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When Catherine of Aragon travelled to London she brought a group of her African attendants with her, including one identified as the trumpeter John Blanke.
Hamilton brought it to England on his next leave, after the death of his first wife, Catherine.
Upon Peter's death, Catherine found her four siblings, Krystyna, Anna, Karol and Fryderyk, gave them the newly created titles of Count and Countess, and brought them to Russia.
This war marks the beginning of that systematic struggle on the part of Russia to drive to the South which was brought to fruition by Catherine II.
When Italian duchess Catherine de ' Medici married the Duke of Orléans ( Henry II of France ) in 1533, she is said to have brought with her to France some Italian chefs who had recipes for flavoured ices or sorbets.
Catherine, having been caught by a dog, is brought inside the Grange to have injuries tended to while Heathcliff is sent home.
" He completely painted over 16th-century Cordoba leather wall coverings first brought to Britain by Catherine of Aragon that Leyland had paid £ 1, 000 for.
Above the doors, marble medallions, brought from Italy by Catherine de ' Medici, show Roman emperors: Galba, Claudius, Germanicus, Vitellius and Nero.
The common name " Spanish work " was based on the belief that Catherine of Aragon brought many blackwork garments with her from Spain, and portraits of the later 15th and early 16th centuries show black embroidery or other trim on Spanish chemises.
In earlier times Jack Clayton's The Innocents ( 1961 ) brought The Turn of the Screw to vivid life on film, and William Wyler's The Heiress ( 1949 ), adapted from Washington Square, won four Academy Awards, including a Best Actress award for Olivia de Havilland as Catherine Sloper.
In 1576 and 1588 Henri III, king of France, chose Blois as the meeting-place of the States-General, and in 1588 he brought about the murders of Henry, duke of Guise, and his brother, Louis, archbishop of Reims and cardinal, in the Château, where their deaths were shortly followed by that of the queen-mother, Catherine de ' Medici.
* Catherine Tate ( b. 1968 ), actress and comedienne, was brought up in the Brunswick Centre, close to Russell Square.
* Andrew IV Báthory, son of Andrew III, Ban of Belgrad, supreme count of Szatmár, married Catherine of Rozgon, which brought him the castles of Csitsva, Cserép, Rozgon and Thora.
He was born and brought up in Henley-on-Thames, the youngest child of the publisher Sir Rupert Hart-Davis ( 1907 – 1999 ) and his second wife Catherine Comfort Borden-Turner.
Disciples of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn brought their version of gymnastics to the United States, while Catherine Beecher and Dio Lewis set up physical education programs for women in the 19th Century.
Catherine came from a wealthy Protestant family and brought with her a dowry of £ 2, 000, but also a religious association that offered Robert some respite from the recusancy laws then in effect.
Catherine possessed several good qualities, but had been brought up in a conventual seclusion and was scarcely a wife Charles would have chosen for himself.
He brought the ' rent surcoat of the King of Scots stained with blood ' to Catherine of Aragon at Woburn Abbey.
The case was brought by Warren Hitzig, along with seven medical marijuana users ( Alison Myrden, Stephen J Vandekemp, Marco Renda, Marylynne Chamney, Catherine Devries, Jari Dvorak and Debbie Stultz-Giffen ).
The death of Catherine the Great in November 1796 brought Elizabeth's father-in-law, Paul I, to the Russian Throne.
After the Empress asked to meet his children with Catherine, the Tsar brought their two older children, George and Olga, to the Empress's bedside and she kissed and blessed both children.
When Catherine of Aragon travelled to London to marry Henry VIII of England, she brought a group of her African attendants with her, including one identified as the trumpeter John Blanke.
In that year he brought to a conclusion marriage negotiations not less momentous in their ultimate results, when Prince Arthur was betrothed to Catherine of Aragon.
Four days later Eliza died and the two children were thereafter brought up by their aunt, Mr. Wakefield's older sister, Catherine.

