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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 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 worshiped
She and Diana are the goddesses most frequently mentioned in witch-trial transcripts and were apparently worshiped together.
Canto CVI turns to visions of the goddess as fertility symbol via Demeter and Persephone, in her lunar, love aspect as Selena, Helen and Aphrodite Euploia (" of safe voyages ") and as hunter Athene ( Proneia: " of forethought ", the form in which she is worshiped at Delphi ) and Diana ( through quotes from Layamon ).

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.
Diana was an ancient goddess common to all Latin tribes.
* 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 Roman
* Festival of Aventine Diana ( Roman Empire )
Her Roman equivalent is Diana.
Diana made up a triad with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, her servant and assistant midwife ; and Virbius, the woodland god.
Her function as bestower of authority to rule is also attested in the story related by Livy in which a Sabine man who sacrifices a heifer to Diana wins for his country the seat of the Roman empire.
Two heads found in the sanctuary and the Roman theatre at Nemi, which have a hollow on their back, lend support to this interpretation of an archaic Diana Trivia, in whom three different elements are associated.
Though some Roman patrons ordered marble replicas of the specifically Anatolian " Diana " of Ephesus, where the Temple of Artemis stood, Diana was usually depicted for educated Romans in her Greek guise.
It was founded by Zsuzsanna Budapest in the United States in the 1970s, and is notable for its focus on the worship of the Goddess ( usually Artemis ; Roman: Diana ), and on feminism.
" This theory of the Roman origins of many European folk traditions related to Diana or Hecate was explicitly advanced at least as early as 1807 and is reflected in numerous etymological claims by lexicographers from the 17th to the 19th century, deriving " hag " and / or " hex " from Hecate by way of haegtesse ( Anglo-Saxon ) and hagazussa ( Old High German ).
During the Communist rule, mass tourism facilities were built, such as the 8-12 levels tall concrete hotels Roman, Hercules A, Hercules B, Afrodita, Minerva, Diana, UGSR, etc.
They knew the divine pair of water-deities Vidassus ( as Roman Sylvanus ) and Thana ( as Roman Diana ), whose rocky reliefs persist today at some springs in their area.
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.
In Leland's Gospel, Aradia is portrayed as the messianic daughter of the goddess Diana and the god Lucifer ( who is called god of the sun, leading others to replace him with Apollo ), who was sent to Earth in order to teach the oppressed peasants how to perform witchcraft to use against the Roman Catholic Church and the upper classes.
In the iconography of Greek myth, the kneeling pose is also found in representations of Leto ( Roman Latona ) giving birth to Apollo and Artemis ( Diana ), and of Auge giving birth to Telephus, son of Herakles ( Hercules ).
One altar at the Roman baths at Badenweiler, Germany, and another at Mühlenbach identify her with Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt.
They played on her name, Diane, which derived from Diana, the name of the beautiful Roman goddess of the moon.
During the late regal era, Servius Tullius built a temple to Diana on the Aventine, as a Roman focus for the new-founded Latin League.
The second Marquess envisaged a sculpture gallery at the house, which never came to fruition ; four marbles by Joseph Nollekens were carried out to his commission, in expectation of the gallery ; the ' Diana, signed and dated 1778, is now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Juno, Venus and Minerva, grouped with a Roman antique marble of Paris, are at the J. Paul Getty Museum.

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