The commando ‘ mayor of Umm Qasr ’ is starting from scratch, he tells Christina Lamb.

He was Secretary and National Political Officer of the Oxford University Conservative Association in 1985-86 ; JCR President of St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1986 ; and News Editor of student newspaper, Cherwell under the editorships of Christina Lamb and Anne McElvoy.

Marsden also negotiated the release of Sunday Telegraph journalist Christina Lamb and photographer Justin Sutcliffe, who had been arrested and held by the Pakistan Police and Inter-Services Intelligence secret service.

# Christina Lamb: " The Africa House ".

* 2007 Christina Lamb, The Sunday Times

* 2002 Christina Lamb, The Sunday Telegraph

At D ' Amato's final press conference as head coach, all feuds have been resolved or at least put on hold and he leaves on a positive note, being thanked by owner Christina Pagniacci ( Cameron Diaz ) and the media for his contributions to the team.

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 ).

The production at Rome of his opera Gli Equivoci nell sembiante ( 1679 ) gained him the support of Queen Christina of Sweden ( who at the time was living in Rome ), and he became her Maestro di Cappella.

He divorced Adelheid in 1356, married Christina, divorced her, and while Adelaide and possibly also Christina were still alive ( ca.

In addition, Christina Engelbart spoke about her father's early influences and the ongoing work of the Doug Engelbart Institute.

Christina Hoff Sommers has been a vocal critic of the concept of herstory, and presented her argument against the movement in her 1994 book, Who Stole Feminism ?.

Christina Rau is a granddaughter of her husband's mentor, Gustav Heinemann, former President of Germany.

Queen Christina of Sweden's tendency to dress as a man was well known during her time, and excused because of her noble birth ; she was brought up as a male and there was speculation at the time that she was a hermaphrodite.

She bore her husband a daughter, Christina, in 1626.

Impressed, Christina wrote to Cardinal Mazarin on Ninon's behalf and arranged for her release.

" After Descartes died in Sweden, Queen Christina abdicated her throne to convert to Roman Catholicism ( Swedish law required a Protestant ruler ).

Christina Sgro offers a bit of both worlds on her show, Christina's Corner, which has been gaining popularity since its inception in 2010.

* February 10 – Christina, former Queen of Sweden, has Gian Rinaldo Monaldeschi killed in her presence at the Palace of Fontainebleau.

After her abdication on the same day, Christina, now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.

She was married three times and had a daughter, Christina ( born May 16, 1968 ) by her second marriage, to British actor David Cameron.

The music was written ( based on a folk tune ) by Christina Macpherson, who wrote that she " was no musician, but she would do her best.

Birch's performance in the 1995 film Now and Then teamed her with Gaby Hoffmann, Christina Ricci, Demi Moore, Rosie O ' Donnell, and Melanie Griffith.

She also developed a mistrust of intelligent older women as a result of her mother's close relationship with the Archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, Marie Antoinette's older sister.

Crawford's relationships with her two older children, Christina and Christopher, were acrimonious.

The child was temporarily called Joan until Crawford changed her name to Christina.

Until Christina was well enough to return, Crawford offered to play her role, to which producer Gloria Monty readily agreed.

In November 1978, a year and a half after Crawford's death, Christina published Mommie Dearest, which contained allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically abusive to Christina and her brother Christopher.

This includes three of Engelbart's key papers, edited into book form by Yuri Rubinsky and Christina Engelbart to commemorate the presentation of the 1995 SoftQuad Web Award to Doug Engelbart at the World Wide Web conference in Boston in December 1995.

Although the book shows some signs of immaturity — this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel — it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable ; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ; and Christina Light, one of James's most enchanting and maddening femmes fatale.

The book was adapted into an independent film of the same name starring Christina Ricci and released in 2001.

In the book, Christina Crawford claims that she was a victim of child abuse during her mother's battle with alcoholism and that her mother was more concerned about her motion picture career than the well-being of her four children, suggesting she may have adopted them for publicity purposes.

