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Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.
# Anna Komnene, who married the Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.
Greek fire continued to be mentioned during the 12th century, and Anna Komnene gives a vivid description of its use in a naval battle against the Pisans in 1099.
The information available on Greek fire is exclusively indirect, based on references in the Byzantine military manuals and a number of secondary historical sources such as Anna Komnene and Western European chroniclers, which are often inaccurate.
In her Alexiad, Anna Komnene provides a description of an incendiary weapon, which was used by the Byzantine garrison of Dyrrhachium in 1108 against the Normans.
Anna Komnene gives this account of beast-shaped Greek fire projectors being mounted to the bow of warships:
At this time, there were still members of the Byzantine court who remembered the passage of the First Crusade, which was a defining event in the collective memory of the age and one which had fascinated Manuel's aunt, Anna Komnene.
* 1083-1153 Anna Komnene, Latinized as Comnena
# Anna Komnene, who married Stephen Kontostephanos
Anna Komnene, Latinized as Comnena (, Anna Komnēnē ; December 1, 1083 – 1153 ) was a Greek princess, scholar, doctor, hospital administrator, and the daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos of Byzantium and Irene Doukaina.
In 1097, 14-year-old Anna Komnene married an accomplished young nobleman, the Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios the Younger.
According to Dion C. Smythe, Anna “ felt cheated ” because she “ should have inherited .” Indeed, according to Anna Komnene in the Alexiad, at her birth she was presented with “ a crown and imperial diadem .” Anna s “ main aim ” in the depiction of events in the Alexiad, according to Vlada Stankovíc, was to “ stress her own right ” to the throne and “ precedence over her brother, John .”
The exact date of Anna Komnene s death is uncertain.
By the Caesar Nikephoros Bryennios, Anna Komnene had several children, including:
* Anna Komnene, The Alexiad, translated by E. R. A.
* Alexander Kazhdan, ' Komnene, Anna ', in The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium ed.
* Angeliki Laiou, “ Introduction: Why Anna Komnene ?” Anna Komnene and Her Times, ed.
* Diether R. Reinsch, “ Women s Literature in Byzantium ?— The Case of Anna Komnene ,” Anna Komnene and Her Times, ed.

