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A bust of Cleopatra VII dated to 40–30 BC, now located at the Vatican Museums, showing her with a "melon" hairstyle and a Hellenistic royal diadem [1] The ethnicity of Cleopatra VII, the last active Hellenistic ruler of the Macedonian -led Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, has caused debate in some circles. [2][3] There is a general consensus among ...
Lauren Anderson (born February 19, 1965) is an American ballet dancer and a former principal dancer with the Houston Ballet. In 1990, she was one of the first African-American ballerinas to become a principal for a major dance company, an important milestone in American ballet. [1][2] She appeared in many ballets such as Don Quixote, Cleopatra ...
t. e. Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρlit.'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; [ note 5 ] 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. [ note 6 ] A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder ...
"Queen Cleopatra" director Tina Gharavi defended the series' casting decision last month in an essay for Variety, arguing that the queen looked more like James than Elizabeth Taylor, the actor who ...
Andra Day has been tapped to perform “Lift Every Voice and Sing” at Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday, February 11. Sheryl Lee Ralph made history last February as the first person to sing the hymn ...
Cleopatra is a 1963 American epic historical drama film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, with a screenplay adapted by Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall and Sidney Buchman from the 1957 book The Life and Times of Cleopatra by Carlo Maria Franzero, and from histories by Plutarch, Suetonius, and Appian. The film stars Elizabeth Taylor in the ...
A government-owned Egyptian broadcaster has responded to controversy over the casting of a Black actress to play Cleopatra in the Netflix docudrama series “African Queens,” which streams from ...
According to Wesley Schultz, lead vocalist of the Lumineers, "Cleopatra" tells the life story of a female taxi driver, named Manana, in the Republic of Georgia. [1][2] While Schultz's wife was working on her college thesis in the country, the couple came across Manana, who became the first female taxi driver in Georgia. [3]