On January 26, 2000, van Vogt died in Los Angeles, USA from Alzheimer's disease, and was survived by his second wife, the former Lydia Bereginsky.

Anne obtained a second post as governess to the children of the Reverend Edmund Robinson and his wife Lydia, at Thorp Green, a wealthy country house near York.

Branwell entered into a secret relationship with his employer's wife, Lydia Robinson.

Yet close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes ’ s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly " writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not ' Bloomsbury ': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole ".

His wife, Parysatis, persuades him to appoint his younger son, Cyrus, as satrap ( governor ) of Lydia, Phrygia, and Cappadocia and commander in chief of the Achaemenian forces in Asia Minor in place of Tissaphernes.

* 716 The reign of the Heraklids over Lydia is ended when Candaules, known as Myrsilus to the Greeks, is murdered by Gyges because of his wife ’ s anger.

The Midas of the late 8th century BC had a Greek wife and strong ties to the Greeks, which suggests it was he who made the offering ; but Herodotus also says Gyges of Lydia, a contemporary of that Midas, was " the first foreigner since Midas " to make an offering at Delphi, which suggests Herodotus believed the throne was donated by the more ancient Midas.

Among his acts were sending young boys from Corcyra to be castrated in Lydia ( who are reputed to have escaped and be rescued by the Samians ), and the murder ( and possible necrophiliac rape ) of his own wife, Melissa.

Omphale was queen of the kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor ; according to Bibliotheke she was the wife of Tmolus, the oak-clad mountain king of Lydia ; after he was gored to death by a bull, she continued to reign on her own.

George's wife, Lydia Amelia Heywood, was the adopted daughter of Mary Davis, of Plymouth.

" Celestia was the sister in law of Jehial Davis ( Step Father to George Starkweather's wife Lydia Amelia ), and was a close family friend of the Starkweather family, whom for a time was a housekeeper for George A Starkweather.

Notable streets in Plymouth are named after some Starkweather family members, including Blanche ( after Blanche Starkweather, daughter of George Starkweather ), Karmada ( after the grandchildren of George Starkweather-Karl, Max and Davis ), Davis-after Davis B Hillmer-youngest grandson of George Starkweather, Starkweather ( formerly Oak Street ), Amelia ( after Lydia Amelia Heywood-Davis-Starkweather )-George Starkweather's wife, and Rose-after Rose Hillmer, eldest grand daughter of George Starkweather.

Lady Lamson-Scribener, an American and the Earl's second wife, is concerned about aging Nanny Collins's abilities and hires Lydia to assist her, particularly after learning that she helped her mother raise 11 children.

On September 22, 2006, Skillings joined the band for the first time in fourteen years when they played at a private party which drummer Jack DeJohnette threw for his wife Lydia.

Richardson was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, the third son and youngest child of Arthur Richardson, a master at the Ladies ' College, and his wife Lydia ( née Russell ).

His wife, Lydia Echevarría, was convicted of the planification of the murder, along with two hitmen.

However, Vigoreaux moved on when he and his second wife, Lydia Echevarria, began hosting the show named La Hora Cero.

His wife, Lydia Echevarría, was accused formally of his murder, along with Papo Newman and David López-Watts.

In 1958, Vigoreaux met actress Lydia Echevarría, while still married to his first wife.

Russ Meyer was born in San Leandro, California to William Arthur Meyer, a German-American Oakland police officer, and his wife Lydia Lucinda Hauck.

He is also referred to as Hamilton Fish V. Hamilton Fish III married his fourth and last wife, Lydia Ambrogio Fish on Sept. 9th 1988 and they remained married until his death.

Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri, the son of German immigrants Gustav Niebuhr and his wife Lydia.

More arrests followed: Sarah Wildes, William Hobbs ( husband of Deliverance and father of Abigail ), Nehemiah Abbott Jr., Mary Eastey ( sister of Cloyce and Nurse ), Edward Bishop, Jr. and his wife Sarah Bishop, and Mary English, and finally, on April 30, the Reverend George Burroughs, Lydia Dustin, Susannah Martin, Dorcas Hoar, Sarah Morey and Philip English ( Mary's husband ).

It is insinuated at times that Lydia and Ardalion are, in fact lovers, although Hermann continually stresses how much Lydia loves him.

Similar tales are Boccaccio's Story of Lydia and Pyrrhus and The Simpleton Husband from One Thousand and One Nights.

The second wedding is that of Bernard ( David Haig ) and Lydia ( Sophie Thompson ), a couple who got together at the previous wedding.

She was joined by her sister Lydia who shared an apartment with her.

A third Midas is said by Herodotus to have been a member of the royal house of Phrygia and the grandfather of an Adrastus who fled Phrygia after accidentally killing his brother and took asylum in Lydia during the reign of Croesus.

Novelists who are commonly counted to postmodern literature include Vladimir Nabokov, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, William Burroughs, Giannina Braschi, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, E. L. Doctorow, Jerzy Kosinski, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, Ana Lydia Vega, and Paul Auster.

Fragment 132 reads in full: " I have a beautiful child who looks like golden flowers, my darling Cleis, for whom I would not ( take ) all Lydia or lovely ..." These fragments have often been interpreted as referring to Sappho's daughter, or as confirming that Sappho had a daughter with this name.

Dancers such as Alicia Markova, Tamara Karsavina, Serge Lifar, and Lydia Sokolova remembered Diaghilev fondly, as a stern but kind father-figure who put the needs of his dancers and company above his own.

Other female students of this period includes Lydia Wahlström ( 1869 – 1954 ) who later became a noted educator, activist and writer on women's emancipation and suffrage.

The first event in the history of Ionia for which there is a trustworthy account is the inroad of the Cimmerii, who ravaged a great part of Asia Minor, including Lydia, and sacked Magnesia on the Maeander, but were foiled in their attack upon Ephesus.

He was an Athenian who became their leader when Tissaphernes, Persian satrap of Caria and Lydia, had Clearchus of Sparta and the other senior Greek captains captured and executed by Artaxerxes.

In 1966 scholar Anna Lydia Motto also challenged this view of Seneca, arguing that his image has been based almost entirely on Suilius's account, while many others who might have lauded him have been lost.

* Xanthus ( historian ), a logographer who wrote a history of Lydia

But it was also during his stay in Lydia that Heracles captured the city of the Itones and enslaved them, killed Syleus who forced passersby to hoe his vineyard, and captured the Cercopes.

Herodotus ( 1. 7 ) refers to a Heraclid dynasty of kings who ruled Lydia, yet were perhaps not descended from Omphale, writing, " The Heraclides, descended from Heracles and the slave-girl of Iardanus ...." Omphale as slave-girl seems odd.

That, at least, is the interpretation of later chronographers who also ignored Herodotus ' statement that Agron was the first to be a king, and included Alcaeus, Belus, and Ninus in their List of Kings of Lydia.

According to local tradition, Neffsville was named for the family of Johan Christian Neff, originally from Gerolsheim, Germany, who was aboard the ship Lydia when she arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 19, 1743.

* In Beetlejuice, Lydia ( Winona Ryder ) tells Adam and Barbara ( Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis ) that her stepmother ( Catherine O ' Hara ), who is shown in a semi-drugged stupor, is " sleeping with Prince Valium.

In 1712, Mendon was the birthplace of Lydia Chapin, who became America's first legal woman voter, known later as Lydia Chapin Taft, or simply Lydia Taft.

Wright's stepdaughter, Lydia Wadhams, married Samuel French who became the second operator of the Jersey.