Mama was now the first maid to Mrs. Coolidge, because Catherine, the previous first maid, had become ill and died.

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 ).

Their one monastery was on the top of Monte Varese, near Lago Maggiore, on the spot where their foundress, the Blessed Catarina Morigia ( or Catherine of Palanza ), had first led a solitary life.

Capp moved to Boston and married Catherine Wingate Cameron, whom he had met earlier in art class.

By 1525 Henry was infatuated with his mistress Anne Boleyn and dissatisfied that his marriage to Catherine had produced no surviving sons, leaving their daughter, the future Mary I of England, as heiress presumptive at a time when there was no established precedent for a woman on the throne.

The great scholar Erasmus would later say that Catherine " loved good literature which she had studied with success since childhood ".

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.

Catherine had lost another son when Henry returned from France.

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.

This had taught Catherine the power of fasting in close relationships.

Over the years Catherine had eaten less and less, claiming that she found no nourishment in earthly food.

His heirs sent his vast library to Catherine II, who had it deposited at the National Library of Russia.

The two greatest saints of among them are St. Catherine of Siena and St. Rose of Lima, who lived ascetic lives in their family homes, yet both had widespead influence in their societies.

Edvard had an elder sister, Johanne Sophie ( born 1862 ), and three younger siblings: Peter Andreas ( born 1865 ), Laura Catherine ( born 1867 ), and Inger Marie ( born 1868 ).

Her older half-sister, Mary, had lost her position as a legitimate heir when Henry annulled his marriage to Mary's mother, Catherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne and sire a male heir to ensure the Tudor succession.

Ackerman had 50 stories published, including collaborations with A. E. van Vogt, Francis Flagg, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Donald Wollheim and Catherine Moore and the world's shortest – one letter of the alphabet.

Both Warbeck and the Earl of Warwick were too dangerous to keep around even in captivity, and Henry had to execute them in 1499 before Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain would allow their daughter Catherine to come to England and marry his son Arthur.

He married the widowed Catherine of Aragon, and they had several children, but none survived infancy except a daughter, Mary.

" However, Catherine insisted that she and Arthur had never consummated their brief marriage and that the prohibition did not apply here.

His sixth and last marriage was to Catherine Parr, more a nursemaid to him than anything else, as his health was failing ( it had declined ever since the jousting accident in 1536 ).

Humphrey was the oldest of three children ; he had two younger sisters, Frances and Catherine Elizabeth ( Kay ).

Catherine had Pugachev drawn and quartered in Red Square, but the specter of revolution continued to haunt her and her successors.

John Quincy Adams and Louisa Catherine ( Johnson ) Adams had three sons and a daughter.

At the initiative of Catherine Baw in 1441, and 10 years later of Elizabeth, Mary, and Isabella of the house of Hornes, orders were founded which were open exclusively to women of noble birth, who received the French title of chevalière or the Latin title of equitissa.

The decision to settle Norfolk Island was taken under the impetus of the shock Britain had just received from the Empress Catherine of Russia.

* June 28 – Catherine the Great is received into the Russian Orthodox Church.

Twyla Tharp received two Emmy Awards, 19 honorary doctorates, the Vietnam Veterans of America President ’ s Award, the 2004 National Medal of the Arts, and numerous grants including the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.

In March, 1548, he went back to England, was well received at the court of the new monarch, Edward VI, and was made king's chaplain and almoner to the queen dowager, Catherine Parr.

After the shipyard was sold, Bergh received a share of the inheritance and set forth on a lengthy journey throughout Western Europe with his young bride, Catherine Matilda Taylor.

" Though raised a pagan, she became an ardent Christian in her teenage years, having received a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, in which the Blessed Virgin gave Catherine to Jesus in mystical marriage.

Latifah received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role, but lost to co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Todd's career received a boost when 20th Century-Fox signed him to a non-exclusive contract and cast him as the United States Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall in the film version of Catherine Marshall's best selling biography, A Man Called Peter ( 1955 ).

During the programme Robbie Williams presented an award to Ant and Dec which should have gone to Catherine Tate, who had received a greater number of phone-in votes.

In addition, she received several Emmy nominations, including one for playing in 1981 Magda Goebbels, wife of Joseph Goebbels, in The Bunker, opposite Anthony Hopkins as Hitler ; for her role in the miniseries The Thorn Birds ; two for her work in Twin Peaks as the evil Catherine Martell, and a nomination for her guest appearance on Frasier.

Ludza received town rights in 1777 from Catherine II of Russia.

It was founded in 1987 by, among others, Catherine Healy, and received funding from the Minister of Health in 1988, and subsequently the Department of Health ( which became the Ministry of Health ).

At his funeral, Catherine and her three children were forced to stand in an entryway of the church and received no place in the procession of the Imperial Family.

After the Tsar's death, Catherine received a pension of approximately 3. 4 million rubles and agreed to give up the right to live in the Winter Palace or any of the Imperial residences in Russia in return for a separate residence for herself and the three children.

In 1531 he received instructions to proceed to the court of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, to try to persuade him to take a more favourable view of Henry's proposed divorce from Catherine of Aragon, the emperor's aunt.

In 1784 he was sent as minister plenipotentiary to Saint Petersburg, where he was received into the intimacy of the empress Catherine II and wrote some comedies for her theatre.

In 1778, the Pereslavl-Ryazansky received the shorter name of Ryazan by Decree of Empress Catherine II ( Catherine the Great ).

From the middle of the 18th century Gzhatsk was a sloboda, and in 1776 under a decree by Catherine the Great it was granted status of an uyezd town and received a coat of arms showing " a barge loaded with bread ready for departure, on a field argent ", meaning that the town was a good landing stage for grain.

Among her many awards and honors, she received the Shelley Memorial Award, the Robert Frost Medal the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Lannan Award, a Catherine Luck Memorial Grant, a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

He received a B. Sc in mathematics in 1963 from St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto, where he also met his wife Mary Catherine ; they have four children.

On November 19, 2008, Le Moyne announced that it had received a gift of $ 50 million from the estate of Robert and Catherine McDevitt, longtime friends of the college who lived in Binghamton, NY.

The award was " mistakenly given " to Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway even though The Catherine Tate Show received the most tabulated votes and should have been declared the winner, and Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly ( Ant & Dec ) were asked to return their 2005 award.