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2 unusual facts about The Firework-Maker's Daughter


The Firework-Maker's Daughter

The production, directed by John Fulljames, premieres at the Hull Truck Theatre in March 2013, before touring the UK and going to the New Victory Theater in New York City.

Co-commissioned by ROH2 and The Opera Group, the opera is co-produced by Opera North and The Opera Group in association with ROH2 and Watford Palace Theatre.


2011 Governor General's Awards

Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891

Adler Standard 6

The exercise had its parallel in France where at about the same time Le Corbusier undertook a similar exercise for the auto-maker Voisin, apparently encountering similarly lacklustre customer demand in return for his effort.

Alan Peters

In 2009 fellow furniture designer maker Jeremy Broun made a film and wrote a book called "Alan Peters - The Makers' Maker".

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

The title was later used by Tucson, Arizona industrial rock band Machines of Loving Grace, formed in 1989, and in its full form by British musician Martin Carr as the title of a 2004 album, as well as a 2011 television series by documentary maker Adam Curtis.

Bill Buford

Buford is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany.

Bob Ostertag

Ostertag originally conceived Bob Ostertag: All the Rage as a collaboration with writer/painter/photographer/film maker David Wojnarowicz, but David was ill with AIDS.

Chappe et Gessalin

Chappe et Gessalin (CG) was a French automobile maker founded in 1946 which commenced manufacturing complete cars in Brie-Comte-Robert, Seine-et Marne in 1957.

Connecticut shade tobacco

The former president of U.S. operations for Davidoff, a Swiss maker of luxury goods including premium Cuban cigars, praised Connecticut shade tobacco as "A nice Connecticut wrapper" and "…very silky, very fine. From a marketing point of view, it is considered at the moment to be one of the best tasting and looking wrappers available" in a Cigar Aficionado article on why the world's best cigars use Connecticut tobacco wrapper leaves.

Corrina Repp

Corrina Repp is a vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and maker of quiet music based in Portland, Oregon.

Crisis management

Mattel Inc., the toy maker, has been plagued with more than 28 product recalls and in Summer of 2007, amongst problems with exports from China, faced two product recalls in two weeks.

David Lionel Goldsmid-Stern-Salomons

In addition to his many other achievements, he developed a lifelong passion for horology and became the leading authority in his lifetime on the work of the famed French maker Abraham-Louis Breguet, who is generally acknowledged as the greatest watchmaker of all time.

Dresden Frauenkirche

In 1736, famed organ maker Gottfried Silbermann built a three-manual, 43-stop instrument for the church.

Étienne Ozi

The technical demands of Ozi's literature spurred on its development; instrument maker Carl Almenräder in particular used his compositions to direct further development of the bassoon in his development of the key mechanism.

Far and Away

The film was advertised as being the first movie to be filmed in 70mm since David Lean's 1970 film Ryan's Daughter, although the film was not shot entirely in 70mm; that distinction would go to Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet.

Fedlim Mac Giolla Seanáin

Latter-day bearers of the name include the film-maker, Alan Gilsenan and netball player Selina Gilsenan.

Fidel Villarroel

He is also known as the most-prolific saint-maker in the Philippines for his Positio Super Introductione Causae, or historical research, that he made for the beatification and canonization of Lorenzo Ruiz and fifteen other companion-martyrs.

Frank Dempsey

Dempsey was remembered as a good-natured mischief maker and for the pranks and activities of his teammates that revolved around his World War II-era surplus Jeep.

Free Free/Super Music Maker

"Free Free/Super Music Maker" is the 12th single by Japanese singer Ami Suzuki under the label Avex Trax.

Fuuse

Fuuse is an independent music, arts and film production company founded by Norwegian artist, (film and music maker) Deeyah.

Hewlett's Daughter

"Hewlett's Daughter" is a single by American indie rock band Grandaddy from their 2000 album, The Sophtware Slump.

Hoffman's Chocolate

The homegrown chocolate-maker initiated the building of a corporate-owned store in downtown Lake Worth, at 705 Lake Ave., which would serve as the prototype for the franchises.

Joan Roget

According to the Catalan optometrist and amateur historian Simon de Gualleuma, Juan was married to Juana of Malaville and migrated to the Catalan town of Girona, Spain, where he worked as a master spectacle maker.

John Dods

His creation of latex-covered animation models led him toward the crafts of sculpting, mechanics and mold-making, which in turn led toward a budding career as a mask- and monster-maker (as displayed in the independent 1980s horror films Nightbeast, Return of the Aliens: The Deadly Spawn, Spookies, and My Demon Lover).

