`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

I called the other afternoon on my old friend, Graves Moreland, the Anglo-American literary critic -- his mother was born in Ohio -- who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs, raising hell and peacocks, the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing, such as human stature, hope, and humor.

Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.

The meaning of the epithet " Lyceus " later became associated Apollo's mother Leto, who was the patron goddes of Lycia ( Λυκία ) and who was identified with the wolf ( λύκος ), earning him the epithets Lycegenes ( ; Λυκηγενής, Lukēgenēs, literally " born of a wolf " or " born of Lycia ") and Lycoctonus ( ; Λυκοκτόνος, Lukoktonos, from λύκος, " wolf ", and κτείνειν, " to kill ").

They may increase their length sixfold and be two-fifths as long as their mother before being born.

He was born near Lanuvium and his mother was Arria Fadilla.

His mother married Publius Julius Lupus ( a man of consular rank ) suffect consul in 98, and two daughters, Arria Lupula and Julia Fadilla, were born from that union.

Anne Frank's mother, Edith Frank was born here as well.

For example, Oki, born as a child of an Ainu father and a Japanese mother, became a musician who plays the traditional Ainu instrument tonkori.

Agrippina ’ s mother Julia was the only natural child born to Augustus from his second marriage to noblewoman Scribonia.

However, this situation changed drastically when Alexios ' first son John II Komnenos was born in 1087: Anna's engagement to Constantine was dissolved, and she was moved to the main Palace to live with her mother and grandmother.

His exact birth site is unclear because he was born about the time his mother was making a difficult trip home from burying Jackson's father.

Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.

Then looking at him darkly Zeus who gathers the clouds spoke to him :' Do not sit beside me and whine, you double-faced liar. To me you are the most hateful of all gods who hold Olympos. Forever quarrelling is dear to your heart, wars and battles .… And yet I will not long endure to see you in pain, sinceyou are my child, and it was to me that your mother bore you. But were you born of some other god and proved so ruinouslong since you would have been dropped beneath the gods of the bright sky.

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents: a Ukrainian father from an ultimately Hassidic family, Alexander " Sascha " Shapiro aka Tanaroff, and a mother from a German Protestant family, Johanna " Hanka " Grothendieck ; both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds in their teens.

When Bœotus and Æolus were born, they were raised by Metapontus ; but their stepmother ( Autolyte, wife of Metapontus ) quarrelled with their mother Arne, prompting Bœotus and Aeolus to kill Autolyte and flee from Icaria.

Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner was born in Paris to an Austrian Jewish father and a half-Turkish half-Greek mother, and spent his childhood in France, Switzerland, and North Africa.

Born from a noble family of the province of Soule, his father Michel was born in Arrast-Larrebieu and his mother was Irish.

Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born on and ruled the island.

When Aegisthus was born, his mother was ashamed of her incestuous act.

His youngest son, Mahomed Omar Jan, was born in 1889 of an Afghan mother, connected by descent with the Barakzai family.

His mother, Virginia Dell Cassidy ( 1923 – 1994 ), traveled to New Orleans to study nursing soon after he was born.

Brigitte's mother enrolled Brigitte and her sister Marie-Jeanne ( born 5 May 1938 ) in dance.

His mother, Margaret Morrison Carnegie, earned money by binding shoes.

His mother, Margaret Mary " Peggy " ( née Burns ) worked as a cinema usherette, while his father, Haywood Stenton " John " Jones was a promotions officer for Barnardo's.

One of Mitchell's biographers, Darden Asbury Pyron, stated that Margaret Mitchell had " an intense relationship " with her mother, who was Roman Catholic.

Modern scholarship has disproved Margaret Murray's theory, however various horned gods and mother goddesses were indeed worshipped in the British Isles during the ancient and early Medieval periods.

Margaret sat on a platform wearing a Votes-for-Women banner blowing kisses to the gentlemen while her mother gave an impassioned speech.

Her mother chose Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts for Margaret because she considered it to be the best women's college in the United States.

At the time of the death of his father and older brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Battle of Wakefield, Richard, who was eight years old, was sent by his mother, the Duchess of York to the Low Countries, beyond the reach of Henry VI's vengeful Queen, Margaret of Anjou.

Despite his apparent affiliation with Richard, Baron Stanley's wife, Lady Margaret Beaufort, was Henry Tudor's mother.

He named the character after his mother Margaret Groening.

Marge was named after Groening's mother Margaret " Marge " Groening, who has said she bears little similarity to the character, stating, " It's really weird to have people think you're a cartoon.

Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who would continue for years in episodes written by others, such as the Scully family: Dana's father, William ( Don S. Davis ); her mother, Margaret ( Sheila Larken ); and her sister, Melissa ( Melinda McGraw ).

Edmund's son Henry Tudor, born in Pembroke, grew up in south Wales and in exile in Brittany, while his mother Lady Margaret remained in England and remarried, quietly advancing the cause of her son in a Kingdom now ruled by the rival House of York.

It was renamed Christ's College and received its present charter in 1505 when it was endowed and expanded by Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.

His mother, Maria Antonia, had been Leopold's daughter by his first marriage, to Philip IV of Spain's younger daughter Margaret Theresa.

* February – Olaf II of Denmark becomes Olaf IV of Norway, with his mother Margaret as regent.

The Yorks were perceived by the public as an ideal family: father, mother and children, but unfounded rumours that Margaret was deaf and dumb were not completely dispelled until Margaret's first main public appearance at her uncle Prince George's wedding in 1934.

Margaret was resentful about her limited education, especially in later years, aiming criticism at her mother.

With her widowed mother, Margaret moved out of Buckingham Palace and into Clarence House, while her sister and her family moved out of Clarence House and into Buckingham Palace.

* June 29 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England ( b. 1443 )

In 1457, Albert arranged a marriage between his eldest son John, and Margaret, daughter of William III, Landgrave of Thuringia, who inherited the claims upon Hungary and Bohemia of her mother, a granddaughter of Emperor Sigismund.

* May 23 – A number of supporters of William V, Count of Holland, in his power struggle with his mother Margaret I, Countess of Holland, found the Cod league.

The vacant thrones come under the regency of his mother Margaret I of Denmark, who will soon become Queen in her own right.

* May 31 – Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII of England ( d. 1509 )

Their only child, Margaret ( 1786 – 1858 ), was the mother of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne ( 1823 – 1911 ) professor of mineralogy at Oxford ( 1856 – 95 ).

Her mother, Margaret or Maeve, was also a Ní Mháille.