It was at that party that, finally overcoming my timidity, inspired by tales only half-understood and overheard among older boys, I asked Jessie to spend New Year's Eve with me.

The Old Testament describes a number of marriages, some of the best known being Adam and Eve ; Abraham, Sarah and Hagar ; Isaac and Rebekah ; Jacob, Rachel and Leah ; Boaz and Ruth ; David, Michal, Ahinoam, Abigail, Maachah, Haggith, Abital, Eglah and Bathsheba ; and Hosea and the prostitute Gomer, whom he married at God's command.

Machiavelli attributes two episodes to Cesare Borgia that were at least partially executed by his father: the method by which the Romagna was pacified, which Machiavelli describes in chapter VII of The Prince, and the assassination of his captains on New Year's Eve of 1503 in Senigallia.

In 2000, she appeared in Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her and Bash: Latter-Day Plays, later accompanying Eve Ensler to Kenya in order to protest violence against women, particularly female genital mutilation.

Christmas Eve ends with Pasterka, the midnight mass at the local church.

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

* Eve ( robot ), a robot scientist working at Aberystwyth University

Eve Arden died from colorectal cancer and heart disease at her home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 82 and is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California.

* Eve Arden at Find a Grave

A writer in " Time's Telescope " ( 1822 ) states that in Yorkshire at eight o ' clock on Christmas Eve the bells greet " Old Father Christmas " with a merry peal, the children parade the streets with drums, trumpets, bells, ( or in their absence, with the poker and shovel, taken from their humble cottage fire ), the yule candle is lighted, and ; " High on the cheerful fire.

The Pirates of Penzance ( New Year's Eve, 1879 ) also poked fun at grand opera conventions, sense of duty, family obligation, the " respectability " of civilisation and the peerage, and the relevance of a liberal education.

Then in the modern day the biblical serpent is replaced by Eve's gossiping neighbor and Eve becomes a sexy flapper and fashion model when Adam is at work.

It first saw the light of day on New Year's Eve 1759 sung by Samuel Thomas Champnes, grandson of John Weldon, in one of the first pantomimes, " Harlequin's Invasion ", at the Garrick Theatre.

The most commonly cited explanation is a derivation from the Northern French dialect word hoguinané, or variants such as hoginane, hoginono and hoguinettes, those being derived from 16th century Old French aguillanneuf meaning either a gift given at New Year, a children's cry for such a gift, or New Year's Eve itself.

This explanation is supported by a children's tradition, observed up to the 1960s in some parts of Scotland at least, of visiting houses in their locality on New Year's Eve and requesting and receiving small treats such as sweets or fruit.

* 1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the " out of Africa theory " of human evolution placing an " African Eve " at 100, 000 to 200, 000 years ago.

It is sometimes celebrated as New Year's Eve ( at least in the 20th & 21st centuries ) by countries and organisations still using the thirteen-days-adrift Julian calendar ( Old New Year ).

" Further he writes, " they who had the power to create one man and one woman only, were able to create many men and women at once ...." His view contrasts with the Christian belief that humanity is derived from the one pair, Adam and Eve.

By the end of 1919 he'd become famous, after his first one-man exhibition at Der Sturm gallery, June 1919, and the publication that August of the poem An Anna Blume ( usually translated as ' To Anna Flower ', or ' To Eve Blossom '), a dadaist non-sensical love poem.

In Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet ( 1. 3. 19 ) it is observed of Juliet, " Come Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen.

* The first day of Samhain, officially started at Samhain Eve, at the sunset of October 31.

On Christmas Eve 1347, Edward III granted Marie de St Pol, widow of the Earl of Pembroke, the licence for the foundation of a new educational establishment in the young university at Cambridge.

The festival starts at midnight on May Eve when townspeople gather outside the Golden Lion Inn to sing the " Night Song ".

He was elected ARA in 1817 and RA in 1821 when he exhibited one of his best pieces, Eve at the Fountain.

* Eve at the Fountain – Art Gallery, Cambridge

* Eve at the Fountain – Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery

On a crystal clear Christmas Eve in 1910, at the corner of Market and Kearney near Lotta's Fountain, Tetrazzini climbed a stage platform in a sparkling white gown, surrounded by a throng of an estimated two to three-hundred thousand San Franciscans, and serenaded the city she loved.

* Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain

The library gained national recognition in 1906 after it banned Mark Twain's short story " Eve's Diary " for its illustrations of Eve in " summer costume.

The show was re-run occasionally until it gained its fixed spot on New Year's Eve in 1972.

In 2001, Prairie du Chien gained brief national attention for its first annual New Year's Eve celebration, during which a carp from the Mississippi River was dropped from a crane over BlackHawk Avenue at midnight.

