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unusual facts about Nell


Nell'anno del Signore

Cornacchia, a shoemaker, finds out that prince Filippo Spada, a Carbonari associate, is going to reveal the organization's plans for an uprising to the Pontifical Guard's commander, Colonel Nardoni.


Alexander Montagu, 10th Duke of Manchester

On 5 May 1927 he married firstly, at Kimbolton Castle, Huntingdonshire, Nell Vere Stead (died 2 September 1966), daughter of Sydney Vere Stead of Melbourne, Australia, by whom he had two sons.

Almeno tu nell'universo

"Almeno tu nell'universo" is a song written by Bruno Lauzi and Maurizio Fabrizio and recorded by Italian singer Mia Martini, who released it as a single in 1989 and included the track in the album Martini Mia.

During the same year, Bruno Lauzi was asked to write the lyrics for the song, and he completed "Almeno tu nell'universo" in thirty minutes.

Bracci-Cambini

Therefore several academic books and articles have been written about the family, including In famiglia: Storie di interessi e affetti nell’Italia moderna by Roberto Bizzocchi and Il Casino dei Nobili: Famiglie illustri, viaggiatori, mondanità a Pisa tra Sette e Ottecent by Alessandro Panajia with Giovanni Benvenuti.

Caterina Galli

She also appeared at the King's Theatre in the premieres of two of Handel's pastiches, Rossane o Alessandro nell'Indie (1743) and Lucio Vero (1747), and performed in revivals of several of his other oratorios and operas.

Coot Club

There they encounter the Coot Club, a gang of local children comprising Tom Dudgeon, twin girls 'Port' and 'Starboard' (Nell and Bess Farland), and three younger boys — Joe, Bill and Pete (the Death and Glories).

Diana Van der Vlis

Diana Van der Vlis (June 9, 1935 - October 22, 2001) was a Canadian stage, screen and television actress best known for her characters ‘Dr. Nell Beaulac’ on the ABC soap opera Ryan's Hope and 'Kate Hathaway Prescott’ on the CBS soap opera Where the Heart Is.

Duke of St Albans

Donald Adamson and Peter Beauclerk Dewar, The House of Nell Gwyn.

Edward German

German was by then in high demand to write music for plays, and his commissions included Henry Arthur Jones's The Tempter in 1893, Johnston Forbes-Robertson's Romeo and Juliet at the Lyceum in 1895, Herbert Beerbohm Tree's productions of As You Like It (1896) and Much Ado about Nothing (1898), and Anthony Hope's English Nell (later known as Nell Gwynn) in 1900, starring Marie Tempest.

Fred Terry

At the Haymarket, he was particularly known for his role of Charles II in the play Sweet Nell of Old Drury by Paul Kester, which became one of his signature roles.

Gimme a Break!

During the third season, Pat Sajak guest-starred as himself when Nell and her friend Addy (Telma Hopkins) were contestants on Wheel of Fortune.

Nell also served as a parent to the Chief's three daughters, Katie (Kari Michaelsen), Julie (Lauri Hendler), and Samantha (Lara Jill Miller).

Helen Thompson Sunday

Nell Sunday lived long enough to speak at early Billy Graham crusades, and she frequently visited Bob Jones College, where she was given an honorary degree in 1940.

Holbrook Blinn

His Broadway stage successes include The Duchess of Dantzic (1903, as Napoleon), Salvation Nell (1908) in a breakout performance as the brutish husband of Mrs. Fiske, Within the Law (1912), Molière (1919), A Woman of No Importance (1916), The Lady of the Camellias (1917), and Getting Together (1918).

In the Palace of the King

A previous silent version had been made and released in 1915 by the Essanay company and starred Richard Travers and Nell Craig.

Jackie Loughery

In 1963 she appeared on Perry Mason as Nell Grimes, who murdered her husband, the title character, in "The Case of the Bigamous Spouse."

Jenny Greenteeth

She is called Jinny Greenteeth in Lancashire, but in Cheshire and Shropshire she is called Ginny Greenteeth, Jeannie Greenteeth, Wicked Jenny, or Peg o' Nell.

Jeremy Phipps

His mother, Veronica Nell (née Fraser; 1920–2005) was a Roman Catholic, the daughter of Simon Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat.

Kilgore College Rangerettes

The Kilgore College Rangerettes were founded by Gussie Nell Davis, a physical education instructor from Farmersville, Texas who had previously devised an all-girl's high school drum and bugle corps out of Greenville, Texas called the "Flaming Flashes".

Lotta Crabtree

Having made a name in California, in 1863 Lotta left to tour the east coast where she began acting in plays such as The Old Curiosity Shop, Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Nell and the Marchioness.

