Especially touching is the chapter, `` The Little Sister '', about a king's daughter who became a nun in the convent of St. Birgitta.

`` Little Rock is a vile, detestable place.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

Little is known of the synthetic mechanisms for formation of thyroglobulin.

and that they can ignore what is happening in Northern cities because what is happening in Little Rock or Birmingham is worse.

The company which performed the Pulitzer Prize musical here last night and will repeat it twice today is full of bounce, the politicians are in fine voice, the chorines evoke happy memories, and the Little Flower rides to break a lance again.

Little is known of the territorial behaviour of caecilians but some frogs and salamanders defend home ranges.

In some stories the question of whether formal justice will be done is left unresolved, such as Five Little Pigs, and arguably Ordeal by Innocence.

The 1942 novel Five Little Pigs ( aka Murder in Retrospect ), in which Poirot investigates a murder committed sixteen years before by analysing various accounts of the tragedy, is a Rashomon-like performance that critic and mystery novelist Robert Barnard called the best of the Christie novels.

* 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb " Little Boy " is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay.

Areas of southern Nevada, Utah and Colorado form a loose northern boundary, while the southern edge is defined by the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers in Arizona and the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande in New Mexico.

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

In the remainder of this region, the southern portion, the most prominent feature is Little Mountain, extending about from east to west between two valleys, and rising precipitously on the north side above them or above the sea.

Little attention is paid to political, diplomatic, or military history, or to biographies of famous men.

The above cartoon is a depiction of the nursery rhyme " Little Miss Muffet ", in which the title character is " frightened away " by a spider.

Little is known of his life, however it is clear that Alan entered the schools no earlier than the late 1140s ; first attending the school at Paris, and then at Chartres.

Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip II.

Little is known on their relationship, but Crispus soon died and left his estate to Nero.

Little is known about the Gutian period, or how long it endured.

Little is known about Ammonius's role in the development of Neoplatonism.

Even though it was known that the Luftwaffe in the north was now being directed by the young and energetic General Peltz, the commander who would conduct the `` Little Blitz '' on London in 1944, a major raid on Bari at this juncture of the war was not to be considered seriously.

She converted to Islam and became known as Umm Habiba ( Little Mother of the Beloved ).

Little is known of Andreas Capellanus's life, but he is presumed to have been a courtier of Marie of Troyes, and probably of French origin ; he is sometimes known by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain.

Little is known about Omari's life, and it is unclear whether some information refers to Omari or another person by that name.

Well known examples of this include Joe Cocker's version of The Beatles ' With a Little Help from My Friends, and Ike And Tina Turner's version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary.

Little is known of his life other than hints from his own chronicles.

Little could Abd al-Rahman have known that as he set off to settle matters in that northern city, his hopes of warring against Baghdad would be indefinitely put on hold.

Little is known about the production of brass during the centuries immediately after the collapse of the Roman Empire.

Little is known of its origins but it is likely that an early form of the Basque language was present in Western Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages to the area.

Little is known about Nahum ’ s personal history.

Little is known about Blackbeard's early life.

Early Sunday strips, such as Thimble Theatre and Little Orphan Annie, filled an entire newspaper page, a format known to collectors as full page.

Little is known about their first impressions of each other, but Arthur did write to his parents-in-law that he would be " a true and loving husband " and told his parents that he was immensely happy to " behold the face of his lovely bride ".

Among his early favorites were Winsor McCay ( mostly known for Little Nemo ) and Frederick Burr Opper ( mostly known for Happy Hooligan ) but he would later study any style that managed to draw his attention.

Their second was Louisa May, who fictionalized her experience with the family in her novel Little Women in 1868.

In 1982, after 50 years of family ownership, Bruce Norris sold the Red Wings to Mike Ilitch, founder of Little Caesars Pizza.

Published in 1868, Little Women is set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House, in Concord, Massachusetts and is loosely based on Alcott's childhood experiences with her three sisters.

Since its publishing, Little Nemo has had an influence on other artists, including Alan Moore, in Miracleman # 4, when the Miracleman family end up in a palace called " Sleepy Town ," which has imagery similar to Little Nemo's.

Little Penguin ( Eudyptula minor ) family exiting burrow at night, Bruny Island

Little is said of Holmes's family.

A bird named Margalo is adopted by the Little family, and Stuart protects her from their malevolent cat.

TV's The Simpsons family own a greyhound named Santa's Little Helper.

* Five Little Peppers, a family with five children in a children's literature series.

After their return to New York City from a brief visit to Mar del Plata in 1930, the family went to live in Little Italy in lower Manhattan, and in 1932 Piazzolla composed his first tango La catinga.

Little is being done to address the problem since the economy is booming and the nuclear family is spreading, thereby increasing demand for child laborers.

Sherman's family came from Ohio to visit his camp near Vicksburg ; his nine-year-old son, Willie, the Little Sergeant, died from typhoid fever contracted during the trip.

He settled in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, and was incarcerated at Manzanar along with his family.

Little also is known of Wren's schooling thereafter, during dangerous times when his father's Royal associations would have required the family to keep a very low profile from the ruling Parliamentary authorities.

* Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series describes her father and family claiming a homestead in Kansas, and later Dakota Territory.

It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth .” Little Women has been read “ as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well .” Alcott “ combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children ’ s fiction, creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model .” Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the “ American Girl ” and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.

This is especially true during adolescence .” Little Women became “ the paradigmatic text for young women of the era and one in which family literary culture is prominently featured .” Adult elements of women ’ s fiction were in Little Women, such as “ a change of heart necessary ” for the female protagonist to evolve in the story.

These include Peggotty – his mother's faithful former housekeeper – and Peggotty's family, including her orphaned niece " Little Em ' ly ", who moves in with them and charms the young David.

Santa's Little Helper is a fictional greyhound that appears on the animated television series The Simpsons and is the pet dog of the Simpson family.