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Christophine
Christophine is a feminine given name primarily of English origin but also with African and Latin roots. The name derives from Saint Christopher. Notable people with the name include: Real *Christophine Mutharika (died 1990), wife of politician Peter Mutharika * Christophine Reinwald (1757–1847), German artist *Johanne Christophine Stenersen (1855–1936), mother of naval officer Henry Diesen Fictional *Christophine, character from the 2016 film '' Arctic Heart.'' *Christophine, character from the 1941 film '' Premier rendez-vous.'' *Christophine, character from '' Wide Sargasso Sea'' (1966) by Jean Rhys See also * ''Christophene'', an alternative name for chayote * Christopher Christopher is the English language, English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek language, Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or ''Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Jesus ..., a given name * Christoph, a given name and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chayote
Chayote (; previously placed in the obsolete genus ''Sechium''), also known as christophine, mirliton, güisquil, and choko, is an edible plant belonging to the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae. This fruit was first cultivated in Mesoamerica between southern Mexico and Honduras, with the most genetic diversity available in both Mexico and Guatemala. It is one of several foods introduced to the Old World during the Columbian Exchange. At that time, the plant spread to other parts of the Americas, ultimately causing it to be integrated into the cuisine of many Latin American nations. The chayote fruit is mostly used cooked. When cooked, chayote is usually handled like summer squash; it is generally lightly cooked to retain the crispy consistency. Raw chayote may be added to salads or salsas, most often marinated with lemon or lime juice, but is often regarded as unpalatable and tough in texture. Whether raw or cooked, chayote is a good source of Vitamin C. Although most people are f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Mutharika
Arthur Peter Mutharika (born 18 July 1940) is a Malawi, Malawian politician and lawyer who was President of Malawi from May 2014 to June 2020. Mutharika has worked in the field of international justice, specialising in international economic law, international law and comparative constitutional law. He informally served as an adviser to his older brother, President Bingu wa Mutharika, on issues of foreign and domestic policy from the onset of his election campaign until the President's death on 5 April 2012. He has also held positions as Ministry of Justice (Malawi), Minister of Justice and later as Minister for Education, Science and Technology. Mutharika also served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2012. He was charged to help bridge relations between Malawi and the United Kingdom due to the deterioration of public diplomacy between the two nations after the Fergus Cochrane-Dyet#Leaked diplomatic cable controversy, Cochrane-Dyet controversy.http://www.nyasatimes.com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Christopher
Saint Christopher (, , ; ) is venerated by several Christian denominations. According to these traditions, he was a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman Empire, Roman emperor Decius (), or alternatively under the emperor Maximinus Daia (). Churches and monasteries were named after him by the 7th century. There is no evidence for the historicity of the saint.Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Saint Christopher" Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 July 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Christopher. Accessed 25 October 2024. The most famous legend connected to the saint recounts that after converting to Christianity, he devoted his life to carrying travelers across a river. One day he carried an unknown young boy across a river after which the boy reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christophine Reinwald . Christophine Reinwald married the librarian (1737–1815), who was twenty years older than her.ProfileChristophine Reinwald (born Elisabetha Christophine Friederike Schiller; September 4, 1757 – August 31, 1847) was a German artist, the eldest sister of Friedrich Schiller. Born Elisabetha Christophine Friederike Schiller in Marbach am Neckar, in 1786 in Meiningen Meiningen () is a town in the southern part of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in the region of Franconia and has a population of around 26,000 (2024). in the ''Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800''. The couple had no children. To obtain extra money for the family, Christophine gave drawing lessons to the daughters of local families. She was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Diesen
Henry Edward Diesen (3 April 1883 – 7 January 1953) was a Norwegian naval officer. He was born in Trondhjem as the son of telegrapher Edward Diesen (1852–1909) and Johanne Christophine Stenersen (1855–1936). He was a first cousin of Emil Diesen and Andreas Melchior Seip Diesen, and a first cousin once removed of Andreas’s son Ernst Diesen. He became a naval officer from 1903, graduated from the Norwegian Naval Academy in 1905, and was promoted to Premier Lieutenant in 1906. He worked in the merchant fleet from 1906 to 1908 and 1909 to 1911. From 1912 to 1913, he studied at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin). He served in the neutral Royal Norwegian Navy during World War I and was promoted to Captain in 1917. His last service on a ship was as second-in-command of HNoMS ''Tordenskjold'' in 1929. He lived in Borre, near Karljohansvern. Here he edited the newspaper '' Hortens Avis'' from 1919 to 1920 and was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic Heart
