The last event in Cotton Mather's involvement with witchcraft was his attempt to cure Mercy Short and Margaret Rule.

Later, with Robert Calef's observation of Mather's dealings with Margaret Rule, it became seen as the latter, with Mather perceived as drawing information from her through leading questions, and possibly having a prurient interest -- " Smutty " in Mather's words — in his intimate dealings with afflicted young women.

The CSA kept up the pressure for devolution in the early years of the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher which was totally opposed to any form of Home Rule.

* 1995 Margaret Rule

* Margaret Rule, a young Boston girl in the 1690s who was believed to be harassed by evil forces shortly after the Salem Witchcraft Trials, reportedly levitated from her bed in the presence of a number of witnesses.

* 1 January-Papers released under the Thirty Year Rule reveal that, contrary to what was believed at the time, The Princess Margaret would not have lost her title nor Civil List payments had she married Group Captain Peter Townsend, a divorced War hero, in the 1950s.

* 1673 – Margaret Cavendish, English writer ( b. 1623 )

* 1993 – Margaret Landon, American writer ( b. 1903 )

* 1530 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands ( b. 1480 )

* 2002 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ( b. 1930 )

* 2008 – Margaret Truman, American writer, daughter of Harry S. Truman ( b. 1924 )

* 2011 – Margaret Whiting, American singer ( b. 1924 )

* 1541 – Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury ( b. 1473 )

* 1615 – Margaret of Valois ( b. 1553 )

* 1972 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress ( b. 1892 )

* Margaret Rhea Seddon ( b. 1947 ), American astronaut

* August 16 – Margaret Mitchell, American writer ( b. 1900 )

* April 3 – Margaret Ann Neve, supercentenarian ( b. 1792 )

* January 13 – Margaret Leighton, English actress ( b. 1922 )

* January 1 – Margaret Sullavan, American actress ( b. 1909 )

** Margaret Rutherford, English actress ( b. 1892 )

* November 13 – Margaret Webster, American actress ( b. 1905 )

* June 6 – Margaret Wycherly, English stage & film actress ( b. 1881 )

* May 1 – Princess Margaret of Connaught, Crown Princess of Sweden ( b. 1882 )

** Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate ( b. 1879 )

** Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer ( b. 1904 )

* July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English writer ( b. 1896 )

* October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer ( b. 1886 )

* October 19 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher ( b. 1886 )

* November 15 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist ( b. 1901 )

** Margaret Lindsay, American actress ( b. 1910 )

`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.

He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

Occasionally he would look across the aisle at Margaret, fourteen and demure in a fresh green organdy dress, sitting in the sixth-grade row, and he could hardly believe she would do what Charles had said she did.

Many earlier writers, mourning the demise of the old order, tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `` gracious Old South '' imagery, creating such lasting impressions as Margaret Mitchell's `` Tara '' Plantation.

His son Thomas, aged fifteen when he entered Oxford in 1582, married as his first wife Margaret, sister of Sir Edward Greville.

And part of a fabulous collection of vermeil hollowware, bequeathed to the White House by the late Mrs. Margaret Thompson Biddle, has been taken out of its locked cases and put on display in the State dining room.

Winslow, as his daughters Eleanor and Margaret recall, used to characterize her as `` our iron sister ''.

When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

Thomas early Sunday went to the home of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thomas, 511 Blanche St., NW, looking for his wife, Margaret Lou Thomas, 18, and their 11-month-old baby.

She turned out to be a fan, too, of Margaret Bouton, the Gallery's associate curator of education.

This was most obvious in the ' Culture and Personality ' studies carried out by younger Boasians such as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.

The term isotope was coined by Margaret Todd as a suitable name for different atoms that belong to the same element.

When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

( Coincidentally, Hickson had played a housekeeper in the first film in which Margaret Rutherford played Miss Marple.

* 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned as junior king and queen of England.

* 1503 – King James IV of Scotland marries Margaret Tudor, daughter of King Henry VII of England at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, Scotland.

* 1886 – Margaret Woodrow Wilson, American daughter of Woodrow Wilson ( d. 1944 )

* Dykens, Margaret ; & Gillette, Lynett.

His assistant was Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, later replaced by Margaret Fuller.

Alcott was rejected by most public opinion and, by the summer of 1837, he had only 11 students left and no assistant after Margaret Fuller moved to Providence, Rhode Island.

Margaret Fuller referred to Alcott as " a philosopher of the balmy times of ancient Greece — a man whom the worldlings of Boston hold in as much horror as the worldlings of Athens held Socrates.

* 1473 – Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury ( d. 1541 )

* 1572 – Marriage in Paris, France of the Huguenot King Henry IV of Navarre to Margaret of Valois, in a supposed attempt to reconcile Protestants and Catholics.

* 1930 – Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon ( d. 2002 )

Alexander was the fourth son of Malcolm III by his wife Margaret of Wessex, grandniece of Edward the Confessor.