Anna and plays
Oliver Parker, an English director who had previously adapted other plays by Wilde, made a film in 2002 ; it stars Colin Firth ( Jack ), Rupert Everett ( Algy ), Dame Judi Dench ( Lady Bracknell ), Reese Witherspoon ( Cecily ), Frances O ' Connor ( Gwendolen ), Anna Massey ( Miss Prism ), and Tom Wilkinson ( Dr. Chasuble ).
* 1959: The FBI Story starring James Stewart, Jean Willes plays Anna Sage and Scott Peters plays Dillinger.
Mauvais Sang is an avant-garde thriller in which she plays Anna the vastly younger lover of Marc ( Piccoli ) who falls in love with Alex ( Denis Lavant ), a young thief.
*( Thai ) " King Mongkut s letters to Anna: When Madame Teacher plays political negotiator " Art and Culture Magazine
His best-known plays include Anna Christie ( Pulitzer Prize 1922 ), Desire Under the Elms ( 1924 ), Strange Interlude ( Pulitzer Prize 1928 ), Mourning Becomes Electra ( 1931 ), and his only well-known comedy, Ah, Wilderness !, a wistful re-imagining of his youth as he wished it had been.
The last of his plays in which she performed on stage was Old Times ( 1971 ) as Anna.
The script plays with the question of Anna / Anastasia's identity.
Among the best plays of the period are James Nelson Barker's Superstition ; or, the Fanatic Father, Anna Cora Mowatt's Fashion ; or, Life in New York, Nathaniel Bannister's Putnam, the Iron Son of ' 76, Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon ; or, Life in Louisiana, and Cornelius Mathews's Witchcraft ; or, the Martyrs of Salem.
In particular, Anna Freud's belief that ' In children's analysis, the transference plays a different role ... and the analyst not only " represents mother " but is still an original second mother in the life of the child ' became something of an orthodoxy over much of the psychoanalytic world.
He was recipient of the Canadian composers ' SOCAN Foundation's CD Award, for the distribution to radio-broadcasters world-wide of his CDs Little Notebook for Anna I & II, on which he plays his harpsichord and piano compositions.
Co-producer Louise Garfield makes a cameo appearance playing a virus, co-producer Anna Stratton appears as a drug company executive and composer Glenn Schellenberg plays a bathhouse attendant.
He plays on a 1960's style rock and roll song " Anna Julia " and guitar-driven " We're Not Alone ".
On Babylon 5, Delenn plays Sheridan's time-delayed message: " Delenn, by the time you get this message, I will be at Z ' ha ' dum ... with Anna.
Here, Anna Karina plays a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled private detective character.
Actress Anna Paquin plays the role of Irena.
He never leaves his car, except for one occasion, on which he invites Anna Wolff for a duet as he plays the piano.
At Kronos ' demand, Anna plays the violin and the bird sings.
Some of his other movies include If I Had A Million ( 1932 ; an episodic ensemble film in which he plays a forger hiding from police, suddenly given a million dollars with no place to cash the check ), Bolero ( 1934 ; in a rare role as a dancer rather than a gangster ), Limehouse Blues ( 1934 ; with Anna May Wong ), a brutal and fast-paced adaptation of Dashiell Hammett's The Glass Key ( 1935 ; remade in 1942 with Alan Ladd in Raft's role as a result of the success of the remake of Hammett's The Maltese Falcon ), Souls at Sea ( 1937 ; with Gary Cooper ), Spawn of the North ( 1938 ; with Raft garnering top billing over Henry Fonda and John Barrymore ), two with Humphrey Bogart: Invisible Stripes ( 1939 ) and They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), with Bogart in supporting roles, Each Dawn I Die ( 1939 ; with James Cagney and Raft as convicts in prison ), and Manpower ( 1941 ; with Edward G. Robinson and Marlene Dietrich ).
The 1920s also spawned a new age of American playwright with the emergence of Eugene O ' Neill, whose plays Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christie, The Hairy Ape, Strange Interlude and Mourning Becomes Electra proved that there was an audience for serious drama on Broadway, and O ' Neill's success paved the way for major dramatists like Elmer Rice, Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, Tennessee Williams, and Arthur Miller, as well as writers of comedy like George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart.
He wrote the plays Anthony and Anna in 1926 and The First Mrs. Fraser in 1929.
In rare cases, sometimes called autobiopics, the subject of the film plays himself or herself: Jackie Robinson in The Jackie Robinson Story ; Muhammad Ali in The Greatest ; Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back ; Patty Duke in Call Me Anna ; Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Restaurant ; and Howard Stern in Private Parts.
Since, she has also starred in various films and television projects, including crime series Tatort ( 2006 ), spoofing film Dörte's Dancing ( 2008 ), and the Sat. 1 telenovela Anna und die Liebe in which she plays Anna.

Anna and secondary
Though Bering seems to have been primarily interested in landing in North America, his recognised the importance of secondary objectives: the list of which expanded rapidly under the guidance of planners Nikolai Fedorovich Golovin ( head of the Admiralty ); Ivan Kirilov, a highly-ranked politician with an interest in geography, and Andrey Osterman, a close adviser of the new Empress, Anna Ivanovna.
Anna van Rijn College is the main secondary school for the city.
However, analysis of secondary sources — including a hand-written copy by Bach's second wife, Anna Magdalena — has produced presumably authentic editions, although critically deficient in the placement of slurs and other articulation.
He has since established a secondary career as an actor on the Sat. 1 telenovela Anna und die Liebe and appeared in leading roles on musicals such as Dance of the Vampires and Tarzan.
Miami Springs High School is a secondary school located at 751 Dove Avenue in Miami Springs, Florida, USA ; its principal is Anna L. Rodriguez.

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