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71 unusual facts about Prince


Abraham Scultetus

Abraham Scultetus (24 August 1566 – 24 October 1625) was a German professor of theology, and the court preacher for the Elector of the Palatinate Frederick V.

Apostolic Nuncio to Cologne

Besides Cologne, Mainz and Trier the nuncios could wield their jurisdiction undisputedly for the prince-bishoprics of Hildesheim, Liège, Osnabrück, Paderborn, and Würzburg.

Battle of Fraustadt

King August II of Poland gave up his claim on the Polish crown, although he remained Elector Frederick Augustus I of Saxony.

Battle of Göllheim

When the Diet met near Frankfurt the following year, they were discouraged to appoint Albert, thus they elected a cousin of one of the Electors, Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.

Bobby Z.

Both shows took place on the same night with Bobby taking over from Prince's current drummer Hanna-Ford-Welton.

In May 2013 Bobby Z joined Prince on stage during the closing two shows of Prince's whirlwind 3rdeyegirl tour.

Boccanegra

Francois Grimaldi who was set on the conquest of Monaco's Castle (Prince's Palace of Monaco) which was the stronghold of the Ghibellines, was advised by the Church to take a more passive approach, but had decided to go another route.

Canaan, Haiti

Canaan, Haiti, is a suburb of Croix-des-Bouquets in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where a large number of victims are settling after the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake that hit the country in January.

Charles Terres Weymann

He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on 2 August 1889 of an American father and Haitian mother.

Château Grimaldi

The Prince's Palace of Monaco, sometimes referred to as Château Grimaldi in the Middle Ages

Colonel Abrams

In the mid-1970s he formed Conservative Manor, 94 East (the band featuring Prince on lead guitar) and the New Jersey band Surprise Package.

Cynthia Johnson

She has continued her singing career and remains active across the country, not only as a member of the Grammy winning gospel group Sounds of Blackness and as a musician on many albums of other artists such as Maceo Parker, Prince, or producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, but also as the invisible voice behind many brand-name products in popular commercials of brands such as 3M, Volkswagen, Target or Ford.

Deborah Allen

In 1987, encouraged by her label, RCA, to explore and expand her musical horizons, Allen released a single penned by Prince (musician), under the alias Joey Coco, called "Telepathy."

Dray Skky

Dray Skky indicates on her website that some of her influences include: Micheal Jackson, Yolanda Adams, Beyonce Knowles, Faith Evans, Mariah Carey, Toni Braxton, and Prince.

Édouard Woolley

Born in Port-au-Prince, Woolley began his studies in his native city with Carmen Brouard (piano and harmony), Élisabeth de Pesquidoux-Mahy (singing), Werner Jaegerhuber (German opera/lieder), Raoul Nargys (acting), and Henriette Perret-Duplessis (singing).

Elector

Prince-elector or elector, a member of the electoral college of the Holy Roman Empire, having the function of electing the Holy Roman Emperors

Embassy of Thailand, London

Thailand also maintains an Office of the Air Attaché at 2 Victoria Road, South Kensington, an Office of Commercial Attaché at 11 Hertford Street, Mayfair and an Office of Educational Attaché at 28 Prince's Gate, South Kensington.

Erika Eichhorn Bourguignon

There she studied possession trance as it was practiced among Haitians in Barche, Furcy and Port-au-Prince;.

Jack Slipper

He undertook traffic duties, and guarded the residence of the US Ambassador at Prince's Gate.

Jean Sony

Jean Sony Alcénat (born 23 January 1986 in Port-au-Prince), commonly known as Sony, is a Haitian footballer who plays as a right defender for Liga I club Petrolul Ploiești.

Jowhar

Jowhar was founded by a senior member of the Italian Royal Family, H.R.H. Principe Luigi Amedeo, Duca degli Abruzzi in 1920, who first came to the African continent in 1905 and liked the place.

