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7 unusual facts about Titus


Aplysia depilans

It was also erroneously said to have been the source of poison that was used to assassinate the Roman Emperor Titus.

Bialik House

On the sides are a pair of cartouches, one, the famous "Judea capta" coin issued by the Emperor Titus after the Roman defeat of the Jewish Revolt of the year 70.

Frederick Marx

The Unspoken (1999), Marx's first feature film, features performances from Russian star Sergei Shnirev of the famed Moscow Art Theatre, and Harry Lennix, most known for Get on the Bus, Bob Roberts, Titus, ER, and The Matrix.

Luke Sewell

Born in the rural town of Titus, Alabama, Sewell grew up wanting to play baseball, and graduated from the University of Alabama where, he played for the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team as an infielder.

Marcus Artorius Bato

An insightful look at Bato appears in Death by Vespasian, in which Bato narrates a letter to the Emperor Titus, and tells the story of a certain murder mystery that he solved (although the true hero is apparently Flavia).

Stella Gonet

In 2005 Gonet married English actor, Nicholas Farrell (the couple co-starred in an episode of The Roman Mysteries as Queen Berenice of Judea and Emperor Titus, and as Mr. and Mrs. Musgrove in ITV's 2007 production of Jane Austen's Persuasion).

Y-chromosomal Aaron

and some suggested that 4/4 matches in non-Jewish Italians might be a genetic inheritance from Jewish slaves, deported by Emperor Titus in large numbers after the fall of the Temple in AD 70, some of whom were put to work building the Colosseum in Rome.


Arch of Titus

The opposite side of the Arch of Titus received new inscriptions after it was restored during the pontificate of Pope Pius VII by Giuseppe Valadier in 1821.

Augustus Russell Street

He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Titus Street (1758-1842), the founder of Streetsboro Township, Ohio, and his wife, née Amaryllis Atwater (1764-1812).

Authorship of the Pauline epistles

According to Jerome, the gnostic Christian Basilides also rejected these epistles, and Tatian, while accepting Titus, rejected other Pauline epistles.

Authorship of Titus Andronicus

Francis Meres lists Titus as one of Shakespeare's tragedies in Palladis Tamia in 1598, and John Heminges and Henry Condell included it in the First Folio in 1623.

Carlo Buti

One of his songs "Vivere" appears on the score to the 2000 film "Titus" by Elliot Goldenthal.

Chepkoya

It is the birthplace of famous runners such as Andrew Masai, Edith Masai, Titus Kwemoi and Gilbert Masai.

Christopher Titus

Chris Titus dedicated his entire Norman Rockwell is Bleeding special and an episode of his show Titus ("The Pendulum," where Christopher is in a coma following a racecar crash and Ken played by Stacy Keach narrated the episode, "Christopher's Neutral Space") to his late father.

Clark T. Hinman

Clark Titus Hinman (August 3, 1819 – October 21, 1854) was the first president of Northwestern University.

Dina Titus

Titus authored a bill that requires health insurance companies to cover the costs of the HPV vaccine, Gardasil.

Ed Klepfer

After baseball, Klepfer became an independent oil operator and then in 1946 went to work for C.W. Titus, an oilman in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Eva Simatou

She has played several lead female parts in many plays including: “Titus Andronicus” by William Shakespeare (Tamora), “Broken Heart” by John Ford (Penthea), “Attempts on her Life” by Martin Crimp (Anne), the “Gravedigger’s Complaint” by Emmanuel Roides (Daughter), at renown Athenian theatres such as: Michael Cacoyannis Foundation, Athens Art Theatre (Theatro Technis Karolos Koun), City of Athens Festival, Odos Kefallinias Theatre etc.

Geertje Dircx

She lived with Rembrandt for six years in the Sint Antoniesbreestraat and nursed his son Titus, during which time Rembrandt fell in love with her.

Gustave Schlumberger

He was a friend of Edith Wharton, who described him as looking like 'a descendent of one of the Gauls on the arch of Titus'.

Hermon F. Titus

He was defeated in a seven person race by just 3 votes by George Boomer — with an additional 8 votes for Titus from Local Tacoma arriving in the mail just after the deadline for counting.

Jean Racine

A room in Pyrrhus's palace at Buthrotum; an antechamber separating the apartments of Titus and Bérénice in Rome; Agamemnon's camp at Aulis; an antechamber in the temple at Jerusalem: by choosing such vague and remote settings Racine gives his plays a universal character, and the presentation of conflicting and hesitating states of mind is not hampered by an undue insistence on material surroundings.

John Bach

In 2010 Bach appeared in NZ science fiction series This Is Not My Life as the sinister Harry Sheridan, as magistrate Titus Calavius in Spartacus: Blood and Sand and in an episode of Legend of the Seeker.

