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6 unusual facts about maxim


Cristina Ford

Cristina met Henry Ford II in 1960 during a party at Maxim’s in Paris, France.

Fashion Pack

Names of Vogue, Interview and Ritz magazines appear here as well as names of trendy French venues Maxim's and Chez Régine.

Maxim's Catering

In January 1999, as a Hello Kitty craze swept through Hong Kong, Maxim's partnered with Sanrio and opened three branches of the new Hello Kitty Café in Tsuen Wan and Kowloon.

In 1980, when flights opened up between Mainland China and the United States, the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) realised that there was a problem - there had been no previous air catering agreements with American companies.

The world-famous rock-and-roll group The Platters performed at the restaurant's opening, and in 1960 The Beatles also performed there during a visit to Hong Kong.

With regards to its wide range of catering services, Maxim's also offers a series of products tailor-made for specific festivals, most notably mooncakes during the lead-up to the Mid-Autumn Festival, Nian gao or glutinous rice cakes at Chinese New Year, and roast turkeys at Christmas.


Antisemitism in Ukraine

In 1921 Ze'ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky, the father of Revisionist Zionism, signed an agreement with Maxim Slavinsky, Petliura's representative in Prague, regarding the formation of a Jewish gendarmerie which would accompany Petliura’s putative invasion of Ukraine and protect the Jewish population from pogroms.

April Maiya

The brand was featured in Maxim, Stuff, FHM publications in the U.S. and Patricia Field boutique which subsequently landed the bikinis on HBO's popular Sex and the City series.

As Above...

It is more generally considered to be half of the maxim "As Above, So Below" that is quoted by every occultist and originates in the second line of the ancient alchemical tract Tabula Smaragdina.

Brian Kolodiejchuk

He was ordained to the priesthood in June 1985 in the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist in Newark, New Jersey, USA, by the late Metropolitan-Archbishop of Winnipeg, Maxim Hermaniuk, C.Ss.R.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum

: In Act 1, in an effort at light metaphor, the bourgeois character Ilya Afanasyevich Shamrayev, misquotes the Latin phrase Nil nisi bonum and conflates it with the maxim De gustibus non est disputandum (“About taste there is no disputing”), which results in the mixed mortuary opinion: De gustibus aut bene, aut nihil (“Let nothing be said of taste, but what is good”).

Dive Index

The album features vocal contributions from Natalie Walker, Merz, Cat Martino, and Ian Masters, and the musical contributors include Kevin O'Donnell, Timothy O'Donnell, Antony and the Johnsons' members Julia Kent and Maxim Moston, CJ Camerieri, David Shaw and Roger Eno.

Doctrine of necessity

The maxim on which the doctrine is based originated in the writings of the medieval jurist Henry de Bracton, and similar justifications for this kind of extra-legal action have been advanced by more recent legal authorities, including William Blackstone.

EA Sports GameShow

Hosts included Rob and Jason Thompson, hosts of Fox Sports Radio's Fantasy Football program; Mike Bower, formerly of Maxim Radio, "SweetNasty" Chris Cause, Jana of WXXL Orlando.

Elliot Paul

A friend of both James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, Paul defied Ernest Hemingway's maxim that "if you mentioned Joyce twice to Stein, you were dead."

Erotic Review

In mid-2003 Pelling sold Erotic Review to media mogul Felix Dennis, whose company Dennis Publishing controlled titles including Maxim.

Fo Tan

Close to its main entrance in Tai Po Road, the Benjamin Frankfurt Centre provides fast food style food court maintained by Café de Coral, Chinese Style dumplings and noodles maintained by the Maxim's Group and a McCafe.

Hapoel Lod F.C.

A new club, Hapoel Maxim Lod was established soon afterwards (named after a former Lod mayor, Maxim Levy).

Hopatcong, New Jersey

Hudson Maxim (1853–1927), inventor and chemist who is the namesake of the district's Hudson Maxim School.

Jenni Davies

Throughout Jenni's career in media she has contributed to Vice and Maxim magazines where her celebrity baiting column 'Fuck Me... You're Famous' (commissioned by Greg Gutfeld) ran monthly for 17 months, culminating in her becoming the publication's Sexpert and general celebrity interviewer (she also wrote Maxims Big Book Of Sex 2007).

Joachim Fest

Fest's father asked his sons to write down and remember a maxim from the Gospel of Matthew: Etiam si omnes - ego non (Even if all others do - not I).

Jonathan Hoenig

He is a frequent commentator in the financial press, and has written for: The Wall Street Journal Europe, Wired, Trader Monthly, Maxim, and Smartmoney.com.

Jovan Branković

He ruled jointly with his brother Đorđe from 1493, and when Đorđe took monastic vows (he becomes the Archbishop of Belgrade, Maxim), Jovan took the throne in 1496.

LK II

A version armed with one or two 7.92mm Maxim 08/15 machine guns was also planned but progressed no farther than a project.

Louise Cliffe

As a model Cliffe has done many magazine shoots and front covers including Maxim, Bizarre, Front, Loaded, FHM, OK!, Stuff, THE Magazine, Zoo, Nuts, Ice and Switched On.

