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unusual facts about The Favorite


Nakşidil Sultan

The legend about somewhat fictionalized, was told in the 1989 movie Intimate Power (a.k.a. The Favorite), in which she was portrayed by Amber O'Shea, and which also starred F. Murray Abraham.



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Bet On Soldier: Blood Sport

These deathmatches are broadcast all over the world as a televised sport named "Bet On Soldier", and since has become the favorite form of entertainment with many viewers betting on soldiers.

Catador

Some Cuban cigar brands (like Montecristo and Romeo y Julieta) are named after the famous books of Alexandre Dumas and William Shakespeare, which were among the favorite books of cigar rollers at that time.

Charles Leggett

Charles Leggett (20 September 1874 - 29 November 1934) was a Brighton-born cornetist who became known as "The World's Finest Cornet Soloist," and who was the favorite cornet soloist of King Edward VII.

Clussexx Three D Grinchy Glee

Stump was the favorite of Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the celebrity sex therapist, who witnessed his "Best in Show" victory.

Cochinita pibil

The puerco pibil is a recurring element of the movie Once Upon a Time in Mexico directed by Robert Rodriguez, where it is the favorite food of a CIA agent played by Johnny Depp, who orders this dish every time he enters a Mexican restaurant and urges every people he has lunch with to taste it.

Elton Brand

The former Governor of New York, fellow Peekskill native George Pataki, was once asked about being the town's favorite son, and he answered that he was not the favorite but Elton Brand was.

Facts in Five

Onanian got the idea for the game after reading in the newspaper supplement This Week that Categories was the favorite word game of the recently deceased President John F. Kennedy.

Fernet

Fernet gained additional visibility when it was reported to be the favorite drink of 2007 U.S. Open (golf) winner Ángel Cabrera.

Fusta

The fusta was the favorite ship of the North African corsairs of Salé and the Barbary Coast.

Irina Ponarovskaya

In 1996, representatives of the house of Fashion "Chanel" awarded her the title of "Miss Chanel of the Soviet Union", and in 1998 an Italian company, whose clothes are worn by the favorite actresses of Ponarovskaya as Marlene Dietrich and Romy Schneider, invited her to become a "person" firm.

Jesselyn

"Omnia" even became one of the favorite tracks of Tiësto and appeared on Tiësto in Concert 2.

Junior Coffey

His colt Raise the Bluff was the favorite going into the 2007 Longacres Mile Handicap at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Washington, but placed second.

Lacryma Christi

In the 1954 movie, Three Coins in the Fountain, Lacryma Christi is mentioned as being the favorite wine of Prince Dino di Cessi, played by actor Louis Jourdan.

Lester Lanin

In 1999 Lester Lanin played himself in the black-and-white film comedy Man of the Century, where he was the favorite musician of lead character Johnny Twennies.

Love Story in Harvard

Alex applies himself more and as such is the favorite of Professor John H. Keynes (Frank Gorshin).

Mann's Lick

In 1844 it was given to Margaret W. Preston, as she was the favorite stepdaughter of her father's (William Preston) wife, Polly Wickliffe.

Meet the Baron

Jimmy Durante as Joe McGoo - the Favorite 'Schnozzle' of the Screen

Menow

As a two-year-old, Menow won the 1937 Champagne Stakes in September, although most attention was given to the fatal injury sustained by the favorite Skylarking.

Olívio Dutra

According to the polls, Congressman Antônio Britto from the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party was the favorite candidate among the population by a large margin.

Papal conclave, September 1503

Cardinal Georges d'Amboise was the favorite of Louis XII, and also expected the support of the faction of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (future Pope Julius II), who had fled to France due to a dispute with Alexander VI.

Prambors FM

In 1980s, Catatan Si Boy drama series was the favorite program in Jakarta.

Prudence Heward

While studying at the Académie Colarossi, she frequented Le Dome Café in Montparnasse, the favorite haunt of North American writers and artists and the place where Canadian writer Morley Callaghan came with his friends Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Rashad Sadygov

Sadygov was one of the favorite players among Kocaelispor supporters and nicknamed "Terminator" by local media.

Roll Tide

Also rumored to be the favorite catch phrase (off-camera only) of Mr. Green Jeans during his tenure on the Captain Kangaroo Show.

Saul Isaac Kaempf

Four years later he entered the University of Halle, took up philosophy and philology, and became one of the favorite pupils of Gesenius.

St. Marys Chapel of Ease, Dublin

It was the favorite Church of infamous English Poet Sir John Betjeman and the Dubliner Austin Clarke.

Take as Needed for Pain

According to Mike Williams, it was the favorite album of nearly all band members, and his favorite album title, with the exception of Poison Idea's Record Collectors Are Pretentious Assholes.

The Tartar Steppe

The novel is described as the favorite book of the author of The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

Tsarevna Catherine Ivanovna of Russia

Catherine (reportedly the favorite child of her mother), spent her childhood in her mother's state of Izmaylovo, also the birthplace of her paternal grandfather Tsar Alexis.

Tumauini, Isabela

It is still the favorite destination of the Boy Scout and Girl Scouts of the Philippines for their annual district and provincial encampments.

Vera Vasilchikova

In early childhood, she lost her parents and her sisters, Alexandra, Catherine, Barbara, and Anne was under the auspices of her aunt Anna Stepanovna, which was the favorite and trusted-chamber maid of honor of Catherine II.

William R. Newman

In 1994, Newman published Gehennical Fire, an intellectual biography of George Starkey (otherwise known as Eirenaeus Philalethes), a native of Bermuda who received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1646 and went on to become Robert Boyle's first serious tutor in chemistry and probably the favorite alchemical writer of Isaac Newton.

Willie Prall

In season 1, episode 15 of the TV show Prison Break, a Cubs pitcher named "William Prall" is shown in flashback, and referred to as the favorite player of the father of one of the characters.