Lawrence Manchester

Manchester is also the music mixer from NBC show "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" where we has mixed various live performances by various artists including Prince, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Beastie Boys, and many more.

Metal-Prince

In 1988 the enterprise ceased its activities for 13 years, which had a negative impact on the natural development of the towns of Akhtala and Shamlugh and neighboring villages.

Moses Kann

By the testimony of the Berlin court preacher Jablonski and the consistorial councillor Scharden of Halle, supported by the opinion of twenty-four Christian professors and preachers who, in 1728, had declared that "neither the Jewish prayer-book nor the Talmud contained anything derogatory to Christianity," Moses Kann proved before the Elector of Mainz the bad character of the apostate.

Phillip Brutus

Phillip J. Brutus (born November 26, 1957, in Port-au-Prince) is a former member of the Florida House of Representatives.

Port international de Port-au-Prince

On 13 June 1872, a German fleet composed of SMS Vineta and SMS Gazelle seized Haitian Navy ships Union and Mont Organisé which were anchored in the port, as a means of pressure to have the Haitian government pay a 20,000 thaler debt to a German businessman.

Port-au-Prince

The city is the birthplace of internationally known naïve artist Gesner Abelard, who was associated with the Centre d'Art.

The metropolitan area is subdivided into various districts (communes).

The National Museum is located in the grounds of the palace, established in 1938.

Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg

He took part in several synods convened by Saint Boniface in Germany; in company with Saint Magnus of Füssen, he founded the monastery of Füssen; and with Saint Boniface he dedicated the monastery at Benediktbeuern.

Prince-Bishopric of Bamberg

The prince-bishopric also ruled over large possessions within the Duchy of Carinthia, including the strategically important towns of Villach, Feldkirchen, Wolfsberg and Tarvisio at the transalpine road to Venice, as well as Kirchdorf an der Krems in the Archduchy of Austria.

Prince-Bishopric of Freising

In 1821, the former diocese of Freising was absorbed into the newly created Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, whose seat was transferred to Munich.

The Prince-Bishopric of Freising (German: Hochstift Freising) was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1294 until its secularisation in the early years of the 19th century.

In 1294, the bishop was raised to the status of prince-bishop and thus became an Estate of the Empire enjoying imperial immediacy.

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

He was first appointed deacon of church of St Bartholomew and finally retired at the monastery of Cluny.

He was one of the first church leaders to spread the observance of All Souls' Day, which he authorized for his diocese.

Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro

After Šćepan's death, Gubernadur (title created by Metropolitan Danilo to appease Venetians) Jovan Radonjić, with Venetian and Austrian help, tried to impose himself as the new ruler.

A long rivalry had existed between the Montenegrin Vladikas from the Petrović family and the Radonjić family, a leading clan which had long vied for power against the authority of the Vladikas.

In 1806, as the French Emperor Napoleon advanced toward the Bay of Kotor, Montenegro, aided by several Russian battalions and a fleet of Dmitry Senyavin, went to war against the invading French forces.

Prince-Bishopric of Osnabrück

After Henry's overthrow, it came into the possession of Count Simon of Tecklenburg and his descendants, though it was the source of many conflicts with the bishops.

Klemens von Gruben, titular Bishop of Paros in Greece, was made vicar apostolic of Osnabrück, and as such cared for the spiritual interests of the Catholic population.

Prince-Bishopric of Warmia

In 1946 he received "Special Authority as Bishop for the Deported Germans" from Pope Pius XII.

Prince-Provost

1694 - 1732 Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, also Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and Prince-Bishop of Worms, Elector and Archbishop of Trier from 1716 and of Mainz from 1729

Prince's Bay, Staten Island

One block west of the latter is the South Campus of Staten Island University Hospital, formerly known as Richmond Memorial Hospital, which has the distinction of being the southernmost acute-care facility in both New York City and New York State.

At the northeast corner of the neighborhood is Wolfe's Pond Park, a city park that was the scene of a gruesome homicide committed by Gus Farace (at the time a Prince's Bay resident) and three accomplices in 1979.

