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Sophie (other)
Sophie is a feminine given name also spelled Sophy. Sophie or Sophy may also refer to: Arts and entertainment *Sophie (musician) (1986–2021), Scottish record producer, singer, songwriter, and DJ * ''Sophie'' (album), by BulletBoys, 2003 * "Sophie" (song), by Goodshirt, 2002 * Sophie (book series), six children's books by Dick King-Smith and David Parkins * ''Sophie'' (TV series), a Canadian sitcom *'' Sophie: A Murder in West Cork'', a 2021 TV documentary about the death of Sophie Toscan du Plantier Ships * HMS ''Sophie'', several British warships * SMS ''Sophie'', 1881 member of the ''Carola'' class of steam corvettes Other uses * Sophie (digital library), a digital library of works by German-speaking women *Sophie, Ouest, a village in the Ouest department of Haiti *SOPHIE échelle spectrograph, a French astronomical instrument *Sophy (Safavid Empire), a reference to the ruler of the Safavid dynasty of Iran *Sophie Prize, an international environment and development prize *So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie
Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise". People with the name Born in the Middle Ages * Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson * Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224–1275), second wife and only Duchess consort of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier Born in 1600s and 1700s * Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729–1796), later Empress Catherine II of Russia * Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1628–1685), Queen consort of Denmark-Norway * Sophie Blanchard (1778–1819), French balloonist * Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg (1759–1828), second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia * Sophie Dawes, Baronne de Feuchères ( 1795–1840), English baroness * Sophie Germain (1776–1831), French mathematician * Sophie Piper (1757–1816), Swedish countess * Sophie Schröder (1781–1868), German actress * Sophie von La Roche (1730–1807), German author Born 1790–1918 * Sophie, Duchess of Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie, Ouest
Sophie is a village in the Cabaret commune in the Arcahaie Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti. See also *Cabaret Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama. The performance venue might be a pub, a casino, a hotel, a restaurant, or a nightclub with a stage for performances. The audience, often dining or d ..., for a list of other settlements in the commune. References Populated places in Ouest (department) {{Haiti-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie's Choice (novel)
''Sophie's Choice'' is a 1979 novel by American author William Styron. The author's last novel, it concerns the relationships among three people sharing a boarding house in Brooklyn: Stingo, a young aspiring writer from the South, Jewish scientist Nathan Landau, and his lover Sophie, a Polish-Catholic survivor of the German Nazi concentration camps, whom Stingo befriends. ''Sophie's Choice'' won the US National Book Award for Fiction in 1980. The novel was the basis of a 1982 film of the same name. It was controversial for the way in which it framed Styron's personal views regarding the Holocaust. Plot summary Stingo, a novelist who is recalling the summer when he began his first novel, has been fired from his low-level reader's job at the publisher McGraw-Hill and has moved into a cheap boarding house in Brooklyn, where he hopes to devote some months to his writing. While he is working on his novel, he is drawn into the lives of the lovers Nathan Landau and Sophie Zawistowska, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Sophie (other)
Miss Sophie may refer to: * Miss Sophie (''Dinner for One''), a character in a comedy sketch * The title character in Miss Sophia's Diary "Miss Sophia's Diary", or "The Diary of Miss Sophie", is a short story by the Chinese author Ding Ling, the story confides around a young women who has tuberculosis and has left her family for Beijing. She struggles with her identity and the stor ..., a 1927 short story * Miss Sophie (''The Women of Brewster Place''), a character in a 1989 miniseries {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia (given Name)
Sophia, also spelled Sofia, is a feminine given name, from Greek Σοφία, '' Sophía'', "Wisdom". Other forms include Sophie, Sophy, and Sofie. The given name is first recorded in the beginning of the 4th century. It is a common female name in the Eastern Orthodox countries. It became very popular in the West beginning in the later 1990s and became one of the most popularly given girls' names in the Western world in the first decades of the 21st century. Popularity Sophia was known as the personification of wisdom by early Christians and Saint Sophia is also an early Christian martyr. Both associations contributed to the usage of the name. The name was comparatively common in continental Europe in the medieval and early modern period. It was popularized in Britain by the German House of Hanover in the 18th century. It was repeatedly popularised among the wider population, by the name of a character in the novel '' Tom Jones'' (1794) by Henry Fielding, in ''The Vicar of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophy (Safavid Iran)
The Sophy, also spelled Sofi, Sophie, Sophi, or Soffi, was a reference to the ruler of the Safavid dynasty of Iran. Even though Iran remained known in the West by the exonym Persia (see Name of Iran), which had been coined in "the days of the ancient Greeks", from the time of king Abbas I (r. 1588-1629), the ruler of the nation came to be known as the "Sophy", itself a corruption of the word "Safavi" - the dynasty to which Abbas I belonged. Though the usage of "Sophy" gained much more prominence during Abbas I's rule, the word was in use to refer to the Safavid ruler since the time of the dynasty's founder, Ismail I (r. 1501-1524). An extensive number of references to Persia and its "Sophy" in European literature start with the reign of Abbas I and onwards. William Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night ''Twelfth Night'', or ''What You Will'' is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1601–1602 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie The Giraffe
