Four-year-old Daisy went with her mother, Eleanor " Nellie " Kinzie Gordon, and her sisters, six-year-old Eleanor and one-year-old Alice, to the Chicago home of Eleanor's parents, John H. Kinzie and Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie.

He then went on to manipulate Pitezel's wife into allowing three of her five children ( Alice, Nellie, and Howard ) to stay in his custody.

Mylott became a protégé of Dame Nellie Melba and in 1902 she went to Europe with her to pursue an opera career outside of Australia.

Orwell needed somewhere he could concentrate on writing his book, and once again help was provided by Aunt Nellie, who was living at Wallington, Hertfordshire in a very small sixteenth-century cottage called the " Stores ".

* Around the World with the Yellow Kid-a strip that sent the Kid on a world tour in the manner of Nellie Bly ( 17 January-30 May 1897 )

The first production of the opera actually produced by the Royal Opera House itself premiered on 1 July 1899 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Zélie de Lussan as Musetta, Fernando De Lucia as Rodolfo, and Mario Ancona as Marcello.

The Metropolitan Opera staged the work for the first time on 26 December 1900 with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Annita Occhiolini-Rizzini as Musetta, Albert Saléza as Rodolfo, Giuseppe Campanari as Marcello, and Luigi Mancinelli conducting.

She appeared on Broadway in South Pacific, opening on April 7, 1949 as nurse Nellie Forbush.

A bronze statue of Stratton by Nellie Walker was placed on the grounds of his estate in 1909.

On 24 September 1861, Crown Princess Victoria introduced her brother Albert Edward to Alexandra at Speyer, but it was not until almost a year later on 9 September 1862 ( after his affair with Nellie Clifden and the death of his father ) that Albert Edward proposed to Alexandra at the Royal Castle of Laeken, the home of his great-uncle, King Leopold I of Belgium.

Nellie Davis Tayloe was born near Amazonia, in Andrew County, Missouri ( now part of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area ) to James Wynn Tayloe, a native of Stewart County, Tennessee, and his wife, Elizabeth Blair Green, who owned a plantation on the Missouri River.

Nellie was sent on a trip to Europe in 1896 by two of her brothers.

Nellie Tayloe Ross refused to campaign, but easily won the race on November 4, 1924.

After Blackadder, Robinson became the narrator and one of the lead actors for the British animated series Nellie the Elephant, based on a song of the same name.

* Nellie Lutcher put it on the R & B charts in 1948.

Executive members included Máire Ní Chinnéide, Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh ( who wrote pamphlets on behalf of the League ), Bean an Doc Uí Choisdealbha, Máire Ní hAodáin, Máire de Buitléir, Nellie O ' Brien, Eibhlín Ní Dhonnabháin and Eibhlín Nic Néill.

In 2007, she sang " Beecharmer " with Nellie McKay on McKay's Pretty Little Head album, and " Letters To Michael " with Dionne Warwick.

She was born Nellie Walker in Chicago, Illinois, on April 13, 1891, the daughter of Marie Hanson, a Danish immigrant, and Peter Walker, a West Indian man of predominantly African descent from Saint Croix, who soon disappeared from her life.

Nellie took her stepfather's surname, sometimes using versions spelled as Nellye Larson, Nellie Larsen and, finally, settling on Nella Larsen.

The city includes one elementary school ( Rancho Mirage Elementary ) that is part of the Palm Springs Unified School District, the newly renovated Nellie Coffman Middle School on the city line with Cathedral City and two private schools: Marywood-Palm Valley and Xavier College Preparatory High School.

* Edwin Way Teale ( 1899 – 1980 ), American naturalist and author, lived on a farm in rural Hampton with his wife Nellie from 1959 until his death in 1980.

That same year, he dispatched Elizabeth Bisland on a race around the world against Nellie Bly to try to draw some attention.

Mark Twain, Nellie Melba, Laurence Olivier and Barry Humphries have all performed on this historic stage.

* Little Nellie Kelly London production opened at the New Oxford Theatre on July 2 and ran for 265 performances

* Little Nellie Kelly Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on November 13 and ran for 276 performances

His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.

Nellie was in the kitchen, had just come to work, when she heard Tim arguing with Julia in the living room.

Nellie Harris wasn't old, she was ancient -- a tiny shriveled woman with a face like a tan prune.

In August 1997, Charles married his second wife, Jackie, with whom he has two daughters Anna-Jo ( born 1997 ) and Nellie ( born 2003 ).

Decades of mediocrity followed for the White Sox until the 1950s, when perennially competitive teams were blocked from the playoffs by the dynastic New York Yankees, with the exception of the 1959 pennant winners led by Early Wynn, Nellie Fox, Luis Aparicio, and manager Al Lopez.

