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4 unusual facts about The Clouds


Katsura Sunshine

In September 1994, his version of Aristophanes' The Clouds opened at the Poor Alex Theatre in Toronto, and, buoyed by positive reviews, ran for 15 months before embarking on a tour of central and eastern Canada.

Marianna Toumassatou

Toumassatou has participated in various theatrical plays, such as Aristophanes' Iphigenia in Aulis and The Clouds, and a theatrical adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, as well as in television series', such as in the critically acclaimed soap opera Vera sto Dexi, which made her popularity rise.

Nube

The Clouds (or Nubes in Latin), an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes

The Chevelles

For the remainder of 1992 the Chevelles performed regular gigs in Perth, supporting the likes of Falling Joys and The Clouds and overseas acts like The Smithereens.


Jodi Phillis

She quit school at 15, then spent 8 years working with surfwear company Mambo Graphics until she took up the role as co-frontwoman of The Clouds.

Magnifying glass

The earliest evidence of a magnifying device was a joke in Aristophanes's The Clouds from 424 BC, where magnifying lenses to start kindling were sold in a pharmacy, and Pliny the Elder's "lens", a glass globe filled with water, used to cauterize wounds.


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2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Hooker's two Corps played a decisive role in the Battle of Wauhatchie, which opened up the "Cracker Line" to the besieged Union army, and seized Lookout Mountain in the famed "Battle Above The Clouds" during the early stages of the Battle of Chattanooga.

Airways Airsports

Airways instructor Judy Leden flying Tandem with Cloud Appreciation Society founder Gavin Pretor-Pinney, showing him what its like to fly through the clouds on a hang glider.

Albion and Albanius

In terms of production the opera was a restoration spectacular, visuals included much mere mythological display to take advantage of the "machines" at the Dorset Garden Theatre, such as "The clouds divide, and Juno appears in a machine drawn by peacocks: while a symphony is playing, it moves gently forward, and as it descends, it opens and discovers the tail of the peacock, which is so large that it almost fills the opening of the stage between scene and scene" (Act I).

Beyond the Clouds

The Place Promised in Our Early Days or Beyond the Clouds, a 2004 90-minute Japanese anime film directed by Makoto Shinkai

The Full Sun or Beyond the Clouds, a 2014 South Korean television series

Blessed Art Thou

It depicts actress Angelina Jolie as the Virgin Mary, hovering in the clouds with her children above a Wal-Mart store.

Christie Hennessy

Although Hennessy was unable to read or write due to severe dyslexia he still wrote his own songs such as "Roll back the Clouds" and "All the lies that you told me", he sung All the lies that you told me with his daughter Hermoine, but the song was made famous by Frances Black rather than Hennessy and his daughter.

Gabriel Hogan

Hogan's film credits include Crazy Canucks, Peacekeepers, Canada Russia '72 (playing Ken Dryden), The One, Bridal Fever, Head in the Clouds, Accidental Friendship, Moving Day and Show Me.

Gerard van Honthorst

There he painted several portraits, and a vast allegory, now at Hampton Court, of Charles and his queen as Diana and Apollo in the clouds receiving the Duke of Buckingham as Mercury and guardian of the King of Bohemia's children.

High place

This rendering is etymologically correct, as appears from the poetical use of the plural in such expressions as to ride, or stalk, or stand on the high places of the earth, the sea, the clouds, and from the corresponding usage in Assyrian; but in prose bamah is always a place of worship.

Horae

Carpo (Καρπώ), Carpho or Xarpo was the one who brings food (though Robert Graves in The Greek Myths (1955) translates this name as "withering") and was in charge of autumn, ripening, and harvesting, as well as guarding the way to Mount Olympus and letting back the clouds surrounding the mountain if one of the gods left.

Ivan Stojanović

He wrote many detached papers on various literary subjects, including the writings of St. Augustine, Aristophanes ("The Clouds"), Petronius, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, Voltaire, Denis Diderot ("Rameau's Nephew"), Paul Louis Courier, Petar II Petrović Njegoš, and Edmondo De Amicis, his contemporary.

Jasper railway station

The Rocky Mountaineer company trains such as the Journey through the Clouds use the station as a terminus, these trains continue to Quesnel railway station.

Jodi Phillis

After the Clouds' split in 1997 Phillis formed The Dearhunters project, and from then on she took a much mellower musical direction.

Kate Kretz

Kretz' painting, "Blessed Art Thou", executed in 2006, depicted actress Angelina Jolie as the Virgin Mary, hovering in the clouds with her children above a Wal-Mart store.

Mechanicsburg High School Marching Band

On November 16, 2008 at J. Birney Crum Stadium in Allentown, PA, the band performed their show "Above the Clouds" and won their fourth straight Group 3 TOB ACC title with a score of 97.35.

Numbers in Norse mythology

At the end of Skáldskaparmál is a list of nine heavenly realms provided by Snorri, including, from the nethermost to the highest, Vindblain (also Heidthornir or Hregg-Mimir), Andlang, Vidblain, Vidfedmir, Hrjod, Hlyrnir, Gimir, Vet-Mimir and Skatyrnir which "stands higher than the clouds, beyond all worlds."

Paleontology in Kansas

They attributed the fossils to the great buffalo who lived long ago when the Happy Hunting Ground was on earth, before the Great Spirit "removed it beyond the clouds" to punish people for immoral behavior.

Paradox psychology

This paradox is evidenced by the fact that we live in an animal body, but we walk upright with our 'mind in the clouds' ; our DNA is programmed to function via instinct, yet we prefer to assert free-will; we are smart enough to 'know better', but quite often repeat past mistakes.

Repentance in Islam

“O son of Adam, so long as you call upon Me, and ask of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done, and I shall not mind. O son of Adam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and were you then to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you. O son of Adam were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth, and were you then to face Me, ascribing no partner to Me, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as it.”

Robur

Robur the Conqueror, an 1886 novel by Jules Verne, also known as The Clipper of the Clouds

Steve Azar

! scope="row""Dancin' in the Clouds" (with Namrata Singh Gujral)

The Forbidden Kingdom

South Boston teenager Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) is a fan of martial arts films and he awakens from a dream of a battle between the Monkey King (Jet Li) and celestial soldiers in the clouds.

Toolroom Knights, Vol. 2

3pm - A Break In The Clouds / Turn On The Lights (Acappella)

Up Here In The Clouds

Up Here In The Clouds is a 2010 album from Cindytalk released by Editions Mego, catalogue number eMEGO 106.

Up Here In The Clouds is the second album from Cindytalk released by Editions Mego.

Up in the Clouds

"Up in the Clouds" is the third single from Alternative band Darwin Deez.

Vinnie Bell

According to Joel Whitburn's Top R&B Singles 1942-1995, Bell was responsible for the 1959 instrumental, "The Clouds", credited to The Spacemen, written by Julius Dixson and released on Dixson's Alton record label.

Welcome to the Machine

Despite being pulled at by the bloody masses, it survives and, synchronising with the sound effects at the end of the track, flies up and away, high above the clouds to where it fits snugly into a hole inside a gargantuan floating ovoid structure.

William Arrowsmith

Arrowsmith is remembered for his translations of Petronius’s Satyricon (1959) and Aristophanes’ plays The Birds (1961) and The Clouds (1962), as well as Euripides’ Alcestis, Cyclops, Heracles, Orestes, Hecuba, and The Bacchae, as well as other classical and contemporary works.