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Felicia
The name Felicia derives from the Latin adjective '' felix'', meaning "happy, lucky", though in the neuter plural form ''felicia'' it literally means "happy things" and often occurred in the phrase ''tempora felicia'', "happy times". The sense of it as a feminine personal name appeared in post-Classical use and is of uncertain origin. It is associated with saints, poets, astronomical objects, plant genera, fictional characters, and animals, especially cats. Cultural associations The name has been in regular use and was particularly popular with Spanish speakers in the United States in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It remained among the 1,000 most popular names for American girls until 2005 but has since declined in use. The name was among the top 10 most popular names for girls in Sweden in the 1990s and remained among the top 100 names for Swedish girls until 2022. The name is associated in American English with “Bye, Felicia”, an informal phrase and internet meme intende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bye, Felicia
In American English, the phrase "Bye, Felicia" or "Bye, Felisha" is an informal phrase and internet meme intended as a dismissive send-off, wherein a person or idea is rendered so unimportant his or her name is reduced to "Felicia." According to Ice Cube, who starred in ''Friday'' and co-wrote its script, "'Bye, Felicia' ..is the phrase to get anyone out fyour face that's saying something stupid". Nicole Richie said "Felicia is, like, some random that you just do not even care about." Origin The phrase originally comes from a scene in the 1995 American comedy film ''Friday'' in which Ice Cube's character says "Bye, Felisha" to dismiss Angela Means' character, Felisha. Due to the phrase being spread orally, it was incorrectly recorded as "Bye Felicia", now the most popular variation. In an interview with ''Vibe'' magazine to commemorate the film's 20th anniversary, Means said she believes the phrase wasn't in the script and Ice Cube ad-libbed the line "based off what I gav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Montealegre Bernstein
Felicia Montealegre Bernstein ( Felicia María Cohn Montealegre; February 6, 1922 – June 16, 1978) was an American actress born in Costa Rica.National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Decimal Files, compiled 1910–1949; Record Group: 59, General Records of the Department of State, 1763–2002; Series ARC ID: 2555709; Series MLR Number: A1 3001; Series Volume Number: 345; F. Montealegre appeared in televised dramas and theatrical roles. She also performed with symphony orchestras in dramatic acting and narrating roles. Her collaborators included her husband Leonard Bernstein. Early life and education Felicia María Cohn Montealegre was born on February 6, 1922, in San José, Costa Rica. Her mother, Clemencia Cristina Montealegre Carazo, was Costa Rican; her father, Roy Elwood Cohn, was a United States mining executive stationed in Costa Rica. Felicia had two sisters, Nancy Alessandri and Madeline Lecaros. Mariano Montealegre Bustamante, the first vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity (given Name)
Felicity is a feminine given name of English origin meaning "happiness". It is derived from the Latin word ''felicitas'' meaning "luck, good fortune". It is also used as a form of the Latin name Felicitas, taken from the name of the Ancient Roman goddess Fortuna. It was also the name of Saint Felicity of Rome, a 2nd-century saint venerated by the Roman Catholic Church. The Latin Felicia, a related name, is a feminine form of the name Felix, which is derived from an Ancient Roman cognomen meaning "lucky," or "successful." Traditional English diminutives include Fee, Flick, Flicka, Fliss, Flissy, Flossie, Flossy, Liccy, Liss, Lissa, Lissie, and Lissy, among others. Usage Prior to the Victorian era, Felicia and its vernacular form Felice were the most commonly used forms of the name in English-speaking countries. Some forms of the name such as Philicia became associated with the etymologically unrelated name Phyllis. The name Felicity was used by English Puritans from the late 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Bond
Felicia Bond (born July 18, 1954 in Yokohama, Japan) is an American writer and illustrator of numerous books for children. She is the illustrator of all the ''If You Give...'' series written by Laura Numeroff and published by HarperCollins Children's Books. Early life Bond was born to American parents in Yokohama, Japan, where she lived for two years. She grew up in Bronxville, New York and Houston, Texas with her four brothers and two sisters. At age five she observed a beam of light coming in her bedroom window and knew that art was her calling. She cites numerous inspirations as a child, among them the covers of ''The New Yorker'', the drawings in her ''Girl Scouts of the USA, Girl Scout Handbook'', the sketches her mother drew for her and her siblings, and the art in children's books. She was especially drawn to the painterly, expressive style of Ludwig Bemelmans in his ''Madeline'' books, and the sensitive ink drawings by Garth Williams in ''Charlotte's Web'' and ''Stuart L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Abban
