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11 unusual facts about aslan


Aslan-Bey Shervashidze

Aslan-Bey actively fought together with King Solomon II of Imereti against Tsarist Russian forces.

Dvir Benedek

Benedek dubbed Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia, Nigel is a koala in The Wild, Po the panda in Kung Fu Panda.

Imaginationland Episode II

The guards suspect Butters is connected with the terrorist attack and bring him shirtless and in chains before the Council of Nine, consisting of some of the most highly regarded of all imaginary characters: Aslan, Gandalf, Glinda, Jesus, Luke Skywalker, Morpheus, Popeye, Wonder Woman, and Zeus.

Jacob Gestman Geradts

First influenced by Alphonse Mucha, he soon modified his style in the way of the great Pin Up artists of the 1950s and 1960s, like Alberto Vargas, Aslan and George Petty.

Kelesh Ahmed-Bey Shervashidze

In the end, Turkey was able to remove Shervashidze from the Abkhaz throne by forging close ties to Shervashidze’s son Aslan-Bey who killed his father and became the new ruler of Abkhazia.

Nihat Bekdik

Because of a lion badge at his sweat suit and his fabulous performances on the pitch, the spectators called him "Aslan" which means "Lion" in Turkish.

Ronald Pickup

He was the voice of Aslan in the BBC adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988) and subsequent Chronicles of Narnia serials derived from the books by C.S. Lewis.

Room to Roam

The words "Further up, further in" are spoken by the character Aslan in a book by Christian fantasist C.S. Lewis, one of Scott's sources of inspiration.

Shane Rangi

In Prince Caspian, he played the Werewolf, Asterius, the Wild Bear and the Physical Aslan.

Strange Glue

Irish rock band Aslan recorded a cover of the song, included on their 2009 album, Un'cased.

The Last Battle

An ape named Shift has persuaded a well-meaning but simple-minded donkey called Puzzle to dress in a lion's skin and pretend to be the Great Lion Aslan.


Aslan Byutukayev

In March 2011 it was reported that Aslan Byutukaev had been killed in an airstrike by the Russian Air Force in Ingushetia, along with the deputy leader of the Caucasus Emirate, Supyan Abdullayev.

Aslan Maskhadov

On 21 September 1951, Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov was born in the Karagandy Province of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (SSR) of the Soviet Union, in the small village of Shakai, during the mass deportation of the Chechen people ordered in 1944 by Joseph Stalin.

Aslan (Khalid) Aliyevich Maskhadov (Chechen: Аслан Али кӏант Масхадан, Latin: Aslan Ali kant Masxadaŋ, Russian: Аслан Алиевич Масхадов) (21 September 1951 – 8 March 2005) was a leader of the Chechen independence movement and the third President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

Farzana Aslam

Farzana Aslan attended at Wah Cantt Engineering College.

Frank and Helen

Jadis, the White Witch, took over Narnia 900 years after their reign began and ruled a reign of tyranny for 100 years, but illegitimately (as she was not a Daughter of Eve, but of a race native to Charn), before finally being defeated by Aslan and the Pevensie children, who were then themselves proclaimed Kings and Queens of Narnia.

Gerovital

The New York Times referred to Gerovital's "jet-set aura," noting that Aslan had been covered in "society columns where such public figures as Nikita S. Khrushchev, Konrad Adenauer, and Ibn Saud have been listed among the multitudes said to have taken the drug."

Ibrahim Aslan

Aslan emerged on the Arab literary scene in the mid-1960s, and is considered to be part of the movement known as the Sixties Generation which also included such authors as Gamal Ghitany, Sonallah Ibrahim, and Abdel Hakim Qasem.

Aslan is best known for his first novel Malek al-Hazin (1983), translated by Elliott Colla under the English title The Heron; and its sequel 16 years later called As-safir al-Nil (1999), translated as Nile Sparrows by Mona El-Ghobashy.

Kara-Khanid Khanate

Some of the buildings constructed by the Karakhanids still survive today, including the Kalyan minaret built by Mohammad Aslan Khan beside the main mosque in Bukhara, and three mausolea in Uzgend.

Mr. and Mrs. Beaver

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe they are instrumental in conveying the Pevensie children to Aslan, and they appear briefly in the final novel The Last Battle.

Oldcastle, County Meath

Aslan, The Saw Doctors and Shane McGowan have headlined the festival for a number of years.

Perry Rose

At the end of 2001 Perry recorded Hocus Pocus in Belgium, Brittany and Ireland with Irish producers Graham Murphy and Chris O'Brien from The Production Suite in Dublin (whose credits include Dove, Clannad, Donna Lewis, The Human League, Trevor Horn, Aslan, Perry Blake, Máire Brennan, Picturehouse, Ronan Hardiman and Lord Of The Dance).

Reepicheep

In Prince Caspian, Reepicheep is the leader of the twelve mice who help to fight against Caspian's Uncle Miraz in the Second Battle of Beruna, near Aslan's How.

In The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Reepicheep accompanies Caspian on his voyage in the hope of finding Aslan's Country at the end of the world.

Sayavush Aslan

Sayavush Aslan (September 5, 1935 – June 27, 2013) Azerbaijani prominent cinema and theatrical actor, rewarded with Sheref Order and People’s artist of Azerbaijan Republic.

Stephen Thorne

On radio he appeared as Aslan in The Magicians Nephew, as Treebeard in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Lord of the Rings, and also in their adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards! in which he portrayed Fred Colon (and also Death).

Tokarahi

The Elephant Rocks area around the village was used as the location for Aslan's encampment in the 2005 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, one of the Narnia books written by the British author C.S. Lewis.

Too Late for Hallelujah

Originally recorded by Boyzone on their 2010 album Brother, it is taken from Aslan's album Nudie Books & Frenchies and was released on 2 March 2012, reaching number 28 on the Irish Singles Chart.

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

During an interview on Fox News by Lauren Green, Green frequently interjected, quoting critics who questioned Aslan's credibility as an author of such a work as Aslan is a prominent Muslim.