The last pages of Christina's book suggest that Christina was not about to let her mother have the " last word " by omitting her daughter from her will.

Later biographers have reported that Christina began writing her book before Crawford's death, and have suggested that Joan's knowledge of its contents may have been a factor in Joan Crawford cutting her daughter from her will.

This included appearing at campy presentations of the film based on the book where Christina lectured about the new edition.

Christina Crawford bought back the book rights.

He first worked as a book illustrator with London publishers, illustrating such works as George Meredith's Jump to Glory Jane ( 1892 ), Jonas Lie's Weird Tales ( 1892 ), Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market ( 1893 ), Jane Barlow's The End of Elfintown ( 1894 ) and his sister's Werewolf ( 1896 ) in an intricate Art Nouveau style.

* Skinwalker ( comics ), a 2003 comic book published by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir, and Brian Hurtt.

The film is discussed in Christina Lane's book Feminist Hollywood: From " Born in Flames " to " Point Break ".

An exposé of sorts, My Mother's Keeper is often compared to the 1978 book Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford, the daughter of Joan Crawford.

The book was edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.

Together with Christina Dodwell, Mary Kingsley, Florence Baker, and Alexandrine Tinne, she was one of the five subjects of a book by Margo McLoone, Women explorers in Africa ( 1997 ).

John Crowe Ransom ( right ) with Robie Macauley as he prepares to become editor of The Kenyon Review in 1959. In 1959 Robie Macauley succeeded Ransom as editor of The Kenyon Review, where he published fiction and poetry by John Barth, T. S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Randall Jarrell, Richmond Lattimore, Doris Lessing, Robert Lowell, V. S. Naipaul, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank O ' Connor, V. S. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon, J. F. Powers, Karl Shapiro, Jean Stafford, Christina Stead, Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren, as well as articles, essays and book reviews by Eric Bentley, Cleanth Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Ellmann, Leslie Fiedler, Martin Green, and Raymond Williams.

The book exists in several manuscripts, the oldest of which is an 8th century manuscript in the Vatican Library, acquired from the library of Queen Christina of Sweden ( thus MS Reginensis 316 ).

Because the book contained much unknown information about Ross ' alleged diva-ish behavior onstage and off, some people jokingly referred to the book as " Diana Dearest " ( this name was inspired by Christina Crawford's memoir Mommie Dearest ).

The novel Christina Chard ( 1894 ) by Mrs Rosa Campbell-Praed ( 1851 – 1935 ), an Australian novelist, was dedicated to Boughton, because he had suggested the idea of the book.

# Life is No Picnic-Instant coffee gets off the ground in World War II and Jeeps lead to nylons and stocking machines smashed by Luddites, who were defended by Lord Byron, who meets John Galt in Turkey, avoiding the same blockade that inspires the " Star-Spangled Banner ," which was really an English song all about a Greek poet discovered by a publisher whose son-in-law is pals with Joseph Justus Scaliger of chronology fame, whose military boss, Maurice, inspires Gustavus of Sweden, father of the runaway Christina, whose teacher René Descartes ' mechanical universe inspires the book about brains by Willis, which is illustrated by the architect of St. Paul's, Christopher Wren, who's dabbles in investments like John Law's Louisiana scam that ruins France, and Pierre Beaumarchais, and later the French finance minister Jacques Necker, whose daughter is the opinionated de Stael, whose romantic pals get Thomas Henry Huxley looking into jellyfish so he can defend Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

The website was produced in an ' interactive comic book ' format containing 13 episodic adventures featuring intro and closing videos from Christina and Araya, quizzes in Doubting Dave's voice, and puzzle games and animation following themes presented in the show.

Arias is also notable for his portrayal of Joan Crawford in New York and San Francisco productions of Christmas with the Crawfords, an original holiday spoof of Christina Crawford's book Mommie Dearest.

That was very refreshing ," said Christina Vella, who turned her dissertation on the Baroness de Pontalba into the book Intimate Enemies.