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2 unusual facts about Order of Bernardo O'Higgins


Order of Bernardo O'Higgins

This award was established in 1965 and named after one of the founders of the Chilean state general, Bernardo O'Higgins, who was the leader of the struggle for independence of the Spanish colonies in the Americas from 1810 to 1826.

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Dana Kimmell

Her first big acting role was in the 1982 3-D horror classic Friday the 13th Part III as Chris Higgins, the final girl.

Dave O'Higgins

O'Higgins was the busking saxophone player on the second Mr Bean episode ("The Return of Mr. Bean") - accompanying Bean as he performed a dance routine to earn money to pay the busker.

Eleanor Coen

With a close friend, artist Pablo O'Higgins, Max and Eleanor went to San Miguel de Allende where Max set up a litho studio and taught lithography at the School of Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Elfreda Higgins

Higgins earned her bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Phoenix.

Francisco Ruiz-Tagle

The junta nominated him as candidate for the following presidential election and Congress elected him as Provisional President on February 17, 1830, by imposition of José Antonio Rodríguez Aldea, head of the O'Higgins party.

Frank Grant

However, two pitchers could be argued to have been the greatest players of their era - Newark's George Stovey and Syracuse's Robert Higgins.

Frank J. Reilly

Gerald Allison, Michael Aviano, James Bama, Basil Gogos, Jack Faragasso, Fred Fixler, Gordon Johnson, Carl Hantman, Doug Higgins, Clark Hulings, Ronnie Lesser, Frank Liljegren, Peter Max, Gerald McConnell, George Passantino and Robert Emil Schulz are among them.

George Gaynes

He alternated between stage musicals and both comic and dramatic plays, including his role as Bob Baker in the original production of Wonderful Town (1953), Jupiter in the Cole Porter musical Out of This World, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and as Henry Higgins in the 1964 US tour of My Fair Lady.

Godfrey Higgins

Wouter Hanegraaff who has written a detailed history of esotericism has written that Higgins had no interest in either occultism or esotericism.

Graffiti My Soul

According to a post on his website, Brian Higgins visited Amsterdam and asked permission to sample the main guitar riff of "It's Not the Drug" for Girls Aloud.

H. B. Higgins

Further, Higgins is commemorated by the federal electorate of Higgins in Melbourne, and by the Canberra suburb of Higgins, Australian Capital Territory.

After his son Mervyn's death, Higgins effectively adopted his nephew Esmonde Higgins and his niece Nettie Palmer, paying for their education at universities in Europe.

Higgins Armory Museum

Norman Rockwell drew an imagined scene in the Higgins armory museum, titled Midnight Snack, for the November 3, 1962 cover of The Saturday Evening Post.

Hugh Higgins of Tyrawley

He had performed at Granard in 1791 "but won no premiums. In fact, he did not play at all at the second hall at Granard, having taken offense at something connected with the arrangements. Arthur O'Neill's avowed friendship for Higgins was a guarantee of his respectability."

Instituto San Fernando

Patricio Rey Sommer, politician, Intendant of O'Higgins Region (2010-2013);

Irish Museums Association

Contributors include: Dr Guido Gryseels (Director, Royal Museum of Central Africa), Catriona Crowe (Senior archivist and Head of special projects, National Archives of Ireland), Dr Roisin Higgins (Senior Lecturer in History, Teeside University).

Larry Keith

In the 1961 Broadway production of My Fair Lady, Keith served as an understudy to Michael Allinson and played the role of Higgins some 50 times.

Laurence Higgins

Higgins is also chaplain for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and serves on planning and executive boards for the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) and the Bay Area Legal Services.

Legacy of the May Revolution

Chilean painter Pedro Subercaseaux created many related paintings after requests from Ángel Carranza, such as Cabildo abierto del 22 de mayo de 1810; Mariano Moreno writing in his desk; the embrace of Maipú between San Martín and Bernardo O'Higgins; and the first playing of the Argentine National Anthem.

Lucille Lund

She married Kenneth Higgins, and would continue acting in commercials well into her 50s.

Matthew James Higgins

Thackeray dedicated to him his novel The Adventures of Philip, and one of his ballads, Jacob Omnium's Hoss, deals with an incident in Higgins's career.

Ó hUiginn

Thomas Francis O'Higgins (1916–2003), Irish politician, barrister, a judge

P. hastata

Prosthechea hastata (Lindl.) W.E.Higgins (1997 publ. 1998), an orchid species in the genus Prosthechea

Pablo O'Higgins

Among O'Higgins' students was the American graphic designer Bob Cato.

Rand Araskog

He has also been awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy by the President of Italy and the Order General Bernardo O'Higgins by the president of Chile.

