On the programme he, Ron Atkinson and Esther Rantzen were immersed in the French language by staying in a classic French town in the Provence region, being compelled to adapt to the French lifestyle and speak the language.

The film's soundtrack included a rendition of the classic Esther and Avi Ofarim hit " Cinderella Rockefella " sung by Rita Kleinstein and Ivri Lider, as well as a remix of Lider's " Mary La ' Netzach " (" Mary Forever ").

In 1984, Doubleday / Dolphin published the companion book Dynasty: The Authorized Biography of the Carringtons, which included an introduction by Esther Shapiro.

Esther Phillips ( December 23, 1935 – August 7, 1984 ) was an American singer.

In 1984, Oliver also wrote the words for a musical called Swan Esther which was performed at London's Young Vic and on BBC radio.

* The Cafeteria ( 1984 ) ( Esther )

However, according to Coogan, considerable historical inaccuracies remain throughout the text, supporting the view that the book of Esther is to be read as a historical novella which tells a story describing historical events but is not necessarily historical fact.

Josephus too relates that this was the name by which he was known to the Greeks, and the Midrashic text, Esther Rabba also makes the identification.

By the time Esther was written, the foreign power visible on the horizon as a future threat to Judah was the Macedonians of Alexander the Great, who defeated the Persian empire about 150 years after the time of the story of Esther ; the Septuagint version noticeably calls Haman a " bully " ( βουγαῖον ) where the Hebrew text describes him as an Agagite.

While modern Roman Catholic scholars openly recognize the Greek additions as clearly being additions to the text, the Book of Esther is used twice in commonly used sections of the Catholic Lectionary.

** Mechon Mamre Full text, Aleppo Codex: text of Esther in Hebrew

** The Book of Esther Full text, KJV, ( also available at Arabic )

In the Vulgate text, Jerome's translations from the Greek of the additions to Esther and Daniel are combined with his separate translations of these books from the Hebrew.

Jewish tradition regards him as the same Ahasuerus of the Book of Esther ; the Ethiopic text calls him Arťeksis, as it does the above figure in Esther.

The Esther Rabbah is a Midrashic text divided in two parts.

He follows the Hebrew Book of Esther but shows awareness of some of the additional material found in the Greek version in that he too identifies Ahasuerus as Artaxerxes and provides the text of the king's letter.

Indeed, Against Apion, the writing of Josephus in 95 CE, treated the text of the Hebrew Bible as a closed canon to which "... no one has ventured either to add, or to remove, or to alter a syllable ..." However, we know that for a long time following this date that the divine inspiration of Esther, the Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes was often under scrutiny.

The discovery of several manuscripts at Qumran ( in the Dead Sea Scrolls ) has reopened what is considered the most original text of 1 Samuel 11 ; if one believes that those manuscripts better preserve the text, several verses in 1 Samuel 11 surpass Esther 8: 9 in length.

On December 1, 1874, Queen Esther Chapter No. 1 became the first Prince Hall Affiliate chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star when it was established in Washington, D. C. by Thornton Andrew Jackson.

* Klotz, Esther H. and Joan H. Hall.

* Esther Hall as Romey Sullivan

In 2001 he appeared in the television drama Men Only as Mac, the husband of Katie ( Esther Hall ).

His absence was partly due to a feeling that it was hopeless to struggle against the will of the Tory ministry, but more particularly to his marriage on 14 April 1814, to Esther, only daughter of Richard Acklom of Wiseton Hall, Nottinghamshire, who died in childbirth in 1818, to her husband's intense grief.

Since 2005, Marshall has appeared in TV and print adverts for the BT Group alongside Esther Hall.

State officials in 1960 presented a copy of this 1953 bronze statue of Esther Hobart Morris for display at the U. S. Capitol | U. S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection in Washington, D. C.