Knesset Menorah

The Arch of Titus bears a relief depicting captives from the Kingdom of Judea en route to Rome bearing the treasures of the Second Temple after its destruction in 70 CE, including the Temple Menorah.

Libby Titus

Titus's mother, Julia Irene Jurist née Mooney (b. 29 December 1911, d. 27 January 1989), was an Earl Carroll dancer.

Matt Titus

Titus is a regular guest on several morning and daytime talk shows, such as The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, Tyra Banks Show, and the CBS Morning Show.

Titus resides in Manhattan is divorced from his former wife Tamsen Fadal.

Moldova in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008

The members of the professional jury were Ghenadie Ciobanu (Head of Composers Union of Moldova), Anatol Chiriac (Composer), Titus Zhukov (Head of "Likuric" theatre), Natalia Brasnuev (President of OGAE Moldova), Sergey Gavrilice (Editor of "VIP-Magazin"), Vasili Nastase (Editor of "Glasul Natiunii"), Diana Stratulat (Producer) and Victoria Buketaru (radio "Fresh-FM").

Murray Thurston Titus

Titus and his wife returned to the United States in 1951, whereupon Titus took the position of professor of comparative religion at a seminary in Westminster, Maryland.

New Exploration Licensing Policy

India began its journey into Oil Exploration and Production just seven years after the famous ‘Drake Well’, which heralded the beginning of the Petroleum era, which was drilled in Titus Ville, Pennsylvania, USA (1859).

Parker Fennelly

He was heard weekly as Titus Moody on the "Allen's Alley" segment of Fred Allen's radio show where he delivered his famous opening line: "Howdy, Bub."

Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy

In 1758 the performance of his Titus, which had already been produced in Saint Petersburg, was postponed through his uncles exertions; and when it did appear, a hostile cabal procured its failure, and it was not until after his guardians death that de Belloy returned to Paris with Zelmire (1762), a fantastic drama which met with great success, latter becoming an opera by Rossini.

Pope Linus

The Liberian Catalogue and the Liber Pontificalis date Linus's episcopate to 56–67, during the reign of Nero, but Jerome dates it to 67–78, and Eusebius puts the end of his episcopate at the second year of the reign of Titus (80).

Quinctius Flamininus

Lucius Quinctius Flamininus, younger brother of Titus, Roman consul in 192 BC

Robert Titus

The practice of banishing a family from the colony was known as a "Warning Out Notice;" and the warning out of the Titus family was the first recorded in the Plymouth Colony Record (22. p. 52)

Roman triumph

Prior to this, the senate voted Titus a triple-arch at the Circus Maximus to celebrate or commemorate the same victory or Triumph.

Steerpike

Steerpike might be called the antagonist of the Gormenghast trilogy, but in truth he is more of an anti-hero; the first book for example is largely focused on him, only covering the first year of the titular hero Titus's life.

The Slave-girl from Jerusalem

The events of the novel are mentioned in the collection Trimalcho's Feast in the short story "Death by Vespasian", which takes the form of a letter from Bato to the Emperor.

Thomas Whitbread

In this capacity he refused to admit Titus Oates as member of the Society, and shortly afterwards Titus attempted to carry out the Popish Plot.

Titus as a Monk

Titus as a Monk is a 1660 oil on canvas painting by the Dutch artist Rembrandt, showing his son Titus in the habit of a Franciscan monk.

Titus Groan

In 1984, BBC Radio 4 broadcast two 90-minute plays based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast, adapted by Brian Sibley and starring Sting as Steerpike and Freddie Jones as the Artist (narrator).

Titus Lowe

Titus Lowe was born in Bilston, England, the son of William Henry and Anna (Scribbins) Lowe, and came to America in 1892, at the age of 14, with his mother and sisters Annie, Louisa, and Mary.

Titus Mbishei

Titus Kipjumba Mbishei (born 28 October 1990 in Mount Elgon District) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in track, cross country and road running.

Titus Software

The Japanese subsidiary, Titus Japan K.K., had its head office on the eighth floor of the Kotubuki Dogenzaka Building in Dōgenzaka (JA), Shibuya, Tokyo.

Titus Turner

Titus Turner (May 1, 1933 – September 13, 1984) was an American R&B and East Coast blues singer and songwriter.

Undone – The Sweater Song

Punk/Indie rock band Titus Andronicus have covered the song multiple times on various tours; the band included one of these live covers on their mixtape, Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol 1.

Zack Ward

He is known for his character Dave Scovil (Titus's stoner half-brother) on the FOX show Titus and as the bully Scut Farkus in the 1983 perennial Christmas movie A Christmas Story.

Zealotry in Jewish history

Titus took his four legions, breached the walls and captured the Herodian Towers and the Antonia Fortress.


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