Keiser

Max Keiser, a film-maker, broadcaster and former broker and activist

Kevin of Glendalough

The independent film-maker Kevin Smith refers irreverently to his namesake 'Saint Kevin' and the key events of his life in the introduction to Sold Out: A Threevening with Kevin Smith, his 2008 live Q & A show.

Kew Bridge Ecovillage

Documentary Film maker Dean Puckett, a resident of the Kew Bridge Ecovillage from its inception, documented the daily lives of its inhabitants of the village as it evolved over the year of its life.

Michael Ayrton

Beginning in 1961, Michael Ayrton wrote and created many works associated with the myths of the Minotaur and Daedalus, the legendary inventor and maze builder, including bronze sculpture and the pseudo-autobiographical novel "The Maze Maker" (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967).

Nanchang University

NCU has found a partner in the nation's second-largest communication equipment maker ZTE.

Nelson Horatio Darton

Darton was an expert at geological photography, a noted geologic map maker, and a hydrogeologist.

Nicola Filippo

Early supporters and patrons of Nicola Filippo’s art include a longtime friend and companion writer and producer Gerald Ayres, art historian Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, curator Lisa Lyons and film maker Agnes Varda.

Peugeot Type 183

The Peugeot Type 183 was a 2 litre six cylinder car produced between 1927 and 1931 by the French auto-maker Peugeot at their Audincourt plant.

Ramandu's Daughter

Lewis never named her in the books, but she is called Lilliandil in the 2010 film version.

Ramandu's Daughter appears in The Last Battle at the Great Reunion, with her husband Caspian, her father Ramandu and her son Rilian.

Red Giant Entertainment

Red Giant publishes a variety of webcomics with strategic partner Keenspot, most notably Wayward Sons: Legends, Exposure, Jade Warriors, Buzzboy, Medusa's Daughter, Katrina, and Porcelain.

Ricky Bruch

As well as achieving his sporting career and his turbulent personal life, Bruch also acted in light-entertainment films, debuting in the Italian action comedy film Anche gli angeli tirano di destro and appearing in a minor role in the film version of Ronia the Robber's Daughter.

Rogue Creamery

Rogue Creamery was the first U.S. cheese maker to export raw-milk cheese to the European Union.

Shinya Kimura

In 2010, Kimura and Chabott Engineering were the subject of a documentary short by film maker Henrik Hansen, which was one of five documentaries to be nominated for a 2010 Vimeo documentary award.

SKYY Spirits

SKYY Spirits, LLC, is an American spirits maker, it was launched in 1992 and founded by Maurice Kanbar in San Francisco which is also the headquarters for the company.

St George's Market

Writer Ruth Carr, Rastafarian poet Levi Tafari, print maker Robin Cordiner, musicians Nikki Such, Patrick and Bronagh Davey and Irish, Greek and Indian dancers worked with the children and their older counterparts in discovering new ways of looking at themes of cultural diversity, memory and the Irish Famine.

Sue Casey

Some of her more famous films include The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), Neptune's Daughter (1949), Annie Get Your Gun (1950), Show Boat (1951), Rear Window (1954), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Camelot (1967) and Paint Your Wagon (1969).

The Frost-Giant's Daughter

While Robert E. Howard had already written many fantasy stories featuring northern Viking-like characters, the names and plot structure for "The Frost-Giant's Daughter" was derived in its entirety from Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology (1913).

The Martian General's Daughter

Pan-Polarian society is based on that of Imperial Rome, including an imperial cult and a variety of polytheistic and monolatric religions that have largely replaced the major religions of our time, including the cults of "El Bis" and the goddess Marilyn.

Thomas Saunders

Thomas Harry Saunders (1813–1870), known as T. H. Saunders, British paper-maker known especially for his watermarks

Tory Belleci

Tory Belleci; a filmmaker and model maker, is best known for his work on the Discovery Channel television program MythBusters.

Unican Security Systems

At its sale (to Kaba Group), the company had over $800 million in sales annually and was the largest maker of key blanks and key copying machines in the world.

Urushibara

Urushibara Mokuchu (漆原木虫) (1888-1953), given name Yoshijirô, a Japanese print maker

Warlock's Daughter

When the Batman storyline "War Games" starts, a rival gang attacks Darla's car and pulls her out of it.

Waxweb

In the movie David Blair plays Jacob Maker, Meg Savlov plays Melissa Maker, Florence Ormezzano plays Allelle Zillah, William Burroughs plays James "Hive" Maker and Dr. Clyde Tombaugh is himself.

Wuxi New Area

It is home to many such companies such as hard disk maker Seagate, the Japanese electrical giant Sony and Matsushita Electric among others.


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