''Arctic Heart'' () is a 2016 French romantic comedy film written and directed by Marie Madinier. It stars Guillaume Canet and Charlotte Le Bon. Plot Professor Quignard and his team of researchers have been studying "PPM", an immunizing protein produced by penguins, for a Nobel Prize research project. Christophine, a shy and young PhD student who is secretly in love with Quignard, decides to inject herself with the penguin genome, in an attempt to advance the professor's research and to get closer to him. Amidst all the experiments she wants him more and more, whereas the professor is always concerned about the results of his experiments. It breaks her heart that even after all she has done for him, he is so indifferent towards her but she decides to keep her feelings to herself. The results finally lead him to his goals, and he is selected to win the Nobel Prize, but Christophine realises that her body is changing and reacting to the experiments, and she decides to stay alone, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premier Rendez-vous
''Premier rendez-vous'' (US title: ''Her First Affair'') is a 1941 French comedy film starring Danielle Darrieux. It was directed by Henri Decoin, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michel Duran. During the German occupation, the film was made by Continental Films at Paris Studios Cinéma. Plot An orphan girl corresponds with a lonely college professor. In the end, she falls in love with his nephew. Cast * Danielle Darrieux : Micheline * Louis Jourdan : Pierre * Fernand Ledoux : Nicolas Rougemont * Jean Tissier : Roland * Gabrielle Dorziat : La directrice de l'orphelinat * Sophie Desmarets : Henriette * Rosine Luguet : Angèle * Suzanne Dehelly : Christophine * Jean Parédès : De Vatremont * Georges Mauloy : Le directeur * Daniel Gélin : Chauveau-Laplace * Georges Marchal : De Vaugelas * Annette Poivre : Une pensionnaire * Simone Valère : Une pensionnaire * Jacques Charon : Un collégien * Jacques Dacqmine : Un collégien * Marcel Maupi * Jean Négroni * Robert R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wide Sargasso Sea
''Wide Sargasso Sea'' is a 1966 historical novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel is set in Jamaica between the 1830-40s and serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel ''Jane Eyre'' (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point of view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress. Antoinette Cosway is Rhys's version of Brontë's " madwoman in the attic". Antoinette's story is told from the time of her youth in Jamaica, to her unhappy marriage to an English gentleman, Mr. Rochester, who renames her Bertha, declares her mad, takes her to England, and isolates her from the rest of the world in his mansion. ''Wide Sargasso Sea'' explores the power of relationships between men and women and discusses the themes of race, Caribbean history, and assimilation as Antoinette is caught in a white, patriarchal society in which she fully belongs neither to Europe nor to Jamaica. Rhys lived in obscurity after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys, ( ; born Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams; 24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was a novelist who was born and grew up in the Caribbean island of Dominica. From the age of 16, she resided mainly in England, where she was sent for her education. She is best known for her novel '' Wide Sargasso Sea'' (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's '' Jane Eyre''. In 1978, she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her writing. Early life Rhys's father, William Rees Williams, was a Welsh medical doctor and her mother, Minna Williams, née Lockhart, a third-generation Dominican Creole of Scots ancestry. ("Creole" was broadly used in those times to refer to any person born on the island, whether they were of European or African descent, or both.) She had a brother. Her mother's family had an estate, a former plantation, on the island. Rhys was educated in Dominica until the age of 16, when she was sent to England to live with an aunt, as he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher
Christopher is the English language, English version of a Europe-wide name derived from the Greek language, Greek name Χριστόφορος (''Christophoros'' or ''Christoforos''). The constituent parts are Χριστός (''Christós''), "Jesus, Christ" or "Anointing, Anointed", and φέρειν (''phérein''), "to bear"; hence the "Christ-bearer". As a given name, 'Christopher' has been in use since the 10th century. In English, Christopher may be abbreviated as "Chris", "Topher", and sometimes "Kit (given name), Kit". It was frequently the most popular male first name in the United Kingdom, having been in the top twenty in England and Wales from the 1940s until 1995, although it has since dropped out of the top 100. Within the United Kingdom, the name is most common in England and not so common in Wales, Scotland, or Northern Ireland. Cognates in other languages *Afrikaans: Christoffel, Christoforus *Albanian language, Albanian: Kristofer, Kristofor, Kristoforid, Kristo *A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christoph
Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher. Notable people with the given name Christoph * Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician * Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist * Christoph Dientzenhofer (1655–1722), German architect * Christoph Frauenpreiß (born 1987), German politician * Christoph Harting (born 1990), German athlete specialising in the discus throw * Christoph M. Herbst (born 1966), German actor * Christoph Kramer (born 1991), German football player and winner of the 2014 FIFA World Cup * Christoph M. Kimmich (born 1939), German-American historian and eighth President of Brooklyn College * Christoph Metzelder (born 1980), German football player * Christoph Pramhofer (born 1983), Austrian politician * Christoph Riegler (born 1992), Austrian football player * Christoph Waltz (born 1956), German-Austrian actor and two times winner of the OSCARS Academy Award * Christoph M. Wieland (1733–1813), German poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminine Given Names
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or Gentile name, ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
