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Florrie (other)
Florrie (born 1988) is an English pop singer-songwriter, drummer and model. Florrie is also a nickname for Florence or Flora and may refer to: People *Florrie Burke (1918–1995), Irish footballer *Florrie R. Burke, human rights advocate *Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905), British traveller, war correspondent, writer and feminist * Florrie Dugger, American child actress in the 1976 film ''Bugsy Malone'' * Florrie Evans (1884–1967), Welsh revivalist and missionary * Florrie Fisher (c. 1918–1972), American speaker, inspiration for ''Strangers with Candy'' character Jerri Blank * Florrie Forde (1875–1940), Australian popular singer and entertainer * Florrie O'Mahony (born 1933), Irish hurler * Florrie Redford (died 1969), English footballer and nurse * Florrie Rodrigo (1893–1996), Dutch dancer and choreographer Fictional characters *Florrie "Flo" Capp, wife of the title character in ''Andy Capp'', a British comic strip *Florrie Lindley, a former ''Coronation Street'' cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florrie
Florence Ellen Arnold (born 28 December 1988), better known as Florrie, is an English pop singer-songwriter, drummer and model. Closely associated with the Xenomania production house, since joining as their in-house drummer in 2008 she has played live and on record for popular artists such as Kylie Minogue, Girls Aloud and the Pet Shop Boys. In 2010, she began a solo career. She has drawn positive reaction from the online music community for releasing her own material in collaboration with remixers such as Fred Falke for download without charge. In 2010, Florrie released a four-track EP titled ''Introduction'', followed by the six-track EP ''Experiments'' in 2011, and by the four-track EP '' Late'' in 2012. In 2013, Florrie released a single, "Live a Little", that was used in promotion for Sony's XBA-C10 in-ear headphones campaign. In 2014, she announced that she had signed to a major label, Sony Music, and released an EP, ''Sirens''. Florrie has yet to release her debut album. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florrie O'Mahony
Florence O'Mahony (born 1933) was an Irish hurler who played for Cork Senior Championship club Blackrock and at inter-county level with the Cork senior hurling team. He usually lined out as a centre-back but could also be deployed as a right corner-forward. Honours ;Blackrock * Cork Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1956, 1961 ;Cork *Munster Senior Hurling Championship (1): 1956 * All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship (1): 1951 * Munster Minor Hurling Championship (1): 1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ... References 1933 births Living people Blackrock National Hurling Club hurlers Cork inter-county hurlers {{Cork-hurling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence Institute
The Florence Institute for Boys, known colloquially as The Florrie, is a local landmark and a Grade II listed building on Mill Street in Dingle, South Liverpool, England (). History Probably designed by H W Keef, it was built in 1889 by Sir Bernard Hall, a West Indies merchant, Alderman and former Mayor of Liverpool. His daughter Florence died while in Paris at the age of 22 and he built this boys' club as a memorial and tribute to her at his sole expense. The building itself was a fine example of late Victorian architecture with delicate use of terracotta, and originally it had splendid interiors, from the great hall to the top lit gym to the library. The Florence Institute was officially opened as a boys club in 1890, four years after the opening of a similar establishment, the Gordon Working Lads Institute in Kirkdale on the other side of the city. However it was the first building in Britain to be specifically constructed as a boys' youth club. As a magistrate Bernard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Minutes More (TV Series)
''Five Minutes More'' is a children's television series co-produced between Australia and the United Kingdom. It was produced by Snow River Media and Buster Dandy Productions, and developed by The Jim Henson Company. The series premiered on ABC on 23 August 2006. Broadcast on the Smile in United States of America. Synopsis The show starts off with one of the five animals telling a story: Faraway, an aardvark; Georgie, a penguin; Florrie, a dog; Sam, a monkey; and Louisa, a polar bear. Each story has a moral to it. Production All of the characters are puppets originally designed by Playhouse Disney Asia Disney Junior (formerly Playhouse Disney) was a Southeast Asian pay television preschool channel owned by The Walt Disney Company Asia-Pacific. Aimed mainly at children between ages 2 to 7 years old, its programming consisted of original first- ... in the South East Asia, and built by Solution Studios. All sets are cardboard and costumes are made with quilt fabric the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fimbles
''Fimbles'' is a British children's television series created and produced by Novel Entertainment. The series has 200 episodes, airing from 2002 to 2004 with repeats of the series airing until early 2012 on CBeebies. The Fimbles are Fimbo, Florrie and Baby Pom, magical characters who all live in a bright, lush, and colourful place called Fimble Valley. The production of the show itself was filmed at Bray Studios in Berkshire. The programme has been broadcast in over 100 countries, including Canada, China and all the countries in mainland Europe. About The series features three magical hippo/pig/ tapir-like hybrid creatures called the "Fimbles", who are portrayed by "skin" actors in complex, fluffy animatronic suits and all look quite similar apart from their colour and size. The characters explore Fimble Valley and can find things through a special " sixth sense". When the Tinkling Tree tinkles its bell A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Coronation Street Characters (1960)
'' Coronation Street'' is a British television soap opera/serial, initially produced by Granada Television. Created by screenwriter Tony Warren, ''Coronation Street'' first broadcast on ITV on 9 December 1960. The following is a list of characters introduced by Warren upon the series' inception, by order of first appearance. These include flame-haired siren and series first sex symbol Elsie Tanner (played by Patricia Phoenix), staunch up-tight battleaxe Ena Sharples, (played by Violet Carson), typically middle class town Mayor and publican landlady Annie Walker (played by Doris Speed), grumpy war veteran Albert Tatlock (played by Jack Howarth), and university graduate Ken Barlow (played by William Roache) - all of whom would go on to star in the series for twenty years or more. Another long term character was Minnie Caldwell (played by Margot Bryant), who would remain with the series for 16 years and also in the original line-up was loveable rogue Dennis Tanner (played by P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Capp
