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.

Edith was born to the reigning English king Edward ' the Elder ' by his second wife, Ælfflæd, and hence was granddaughter of Alfred the Great.

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.

She restored a maisonette in Storrington, Sussex, England bequeathed her by friend Edith Major and named it St. Andrew's.

It was then bought by Edith Wharton Restoration, which has restored much of the property to its original condition.

* May 1 – Edith of Scotland, queen of Henry I of England

# Edith of Wessex, ( c. 1020-18 December 1075 ), queen consort of Edward the Confessor

* December 19 – Edith of Wessex, queen of Edward the Confessor of England

It is not known to which queen this refers, but possibly the Queen was Edith, the wife of Edward the Confessor.

In the reign of Edward the Confessor, the manor of Worminghall was part of the estates of his queen, Edith of Wessex.

# Edith of Wessex, ( d. December 19, 1075 ), queen consort of Edward the Confessor

The village is named after queen Edith of Wessex ( 1029 – 1075 ), the wife of Edward the Confessor and sister of Harold Godwinson.

According to Goscelin, while Spearhafoc was working on metal figures at St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury, he lost a valuable ring given him by Edward's queen, and Godwin's daughter, Edith of Wessex, presumably as materials to use in his project.

One story, deriving from the Vita Edwardi, a biography of Edward, claims that Edward was attended by his wife Edith, Harold, Archbishop Stigand, and Robert FitzWimarc, and that the king named Harold as his successor.

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.

He had three children by Matilda ( Edith ), who died on 1 May 1118 at the Palace of Westminster.

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.

Margaret also gave Malcolm two daughters, Edith, who married Henry I of England, and Mary, who married Eustace III of Boulogne.

" Bradbury's favorite writers growing up included Katherine Anne Porter, who wrote about the American South, Edith Wharton, and Jessamyn West.

Godwin and Gytha had several children, notably sons Sweyn, Harold, Tostig, Gyrth and Leofwine and a daughter, Edith of Wessex ( 1029 – 1075 ), who became Queen consort of Edward the Confessor.

His Anglo-Irish father, Thomas Robert Tighe Chapman, who in 1914 inherited the title of Westmeath in Ireland as seventh Baronet, had left his wife Edith for his daughters ' governess Sarah Junner.

Although Edith Stein wished to enter the Carmel since 1922, she was detered from this by her spirtual leader, archabbot Raphael Walzer OSB who wished her to act in the world as a teacher and speaker for the education of women.

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

He sent messengers to Winchester who received the submission of that city from the widowed Queen Edith.

She was joined there by her daughter, Edith of Wilton, who lived there as a nun until her death.

Edith Sornow, who was not yet the film producer for Sesame Street, called Cooney, asking her to come to the Johnny Victor Theatre to see a reel of commercials by Jim Henson.

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.

The de Montfort story is the focus of the second part of The Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet by Edith Pargeter ( who also wrote as Ellis Peters ).

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.

In 1914, Schiele glimpsed the sisters Edith and Adéle Harms, who lived with their parents across the street from his studio in the Viennese suburb of Hietzing, 101 Hietzinger Hauptstrasse.

Edith, who was six months pregnant, succumbed to the disease on 28 October.

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 ).

The Bastables were children who appeared in a number of Edith Nesbit's stories.