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* Margaret Hodges retold the legend in a 1984 children's book ( Saint George and the Dragon ) with Caldecott Medal-winning illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman.
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Margaret and legend
The theme survives into medieval legend and folklore, with dragon slayers such as Beowulf, Sigurd, Tristan, Margaret the Virgin, Heinrich von Winkelried, Dobrynya Nikitich, Skuba Dratewka / Krakus.
Though a wonderful legend, it is untrue: there are no record of a crew from st. Johns attaching a sword to their bow, and while a St John's College Boat Club was disbanded in 1876, the original boat club at St. John's was the Lady Margaret Boat Club.
A dragon is also an enemy figure in the Book of Revelation ( chapter 12 onwards ) and in the saintly legend of Margaret the Virgin.
According to legend, Queen Margaret of Anjou is said to have watched the defeat of her forces from the church tower, before fleeing on horse-back.
There is a legend that Queen Margaret of Anjou took refuge after the battle in what is known as The Queen's Cave where she was accosted by a robber ; the legend formed the basis for an 18th century play by George Colman the Younger ; but it has been established that Queen Margaret had fled to France by the time the battle took place.
Charleston legend has it that George Trenholm, the original owner of the McBee House, the mansion on the school property, was the man on whom Margaret Mitchell based the character Rhett Butler in her novel, Gone with the Wind.
Grillparzer perpetuated the legend of Ottokar's wife Margaret of Babenberg unsuccessfully trying to reconcile the opponents on the eve of the battle.
He left his " best legend of the lives of the saints " to his daughter-in-law, Margaret, and a cup which John of Gaunt had used to John, viscount Beaumont.
After discovering the adultery of her husband with Kunigunde of Eisenberg, Margaret left Wartburg ; according to a legend, before her departure she bit her son Frederick in the cheek ; he was called henceforth Frederick the Bitten ( de: Friedrich der Gebissene ).
In associating St Pelagia with Saint Marina, St Margaret and others, of whom either the name or the legend recalls Pelagia, Hermann Usener has endeavoured to show by a series of subtle deductions that this saint is only a Christian travesty of the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite.
Margaret and 1984
In 1984, Ronald Reagan hosted the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher.
Former NSA employee Margaret Newsham claims that she worked on the configuration and installation of software that makes up the ECHELON system while employed at Lockheed Martin, for whom she worked from 1974 to 1984 in Sunnyvale, California, US, and in Menwith Hill, England, UK.
In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour by Queen Elizabeth II on the advice of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his " services to the study of economics.
In 1984, he was appointed as a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour ( CH ) by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom on the advice of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for his " services to the study of economics.
In 1984, GCHQ was the centre of a political row when the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher prohibited its employees from belonging to a trade union.
( 1984 ) With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, New York: William Morrow.
In 1984, he travelled to the United Kingdom, where he met British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
* 1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.
He was the only son and eldest of the three children of Alexander Edward ( Alec ) Cook ( 1906 – 1984 ), a colonial civil servant, and his wife Ethel Catherine Margaret, née Mayo ( 1908 – 1994 ).
One of the factors that contributed to the success of the Dragonlance setting when it was published in 1984 was a series of concurrent novels by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis.
* Princess Margaret and the Duke of Westminster appeared in 1984 in connection with a fashion show to commemorate the centenary of the NSPCC.
In 1984, she was the subject of a documentary film by Michael Rubbo, Margaret Atwood: Once in August.
In 1984, he was injured in the Provisional Irish Republican Army's bombing of the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton, and his wife Margaret was left permanently disabled.
The UK would have been contributing more money to the EU than any other EU member state, except that Margaret Thatcher's government negotiated a special annual UK rebate in 1984.
Sir Anthony George Berry ( 12 February 1925 – 12 October 1984 ) was a British politician, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Enfield Southgate, and a Whip in Margaret Thatcher's government.
In 1984, after the confirmation of the etiological agent of AIDS by scientists at the U. S. National Institutes of Health and the Pasteur Institute, the United States Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret Heckler declared that a vaccine would be available within two years.
The 1980s saw archaeological studies finally being published that dealt with this issue, namely through Joan Gero's paper on " Gender bias in archaeology: a cross-cultural perspective " ( 1983 ) and Margaret Conkey and Janet Spector ’ s paper on " Archaeology and the Study of Gender " ( 1984 ).
