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4 unusual facts about tiara


Queen of FCW

Title holders would wear a crown rather than a championship belt that is primarily used in professional wrestling.

Tiara

Superheroines Wonder Woman and Sailor Moon are usually depicted wearing a tiara; both tiaras can be thrown as weapons.

Pope Benedict XVI even removed the tiara from his coat of arms, replacing it with a mitre (but with some symbolic reference to the symbolism of the tiara, still in use in the Holy See's coat of arms).

She-Ra, who is both a superhero and a princess, wears a golden tiara.


American Triple Tiara of Thoroughbred Racing

In recent years, many owners and trainers of fillies have submitted proposals to the National Thoroughbred Racing Association to change the three races that compose the Triple Tiara.

The most popular proposal of races to compose a "Triple Tiara" series are the Kentucky Oaks, run at Churchill Downs in Louisville; the Black-Eyed Susan Stakes, run at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore; and the Acorn Stakes, run at Belmont Park.

Arnolfo di Cambio

Around 1282 he finished the monument to Cardinal Guillaume de Braye in the church of San Domenico in Orvieto, including an enthroned Madonna (a Maestà) for which he took as a model an ancient Roman statue of the goddess Abundantia; the Madonna's tiara and jewels reproduce antique models.

Belgian Tiara

The unique tiara was designed by Jean-Baptiste Bethune of Ghent.

Bertha Palmer

According to the author Aline B. Saarinen, "so fabulous were her jewels that a newspaper declared that when she appeared on the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse with a tiara of diamonds as large as lima beans, a corsage panned with diamonds, a sunburst as big as a baseball, a stomacher of diamonds and all the pearls around her neck, Alois Burgskeller of the Metropolitan Opera, who was singing at the ship's concert, was stopped right in the middle of a high note."

Bessilyn Johnson

Bessie styled her preacher persona after that of the evangelical darling Aimee Semple McPherson, wearing flowing white and red robes and a tiara during her sermons, and always carrying a Bible with a red ribbon in it.

Ceremonial of John XXIII

When asked about the tiara during its manufacture, John asked that the makers halve the number of jewels with which they planned to decorate it and give the money saved to the poor.

Coat of arms of Águas de São Pedro

In abyss (the center or heart of the shield) the panoply constituted by intersected keys beneath a papal tiara, all in Or (gold), constitutes its canting arms, for being symbol of Saint Peter, Patron Saint of the city (the keys of the Kingdom of God and the Tiara of the first Pope, Saint Peter).

Eternity in Death

The tox report reveals that the "potion" Tiara drunk, was a mixture of hallucinogens, tranqs, date rape drugs, and human blood.

Forever Fabulous

Forever Fabulous is a 1999 comedy starring Jean Smart, Jennifer Elise Cox, Robert Wagner, Emily Proctor and Jorja Fox, which was written and directed by Werner Molinsky and initially screened at the under the title Tiara Tango at the 1999 Austin Film Festival.

Girls of Great Britain and Ireland Tiara

A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II wearing the tiara, designed by Arnold Machin, has appeared on many Commonwealth currencies, including those of Britain, Australia, Jamaica, Canada and Ceylon.

Jemma McKenzie-Brown

She is known for her role as Tiara Gold in the 2008 film High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

Knight Kadosh

The 1918 edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia stated that, in the ceremony in use in the Southern Jurisdiction of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite in the United States, purported to have been written by Albert Pike, the Papal tiara is trampled during the initiation.

Legend of Puteri Gunung Ledang

Puteri Gunung Ledang, a 2006 stage musical based on the 2004 film, starring Tiara Jacquelina and Stephen Rahman-Hughes.

Marjorie Merriweather Post

Pieces in the collection include the Napoleon Necklace and the Marie Louise Diadem (a 275 ct. 55g diamond-and-turquoise necklace and tiara set that Napoleon I gave to his second wife, Empress Marie Louise); a pair of diamond earrings set with pear shapes, weighing 14 ct.

Miss Teen USA 2000

Others who competed in Miss USA pageants were Tiara Dews (District of Columbia, 2004), Kristin George (Wyoming, 2006), and Raelene Aguilar (New Mexico, 2008).

Napoleon Tiara

In the David painting of The Coronation of Napoleon, the tiara is held next to him by one of his aides; the emeralds are not in the painting.

Noima

The album was unique in that it was released with four different covers featuring Zina with her eyes open, wearing Aviator style sunglasses, wearing a tiara, and with her eyes closed and hair flowing across her face.

Noor-ul-Ain

The tiara forms part of the Iranian crown jewels, held at the National Treasury of Iran in the Central Bank in Tehran.

Palatine Tiara

In John XXIII's case, though he did receive his own tiara, his election was so unexpected that Bergamo, his native region, which donated the tiara, had not plans in train to manufacture a tiara quickly in the event of his election.

Papal inauguration

Pope Paul VI, the last pope to be crowned or to use a papal tiara, abandoned the use of his tiara in a ceremony at the end of the Second Vatican Council, and announced that it would be sold and the money obtained would be given to charity; it was in fact bought by Catholics in the United States and is now kept in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C..

Proton Tiara

The genesis of the Tiara was the result of an agreement during the mid-1990s between Proton's then CEO, Yahaya Ahmad, and PSA Peugeot Citroën, a producer of Citroën and Peugeot vehicles.

Samantha Thavasa

The company's marketing strategy is typified by its extensive utilization of Western celebrities and socialites in its advertising, although Lee Byung-hun was used to promote its jewelry brand, Samantha Tiara.

Sarcophagus of Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa

She must have belonged to one of the richest families of Chiusi, as Seianti is dressed sumptuously for the occasion, wearing an ornate gown and cloak, with complicated drapery falling sinuously over her body, and adorned with a tiara, earrings, bracelets and a necklace.

The Tiara Club

The Tiara Club is a series of children's books by Vivian French, and published by HarperCollins.

Tiara of Pope John Paul II

As no pope has worn a papal tiara since Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II made the practice optional later, the Hungarian Tiara remains unworn.

Tiara of Pope John XXIII

The Tiara of Pope John XXIII was the personal Papal Tiara (triregnum in Latin, triregno in Italian) presented by the region of Bergamo to Angelo Roncalli, who was born there, following his election as Pope John XXIII in 1958.

His successor Pope Paul VI was supplied with his own, far heavier solid silver tiara.

Tiara of Pope Paul VI

Though lacking in jewels, Pope Paul's tiara weighs 10 lb (4.5 kg) in contrast to the 2 lb (0.9 kg) weight of the previously-used Palatine Tiara.

Tunku Halim

He practised corporate and conveyancing law at Shearn Delamore in Kuala Lumpur before working for Merit Management Sdn Bhd, the property developer responsible for Tiara Damansara in Petaling Jaya.

Wedding dress of Sophie Rhys-Jones

Sophie wore a diamond tiara, from the Queen's private collection, consisting of three open-work scroll motifs, designed and re-modelled by the Crown Jeweller, David Thomas, at Asprey and Garrard.


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