Catherine and her
Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;
Catherine Marshall LeSourd, the insight that has made her books world-famous and Norm Mullendore, the keen perception of an advertising executive.
Athena had an " androgynous compromise " that allowed her traits and what she stood for to be attributed to male and female rulers alike over the course of history ( such as Marie de ' Medici, Anne of Austria, Christina of Sweden, and Catherine the Great ).
Catherine Malfitano repeated her role as Jenny, while Felicity Palmer sang Begbick, and Kim Begley sang in the role of Jimmy.
The original cast starred Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt and, in her Broadway debut, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desiree.
Catherine Turocy began her studies in Baroque dance in 1971 as a student of dance historian Shirley Wynne.
Catherine was quite short in stature with long red hair, wide blue eyes, a round face, and a fair complexion. She was descended, on her maternal side, from the English royal house ; her great-grandmother Catherine of Lancaster, after whom she was named, and her great-great-grandmother Philippa of Lancaster were both daughters of John of Gaunt and granddaughters of Edward III of England.
At an early age, Catherine was considered a suitable wife for Arthur, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Henry VII of England and heir to the throne, due to the English ancestry she inherited from her mother Queen Isabella I of Castile.
By means of her mother, Catherine had a stronger legitimate claim to the English throne than King Henry VII himself through the first two wives of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster: Blanche of Lancaster and the Spanish Infanta Constance of Castile.
While Henry VII and his councillors expected her to be easily manipulated, Catherine went on to prove them wrong.
Catherine testified that her marriage to Arthur was never consummated, as also according to canon law, a marriage was not valid until consummated.
Giovanna was handed over to a wet-nurse, and presently died, whereas Catherine was nursed by her mother, and developed into a healthy child.
Catherine had her first vision of Christ when she was age five or six, saying that Jesus smiled at her, blessed her, and left her in ecstasy.
While tormented with sorrow, sixteen-year-old Catherine was now faced with her parents ' wish that she marry Bonaventura's widower.
In about 1366, Catherine experienced what she described in her letters as a " Mystical Marriage " with Jesus, later a popular subject in art as the Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine.

Catherine and up
The house where Catherine grew up is still in existence.
Catherine had received the habit of a Dominican tertiary from the friars of the Order, however, only after vigorous protests from the Tertiaries themselves, who up to that point had been only widows.
A smaller emphasis on doctrinal activity favoured the development here and there of the ascetic and contemplative life and there sprang up, especially in Germany and Italy, the mystical movement with which the names of Meister Eckhart, Heinrich Suso, Johannes Tauler, and St. Catherine of Siena are associated.
He had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar ; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence ; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree: after returning there in 1529 he had successfully taken his medical doctorate ; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there until his views became too unpopular ; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe ; he had travelled to the north-east of France, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval ; in the course of his travels he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying a future Pope ; he had successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere ; he had engaged in scrying using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water ; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554 ; having published the first installment of his Propheties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de ' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I. 35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel ; he had examined the royal children at Blois ; he had bequeathed to his son a ' lost book ' of his own prophetic paintings ; he had been buried standing up ; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.
" With World War II heating up, recalled Catherine Smith, and " both of them heading out of the German capital, they decided to marry just four days after their first date.
Between May 1839 and February 1840, Fraser's published the work sometimes considered Thackeray's first novel, Catherine, originally intended as a satire of the Newgate school of crime fiction but ending up more as a rollicking picaresque tale in its own right.
The popular account dreamed up by a reporter, attributing it to Mrs. Catherine O ' Leary and her cow, survived his confession of fiction in 1893.
It is only through bad experiences that Catherine really begins to properly mature and grow up.
Catherine adopted a moderate stance and spoke up against the Guise persecutions, though she had no particular sympathy for the Huguenots, whose beliefs she never shared.
Others they drowned in the river or strung up around the battlements while Catherine and the court watched.
When her stepfather's older sister, Catherine Rae, set up a boarding school in Monkwearmouth with her husband, Lola joined them to continue her education.
Catherine decides to make an overture of goodwill by offering up Margot in marriage to prominent Huguenot and King of Navarre, Henri de Bourbon, although she also schemes to bring about the notorious St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, when thousands of Protestants are slaughtered.
* Jacobs, Catherine I Want to Go Home ( Book Guild Ltd ) ISBN 1-85776-925-2-Growing up in Homerton, a family memoir
* Catherine Asaro, science-fiction author, grew up in El Cerrito.
Catherine of Aragon was sent here in April 1534 for refusing to give up her status or deny the validity of her marriage.
Born in Marion, Indiana, Davis grew up on a small farm in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine ( Carter ) Davis, brother Dave and 25 cats.
The aunt of Catherine ’ s husband, empress Elizabeth, took up the child as a passing fancy.
Catherine: a young woman who inherited at least some of her father's mathematical genius, and, she fears, his " instability " as well ; she gave up her life and schooling to take care of her father until his recent death
His acceptance of Dominique's offer of marriage, which would help his career far more than a marriage with Catherine, is a quintessential example of his failure to stand up for his own convictions.
To raise money for the school's education initiatives, his wife Catherine Mackie Spence traveled throughout the United States to set up mission Sunday schools in support of Fisk students, organizing endowments through the AMA.

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