Barbara Bush joins her husband, the Vice President, on a trip to Great Britain to meet with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Denis Thatcher | Denis, 1984
Australian author Margaret Wild has written more than 40 books since 1984 and won several awards.
* November 20 – Margaret Sutherland, composer ( died 1984 )
Similarly, the real life murder victim Margaret Hogg, whose body was found in a lake in England's Wasdale Valley in 1984, became known as " the Wasdale Lady in the Lake ".
Portillo was first elected to the House of Commons in a by-election in 1984 ; a strong admirer of Margaret Thatcher, and a Eurosceptic, Portillo served as a junior minister under both Thatcher and John Major, before entering the cabinet in 1992.
In 1984 the East Midlands Television Centre in Lenton Lane, Nottingham was opened by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
* R. W. Hunt, Margaret Gibson, The Schools and the Cloister: The Life and Writings of Alexander Nequam ( 1157-1217 ) ( 1984 )
Margaret and children's
Tansley's For Kett and Countryside ( 1910 ), Jack Lindsay's The Great Oak ( 1949 ), Sylvia Haymon's children's story The Loyal Traitor ( 1965 ), and Margaret Callow's A Rebellious Oak ( 2012 ); plays, including George Colman Green's Kett the tanner ( 1909 ); and poetry, including Keith Chandler's collection Kett's Rebellion and Other Poems ( 1982 ).
Barker studied flowers with an analytical eye and was friend to children's illustrator, Margaret Tarrant.
* Margaret Wise Brown ( 1919-1952 ), author of children's literature
Britain and the US even backed Pol Pot's demand that his man continue to occupy Cambodia's seat at the UN, while Margaret Thatcher stopped children's milk going to the survivors of his nightmare regime.
The Sisters announce that they have come to build a hospital there, and Chicago-born Sister Margaret explains that during the war she was in charge of a children's hospital in Normandy when it became a potential target during a military campaign.
The hospital was spared but at the cost of American lives, and Sister Margaret made a promise to God that, in gratitude for saving the children, she would return to America to build a children's hospital.
Her first job in the early 1970s, was in a paediatrics clinic at Perth's children's hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, where her patients included thin and sick Aboriginal children flown in from remote western settlements.
Goodnight Moon is an American children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd.
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Margaret Mahy, The Changeover
* Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Margaret Mahy, The Haunting
Focusing thereafter on research, observation and treatment of children, Anna Freud established a group of prominent child developmental analysts ( which included Erik Erikson, Edith Jacobson and Margaret Mahler ) who noticed that children's symptoms were ultimately analogue to personality disorders among adults and thus often related to developmental stages.
Ultraviolet catastrophe has appeared in popular culture as the title to a children's book by New Zealand author Margaret Mahy.
His literary acquaintances also resulted in his sickly young daughter, Margaret Henley ( born 4 September 1888 ), being immortalised by J. M. Barrie in his children's classic Peter Pan.
* Curious George, a series of illustrated books Hans and Margaret Rey and a children's TV program on PBS Kids
* Notable individuals born and / or raised in Greenpoint include actress Mae West, children's book author Margaret Wise Brown, actor Mickey Rooney, pop singer Pat Benatar, bank robber Willie Sutton, writer Henry Miller.
* Peggy Cripps, born Enid Margaret Cripps ( 1921 – 2006 ), children's author, philanthropist and socialite.
Descendants of John and Margaretta Brown include Senator Benjamin Gratz Brown, the 20th Governor of Missouri and Vice Presidential candidate in the 1872 election, and children's author Margaret Wise Brown.
On 23 February 1909, he married the children's book illustrator and artist Margaret Evans Price ( 1888-1973 ).
Margaret was the first Art Director of Fisher-Price and designed push-pull toys for the opening line, based on characters from her children's books.
Margaret Gatty ( née Scott ) ( 1809 – 4 October 1873 ) was an English writer of children's literature.
His children's names are Brendan, Martin, Mary, and Margaret O ' Sullivan.
Margaret would become known for her role in a movement to provide children's playgrounds in Montreal.
Pecorama is also home to " Teddy Mac and the Railway Bears ", a series of children's books written by Margaret Edmonds.
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