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Vera and Brittain
* Vera Brittain, novelist
According to writer Vera Brittain, he died suddenly in the arms of her friend, the novelist Winifred Holtby, then aged 19 and working as a nursing assistant at a fashionable London nursing home where Tree was recuperating from surgery to repair a broken leg.
* Vera Brittain ( 1893 – 1970 ): author of Testament of Youth and mother of Shirley Williams
At this time Oxford separated male and female students as far as possible ; Vera Brittain, one of the Somerville students, recalled an amusing occurrence during her time there in her autobiography, Testament of Youth ;
* Brittain, Vera, " The Rebel Passion ", George Allen & Unwin ltd, London, 1964.
Vera Brittain in her thoroughly researched biography of Bunyan, identifies seven locations that appear in the allegory.
Born Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Catlin, Williams is the daughter of a political scientist and philosopher Sir George Catlin, and the feminist and pacifist writer Vera Brittain.
* Vera Brittain: A Life by Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge ( 1995 )
* Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain return to Somerville College, Oxford, to complete their education following war service.
* March 29 – Vera Brittain, novelist and poet
Vera Brittain writer, feminist ( and mother of Liberal Democrat Shirley Williams ) was born in the town.
Vera Mary Brittain ( 29 December 1893 – 29 March 1970 ) was a British writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir Testament of Youth, recounting her experiences during World War I and the beginning of her journey towards pacifism.
Vera Brittain wrote from the heart and based many of her novels on actual experiences and actual people.
Vera Brittain never fully got over the death of her brother Edward.
* Vera Brittain: A Life, by Paul Berry and Mark Bostridge, Chatto & Windus, 1995, Pimlico, 1996, Virago 2001, 2008 ISBN 1-86049-872-8.
* Vera Brittain: A Feminist Life, by Deborah Gorham, University of Toronto Press, 2000.
* Profile of Vera Brittain at Peace Pledge Union website.
* Images of Vera Brittain at JAMD.
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Vera and Collection
In 2002, Vera Wang began to enter the home fashion industry and launched The Vera Wang China and Crystal Collection, followed by the 2007 release of her diffusion line called Simply Vera, which are sold exclusively by Kohl's.
* The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection A Brown University Library Digital Collection
* The Roland Leighton Collection in The First World War Poetry Digital Archive by Oxford University contains images of all Leighton's's War poetry manuscripts, letters to Vera Brittain, plus a searchable text corpora.
* Collection Guide, Vera Zorina papers, 1910-2001 Houghton Library, Harvard University

Vera and First
Karl Marx, First Draft of Letter To Vera Zasulich ( 1881 )
* Vera Venz: Zur Biografie von Grete Hermann, GRIN 2009, First edition 2001, ISBN 978-3-640-41992-4 ( in German language )
* Vera Leigh, First Aid Nursing Yeomanry officer and Special Operations Executive spy
He served in the German Army during the First World War and afterwards, in 1921 married Vera Bythiner ( 31 March 1904 – 30 September 1942 ), who was born in Posen in Imperial Germany ( now Poznań, Poland ).
* In Irving Wallace's novel The Second Lady, the First Lady of the United States, Billie Bradford, is abducted and replaced by a Soviet look-alike, Vera Vavilova, in order to gain access to the President's bedroom and his deepest secrets.
* First Prize: " Luna, Isang Romansang Aswang " by Rodolfo C. Vera

Vera and World
His much older brother, Howard, died in World War 1 and he had a sister, Vera.
In the semifinals, Williams defeated World No. 1 Janković before winning the year-ending tournament for the first time by defeating Vera Zvonareva in the final.
After serving for six years with the Royal Air Force during World War II he returned to the music industry to work with such names as Vera Lynn and Hoagy Carmichael.
Other candidates for Moneypenny's inspiration include Vera Atkins of Special Operations Executive ; Paddy Ridsdale, a Naval Intelligence secretary ; and Joan Bright Astley, whom Fleming dated during World War II, and who was noted for giving a warm and friendly reception to senior officers who visited her office to view confidential papers.
In the third round, Henin defeated Dominika Cibulková in 93 minutes, 6 – 4, 6 – 4 advancing to the quarterfinals where Henin thrashed Vera Zvonareva 6 – 1, 6 – 4 to set up a meeting in the quarterfinals with World No. 2 Caroline Wozniacki.
Lilian Vera Rolfe ( 26 April 1914, Paris, France-5 February 1945, Ravensbrück, Germany ) was an Allied secret agent in World War II.
Vera Atkins, CBE ( 16 June 1908, Galati, Romania-24 June 2000, Hastings, England ) was a Romanian-born British intelligence officer during World War II.
Vera Leigh ( born Vera Glass on 17 March 1903 in Leeds, England-died 6 July 1944 in Natzweiler-Struthof ) was a British spy during World War II who assisted the French Resistance.
In her career, Mirza has notable wins over Svetlana Kuznetsova, Vera Zvonareva, Marion Bartoli and former World No. 1s Martina Hingis & Dinara Safina.
To some extent, the morale raised by Lynn Minmay in Space War I is very reminiscent of Vera Lynn during the Second World War.
Among the chief of these should be mentioned: the school for Indian girls ; the famous Colegio de Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco ; the introduction of the first printing press into the New World ; the foundation of various hospitals, especially those of Mexico and Vera Cruz ; the impetus he gave to industries, agriculture, and manufactures, for which he brought trained mechanics and labourers from Spain ; and the printing of many books.
Organised along with her sister, Vera Bleck, Constance Bennett, and Virginia Fox Zanuck, as directors the Fund focused on soliciting financial support to provide food, clothing and medical aid for refugees of World War II.
The daughter of a Czech father and British mother, Vera Menchik was born in Moscow but, in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Revolution, moved with her family to England in 1921.
In 1944, as Britain was nearing its sixth year in World War II, and 38-year-old Vera, who was widowed the previous year, still holding the title of women's world champion, the two sisters and their mother were killed in a V-1 rocket bombing raid which destroyed their home at 47 Gauden Road in the Clapham area of South London.
Archive Esther Drummond visits in " The New World ", and the exterior to the medical conference where Vera Juarez meets Jilly Kitzinger in " Rendition "/" Dead of Night ".
Up to that point, and since World War II, there had only been three British names that topped the U. S. chart: in May 1962 " Stranger on the Shore " by clarinetist Mr. Acker Bilk ; the second was " He's Got the Whole World in His Hands " by Laurie London ( 1958 ), whilst the first was " Auf Wiederseh ' n Sweetheart " by Vera Lynn ( 1952 ).
* Williams, Vera S. WASPs: Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II.
" For the Paris World Fair, Vera Mukhina depicted a momentual sculpture, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, dressed in work clothing, pressing forward with his hammer and her sickle crossed.
After Jenkins and Dame Vera Lynn were together at centre stage at the 60th Anniversary of VE Day in 2005 during the song " We'll Meet Again ", the newspapers dubbed Jenkins " the new Forces ' Sweetheart ", a nickname given to Lynn during World War II.

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