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Curzon may refer to: People Americans * Aria Curzon (born 1987), American actress * Walter de Curzon Poultney (1845–1929), one of Baltimore, Maryland's most colorful and flamboyant high-society members Britons * Christopher Curzon (born 1958), retired English cricketer * Clifford Curzon (1907–1982), English classical pianist * Ephraim Curzon ( — unknown), English soldier and rugby footballer * Frederic Curzon (1899–1973), English composer, conductor and musician * George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), British statesman, who served as the Governor General of India * Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1885–1958), United States-born British marchioness * Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston (1870–1906), British peeress of American background * Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810–1873), English traveller, diplomat and author * Sarah Anne Curzon (1833–1898), British-born Canadian poet, journalist, editor, and playwright * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aria Curzon
Aria Noelle Curzon is an American actress. She is known for her voice roles as Ducky in ''The Land Before Time'' franchise, Teresa ("The Cornchip Girl") in ''Recess (TV series), Recess'', and Mandy Straussberg in the radio drama ''Adventures in Odyssey''. She has received three Young Artist Award, Young Artist of Hollywood Awards, two CARE Awards, and one Clio Awards, CLIO Award. Life and career At age six, Curzon realized her interest in acting and performing while watching one of her favorite Shirley Temple videos. With her mother's help and care, she began auditioning and began her acting career in a Crayola commercial in addition to acting. She is also a musician, singing and learning both guitar and fiddle, and is a prize-winning Irish dancing, Irish dancer. She has guest starred on many television shows, including ''Gigantic (TV series), Gigantic'', ''Without A Trace'', ''JAG (TV series), JAG'', ''The Pretender (TV series), The Pretender'', and ''Sabrina, the Teenage Wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham Curzon Street Railway Station
Birmingham Curzon Street railway station is the planned northern terminus of High Speed 2 on the fringe of Birmingham city centre, England. The new railway will connect Birmingham to via and . Curzon Street will have seven terminal platforms and was planned to open in 2026, though delays have pushed this back to 2029–33. The station, the design for which has been developed by WSP and Grimshaw Architects, will be surrounded by new public spaces, include a pedestrian link to the adjacent railway station, and be integrated with an extended West Midlands Metro tram network. Birmingham City Council plans to use the location of the new station to promote development within the city, especially the redevelopment of the Eastside and Digbeth areas. History Site The station will be constructed on land bounded by Curzon Street, Eastside Park & Moor Street Queensway, built partially on the site of the former Curzon Street railway station, historically the first station se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curzon Cinemas
Curzon Cinemas Limited () is a chain of movie theater, cinemas based in the United Kingdom, mostly in London, specialising in Art films, art house films. They also have a video on demand service, Curzon Home Cinema. History Curzon Cinemas were established in 1934 when Harold Wingate, who imported unknown films during the post World War I period, opened the first Curzon Mayfair Cinema, cinema in Mayfair. The second location, Curzon Bloomsbury, opened in 1972. In 2006, Philip Knatchbull acquired Curzon Cinemas and Curzon acquired film distributor, Artificial Eye. On 23 December 2019, American-based Charles S. Cohen, Cohen Media Group acquired Curzon from Knatchbull, including Curzon Artificial Eye, but Knatchbull remained as chief executive officer until 2023. In February 2024, American investment firm Fortress Investment Group sued Cohen Realty Enterprises for defaulting on loans amounting to $534 million. Fortress then requested the New York Supreme Court to grant a motion for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Curzon may refer to: People Americans * Aria Curzon (born 1987), American actress * Walter de Curzon Poultney (1845–1929), one of Baltimore, Maryland's most colorful and flamboyant high-society members Britons * Christopher Curzon (born 1958), retired English cricketer * Clifford Curzon (1907–1982), English classical pianist * Ephraim Curzon ( — unknown), English soldier and rugby footballer * Frederic Curzon (1899–1973), English composer, conductor and musician * George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859–1925), British statesman, who served as the Governor General of India * Grace Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston (1885–1958), United States-born British marchioness * Mary Curzon, Baroness Curzon of Kedleston (1870–1906), British peeress of American background * Robert Curzon, 14th Baron Zouche (1810–1873), English traveller, diplomat and author * Sarah Anne Curzon (1833–1898), British-born Canadian poet, journalist, editor, and playwright ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curzon Film
Curzon Film (), formerly known as Artificial Eye or Curzon Artificial Eye, is a British film distributor, specialising in independent, foreign-language and art house films for cinema and home entertainment. History Artificial Eye was founded in 1976 by Andi Engel (11 November 1942 – 26 December 2006), a German-born film enthusiast, and his then wife, Pamela Balfry, who had a background working with Richard Roud at the London Film Festival. She became the company's first managing director. In 2006 Artificial Eye became a part of Curzon World, a group of companies in the film entertainment industry which also includes the Curzon chain of cinemas, video on demand service Curzon Home Cinema, the retail DVD distributor Fusion Media Sales, and horror film distributor Chelsea Films (launched in 2010).Curzon group website Retrieved 2015-10-27 Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curzon, Vendée
