* Porada, Edith et al., 1962.

" Therefore Ur is one possible city of origin for the relief, but not the only one: Edith Porada points out the virtual identity in style that the lion's tufts of hair have with the same detail seen on two fragments of clay plaques excavated at Nippur.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to the original boating expedition of 4 July 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Dodgson, and the Duck was Rev.

In this passage Lewis Carroll incorporated references to everyone present on the original boating expedition of July 4, 1862 during which Alice's Adventures were first told, with Alice as herself, and the others represented by birds: the Lory was Lorina Liddell, the Eaglet was Edith Liddell, the Dodo was Lewis Carroll, and the Duck was Rev.

The first is by John D. Rutherford and the second by Edith Grossman.

Edith Stein served as his personal assistant during his first few years in Freiburg, followed later by Martin Heidegger from 1920 to 1923.

In 2008, Marion Cotillard won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for her portrayal of legendary French singer Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, the first French-language performance to be so honored.

Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.

The California-based fashion designer Edith Flagg was the first to import this fabric from Britain to the USA.

It is possible that it was a Viennese-born friend of Friedmann's in London, Edith Tudor Hart – herself, at this time, a Soviet agent – who first approached Philby about the possibility of working for Soviet intelligence.

After a brief exile at her Westphalian manors at Enger, where she established a college of canons in 947, Matilda was brought back to court at the urging of King Otto's first wife, the Anglo-Saxon princess Edith of Wessex.

Edward the Confessor was the first Anglo-Saxon and the only king of England to be canonised, but he was part of a tradition of ( uncanonised ) English royal saints, such as Eadburh of Winchester, a daughter of Edward the Elder, Edith of Wilton, a daughter of Edgar the Peaceful, and King Edward the Martyr.

Harrison wrote his autobiography, not once but twice ; his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, was a well-known writer of children's books and fairy tales in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

The second book opens with the election of Otto the Great as German king, treats of the risings against his authority, again omitting events in Italy, and concludes with the death of his first wife Edith of England in 946.

In that same book, Hazel states that Roger and Edith are now living in the extrasolar colony known as Fiddler's Green ( itself first named in Friday ).

His father, Robert Victor Britten, was a dentist, and his mother Edith Rhoda Hockey, a talented amateur musician who gave Britten his first lessons in piano and notation.

Flynt was born in Lakeville, Magoffin County, Kentucky, the first of three children to 23-year-old Larry Claxton Flynt, Sr. ( August 16, 1919 – July 1, 2005 ), a sharecropper and a World War II veteran, and 17-year-old Edith ( née Arnett ; August 13, 1925 – March 29, 1982 ), a homemaker.

On 11 June 1128 Geoffrey married Empress Matilda, the daughter and heiress of King Henry I of England by his first wife Edith of Scotland, and widow of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.

It has been called the first film noir directed by a woman, despite Norwegian director Edith Carlmar having made a noir already back in 1949 (" Døden er et kjærtegn ").

Miss Edith Bergman who was the daughter of Dr. Bergman ( and hence the person who the town was named after ) was the first postmistress.

Bertie Clifford was the first baby born before Eustis was incorporated in 1883, and Edith Hutchins the first baby of the newly incorporated town.

The Colony provided facilities and inspiration to over 1500 artists, and produced performances by New York city based artists who resided there: Paul Zaloom, Charles Moore African Dancers, Sachiyo Ito Japanese Dance, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Eiko & Koma, Gail Conrad Tap Dance, the Chinese Acrobats of Taipei, the Brubecks, and many more, as well as the first US International Conference on Theatre Anthropology featuring key speakers Eugenio Barba, Richard Schechner, and Edith Turner.

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and first published in book form in 1906.

Edith Ann sits in an over-sized rocking chair ( to make Tomlin seem child-sized ) with her rag doll, Doris, and often talks of life at home with her battling parents and bullying older sister, Mary Jean ( Lily Tomlin's actual first name ).

