As he went out he told Freddie the dinner was perfect, and when he got his hat and coat from Nancy Parks and put a fifty-cent piece in the slot, he told her to be sure that it went toward her dowry.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

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.

In Indiana, when Lincoln was nine, his mother Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818.

While Crittenden was away in Richmond, Zollicoffer moved his forces to the north bank of the upper Cumberland River near Mill Springs ( now Nancy, Kentucky ), putting the river to his back and his forces into a trap.

Love began a budding acting career in the late 1980s, landing roles in two Alex Cox films ( Sid and Nancy and Straight to Hell ), but was ultimately dissatisfied with it and returned to stripping, where she was recognized and photographed by customers at a bar in McMinnville, Oregon.

Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.

Cy Young was the oldest child born to McKinzie Young Jr. and German American Nancy Miller.

His only sister Nancy, ( Nancy Marles 1906 – 1953 ) was nine years older.

On 9 February 1964, he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with Georgia Brown who was playing Nancy in the Broadway production of Oliver !.

This was, at least partially, a reference to a scene in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street where the character Nancy Thompson ( portrayed by Heather Langenkamp ), watches the original Evil Dead on a television set in her room.

The British gun brig Nancy was sent to rescue the survivors.

The death of Charles the Bold, the last Valois Duke of Burgundy, at the Battle of Nancy in 1477 was a pivotal, if under-recognised, moment in European history.

In the 1970-1971 the NBC sitcom Nancy, Fink was cast as an Iowa veterinarian, Dr. Adam Hudson, who marries the daughter of the President of the United States.

Callot was born and died in Nancy, the capital of Lorraine, now in France.

Although he remained in the backwater of Nancy, his prints were widely distributed through Europe ; Rembrandt was a keen collector of them.

He was captured by German troops in 1940 in Padoux, and he spent nine months as a prisoner of war — in Nancy and finally in Stalag 12D, Trier, where he wrote his first theatrical piece, Barionà, fils du tonnerre, a drama concerning Christmas.

During her upbringing, Dagmar, together with her sister Alexandra, was given swimming lessons by the Swedish pioneer of swimming for women, Nancy Edberg ; she would later welcome Edberg to Russia, where she came on royal scholarship to hold swimming lessons for women.

Nancy Davis Reagan ( born Anne Frances Robbins ; July 6, 1921 ) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

Nancy was born in New York City ; her parents divorced soon after her birth and she grew up in Maryland, living with an aunt and uncle while her mother pursued acting jobs.

As Nancy Davis, she was an actress in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, starring in films such as Donovan's Brain, Night into Morning, and Hellcats of the Navy.

Nancy was the First Lady of California when her husband was Governor from 1967 to 1975.

Reagan still needed to convince a reluctant Nancy before running, however.

Out on a leisurely shopping trip, Nancy, Bess and George encounter an odd French-Chinese perfume saleswoman, who is reluctant to sell a particular fragrance to Bess.

At Nancy, General Bouillé successfully put down one such rebellion, only to be accused of being anti-revolutionary for doing so.

Regan became so angry with Nancy that he hung up on her during a 1987 telephone conversation.

Barnes came to Baltimore in 1953 for a one-month job as consultant traffic engineer, but Mayor Thomas D ' Alesandro, Jr. ( father of Nancy Pelosi ) was so impressed he hired Barnes as traffic commissioner.

To begin the season, Matlock went over to England to try a case and met Michelle Thomas, an American lawyer living in London played by Nancy Stafford, while doing so.

To show their gratitude for sparing their homes, one of the Nancy Harts hosted a dinner for Colonel LaGrange, and the Colonel paroled some local prisoners so that they could attend.

( The Christie's New York sign was created by Nancy Meyers during the production of the 2003 film Something's Gotta Give for an exterior shot ; the auction house liked the sign so much that it requested the production leave it after shooting finished.

Our award provides the resources for them to do so ,” said Nancy Conrad, wife of the late Pete Conrad and founder of the Conrad Foundation.

Nancy Pomroy, the athletic director of the St. Croix Country Day School was quoted: " was so huge.

Rhoda and Brenda soon realize that the small studio apartment can't hold them both, so Rhoda moves in with their parents Ida ( Nancy Walker ) and Martin ( Harold Gould ) at their apartment in the Bronx.

Powell's wife Nancy was at the wheel so that Clifford and Richie could sleep.

After discovering that Nancy has deserted him, he writes again permitting Mary to come back, so she does.

However, photographs show that the body model for these images was actually Russell's wife, Nancy, who in doing so, critics note, was able to express her sexuality in a way generally not allowed " decent " white women of the time.

* Nan Asquith, the pen name of Nancy Evelyn Pattinson, the author of 20 or so romantic novels, settled in Harpenden after the war and stayed there until her shortly before her death in the seventies.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi created a new leadership post, Assistant to the Speaker, in 2006 so that Van Hollen could be present at all leadership meetings.

Nancy Kress, Robert Silverberg, John Varley, and Roger Zelazny have each won twice — the only authors to do so — out of five, eight, two, and three nominations, respectively.

A frequently-used story element is that Chuck pays so much attention to his cartooning or sports, as in earlier stories, that he forgets about Nancy or fails to notice her, thus angering her.

David Low was mounted on a foot restraint on the end of Endeavours robotic arm while Mission Specialist Nancy J. Sherlock positioned the arm so Low could gently push the arms against EURECA's latch mechanisms.

Nancy ’ s debut single, " Guess Who I Saw Today ", was so successful that between April 1960 and July 1962 Capitol Records released five Nancy Wilson albums.

As in the later musical version, Nancy plans to return Oliver to Brownlow on London Bridge ; however, she plans on doing so at noon instead of midnight ( she intends to drug Sikes with laudanum, something she does not do in the musical ).

Shortly after doing so, when Nancy fell off a ladder while doing housework, he helped pick her up.

In 1950 she was forced to sell her beloved Mirador, and so in 1954 Nancy bought Haseley Court near Oxford.

Once Leonora knows that Edward intends to keep his passion for Nancy chaste, but only wants Nancy to continue to love him from afar, Leonora torments him by making this wish impossible — she pretends to offer to divorce him so he can marry Nancy, but informs Nancy of his sordid sexual history, destroying Nancy ’ s innocent love for him.