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Iris (given Name)
Iris (from Greek , the messenger of the gods among themselves and the personification of , the "rainbow") is a feminine name. It came into use in English-speaking countries in the 1500s in reference to the goddess and the coloring of the iris of the eye. It is also in use in Germany. It is also used in reference to the flowering plant. Its diminutive or pet form is Irie. It was the 77th most popular name given to baby girls in England and Wales in 2020 and was the 127th most popular name given to baby girls born in the United States in 2020. It has also ranked among the top 100 names given to baby girls in Belgium, Catalonia, France, Iceland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden during the past decade. Iris may refer to: People *Iris Adrian (1912–1994), American actress * Iris Apfel (born 1921), American fashion icon * Iris von Arnim (born 1945), German fashion designer *Iris Ashley (1909–1994), Irish-born British stage and film actress *Iris Apatow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfons Mucha
Alfons Maria Mucha (; 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known internationally as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters, particularly those of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels, as well as designs, which became among the best-known images of the period. In the second part of his career, at the age of 57, he returned to his homeland and devoted himself to a series of twenty monumental canvases known as '' The Slav Epic'', depicting the history of all the Slavic peoples of the world, which he painted between 1912 and 1926. In 1928, on the 10th anniversary of the independence of Czechoslovakia, he presented the series to the Czech nation. He considered it his most important work. Early life Mucha was born on 24 July 1860 in the small town of Ivančice in southern Moravia, then a province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netherlands
) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherlands , established_title2 = Act of Abjuration , established_date2 = 26 July 1581 , established_title3 = Peace of Münster , established_date3 = 30 January 1648 , established_title4 = Kingdom established , established_date4 = 16 March 1815 , established_title5 = Liberation Day , established_date5 = 5 May 1945 , established_title6 = Kingdom Charter , established_date6 = 15 December 1954 , established_title7 = Caribbean reorganisation , established_date7 = 10 October 2010 , official_languages = Dutch , languages_type = Regional languages , languages_sub = yes , languages = , languages2_type = Recognised languages , languages2_sub = yes , languages2 = , demonym = Dutch , capital = Amsterdam , largest_city = capital , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar
Iris Yassmin Barrios Aguilar is a judge and the president of one of Guatemala’s two High Risk Court Tribunals. She was the presiding judge in the case of Efraín Ríos Montt, a former dictator of Guatemala. In that trial Montt was found guilty of the genocide of indigenous Ixil Mayans; the verdict came in 2013. The trial was the first time a national judiciary tried a former head of state for genocide in his home country. However, on May 20, 2013, the Constitutional Court of Guatemala overturned the conviction, voiding all proceedings back to April 19 and ordering that the trial be "reset" to that point, pending a dispute over the recusal of judges. Officials have said that Ríos Montt's trial will resume in January 2015. Barrios received a 2014 International Women of Courage award. As of April 2014 her judicial authority was suspended for a year due to a complaint against her by a lawyer who was involved in the trial of the President and war criminal Efraín Ríos Montt. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Bannochie
Iris Bannochie (1914 – 1988) was a Barbados, Barbadian horticulturalist who was the leading expert on horticulture on the island of Barbados. Life Iris Bradshaw was born in Grenada in 1914 of Barbadian parents and apart from her early childhood, lived all her life in Barbados. She married Harry Bayley in 1935 (the founder of the Bayley Diagnostic Clinic, Beckles Road and memorialised in the Harry Bayley Observatory at Clapham). She worked very closely with her husband Dr. Harry Bayley building the Bayley Diagnostic Clinic and taking on the roles as Hospital Administrator and Laboratory Technologist. Iris Bayley was a self taught scientist and published the definitive description of the unique embryology of the whistling frog which has no tadpole stage. Harry Bayley was seeing in his hospital lots of very sick children and discovered in a lot of cases "the child had caught a cold and was given Bush Tea to make them better". Iris was dispatched to investigate Bush Teas in Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Bahr
Iris most often refers to: *Iris (anatomy), part of the eye * Iris (mythology), a Greek goddess * ''Iris'' (plant), a genus of flowering plants *Iris (color), an ambiguous color term Iris or IRIS may also refer to: Arts and media Fictional entities * Iris (''American Horror Story''), an ''American Horror Story: Hotel'' character * Iris (''Fire Force''), a character in the manga series ''Fire Force'' * Iris (''Mega Man''), a ''Mega Man X4'' character ** Iris, a ''Mega Man Battle Network'' character * Iris (''Pokémon'') ** Iris (''Pokémon'' anime) * Iris, a '' Trolls: The Beat Goes On!'' character * Sorceress Iris, a ''Magicians of Xanth'' character * Iris, a kaiju character in '' Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris'' * Iris, a '' LoliRock'' character * Iris, a '' Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals'' (1995) character * Iris, a '' Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney − Trials and Tribulations'' character * Iris, a ''Ruby Gloom'' character * Iris, a ''Taxi Driver'' (1976) character * Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Apatow
