* Rebecca ( Rivka in modern Israeli Hebrew ), a biblical matriarch from the Book of Genesis

Conversely, some men have cross-dressed to escape from mandatory military service or as a disguise to assist in political or social protest, as men did in the Rebecca Riots.

In an episode of Wings, titled " Ladies Who Lunch ", which originally aired on November 21, 1991, Faye Cochran ( Rebecca Schull ) has a streak of touching every First Lady of the United States from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barbara Bush.

* A short passage from the poem appears in chapter four of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.

De Bois-Guilbert escapes with Rebecca while Isaac is released from his underground dungeon by the Clerk of Copmanhurst.

She never married and is alleged to have refused a marriage proposal from a gentile on account of her faith – a widely-publicized incident at the time that may have inspired Scott to create the relationship in Ivanhoe between Rebecca and Wilfred.

In June 2009, Loach, Paul Laverty ( writer ) and Rebecca O ' Brien ( producer ) pulled their film Looking For Eric from the Melbourne International Film Festival, where the Israeli Embassy is a sponsor, after the festival declined the withdraw their sponsorship.

In a 1998 article in Science, Heller and Rebecca Eisenberg, while not disputing role of patents in general in motivating invention and disclosure, argue that biomedical research was one of several key areas where competing patent rights could actually prevent useful and affordable products from reaching the marketplace.

* Early 6th century – Page with Rebecca at the Well, from " Book of Genesis ", probably made in Syria or Palestine, is made.

* Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Jr. ( March 27, 1911 – February 18, 2001 ) ( age 89 ); married 1 ): Elizabeth Cauthen ( 1934 – 1954 ) 2 ): Mary Pringle Manigault ( 1954 – 2001 ); three children ( one from first marriage: Betsy ; two from second marriage: Rebecca, Dr. Edward Gilbreth ).

In May 1819, Captain Arent de Peyster ( or Peyter ) of New York, as captain of the armed brigantine or privateer Rebecca, sailing under British colours, while on a voyage from Valparaíso to India, passed through the southern Tuvalu waters ; de Peyster sighted Nukufetau and Funafuti, which he named Ellice's Island after an English Politician, Edward Ellice, the Member of Parliament for Coventry and the owner of the Rebecca's cargo.

According to a family story, Boone purchased land near Pensacola, but Rebecca refused to move so far away from her friends and family.

Hoot, Hiassen's first book for young readers, has won both a Newbery Honor from the Association for Library Service to Children and won the 2005 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers ' Book Award, selected for the latter honor by school-age children ( grades 4-8 ) in the U. S. State of Illinois.

* A Young People's History of the United States, adapted from the original text by Rebecca Stefoff ; illustrated and updated through 2006, with new introduction and afterword by Howard Zinn ; two volumes, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2007.

When they were eight or from home near the crossing of the Terre Bleu, they were met by the Native Americans and all, save Rebecca and Abraham Baker, were stripped of their clothing and left to find their way home in this plight ; the wagon loaded with venison, intended for the wedding feast, was also robbed.

Notable inhabitants include U. S. Congressman Carl D. