Ted Geisel's friend William Ellsworth Spaulding, who was then the director of Houghton Mifflin's education division, invited Geisel to dinner in Boston and " proposed that Ted write and illustrate such a book for six-and seven-year olds who had already mastered the basic mechanics of reading.

Geisel's birthday, March 2, has been adopted as the annual date for National Read Across America Day, an initiative on reading created by the National Education Association.

Creators in the Beginner Book series included Stan and Jan Berenstain, P. D. Eastman, Roy McKie, and Helen Palmer ( Mr. Geisel's wife ).

Geisel's characters were often portrayed as rebels who displayed independence of mind.

The CIE also waged a pamphlet war against the previously mentioned Couto e Silva, chief of Geisel's Civilian Household, who wanted to shut down the CIE.

During Geisel's term of office, Brazil established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China and Angola, signaling a growing distance between Brasilia and Washington.

Although not immediately understood by civilians, Ernesto Geisel's accession signaled a move toward a less oppressive rule.

The last military president, João Figueiredo signed a general amnesty into law and turned Geisel's distensão into a gradual abertura ( the " opening " of the political system ), saying that his goal was " to make this country a democracy.

The Billy Wilder Theater opened at the Hammer Museum in late 2006, after a $ 5 million gift in 2004 from Audrey L. Wilder, the widow of Billy Wilder, enabled the museum to resume building a 300-seat theater left unfinished at Hammer's death.

His widow, Audrey Geisel still resides atop Mt.

He died of a heart attack at his home in Chislehurst, Kent in 1992, leaving his widow Audrey ( who died in May 2009 ), daughter Sally, and son John Willis, a BBC director.

He confronts a landlord who doesn't know him, offering extra money to let a widow keep her apartment.

There are, however, two problems: Zimm doesn't own the script, his writer's widow Doris Saffron does, and she wants $ 500, 000 for it ; and he guaranteed a $ 200, 000 investment from Bo Catlett, a local limo driver and drug dealer, to make another movie called Freaks.

He tells his sweetheart that they cannot marry until he returns, since he doesn't want to make her a widow.

On the defensive, he added, `` I wish you'd think what it must be like for her to be without Greg, to be a new widow, a young widow ''.

Wilson said that should Carnahan be elected, he would like to appoint his widow, Jean Carnahan, to serve in her husband's place ; Mrs. Carnahan announced that, in accordance with what her husband would have wanted, she would serve in the Senate if he won the election.

Since discovery by humans, numerous species have been introduced to the island, some deliberately, like the casurina, the feral pig, the Cardinal ( Cardinalis cardinalis ), anoles, ladybird beetles, and the Kiskadee, some incidentally, like the Norwegian rat ( Rattus norvegicus ) and the Black Rat ( Rattus rattus ), and the others accidentally, like the scale mites, and the brown widow spider ( Latrodectus geometricus ).

Unlike Painter, who wrote Edward as a bachelor and the Countess as a widow, the author of the play is aware that both are married at the time, and Edward tries to get the countess to make a pact with him in which each kills the other's spouse and tries to make it look like a double suicide.

A dedication to his patron's widow in 1604 suggests some personal acquaintance with the Brydges family ; on the other hand, a reference in another work suggests he may have spent some time, like Kempe, as a solo performer.

It has a regular fauna, or serpents like the colarillos, bugs, small lizards like the knob or tarántulas, among others like the black widow, cats, roosters, horses, cows, dogs, etc.

* Mrs. Mannering (" Aunt Allie " later Cunningham ): Philip and Dinah's mother is a widow ( not much is revealed about her late husband, only that he seems to have possessed the same animal-charming ability Philip demonstrates throughout the series ), and like her children she has a tuft of hair upon the top of her head.

Mosquera was 78 at the time, and reportedly when he proposed to her he said, ' Would you like to be the widow of General Mosquera?

" According to her, whenever she thought of dressing like a widow, she had a vision of Ramakrishna asking her not to do so.

In the face of tittle-tattle that had reached even France, Lady Leicester — she continued to be styled thus — explained her choice with being a defenceless widow ; like her marriage to Leicester, the union proved to be a " genuinely happy " one.

Having precisely stated the traditions and history of the Afghans I see no good reason for discrediting them … the Afghans look like Jews and the younger brother marries the widow of the elder.

The arms of a widow are sometimes surrounded by a cordelière ( knotted cord ) and the arms of women are often, but not always, shaped like a lozenge.

With valuable moral support from people like Akshay Kumar Dutta, Vidyasagar introduced the practice of widow remarriages to mainstream Hindu society.