Iris Apatow (; born October 12, 2002) is an American actress and socialite. She portrayed Arya Hopkins in the Netflix series ''Love'' and Krystal Kris in the 2022 Netflix film '' The Bubble''. She is the second daughter of filmmaker Judd Apatow and actress Leslie Mann. Her sister is ''Euphoria'' actress Maude Apatow. Early life Iris Apatow was born on October 12 2002 to actress Leslie Mann and filmmaker Judd Apatow. Her sister is fellow actress Maude Apatow, who she worked with on'' This is 40'','' Funny People'', and '' Knocked Up''. She graduated high school in 2021. Career Apatow began acting at the age of 5, when she appeared as Charlotte in the film ''Knocked Up'', which was directed by her father, Judd Apatow. In 2016, Apatow appeared on the Netflix series ''Love'' as Arya Hopkins, the young star of a TV series. In 2021, Apatow appeared in the concert film ''SOUR Prom'' by American singer Olivia Rodrigo. In 2022, Apatow played Krystal Kris, a TikTok superstar wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Ashley
Iris Ashley (1909–1994) was an Irish-born British stage and film actress. She was born Iris Blanche Stafford Northcote in Trellis Cottage, Rushbrooke, Queenstown (now Cobh), County Cork to Captain Leonard Augustus Stafford Northcote and Lilian Cora Van Praagh. She made an appearance on the BBC's television game show ''Call My Bluff'' in 1968. Filmography * '' An Obvious Situation'' (1930) * ''Never Trouble Trouble'' (1931) * ''Poor Old Bill'' (1931) * ''Nine Till Six'' (1932) * '' The Lodger'' (1932) * ''Heads We Go'' (1933) * ''The Song You Gave Me'' (1933) * ''The Warren Case'' (1934) * ''Royal Cavalcade'' (1935) * '' The Student's Romance'' (1935) * ''Me and Marlborough'' (1935) * ''I Give My Heart ''I Give My Heart'' (US-Title: ''The Loves of Madame Dubarry'') is a 1935 British historical film adapted from the stage operetta ''The DuBarry'' by Carl Millöcker and arranged by Theo Mackeben. Directed by Marcel Varnel, and produced by Brit ...'' (1935) * '' Blind Man's Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Von Arnim
Iris Von Arnim (born 25 January 1945 in Berbisdorf ( Dziwiszów), Silesia, today Poland) is an internationally acclaimed German fashion designer. History von Arnim's career began in the early 1976 when she began knitting while recovering in a hospital from a car accident. In 1976 she opened a small boutique in Munich, and debuted her collection at the CPD fashion fair in Düsseldorf. In the early 1980s, she revolutionized the German knitwear market with previously unknown intarsia and bold color combinations, and was among the first designers to introduce cashmere in Germany, which earned her the moniker “The Cashmere-Queen.” Since 1990, her knitwear collection has been complemented by matching woven and dress collections. Today, Iris Von Arnim delivers to over 200 exclusive boutiques and department stores globally, she has her own production site in Italy and mono stores in Munich, Vienna and Kampen, Sylt. She lives in Hamburg, Germany and heads the largest European young de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Apfel
Iris Apfel ( Barrel; born August 29, 1921) is an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion icon. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel led a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies. In retirement, she drew acclaim for a 2005 show at the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring her collection of costume jewelry and styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear it. She has become a fashion icon, she signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97, and she was featured in a 2014 documentary called ''Iris'' by Albert Maysles. Early life Born Iris Barrel in Astoria, Queens, New York on August 29, 1921, Apfel is the only child of Samuel Barrel (1897–1967), whose family owned a glass and mirror business, and his Russian-born wife, Sadye Barrel (née Asofsky) (1898–1998), who owned a fashion boutique. Both were Jewish. Although raised on a farm by her parents and grandparent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iris Adrian
Iris Adrian Hostetter (May 29, 1912 – September 17, 1994) was an American stage, film actress and dancer. Life and career Adrian was an only child, born in Los Angeles, California, to Florence (née Van Every) and Adrian Earl Hostetter, who wed in 1909 in Los Angeles. She was raised by her single mother in Los Angeles. She was a graduate of Hollywood High School. Adrian won a beauty pageant, worked with the Ziegfeld Follies, and performed with Fred Waring before she entered films at the end of the silent era in ''Chasing Husbands'' (1928) and appeared as an extra or chorus girl in early sound films like ''Paramount on Parade'' (1930). During the 1930s she specialised in playing hard-boiled gals, glamorous gold-diggers, and gangsters' "molls". She played supporting roles in numerous features. She played "Gee-Gee Graham" in ''Lady of Burlesque''. In the Jerry Lewis comedy, ''The Errand Boy'', she played a glamorous movie star "Anastasia Anastasia", whose on-set birthday party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by Øresund Bridge, a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the List of European countries by area, fifth-largest country in Europe. The Capital city, capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including List of largest lakes of Europ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
