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Euphémie Daguile
Euphemia was a virgin martyr, who died for her faith at Chalcedon in 303 AD. Euphemia, also rendered as Eufemia and Eupham, may also refer to: People * Euphemia (empress) * Euphemia (given name) * Euphémie (given name) Surname * Catarina Eufémia (1928–1954), Portuguese peasant who became a symbol of Portuguese communists * Frank Eufemia (born 1959), retired Major League Baseball relief pitcher Fictional characters * Effie Munro, in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" * Effie Perine, detective Sam Spade's secretary in '' The Maltese Falcon'' * Euphemia, in the 2022 film adaption of ''Death on the Nile'' * Euphemia li Britannia, in the anime series ''Code Geass'' Other uses * , a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1919 * 630 Euphemia, a minor planet * Euphemia (typeface), included in OS X * "Euphemia", song by Area 11 from the albums ''Blackline'' and ''All the Lights in the Sky'' * Gulf of Saint Euphemia, an Italian gulf See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphemia
Euphemia (; 'well-spoken f), known as Euphemia the All-praised in the Eastern Orthodox Church, was a virgin martyr, who died for her faith at Chalcedon in 303 AD. According to tradition, Euphemia was martyred for refusing to offer sacrifices to Ares. She was arrested and after suffering various tortures, died in the arena at Chalcedon from a wound sustained from a bear. Her tomb became a site of pilgrimages. She is commemorated on September 16. Historical background Euphemia's name and year of death are recorded in the 5th century '' Martyrologium Hieronymianum'', the earliest extant list of Christian martyrs. The year, 303, was the first year of the Great Persecution under Roman emperor Diocletian. The '' Fasti vindobonenses'', a collection of liturgical documents from the 4th to 6th centuries, says she died on the 16th of October. Other than this, there is no verifiable historical information about Euphemia. Egeria, who made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land about 381-384 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphemia (empress)
Euphemia (Greek: Εὐφημία, died 523 or 524), born Lupicina, was an Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire by marriage to Justin I. Empress Euphemia is credited with the ecclesiastical policies of Justin and she founded a Church of Saint Euphemia, where she was buried following her death, probably in either 523 or 524. Justin was buried by her side in 527. Early life Her original name was Lupicina, according to Procopius and Victor of Tunnuna. According to the ''Secret History'' of Procopius, Lupicina was both a slave and a barbarian. He asserted that she had been the concubine of her owner.Procopius, "Secret History", Chapter 6.17 The information from the ''Secret History'' was published posthumously. The seven volumes of histories that were published in his lifetime were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphemia (given Name)
Euphemia, also spelled Eufemia (given name), Eufemia, is a feminine given name of Greek language, Greek origin meaning "well spoken", from a combination of the Greek word elements ''eu '', meaning "good", and ''phēmí'', "to speak". Several early Christian saints were called Euphemia. The name was in vogue in the Anglosphere during the 1800s and has traditionally been particularly well-used in Scotland. Variant forms Effie and Eppie are diminutives. Effemy was an English vernacular form. Other diminutives include Euphie, Femie and Phemie. Other Scottish vernacular forms in use were Euphame or Eupheme. Variants in other languages include the Albanian Efimia and Efthimia, Brazilian Portuguese Eufêmia, French Euphémie (given name), Euphémie, Greek Effimia, Italian and Spanish Eufemia, European Portuguese Eufémia, Russian Evfimia, Evfimiya, or Yevfimiya, with diminutives Fima or Fimka, Serbian Jefimija, and Ukrainian Yevfymiya. Usage Euphemia, a traditional name in Scotland, wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euphémie (given Name)
Euphémie, Anglicized as Euphemie, is a feminine given name, a French version of the name Euphemia, which is a Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ... name meaning ''well spoken'', from a combination of the Greek word elements ''eu '', meaning ''good'', and ''phēmí'', meaning ''to speak''. Notable people with the name include: * Euphémie Daguilh (died 1834), Haitian composer and choreographer, mistress of Emperor Jean-Jacques Dessalines * Euphémie Muraton (1836–1914), French painter Notes {{Given name French feminine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catarina Eufémia
Catarina Efigénia Sabino Eufémia (; February 13, 1928May 19, 1954) was an illiterate harvester from Alentejo, Portugal, who was murdered during a worker's strike by lieutenant Carrajola of the Guarda Nacional Republicana in Monte do Olival, Baleizão, in Beja, Portugal, Beja, Alentejo. Catarina had three children, one eight months old, who was with her when she was shot. The historic tragedy of Catarina came to personify the resistance movement against the Estado Novo (Portugal), regime of António de Oliveira Salazar, Salazar. She was adopted as an Cultural icon, icon by the Partido Comunista Português, Portuguese Communist Party in Alentejo. Poets Sophia de Mello Breyner, Carlos Aboim Inglez, Eduardo Valente da Fonseca, Francisco Miguel Duarte, José Carlos Ary dos Santos, Maria Luísa Vilão Palma and António Vicente Campinas have all dedicated poems to her. António Vicente Campinas' "''Cantar Alentejano''" was put to music by Zeca Afonso on the album "''Cantigas de Maio' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Eufemia
Frank Anthony Eufemia (born December 23, 1959) is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher who played in 39 games for the Minnesota Twins in the season. Eufemia grew up in Bergenfield, New JerseyHertzel, Bob"Eufemia Playing For Purest Motives" ''The Record (Bergen County)'', March 2, 1995. Accessed June 24, 2007. "Frank Eufemia once was a major league pitcher. Today the right-hander from Bergenfield becomes a replacement pitcher." and attended Bergenfield High School. He was drafted by the Twins in the 18th round of the 1982 MLB draft. His 1985 season was his only one in the majors; he returned to the minor leagues with the Toledo Mud Hens, the Twins’ Triple-A affiliate, for 1986 and was out of baseball the next season. In 1992, Eufemia returned to organized baseball in the New York Mets’ minor league system, pitching for the Tidewater Tides. He once again left baseball following the season and never pitched in a major league team’s system again, althoug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Adventure Of The Yellow Face
"The Adventure of the Yellow Face", one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from ''The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes''. It was first published in ''The Strand Magazine'' in the United Kingdom in February 1893, and in ''Harper's Weekly'' in the United States on 11 February 1893. One of Doyle's sentimental pieces, the story is remarkable in that Holmes' deduction during the course of it proves incorrect. According to Dr. Watson: ...where he failed it happened too often that no one else succeeded... Now and again, however, it chanced that even when he erred the truth was still discovered. Plot Sherlock Holmes, bored due to a want of cases, returns home from a walk with Dr. Watson early in spring to find he has missed a visitor but that the caller has left his pipe behind. From it, Holmes deduces that he was disturbed of mind (because he forgot the pipe); that he valued it highly (because he had repaired it with silver bands w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maltese Falcon (novel)
''The Maltese Falcon'' is a 1930 detective novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett, originally serialized in the magazine '' Black Mask'' beginning with the September 1929 issue. The story is told entirely in external third-person narrative; there is no description whatsoever of any character's thoughts or feelings, only what they say and do, and how they look. The novel has been adapted several times for the cinema. It is considered part of the hardboiled genre, which Hammett played a major part in popularizing. Plot Sam Spade is a private detective in San Francisco, in partnership with Miles Archer. The beautiful "Miss Wonderley" hires them to follow Floyd Thursby, who she claims has run off with her sister. Archer takes the first stint but is found shot dead that night. Thursby is also killed later and Spade is a suspect. The next morning, Spade coolly tells his office secretary, Effie Perine, to have the office door repainted to read simply "Samuel Spade". "Miss Wonderl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