He and his first wife had two children: Thomas Sheridan, who married Caroline Henrietta Callander, daughter of Col. Sir James Campbell Callander, of Craigforth, Stirling, and Ardkinglas, and was the father of the 4th Baroness of Dufferin and Claneboye, Caroline Sheridan and the 12th Duchess of Somerset ; and Edith Marcia Caroline Sheridan ( d. 9 April 1876 ), m. 30 June 1864 to John Francis Thynne, of Haynes Park ( 17 June 1830 – 30 January 1910, Justice of Peace, of the Marquesses of Bath, and had issue.

The first time was when Edith accidentally hit Majeskie's car in the shopping parking lot with a can of cling peaches in heavy syrup.

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At Lee Simonson's house, I had dined with Edith Hamilton, the nonogenarian rationalist and the charming scholar who had a great popular success with The Greek Way.

She left Bill in Hope with grandparents Eldridge and Edith Cassidy, who owned and ran a small grocery store.

In 1943 he married Ethelwyn Edith Graves ( born 1915 ), a nurse tutor at Middlesex Hospital, with whom he was to have two children.

Since Edith was also the niece of Edgar the Ætheling and the great-granddaughter of Edmund Ironside ( the half-brother of Edward the Confessor ) the marriage united the Norman line with the old English line of kings.

Kroto was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England, to Edith and Heinz Krotoschiner, with his name being of Silesian origin.

* Anthology, 4 CD containing numerous poems and texts read by the author, Anna la bonne, La Dame de Monte-Carlo and Mes sœurs, n ' aimez pas les marins by Marianne Oswald, Le Bel Indifférent by Edith Piaf, La Voix humaine by Berthe Bovy, Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel with Jean Le Poulain, Jacques Charon and Jean Cocteau, discourse on the reception at the Académie française, with extracts from Les Parents terribles, La Machine infernale, pieces from Parade on piano with two hands by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc, Frémeaux & Associés FA 064, 1997

After his son returned to Norway, he left London with his new companion, Edith Thomas, ( known as ' Wantee ' for her habit of always asking guests if they'd like a cup of tea ) for the Lake District on 27 June 1945.

His primary sculptural work is The Representative of Humanity ( 1922 ), a nine-meter high wood sculpture executed as a joint project with the sculptor Edith Maryon and now on permanent display at the Goetheanum.

Roosevelt Family in 1903 with Quentin Roosevelt | Quentin on the left, TR, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. | Ted, Jr., Archibald Roosevelt | " Archie ", Alice Roosevelt Longworth | Alice, Kermit Roosevelt | Kermit, Edith Roosevelt | Edith, and Ethel Roosevelt Derby | Ethel

First Lady Edith Wilson performed most routine duties of government by reviewing all of Wilson's communications and deciding what he would be presented with and what she would delegate to others.

For some twenty years Harold was married More danico ( Latin: " in the Danish manner ") to Edith Swannesha and had at least six children with her.

After her husband's death, Edith is said to have fled for refuge to her brothers Edwin, Earl of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria but both men made their peace with King William initially before rebelling and losing their lands and lives.

Edith may have fled abroad ( possibly with Harold's mother, Gytha, or with Harold's daughter, Gytha ).

One school of thought supports the Norman case that Edward always intended William the Conqueror to be his heir, accepting the medieval claim that Edward had already decided to be celibate before he married, but most historians believe that he hoped to have an heir by Edith at least until his quarrel with Godwin in 1051.

* 1944: a few days after the liberation of Paris, Edith Piaf, whose talent is already evident, performs at the Moulin Rouge, with Yves Montand, a newcomer chosen to appear with her.

The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre published a book in 2006 titled, Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922, in which he contrasted Stein's living out of her own personal philosophy with Martin Heidegger, whose actions during the Nazi era according to MacIntyre suggested a " bifurcation of personality.

Crawford said one of the main reasons she signed with Warner Bros. was because she wanted to play the character " Mattie " in a proposed 1944 film version of Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome ( 1911 ).