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4 unusual facts about Ulysses


Ray Prochaska

Raymond Edward Prochaska (August 9, 1919 – March 9, 1997) was an American football player and coach born in Ulysses, Nebraska.

Tracy Hitchings

In 1993, she made a guest appearance on an album track from the band Ulysses debut album Neronia.

Waiting for the Clouds

The movie has many commonalities with a series of movies by the renowned film maker Theodoros Angelopoulos: the borders and their impact on the lives of human beings – as in The Suspended Step of the Stork; a tedious Odyssean search for a family member – as in Landscape in the Mist; the long-lost identity and the fusion of different cultures – as in Ulysses' Gaze and The Suspended Step of the Stork.

Yanaki and Milton Manaki

The plot of Theo Angelopoulos's film Ulysses' Gaze revolves around the fictional and metaphoric quest for a lost, undeveloped reel of film taken by the Manaki brothers before the Balkans were split by the forces of nationalism.


Accusative case

in exclamations, such as me miseram, "wretched me" (spoken by Circe to Ulysses in Ovid's Remedium Amoris; note that this is feminine: the masculine form would be me miserum).

Alfred Bunn

In James Joyce's Ulysses, the main character Leopold Bloom thinks briefly (and incompletely) of a lyric Bunn wrote: "Whose smile upon each feature plays with such and such replete”. The original lyric, from the William Vincent Wallace opera Maritana, is: “Whose smile upon each feature plays with truthfulness replete".

Anna Bonitatibus

She has recorded several times under the direction of Alan Curtis; duets by Alessandro Scarlatti with Patrizia Ciofi, an album of Haydn arias L'infedeltà costante, and Handel operas; Elisa in Tolomeo, and the castrato role of Ulysses in Deidamia.

Aristophon

Pliny, who places him among the painters of the second rank, mentions two works by him: one showing Ancaeus wounded by the boar and mourned over by his mother Astypalaea, and another containing figures of Priam, Helen, Ulysses, Deiphobus, Dolon, and Credulitas.

Brazilian Military Junta of 1969

During the redemocratization process, the then president of the National Constituent Assembly (1987-1988), Ulysses Guimarães, a staunch opponent of the military regime, famously referred to the Military Junta of 1969 as The Three Stooges.

Charles E. Merrill

A friendship with United States District Judge John M. Woolsey earned him the distinction of being one of the two people consulted to read the book Ulysses by James Joyce to help Woolsey to determine if the ban on the book should remain in place.

Corciano

A mythical founder Coragino, companion of Ulysses, is a medieval invention recounted in the fourteenth-century Conto di Corciano e di Perugia.

Davy Byrne's pub

Davy Byrne's pub is situated at 21 Duke Street, Dublin 2, and was made famous in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

Edward Shenderovich

He has been published by many Russian journals and included in ‘’Ulysses Released: Contemporary Russian Poets Abroad (In Russian:2004)’’ edited by Dmitry Kuzmin.

Eenie Meenie Records

Notably, the label has also released albums from side bands of The Apples in Stereo members; 010 by Ulysses (Robert Schneider) and Songs About the Ocean by The High Water Marks (Hilarie Sidney).

Ellis Sharp

This collection of 35 stories reveals Matthew Arnold and Henry James’s interest in women’s underwear, discovers that Karl Marx is alive and well and living on the Isle of Wight, identifies Norman Mailer as the man who shot JFK, provides an alternative biography of actress Sharon Stone, and helpfully reduces Joyce’s Ulysses to five pages.

Elpenor

This chapter of Ulysses is a main inspiration for the film Bye Bye Braverman.

Fort DuPont

From 1934 until 1936, Fort DuPont and the 1st Engineer Regiment were commanded by Col. Ulysses S. Grant III, the grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant.

Francisco García Tortosa

The Irish hispanist, Ian Gibson, has called García Tortosa «Spain's leading expert on Joyce», while considering his translation of Ulysses, in collaboration with María Luisa Venegas, as «prodigious».

Gary L. Bennett

Prior to coming to NASA, Bennett held key positions in DoE's space radioisotope power program, including serving as Director of Safety and Nuclear Operations for the radioisotope power sources that were used on the Galileo mission to Jupiter and that are being used on the Ulysses mission to explore the polar regions of the Sun.

Grierson

Grierson was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915; formerly named Ulysses before 1895.

HMS Ulysses

HMS Ulysses was also the name of a fictional light cruiser in a novel of the same title by Alistair MacLean

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (SV 325, The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland) is an opera in a prologue and five acts (later revised to three), set by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro.

Isaac P. Gray

He was appointed by President Ulysses Grant and confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as consul to St. Thomas the same year, but he declined the office and wrote a letter to President Grant saying he was repulsed by the corruption of his administration.

Ithaca Creek

Ithaca in Greece has one of the world's largest natural harbours and is famous in legend as Homer's Ithaca, the home of Ulysses, whose delayed return to the island is one of the plot elements of the Odyssey.

Johannes Jeep

In Ulysses (Episode 16, "Eumaeus", 663:14-22), Joyce's autobiographical character, Stephen Dedalus, performs Jeep's spirited song "Von der Sirenen Listigkeit" ("Of the Siren's Cunning") for Leopold Bloom, and the two men bond over its misogyny.

