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3 unusual facts about Xenia


Gil Whitney

As a weatherman, Whitney is best remembered for his timely warning on April 3, 1974 of a Category F5 tornado that went through Xenia, Ohio during the 1974 Super Outbreak.

James Pollard Espy

He studied law and practiced that profession four years at Xenia, Ohio.

Joachim du Bellay

The chief source of his biography is his own poetry, especially the Latin elegy addressed to Jean de Morel, "Elegia ad Janum Morellum Ebredunensem, Pytadem suum," printed with a volume of Xenia (Paris, 1569).


1975 Pulitzer Prize

Staff of Xenia Daily Gazette (Xenia, Ohio), for its coverage, under enormous difficulties, of the tornado that wrecked the city on April 3, 1974.

Afroditi Frida

In 1989, Frida had her debut album and in 1995 started to work with Xenia Dikaiou and Nancy Kanelli - the sister of the notorious journalist and member of the greek parliament, Liana Kanelli.

Arthur Worthington

Hosking found that Worthington had contracted at least five bigamous marriages- to Miss Josephine Moore (New York, 1868), Miss Groot (Albany, New York), Mrs Lizzie Cowell (Troy, Michigan), Miss Joy Winfield (Chicago) and May Barlow (Xenia, Ohio).

George Dovey

At the age of 46, Dovey died of a pulmonary hemorrhage, early in the morning of June 19, 1909 while riding a Pennsylvania Railroad train in Greene County, Ohio, between Cedarville and Xenia.

Irina of Russia

Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, only daughter of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna

Jennifer Zetlan

She recently returned to the Met in October 2010 to portray Xenia in Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with René Pape in the title role.

John, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein

He went to Russia in 1602 as the bridegroom of Boris Godunov's daughter Ksenia (Xenia), but fell ill and died before the marriage could take place.

Liliane Berton

Her career encompassed many lighter soprano roles in the repertoire: l’Amour, Fatime (Les Indes galantes), Sophie (Werther), Poussette (Manon), Xenia (Boris Godunov), Rosina (The Barber of Seville, in French), Eurydice (Orphée), Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) and Chérubin and Susanna (The marriage of Figaro).

Prince Michael Andreevich of Russia

Prince Michael Andreevich was educated at Beaumont College in Old Windsor, and lived with his parents and his grandmother Grand Duchess Xenia in exile at Frogmore Cottage on the grounds of Windsor Castle and later at Wilderness House until he was commissioned to serve in the Royal Navy during World War II.

From his father's first marriage he had two siblings, an older sister Xenia and a younger brother Andrew.

Prince Rostislav Romanov

Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (1902–1978), son of Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia

Princess Xenia Andreevna of Russia

Her father remarried and Xenia had one half sister, Princess Olga Andreevna Romanoff.

During the 1970s Xenia and Geoffrey Tooth (b. 1 September 1908) settled at Rouffignac, in the Dordogne, France.

Princess Xenia Georgievna of Russia

Xenia was on a cruise with her husband William in the West Indies at the time of Anna's arrival in New York.

WHIO-FM

From 2000 until 2006, "The Point" aired classic hits from the late 1970s and 1980s and was briefly simulcast on WDTP, 95.3 in Xenia before reverting to the WZLR calls as classic rock-formatted "The Eagle." Before that it was WCLR at first as "Clear 95" airing easy listening music (as did its predecessor WPTW-FM for many years) when the transmitter was moved from its studios to its present location near the rural community of Houston just north of Piqua in 1986.

WXEG

Both stations eventually operated from the WELX transmitter site adjacent to U.S. Route 35 off June Drive in Xenia.

Xenia Christian High School

Megan Frazee, a 2005 graduate of Xenia Christian High School, was drafted 14th in the 2009 WNBA Draft.


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