Prince's Coverts

Prince's Coverts is an area of 864 acres (349 hectares) of managed woodland in Oxshott, Surrey, England, to which there is public access by payment of a refundable deposit.

Prince's Golf Club, Sandwich

There is even a commemorative plaque by the 4th tee on the Himalayas course which marks the spot where he used his local knowledge of the course to make an emergency landing after his Spitfire was crippled over northern France during WWII.

World War II was very hard on Prince's, but Australian entrepreneur Sir Aynsley Bridgland intervened, engaging Sir Guy Campbell and John Morrison to re-design and restore the course.

Ladies European Tour player Helen Wadsworth is a former member and played at Prince's as a junior.

Prince's Mansion, Copenhagen

Geographer and explorer Carsten Niebuhr, who had returned to Copenhagen as the only surviving member of the Danish Arabia Expedition in 1768, lived there from 1773 until 1778 when he accepted a position in the civil service of Danish Holstein.

Gerhard Christoph von Krogh, the military officer who had led the Danish troops in the Battle of Isted, was a resident from 1817 until 1853.

Prince's Skating Club

It began playing challenge matches in early 1897, initially against the three existing teams in England: Niagara, Brighton and the Royal Engineers.

The 1908 match with Paris was the first under Ligue Internationale de Hockey sur Glace (international) rules in Britain; it was also notable as Thomas Sopwith played in goal.

Prince's Stone

It was also described by Jean Bodin’s in his Treatise on Republican Government (1576) as "unrivaled in the entire world", although there is evidence that the Stone of Scone (now kept beneath King Edward's Chair in Westminster Abbey, although formerly in the ruins of Scone Abbey, Scotland) was used in a similar fashion.

In 2006 the Carinthian governor Jörg Haider had the stone, that since 1905 had been displayed at the Carinthian State Museum, transferred again to the Heraldic Hall at the Klagenfurt Landhaus.

After the incorporation into the Frankish Empire the procedure held in Slovene language was continued as the first part of the coronation of the Dukes of Carinthia, followed by a mass at Maria Saal cathedral and the installation at the Duke's chair, where he swore an oath in German and received the homage of the estates.

When in 2005 the Slovenian government of prime minister Janez Janša decided to depict the Prince's Stone on the national side of the Slovenian 2 cent coin, it caused some consternation in Austria.

Prince's Theatre, Manchester

The theatre's interior was extensively rebuilt by Alfred Darbyshire in 1869.

Rădăuți

The Princely Church at Rădăuţi contained the graves of Bogdan I and his son Laţcu, both Voivodes/Princes of Moldavia, as well as a later ruler, Roman I of Moldavia.

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince

The archdiocese was a vacant see following the death of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, who was one of the many casualties of the 12 January 2010 earthquake when the Archdiocesan Chancery building collapsed.

Ruinz Ason

Since his first release, 2008’s (A Hero And A Villain Vol.1) Ruinz has become renowned for his contrasting & conceptional writing, unconventional vocal style and energetic live performances which he attributes to growing up watching countless hours of live performances from an array of artist including Bob Marley and Prince.

Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov

Named after the 18th-century Russian general Prince (Knyaz) Alexander Suvorov, the ship was completed after the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904.

San Luca

San Luca was founded on October 18, 1592, by the Prince Sigismund Loffredo and named after the saint of that particular day, Luke the Evangelist, who became the patron saint of the town.

Seymour Etienne Bottex

He is considered one of the finest Haitian naïf painters, and his murals in the Episcopal Cathedral de Sainte Trinité in Port-au-Prince are considered the most important achievement in Haitian modern art.

Superfrog

The story, present in the game's manual but mostly conveyed through the introductory animation by Eric W. Schwartz, concerns an unnamed prince, who is turned into a frog by a jealous witch, in homage to the Frog Prince fairy tale.

