This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.

In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.

It was there that their first child, a daughter they named Anna Bronson Alcott, was born on March 16, 1831, after 36 hours of labor.

Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.

He was born into a family of writers, the best known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.

Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 – 1059 ).

The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.

The real driving force behind this political alliance was Anna Dalassene.

Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.

This request was granted and Anna then manifested her true theatrical and manipulative capabilities:

Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.

Anna was highly successful in three important aspects of the revolt: she bought time for her sons to steal imperial horses from the stables and escape the city, she distracted the emperor and gave her sons time to gather and arm their troops and she gave a false sense of security to Botaneiates that there was no real treasonous coup against him.

Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.

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.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.

He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Maria was a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.

Charles Henry Alston was born on November 28, 1907 in Charlotte, North Carolina to Reverend Primus Priss Alston and Anna Elizabeth Miller Alston, and was the youngest of five children.

She was a daughter of Henry V of Iron, Duke of Żagań and Anna of Mazovia.

While the circus was on tour in Halifax, Canada, 7 foot 5 and a half inches ( 2. 27m ) tall Anna Haining Swan happened to visit, and the promoter, envisioning the success a pair of giants would have, hired her immediately.

By her 15th birthday Anna Swan was measured at just over tall.

When visiting a circus in Halifax with which Martin Van Buren Bates — another enormously tall person — was travelling, Anna was spotted by the promoter and hired on the spot.

: Anna & Uni are a pair of tall, beautiful android catgirls who were created as " love dolls " to be marketed for profit, but they developed beyond this superficial programming and became criminals, joining forces with Buaku.

One of the main attractions in Anna Nagar is the tall Annanagar Tower, officially known as the Visveswaraya Tower, built for the 1968 World Trade Fair, by B. S. Abdur Rahman.

In 1916, Modigliani befriended the Polish poet and art dealer Leopold Zborowski and his wife Anna.

Zborowski and his wife Anna ( Hanka Zborowska ) were contemporaries with Parisian artists such as Chaim Soutine, André Derain and Amedeo Modigliani, who painted Zborowski's portrait.

Aldona ( baptized Ona or Anna ; her pagan name Aldona is known only from the writings of Maciej Stryjkowski ; ca.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the only son of Jacob Hackerman and Anna Raffel, immigrants from the Baltic regions of the Russian Empire that later became Estonia and Latvia, respectively.

Gibbs was the fourth of the five children, and the only son, of Josiah Willard Gibbs and his wife Mary Anna, née Van Cleve.

* December 23 – Anna of Saxony, only child and heiress of Maurice, Elector of Saxony ( d. 1577 )

Santa Anna was not aware that Houston and his army were, from March 30 through April 12, camped in the woods along the Brazos only fifteen miles above the main Mexican forces who were camped at San Felipe from April 7 through April 9.

Santa Anna, declaring himself as the only person who could bring about peace, was sent to Washington, D. C., by the Texas government to meet President Jackson in order to guarantee independence of the new republic.

Though Otto I preferred Byzantine Princess Anna Porphyrogenita, daughter of former Byzantine Emperor Romanos II, as she was born in the purple, her age ( then only five years old ) prevented serious consideration by the East.

Out of the twelve children of Peter and Catherine ( five sons and seven daughters ), only two daughters, Anna and Elizabeth survived.

Ivan VI was only a one-year-old baby at the time and his mother, Anna Leopoldovna, was detested for her German counselors and relations.

She was the only woman on comedy programme Radio Active, where she played Anna Daptor and other roles, and participated in the televisual equivalent of Radio Active, KYTV.

On 8 October 1713, Bering married Anna Christina Pülse ; the ceremony took place in the Lutheran church at Vyborg, only recently annexed from Sweden.

Later moving to Penang, Thomas found work as a hotel keeper, only to die of apoplexy, leaving Anna Leonowens an impoverished widow.

Oradour-sur-Glane was not the only collective punishment reprisal action committed by the Waffen SS: other well-documented examples include the French towns of Tulle, Ascq, Maillé, Robert-Espagne, and Clermont-en-Argonne ; Polish villages Michniów, Wanaty and Krasowo-Częstki ; the Soviet village of Kortelisy ( in what is now Ukraine ); Lithuanian village of Pirčiupiai ; the Czechoslovakian villages of Ležáky and Lidice ( in what is now the Czech Republic ); the Greek towns of Kalavryta and Distomo ; the Dutch town of Putten ; Serbian towns of Kragujevac and Kraljevo ; Norwegian village of Telavåg ; and the Italian villages of Sant ' Anna di Stazzema and Marzabotto.

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.

In 1747 he married Anna Maria Pertl, who bore him seven children, although only two of them survived past infancy: Maria Anna Wallburga Ignatia ( called " Nannerl ") and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Theodore II Doukas Laskaris was the only son of Emperor John III Doukas Vatatzes and Eirene Laskarina, the daughter of Emperor Theodore I Laskaris and Anna Angelina, a daughter of Emperor Alexios III Angelos and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina.

For over six hundred pages, however, Joyce presents Anna Livia to us almost exclusively through other characters, much as in Ulysses we hear what Molly Bloom has to say about herself only in the last chapter.

The estate passed to Custis ' and his wife's ( Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis ) only surviving adult child Mary Anna Custis Lee who was married to Robert E. Lee, a West Point graduate and United States Army officer.

Although the county's 2008 population is only 31, 000, it is one of the fastest-growing in Virginia, as people have moved near Lake Anna.

Novels set in Moscow in particular, such as Anna Karenina, and Bednaia Liza ( Poor Liza ), follow a trend of female suicides which suggest a weakness in character which exists only because they are women ; they are said by readers to be driven by their emotions into situations from which suicide seems to be the only escape.

Because she had only a small wood stove, Anna Cimbora cooked enough of one main dish-roasts or chicken paprikash-to feed everyone.

In the center of the new city was Lake Anna, named after Barber's only daughter, Anna Laura Barber.