** Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator known as the " Uncrowned Queen of Iraq " ( b. 1868 )

* July 14 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator ( d. 1926 )

( Hafiz, first two stanzas of Rose Bloom, translated by Gertrude Bell, in

* Gertrude Bell, writer and diplomat

At his request, Gertrude Bell, Sir Percy Cox, T. E. Lawrence, Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, Sir Arnold T. Wilson, Iraqi minister of war Jaʿfar alAskari, Iraqi minister of finance Sasun Effendi ( Sasson Heskayl ), and others gathered in Cairo, Egypt.

" Kingdom of Syria " in 1918 In 1919 Faisal led the Arab delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and, with the support of the knowledgeable and influential Gertrude Bell, argued for the establishment of independent Arab emirates for the area previously covered by the Ottoman Empire.

In an effort to keep those finds from leaving Iraq, British traveler, intelligence agent, archaeologist, and author Gertrude Bell began collecting the artifacts in a government building in Baghdad in 1922.

* The Thousand and One Churches ( with Gertrude L. Bell, 1909 )

This is portrayed by Gertrude Bell, who writes:

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE ( 14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926 ) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.

Gertrude Bell received her early education from Queen's College in London and then later at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University at age 17.

Gertrude Bell essentially played the role of mediator between the Arab government and British officials.

Significant input was given by Gertrude Bell in these discussions thus she was an essential part of its creation.

" Obituary: Gertrude Lowthian Bell ", The Geographical Journal 68. 4 ( 1926 ): 363-368.

* Bell, Gertrude.

Gertrude Bell: From Her Personal Papers 1914-1926.

" Gertrude Bell ".

* Hogarth, David G. " Obituary: Gertrude Lowthian Bell.

* Howell, Georgina, Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations ( Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 ) ISBN 0-374-16162-3 ; also issued as Daughter of the Desert: the remarkable life of Gertrude Bell ( Macmillan, Basingstoke and Oxford, 2006 ) ISBN 1-4050-4587-6.

* Lukitz, Liora, A Quest in the Middle East: Gertrude Bell and the Making of Modern Iraq ( I. B.

Gertrude Bell: The Arabian Diaries, 1913-1914.

* Winstone, H. V. F., Gertrude Bell ( Barzan Publishing, England, 2004 ; ISBN 0-9547728-0-6 )

In one of the many Manhattan properties Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and her husband owned, Gertrude Whitney established the Whitney Studio Club at 8 West 8th Street as a facility where young artists could exhibit their works in 1914.

Gertrude Whitney decided to put the time and money into the museum after the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art turned down her offer to contribute her twenty-five-year collection of modern art works.

Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").

Gertrude summons Hamlet to her closet to demand an explanation.

Gertrude falls and, in her dying breath, announces that she has been poisoned.

Heilbrun argued that men have for centuries completely misinterpreted Gertrude, accepting at face value Hamlet's view of her instead of following the actual text of the play.

By this account, no clear evidence suggests that Gertrude is an adulteress: she is merely adapting to the circumstances of her husband's death for the good of the kingdom.

Her elder sister Agnes married King Philip II of France ( annulled in 1200 ) and her sister Gertrude ( killed in 1213 ) King Andrew II of Hungary, while the youngest Matilda ( Mechtild ) became abbess at the Benedictine Abbey of Kitzingen in Franconia, where Hedwig also received her education.

Through her sister Gertrude, she was the aunt of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.

The widow moved into the monastery, which was led by her daughter Gertrude, assuming the religious habit of an oblate, but she did not take vows.

Her contemporaries included artist Romaine Brooks, who painted others in her circle ; writers Colette, Djuna Barnes, social host Gertrude Stein, and novelist Radclyffe Hall.

The characteristics they shared with many Merovingian female saints may be mentioned: Regenulfa of Incourt, a 7th-century virgin in French-speaking Brabant of the ancestral line of the dukes of Brabant fled from a proposal of marriage to live isolated in the forest, where a curative spring sprang forth at her touch ; Ermelindis of Meldert, a 6th-century virgin related to Pepin I, inhabited several isolated villas ; Begga of Andenne, the mother of Pepin II, founded seven churches in Andenne during her widowhood ; the purely legendary " Oda of Amay " was drawn into the Carolingian line by spurious genealogy in her 13th-century vita, which made her the mother of Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, but she has been identified with the historical Saint Chrodoara ; finally, the widely-venerated Gertrude of Nivelles, sister of Begga in the Carolingian ancestry, was abbess of a nunnery established by her mother.