Curzon () is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France. Geography The river Lay forms the commune's eastern border. See also *Communes of the Vendée department The following is a list of the 253 communes of the Vendée department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Vendée {{Vendée-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curzon, Missouri
Curzon is an extinct community in southern Holt County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it border ...; it was located between Forest City and Forbes. History The area was settled as early as 1865 and a post office called Curzon was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1915. The community has the name of John C. Curzon, a pioneer settler. Curzon had a railroad station on the Burlington railroad. The site was alternatively known as "Curzon Switch" and a plat was never filed for this settlement. References Former populated places in Holt County, Missouri Former populated places in Missouri {{HoltCountyMO-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woody Point, Newfoundland And Labrador
Woody Point is a town located in the heart of Gros Morne National Park, on the western coast of Newfoundland. Situated on Bonne Bay, the Town of Woody Point encompasses three areas: Curzon Village, Woody Point and Winterhouse Brook. It has a total population of 244 residents. Woody Point is a Registered Heritage District and has a waterfront with many heritage buildings and four Registered Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Structures. The community is served by Route 431. History French Shore Europeans were slow to settle the west coast of Newfoundland. The British were concentrated on the east coast, and the French were on the Grand Banks. The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht gave the French some area on the west coast which was extended in 1783 to the entire coast. British settlement was spreading, as well. In 1800 the first British settlement in the Bonne Bay area occurred in Woody Point with the establishment of the firm of Joseph Bird from Sturminster Newton. He had an agent and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curzon Street
Curzon Street is a street in Mayfair, London, within the W1J postcode district, that ranges from Fitzmaurice Place, past Shepherd Market, to Park Lane. It is named after Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 2nd Baronet, who inherited the landholding during 1715. More houses were built there during the 1720s. History Curzon Street has been home to notable members of the peerage. Chesterfield House was built there during 1748 for Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield but was demolished in 1937 when its site was redeveloped as an apartment block. Other residences on Curzon Street included those of Lord Hothfield, the Duke of Grafton, the Earl Verney, Lord Leconfield, Lady Blessington, Alfred de Rothschild, Lord Blythswood and the Earl of Inchcape. Its east contains Crewe House, formerly named Wharncliffe House, that was rebuilt in 1750 and later named after the Countess of Wharncliffe, that is now the Saudi Arabian Embassy. On the opposite side of the street, until 1894, stood C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curzon Hall
Curzon Hall is a British Raj-era building and the home of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Dhaka, located in Shahbagh. The building was originally intended to be a town hall and is named after Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India who laid its foundation stone in 1904. Upon the establishment of Dacca University in 1921, it became the base of the university's science faculty. History In 1904 it was decided to shift Dhaka College to Nimatoli. Therefore, it is planned to construct this building as a college library near the proposed site for relocation. As a library, the building was named after the Governor General of British India, Lord Curzon, by the princes of Bhawal Estate who paid 0.15 million rupees. On 19 February that year, Lord Curzon came to Dhaka and laid its foundation stone. The following year, as the partition of Bengal was finalized, a new province called East Bengal and Assam was formed with Dhaka as its capital. As a result, the importance of Curzon Hal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon
The Curzon Cinema & Arts, in Clevedon, North Somerset, England, is one of the oldest continually running purpose-built cinemas in the world. History Opened on 20 April 1912 by Victor Cox, the original building had 200 seats and the first show raised funds for the survivors and relatives of those who were lost at sea earlier in the month on the RMS ''Titanic''. Its first projector was gas powered, but in subsequent years the building was improved with the addition of extra seating (bringing the total number of seats to 389), and was the first public building in the town to have electricity, which also saw the projector upgraded to run on electricity. Between 1920 and 1922, a new cinema was built on the site (without interruption to the nightly programme of films). The building, still in use to this day, has a row of shops along the front, the Oak Room Cafe above, and facilities for stage shows. The cinema was the site of Clevedon's only fatality due to enemy action in the Sec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birmingham Curzon Street Railway Station (1838–1966)
Birmingham Curzon Street railway station (formerly Birmingham station) was a railway station in central Birmingham, England. Initially used as a major early passenger terminus before being eclipsed by newer facilities and converted into a goods depot, it was a continuously active railway facility up until 1966. The station was jointly built and operated by the London and Birmingham Railway (L&BR) and the Grand Junction Railway (GJR), being the meeting point between the two railways, as well as the terminus for the first intercity line to be built into London. As such, it served as a joint terminal station, terminus for the scheduled passenger trains of both companies to major destinations such as London, Manchester and Liverpool, between 1838 and 1854. It was formally opened on 24 June 1838, with trains running only as far as Rugby, Warwickshire, Rugby, and received its first train from London on 17 September of that year. Being incapable of permitting through trains, it quickly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
