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Daphné (chanteuse)
Daphne was a naiad (water nymph) in Greek mythology. Daphne may also refer to: * ''Daphne'' (opera), a 1938 opera by Richard Strauss based on the myth and legend of the beautiful nymph Daphne * ''Daphne'' (plant), a genus of shrubs in the plant family Thymelaeaceae, noted for their scented flowers and poisonous berries *41 Daphne, an asteroid Places * Daphne Palace, of Constantinople *Daphni Monastery, near Athens * Daphne Island, a river island in Alberta, Canada * Daphne Major, in the Galápagos Islands * Daphne, Alabama, a city in the United States *A former suburb of the ancient city of Antioch, today Harbiye, Antakya, Turkey * Constantiana Daphne, Byzantine fortification on Danube *Daphne (Mount Athos), Greece, likely site of ancient Cleonae *Daphne (Thrace), a town of ancient Thrace, now in Turkey * Rablah / Riblah, formerly also known by the name Daphne Vessels * ''Daphne'' (brig), a ship that was wrecked in 1819 * SS ''Daphne'' (1883), a ship which sank disastrously in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne
Daphne (; ; el, Δάφνη, , ), a minor figure in Greek mythology, is a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. There are several versions of the myth in which she appears, but the general narrative, found in Greco-Roman mythology, is that due to a curse made by the fierce wrath of the god Cupid, son of Venus, on the god Apollo (Phoebus), she became the unwilling object of the infatuation of Apollo, who chased her against her wishes. Just before being kissed by him, Daphne invoked her river god father, who transformed her into a laurel tree, thus foiling Apollo. Thenceforth Apollo developed a special reverence for laurel. At the Pythian Games, which were held every four years in Delphi in honour of Apollo, a wreath of laurel gathered from the Vale of Tempe in Thessaly was given as a prize. Hence it later became customary to award prizes in the form of laurel wreaths to victorious generals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SS Daphne (1883)
SS ''Daphne'' was a ship which sank moments after her launching at the shipyard of Alexander Stephen and Sons in Govan, Glasgow, Scotland, on 3 July 1883. Background Around 200 workmen were on board the ship at the time it was launched, ready to begin fitting out work as soon as she was properly afloat. According to the usual practice during a launching, anchors were attached by cable to each side of the ship. As the ''Daphne'' moved into the river, the anchors failed to stop the ship's forward progress. The starboard anchor moved only 6 to 7 yards (5.5 to 6.4 meters), but the port anchor was dragged 60 yards (55 meters). The current of the river caught ''Daphne'' and flipped her over onto her port side, sinking her in deep water. 124 people died including many young boys. 70 lives were saved. It took more than a fortnight for the bodies of those who died to be recovered. Inquiry An inquiry was held afterward; the shipyard owners were held blameless, which led to claims o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne (2017 Film)
''Daphne'' is a 2017 British drama film directed by Peter Mackie Burns and written by Nico Mensinga. It stars Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Nathaniel Martello-White, Osy Ikhile, Sinead Matthews and Stuart McQuarrie. It was released on 29 September 2017 by Altitude Film Entertainment. Synopsis Daphne is an attractive, hedonistic 31-year-old woman who lives in London. She is in a shop when a robber threatens, then stabs, the shopkeeper. Cast Cast and crew with festival director Bero Beyer at the 46th International Films Festival Rotterdam, 2017 *Emily Beecham as Daphne * Geraldine James as Rita *Nathaniel Martello-White as David * Osy Ikhile as Tom *Sinead Matthews as Billie * Stuart McQuarrie as Adam * Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Joe *Ryan McParland as Jay * Ritu Arya as Rachida * Karina Fernandez as Beth *Timothy Innes as Jimbo * Rania Kurdi as Sofia *Amra Mallassi as Benny *Matthew Pidgeon as Nacho *Ragevan Vasan as Kumar * Corinna Brown as Girl on Bus Release The fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Thunderthief