Maxim Kantor

As a painter Maxim Kantor, who states that "he didn't want to study under anybody and his father (the philosopher Karl Kantor) was all he needed" was deeply influenced by Michelangelo, Mantegna, Goya and Petrov Vodkin.

Maxim Kantor can most properly be defined "the Artist of the Existential Realism" since he proclaims that his philosophical roots are Sartre, Camus, Beckett and Hemingway.

Maxim Mironov

-Maometto II, Rossini (2005, DVD) as Erisso
Lorenzo Regazzo, Carmen Giannatasio, Maxim Mironov, Annarita Gemmabella; La Fenice Theatre Orchestra, director Claudio Scimone; Dynamic

Maxim of Bulgaria

In 1960 he was elected Metropolitan of Lovech on October 30, 1960, and during this time, despite the atmosphere of persecution under Todor Zhivkov, Maxim was able to win enough favour with the Politburo to be a certainty for election as Patriarch on July 4, 1971, after Patriarch Cyril died.

Maxim Rudometkin

Maxim Gavrilovich Rudometkin (c. 1818 – 1877) was a religious leader of a mid 19th century religious sect called the Molokan Jumpers, he lived primarily in a little village of the Lori Province called Fioletovo (previously called Nikitino) in the modern country of Armenia.

Maxim Turbulenc

Maxim Turbulenc is a musical group from Klánovice, Prague, Czech Republic.

Maximteatern

Maximteatern, called "Maxim" in English or The Maxim Theatre, has been a popular private theatre at Karlaplan in central Stockholm, Sweden since the 1960s.

Melissa Harrington

She has appeared in magazines including FHM, Gallery, Maxim, Hustler, Perfect 10, and Playboy, and was once attributed as the ninth most searched-for name on the internet.

Nima Behnoud

Today celebrities such as Heidi Klum, Nicky Hilton, Jim Carrey, Pras of Fugees and Kevin Spacey wear these T-Shirts and major publications including Vogue, Maxim, Washington Times have written about NIMANY.

PC Zone

By 1995, under the editorship of John Davison, the magazine had adopted a tone which heavily referenced lad culture, which had been made fashionable by magazines such as FHM and Dennis Publishing stablemate Maxim.

Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt

Infernus cited the ecclesiastical writer Adam of Bremen as the inspiration for the album's title, parodying his maxim Quantos Possunt ad Christianitatem Trahunt.

Ruby Rose

Rose is also known for her extensive tattoo collection on her body, which she showed off in a photo spread for Maxim Australia and PETA, as part of the campaign "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur".

Three of a Perfect Pair

The front cover designed by Peter Willis is a reference to the Emerald Tablet, or the maxim "As Above, So Below" and portrays the male solar deity on the bottom while the small crescent on top represents the female lunar deity.

Tim Supple

Other work in the theatre includes: Beasts and Beauties, Too Clever By Half (Norwegian National Theatre, Bergen); Much Ado About Nothing (Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin); The Cosmonauts Last Message...(Donmar Wharehouse); Oh What a Lovely War, Guys and Dolls (Haymarket Theatre, Leicester); Billy Budd (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield).

Tom Hilditch

His longform investigations into the plight of the Thai Elephant, The Hello Kitty Murders, methamphetamine abuse and other topics have been widely published in magazines including British Esquire, The Sunday Times, GQ, Maxim, Marie Claire, The Independent on Sunday, Stern, US Playboy and Asiaweek.

Tout-Paris

Le Tout-Paris was associated with particular fashionable places in the city, such as the restaurant (Maxim's, the large urban forest the Bois de Boulogne, Deauville, and so on, defining trends, giving an artist or writer their blessing, making or unmaking the reputation of a politician.

Valentin Gregor

His performances included Cirque du Soleil, Deutsche Schauspielhaus, Hamburg, Maxim-Gorki-Theater, Berlin, Deutsche Theater, Berlin, Deutsche Schauspielhaus, Hanover and Hans-Peter Wodarz’s Dinnershow Pomp Duck and Circumstance.

VTun

It exists as the reference implementation of the Tun/Tap user-space tunnel driver which was included in the Linux kernel as of version 2.4, also originally developed by Maxim Krasnyansky.

Wendy Glenn

She has appeared on the cover of Maxim and FHM, has recently been a special guest star on Nip/Tuck, CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and portrayed the title role in the film, Mercy.

Wilfred St Aubyn Malleson

On 25 April 1915 during the landing at V Beach, Cape Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey, Midshipman Malleson and three others (William Charles Williams, George Leslie Drewry, George McKenzie Samson) of HMS River Clyde assisted the commander (Edward Unwin) of the ship at the work of securing the lighters under very heavy rifle and Maxim fire.

Yodelice

Maxime Rodolphe Nouchy better known by Maxim Nucci and as Yodelice (born 23 February 1979 Créteil) is a French singer-songwriter who performs in English.

Zorn's Law

Zorn's law is a maxim coined by Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn as a Wikipedia prank.


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