Its graduates include Richard O ' Brien, Louisa Leaman, Kay Mellor, Colin Welland, John Godber, Comedian Ray Peacock ( Ian Boldsworth ), Sir Ken Robinson, David Rappaport, Mark Thomas, Jonathan Kerrigan, Esther Hall, Christopher Barlow, the comedian and actress Emma Fryer, Queer as Folk actress Carla Henry, the pop band The Research, three of the four League of Gentlemen creators / performers, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, Emmerdale's Emily Kirk, performer Hayli Clifton, actress Kate McGregor, Shelley Conn, This Mornings fashion expert John Scott, educationalist Wil Edmunds, and Louisa Stanley.

* Esther Hall

Together, John and Lizzie had four children, Hall Park McCullough ( born 1872, died 1966 ), Elizabeth “ Bess ” McCullough Johnson ( born 1873, died 1965 ), Ella Sallie Park McCullough ( or Sister Mary Veronica, born 1874, died 1965 ), and Esther Morgan Park McCullough ( born 1888, died 1957 ).

Artists: Marina Abramovic, AES + F, Aji V. N., Yury Albert, Ghada Amer, El Anatsui, Yoshita Azuma, José Bedia, Michel Blazy, Blue Noses, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Alexander Brodsky, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Christoph Büchel, Chéri Chérin, Chéri Samba, Sheba Chhachhi, Ivan Chuikov, Tony Cragg, Stephen Dean, Wim Delvoye, Braco Dimitrijevic, Atul Dodiya, Anita Dube, Gloria Friedmann, Dmitry Gutov, Fiona Hall, Aspassio Haronitaki, Romuald Hazoumé, Leni Hoffmann, Huang Yong Ping, Jean-Olivier Hucleux, Alfredo Jaar, Anish Kapoor, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Valery Koshlyakov, Agatoak Ronny Kowspi, Juul Kraijer, Samuel Kane Kwei, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Alexander Lobanov, Heinz Mack, Esther Mahlangu, Djambawa Marawili, Erina Matsui, Annette Messager, Vik Muniz, Doreen Reid Nakamarra, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Mike Parr, Pavel Pepperstein, Julius Popp, Markus Raetz, Ravinder G Reddy, Reynold Reynolds, Claude Rutault, Conrad Shawcross, Chiharu Shiota, Yinka Shonibare, Jason Shulman, Roman Signer, Haim Sokol, Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cyprien Tokoudagba, Dmitry Tsvetkov, Tunga, Spencer Tunick, Koen Vanmechelen, Stanislav Volyazlovsky, Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Nawurapu Wunungmurra, Erwin Wurm, Soichi Yamaguchi, Yang Jiechang.

* Dr Felix Gibson ( Esther Hall, 2005 ) — Felix took over as the Unit's forensic pathologist after Frankie's departure and, like her predecessor, would often leave the office to join her colleagues in the field.

Esther Hall played the role for one series before leaving.

The Massry Center for the Arts features the Kathleen McManus Picotte Recital Hall, the Esther Massry Gallery, and the William Randolph Hearst Music Wing.

* Klotz, Esther H. and Joan H. Hall.

The school ’ s first buildings were the Headmaster ’ s home, named “ Scott House ” after Esther Scott, and a dormitory, named “ Moore Hall ” after Brook Moore, with room for 46 students.

* Esther Hall, TV actor

The Targum connects the name with the Persian word for " star ", ستاره setareh, explaining that Esther was so named for being as beautiful as the Morning Star.

In the Talmud ( Tractate Yoma 29a ), Esther is compared to the " morning star ", and is considered the subject of Psalm 22, because its introduction is a " song for the morning star ".

Dianne Tidball argues that while Vashti is a " feminist icon ", Esther is a post-feminist icon.

Other celebs to have been featured in their own strips include Jonathan Ross, Russell Brand, Esther Rantzen, Stephen Fry, Noel Edmonds, Jimmy Savile ( as the headmaster of " Pop School ", as " Sir Jimmy Savile, the Owl " and in " Jimmy Savile's Haunted Head "), Johnny Vaughan, Adam Ant, Jimmy Hill, Noddy Holder, Boy George, Freddie Garrity, Steve McFadden, Morrissey ( constantly finding daffodils stuck into the seat of his trousers, parodying his appearances on Top of the Pops ), Busted, Eminem, Big Daddy and plenty more.