Gertrude Hartley tried to instill in her daughter an appreciation of literature and introduced her to the works of Hans Christian Andersen, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, as well as stories of Greek mythology and Indian folklore.

Most of Stein's important works utilize this technique, including the novel The Makings of Americans ( 1906 – 08 ) Not only were they the first important patrons of Cubism, Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo were also important influences on Cubism as well.

His four children with Nancy are: Nancy Moore Thurmond ( 1971 – 1993 ), a beauty pageant contestant who was killed when a drunk driver hit her in Columbia, South Carolina ; James Strom Thurmond Jr. ( born 1972 ), who became U. S. Attorney for the District of South Carolina and is the current South Carolina 2nd Judicial Circuit Solicitor ; Juliana Gertrude ( Thurmond ) Whitmer ( born 1974 ), a married homemaker in Washington, DC ; and Paul Reynolds Thurmond ( born 1976 ), elected member of the Charleston County council.

It was Gertrude who inspired The Hunting of the Snark, and the book is dedicated to her.

Matisse and Picasso were first brought together at the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas.

In 1950, Gertrude Mary Cox and William Gemmell Cochran published the book Experimental Designs which became the major reference work on the design of experiments for statisticians for years afterwards.

Titus is born at the beginning of the first book of the series, the son of Sepulchrave and Gertrude, and is an infant throughout the whole of Titus Groan ( novel ).

Everybody's Autobiography is a book by Gertrude Stein, published in 1937.

The book contains first-hand observations of James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Valery Larbaud, Thornton Wilder, André Gide, Leon-Paul Fargue, George Antheil, Robert McAlmon, Gertrude Stein, Stephen Benet, Aleister Crowley, Harry Crosby, Caresse Crosby, John Quinn, Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and many others.

In 1922, at age eleven, he bought his first book of poetry, Arthur Waley's A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems, and at age seventeen one of his poems, " Spire Song ", was accepted for publication in the twelfth volume of Transition, a literary journal based in Paris that served as a forum for some of the greatest proponents of modernism — Djuna Barnes, James Joyce, Paul Éluard, Gertrude Stein and others.

" was written by Gertrude Stein as part of the 1913 poem Sacred Emily, which appeared in the 1922 book Geography and Plays.

Dvorak and Dealey, along with Nellie Merrick and Gertrude Ford, wrote the book Typewriting Behavior, published in 1936.

In 1937, he also married Gertrude Buckman, a book reviewer for Partisan Review, whom he divorced after six years.

More recently, he was married to Gertrude Hamilton, who co-designed his book The Age of Innocence, but they have since divorced amicably and she lives in New York working as a painter.

It seemed likely that Frank was Biff's father, as well as the son of Gertrude Tannen ( who, by 1955, was " the only Tannen in the book ") In Back to the Future: The Game, Kid Tannen is his father ).

The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice, Millett's semi-fictional book about the 1965 torture and murder of American teenager Sylvia Likens by Gertrude Baniszewski, drew controversy for her defense of the crime.

Mary's illustrations of tools for Dorothy drew the attention of Gertrude Caton-Thompson, and in late 1932 she entered the field as an illustrator for Caton-Thompson's book, The Desert Fayoum.

Through Gertrude, Mary met Louis Leakey, who was in need of an illustrator for his book, Adam's Ancestors.

Over the course of the book, he falls in love with said secretary, and marries her after Gertrude breaks the engagement to marry a police officer.

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, who was her lover.

According to Virgil Thomson, who wrote music to libretti authored by Stein, the " book is in every way except actual authorship Alice Toklas's book ; it reflects her mind, her language, her private view of Gertrude, also her unique narrative powers.

Lasting until 1929 the Contact Editions brought out books by Bryher ( Two Selves ), H. D .' s Palimpsest, Mina Loy's Lunar Baedecker, Ernest Hemingway's first book Three Stories & Ten Poems ( 1923 ), poems by Marsden Hartley, William Carlos Williams ( Spring and All, 1923 ), Emanuel Carnevali's only book during his lifetime ( The Hurried Man ), prose by Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein ( The Making of Americans, 1925 ), Mary Butts ( Ashe of Rings ), John Herrmann ( What Happens ), Edwin Lanham ( Sailors Don't Care ), Robert Coates ( The Eater of Darkness ), Texas schoolteacher Gertrude Beasley's My First Thirty Years and Saikaku Ihara's Quaint Tales of Samurais.

In an earlier Archie book that listed the names of the characters, her name was also " Gertrude ".

It was Gertrude who inspired his great nonsense mock-epic The Hunting of the Snark ( 1876 ), and the book is dedicated to her, and opens with a poem that uses her name as a double acrostic.