Transcarpathian Art Institute

In the center of Mukachevo classrooms located in the "White House" Rakoczy family, which was built in the mid-17th century, as the residence of Transylvanian Princes.

Walter Schultz

Walter Schultz (1900-1957) was a German theologist who was Landeskirchenführer in Mecklenburg 1933-1945, and bishop in Mecklenburg 1934-45.

Wil

The Baronenhaus at Marktgasse 73, the Dominican Abbey of St. Katharina, the Hof (the former seat of the Prince-abbot) and the pilgrimage church Maria-Hilf at Dreibrunnen are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance.

William Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore

Eaton seems to have begun collecting seriously in the 1870s, and a visitor in 1902 reported that his house in Prince's Gate was dominated by his collection, the best hanging in frames such that there was "no more hanging room", and others were "stacked in great heaps" or in "great portfolios".

WRQN

WRQN now advertises themselves as "Feel Good Favorites" and removed most 1960's hits from their playlist and added 1980's pop music hits to the playlist including hits from George Michael, Prince, Soft Cell, Michael Jackson, Heart (band), Level 42, Mr. Mister and many others.

Yvette Cauquil-Prince

She is best known for her association with the artist Marc Chagall, which resulted in over 40 tapestries, but she also created tapestries of art works by Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Roberto Matta, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Wassily Kandinsky, Brassai, Alexander Calder, Niki de Saint Phalle, and others.


Amy Dickson

During this time she became the first saxophonist to win the Gold Medal at the Royal Overseas League Competition, the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards, and the Prince’s Prize.

Battle of Dubravnica

The Battle of Dubravnica (Битка на Дубравници) was fought in the summer of 1380 or December 1381, on the Dubravnica River near Paraćin in today's central Serbia, between the Serbian forces of Prince Lazar of Serbia led by commanders Vitomir and Crep

Baxt

The station was named Velikoalexeyevskaya after the Russian prince Alexey, the apparent heir to the throne.

Cambridge Gulf

King named the gulf after the His Royal Highness the Viceroy of Hanover who was also the Duke of Cambridge at that time, as well as being Prince Adolphus.

Characters of Warcraft

Arthas Menethil (voiced by Justin Gross in Warcraft III and Patrick Seitz in World of Warcraft) was the prince of Lordaeron and son of Terenas Menethil before he was corrupted and joined the undead Scourge, at which point he killed his father and unleashed the undead upon his homeland.

Charles IV, Duke of Anjou

Charles IV, Duke of Anjou, also Charles of Maine, Count of Le Maine and Guise (1446–1481) was the son of the Angevin prince Charles of Le Maine, Count of Maine, who was the youngest son of Louis II of Anjou and Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Four Kingdoms.

Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen

Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (born: 31 December 1712 in Usingen; died: 21 June 1775 in Biebrich), was from 1718 to 1775 Prince of Nassau-Usingen.

CKPG

CKDV-FM, a radio station (99.3 FM) licensed to Prince George, British Columbia, Canada, which held the call sign CKPG from February 1946 to May 2003

Clan MacInnes

Some stood with the Campbells and the House of Argyll, but others (MacInneses of Morvern, Lochaber and Appin) supported Prince Charles Edward Stuart and fought beside Stewart of Ardshiel, who commanded of the Appin (Stewart) Regiment.

Countess Elisabeth of Nassau

Marie de La Tour d'Auvergne (1599 – 24 May 1665) married Henri de La Trémoille, Duke of Thouars, Prince of Talmont and had issue;

Domela

Harry Domela (1905–1978), Latvian-born German impostor who pretended to be a deposed German crown prince

Edmond Stanley

Sir Edmond Stanley SL (1760–1843) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician who served as Serjeant-at-Law of the Parliament of Ireland, Recorder of Prince of Wales Island, now Penang, and subsequently Chief Justice of Madras.

Empress Feng Qing

Feng Qing was a daughter of Feng Xi (馮熙) the Prince of Changli, who was a brother of the powerful Grand Empress Dowager Feng, the wife of Emperor Wencheng and regent over his son Emperor Xianwen and grandson Emperor Xiaowen.

