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Another patient, a paranoid woman, for many months infuriated not only me but the ward-personnel and her fellow patients by arrogantly behaving as though she owned the whole building, as though she were the only person in it whose needs were to be met.
Just the same, the old woman said, she would write to her nephew in his boxcar and tell him she had met a nice man from his adopted country.
In St. Louis, Busch also met and married a woman named Lilly Anheuser.
Spielsdorf and his niece had met a young woman named Millarca and her enigmatic mother at a costume ball.
However, Draper ’ s scheduled appearance in January 1950 was met with opposition from Hester McCullough, a woman who involved herself in the hunt for subversives.
Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).
Here he met Alwine Glienke, a German woman from a Protestant family, whom he married in 1921.
In 1837, Douglass met and fell in love with Anna Murray, a free black woman in Baltimore about five years older than him.
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and starring Giulietta Masina, the film took its inspiration from news reports of a woman ’ s decapitated head retrieved in a lake and stories by Wanda, a shantytown prostitute Fellini met on the set of Il Bidone.
The very same evening ( 28 July 1927 ) after Gardner had met this medium, he met the woman he was to marry ; Dorothea Frances Rosedale, known as Donna, a relation of his sister-in-law Edith.
By his own account, the next morning he met a kind woman, Mariah Watkins, from whom he wished to rent a room.
The people whom the young woman met at the Brays ' house included Robert Owen, Herbert Spencer, Harriet Martineau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
There is also, in some versions, reference to an episode where Heracles met and impregnated a half-serpentine woman, known as Echidna ; her children, known as the Dracontidae, were the ancestors of the House of Cadmus.
Women, however, may have intimate relations with other women as long as their wifely duties are met, their private matters are kept quiet, and the woman with whom they are involved is somehow related by family or logical interest to her lover.
While in Syria, he met Amal, a young Palestinian woman, who worked there in the planning bureau.
At the age of 19, during his second year at Deccan College in Poona ( now Pune ), he met a very old Muslim woman, a spiritual master named Hazrat Babajan, who kissed him on the forehead.
Pope John VIII: John, of English extraction, was born at Mentz ( Mainz ) and is said to have arrived at Popedom by evil art ; for disguising herself like a man, whereas she was a woman, she went when young with her paramour, a learned man, to Athens, and made such progress in learning under the professors there that, coming to Rome, she met with few that could equal, much less go beyond her, even in the knowledge of the scriptures ; and by her learned and ingenious readings and disputations, she acquired so great respect and authority that upon the death of Pope Leo IV ( as Martin says ) by common consent she was chosen Pope in his room.
In 1897 in Munich, Rainer Maria Rilke met and fell in love with the widely traveled, intellectual woman of letters Lou Andreas-Salomé.
He met Aysel Şengün, a Turkish woman studying dentistry, and the two became good friends.
In Manchester, Engels met Mary Burns, a fierce young working woman with radical opinions.
He met an American woman Beth Quinn, 26, when he was teaching creative writing in Chicago, and they were married in July 2005.
Berlioz soon met a young woman named Amélie at Montmartre Cemetery, and though she was only 24, they developed a close relationship despite a 35-year age difference.
Given the harsh conditions of the retreat, the infant was left with a local family ( Two Europeans retracing the Long March route in 2003 met a woman in rural Yunnan province, said by local officials to be Mao and He Zizhen's long-lost daughter ).

woman and famous
Co-penned by Linda Perry, the song offers a rare glimpse into the mind of a woman who, for the last 15 years, has been as famous for being a rock star as she's been for being a victim.
Paintings such as Family ( 1955 ) show a woman seated and a man standing with two children – the parents seem almost solemn while the children are described as hopeful and with a use of color made famous by Cézanne.
Beatty's father was also unhappy about the match, fearing a repeat of the difficulties he had faced with his own relationship with a married woman, but with the added risk of publicity because both Beatty and Ethel were famous and the risk that Beatty's illegitimacy might be exposed.
In 1990 Franco Zeffirelli, whose Shakespeare films have been described as " sensual rather than cerebral ", cast Mel Gibson — then famous for the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies — in the title role of his 1990 version, and Glenn Close — then famous as the psychotic " other woman " in Fatal Attraction — as Gertrude.
Throughout the 1910s and 1920s, Pickford was believed to be the most famous woman in the world, or, as a silent-film journalist described her, " the best known woman who has ever lived, the woman who was known to more people and loved by more people than any other woman that has been in all history.
She was a young woman who came to the Ryall's Hotel in Blantyre, where Harold Macmillan was lunching on the homeward leg of his famous ' wind of change ' tour in Cape Town.
In 2011, The Telegraph reported the most sought after body parts of the rich and famous revealed by two Hollywood plastic surgeons who carried out a survey among their patients to build up the picture of the perfect woman.
* The gravestone of Allia Potestas, a woman from Perusia, describes how she lived peacefully with two lovers, one of which immortalized her in this famous epigrafic eulogy, dating ( probably ) from the second century.
Harriet Powers, a slave-born African American woman, made two famous story quilts.
English author Charles Dickens stated that " as bloody Queen Mary this woman has become famous, and as Bloody Queen Mary she will ever be remembered with horror and detestation "
As Christine builds her city, she uses each famous woman as a building block for not only the walls and houses of the city, but also as building blocks for her defense of female rights.
In fact, one of the most famous and successful abductors ( as people who secretly traveled into slave states to rescue those seeking freedom were called ) was Harriet Tubman, a woman.
* Anabaptists rebel in some cities in the Netherlands, including a famous incident of seven men and five woman walking nude in the streets of Amsterdam.
In 2011 The Telegraph reported the most sought after body parts of the rich and famous revealed by two Hollywood plastic surgeons who carried out a survey among their patients to build up the picture of what the perfect woman would look like.
During a little more than a decade, from the late 1810s to the early 1830s, her literary production turned her into the most famous woman author in Germany.
First came the publication of her travelogues, which were also acclaimed, and then of her fiction work, which, for a little more than a decade, made her the most famous woman author in Germany.
* Dahteste, woman warrior and companion of the famous woman warrior Lozen
Niemeyer is most famous for his use of abstract forms and curves that specifically characterize every one of his works ; he didn ’ t stick to traditional straight lines, for he is not attracted to straight angles or lines but rather he is captured by ” free-flowing, sensual curves … that on the body of the beloved woman .”
José Guadalupe Posada created a famous print of a figure he called La Calavera de la Catrina (" skull of the rich woman ") as a parody of a Mexican upper-class female.

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