''The Thunderthief'' is John Paul Jones (musician), John Paul Jones's second solo studio album. Track listing All music and lyrics composed and written by John Paul Jones, except where otherwise noted. # "Leafy Meadows" – 5:10 # "The Thunderthief" (Jones, Peter Blegvad) – 5:58 # "Hoediddle" – 7:00 # "Ice Fishing at Night" (Jones, Blegvad) – 4:31 # "Daphne" – 4:50 # "Angry Angry" – 5:54 # "Down to the River to Pray" (Traditional; arranged by Jones) – 4:17 # "Shibuya Bop" – 5:56 # "Freedom Song" – 2:37 Personnel * John Paul Jones – vocals, 4, 6, 10, and 12-string bass guitars, bass steel guitar, Acoustic guitar, acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, electric mandolin, piano, organ, synthesizers, Kyma (sound design language), Kyma, Koto (instrument), koto, autoharp, ukulele, harmonica * Terl Bryant – drums, percussion, toforan * Nick Beggs – Chapman Stick on "Shibuya Bop" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Haunted Man (album)
''The Haunted Man'' is the third studio album by English singer and songwriter Natasha Khan, known professionally as Bat for Lashes. It was released on 12 October 2012 by Parlophone. The album was preceded by the lead single "Laura", which was released on 24 July 2012. Background Khan stated in July 2012 that, after she returned home in March 2010 from touring in support of '' Two Suns'' (2009), she tried to rehabilitate herself to rebuild a sense of who she was without the music. In May 2010, Khan stated that although she had enough songs to put out as an album, she wanted to take more time working on new material, as she had been on tour for a long time, and found it boring to write songs about being on tour. She experienced a "profound writer's block", which led her to call Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead, to ask, "What do you do when you feel like you're going to die because you can't write anything?" He advised her to draw, and subsequently Khan took life-drawing clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridiculous (album)
''Ridiculous'' is an album by the British new wave group Squeeze. It was the band's eleventh studio album, and it introduced their latest drummer Kevin Wilkinson (no relation to bassist Keith Wilkinson). As on the previous album, '' Some Fantastic Place,'' the band recorded one song penned by Keith Wilkinson. This time, however, Wilkinson did not perform the lead vocals. That song, "Got to Me", is the last Wilkinson would write with Squeeze. Chris Difford sang lead on two songs, "Long Face" and "Fingertips". He had not performed lead on an album cut since "Slaughtered, Gutted and Heartbroken" and "Love Circles" on the 1989 album ''Frank''. This record was produced by Glenn Tilbrook and Peter Smith. The album spent one week at number 50 in the UK Albums Chart. Music A clear distinction, noted by Stephen Thomas Erlewine, between ''Ridiculous'' and predecessors such as ''Play'' and '' Some Fantastic Place'' was a "stripped-down, matter of fact production", giving the record a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lia Ices
Lia Ices is an American singer-songwriter from Westport, Connecticut, currently living in Northern California. While she has been performing and recording for several years, Ices gained prominence when her song "Love is Won", from her second studio album ''Grown Unknown'', was played over the closing credits of the second-to-last episode of season one of HBO's ''Girls'' on June 10, 2012. Early life Ices was born Lia Kessel around 1985 in Chicago Illinois. Her mother is a photographer and book binder, and Ices says that her father has been a source of musical inspiration throughout her life, encouraging her to write her own songs from an early age. She began playing the piano at age five, studied theatre at the preparatory high school Walnut Hill School for the Arts and went on to explore the worlds of dance and theater at the Experimental Theatre Wing of New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and by studying Shakespeare at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Ke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1 Giant Leap (album)