Margaret Kilgallen

These artists include, besides her husband and collaborator Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, Josh Lazcano, Alicia McCarthy, Clare Rojas, Amy Franceschini, Thomas Campbell, Dan Flanagan, Symantha Gates, Nell Gould, filmmaker Bill Daniel, and musician Tommy Guerrero, for whom she designed album covers.

Martha Nell Smith

Martha Nell Smith is professor of English and founding director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Mistress Nell

It is yet another story about Nell Gwyn taken from a Broadway play Mistress Nell that was very successful for stage actress Henrietta Crosman in 1900.

Nell Brinkley

Nell Brinkley was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1886 (some sources say 1888), but her family soon moved to the small town of Edgewater on Denver's western border, facing Sloan's Lake at Manhattan Beach.

Nell Irvin Painter

Nell attended the Oakland Public Schools.

Nell Truman

During the 1968 Wightman Cup the match was tied at three all and Nell partnered sister Christine in the deciding rubber.

Nellie Stewart

In January 1916 she was deeply depressed by grief over the death of George Musgrove, until she was persuaded by Hugh Donald McIntosh to take up work again in a condensed version of Sweet Nell at the Tivoli Theatre.

Operation Mo

Supporting this force was the 25th Air Fleet, (Yokohama Air Corps) led by Rear Admiral Sadayoshi Yamada, based in Rabaul, Lae, Salamaua, Buna and Deboyne island, composed of 60 Mitsubishi A6M "Zero" fighters, 48 Mitsubishi G3M "Nell" and 26 Aichi E13A "Jake" and Mitsubishi F1M "Pete" reconnaissance seaplanes.

Peredur Lynch

In 2001, Lynch published Cywion Nell, a Welsh adaptation of Robert Barnard's 1981 novel Mother's Boys.

Perl, Saarland

In 1733 the hereditary tenant of the Trier Cathedral Chapter constructed a stately house (palace), which changed later into the possession of the family from Nell.

Phillips County, Arkansas

Mark Lavon “Levon” Helm was born on May 26, 1940, outside Elaine (Phillips County) to Nell and Diamond Helm.

Pitchfork Ranch

On February 25, 1945, he married the former Bama Nell Smith (1924–2007) in Paducah, the seat of Cottle County, Texas.

Professor Potter

In the popular Superman-themed television drama Smallville, Lana Lang has a maternal aunt named Nell Potter, (played by Sarah-Jane Redmond) whom she lives with for the first season (due to her parents' deaths) before moving in with Chloe Sullivan.

Ross Fitzgerald

He is also co-producer, with Peter Cherry, of Ho & Me (a movie about Wilfred Burchett and Ho Chi Minh) and, with Ian McFadyan, Kerensky and Nelle (a movie about Alexander Kerensky and Nell Tritton).

Soundart Radio

Founded as a student radio station in 2006 by two graduates of Dartington College of Arts, Nell Harrison and Lucinda Guy, the station moved onto a full-time Community Radio Licence in February 2009 broadcasting to a 5 km radius around the transmitter at Dartington Hall.

Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso

Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso (Telemachus on Calypso's Island) is an opera by composer Fernando Sor.

The Ballad of Eskimo Nell

The True Story of Eskimo Nell is a 1975 film by Australian director Richard Franklin, in which two men, Deadeye Dick and Mexico Pete, go forth in search of the famed prostitute Eskimo Nell in the Australian Outback.

Eskimo Nell is also the name of another 1975 movie from the UK directed by Martin Campbell in which three men are enlisted by a producer to make an erotic film inspired by The Ballad of Eskimo Nell.

The Old Curiosity Shop

Nell, having fallen in with a number of characters, some villainous and some kind, succeeds in leading her grandfather to safety in a far-off village (identified by Dickens as Tong, Shropshire), but this comes at a considerable cost to Nell's health.

An adaptation for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 1990, was narrated by Alex Jennings, with Emily Chenery (Nell), Phil Daniels (Quilp), Daniel Bliss (Kit), Trevor Peacock (Grandfather), Clive Swift, Anna Massey and Julia McKenzie.

The village where they finally find peace and rest and where Nell dies is Tong, Shropshire.

Viva La Mexico

At the brothel, Nell strikes a protection deal with Sean McGinnes (Ben Esler) for 10% of her profits.

Young Maverick

The 1978 TV-movie The New Maverick, featuring Garner as Bret, Frank as Ben, Jack Kelly as Bret's brother Bart Maverick, and Blanchard as Nell, served as the pilot for the series.


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