Doug leads the team stationed in Ohio who protects Tess Carlisle, the widow of a former U. S. President, and who is well known for her diplomatic and philanthropic work, but Tess tends to regard Doug less as a security officer and more of a domestic servant, like her chauffeur, Earl, or her nurse, Frederick.

When he left her more than $ 8 million at his death, merely one year later, the newspapers dubbed her " the $ 10 million widow ": Nevada Stoody Hayes, from her wealth amassing comes the Edwardian gossips ' pithy-maxim, " marry well at the altar, but become truly rich at the grave, like Nevada.

Following his death, the Roman people suggested that Stefania, the widow of Crescentius II, had made Otto III fall in love with her and then poisoned him.

A number of individual Vanyar loved Noldorin princes but none joined the journey into exile: of greatest prestige was Indis of the Vanyar, widow of Finwë, who after her husband was murdered at Formenos by Melkor chose to return to her people with her elder daughter Findis.

At the memorial service, Hu's widow Li Zhao blamed Hu's death on how harshly the party treated him, telling Deng Xiaoping " It's all because of you people.

In 1981, after being urged by a number of people, including Coretta Scott King, the widow of Martin Luther King Jr., Young ran for mayor of Atlanta.

As a result, far more people are exposed, worldwide, to widow bites than to bites of more dangerous spiders, so the highest number of deaths worldwide are caused by members of this genus.

A whole book of these elegies is contained in the Hebrew Bible, the first of them beginning thus: " How does the city sit solitary — that was full of people — how is she become as a widow — she that was great among the nations — and princess among the provinces — how is she become tributary!

A violent gang war resulted in the murders of nearly 30 people at a wedding reception, including the groom, leaving the bride, Marine Sergeant Rachel Cole-Alves, a widow just hours after getting married.

Once again, British people do things that British people are not expected to do ; the ladies are related to the coal miner's son who pirouetted in Billy Elliot and the tweedy widow who harvested dynamite weed in Saving Grace.

Wartski Fields were bequeathed to the city and people of Bangor by his widow, Winifred Marie, in memory of Isidore Wartski.

Both the house and property were given to the people of Long Island by Bayard Cutting's widow and daughter " to provide an oasis of beauty and quiet for the pleasure, rest, and refreshment of those who delight in outdoor beauty ; and to bring about a greater appreciation and understanding of the value and importance of informal planting ".

According to Gongadze's widow, Myroslava Gongadze, " Kravchenko had had no grounds for such actions ", she believes that several people ordered the killing of the journalist.

The widow of Stephen V. Harkness, a principal investor in Standard Oil, Mrs. Harkness wanted to “ do something for the welfare of mankind .” Anna ’ s son, Edward Stephen Harkness, became the Commonwealth Fund ’ s first president and hired a staff of people to help him build the foundation.

It also supported social reform movements of people not directly attached to the Samaj, such as Pandit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar ’ s movement which promoted widow re-marriage.

Officially opened by his widow, Lady Ellen Baker, on Friday 24 November 2006, the day's events featured a presentation to Sir Stanley's sons and family members, and a fitting and moving tribute to the man himself via speeches and tales from celebrities and various local people who knew him best.

In the story, a widow donates two small coins, while wealthy people donate much more.

Following this reasoning, some interpreters suggest that Jesus sits down in judgment " opposite " ( over against, in opposition to ) the treasury ; the lesson drawn emphasizes that, while people are impressed with the large sums that are put in, they did not notice that the Temple took half of what the " poor widow " had to live on.

The advanced technology at the time allowed millions of people throughout the universe to experience the sensations and emotions of the victim ( Secretary Morgan, the leader of the Pleiades Federation ) as he died — and, directly afterwards, the emotions of his widow ( and Lorq Von Ray ’ s aunt ), Cyana Von Ray Morgan.

Some unmarried people object to describing themselves by a simplistic term " single ", and often other options are given, such as " divorced ", " widowed ", widow or widower, " cohabiting ", " civil union ", " domestic partnership " and " unmarried partners ".

King Dinis ' widow, Queen Isabel, considered a saint by the people, died in Estremoz castle on July 4, 1336.

The widow of one of the victims claimed the article ( in which Sharkey blamed the crash on incapable air operators ) defamed the Brazilian people and consequently her personal dignity.

I even chose two verses ( 5 and 6 ) from Psalm 93 / 94 in the translation by Wujek: ' They humiliated Your people, O Lord, and afflicted Your heritage, they killed the widow and the passer-by, murdered the orphans.

As a direct result of this book, Arthur Ransome and Captain Flint's Trunk, people interested in forming a society dedicated to Arthur Ransome had been leaving their contact details at Abbot Hall, where, following his death in 1967, his widow Evgenia had donated various articles, including his writing desk.