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6 unusual facts about NUN


Avihu Ben-Nun

In 1992 Ben-Nun handed command of the Israeli Air Force over to Herzl Bodinger, resigning from the IDF.

On September 9, 1972, a month after handing command of 69 Squadron to Amnon Arad, Ben-Nun and navigator Zvi Kesler shot down a Syrian Sukhoi Su-7.

In 1963 he began flying the Dassault Mirage III, yet on the eve of the Six-Day War became deputy commander of 116 "Defenders of the South" squadron, flying Dassault Mysteres.

Nun

A list of notable works in which nuns play a major part ranges from A Time for Miracles which is literally hagiography to realistic accounts by Kathryn Hulme and Monica Baldwin to the blatant nunsploitation of Sacred Flesh.

Works can include those which portray Catholic nuns or non-Catholic such as Black Narcissus (Anglican).

NUN

Saufley Field, airport, Pensacola, Florida, United States; IATA airport code NUN


13th century in poetry

Princess Shikishi 式子内親王 (died 1201), late Heian and early Kamakura period poet, never-married daughter of Emperor Go-Shirakawa; entered service at the Kamo Shrine in Kyoto in 1159, later left the shrine, in later years a Buddhist nun; has 49 poems in the Shin Kokin Shū anthology

1661 in music

April 19Maria Cattarina Calegari takes her final vows and becomes a nun at the Benedictine Convent of Santa Margherita in Milan.

Amabilis of Riom

There is a female saint (also known as Saint Mable) with this name who died in 634 AD; she was the daughter of an Anglo-Saxon king and became a nun at Saint-Amand, Rouen.

Anapu

Anapu attracted international attention on February 12, 2005, when the American-born, naturalized Brazilian citizen Sister Dorothy Stang—member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, and advocate for the rural poor of the Amazon Rainforest—was murdered there.

Beerbohm family

:::2 Dora Beerbohm (1868- 13 August 1940) In 1894 became a Sister in the Anglican Order of Sisters of Mercy at St Saviour's Priory in Ilford.

Casimir I of Opole

# Wenzeslawa (b. ca. 1226/28? – d. 1 July aft. 1230?), a nun in Czarnowąsy.

Chaplet of Saint Michael

The Chaplet of St. Michael the Archangel is a chaplet resulting from a private revelation by the Archangel Michael to the Portuguese Carmelite nun Antónia d'Astónaco.

Chime Rinpoche

His students include American author and Buddhist Nun Pema Chödrön and musicians Mary Hopkin, David Bowie and Tony Visconti.

Clare Moore

Moore began performing in 1974, playing drums for a singing nun (Sister Janet Mead) in Adelaide.

Daniel Lessmann

His translations of “The Nun of Monza” by Gioachino Rossini and “The Betrothed” by Alessandro Manzoni were major contributions to the introduction of modern Italian literature to Germany.

Domon

Alice Domon 1937 - Missing: 1977), French, Roman Catholic nun

Edith of Wilton

Saint Edith of Wilton (also known as Eadgyth, her name in Old English, or as Editha or Ediva, the Latin forms of her name) was an English nun, a daughter of the 10th century King Edgar of England, born at Kemsing, Kent, in 961.

Ephraim of Nea Makri

Following these dreams, a body believed to be that of the saint was found in the ground near the nun's hermitage, on the site of an abandoned medieval monastery on the slopes of Mount Amomon, near the town of Nea Makri, in Attica, Greece.

Erhard of Queis

Queis married Duchess Apollonia, a daughter of Victor of Poděbrady, Duke of Münsterberg and Opava, who had been a nun in the Poor Clares monastery at Strzelin.

Ermintrude

Erminethrudis (died c 600), also known as Ermintrude, a nun and member of the Merovingian aristocracy

Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio

Mother Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio (San Gervasio d’Adda, 4 September 1907 – 10 August 1990) was an Italian nun, visionary and mystic, from the Roman Catholic Church.

Godeberta

With the support of Saint Eligius, Godeberta became a nun despite the fact that her parents wanted her to marry.

John Kamm

One such person who benefited from Kamm’s interventions, Tibetan nun Ngawang Sangdrol, was the focus of Marie Louville’s documentary film, Prisoner in Lhasa.

Katherine Swynford

Margaret Swynford (born c. 1369), became a nun at the prestigious Barking Abbey in 1377 with help from her future stepfather John of Gaunt, where she lived the religious life with her cousin Elizabeth Chaucer, daughter of the famous Geoffrey Chaucer and Katherine's sister Philippa de Roet.

Klimczak

Sister Karen Klimczak, an American catholic nun, murdered on April 14, 2006

Leather Nun

Inspired by such groups and artists like John Lee Hooker, The Mothers of Invention, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Rory Gallagher and Mick Ronson, The Leather Nun released their debut EP, Slow Death, in November 1979, featuring a recording of "Death Threats" from 1978 and three newly recorded tracks.

While releasing their third album Nun Permanent (produced by Mick Ronson) in winter 1991 their record company went bankrupt and could no longer deliver copies of the album.