''1 Giant Leap'' is the self-titled debut album by English electronic music duo 1 Giant Leap. Beginning in October 1999, its two members, Jamie Catto and Duncan Bridgeman, travelled across the world for six months to record vocals and music by various vocalists and musicians from Senegal, Ghana, South Africa, Uganda, India, Nepal, Sikkim, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand and the United States, before returning to London in March 2000. The album was released on DVD in September 2002. Track listing Personnel 1 Giant Leap *Jamie Catto, Duncan Bridgeman – All instruments Vocalists featured *Robbie Williams – vocals *Maxi Jazz – raps * Neneh Cherry – vocals *Michael Stipe – vocals * Horace Andy – vocals *Asha Bhosle – vocals *Baaba Maal – vocals *Mahotella Queens – vocals *Grant Lee Phillips – vocals *Whirimako Black – vocals *Eddi Reader – vocals *Ram Dass – spoken word * Ulali – vocals, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Django Reinhardt
Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most significant exponents. With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt formed the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934. The group was among the first to play jazz that featured the guitar as a lead instrument. Reinhardt recorded in France with many visiting American musicians, including Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, and briefly toured the United States with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946. He died suddenly of a stroke in 1953 at the age of 43. Reinhardt's most popular compositions have become standards within gypsy jazz, including " Minor Swing", "Daphne", "Belleville", "Djangology", "Swing '42", and "Nuages". Jazz guitarist Frank Vignola says that nearly every major popular-music guitarist in the world has been influe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne (given Name)
Daphne is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning laurel. It originates from Greek mythology, where Daphne ( Greek: Δάφνη) was a naiad, a variety of female nymph associated with fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks and other bodies of freshwater. The name came into popular use in the Anglosphere in the late 1800s along with other flower, tree, and plant names that were in vogue at the time. In recent years, the name has increased in popularity due to a character on the streaming television series '' Bridgerton''. Usage Daphne has been among the one thousand most used names for girls in the United States most years since 1889. It has also been well-used in recent years in the United Kingdom, Quebec, Canada, France, and the Netherlands. Notable persons * Daphne (born 1989), Cameroonian singer *Daphné, French singer *Daphne Arden (born 1941) * Daphne Ashbrook (born 1963), American actress * Daphne Barak-Erez (born 1965), Israeli law professor *Daphne Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daphne (singer)
Daphne Njie Efundem (born 20 September 1989) known professionally as Daphne is a Cameroonian urban pop singer. She began her professional musical career with her song "Rastafari" and got popular via the song Calée. Daphné is married with presently no children. Discography Here to Stay (2016) :# ''The Eye (feat. Crispy & Flames)'' :# ''Kumba Water'' :# ''Mother's Love'' :# ''Famla'' :# ''Madingwa'' :# ''One Spirit'' :# ''Groove (Saka)'' :# ''Allez (feat. Feuturist)'' :# ''I Do'' :# ''Sunshine'' :# ''Gunshot'' :# ''Ovasabi (feat. M-Pro)'' :# ''Haters'' :# ''Shubidu (Dark Angel)'' :# ''Ya song'' :# ''Reflection'' :# ''Broken'' :# ''Ndolo'' :# ''Rastafari'' :# ''Calée'' References Living people 1989 births 21st-century Cameroonian women singers Afrobeats musicians {{Africa-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Danish Navy
The Royal Danish Navy ( da, Søværnet) is the Naval warfare, sea-based branch of the Danish Defence force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Denmark, Danish territorial waters (incl. Faroe Islands and Greenland). Other tasks include surveillance, search and rescue, Icebreaker, icebreaking, oil spill, oil spill recovery and prevention as well as contributions to international tasks and forces. During the period 1509–1814, when Denmark was in a union with Norway, the Danish Navy was part of the Royal Danish Navy (1510–1814), Dano-Norwegian Navy. Until the Copenhagenization (naval), copenhagenization of the navy in 1801, and again in 1807, the navy was a major strategic influence in the European geographical area, but since then its size and influence has drastically declined with a change in government policy. Despite this, the navy is now equipped with a number of large state-of-the-art vessels commissioned since the end of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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