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Umberto "Albert" Anastasia [3] (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ s t eɪ ʒ ə /, Italian: [umˈbɛrto anastaˈziːa]; né Anastasio [anaˈstaːzjo]; September 26, 1902 – October 25, 1957) was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime boss.
Saint Anastasia (died December 25, 304 AD) is a Christian saint and martyr who died at Sirmium in the Roman province of Pannonia Secunda (modern Serbia). [2] In the Eastern Orthodox Church, she is venerated as St. Anastasia the Pharmakolytria, i.e. "Deliverer from Potions" (Ἁγία Ἀναστασία ἡ Φαρμακολύτρια). [3]
The name Anastasia originated during the early days of Christianity and was given to many Greek girls born in December and around Easter. [1] It was established as the female form (Greek: Ἀναστασία) of the male name Anastasius (Greek: Ἀναστάσιος Anastasios pronounced [anaˈstasi.os]), [2] and has the meaning of "she/he of the resurrection".
The canonization of the Romanovs (also called "glorification" in the Eastern Orthodox Church) was the elevation to sainthood of the last imperial family of Russia – Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei – by the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.
Escrava Anastacia (12 May 1740 – unknown) is a popular folk saint venerated in Brazil.An enslaved woman of African descent, Anastácia is depicted as possessing incredible beauty, having piercing blue eyes and wearing a punitive iron facemask.
Bartok the Magnificent is a 1999 American direct-to-video animated adventure comedy film directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman.It is a standalone spin-off to the 1997 film Anastasia, also directed by Bluth and Goldman, with Hank Azaria reprising his role from the previous film as Bartok, a bumbling small albino bat.
Anastacia Lyn Newkirk (/ ˌ æ n ə ˈ s t eɪ ʒ ə / AN-ə-STAY-zhə; born September 17, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter.Her first two studio albums, Not That Kind (2000) and Freak of Nature (2001), achieved chart success with the single "I'm Outta Love", "Not That Kind", "Paid My Dues" and "One Day In Your Life".