User:JackofOz/Bits and Pieces page
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Miscellanea
Confusions
- W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh, Auberon Waugh
- Belinda Giblin, Rebecca Gibney, Rebecca Gilling
- Neil Armfield, Nick Enright
Liszt and Wagner's love affair with late December
- Marie d'Agoult, mistress and mother of Liszt's 3 children
- Born 31 December 1805
- Cosima Wagner, Liszt's daughter and second wife of Wagner
- Born 24 December 1837, but celebrated it on Christmas Day
- Mathilde Wesendonck, Wagner's muse and possible lover
- Born 23 December 1857
Ghastly British surnames
- Abicare
- Arbogast
- Arbuthnot
- Auchincloss
- Auchinleck
- Bagshaw
- Bassingthwaite
- Beckinsale
- Begbie
- Bickerstaff
- Bickersteth
- Birtwistle
- Bledisloe
- Blenkinsop
- Blennerhassett
- Bultitude
- Callister
- Carstairs
- Clissold
- Clitheroe
- Clutterbuck
- Cockburn
- Crapp
- Culpeper
- Dalgliesh
- Dawkins
- Grimsdyke
- Grimshaw
- Grimwade
- Grocock
- Higginbottom
- Hornibrook
- Horsfall
- Jimson
- Lillicrap
- McCluggage
- McGillicuddy
- McGurk
- Ollerenshaw
- Pennypacker
- Pettigrew
- Pickersgill
- Polkinghorne
- Ponsonby
- Prendergast
- Protheroe
- Pruitt
- Purvis
- Scammell
- Scrymgeour
- Shrubsole
- Smedley
- Smethurst
- Snodgrass
- Spruance
- Threlfall
- Throckmorton
- Throgmorton
- Titmarsh
- Tonks
- Trengove
- Trescothick
- Trubshaw
- Tunks
- Tuttle
- Twemlett
- Walkinshaw
- Wearne
- Whitbread
- Withers
- Witherspoon
- Wolstenholme
- Wormald
- Wotherspoon