''Andy Capp'' is a British comic strip created by cartoonist Reg Smythe, seen in the ''Daily Mirror'' and the '' Sunday Mirror'' newspapers since 5 August 1957. Originally a single-panel cartoon, it was later expanded to four panels. The strip is syndicated internationally by Creators Syndicate. The character is also licensed as the mascot for a line of snack foods ( Andy Capp's fries). Characters and story *Andy (short for Andrew) Capp *Florrie "Flo" Capp (named after Florence Nightingale) *Chalkie White *Ruby "Rube" White *Percy Ritson, the rent collector *Jackie the barman *The Vicar *Flo's Mum (never seen) *Minor recurring characters include various constables, barmaids, barmen, referees, footballers, pub locals, door-to-door salesmen, debt collectors, job centre employees, and Guitar Bob. Andy is a working-class figure who never actually works, living in Hartlepool, a harbour town in County Durham, in North East England. The title of the strip is a pun on the local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florrie Rodrigo
Flora Juda Rodrigues, known as Florrie Rodrigo, (September 3, 1893 – July 11, 1996) was a Dutch dancer, choreographer, and educator considered to be one of the pioneers of modern dance in the Netherlands . The daughter of Mordechaij Rodrigues and Rebecca Reindorp, both diamond workers, she was born in Amsterdam. She became involved with De Universalisten, an artistic group based in Amsterdam. In 1920, she moved to Berlin. Her performance at an event there led to a month-long engagement at the cabaret Die Rakete. Rodrigo grew in popularity because her style of dance fitted with the Expressionist dance movement in Germany that was prevalent at the time. However, in 1924, due to growing anti-Semitism in Germany, she returned to Amsterdam, where she taught dance during the day and performed in the evenings. In 1926, she became involved with the social democratic Instituut voor Arbeiders-Ontwikkeling. Her 1933 performance of "Three Jewish Group Dances" was the first time that sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florrie Redford
Florrie Redford was an English footballer and nurse. She played for Dick, Kerr Ladies Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. was one of the earliest known women's association football teams in England. The team remained in existence for over 48 years, from 1917 to 1965, playing 833 games, winning 759, drawing 46, and losing 28. During its early ye ..., one of England's earliest professional women's association football teams. She was a leading goal scorer for the club in 1921, when she scored a total of 170 goals. In later life she worked as a nurse in Canada, returning to the team briefly in 1938. Early life Redford was born in Preston, Lancashire and, during the First World War, worked for Dick, Kerr & Co. producing munitions and other war supplies. During this time she and the other young women who made up the majority of the factory staff, men being largely drafted into the Army, played football during their meal breaks. Club career Most of the team members had full-time jobs and Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florrie Forde
Flora May Augusta Flannagan ( Flannagan; 16 August 187518 April 1940), known professionally as Florrie Forde, was an Australian popular singer and music hall entertainer. From 1897 she lived and worked in the United Kingdom. She was one of the most popular stars of the early 20th century music hall. Early life and career Forde was born in Fitzroy, Victoria, in 1875. She was the sixth of the eight children of Lott Flannagan, a stonemason, and Phoebe (née Simmons), who also had two children from a prior marriage. By 1878 her parents had separated and Phoebe married Thomas Ford, a theatrical costumier in 1888. Forde and some of her siblings were placed in a convent. At the age of sixteen, she ran away to live with an aunt in Sydney. When she appeared on the local music hall stage, she adopted her stepfather's surname but added an 'e'. One of her earliest vaudeville performances was as a singer in February 1892 at Polytechnic Music Hall in Pitt Street. According to ''The Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florence (given Name)
Florence is an androgynous French and English given name. It is derived from the French version of (Saint) ''Florentia'', a Roman martyr under Diocletian. The Latin ''florens, florentius'' means "blossoming", verb ''floreo'', meaning "I blossom / I flower / I flourish". Florence was in olden times also used as a translation of the Latin version Florentius, and may be used in this context as a male given name. A notable increase use of the name came in the aftermath of Florence Nightingale, a nurse in British hospitals during the Crimean War and is usually considered the founder of modern nursing. She was given the name because she was born in Florence, Italy. Contrary to popular belief, Nightingale was not the first person to be given this given name in the English speaking world. The wife of Richard de Wylughby, of London, was Florence, in 1349 A later example was Florence Wrey (d.1718), wife of John Cole of the Irish County of Fermanagh (married in 1707), who was herself name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florrie Fisher
Florence Louise Fisher Bacolod''Florida Death Index, 1877-1998'' (September 18, 1918 – May 26, 1972) was an American motivational speaker in the 1960s and 1970s who traveled to high schools in the United States, telling stories about her past as a heroin addict and prostitute. Her eccentric mannerisms and often lurid stories – which included tales of prostitution, jailhouse lesbianism, and botched abortions – made her into a cult figure in the late 1970s and 1980s, with VHS tapes of her speaking engagements becoming collector's items. Biography Fisher was born in Brooklyn, New York to Morris Banz Fisher (1878–1971) and Pauline Ginsberg Fisher (1891–1983), both Lithuanian Jews. Her father was a life insurance salesman who immigrated in 1896. Fisher said she had a series of short-lived marriages. She describes being married at least four separate times: first in a family-arranged marriage to a childhood friend named Joe Rosinsky; next, to her pimp, whom she identified in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
