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unusual facts about Unfinished



Antoine Deparcieux

His colleagues at the academy asked Charles de Borda and Achille Pierre Dionis du Séjour (1734–1794) to examine the unfinished manuscript.

Arcades Project

The Arcades Project has been posthumously edited and published in many languages as a collection of unfinished reflections.

Arrive Alive

Arrive Alive is the title of an unfinished comedy film starring Willem Dafoe and Joan Cusack, directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and produced by Art Linson.

Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs

He also edited new completed performing versions of Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony in b-minor, the Great Mass in C minor and the Requiem by Mozart, both based on original sources.

Biren Mookerjee

Sunil Gangopadhyay 2012 novel, Ranu & Bhanu is partly based on her unfinished autobiography.

Black Alley

After his death, one of Spillane's unfinished manuscripts The Goliath Bone was completed by Max Allan Collins and published in 2008.

Blue Wizards

This could also be due in part to the film makers lacking the rights to Unfinished Tales, The Silmarillion and the History of Middle-earth series and as such they could not legally name them.

Book of Horizons

It features the song The Owl in Daylight, inspired by the final unfinished novel written by renowned science fiction writer Philip K. Dick before his death, and is also the title of an upcoming biopic about him.

Bourrée fantasque

1994 by Robin Holloway (completion of Chabrier's unfinished orchestration), first performance 8 February 1994, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, English Northern Philharmonia, Paul Daniel.

Candelária Church

The works started in 1775 and the church - still unfinished - was inaugurated in 1811 in the presence of King John VI of Portugal, who at the time was in Rio with the whole Portuguese court.

Carlos Wilcox

He wrote a poem, The Age of Benevolence, which was left unfinished, and which was clearly influenced by the work of William Cowper.

Charles Dickens Museum

This unfinished portrait shows Dickens in his study at Gads Hill Place surrounded by many of the characters he had created.

Colne Valley Youth Orchestra

Recently, the orchestra has tackled the Unfinished Symphony (No. 8 in B minor) by Schubert, Vaughan Williams' Fantasy on English Folk Songs, the Jupiter Symphony by Mozart, as well as the 'Raiders March' by John Williams, 'Pirates of the Caribbean' by Klaus Badelt.

Dhimitër Pasko

Dhimitër Pasko died of a heart attack in 1967, leaving a novel on an Illyrian theme unfinished.

Federiko Benković

The dramatic, often tortured, poses and lighting of his figures are placed within earthy tenebrist backgrounds, He uses Piazzetta's and Sebastiano Ricci's unfinished and ragged brushstrokes, but superimposes a startling mystical imprint that is often foreign to the magisterial and olympian Venetian painting, and more akin to the Baroque painters from Northern Italy, Alessandro Magnasco and Francesco Cairo.

Ferdo Šišić

History of the Croats under the Arpad Kings (1102-1301), an unfinished compilation published after his death, is generally considered below the level of his magnum opus.

Gesangsszene

Unfinished at his death, it is a setting in translation of part of Jean Giraudoux's drama Sodome et Gomorrhe (Sodom and Gomorrah).

HŠK Hajduk Zemun

In the unfinished Croatian championship 1944, in the group stage (City of Zemun championship), Hajduk took the last place in the group, behind Dunav, Građanski and Liet, and ended the competition.

Igor Maslennikov

In 1989 Maslennikov filmed the television adventure picture Philipp Traum, based on the unfinished Mark Twain novel The Mysterious Stranger.

John William Donaldson

Of his numerous other works the most important are The Theatre of the Greeks; The History of the Literature of ancient Greece (a translation and completion of Otfried Müller's unfinished work); editions of the Odes of Pindar and the Antigone of Sophocles; a Hebrew, a Greek and a Latin grammar.

José de Espronceda

His other important works include El estudiante de Salamanca and El Diablo Mundo, long lyric poems, the latter remained unfinished.

Ken Harris

Harris's credits with him included A Christmas Carol (1971) — as animator of Ebenezer Scrooge — the opening titles of The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), and the still-unfinished animated feature The Thief and the Cobbler (animating the Thief of the title, which is very reminiscent of Harris's earlier work animating Wile E. Coyote for Jones).

Kokushkin Bridge

In Mikhail Lermontov's unfinished novel Shtoss, the main character, the artist Lugin, looks for Shtoss House near Kokushkin Bridge.

Kurt Latte

Latte's monumental edition of Hesychius of Alexandria was left unfinished at the time of his death (vol. 1 published in 1953, vol. 2 posthumously in 1966); the work was completed by Peter Allan Hansen and Ian C. Cunningham (vols. 3-4, 2005-2009).

Long Red

It was covered by Fat Mattress in 1971 for their unfinished third album (eventually seeing release on The Black Sheep of the Family: The Anthology) and by Mountain in 1972 for their album Mountain Live: The Road Goes Ever On.

