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Swansea City
   football club is known as   
The Swans
Sports & Leisure > Football - Nicknames


Bevy
   of   
Swans
Science & Nature > Animal Collectives


Wedge
   of   
Swans
Science & Nature > Animal Collectives


Swans
   are used in   
Snooker
Rarely used - the swan has an single extended neck with a fork-like prong at the end to give extra distance over larger obstructions.

Sports & Leisure > Sports Equipment


2005
   winner of the Australian Rules Premiership was   
Sydney Swans
Sports & Leisure > Australian Rules - Premiership


7
   is the number of   
Swans A-swimming
Misc > How Many


Hans Christian Andersen
   wrote   
The Wild Swans
Arts & Literature > Books - Classic Children's


Jane Jarboe
   has been a vocalist in   
Swans
American

Music > Vocalists


Ducks, Geese and Swans
   are all   
Anseriformes
Misc > Common Threads 2


Finnish €1
   has   
Two Flying Swans
By The artist Pertti Maekinen who created the motif. The designs were taken from his competition entry for a coin to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the independence of Finland.

Misc > European Currency


William Butler Yeats
   wrote   
The Wild Swans at Coole
1917

Arts & Literature > Books


Ballet
   of   
Swans
Science & Nature > Animal Collectives


Lamentation
   of   
Swans
Science & Nature > Animal Collectives


Wurrunna
   is   
A Spirit Who Transformed Two Brothers Into Swans
History & Mythology > Australian Aboriginal Dream Time Spirits and Beings


Jim Harrison
   wrote   
February Swans
"heads looped low and tucked to the wind; looking for fish in the deep greenness of water"

Arts & Literature > Poetry


1838
   was the first publication of   
The Wild Swans
Arts & Literature > Hans Christian Andersen Tales


Jung Chang
   wrote   
Wild Swans
Arts & Literature > Books


Wild Swans
   was choreographed by   
Meryl Tankard
First premiered in 2003. Music by Elena Kats-Chernin.

Arts & Literature > Ballet Choreographers


Betsy Bears
   wrote   
Summer of the Swans
1971

Arts & Literature > Newberry Medal


The Six Swans
   was written by   
The Brothers Grimm
Children's and Household Tales, 1832

Arts & Literature > Fairy Tales


Swansea Bay
   is located in   
Wales
Britain

Geography > Bays of the British Isles


Sunset Blvd. (1950)
   starred   
Willian Holden, Gloria Swanson and Erich Von Stroheim
IMDB: 8.7/10. Director: Billy Wilder. Winner of 3 Oscars, numerous nominations. Winner of 4 Golden Globes. National Film Preservation Board Award

Movies > Popular Movies 1950 - 1979


Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
   starred   
Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson and Lew Cody
IMDB rating 7.9/10. Director: Cecil B. DeMille.

Movies > Popular Movies 1910 -1949


Sunset Boulevard (1950)
   starred   
Willian Holden, Gloria Swanson and Erich Von Stroheim
Director: Billy Wilder

Movies > Movies of the 1950s


Sadie Thompson (1928)
   starred   
Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici and Gloria Swanson
IMDB rating 8.5/10. Director: Raoul Walsh.

Movies > Popular Movies 1910 -1949


Shifting Sands (1918)
   starrred   
Gloria Swanson, Joe King and Harvey Clark
Director: Albert Parker. Also starred Leone Carton, Lilian Langdon and Arthur Millett. Drama.

Movies > Movies of the 1910s


Sunset Boulevard
   the femme fatale was   
Gloria Swanson
Movies > Films - Femme Fatales


Manhandled (1924)
   starred   
Gloria Swanson, Tom Moore and Liliynn Tashman
IMDB rating 8.3/10. Director: Allan Dwan.

Movies > Popular Movies 1910 -1949


Gloria Swanson
   was considered for the role of   
Judith Traherne in Dark Victory (1939)
Bette Davis got the part

Movies > Movie Stars That DIDN'T Get the Role


Norma Desmond in the Film Sunset Boulevard (1950)
   is played by   
Gloria Swanson
Movies > Female Roles in Film


Tonight or Never (1931)
   starred   
Gloria Swanson, Alison Skipworth & Ferdinand Gottschalk
IMDB rating 8.1/10. Directors: Mervyn LeRoy

Movies > Popular Movies 1910 -1949


Catherine Zeta-Jones
   was born in   
Swansea, Wales
September 25, 1969

Misc > Birthplaces


The Phantom (1996)
   starred   
Billy Zane, Kristy Swanson and Treat Williams
Director: Simon Wincer. Also starred Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar & Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Action/adventure. The Phantom, descendant of a line of African heroes, travels to New York to thwart a criminal genius...

Movies > Movies of the 1990s


Queen Kelly (1929)
   starred   
Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron and Seena Owen
Director: Erich von Stroheim. Plot: Prince Wolfram (Byron) is the betrothed of mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg (Owen). Supreme ruler, her word is law and he is a playboy...

Movies > Movies of the 1920s


For Better, For Worse (1919)
   starrred   
Elliott Dexter, Tom Forman and Gloria Swanson
Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Also starred Sylvia Ashton, Raymond Hatton and Theodore Roberts. Drama

Movies > Movies of the 1910s


Swansea City
   play at   
The Liberty Stadium
Sports & Leisure > Football - Grounds


Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
   starrred   
Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson and Lew Cody
Director: Cecil B. DeMille. Also starred Sylvia Ashton, Theodore Roberts and Julia Faye. Comedy

Movies > Movies of the 1910s


Gloria Swanson
   won the Golden Globe for   
Sunset Boulevard
Best Actress - Drama, 1950

Movies > Golden Globe Awards - Actress


Flowers in the Attic (1987)
   starred   
Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant and Kristy Swanson
Director: Jeffrey Bloom. Also starred Jeb Stuart Adams, Ben Ryan Ganger & Lindsay Parker. Plot: Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother.

Movies > Movies of the 1980s


Music in the Air (1934)
   starred   
Gloria Swanson, John Boles and Douglass Montgomery
Director: Joe May. Also starred June Lang, Al Shean and Reginald Owen. Constantly quarreling couple decide to try the jealously angle when a naive young couple comes along...Comedy/musical

Movies > Movies of the 1930s








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