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3 unusual facts about Wil


Anna Sutter

Born in Wil, she earned a diploma in piano performance from the Bern Conservatory before studying singing in Munich.

Notker the Stammerer

He would seem to have been born at Jonschwyl on the River Thur, south of Wil, in the modern canton of Saint Gall in Switzerland; some sources claim Elgg to be his place of birth.

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The Baronenhaus at Marktgasse 73, the Dominican Abbey of St. Katharina, the Hof (the former seat of the Prince-abbot) and the pilgrimage church Maria-Hilf at Dreibrunnen are listed as Swiss heritage sites of national significance.


Doctor Gachet's Garden in Auvers

To his sister, Wil, Van Gogh advised her to cultivate her own garden, like Voltaire's Candide, to find joy and meaning in life.

Family/Affair

After two hours of "Afternoon Delight" (as Christina tells Betty, who thought she meant the song, and later referenced by Dwayne after his romp with Wilhelmina), they make their escape with the book as Wil headed to the shower...only to have Wil return and find Betty's earring!

KZQZ

By the early 1980s, WIL-FM was affirmed as the top country-music station in town, and 1430 AM was split off from their FM sister station to start a classic country format, which it kept until 1989 when the station switched to an adult standards format with the call letters WRTH, which were on the air with the same format for many years at 590 AM in Wood River, Illinois (now KFNS AM).

Liliane Saint-Pierre

Her biggest hit of that period was "Ik wil alles met je doen", a dance remake of Dusty Springfield's hit In Private.

Lilyan Chauvin

Some of Chauvin's acting students were Raquel Welch, Suzanne Somers, Margie Haber, Carly Schroeder, Kin and Wil Shriner, and Kevin Nealon.

Obitus

The player takes on the role of medieval history lecturer Wil Mason, whose car breaks down while he drives through Snowdonia in a storm.

Patrick Lussier

Lussier has been announced as director of the film Condition Dead and the adaptation of Michael Slade's Headhunter, produced by Brightlight Pictures and adapted by Wil Zmak.

Sergei Nilus

Michael Hagemeister: "Vladimir Solov’ev and Sergej Nilus: Apocalypticism and Judeophobia" in Reconciler and Polemicist (eds.) Wil van den Bercken, Manon de Courten, Evert van der Zweerde, and Vladimir Solov’ev (Leuven: Peeters, 2000), pp.

Van Gogh's family in his art

At the height of his career in Arles he made Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Memory of the Garden at Etten of his mother and sister and Novel Reader, which is thought to be of his sister, Wil.

Wil van Beveren

His two sons, Jan and Wil Jr., became professional football players.

Wilfried

Wilfred and Wifred (also Wifredo) are closely related to Wilfried with the same roots (Old English wil and frið).

WUB Morning Vibes

For example, in April 2007 the show read a letter by councilor Wil Galvez that was highly critical of other Punta Gorda Town Councilors, causing a political storm.


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