Fairy godmother

In William Makepeace Thackeray's The Rose and the Ring, the fairy Blackstick concludes that her gifts have not done her godchildren good; in particular, she has given two of her goddaughters the title ring and the title rose, which have the power to make whoever owns them beautiful, which have ruined the character of those goddaughters; with the next prince and princess, she gives them "a little misfortune", which proves the best gift, as their difficulties form their characters.

Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Frederick Louis was a son of Prince Frederick William of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1663-1735), and his wife Countess Maria Ludovica Leopoldine of Sinzendorf (1666-1709).

Geraldine of Albania

King Zog I died in Hauts-de-Seine, France, in 1961 and their son, Crown Prince Leka, was proclaimed King Leka I by the royalist government in exile.

Gesta Danorum

It is thought that Shakespeare never read Gesta Danorum, and instead had access to an auxiliary version of the tale describing the downfall of the Prince of Denmark, whose real name, Amleth, was used in anagram by Shakespeare for Hamlet.

Giorgi Merchule

was composed by Merchule in 951, ninety years after the death of its subject, and was somewhat expanded by the Bagratid prince Bagrat between 958 and 966.

Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg

Gustav Albrecht, 5th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (Gustav Albrecht Alfred Franz Friedrich Otto Emil Ernst, 28 February 1907 – 1944 (declared legally dead 29 November 1969) was Prince and Head of the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg.

Jehan Bretel

Seven works by other trouvères (Jehan de Grieviler, Jehan Erart, Jaques le Vinier, Colart le Boutellier, and Mahieu de Gant) are dedicated to Bretel and he was for a time the "Prince" of the Puy d'Arras.

Jhan Gero

Gero was employed at some unknown time as maestro di cappella for Pietro Antonio Sanseverino, the Prince of Bisignano, according to the dedicatory epistle to Gero's 1555 book of motets.

Joanna Żubr

For her bravery, Prince Józef Poniatowski awarded her the medal of Virtuti Militari; Joanna was the first female soldier to be awarded the decoration and one of the first women in the world to receive a military award for bravery in battle.

Joseph Asiegbo

Prince Joseph Asiegbo (born on October 4, 1979, in Lagos) is the son of King Eze Young Ogbonna of Abia State, Obeyin of Nigeria.

Juqu Wuhui

Juqu Wuhui (沮渠無諱) (died 444) is viewed by some historians as a prince of the Xiongnu states Northern Liang, as after the state's territory was largely seized by Northern Wei in 439, and his older brother Juqu Mujian (Prince Ai) was captured by Northern Wei, Juqu Wuhui tried to hold out against Northern Wei, initially on Northern Liang's old territory, and later, after that attempt failed, at Gaochang.

King of Huainan

The title of Prince of Huainan was later conferred upon several people, the earliest being Liu Zhang (劉長), the youngest son of Liu Bang.

Lazarević dynasty

Stefan Lazarević (around 1377 - July 19, 1427), prince (1389–1402) and despot (1402–1427)

Leo Watson

Watson also provided the voice for Prince Chawmin' in the infamous Censored Eleven cartoon Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (directed by Bob Clampett, 1943).

Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Anhalt

Prince Leopold was born on 18 July 1855 in Dessau as the first child of Hereditary Prince Frederick of Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen and his wife Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Altenburg.

Live at New Birth Cathedral

Byron Cage: Live At New Birth Cathedral (a.k.a. Prince of Praise) is the solo, self-titled, debut album by Byron Cage, released in 2003 on Gospocentric Records.

Louis Aloysius, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein

Hohenlohe was the son of Frederick Louis a future Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, and his wife (a daughter of Count von Hoym).

Lubocza, Kraków

In 1928 came (for the metropolitan councils of Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha) Norbertine sisters, to give children a free, Catholic education.

