* 1886 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian actress ( d. 1938 )

* Florence Lawrence

* January 2 – Florence Lawrence, Canadian-born actress ( d. 1938 )

The earliest known adaptation is the eleven minute 1908 The Taming of the Shrew directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Arthur V. Johnson and Florence Lawrence.

The county is divided into forty townships: Alden, Alpha, Bates, Burdette, Campbell, Carlton, Cedar, Como, Florence, Gilbert, Glendale, Grand, Greenleaf, Hiland, Holden, Hulbert, Linn, Logan, Midland, Miller, Mondamin, Ohio, Ontario, Park, Pearl, Plato, Pleasant Valley, Ree Heights, Riverside, Rockdale, Rose Hill, St. Lawrence, Spring Hill, Spring Lake, Wheaton, and York ; and one area of unorganized territory: Northwest Hand.

* Florence Lawrence ( 1886 – 1938 ), the first ever " movie star " lived in River Vale from 1913 through 1916.

* Florence Lawrence becomes America's first motion picture star, known by her name.

* Florence Lawrence

Lawrence attempted to explore human emotions more deeply than his contemporaries and challenged the boundaries of the acceptable treatment of sexual issues, most notably in Lady Chatterley's Lover, which was privately published in Florence in 1928.

He was the fourth surviving and final child of Louisa Florence Dixie and Lawrence Samuel Durrell, both of whom were born in India of English and Irish descent.

* Florence Lawrence ( 1886 – 1938 ), actress

Florence Lawrence ( January 2, 1886 – December 28, 1938 ) was a Canadian inventor and silent film actress.

Born Florence Annie Bridgwood in Hamilton, Ontario, she was the child of Charlotte A. Bridgwood, a vaudeville actress known professionally as Lotta Lawrence, who was the leading lady and director of the Lawrence Dramatic Company.

Florence Lawrence during her career.

Because the film's actors received no mention, Griffith had to make discreet enquiries to learn she was Florence Lawrence and to arrange a meeting.

Griffith had intended to give the part to Biograph's leading lady, Florence Turner, but Lawrence managed to convince Solter and Griffith that she was the best suited for the starring role in The Girl and the Outlaw.

Partially as a result of Laemmle's ingenuity, the " star system " was born and before long, Florence Lawrence became a household name.

In William J. Mann's novel The Biograph Girl ( 2000 ), Mann asks the question, " What if Florence Lawrence didn't die in 1938 from eating ant poison, but is 106 and living in a nursing home in Buffalo, New York?

A biography by Kelly R. Brown, Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star, was published in 1999.

* Brown, Kelly R., Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star ( 1991 ).

* Florence Lawrence biography at Northern Stars

* Florence Lawrence filmography at Northern Stars

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The first female member Florence Rankin joined AA in March 1937, and the first non-Protestant member, a Roman Catholic, joined in 1939.

Other anti-war demonstrations were organized by the antiglobalization movement: see for example the large demonstration, organized against the impending war in Iraq, which closed the first European Social Forum in November, 2002 in Florence, Italy.

The first European Social Forum ( ESF ) was held in November 2002 in Florence.

where he would meet Florence Eleanor Chaplin who would become his first wife.

The first American University for service personnel was established in June 1945 at the School of Aeronautics in Florence, Italy.

Deciding on a career as a caricaturist and gag writer, Fellini travelled to Florence in 1938 where he published his first cartoon in the weekly 420.

It caused a great stir on its arrival in Florence, being reputedly the first living giraffe to be seen in Italy since antiquity.

The first printed edition appeared in 1488 ( edited by Demetrios Chalkokondyles and published by Bernardus Nerlius, Nerius Nerlius, and Demetrius Damilas in Florence, Italy ).

The first line connects Milan to Salerno via Bologna, Florence, Rome and Naples, the second runs from Turin to Venice via Milan, and is under construction in parts.

Eventually, Bembo's ideas prevailed, and the foundation of the Accademia della Crusca in Florence ( 1582 – 1583 ), the official legislative body of the Italian language led to publication of Agnolo Monosini's Latin tome Floris italicae linguae libri novem in 1604 followed by the first Italian dictionary in 1612.

The first account by a western European to mention the ancient language Sanskrit came from Filippo Sassetti ( born in Florence in 1540 ), a merchant who traveled to the Indian subcontinent.

* 1334 – The bishop of Florence blesses the first foundation stone for the new campanile ( bell tower ) of the Florence Cathedral, designed by the artist Giotto di Bondone.

He has three children with his first wife, Florence Gordon, and now lives with his second wife, Ellen, in Batavia, Illinois.

The ban on the family was lifted in 1428, and that same year Leon visited Florence for the first time.

Machiavelli was born in Florence, Italy, the first son and third child of attorney, Bernardo di Niccolò Machiavelli, and his wife, Bartolomea di Stefano Nelli.

This was the start of the optical industry of grinding and polishing lenses for these " spectacles ", first in Venice and Florence in the thirteenth century, and later in the spectacle making centres in both the Netherlands and Germany.

The Nuova Cronica, a 14th century history of Florence by the Florentine banker and official Giovanni Villani, includes much statistical information on population, ordinances, commerce and trade, education, and religious facilities and has been described as the first introduction of statistics as a positive element in history.

The first successful modern breeding line of Salukis began in 1895, with Florence Amherst ( daughter of the 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney ).

In 1902 Georg Andresen commented on the appearance of the first ' i ' and subsequent gap in the earliest extant, 11th century, copy of the Annals in Florence, suggesting that the text had been altered, and an ' e ' had originally been in the text, rather than this ' i '.

The first printed edition of Terence appeared in Strasbourg in 1470, while the first certain post-antique performance of one of Terence's plays, Andria, took place in Florence in 1476.

* June 4 – The very first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for a biography ( for Julia Ward Howe ).