to George G. Latchford, a B&O Railroad operator in Annapolis Junction, Maryland, and his wife, Miranda.

Sussie 4

In all four of their studio albums, Sussie 4 have contributed with various well-known Latin singers and artists, such as Denisse Guerrero of Belanova, Alex Sergi of Miranda!, León Larregui of Zoé, Valentina González, and Ely Guerra.

The Midnight Folk

It features: Sam Salter, Nickolas Grace, Charles Dance (as Abner Brown), Deborah Findlay, Andrew Sachs, Liz Smith, Helena Breck, Jon Glover, Ewan Bailey, Ann Beach, Harry Myers, Graham Seed, Miranda Keeling, Bethan Walker, Mark Straker, Sam Dale, Ian Masters, Joseph Kloska and Christine Kavanagh.

Tom Meeten

He has also appeared in numerous other T.V. shows, including How Not to Live Your Life, The IT Crowd, Saxondale, Miranda and Skins.

Treaty of Tolentino

Among the fiercest opponents was Quatremère de Quincy who in 1796 wrote a pamphlet, Letters in Miranda, in which he affirmed the strong relationship between a work of art and the place in which it was intended, asserting that "eradicating the context in which the work was created irreparably impairs its legibility".

UAAP Season 67 men's basketball tournament

Jerwin Gaco broke the FEU run, but Miranda and Mark Isip each split their free-throws to bring back the lead to FEU with 2:21 left.

Willow Dawson

The series Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate was a 4 issue comic book series published by Kiss Machine from 2005–2008, which drew inspiration from the lives of Anne Bonney and Mary Read, two of histories most infamous female pirates.