Leonella

Leonella Sgorbati (1940–2006), an Italian Roman Catholic nun who was murdered in Somalia shortly after controversial comments by Pope Benedict XVI concerning Islam

Magdalena de la Cruz

Indeed, on the birth of the future Philip II in 1527, "the hábitos of this nun were sent off as a sacred object so that the infante could be wrapped up in them and thus apparently be shielded and protected from the attacks of the Devil."

Margaret of Cleves, Duchess of Bavaria-Munich

Catharina (1441–1497) - became a Premonstratensian then a Dominican nun in Würzburg, then finally ending up in the monastery under the protection of bishop Rudolf van Würzburg

Margaret Wade Labarge

She is best known for two of her books: A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century is about Eleanor, wife of Simon de Montfort, detailing the time while her husband was away at war; and Medieval Travellers: The Rich and the Restless is about Mary, daughter of Edward I of England, a peripatetic nun.

Maria Xaveria Perucona

Maria Xaveria Perucona or Parruccona (Novara, c. 1652 - after 1709 in Galliate) was a nun composer in 17th Century Italy.

Marianne Ackerman

The company also staged The Echo Project, a play developed by Robert Lepage from Ann Diamond's book of poetry, A Nun's Story and Ackerman worked with Lepage on Alienouidet, a play about the actor Edmund Kean in Canada.

Marie de Sales Chappuis

Venerable Marie de Sales Chappuis, was born Marie-Thérèse Chappuis (16 June 1793 in Soyhières, today in the Canton of Jura in Switzerland and at that time in the Département du Mont-Terrible in France – 6 October 1875 in Troyes, Aube, France) was a Roman Catholic nun and a spiritual leader in the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.

Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross

Mary Howard, of the Holy Cross (born 28 December 1653; died at Rouen, 21 March 1735) was an English nun of the Poor Clares.

Mary Rose McGeady

Mary Rose McGeady (June 28, 1928, Hazleton, Pennsylvania - September 13, 2012, Albany, New York) was an American Roman Catholic nun who was widely acknowledged for her work with homeless youth in the United States.

Mein Herz brennt

The opening line of the song's intro and chorus ('"Nun, liebe Kinder, gebt fein Acht. Ich habe euch etwas mitgebracht" 'Now, dear children, pay attention. I have brought something for you') is taken from the 1950s German children's TV show Das Sandmännchen (The Little Sandman).

Michel de Marillac

Michel was the guardian of Louis' natural daughter Louise de Marillac, who became a nun, was a follower of Saint Vincent de Paul, with whom she founded the Daughters of Charity on 29 November 1633.

Montargis

Eleanor of Leicester lived in exile as a nun at the abbey in Montargis, and died there in 1275

Oxford Ice Rink

The rink, designed by Nicholas Grimshaw, was built on Oxpens Road (known as Nun's Walk prior to 1850) and opened in 1984.

Papraća Monastery

It was partially repaired in 1954, mostly through efforts by nun Varvara Božić from the Tavna Monastery.

Raheem DeVaughn

DeVaughn took a job at Tower Records, where while putting price tags on CDs, he began working the D.C. music circuit—performing with various groups, the most prominent of which being Urbanave31, and at venues such as the State of the Union and Bar Nun on U Street NW, all while having CDs of his songs ready at hand.

Randy Blair

Other credits include the world premieres of The Yellow Wood (directed by BD Wong), Chaplin, and The Tragic and Horrible Life of the Singing Nun. Regionally, he has appeared in productions of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Avenue Q, Oliver!, Ragtime, and Children of Eden.

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.

Sisters of the Reparation of the Holy Face

This Holy Face of Jesus devotion dates back to Sister Marie of St Peter, a Carmelite nun in Tours France who in 1843 reported visions of Jesus and Mary in which she was urged to spread the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, in reparation for the many insults Jesus suffered in his Passion.

The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian

A similar "trick" with the genre is found in Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale, which is retold by Henryson as Fabill 3 in his sequence and is one of the poem's most directly identifiable sources.

They Killed Sister Dorothy

The film traces the reasons of the murder of Dayton, Ohio, native Dorothy Mae Stang, a 73-year-old nun of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur order who fought for the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest in the Brazilian state of Pará.

Uppalawanna

The chief nun (Malini Fonseka) senses this, warning Upallavanna with her namesake's story.

Ursuline Nuns of the Immaculate Conception

It was founded in 1858 by Mother Salesia Reitmeier, a German nun from Straubing, for the instruction of German immigrant children.

Waldrada of Tuscany

Her daughter Marina became the Dogaressa of the Doge Tribuno Memmo, but he was deposed in 990, after which Marina became a nun.

When You Wish Upon a Weinstein

They get out just in time and the Griffins lock the synagogue's door using a large star of David until they escape onto a bus full of nuns who, displeased that he strayed from Catholicism, attack Peter with rulers.

Zdenka Cecília Schelingová

Blessed Zdenka Cecília Schelingová (December 24, 1916 – July 31, 1955), was a Slovak nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Holy Cross and a victim of communist persecution in the former Czechoslovakia.


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