The intellect of Krum

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 165001

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> Posted by: "Bart Lidofsky" _bartl at ... _ 
> (mailto:bartl at ...?Subject= Re:%20The%20intellect%20of%20Krum)   _bml07646 _ 
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> Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:26 am (PST) 
> Geoff Bannister wrote:
> Geoff:
> > Being from the  UK helps. Many years ago, there was a very funny actress 
> > who appeared  regularly on the radio called Hermione Gingold and was a 
> > leading  character in the film "Gigi". 
> 
> >Yes, she's the actress I was  mentioning earlier.
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> >Bart
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> Nikkalmati
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> Oh yes, I have hear of her, but I had totally forgotten  the name and never 
> made the association with our Hermione.  BTW in my  reading I came across an 
> historical association with the name that no one may  have heard of.  The 
> Hermione was a famous 32-gun Royal  Navy frigate that was the subject of a mutiny in 
> September 1797.  She  was taken over and most of the officers were killed.  
> The ship was turned  over to the Spanish in Venezuela.  Some of the crew were 
> eventually caught  and hanged.  The ship was renamed the Santa Cecilia, but in 
> a daring and  dramatic rescue, she was retaken from Havana harbor by a  group 
> of British  sailors.  She was renamed the Retribution.
>  
> Nikkalmati

Geoff:
I discovered another reference a few days ago. In one of the Shakespeare plays with which 
I am not familiar - "A Winter's Tale", Leontes' queen is called Hermione.