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Loren Legarda was born on January 28, 1960 in Malabon as Lorna Regina Bautista Legarda, the only daughter of Antonio Cabrera Legarda of San Pablo, Laguna, and Bessie Gella Bautista of Malabon.
Born Bessie Regina Norris on December 21, 1953, Wright was the youngest of seven children to Rosa Akins Braddy-Wright and her second husband, McArthur Norris.
Boris Thomashefsky began and carried on a longterm affair with Yiddish actress Regina Zuckerberg, who modeled herself on Bessie in dress, speech, style and acting — except that she was 20 years younger.

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Oskison, Upton Sinclair ), Cosmopolitan ( Josiah Flynt, Alfred Henry Lewis, Jack London, Charles P. Norcross, Charles Edward Russell ), Everybody's Magazine ( William Hard, Thomas William Lawson, Benjamin B. Lindsey, Frank Norris, David Graham Phillips, Charles Edward Russell, Upton Sinclair, Lincoln Steffens, Merrill A. Teague, Bessie and Marie Van Vorst ), Hampton's ( Rheta Childe Dorr, Benjamin B. Hampton, John L. Mathews, Charles Edward Russell, and Judson C. Welliver ), The Independent ( George Walbridge Perkins, Sr .), Outlook ( William Hard ), Pearson's Magazine ( Alfred Henry Lewis, Charles Edward Russell ), Twentieth Century ( George French ), and World's Work ( C. M.

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** April 30, 1970: Elizabeth Margaret Braddock, better known as Bessie Braddock, Liverpool-born British Labour politician.
1502 – 1539 / 1540 ), who was better known by her nickname of " Bessie ", was a mistress of Henry VIII of England.
* Bessie Fiennes, Baroness Clinton, better known as Bessie Blount, mistress of Henry VIII of England and mother of his son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset

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Among those remembered are Martha Thomas, later known as Mrs. LaGrange, and still later as Mrs. Winnie Miskimins, Florence LaGrange, a Miss Richards, a Miss Gapes and Bessie Burke.
Jimmie Rodgers, the " first true country star ", was known as the " Blue Yodeler ", and most of his songs used blues-based chord progressions, although with very different instrumentation and sound from the recordings of his black contemporaries like Blind Lemon Jefferson and Bessie Smith.
Blues music was relatively well known to British Jazz musicians and fans, particularly in the works of figures like female singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and the blues influenced Boogie Woogie of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller.
Whatever the motive, it is known that Bessie and Rothschild's relationship was tumultuous, marred by alcoholism and physical abuse.
In any event, the exact nature of Rothschild's business in Jefferson is not known, nor at what point his plan to murder Bessie might have been hatched.
He is known to history primarily for being accused of murdering Diamond Bessie Moore, a prostitute who was his mistress and traveling companion ( and wife ), in 1877 near Jefferson, Texas.
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace was born to David Willock Wallace ( 1860 – 1903 ) and his wife, the former Margaret Elizabeth Gates ( 1862 – 1952 ), in Independence, Missouri, and was known as Bessie during her childhood.
Little is known of Elizabeth Blount's early years, except for her reputation as a beauty, and for her famous affair with King Henry VIII ( born 28 June 1491, he was 8-to-10 years older than Bessie ).
Following Bessie Ionescu's death in a horse-riding accident, Ionescu married Alexandrina Ecaterina Woroniecki in 1919 ( she was also known as Adina Olmazu ).
The Society also owns a sword, affectionately known as Bessie, which is said to be used by the Sergeant at Arms to protect the authority of the speaker: in practice it symbolises the authority of the House, in the manner of a ceremonial mace.
The house is best known as the scene of the elopement of Bessie Surtees and John Scott, who later became Lord Chancellor.
Nina Repeta ( born September 10, 1967 in Shelby, North Carolina ) is an American actress best known for her role as Bessie Potter on the television drama Dawson's Creek, which aired from 1998 to 2003.
In October 1857, Burden and her sister Elizabeth, known in the family as " Bessie ", were attending a performance in Oxford of the Drury Lane Theatre Company.
Alvah Cecil Bessie ( June 4, 1904 – July 21, 1985 ) was an American novelist, journalist and screenwriter who was imprisoned for ten months and blacklisted by the movie studio bosses for being one of the group known as the Hollywood Ten.
Educated at Columbia University, Bessie became initially known for his translations of avant-garde French literature,
Jo ( also known as Joe in later editions ), Bessie ( Beth in later editions ), and Fanny ( Frannie in later editions ) move to the country and find an Enchanted Wood right on their doorstep.
Bessie Turner lives, and has been known for a tourist attraction.
Bessie Brown ( 1890 – 1955 ) also known as " The Original " Bessie Brown, was an American classic female blues, jazz, and cabaret singer.

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As a teenager, she befriended a group of outcasts, one of whom had albums by African-American blues artists Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Lead Belly, whom Joplin later credited with influencing her decision to become a singer.
World History of the Dance, translated by Bessie Schönberg.
*" I Never Knew I Could Do a Thing Like That " sung by Bessie Love
Thus the Bessie Bunter series of English boarding-school stories, initially written by the prolific Charles Hamilton under the name Hilda Richards, was taken on by other authors who continued to use the same pen-name.
", recorded by Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra in 1933 and released on Vocalion, " Reefer Man " for Cab Calloway in 1932, " Dynamite Rag ", " Meet Me at No Special Place ", recorded by Nat King Cole, " Alhambra Syncopated Waltzes ", " Te-na-na ( From New Orleans )", " Beale Street Mama ", recorded by Bessie Smith and Cab Calloway, and " Palesteena ( Lena from Palesteena )".
Robinson also wrote the blues classic " St. Louis Gal ", which was recorded by Bessie Smith.
" Aggravatin ' Papa " was composed with lyricist Roy Turk and Addie Britt and was recorded by Alberta Hunter in 1923 with Fletcher Henderson's Dance Orchestra and also by Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Florence Mills, Lucille Hegamin, and Pearl Bailey.
She was returned to Britain when she was three to live with an aunt, a professional governess Bessie Nicholson, in Wimbledon, London, after her pregnant mother, Florence, committed suicide by hanging herself from a tree.
The song has been recorded by many artists, including The Andrews Sisters, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Johnnie Ray, Bee Gees, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, George Formby, Al Jolson, Liberace, Billy Murray, Liza Minnelli, Sid Phillips, Bessie Smith and Julie Andrews.
Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).
Former studio employees named by Warner included Alvah Bessie, Howard Koch, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson, Albert Maltz, Robert Rossen, Dalton Trumbo, Clifford Odets, and Irwin Shaw.
His work, The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, with music on the life of Bessie Smith, was named " one of the top-10 Off-Broadway experiences of 2001 " by the New York Daily News, " Best Solo Show " by Florida's Broward / Palm Beach New Times, and won a second NYFA Playwriting Fellowship ( 2000 ).
An elderly Bessie Rischbieth famously protested against the project by standing in the shallows in front of the bulldozers for a whole day in 1957.
* A History of Deaf Smith County, featuring Pioneer Families, published 1964 by Bessie Smith, hosted by the Portal to Texas History
* Maru, a novel by Bessie Head
He also produced and participated in early recordings by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith, Virginia Liston, Irene Scruggs, and many others.
He was carried and brought successfully to term by a surrogate mother from another more common species, in this case a domestic cow named Bessie.

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