Felicia Ewuraesi Abban (; 1936/1937 – 4 January 2024) was Ghana's first female professional photographer. She worked as a photographer for the country's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, for a number of years during the 1960s. Early life Felicia Abban was born in the Western Region of Ghana and grew up in a seaside town named Sekondi-Takoradi. She was the eldest of six children and quickly followed her father's, J.E. Ansah, footsteps in photography and became his apprentice at the age of 14. Abban studied under him for the next four years working on her craft and at the age of 18, she relocated from Takoradi to Accra, where she set up her own studio. In a few months she opened up her business, "Mrs. Felicia Abban's Day and Night Quality Art Studio" in the centre of Jamestown, Accra in 1955. Felicia's husband, Richard Abban, designed the fabric with Kwame Nkrumah's portrait on flowers with a map of Ghana for the country's independence celebrations in 1957. Abban's studio was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Nimue Ackerman
Felicia Nimue Ackerman (born 1947) is an American author, poet, and philosopher and professor of philosophy at Brown University. She is a prolific writer of letters to the editor of ''The New York Times.'' Early life and education Ackerman, the daughter of Willis and Rachel Ackerman, was born in Ohio in 1947. She received her A.B., ''summa cum laude'', from Cornell University in 1968, and earned her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1976. Regarding her name, she writes, "Felicia Nimue is a double first name like Mary Jane, and I'm called the whole thing". She named herself, "after Nimue, the Lady of the Lake. She explains that she changed her name 'partly because I like her and partly because it was pretty,' and follows with, 'I named myself. After all, your parents have nothing to go on when they name you, because they don’t know you!'" Selected publications Ackerman's research interests center on the philosophy of literature, bioethics, and moral psyc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Adeyoyin
Felicia Adebola Adeyoyin (6 November 1938 – 1 May 2021) was a University of Lagos professor and a princess from the Iji ruling house of Saki, Oyo State. She was the author of the Nigerian national pledge. Early life Felicia Awujoola was born on 6 November 1938 in Ogbomoso, Oyo State. She attended Idi-Aba a Christian Baptist School from 1953 and graduated in 1957 from its teacher programme. In 1965 she married Solomon Adedeji Adeyoyin, who had attended Idi-Aba's brother school, the Baptist Boys' High School. Education She received her Bachelor's Degree with honors in Geography from Birkbeck, University of London in 1968 and then her Diploma of Education at the same university in 1976, followed by an M.A. in Social Studies from Columbia University, New York in 1977, before finally earning her PhD in 1981 from the University of Lagos. Career Adeyoyin was Professor of Education at the University of Lagos and a consultant for the United Nations. In 1976, she wrote the pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Afrăsiloaie
Felicia Afrăsiloaie-Jitianu (born 16 January 1954) is a retired Romanian rower. Competing in quadruple scull A quadruple sculling boat, often simply called a quad and abbreviated as a 4x, is a racing shell used in the sport of competitive rowing. It is designed for four people who propel the boat by sculling with two oars, or "sculls", one in each ha ...s she won a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics followed by a silver at the 1977 World Championships. She retired in 1978 after a car accident. References External links * * * * 1954 births Living people Sportspeople from Piatra Neamț Romanian female rowers Olympic rowers for Romania Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in rowing World Rowing Championships medalists for Romania Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics 20th-century Romanian sportswomen {{Romania-rowing-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
''If You Give a Mouse a Cookie'' is an American children's picture book written by Laura Joffe Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond, first published in 1985 by Harper and Row. Described as a "circular tale", illustrating a slippery slope, it is Numeroff and Bond's first collaboration in what came to be the ''If You Give...'' series. Plot The entire story is told in second person. A boy gives a cookie to a mouse. The mouse asks for a glass of milk. He then requests a straw (to drink the milk), a napkin and then a mirror (to avoid a milk mustache), nail scissors (to trim his hair in the mirror), and a broom (to sweep up his hair trimmings). Next, he wants to take a nap, have a story read to him, draw a picture, and hang the drawing on the refrigerator. Looking at the refrigerator makes him thirsty, so the mouse asks for a glass of milk. The circle is complete when he wants a cookie to go with it. Art The text was interpreted by illustrator Felicia Bond to show the incre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Adjei
Felicia Adjei (born 3 March 1974) is a Ghanaian politician and the Member of Parliament for Kintampo South Constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa. It is situated along the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean to the south, and shares borders with Côte d’Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to t .... She is a member of National Democratic Congress . Early life and education Adjei was born in Anyima, Brong Ahafo Region. She had her early education at the Kintampo Methodist School. She holds an advanced diploma in Catering,Food and Nutrition from the Adventist Vocational Institution now Techiman Campus of the Valley View University. She also holds a Cookery for Catering Industry diploma from the Sunyani Polytechnic now Sunyani Technical University. Career She moved to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
