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unusual facts about Octavia


I Wonder If I Take You Home

Never originally released on Personal Records, the then-obscure demo was discovered in a tape "discard bin" at Personal Records by producer Kenny Beck (KRS-One Success is the Word and Octavia 2 The Limit), while searching for possible material to include in his debut album on the label.


Ardgowan House

Sir Michael Shaw-Stewart, 7th Baronet and his wife Lady Octavia, daughter of the 2nd Marquess of Westminster, continued improvements to the grounds, employing their gardener brought from Eaton Hall, Cheshire to install formal gardens.

Arthur French, 5th Baron de Freyne

He was born in London, to Arthur French of Frenchpark, County Roscommon (1855–1913), 4th Baron de Freyne, and his wife Lady Laura Octavia Dundas (died 1881).

Ben Walden

In 1999, he acted in Shakespeare's play Antony and Cleopatra at the Bankside Globe Theatre in London with Paul Shelley; Mark Rylance (Cleopatra); John McEnery; Danny Sapani (Charmian); Mark Lewis Jones; and Toby Cockerell (Octavia) in the cast.

Central Freeway

The final compromise took a two-way freeway down to ground level at Market Street, where Octavia Boulevard - a widened Octavia Street on the former freeway right-of-way — would continue to Fell Street.

Charlotte Mary Sanford Barnes

Barnes' first original play was the blank verse drama Octavia Bragaldi, or, The Confession, which took the Beauchamp–Sharp Tragedy (the 1825 murder of Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp) and set it in 15th century Milan, a popular trope of the day.

Christa Ludwig

Her vast repertory eventually grew to encompass Princess Eboli in Don Carlo which she sang at La Scala in Milan, in Salzburg and in Vienna, the title-role in Carmen, Ulrica (Un ballo in maschera), Monteverdi's Octavia (L'incoronazione di Poppea), Dido (Les Troyens), Kundry (Parsifal), Klytemnestra (Elektra) and contemporary roles by von Einem and Orff.

Hayes Valley, San Francisco

In 2005, a section of the freeway was rebuilt to end at Market Street, with the new, tree-lined Octavia Boulevard running north through the Hayes Valley along the previous path of Octavia Street, to Fell Street.

Hogan Lovells

The firm traced its history in the UK back to 1899, when John Lovell set up on his own account at Octavia Hill, between St Paul's and Smithfield.

Judy GeBauer

After graduation, she appeared as Octavia in Antony and Cleopatra at Marin Shakespeare Festival, in productions of Twelfth Night (Viola), King Lear, Richard III (Jane Shore), and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mustardseed) at California Shakespeare Festival.

Marcus Antonius Antyllus

His maternal half sibling was Clodia Pulchra and his paternal half siblings were Antonia Major and Antonia Minor (by Octavia Minor), and Alexander Helios, Cleopatra Selene II, and Ptolemy Philadelphus (by Cleopatra VII).

Middle East Media Research Institute

Carmon criticized CNN's translators understanding of Arabic stating: "Even someone who doesn't know Arabic would listen to the tape and would hear the word 'Jews' is at the end, and also it means it is something to be done to the Jews, not by the Jews. And she (Octavia Nasr) insisted, no the word is in the beginning. I said: 'Octavia, you just don't get it. It is at the end'".

Octavia the Younger

A highly fictionalized version of Octavia's early life is depicted in the 2005 television series Rome, in which Octavia of the Julii (Kerry Condon) commits incest with her brother, has a lesbian affair with Servilia of the Junii (the series' version of Servilia Caepionis) and a romantic relationship with Marcus Agrippa (based on the historical Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa).

Octavia Walton Le Vert

Here Octavia Walton met Dr. Henry Strachey Le Vert, the son of a French physician who served as General Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau's field surgeon during the American Revolutionary War.

Sarah Fielding

As a biographer, she wrote The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia in 1757, a history, written from Greek and Roman sources, on the lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, two famous women from Roman times.

The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.

Other primary members included Octavia Lambertis (often credited simply as Octavia or Octahvia) and Cindy Mizelle, both of whom had moderately successful solo careers in the 1980s.


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