Lynn Picknett

Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) leaves his seat to join Sophie (Audrey Tautou) at the back of the bus, and Picknett and Prince are seen sitting on the left.

Ōmiya Palace

After her death at the palace in 1951, the site of the palace was converted to the Crown Prince's residence Tōgū Palace which is now used by Crown Prince Naruhito and his family.

Pace Egg play

The line up in 2010 included Billy Painter (Who is also chief Editor of The Painter's Chronicle) as The Fool, Dario Coates as St George, Sam Harris as Bold Slasher, Jack Deighton as The Doctor, Rowan Carter as The black prince of Paradine, Jacob Jones as The king Of Egypt, Joe Cotton as Hector, Desmond as Toss Pott.

Partyman

The upbeat and humorous number features horn samples and Prince's sped-up "Camille" vocals, as well as a vocal performance by Anna Fantastic.

Peter Rouw

The Victoria & Albert Museum holds a medallion in pink wax on black glass made by him of Prince Lucien Bonaparte (1814), the Duke of Wellington (1822) and posthumously in 1814 of Matthew Boulton, the partner of James Watt.

Peveril Castle

Some of the lands, including Peveril, were made part of Eleanor of Castile's dower, to come into her possession should her husband, Prince Edward, die.

Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Her eldest son, Gottfried, 8th Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, was named in an unsavory manner as part of the custody suit over Gloria Vanderbilt ("Little Gloria") between her mother Gloria Laura Mercedes Morgan (1904–1965) and the child's aunt, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Princess Helene Dolgoruki

Sometime around 1843-1847 General Fadeyev was appointed Imperial Councillor to the Viceroy of the Caucasus (perhaps First Viceroy Count (later Prince) Mikhail Vorontsov although Blavatsky says "Woronzoff"), and the family moved from Saratov to an even more imposing castle at Tiflis.

Princess Shruti of Nepal

Princess Shruti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah (15 October 1976 – 1 June 2001) was the daughter of King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya, and sister of King Dipendra and Prince Nirajan.

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

Sherbrooke Castors moved to Maine, becoming the Lewiston Maineiacs; Montreal Rocket moved to Charlottetown and took the Prince Edward Island name, Hull Olympiques become Gatineau Olympiques.

Roderick Macleod of Cadboll

Roderick Macleod, 2nd of Cadboll (died 1770), a Scotsman who supported the Jacobite cause and fought for Bonnie Prince Charlie in The 'Forty-Five'.

Romodanovsky family

The most important member of the senior branch was Prince Grigory Grigorievich Romodanovsky.

Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow

# Ulrik (30 December 1578 – 27 March 1624 in Rühn), last Bishop of the old Schleswig see (1602–1624), and as Ulrich II Lutheran Administrator of the Prince-Bishopric of Schwerin (1603–1624), married with Lady Catherine Hahn-Hinrichshagen

Thomas Madiou

Born in Port-au-Prince, Madiou left Haiti at age ten to study in France at the Royal College of Angers (Collège Royal d'Angers).

Tony DeSare

With a sexy, distinctive sound, Tony’s 2007 recording, Last First Kiss, spotlights a refreshingly contemporary combination of originals and standards, from Prince’s “Kiss” and Carole King’s “I Feel the Earth Move” to classics like “You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To” and Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen’s under-recorded gem “Come On Strong.”

DeSare’s 2007 recording, Last First Kiss, includes a contemporary combination of originals and standards, from Prince’s "Kiss" and Carole King’s "I Feel the Earth Move" to classics like "You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To”" and Sammy Cahn/Jimmy Van Heusen’s "Come On Strong".

WYEZ

These included artists heard on the station that included Michael Jackson, Hall & Oates, Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince.

Yuichi Tsuchiya

Since Tsuchiya left the Prince of Tennis the role of Oishi has been played by Hiroki Suzuki, Yukihiro Takiguchi, Yuya Toyoda, Yuki Tsujimoto, and is currently played by Jin Hiramaki.