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unusual facts about prodigy


Religion in ancient Rome

Prodigies were transgressions in the natural, predictable order of the cosmos – signs of divine anger that portended conflict and misfortune.


Albrecht Meyer

Leonhart Fuchs was a child prodigy, matriculating from Erfurt University by the age of twelve, and then obtaining a degree in medicine at Ingolstadt.

Alexander Glazunov

Glazunov was acknowledged as a great prodigy in his field and, with the help of his mentor and friend Rimsky-Korsakov, finished some of Alexander Borodin's great works, the most famous being the Third Symphony and the opera Prince Igor, including the popular Polovtsian Dances.

Alfred Galpin

Alfred Galpin was a young prodigy, the son of the banker and inventor Alfred Galpin, Jr. (1841–1924) of Appleton, Wisconsin.

America's Talking

America's Talking A.M. - A morning talk show, hosted by Steve Doocy and Kai Kim, with Tony Morelli as "the Prodigy Guy".

Anton Schweitzer

He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of the duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, who sent him to study with Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht at the court of Bayreuth in 1758, and then sent him to Italy (1764-66), and made him Kapellmeister.

Bernice Rubens

This book was based on the experiences of her brother Harold Rubens, a child prodigy pianist, and his teacher Madame Maria Levinskaya, who inspired the character of Madame Sousatzka.

Bikrampur Vihara

The Vihara is one of the 30 monasteries built by King Dharmapala during his regime around 820 A.D., second king of Pala dynasty and related to Atish Dipankar Srigyan, a child prodigy like Gautama Buddha.

Chanoch Dov Padwa

From an early age, Chanoch Dov was known as an "ilui" (Talmudic prodigy), studying at the yeshiva of Tzelem, Hungary and in the Belzer Shtiebel in Cracow, Poland.

Childish Prodigy

Produced by Vile, Jeff Zeigler and bandmate Adam Granduciel, Childish Prodigy was Vile's first album to be released on Matador Records, and was preceded by the EP, The Hunchback (2009), and the single, "He's Alright".

Chris Burke-Gaffney

In 2002, Chris developed teenage, funk/soul prodigy Kyle Riabko.

Daltry Calhoun

The plot involves small town Tennessee and the character Daltry Calhoun who is wrestling for control over his fading golf club and is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14-year-old musical prodigy.

Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei

Third year student at Jūsei High School, he is a software programming prodigy and reincarnation of Izanagi, a deity in Japanese mythology.

Edmond Hamilton

Something of a child prodigy, he graduated from high school and started college (Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania) at the age of 14, but washed out at 17.

Emile Paul Tendeng

The assistant coach of Casa Sport describes him as “football genius, prodigy and player with extraordinary potential”, and compares him with Gianfranco Zola.

Emily Pidgeon

Considered an athletics prodigy as a junior, she is a former 5000 metres European Junior Champion (2005).

Glazersound

Glazersound's influences are various like his tunes and sounds but they include Tiësto, Avicii, Mark Knight, John Dahlback and former Swedish House Mafia trio, Axwell, Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso; but also the sound from Prodigy, Knife Party, Torro Torro, and many more.

Ivan Mane Jarnović

While in England, one of Jarnović’s several pupils was the young Mulatto prodigy George Bridgetower, for whom Beethoven subsequently composed the Kreutzer Sonata.

Jean Williams

In 2012 the Oxford DNB will publish articles on Leciester swimmer Jennie Fletcher and St Helen’s footballing prodigy Lily Parr, for example.

José Antonio Torres

In an interview with Zona Indie s Danniel Dissolu, Torres explained his singular vision for Octavio: "What really interested me was the idea of the most incredible metamorphic paintings being made by a child prodigy, turned now in one of the most prolific mexican artist."

Joseph Szigeti

Despite the formidable program, the event received mention only via a photograph in the Sunday supplement of the Berliner Tageblatt captioned: "A Musical Prodigy: Josef Szigeti".

Knocks Me Off My Feet

In a scene from the movie Beauty Shop, Joe (Djimon Hounsou) is playing "Knocks Me Off My Feet" on the piano, capturing the attention of Gina (Queen Latifah) and her piano prodigy daughter Vanessa (Paige Hurd) from Gina's salon beneath Joe's apartment.

Lauren Harries

In childhood Harries was known as James, a purported "child prodigy" in the field of antiques, appearing on numerous television shows including Wogan.

