His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was appointed regent during his minority.

The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell sembiante ( 1679 ) gained him the support of Queen Christina of Sweden ( who at the time was living in Rome ), and he became her Maestro di Cappella.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

Andersson was engaged to Christina Grönvall after she became pregnant by him as a result of a sexual encounter that they had when Andersson was 16 years old.

Christina kept custody of the children as Andersson was then at the peak of his Hep Stars ' success.

He was the first child of Nils Ingemarsson Linnaeus and Christina Brodersonia.

The film stars Christina Milian ( who previously played cheerleaders in Love Don't Cost a Thing and Man of the House ) and Rachelle Brook Smith, and was released directly to DVD and Blu-ray on September 1, 2009.

Christina was the widow of Miklusz Rokiczani, a wealthy merchant.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

Gustavus Adolphus was born in Stockholm as the oldest son of Duke Charles of the Vasa dynasty and his second wife, Christina of Holstein-Gottorp.

Rock was nominated as Best New Artist at the 2000 Grammy Awards, but lost to Christina Aguilera.

Queen Christina of Sweden's tendency to dress as a man was well known during her time, and excused because of her noble birth ; she was brought up as a male and there was speculation at the time that she was a hermaphrodite.

Even after Christina abdicated the throne in 1654 to avoid marriage, she was known to pursue romantic relationships with women.

Gustavus Adolphus was devoted to his daughter and tried to rear Christina as a boy.

Not long after, however, she was visited by Christina, former queen of Sweden.

* Intro Perelman Website by Christina Sormani, ( CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College ) was used as a framework for this article and a resource for the initial set of links.

The collection remaining at Prague was looted during the last year of the Thirty Years War, by Swedish troops who sacked Prague Castle on 26 July 1648, also taking the best of the paintings, many of which later passed to the Orléans Collection after the death of Christina of Sweden.

Bruce's queen, Elizabeth, his daughter Marjorie, his sisters Christina and Mary, and Isabella MacDuff were captured in a sanctuary at Tain, and sent to harsh imprisonment, which included Mary and Isabella being hung in a cage at Roxburgh and Berwick castles respectively for about four years, and Bruce's brother Neil was executed.

Most likely he spent it in the Hebrides ( possibly sheltered by Christina of Garmoran ) although Ireland is a serious possibility, and Orkney ( under Norwegian rule at the time ) or Norway proper ( where his sister was queen dowager ) although unlikely are not impossible.

On 29 November 1879 at the Basilica of Atocha in Madrid, Alfonso married a much more distant relative, Maria Christina of Austria, daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and of his wife Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria.

Teaming with his daughter, Christina Engelbart, in 1988 he founded the Bootstrap Institute to coalesce his ideas into a series of three-day and half-day management seminars offered at Stanford University 1989 – 2000.

Engelbart is now Founder Emeritus of the Doug Engelbart Institute, which he founded in 1988 with his daughter Christina Engelbart, who is now Executive Director.

* John George, Duke of Jägerndorf ( 16 December 1577 – 2 March 1624 ) married Eva Christina of Württemberg ( 1590-1657 ), daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg and Sibylla of Anhalt.

She bore her husband a daughter, Christina, in 1626.

* RAW Data 2. 0, Wilson's blog, now maintained by his daughter, Christina

** Following the death of Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, he is succeeded by his 6 year old daughter Christina while five regents, headed by Axel Oxenstierna, govern the country since she is underage.

* Christina, daughter of Canute Lavard, wife of Magnus IV of Norway

She was married three times and had a daughter, Christina ( born May 16, 1968 ) by her second marriage, to British actor David Cameron.

Ferdinand married his fourth wife, Maria Christina, the daughter of Francis I, the Bourbon king of Sicily, in 1829.

In October 1968, Crawford's 29-year-old daughter, Christina ( who was then acting in New York on the CBS TV soap opera The Secret Storm ), needed immediate medical attention for a ruptured ovarian tumor.

She explicitly disinherited the two eldest, Christina and Christopher, writing " It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them.

Bette Davis supported Christina's version, saying that Christina could not have made it up ( Davis, while still alive, would later become the target of her own daughter B. D. Hyman's tell-all in 1985, My Mother's Keeper ).

* Queen Maria Christina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, regent of Spain after her husband's ( Ferdinand VII ) death while their daughter, the future Isabella II was a minor.

In 1276, Magnus Barnlock allegedly married a second wife Haelwig, daughter of Gerard I of Holstein ( through her mother Elisabeth of Mecklenburg, she was a descendant of Christina, the putative daughter of Sweartgar II of Sweden and Queen Wolfhilda, she a descendant of Aestrith Olofsdotter, Queen of Norway and daughter of Olaf Scotking of Sweden ).

John Pontifex was a carpenter ; his son George rises in the world to become a publisher ; George's son Theobald, pressed by his father to become a minister, is manipulated into marrying Christina, the daughter of a clergyman ; the main character Ernest Pontifex is the eldest son of Theobald and Christina.

* Skorpios Island, Ionian Sea-Burial site of 20th century's shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and his daughter Christina Onassis.

In 1592 he married his second wife Christina of Holstein-Gottorp ( 1573 – 1625 ), daughter of Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp ( 1526 – 1586 ) and Christine of Hesse ( 1543 – 1604 ) and first cousin of his previous wife.

* Front of name: Sometimes a nickname can come from the front: Chris from Christopher / Christina, Ed from Edward / Edmond / Edgar / Edwin, Iz or Izzy from Isaac / Isaiah / Isidore / Izale / Isabel / Isabella, Joe or Jo from Joseph / Josephine / Joanna, Abby from Abigail, Nick or Nico from Nicholas, Peg from Peggy, Sam from Samuel / Samantha / Samson

In the following year Samuel Bochart, being invited by Queen Christina of Sweden to her court at Stockholm, took his friend Huet with him.

Her youthful ambition had been to be the greatest English poetess, and her first publications were poems in the manner of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Walter Scott ( Miscellaneous Verses, 1810, reviewed by Scott in the Quarterly ; Christina, the Maid of the South Seas, a metrical tale based on the first news of discovery of the last surviving mutineer of the H. M. S. Bounty and a generation of British-Tahitian children on Pitcairn Island in 1811 ; and Blanche part of a projected series of ' Narrative poems on the Female Character ,' 1813 ).

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