Another veteran telephone operator was Edith Fleming Blackmer, who had been in the office forty years at the time of her death in 1960.

For example, " piaf " was a Parisian argot word for " sparrow "; after being taken up by the singer Edith Piaf, this meaning became well known in France and worldwide, and no longer serves the purpose of a secret language.

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.

Anne Frank's mother, Edith Frank was born here as well.

According to Edith Hamilton's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, the Aegis is the breastplate of Zeus, and was " awful to behold.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Edith Adelson Lerner and Joseph Jay Lerner, whose brother, Samuel Alexander Lerner, was founder and owner of the Lerner Stores, a chain of dress shops.

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

The Anglo-Saxon population was ameliorated because they viewed Edith as one of their own.

The volume was critically acclaimed and won a contest run by the Sunday Referee, netting him new admirers from the London poetry world, including Edith Sitwell and Edwin Muir.

He was the second son of five children born to David Longfield Beatty ( 1840 − 1904 ) and Katherine ( or Katrine ) Edith Sadleir ( 1840 − 1896 ), both from Ireland.

Edith Stein was Husserl's student at Göttingen while she wrote her On the Problem of Empathy ( 1916 ).

Edith of England () ( 910 – 26 January 946 ), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Like her brother, Athelstan, Edith was devoted to the cult of Saint Oswald and was instrumental in introducing this cult into Germany after her marriage to the emperor.

He was the second of four children born to Edward Fawkes, a proctor and an advocate of the consistory court at York, and his wife, Edith.

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

Anne Frances Robbins was born on July 6, 1921, at Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women in New York, as the only child of car salesman Kenneth Seymour Robbins ( 1894 – 1972 ) and his actress wife, Edith Luckett ( 1888 – 1987 ).

Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 at 1 Aspinall Street, in Mytholmroyd, West Riding of Yorkshire to William Henry and Edith ( née Farrar ) Hughes and raised among the local farms of the Calder valley and on the Pennine moorland.

Edith had two sons — possibly twins — named Harold and Ulf ( born around November 1066 ), both of whom survived into adulthood and probably lived out their lives in exile.

Buster Keaton was born in Piqua, Kansas, the small town where his mother, Myra Keaton ( née Myra Edith Cutler ), happened to go into labor.

Edith Stein, also Saint Teresia Benedicta of the Cross, informally also known as Saint Edith Stein ( born: October 12, 1891 – died: August 9, 1942 ), was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and nun, regarded as a martyr and saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

Pope was born to Alexander Pope Senior ( 1646 – 1717 ), a linen merchant of Plough Court, Lombard Street, London, and his wife Edith ( née Turner ) ( 1643 – 1733 ), who were both Catholics.

Matilda was the elder of the two children born to Henry I of England, son of William the Conqueror, and his wife Matilda of Scotland ( also known as Edith ) who survived infancy ; her younger brother and heir to the throne was William Adelin.

Troughton was born on 25 March 1920 in Mill Hill, Middlesex, England to Alec George Troughton, a solicitor, and Dorothy Evelyn Offord, who married in 1914 in Edmonton, and had an elder brother, Alec Robert ( 1915 – 1994 ), and a younger sister, Mary Edith ( 1923 – 2005 ).

Edward Heath ( known as " Teddy " as a young man ) was born at 54 Albion Road, Broadstairs, Kent, the son of William George Heath, a carpenter and builder, and Edith Anne Heath ( née Pantony ), a maid.

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell ( the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church ): Lorina Charlotte Liddell ( aged 13, born 1849 ) (" Prima " in the book's prefatory verse ); Alice Pleasance Liddell ( aged 10, born 1852 ) (" Secunda " in the prefatory verse ); Edith Mary Liddell ( aged 8, born 1853 ) (" Tertia " in the prefatory verse ).

Edith Cavell was born on 4 December 1865 in Swardeston, a village near Norwich, where her father, the Reverend Frederick Cavell, was vicar for 45 years.

Robinson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, of Danish descent to Edith Jensen and Wayne Robinson.

