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Ivan owes his life to his aunt, Cordelia Vorkosigan, who rescued newborn Ivan and his mother Lady Alys from plotters who killed his father during Vordarian's Pretendership.
Lady Alys is the mother of Ivan Vorpatril, the cousin of the series ' main character, Miles Vorkosigan.
During the War of the Vordarian Pretendership, the pregnant Lady Alys, along with Lord Padma, were targeted for assassination because of Padma's Vorbarra bloodlines, which would make both her husband and her unborn child potential rival claimants for the throne.
Lady Alys is considered High Vor though it is unclear how she has this distinction.
Lady Alys is regarded as a sophisticated, stylish woman, with long dark hair and large attractive eyes.

Lady and is
One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.
Aphrodite is also known as Cytherea ( Lady of Cythera ) and Cypris ( Lady of Cyprus ) after the two cult-sites, Cythera and Cyprus, which claimed her birth.
* 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated.
* 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
: Lady of all chaste love, to thee it is
* 1949 – Former First Lady of the Philippines Aurora Quezon, 61, is assassinated while en route to dedicate a hospital in memory of her late husband ; her daughter and 10 others are also killed.
One side-effect of the timing is that, as Alan was awarded a knighthood a few months before the divorce, both his first and second wife are entitled to take the title of Lady Ayckbourn.
The object is currently kept under guard in a treasury near the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion and is used occasionally in ritual processions.
* The White Lady is a type of female ghost reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy.
The " Justice fountain " ( Gerechtskeitbrunnen ) was built in 1634, and is made of French limestone ; it includes a statue of Lady Justice made of sandstone, hence the name.
It is sometimes known by the metonym The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street or simply The Old Lady, a name taken from the legend of Sarah Whitehead, whose ghost is said to haunt the bank's garden.
The " Old Lady of Threadneedle St " ( the Bank personified ) is ravished by William Pitt the Younger.
Dozmary Pool is identified by some people with the lake in which, according to Arthurian legend, Sir Bedivere threw Excalibur to The Lady of the Lake.
This group is best known for their ballads, such as " Easy " and " Three Times a Lady ", but, for the most part, the group mainly recorded funky, driven dance-floor hits which include " Brick House ", " The Bump ", " Fancy Dancer ", and " Too Hot ta Trot ".
Thus C ' Mell (" The Ballad of Lost C ' Mell ") is cat-derived ; and D ' Joan (" The Dead Lady of Clown Town "), a Joan of Arc figure, is descended from dogs.
Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

Lady and important
Not only were Chandler's novels turned into major noirs — Murder, My Sweet ( 1944 ; adapted from Farewell, My Lovely ), The Big Sleep ( 1946 ), and Lady in the Lake ( 1947 )— he was an important screenwriter in the genre as well, producing the scripts for Double Indemnity, The Blue Dahlia ( 1946 ), and Strangers on a Train ( 1951 ).
In addition to The Killers, Burt Lancaster's debut and a Hellinger / Universal coproduction, Siodmak's other important contributions to the genre include 1944's Phantom Lady ( a top-of-the-line B and Woolrich adaptation ), the ironically titled Christmas Holiday ( 1944 ), and Cry of the City ( 1948 ).
There she remained for eighteen years, being the first to play more than thirty important characters, notably Lady Teazle ( 1777 ).
D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was privately published in 1928, while another important landmark for the history of the modern novel came with the publication of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury in 1929.
Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.
For the Greek Orthodox the major Marian Shrine is the Church of Our Lady of Tinos, at Tinos island in Greece which constitutes the most important Christian pilgrimage in the Aegean.
Other important portraits by Whistler include those of Thomas Carlyle ( historian, 1873 ), Maud Franklin ( his mistress, 1876 ), Cicely Alexander ( daughter of a London banker, 1873 ), Lady Meux ( socialite, 1882 ), and Théodore Duret ( critic, 1884 ).
There, in November 1940, he organized one of the most active and important Résistance networks of the BCRA, the Confrérie de Notre Dame ( Brotherhood of Our Lady ), which provided the Allies with photographs, maps, and important information on the German defenses known as the Atlantic Wall.
One of the most important discoveries in recent times is that of the ancient skeletal remains dubbed " The Leanderthal Lady " because of its age and proximity to Leander, Texas.
In a 2005 study of Scott's work, John Thomas observes that Scott senior's " important church of St Agnes, Kennington ( 1874 – 77 ; 1880s – 93 ) clearly influenced Giles's early work, including Liverpool Cathedral Lady Chapel.
In 1562 Vasari built the octagonal dome atop the Basilica of Our Lady of Humility in Pistoia, an important example of high Renaissance architecture.
An important part of the show's revival was Carvey's breakout character, The Church Lady, the uptight, smug, and pious host of Church Chat.
Barbara Bush's cause as First Lady was family literacy, as it was when she was Second Lady, calling it " the most important issue we have ".
Lady Montdore, hoping that Polly will make an important marriage, is exasperated by her daughter's apparent indifference to love and marriage.
The Popović family from Dvorane, which generated 18 or 21 generations of village priests, were important in the preservation of medieval Serbian literature: they had the Charter of Our Lady of Ljeviš, written by Serbian King Stephen Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia ( r. 1321-1331 ), in their direct property ; the Russian consul in Prizren Jastrebov found it at the house of the last descendant of the family, Jovan Dvoranac Popović in Prizren, who gifted it to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
* Richard of Leaford ( George Baker ) The father of Lady Marion, important Anglo-Saxon landowner and loyal follower of King Richard, he was captured during the crusades and presumed dead.
* The earliest published work of Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory – later to embrace Irish Nationalism and have an important role in the cultural life of Ireland – was Arabi and His Household ( 1882 ), a pamphlet ( originally a letter to The Times newspaper ) in support of Ahmed Orabi (" Arabi " being an archaic mistransliteration not uncommon in English at the time ).
The Musée de Cluny houses a variety of important medieval artifacts, in particular its tapestry collection, which includes the fifteenth century tapestry cycle La Dame à la Licorne ( The Lady and the Unicorn ).
The Church Lady became immediately recognizable and played an important role in SNLs resurgence in the mid-1980s.
In this, the most important period in his literary career, he produced some of his best known works-the Imaginary Conversations. Kref name = DNB /> It was at this time that Lady Blessington and her husband were living at Florence and became firm friends.
In 1903 the Archbishop of the Warsaw diocese forbade laypeople from observing some otherwise approved devotions of the Roman Catholic rite ( e. g. the Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament and the Perpetual Help of Our Lady ), which were considered most important by the Mariavite faction.
* Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, 3rd Marquess of Dorset ( 1517 – 1554 ), father of Lady Jane Grey ( disputed Queen of England ), was an important figure in Henry VIII's court.
Meretseger, " Lady of the Western Mountain ", was perhaps, at a local level, at least as important as Osiris, the great god of the dead.

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