There was worse to follow, with various Essendon players publicly blaming each other for the poor performance against Richmond, and then, with dissension still rife in the ranks, the side plummeted to an embarrassing 28 point loss to VFA premiers Footscray Football Club in a special charity match played a week later in front of 46, 100 people, in aid of Dame Nellie Melba's Disabled Soldiers ' Fund, purportedly ( but not officially ) for the championship of Victoria.

* Liberally adapted by playwright Wallace Shawn, the work was brought back to Broadway by the Roundabout Theatre Company in March 2006 with Alan Cumming playing Macheath, Nellie McKay as Polly, Cyndi Lauper as Jenny, Jim Dale as Mr Peachum, Ana Gasteyer as Mrs Peachum, Carlos Leon as Filch, Adam Alexi-Malle as Jacob and Brian Charles Rooney as a male Lucy.

* Monaco: 1 February 1902, Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monte Carlo with Nellie Melba as Mimì, Enrico Caruso as Rodolfo, Alexis Boyer as Marcello, and Léon Jehin conducting.

E. V. Rieu could not longer delay his callup and was drafted in 1917, the management then being under his wife Nellie Rieu, a former editor for the Athenaeum ‘ with the assistance of her two British babies .’ It was too late to have important electrotype and stereotype plates shipped to India from Oxford, and the Oxford printing house itself was overburdened with government printing orders as the empire ’ s propaganda machine got to work.

His post-Beatles career included work with Paul McCartney ( including Band On The Run, which netted Emerick another Grammy, London Town, and Flaming Pie ), Elvis Costello ( for whom he produced Imperial Bedroom and All This Useless Beauty ), Badfinger, Art Garfunkel, America, Gino Vannelli, Supertramp, Cheap Trick, Nazareth, Chris Bell, Split Enz, Big Country, Gentle Giant, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Ultravox, Matthew Fisher's first solo album " Journey's End ," Kate Bush's demo tape to EMI, which landed her a record deal, and Jeff Beck, as well as Nellie McKay's critically acclaimed 2004 debut CD Get Away from Me.

Major artistes who appeared with the society during this time included Paderewski, Hubert Parry, Nellie Melba, and Clara Butt.

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Just before the bulletin cut out, a CBS News staffer was heard saying " Connally too ," apparently having just heard the news that Texas Governor John Connally had also been shot while riding in the Presidential limousine with his wife Nellie and Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy.

Rincewind, having escaped from gaol, invents the Peach Nellie, and then meets up with a group of female impersonators, Darleen and Letitia, and a female, Neilette.

`` Julia had -- has -- an old Indian woman cooking for her -- Nellie Harris.

* 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

* 1887: In Nellie Bly's Ten Days in a Mad-House she references the Bruce's night of watching the spider and her own attempts in staying awake.

** Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.

A muse of Rodgers and Hammerstein she originated many leading roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music.

Her performance was called " memorable ... funny and poignant in turns ", and she earned a Tony Award. Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Post wrote: " nothing I have ever seen her do prepared me for the loveliness, humor, gift for joyous characterization, and sheer lovableness of her portrayal of Nellie Forbush ....

In 1884, when Nellie Ross was seven years of age, her family moved to Miltonvale in Cloud County in northern Kansas.

In the pattern of foods named after famous singers and dancers, Dame Nellie Melba also has several dishes named after her, well known is Melba toasts and the Peach Melba, but also less well known is the Chicken Melba, recipes of which can be found in Larousse Gastronomique.

She was in Newcastle upon Tyne in the summer of 1949, accompanied by her friend Anne Dooley ( née Kelly ), a local woman, who was the model for Nellie Cotter, the extraordinary heroine of the book.

A newspaper article from January 1927 claims an American ice-cream was named after Pavlova: " Dame Nellie Melba, of course, has found fame apart from her art in the famous sweet composed of peaches and cream, while Mme.

It was a truly exciting event for school children when Buffalo Bill came to Denison to visit his niece, Nellie Myers Copas, and her family.

In 1951 Alfred Colby Hockings and his wife — he was a well-known illustrator for Field and Stream magazine, originally from Wisconsin but most recently living in the artists ' community of Tryon, North Carolina —- built a home up the street from the Gasques and Sorrys and across from the Baarslags ; at almost the same time another Dutch family — Gerbrand and Nellie Poster, the son-in-law and daughter of the Baarslags, came down from New York City to visit her parents for Christmas, decided to stay, and built a home next door to her parents.

Nellie Melba ( 1861 – 1931 ) travelled to Europe in 1886 to commence her international career as an opera singer.

* Journalist Nellie Bly took her pseudonym from the title character of Foster's song Nelly Bly.

She originally intended for her pseudonym to be " Nelly Bly ," but her editor wrote " Nellie " by mistake, and the error stuck.