It has gained some standing in psychoanalytic theory, particularly through the work of Eve Sedgwick and Lauren Berlant.

Adam and Eve ate the apple ( red pill ) and gained the facility of right and wrong.

As May – Lin Eng in Eve and the Fire Horse ( 2005 ), Wu gained an Genie Award nomination.

Ralna Eve English is an American-born singer ( born June 19, 1942, Haskell, Texas ) who gained fame as half of the husband-and-wife singing duo of Guy & Ralna with then-husband Guy Hovis, both of whom were featured performers on The Lawrence Welk Show.

* 2002 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Mike Batt and guests – Philharmania – guests on " Eve of Destruction "

Chauvel's daughter Eve joined the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service and spent a day in a lifeboat in the North Atlantic after her ship was torpedoed by a U-Boat.

* From 1960 until 1978, Guy Lombardo and The Royal Canadians televised their annual New Years Eve show live ( in the Eastern and Central time zones ) from the Grand Ballroom.

Two concerts at the Theatre Royal, London were filmed and broadcast on Christmas Eve, 1983, with songwriter and singer-songwriter Patrick Ros as special guest.

She has also sung opera and pop classics with Bryan Ferry, The Eurythmics and Mick Hucknall to celebrate the arrival of the new century on Millennium Eve, in the grounds at the Royal Observatory and National Maritime Museum.

On New Year's Eve in 1963, the Royal Canadian Air Force delivered a shipment of nuclear warheads to the Bomarc missile site near RCAF Station North Bay

In later forms of the same subject — the Adam and Eve at Hampton Court, or its feebler replica at Berlin and Venus and Amor ( Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels )— there is more nudity, combined with realism of the commonest type.

Other than Guys and Dolls, his most noted theatre productions are of Hamlet ( twice ), with Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court in 1980 and Daniel Day-Lewis in 1989 ; Richard III with Ian McKellen ; King Lear with Ian Holm ; Tennessee Williams ' Night of the Iguana and Sweet Bird of Youth ; Eduardo De Filippo's Napoli Milionaria and Le Grande Magia ; John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield, Vanessa Redgrave and Eileen Atkins ; Hedda Gabler with Eve Best, and numerous new plays by David Hare, Tom Stoppard, Trevor Griffiths, Howard Brenton, Alan Bennett, Christopher Hampton and Nicholas Wright.

The original cast production of Children of Eden was developed as a Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) workshop, directed by John Caird, and starring Ken Page as Father, Richard Lloyd-King as Snake, Martin Smith as Adam, Shezwae Powell as Eve, Adrian Beaumont as Cain, Kevin Colson as Noah, Earlene Bentley as Mama Noah, Frances Ruffelle as Yonah, Anthony Barclay as Japeth, Craig Pinder as Shem, Ray Shell as Ham, Hiromi Itoh as Aysha and Ruthie Henshall as Aphra.

| The Royal Cornwall Gazette of January 2, 1819, reporting the birth of twins, on previous Christmas Eve ( December 24, 1818 ), to Mrs George Saunders, wife of a London shoemaker, in the 59th year of her age.

The characters appeared together in Oscar Wilde ’ s The Importance of Being Earnest for a West End run, followed by a nationwide tour ; and at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in a New Year ’ s Eve performance of Die Fledermaus, conducted by Plácido Domingo and starring Kiri Te Kanawa.

Jeremy Hunt was born in Lambeth Hospital, Kennington, the elder son of Admiral Sir Nicholas Hunt, who was then a Commander in the Royal Navy assigned to work for the Director of Naval Plans inside the recently created Ministry of Defence, by his wife Meriel Eve née Givan ( now Lady Hunt ), daughter of Major Henry C. Givan.

Lombardo would host 48 straight New Year's Eve broadcasts until his death in 1977, and famously performed " Auld Lang Syne " by his Royal Canadians as the clock struck midnight.

In the 1980s she worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon and the Barbican Centre, and made her final stage appearance in 1996 at the Chichester Festival Theatre in Uncle Vanya with Trevor Eve, Imogen Stubbs and Frances Barber.

In particular, it has broadcast its Nine Lessons and Carols on the BBC from the Chapel on Christmas Eve, when a solo treble sings the first verse of " Once in Royal David's City ".

The Typica is also read as the end of the Royal Hours on the Eve of Nativity, the Eve of Theophany, and on Great Friday ( in these instances also, the Typica is read after the Ninth Hour ).

Since 1919, the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at the King's College Chapel Cambridge has begun its Christmas Eve service, with Dr Arthur Henry Mann's arrangement of " Once in Royal David's City " as the Processional hymn.

Royal Alcazar of Madrid destroyed by fire on the Christmas Eve of 1734 with its gallery ( Velazquez, Titian, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, etc.