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Diana Beauclerk was a second-rate actress living in New York.
When Alec finished reading he was sure that either Forbes or Stacy had killed Diana Beauclerk.
In 2004, the opera Europa riconosciuta was staged in Milan for the reopening of La Scala in Milan, with soprano Diana Damrau in the title role.
It was adapted for film in 1977, with Harold Prince directing and Elizabeth Taylor, Len Cariou, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg starring.
In 1977, a film version of A Little Night Music was released, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lesley-Anne Down and Diana Rigg, with Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold and Laurence Guittard reprising their Broadway roles.
There was praise for Diana Rigg's performance, and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick received an Oscar for his work on the score.
It is more rustic than the castle, and was often the home of Charles and Diana when they visited.
The Queen was in residence at Balmoral at the time of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.
The episode was watched by over 24 million viewers – more ITV viewers than the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana two days later.
In a 1982 poll, she was voted fourth most recognisable woman in Britain, after Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, Queen Elizabeth II and Diana, Princess of Wales.
The smaller ship was designed as a temple dedicated to Diana.
According to Ovid, it was Jupiter ( Zeus ) who took the form of Diana ( Artemis ) so that he might evade his wife Juno ’ s detection, forcing himself upon Callisto while she was separated from Diana and the other nymphs.
Her pregnant condition was discovered some months later while bathing with Diana and her fellow nymphs.
Upon this, Diana was enraged and expelled Callisto from the group, and subsequently she gave birth to Arcas.
Diana Ross was one of the first Motown artists to embrace the disco sound with her hugely successful 1976 outing " Love Hangover " from her self-entitled album.
In Roman mythology, Diana ( lt. " heavenly " or " divine ") was the goddess of the hunt and moon and birthing, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and having the power to talk to and control animals.
Diana was worshiped in ancient Roman religion and is revered in Roman Neopaganism and Stregheria.
Diana was known to be the virgin goddess of childbirth and women.
She was one of the three maiden goddesses, Diana, Minerva and Vesta, who swore never to marry.
According to mythology, Diana was born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, daughter of Jupiter and Latona.
2 ) Diana was also worshipped by women who wanted to be pregnant or who, once pregnant, prayed for an easy delivery.
Diana was initially just the hunting goddess, associated with wild animals and woodlands.

Diana and ancient
Diana ( pronounced with long ' ī ' and ' ā ') is an adjectival form developed from an ancient * divios, corresponding to later ' divus ', ' dius ', as in Dius Fidius, Dea Dia and in the neuter form dium meaning the sky.
The only possible interpretatio graeca of high antiquity concerning Diana Nemorensis could have been the one based upon this ancient aspect of deity of light, master of wildlife.
* In the funeral oration of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, her brother drew an analogy between the ancient goddess of hunting and his sister-' the most hunted person of the modern age '.
The cultural and psychological importance of hunting in ancient societies is represented by deities such as the horned god Cernunnos, and lunar goddesses of classical antiquity, the Greek Artemis or Roman Diana.
To the east of the amphitheatre an ancient road, the Via Dianae, leads north to the Pagus Dianae, on the west slopes of the Mons Tifata, a community which sprang up around the famous and ancient temple of Diana, and probably received an independent organization after the abolition of that of Capua in 211 BC.
Vacuna was an ancient Sabine goddess, identified by ancient Roman sources and later scholars with numerous other goddesses, including Ceres, Diana, Nike, Minerva, Bellona, Venus and Victoria.
The Greek gods were equated with the ancient Roman deities ; Zeus with Jupiter, Hera with Juno, Poseidon with Neptune, Aphrodite with Venus, Ares with Mars, Artemis with Diana, Athena with Minerva, Hermes with Mercury, Hephaestus with Vulcan, Hestia with Vesta, Demeter with Ceres, Hades with Pluto, Tyche with Fortuna, and Pan with Faunus.
Of ancient sculptures a miniature copy of the famous sculpture of Diana of Ephesus is one of the most important in the collection.
Of ancient sculptures a miniature copy of the famous sculpture of Diana of Ephesus is one of the most important in the collection.
The Neo-Grec vogue even made its way into French music through the works of the composer Erik Satie in a series of pieces called Gymnopédies -- the title a reference to dances performed by the youths of ancient Sparta in honour of Diana and Apollo at ceremonies commemorating the dead of the Battle of Thyrea.
His was an old and respectable Protestant family, said to be a junior branch of the ancient baronial house of Roche, Viscount Fermoy from which Diana, Princess of Wales, descended.
* Diana ( mythology ), ancient Roman goddess of the moon, the hunt, and chastity
* Diana Fortress, ancient Roman castrum in Serbia
* the temple of Diana in ancient Rome
Another likely etymology is that the word comes from the Latin Sancta Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt and moon, also celebrated in Roman Dacia ( ancient Romania ).

Diana and goddess
) From Artemis to Diana: the goddess of man and beast.
As goddess of the moon, however, Diana wore a long robe, sometimes with a veil covering her head.
The theological complex present in Diana looks very elaborated and certainly Hellenic, while an analogous Latin concept of Diana Trivia seems uncertain, as Latin sources reflect a Hellenised character of the goddess.
Its location is remarkable as the Aventine is situated outside the pomerium, i. e. original territory of the city, in order to comply with the tradition that Diana was a goddess common to all Latins and not exclusively of the Romans.
In Italy the old religion of Stregheria embraced the goddess Diana as Queen of the Witches ; witches being the wise women healers of the time.
Diana Soren, the main character in Carlos Fuentes ' novel Diana o la cazadora soltera ( Diana, or The Lone Huntress ), is described as having the same personality as the goddess.
In Jonathan Swift's poem: " The Progress of Beauty ", as goddess of the moon, Diana is used in comparison to the 17th / early 18th century everyday woman Swift satirically writes about.
She refers to Diana, goddess of the moon, who is often depicted with a silver hunting bow.
Two of the most popular of the period were of Pomona ( goddess of orchards ) as a metaphor for Agriculture, and Diana, representing Commerce, which is a perpetual hunt for advantage and profits.
* In the Addams Family Musial, Lucas described Wednesday as Diana goddess of the hunt when he first saw her.
* In the popular MOBA game League of Legends, there is a champion named Diana who is loosely based on the goddess.
"), Berowne to Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost (" A woman I forswore ; but I will prove, Thou being a goddess, I forswore not thee "), and Bertram to Diana in All's Well That Ends Well.
She is called on by the goddess Diana to avenge the death of the Amazon-like female warrior Camilla.
*** Ceyx ( Neopaganism ), son of Lucifer and the goddess Diana
The Rex Nemorensis was an escaped slave who became priest of the goddess Diana at Nemi by killing his predecessor.
Selznick thought that it was not Dalí's fault, for his work was much finer and much better for the purpose than he ever thought it would be, and although much of Dalí's work was used, one dream sequence depicting Bergman turning into a statue of the Roman goddess Diana was cut.
Luna is not always a distinct goddess, but sometimes rather an epithet that specializes a goddess, since both Diana and Juno are identified as moon goddesses.

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