Meanwhile, Mr. Green ( Keenan Wynn ) arrives at the airport to pick up his niece Martha ( Shelley Duvall ), aka " L. A. Joan ", a teenage groupie who has come to Nashville ostensibly to visit her aunt Esther Green who is sick in the hospital.

Other early influences include Ruth Stout and Esther Deans, who pioneered " no-dig gardening methods ", and Masanobu Fukuoka who, in the late 1930s in Japan, began advocating no-till orchards, gardens and natural farming.

* Walfish, Barry, " The Two Commentaries of Abraham Ibn Ezra on the Book of Esther ", The Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol.

He began recording for the Newark, New Jersey-based Savoy label in 1949, and began releasing a stream of records that made the R & B chart, including " Double Crossing Blues ", " Mistrustin ' Blues " and " Cupid Boogie ", which all featured either Little Esther or Mel Walker, or both, and all reached no.

Purim ( Hebrew: Pûrîm " lots ", from the word pur, related to Akkadian pūru ) is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther ( Megillat Esther ).

The first who mentions the Fast of Esther is Rabbi Achai Gaon ( Acha of Shabcha ) ( 8th century CE ) in She ' iltot 4 ; the reason there given for its institution is based on an interpretation of, and Talmud Megillah 2a: " The 13th was the time of gathering ", which gathering is explained to have had also the purpose of public prayer and fasting.

Along with regular sessions of psychotherapy Esther is given huge amounts of insulin to produce a " reaction ", and again receives shock treatments, with Dr. Nolan ensuring that they are properly administered.

The two frequently trade insults, usually instigated by Fred ( he often contorts his face upon Esther's entrance and uses disparaging and colorful metaphors to describe her ), whereas Esther generally retorts " WATCH it, sucka ", attacks Fred with her purse, and refers to Fred as " you old heathen ".

In January 2004, creator Esther Shapiro participated in a marathon of the show's episodes, called " Serial Bowl: Alexis vs. Krystle ", giving behind-the-scenes tidbits and factoids.

* Two pseudonymous publications in the Joseph Swetnam anti-feminist controversy appear in 1617: Esther Hath Hang'd Haman by " Esther Sowernam ", and The Worming of a Mad Dog by " Constantia Munda ".

**" The New Ein Houd ", in Esther Hertzog, Orit Abuhav, Harvey E. Goldberg, Emanuel Marx ( eds.

The name was created by taking " Van " from Vanhomrigh's last name and adding " Essa ", the pet form of Esther.

In 1986 Esther Rantzen, presenter of That's Life !, a popular consumer TV show, suggested to the BBC that they create " Childwatch ", a programme about child abuse, the aim being to try to detect children at risk before their lives were in danger.

* Makhshava-This Hebrew word is usually translated as " thought ", but Nibley made a case for translating it as " plan "; e. g., in the book of Esther many translations say that Haman " thought " to destroy the Jewish people.

According to the Midrash, a few people made themselves deities: Pharaoh Kings of Egypt ( see Ezekiel 29: 3: " The Nile is mine and I have made myself ", understood by the Midrash as a claim that he created himself ); Hiram King of Tyre ( see Ezekiel 28: 2 ); Haman the Aggagite ( see Esther 3: 2 ).

Although this gospel may at first appear similar to the Gospel of Thomas, it is not a sayings gospel, but a collection of gnostic teachings and reflections, a " gnostic anthology ", as Marvin Meyer and Esther A.

Her " fairy tale films ", as she called them, started with The Mermaid ( 1911 ), in which she was the first actress to wear a swimmable mermaid costume on film, paving the way for future screen sirens such as Glynis Johns ( Miranda ), Esther Williams and Daryl Hannah ( Splash ).