Ludwig Tieck

More ambitious and on a wider canvas are the historical or semi-historical novels, Dichterleben (1826), Der Aufruhr in den Cevennen (1826, unfinished), Der Tod des Dichters (1834); Der junge Tischlermeister (1836; but begun in 1811) is an excellent story written under the influence of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister; Vittoria Accorombona (1840), the story of Vittoria Accoramboni written in the style of the French Romanticists, shows a falling-off.

Mark Brandis

This expanded universe series was cut short when von Michalewsky died at Grasberg shortly after Christmas 2000, leaving the second novel, Negativer Sektor, unfinished.

Nikolay Ogarev

While in Newcastle, Ogarev worked on his Confession in Verse and his unfinished work Last Curse. By the end of that year, however, the couple was living in Mary's hometown of Greenwich, where Ogarev died in 1877.

Nortec Collective

The omission of a Volume 2 was thought to have been in imitation of the Traveling Wilburys intentional numbering of their two albums as Volumes 1 and 3, but it was more in reference to an unfinished Volume 2 album that was not released.

Railroad Tycoon 3

Rhodes Unfinished: Eastern Africa, 1902–33 Mission: Connect the cities on the Indian Ocean coast to the inland cities

Raymond Chandler Speaking

"The Poodle Springs Story", a Philip Marlowe novel Chandler left unfinished at his death in 1959.

Robotech: Crystal Dreams

Unfinished Nintendo 64 ROM images are available to download via the Crystal Dreams developers website.

Ross Hannaman

Together and under the name “The Sweetshop,” Wirtz and Hannaman recorded the song "Barefoot and Tiptoe" as part of his unfinished recording “A Teenage Opera.” Wirtz and Hannaman divorced and she now lives in Vermont in the United States with her two children from her marriage to her current husband Robert Fritz.

Shottas

Despite its low budget, the distribution of an unfinished bootleg made it a cult favourite long before its official limited release in the United States by Triumph Films and Destination Films in 2006.

Siege of Port Arthur

However, many of the redoubts and fortifications were still unfinished, as considerable resources were either in very short supply or had been diverted to improving the fortifications at Dalny, further north on the Liaodong Peninsula.

SK Liet Zemun

In the unfinished Croatian championship 1944, in the group stage (City of Zemun championship), Liet took the third place in the group, behind Dunav and Građanski and in front of Hajduk, and ended the competition.

Soledades

However, Góngora only wrote the "dedicatoria al Duque de Béjar" (dedication to the Duke of Béjar) and the first two Soledades, the second of which remained unfinished.

Song for Marion

The film is accompanied by a song titled "Unfinished Songs" written by Diane Warren and performed by Celine Dion.

St. Catharines Black Hawks

Besides the strong rivalry between Anglophone and Francophone hockey teams and Canadian citizens in general, there was unfinished business between Marcel Dionne and the Remparts coach Maurice Filion.

The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau Limited (released in North America as The Assassination Bureau) is a black comedy film made in 1969 based on an unfinished novel, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd by Jack London.

The Cornish Trilogy

Their first essay into the world of humanist patronage is to support a precocious composer in completing an unfinished opera by E.T.A. Hoffmann entitled Arthur of Britain, or the Magnanimous Cuckold, and then bringing it to the stage at Stratford, Ontario.

The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams

In 2006, a janitor working for Sony/ATV Music Publishing claimed to have found Williams' unfinished lyrics inside of a Sony-owned dumpster.

The Story of William Tell

The Story of William Tell is an unfinished film about William Tell.

Themes in Italian Renaissance painting

Leonardo da Vinci did detailed and measured drawings of the background Classical ruins preparatory to commencing the unfinished Adoration of the Magi.

Toronto-Dominion Centre

Though the complex remained unfinished, the official opening took place on July 1 of that year to coincide with the Canadian Centennial celebrations with Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, presiding, accompanied by her husband, Sir Angus Ogilvy.

Ukrainian cruiser Ukrayina

In April 2010, sources from the Russian defense committee claimed that Russia had plans to buy the unfinished cruiser from Ukraine and in May 2010, after talks with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev in Kiev, Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych stated that they had come to an agreement to finish the ship together.

Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent

Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent is a 59-minute documentary film about a protest against the Vietnam War divided into three sections, mirroring the movements of Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, to which the film is set.

Vehmic court

The Freischoeffen also provided the subject for Berlioz's unfinished opera Les francs-juges, the overture to which provided the signature tune for 'Face to Face', the well-known early series of British television interviews, conducted by the Rt Hon John Freeman MBE.

Walk It Off

While their previous album, The Loon, was produced by the band's bassist and producer, Eric Applewick, and was recorded in a friend's unfinished basement studio, Walk It Off was recorded by producer, David Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studio in Cassadaga, New York.


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