Liam Howlett

Howlett signed to leading UK rave label XL Recordings on the strength of several tracks played to XL boss Nick Halkes and in 1991 the debut Prodigy single was released.

Louis Marchand

Born into an organist's family, Marchand was a child prodigy and quickly established himself as one of the best known French virtuosi of his time.

Meet Mr. McNutley

In the episode "The Prodigy", David Stollery, later of Walt Disney's serial, The Adventures of Spin and Marty (in the role of Marty), appears as Peggy's cousin who enrolls at Comstock as a pre-teen.

Mesothelin

Jack Andraka, an American teenage prodigy, claimed to have developed a cheap and quick test for pancreatic, ovarian and lung cancer based on detecting mesothelin using nanotechnology.

Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra

Ford remembered James Touchi-Peters, a 27-year-old former child-prodigy who had guest-conducted an orchestra he played in several years earlier.

Nicolaus Bruhns

Nicolaus was apparently a child prodigy: according to Ernst Ludwig Gerber, he could play the organ and compose competent works for keyboard and voice already at an early age.

Online service provider

Beginning in the mid-1980s graphics based online services such as PlayNET, Prodigy, MSN, and Quantum Link were developed.

Patrick Bakker

At the time of his death he was considered a "prodigy", in the words of Bénézit’s Dictionnaire (see Bibliography).

Peter Greene

He also appeared as a policeman in Prodigy of Mobb Deep's video for "A,B,C's", as well as the focal character in House of Pain's video for "Fed Up".

Philip Keegan

Keegan was a political prodigy, serving as national executive director of the Young Democrats.

Redwood Curtain

In her search for her biological father, an Amerasian piano prodigy comes to California's redwood forests to an area populated by Vietnam veterans unable to reintegrate into society.

Ria Vandervis

She played the role of the villainess Miratrix in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, and currently portrays Emergency Department Surgeon prodigy Harper Whitley on the long-running TV2 soap opera Shortland Street.

Seb Clover

He was named Best Prodigy of the Year by the Duchess of York in the second edition of Britain's Brilliant Prodigies Awards.

Seduce Me After the Show

In the title story, "Seduce Me After the Show" the story opens with Theo Galland, a ballet dancer prodigy, performing the dual role of the fiery, free spirited Carmen and the doomed and captured Jose in the musical dance Carmen.

Sid Roams

Sid Roams have worked with artists including Eminem, Bad Meets Evil (Eminem & Royce da 5'9"), Prodigy (Mobb Deep), Evidence, Dilated Peoples, Hard White, Infamous Mobb, Big Twins (AKA Twin Gambino from Infamous Mobb), Phil da Agony (Strong Arm Steady), Agallah, Purple City, Chino XL, Lil' Fame (M.O.P.) and many others...

Sidis

His son William James Sidis (1898–1944), an eccentric genius and child prodigy

Slingers

At the end of Avengers: The Initiative, Prodigy was released from 42 Prison, in which he was detained for having resisted Osborn's regime, and is depicted as working on the motivational speaker circuit while trying to reunite the Slingers.

Sons of the Vegetal Mother

A few months after Myponga, Daddy Cool was spotted by former teen guitar prodigy turned producer Robie Porter they signed to the Sparmac label, and in May, 1971 they released their debut single "Eagle Rock".

The Tic Code

It tells of a single mother, the relationship she forms with a jazz musician who has Tourette syndrome, and her young son—a jazz piano prodigy—also with the disorder.

The film tells the story of a young boy, Miles Caraday (Marquette), a jazz piano prodigy who has Tourette syndrome, and his divorced mother Laura Caraday (Draper).

Tim Blake


They were sometimes joined on keyboards by the young prodigy Jean-Philippe Rykiel.

Walter Parratt

He was child prodigy: on one occasion he played Bach's complete The Well-Tempered Clavier by heart, without notice, at the age of only ten.

Warriors Dance Festival

Headlined by The Prodigy, the event was held over two stages with mainstage performances from Pendulum, Chase And Status, Does It Offend You Yeah!, Enter Shikari, Doorly, Zane Lowe and Eddy Temple Morris.

The first two announced acts to play were The Prodigy and Skrillex.

XL Recordings Chapters

The Prodigy - Everybody In The Place (Fairground Mix)


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