Sophie the Giraffe is a teether – a toy for teething infants to chew on – in the form of a hevea rubber giraffe. History The toy has been made in France (as ''Sophie la Girafe'') since 1961, first in Asnières-sur-Oise, near Paris by Delacoste then from 1991 by Vulli based in Rumilly in the French Alps. Its name refers to its launch on 25 May 1961, the feast day of Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat. It has achieved national icon status in France, according to '' Slate'', with more sold each year (816,000 in 2010) than babies are born (796,000). Sophie is also popular in the United States where the toy has been available for decades and even appeared in the movie ''Three Men and a Baby'' (1987) and where it has become the best-selling baby product offered by Amazon.com. Launched in California in the trendy Hollywood area, it became popular through word of mouth, especially on Amazon.com since 2008. The reasons proposed for this success are that it is marketed as eco-friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Prize
The Sophie Prize was an international environment and development prize (USD 100,000) awarded annually from 1998 to 2013. It was established in 1997 by the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder and his wife Siri Dannevig, and is named after Gaarder's novel ''Sophie's World''. It aimed to recognize individuals or organizations working with the environment and sustainable development. In 2013, representatives announced that the prize would not be awarded any longer due to a lack of funds. Prize winners * 1998: Environmental Rights Action, Nigeria * 1999: Herman Daly and Thomas Kocherry * 2000: Sheri Liao * 2001: ATTAC France * 2002: Patriarch Bartholomew I * 2003: John Pilger * 2004: Wangari Maathai * 2005: Sheila Watt-Cloutier * 2006: Romina Picolotti * 2007: Göran Persson * 2008: Gretchen Daily * 2009: Marina Silva, Brazil *2010: James Hansen [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophy (Safavid Empire)
The Sophy, also spelled Sofi, Sophie, Sophi, or Soffi, was a reference to the ruler of the Safavid dynasty of Iran. Even though Iran remained known in the Western world, West by the exonym Persia (see Name of Iran), which had been coined in "the days of the ancient Greeks", from the time of king Abbas I of Persia, Abbas I (r. 1588-1629), the ruler of the nation came to be known as the "wikt:Sophy, Sophy", itself a corruption of the word "Safavi" - the dynasty to which Abbas I belonged. Though the usage of "Sophy" gained much more prominence during Abbas I's rule, the word was in use to refer to the Safavid ruler since the time of the dynasty's founder, Ismail I (r. 1501-1524). An extensive number of references to Persia and its "Sophy" in European literature start with the reign of Abbas I and onwards. William Shakespeare's ''Twelfth Night'' (published 1602) is noted as being amongst the early attestments to this. Image:Shah Ismail I.jpg, European painting of Shah Ismail I with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SOPHIE échelle Spectrograph
The SOPHIE (Spectrographe pour l’Observation des Phénomènes des Intérieurs stellaires et des Exoplanètes, literally meaning "spectrograph for the observation of the phenomena of the stellar interiors and of the exoplanets") ''échelle spectrograph'' is a high-resolution echelle spectrograph installed on the 1.93m reflector telescope at the Haute-Provence Observatory located in south-eastern France. The purpose of this instrument is asteroseismology and extrasolar planet detection by the radial velocity method. It builds upon and replaces the older ELODIE spectrograph. This instrument was made available for use by the general astronomical community October 2006. Characteristics The electromagnetic spectrum wavelength range is from 387.2 to 694.3 nanometers. The spectrograph is fed from the Cassegrain focus through either one of two separate optical fiber sets, yielding two different spectral resolutions (HE and HR modes). The instrument is entirely computer-controlled. A stand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie (digital Library)
The Sophie Digital Library is a digital library and resource center for works produced by German-speaking women pre-17th century through the early 20th century, a group that has often been underrepresented in collections of historical printed works. Resources available at the site include literary and journalistic texts (including some English translations), music scores and recordings, screenplays and dramas, and a collection of colonial/travel texts. There is also an image gallery containing portraits and photographs of the artists and illustrations from some of the works. Most of the texts included in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, easy to use, open formats which can be used on any computer. The collection provides the texts as aids for research and teaching. Publications Since the beginning of The Sophie Project, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as academics, have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophy
Sophy is an alternate spelling of the female given name Sophie, from the name Sophia, meaning "wise". People with the name * Sophy A. Christensen (1867–1955), Danish master carpenter and furniture designer * Sophy Gray (architect) (1814–1871), British administrator and architect * Sophy Gray (1814–1871), English diocesan administrator, artist, architect, and horsewoman * Sophy Mae Mitchell, one of the first women to play in the University of Florida Fightin' Gator Marching Band * Sophy Regensburg (1885–1974), American painter * Sophy Rickett (born 1970), British visual artist * Sophy Ridge (born 1984), English broadcast journalist and host of ''Sophy Ridge on Sunday'' * Sophy Romvari (born 1990), Canadian film director, writer, and actress * Sophy Sanger (1881–1950), British internationalist and labour law reformer * Sophy Wong (born 1992), Hong Kong singer-songwriter also known as SOPHY Fictional characters * Great-Aunt Sophy, a character in the children' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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