Clive Sinclair was born to George William Carter Sinclair ( known as Bill ) and Thora Edith Ella Marles in 1940 near Richmond, then in Surrey.

Howerd was born the son of a soldier, Francis Alfred William ( 1887 – 1935 ) and Edith Florence Howard ( née Morrison, 1888 – 1962 ) at the City Hospital in York, England, in 1917 ( not 1922 as he later claimed ).

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.

Ada bears him two children: Edith, who is born in 1897, and Lyman, born two years later.

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.

English sculptor Edith Maryon belonged to the innermost circle of founders of anthroposophy and headed the Section of Fine Arts at the Goetheanum

The closest English relation in Richard's family tree was Edith, wife of Henry I of England.

* 1887 – Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic ( d. 1964 )

* January 21 – Edith Bratt, English wife of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien ( d. 1971 )

** Edith Yorke, English actress ( b. 1867 )

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.

Modern historians have felt it more likely that Edward, at Robert's urging, wished to divorce Edith and remarry in order to have children to succeed him on the English throne, although it is possible that he merely wished to be rid of her, without necessarily wanting a divorce.

They were named for Edith Irene Atkin, Illinois State Normal University mathematics professor from 1909 – 1940 and June Rose Colby, English professor from 1892 – 1932.

Edward's grandchild Edith of Scotland, also called Matilda, married King Henry I of England, continuing the Anglo-Saxon line into the post-Conquest English monarchy.

Edith Madeleine Carroll ( 26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987 ) was an English actress, popular in the 1930s and 1940s.

Legend has it that his mother was English, and that he was the uncle of King Harold II of England's wife Edith ( the claim being that he had a sister Aelgifu who married Aelfgar, Earl of Mercia, who was the father of Edith ).

* Edith Sitwell, English Eccentrics: A gallery of weird and wonderful men and women, Harmondsworth: Penguin ( 1983 ), pp. 47 – 55.

The mountain was named in 1916 for Edith Cavell, an English nurse and executed by the Germans during World War I for having helped allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium to the Netherlands, in violation of military law.

Five Children and It is a children's novel by English author Edith Nesbit, first published in 1902 ; it was expanded from a series of stories published in the Strand Magazine in 1900 under the general title The Psammead, or the Gifts.

Wilton is best known as the home of Saint Edith, the child of a " handfast " union between Edgar, King of the English ( 959-75 ), and Wulfrid or Wulfthryth, a lady wearing the veil though not a nun, whom he carried off from Wilton, probably in 961.

After he commits a number of other bloodthirsty deeds, he is lured into a private meeting with the beautiful Edith Roister, daughter of one of his French victims, who plots to murder him ; as she hesitates, one Hamond Egz, Captain of the Guards and brother of another of Rollo's English victims, breaks in and murders her instead.

It was translated into English by Gregory Rabassa and by Edith Grossman.

A book by Monica Waitzfelder, daughter of Edith Rosenfelder, published in French as L ' Oréal a pris ma maison and in English as L ' Oréal stole my house !, details how L ' Oréal, took over the Waitzfelder home in the German city of Karlsruhe ( after the Nazis had engineered the removal of the family ) to make it its German headquarters.

Doreen Edith Dominy Valiente ( 4 January 1922 – 1 September 1999 ), who also went under the craft name Ameth, was an influential English Wiccan who was involved in a number of different early traditions, including Gardnerianism, Cochrane's Craft and the Coven of Atho.

According to a Time magazine article about hermaphrodites, Brundage felt the need to clarify " sex ambiguities " after observing the performance of Czechoslovak runner and jumper Zdenka Koubkova and English shotputter and javelin thrower Mary Edith Louise Weston.

He was a major inspiration to the artists known as the Macchiaioli, and also had many English and American friends and followers, notably Elihu Vedder, Matthew Ridley Corbet ( 1850 – 1902 ) and his wife Edith Corbet, and Lord Carlisle, and was closely associated with Corot and the Barbizon school.

Edith Joy Scovell ( 1907 – 1999 ) was an English poet.