X-Nico

unusual facts about Sojourn



Accademia degli Svogliati

The English poet John Milton participated—and read his own work—at four meetings of the Accademia during his sojourn in Florence (June–August 1638).

Ahmed Fakroun

During Ahmed’s lengthy sojourn in Paris, promoted with a videoclip produced by Jean Baptiste Mondino and starring popular comedian Coluche (winner of an Oscar in 1984) - which took off in France and many other European countries, winner of the festival youth in 1986 in Morocco.

Alexander Masovianus

After an early interest in mysticism (bolstered by a series of research trips, including several months’ sojourn on Mount Athos in 1982), his personal views underwent an evolution in the 1990s, taking him out of the conventional fold of organized Christianity and placing him squarely among the sympathizers of the philosophia perennis (which include such people as René Guénon and Marco Pallis), though in his case with a pronounced Sufi bias.

Altwaal

The hero in the comic book series Sojourn, named Arwyn, wields Ayden's bow and is on a quest for the five pieces of Ayden's arrow.

An-Nasir Ahmad

After a sojourn in Medina he returned to the Zaidi capital in Yemen, Sa'dah, where he was chosen to succeed his brother al-Murtada Muhammad in September 913.

Anne Vallée

In 2002, Alison Watt published the book The Last Island, A naturalist’s Sojourn on Triangle Island, where she recalled her experience in the summer of 1980 when she assisted Anne Vallée in her research on Tufted Puffins.

Bill Coleman

After a sojourn to Cairo, Egypt, Coleman returned to the U.S. in March 1940, and worked throughout the 1940s with a variety of top groups including bands led by Benny Carter (1940), Teddy Wilson (1940-41), Andy Kirk (1941-42), Ellis Larkins (1943), Mary Lou Williams (1944), John Kirby (1945), Sy Oliver (1946-47), and Billy Kyle (1947-48).

Cardiac rhythm problems during space flight

The incidence and clinical significance of cardiac arrhythmias during long-term exposure to microgravity experienced on the International Space Station (ISS) or during a prolonged (that is, up to 3 years) sojourn to Mars or on the Moon are a concern for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Devon Belle

Both observation cars have been preserved in England and are still in revenue-earning service: No.13 is working on the Dartmouth Steam Railway, in south Devon; while No.14 is now at the Swanage Railway in Dorset, after a lengthy sojourn in North America.

Edwin Cerio

In 1950, Cerio invited Chilean author Pablo Neruda to stay at one of his villas - a sojourn that was later part-fictionalised in the film Il Postino (1994), although the action of the film was based on the novel Ardiente paciencia by Antonio Skármeta which deals with a later period of Neruda's life (when the poet was living at Isla Negra, in Chile).

Eyüp

The monastery was later fortified, and during the First Crusade it hosted the army of Godfrey of Bouillon during his sojourn in Constantinople.

Ferdinand von Miller

After a sojourn at the academy in Munich and a preliminary engagement at the royal brass foundry, Miller traveled to Paris in 1833, where he learnt from Soyer and Blus the varied technique necessary for bronze working.

Ford Madox Ford

During a later sojourn in the United States, he was involved with Allen Tate, Caroline Gordon, Katherine Anne Porter and Robert Lowell (who was then a student).

Francisco Tongio Liongson

During his sojourn in Spain, Liongson was actively involved with the Filipino colony in Madrid interracting with fellow paisanos like his hero, Jose Rizal.

Gregory Tsamblak

During his sojourn in Serbia at Visoki Dečani, he wrote a biography of Stephen Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia, hymn for the church service honoring Stefan of Dečani, a report on the transfer of the remnants of Saint Paraskeva to Serbia, and he also rewrote the Service to St. Petka (Paraskeva).

Hāmi Te Māunu

Having lived on Wharekauri for almost 30 years Te Herepounamu's children returned to Urenui, in north Taranaki where they continued to reside with short intervals at Parihaka and for Hami a short sojourn to Wharekauri in 1870 for Native Land Court title investigation sittings before returning to Urenui.

L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue

Keith Floyd, the British TV chef and bon viveur established a restaurant there during a lengthy sojourn in France.

Mordath

He appeared in Sojourn comic series as the chief enemy of the main character, Arwyn.

Nicolas Gouïn Dufief

During his sojourn in America, he became acquainted with Dr. Joseph Priestley, Thomas Jefferson, and other eminent men.

Nolan Gasser

Gasser received a Bachelor's degree from California State University, Northridge (1988), where he studied composition with Aurelio de la Vega, and piano with Charles Fierro; this was followed by a two-year sojourn in Paris, where he studied privately with Betsy Jolas and at Fontainebleau with Jolas, Gilbert Amy, and Tristan Murail.

Norm Carr

Carr's three-game sojourn in the Maroon jumper began off the bench in 1980, but didn't play as he wasn't called upon by coach John McDonald.

Palladius of Galatia

In 412–413 he was restored, after a sojourn among the monks of the Mount of Olives.

Shuping Scholarship

15. During his sojourn in Hong Kong, he continued with his zest for charitable works and was board director of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals for 5 years.

Sinjil

Naomi Shihab Nye, whose paternal grandfather's family was from Sinjil, stayed there in 1966, aged 14, and recalls her sojourn as having a formative influence on her poetics.

Soldier Son Trilogy

The third and final book, Renegade's Magic, details Nevare's sojourn with the Specks in their extensive forest near the Barrier Mountains.

Stavisky

Also punctuating the main story are scenes depicting the arrival of Trotsky in France to seek political asylum, and his sojourn in various country houses and hotels, receiving visits from left-wing activists.

Tarun Vijay

This last-mentioned sojourn, in fact, had attracted him the attention of noted film-makers Basu Bhattacharya and William Greaves, who featured him in a documentary.

The Last Island

The Last Island: A Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island is a non-fiction memoir, written by Canadian writer Alison Watt, first published in September 2002 by Harbour Publishing.

The Late Captain Pierce

Worse, security for President-elect Eisenhower's sojourn to Korea makes contacting Pierce's father next to impossible.

Tiberianus

The Byzantine chronicler Johannes Malalas (ed. Dindorf, p. 273) speaks of him as governor of the first province of Palestine (ἡγεμὼν τοῦ πρώτου Παλαιστίνων ἔθνους), in connection with the sojourn of Hadrian in Antioch (114).

TorilMUD

Brad McQuaid was an avid player of Sojourn and, after its demise, TorilMUD.

Transit to Scorpio

During Prescot's sojourn among the Savanti an offhand reference is made to the continent of Gah in Kregen's opposite hemisphere, whose distasteful customs are an obvious dig at another sword and planet series, the Gor series of John Norman.


see also