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Funeral services for Mrs. Kowalski and her daughter, Christine, 11, who died of burns at the same hospital Monday, have been scheduled for 10 a.m. tomorrow in St. Anne's Catholic Church, 31978 Mound, in Warren.
In 1957, Ayckbourn married Christine Roland, another member of the Library Theatre company, and indeed Ayckbourn's first two plays were written jointly with her under the pseudonym of " Roland Allen ".
In a generous act by his father, he was adopted and raised in Vienna by his childless aunt Archduchess Marie Christine of Austria and her husband Albert of Saxe-Teschen.
Nora tells Christine of her predicament.
Christine tells Krogstad that she only married her husband because she had no other means to support her sick mother and young siblings, and that she has returned to offer him her love again.
It shows the influence of Walter Scott, and Brontë's modifications to her earlier gothic style have led Christine Alexander to comment that, in the work, " it is clear that Brontë was becoming tired of the gothic mode per se ".
Christine told the expert, Paul Atterbury, that she believed, as her mother had done, that the fairies in the fifth photograph were genuine.
The genus Candida and species C. albicans were described by botanist Christine Marie Berkhout in her doctoral thesis at the University of Utrecht in 1923.
Christine de Pizan presents her book to Queen Isabeau of Bavaria.
These constructed women lift Christine up from her despair over the misogyny prevalent in her time.
Simone de Beauvoir wrote in 1949 that Épître au Dieu d ' Amour was " the first time we see a woman take up her pen in defense of her sex " making Christine de Pizan perhaps the West's first feminist, or protofeminist as some scholars prefer to say.
* M. Bell Mirabella discusses Christine ’ s ability to refute the patriarchal discourse in her article Feminist Self-Fashioning: Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of the City of Ladies ( in The European Journal of Women ’ s Studies, 1999 ).
* Karlyn Kohrs Campbell presents an interesting argument about Christine ’ s ability to create a female-oriented dialogue in her lecture Three Tall Women: Radical Challenges to Criticism, Pedagogy, and Theory ( The Carroll C. Arnold Distinguished Lecture, National Communication Association, 2001 ).
Christine Clay ( Pamela Carme ), a successful actress, argues passionately with her jealous ex-husband Guy ( George Curzon ), who makes particular reference to Robert Tisdall, a young man staying near her at her retreat on the English coast.
He is subsequently arrested and becomes the main suspect, partly because of a large sum of money Christine left to him in her will, a gift he was unaware of.
From 1959 until 1979, Truffaut followed Léaud's character Antoine Doinel, who falls in love with Christine Darbon ( Claude Jade from Hitchcock's Topaz ) in Stolen Kisses, marries her in Bed & Board and separates from her in the last post-New Wave movie Love on the Run.
Christine de Pizan used Lucretia just as St. Augustine of Hippo did in her City of Ladies, defending a woman's sanctity.

Christine and city
Famous writers and journalists from the city include P. J. O ' Rourke, Christine Brennan, Philana Marie Boles, Mari Evans, Mildred D. Taylor, and Gloria Steinem.
Christine combats Meun's misogynist beliefs by creating an allegorical city of ladies.
After this, Lady Reason is the first to join Christine and help her build the external walls of the city.
Reason is the first virtue to help Christine build the city.
Reason aids Christine in laying the foundations for her city and answers Christine's questions about why men slander women.
As she helps Christine understand male slander, she also helps Christine to prepare the ground on which the city will be built.
She tells Christine to “ take the spade of intelligence and dig deep to make a trench all around city … Reason will help to carry away the hods of earth on shoulders .” These “ hods of earth ” are the past beliefs Christine has held about male slanderers.
This part closes with Christine addressing women and asking them to pray for her as she continues her work with Lady Justice to complete the city.
Part III marks Lady Justice ’ s joining with Christine to “ add the finishing touches ” to the city, including bringing a queen to rule the city.
The book includes discussion between Pizan and the three female Virtues which are sent to aid Christine build the city.
These Virtues – Reason, Rectitude, and Justice – help Christine build the foundations and houses of the city, as well as pick the women who will reside in the city of ladies.
On 5 June 1712 the wife of the Archduke, Elisabeth Christine, gave the title of imperial city to Reus.
He was survived by his wife Di-Hwa, his son Norman Tien Ph. D., a Dean of Engineering currently at Case Western Reserve University, and daughters Christine Tien, Stockton's deputy city manager, and Dr. Phyllis Tien, a UC San Francisco physician ( all of his children are graduates of Berkeley High School, California ).
In the general election held in November 2011, a newcomer to the city named Judith Kennedy was overwhelmingly elected Mayor over incumbent Republican Councilwoman Christine Bello.
Howard later travels back to the city and to a bank where he sees Christine, and tries to speak to her, but she looks away in anger.
In the Canadian House of Commons, the city is in the Abitibi — Témiscamingue district, represented by NDP MP Christine Moore.
* Cilia Tyson ( Dawnn Lewis ): Cilia is a cop in Christine who helped Ozzy stop the Pneumoniac and prove that Maximus is a traitor to the city.
* Chief Maximus ( Rob Paulsen )-The Chief of Police in the city of Christine ( a girl that Hector likes ) that teams up with the Pneumoniac.
Many spoke out against the project, including figures such as the former Auckland City Mayor Christine Fletcher, who argued out that the proposed motorway barely featured in the statutory policy documents, that Councillors lacked needed information to make informed decisions about it, and that the intended growth areas of the city would not require the corridor, with a public transport route being preferable.

Christine and she
Christine arrives to help Nora repair a dress for a costume party she and Torvald plan to attend the next day.
Christine says that she and Krogstad were in love before she married, and promises that she will try to convince him to relent.
However, the Emmy award-winning success of Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the CBS sitcom The New Adventures of Old Christine led many to believe that she had broken the curse.
Christine, in the beginning of the text, believed that women must truly be bad because she “ could scarcely find a moral work by any author which didn't devote some chapter or paragraph to attacking the female sex.
she had to accept authors unfavourable opinion of women since it was unlikely that so many learned men, who seemed to be endowed with such great intelligence and insight into all things, could possibly have lied on so many different occasions .” Christine is not using reason to discover the merits of women.
In Part II, Lady Rectitude says she will help Christine “ construct the houses and buildings inside the walls of the City of Ladies ” and fill it with inhabitants who are “ valiant ladies of great renown ”.
Although Christine was introduced to the piano at the age of four, it was not until age eleven that she studied music seriously, when she was re-introduced to the instrument by Philip Fisher, a local musician and school friend of her older brother John.
Fresh out of art college, Christine found that she did not have enough money to launch herself into the art world, so she moved to London, where she worked briefly as a department store window dresser.
Encouraged to continue her career, she recorded a solo album, Christine Perfect ; following her success as a member of Fleetwood Mac, the album was reissued under the name The Legendary Christine Perfect Album.

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