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unusual facts about finishing school



Lionel Britton

He later claimed that his universities were, as he termed them, 'the penny dumps on the secondhand book-barrows' in Farringdon Road and around the British Museum, and that his finishing school was Speakers' Corner at Marble Arch in Hyde Park.

Mika Tan

Tan studied classical voice at the Magdalena Perés School of Voice and says she is a graduate of the John Robert Powers finishing school.

Molly R. Harrower

Afterwards, she attended finishing school is Pairs, but was unhappy, and dropped out and instead entered a specialist degree program in psychology at Bedford College, London which she was lucky to get into given her situation.

Rixi Markus

After finishing school in Dresden she returned to Vienna, where she first made her name at the bridge table.

The Girls of Hedsor Hall

There a finishing school called Hedsor Hall (aka Hedsor House) was created where they will try to become ladies.

Winnington Hall

For some years the hall was used as a girls' finishing school under Miss Margaret Alexis Bell and Miss Mary Jane Bell, where Sir Charles Hallé visited to give recitals and John Ruskin gave lectures.


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100 Bullets Back

After finishing school, both Clayton and Pearson attended Staffordshire University.

Andrew Ziolkowski

After finishing school he worked as a Process Worker for Alcan in Granville and as a Steelworks Tradesman's Assistant for BHP in Wollongong.

Blanche Willis Howard

In 1877 she went to Germany on assignment to write travel articles for the Boston Evening Transcript and stayed there the rest of her life, settling in Stuttgart and opening a finishing school for American girls abroad.

Boaz Yakin

After finishing school, Yakin worked in the film business helping to develop projects for several companies, and saw his first screenplay reach the screen in 1989, when The Punisher, a vehicle for Dolph Lundgren, was released.

Denis Leamy

After finishing school in Rockwell, Leamy went to CIT to study Leisure Management, and started to play for UCC in the second division of the AIL.

Dorothea Brooking

From a family of theatricals, she was born in Berkshire and at Busage House and a finishing school in Montreux, Switzerland.

Elizabeth Bellamy

She finishes her education at Frau Beck's Finishing School, in Dresden, Germany in 1905, and has her coming out ball in May that year at Londonderry House.

Eric Garcia

As of October 2011, Garcia has signed on to write and executive produce a pilot for a TV series adapted from his novel Cassandra French's Finishing School For Boys for MTV, along with actress Krysten Ritter as a fellow exec.

Gerard Brackx

At the age of 24, after finishing school and serving in the army (part of which he spent in Kassel, Germany), he dreamt of a future in cars and travel.

Herms Niel

Upon finishing school in 1902, Niel completed his apprenticeship with the Genthin choirmaster Adolf Büchner.

Irm Hermann

Hermann became a publishing clerk after finishing school and worked as a secretary for ADAC when she met Rainer Werner Fassbinder in 1966, who convinced her to quit her job to work with him, despite her lack of formal training as an actor.

Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology

KMIT Finishing School is set up with affiliation to the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, one of its kind is exclusive to KMIT,where students are trained in various Software technologies including iPhone Applications and Android Apps development, SQL and so on along with industrial orientation which help them in their career path and to ensure the college motto is realized.

Maksim Bahdanovič

After finishing school in 1911 Bahdanovich went to Belarus to meet important figures of the Belarusian Renaissance: Vaclau Lastouski, Ivan Luckievich and Anton Luckievich.

Marie Juchacz

After finishing school in Landsberg an der Warthe (now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland), Juchacz, whose beliefs were Protestant, began work in 1893, first as a maid, and then for a short time as factory staff.

Ronney Abramson

After finishing school, she began performing in the coffee houses of Quebec and Ontario, before recording her first album in 1971 produced by Andre Perry, which was released in 1972 by Capitol Records.

Rougemont, Switzerland

Diana, Princess of Wales lived for some time at the city, in the late 1970s and studied at a Finishing School there.

The Gangster of Love

Barely just teenagers upon their arrival, the years pass as Rocky and Voltaire begin growing up, finishing school and discovering San Francisco of the 1970s while their mother brings money into the house through several ways from flirtations with several different men, including Zeke, their landlord to the beginning of her catering business, Lumpia X-Press.