John Lyly

"This noble man", he writes in the Glasse for Europe, in the second part of Euphues (1580), "I found so ready being but a straunger to do me good, that neyther I ought to forget him, neyther cease to pray for him, that as he hath the wisdom of Nestor, so he may have the age, that having the policies of Ulysses he may have his honor, worthy to lyve long, by whom so many lyve in quiet, and not unworthy to be advaunced by whose care so many have been preferred."

L'Odissea

An Italian, Yugoslavian, German and French (Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française) coproduction, it was directed by Franco Rossi, Piero Schivazappa and Mario Bava; the cast included Bekim Fehmiu as Ulysses and Irene Papas as Penelope, Samson Burke as the Cyclops, as well as Barbara Bach and Gerard Herter (of Caltiki fame).

Maciste nella terra dei ciclopi

Queen Capys is doomed to a life of slavery by the Powers of Darkness until the last descendant of Ulysses is put to death to please the Cyclops.

Mátyás Seiber

His output includes Ulysses (1947), a cantata on words by James Joyce and a clarinet concertino; scores to animated films, including Animal Farm (1954); a setting of the Scottish "poet and tragedian" William McGonagall's work, The Famous Tay Whale (written for the second of Gerard Hoffnung's music festivals); three string quartets; and choral arrangements of Hungarian and Yugoslav folk songs.

Melicope elleryana

This tree is the favoured food plant for the spectacular Ulysses butterfly, Papilio ulysses.

Personals: College Girls Seeking...

The film also focuses on Juliette's love of literature, with sequences picturing Juliette's fantasies of being part of various classic novels, including Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Ulysses and War and Peace.

Piero Coppola

In 1924 he was asked by Sylvia Beach to make a recording of James Joyce reading from Ulysses: Coppola replied that the recording would have to be made at Beach's expense, would not have the HMV label on it and would not be listed in the catalog.

Robert McAlmon

McAlmon typed and edited the handwritten manuscript of Ulysses by James Joyce, with whom he had a friendship.

Sarojini Sahoo

In the West, James Joyce’s Ulysses or even Radclyffe Hall's Loneliness in the Well or Virginia Woolf’s Orlando are some examples which have to suffer a lot for describing sexuality in literature.

Stellar Stone

Stellar Stone developed a total of eight known games—three drag racing games (Taxi Racer, Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing, and Midnight Race Club: Supercharged!), a puzzle game (Total Mahjongg and Shanghai), a hunting game (Remington Big Buck Trophy Hunt), a pinball game (Total Pinball), and two real-time strategy games based on the American Civil War (Gettysburg: Civil War Battles and Ultimate Civil War Battles: Robert E. Lee vs. Ulysses S. Grant).

Stephen Douglass

He was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor for his performance as Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees, and he originated the role of Ulysses in Jerome Moross and John Latouche's The Golden Apple.

Stoney McGlynn

Ulysses Simpson Grant "Stoney" McGlynn (May 26, 1872 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania – August 26, 1941 in Manitowoc, Wisconsin), was a professional baseball player who played pitcher in the Major Leagues from 1906 to 1908.

Stuart Gilbert

Some typescript pages of a French translation of Ulysses by Auguste Morel and Valery Larbaud were being advertised in the window, and Gilbert noted that there were several serious errors in the French rendering.

Symphony Space

As of 2010, Symphony Space hosts 600 or more events annually, including an annual free music Wall to Wall marathon; Bloomsday on Broadway (celebrating James Joyce's Ulysses); and Selected Shorts, broadcast nationally over Public Radio International.

The Brazen Head

A number of famous patrons are known to have visited the establishment, including author James Joyce, who mentioned the pub in his novel Ulysses; Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels; Robert Emmet also lived there for some time; others include Brendan Behan, Wolfe Tone and Daniel O'Connell.

The Embassy Tapes

Pictured on the cover of The Embassy Tapes are the Nation of Ulysses, minus Steve Kroner, posing in front of The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France.

The Plum

The plum may be a reference to the woman's sexuality, as the fruit was used in James Joyce's Ulysses.

Ulysses Kae Williams

His second son, Ulysses Kae, Jr., (born 7 March 1956; died November 11, 2008), was a record producer, whose Catch Me I'm Falling by the group Pretty Poison climbed the charts on its release.

Ulysses S. Grant IV

Ulysses S. Grant IV (May 23, 1893 – March 11, 1977), was the son of Ulysses S. Grant, Jr. and the grandson of General of the Army and President of the United States Ulysses S. Grant.

Ulysses S. Washington

Ulysses S. Washington was the first person in his family to graduate from college and is the father of Ukee Washington, a television news anchor in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Vice President's Room

Six years later, following President James Garfield’s assassination, Vice President Chester Arthur took the presidential oath of office here with two former presidents, Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes, among those attending the ceremony.

In 1875 Henry Wilson, Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president, died in the room after suffering a stroke.

Victor Llona

He met them in the apartments of Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) and Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) or at the English library of Sylvia Beach (1887–1962), the first publisher in 1922 of James Joyce's Ulysses.


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