Raul Rojas

On March 28, 1968, Rojas defeated Enrique Higgins to win the WBA Featherweight title, which Vicente Saldivar had vacated after announcing his retirement.

Reynold Higgins

Reynold Alleyne Higgins (born 26 November 1916 in Weybridge (Surrey); died 18 April 1993 in Dunsfold (Surrey) was a Classical Archaeologist and Keeper of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum.

Robin L. Higgins

Higgins is a 20-year veteran of the Marine Corps, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

Higgins is the widow of Colonel William R. (Rich) Higgins, a Marine officer taken captive by terrorists in Lebanon in 1988, and later murdered.

Ronnie Dapo

Dapo's acting ended in 1966 with two other roles: as Jimmy in the television movie Baby Makes Three and as Virgil 'Tiger' Higgins in the film Follow Me, Boys! starring Fred MacMurray and Kurt Russell.

Scottish folk music

They hosted traditional performers, including Donald Higgins and the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, beside English performers and new Scottish revivalists such as Robin Hall, Jimmie Macgregor, The Corries and the Ian Campbell Folk Group.

Sharpe's Devil

Lord Cochrane, a former Royal Navy officer now in service to the Chilean rebels under Bernardo O'Higgins, ambushes the Espiritu Santo and, with the assistance of Sharpe and Harper, capture it, taking Captain Ardiles prisoner.

Steel River Blues

Other stars included Joanne Farrell as Firefighter Nicky Higgins, Stuart Graham as Station Officer Bill McGlinchy, Daniel Ainsleigh as Firefighter Jeremy Lloyd, Satnam Bhogal as Firefighter Sunil Gupta

Sydney Sturgess

She starred as the Countess of Brocklehurst in the Shaw Festival's production of The Admirable Crighton, appeared in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Manitoba Theatre Center, and played "Mrs. Higgins" in another run of Shaw's Pygmalion at the Nottingham Playhouse in England.

Take Time With Noel Harrison

Visiting artists included John Allan Cameron, Shirley Eikhard, Bob Carpenter, Fraser & DeBolt, Tom Gallant, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Dee Higgins, Tommy Makem, Colleen Peterson, Jack Schechtman, Stringband and Brent Titcomb.

Terence Higgins

Terry Higgins, in whose memory the Terrence Higgins Trust was named

The Eagle Has Flown

Brigadier Dougal Munro and Captain Jack Carter (recurring characters in several novels by Higgins) of Special Operations Executive, arrange for Steiner to be relocated to a special prison in a priory in Wapping, and make sure, via double agents at the Spanish Embassies in London and Berlin, that German intelligence find out about it.

The Higgins Boys and Gruber

The Higgins Boys and Gruber was an American cable television show that aired on weekday afternoons on The Comedy Channel, the precursor to the cable network Comedy Central, from 1989 to 1991.

The Rebirth of Venus

John Alagia, Cary Brothers, Justin Carroll, Michael Chavez, Brian Conrad, Missy Higgins, Patience Hodgson, Laura Jansen, Melissa McCarty, Eric Robinson, Ione Skye, Maria Teresa Suarez, Olivia Asta Wood, Vanessa Wood: backing vocals

Thomas Naghten Fitzgerald

FitzGerald was born in Tullamore, Ireland, the son of John FitzGerald and his wife Catherine Naghten, née Higgins.

Timothy Coughlin

On July 10, 1927, the three surprised Justice Minister Kevin O'Higgins on his way to Mass at the Booterstown Avenue side of Cross Avenue in Blackrock, County Dublin and shot him down.

Vannie Higgins

On the night of June 18, 1932, after attending his daughter's tap dance recital at the Knights of Columbus clubhouse in Prospect Park, Higgins was gunned down in the street while trying to protect his 7-year-old daughter.

West Tamworth, New South Wales

It is also a popular venue during the Tamworth Country Music Festival in January and artists such as John Butler Trio, The Baileys, John Williamson, Pete Murray, The Waifs, Missy Higgins, Grinspoon, Xavier Rudd and Kasey Chambers have all played at the club.

William Lincoln Higgins

William Lincoln Higgins (1867–1957) was a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut.

William R. Higgins

Returning to the Fleet Marine Force in 1977, Capt. Higgins was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where he again served as a rifle company commander with A Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Marines.

WWCA

Popular daytime programs included Tom Higgins’ morning program, Sound-Off at noon with Ted Thorne, and afternoons with Matt Hart.


see also

Carlos Escudé

In 1981 he earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale; in 1984 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; in 1986 he was decorated with the Order of Bernardo O’Higgins for promoting peace and friendship between Argentina and Chile; in 1996 he received the Konex Award, and in 2003 he was appointed 2003-2004 Ashley Fellow by Trent University (Canada), nominated as “likely the most distinguished political theorist in Latin America”.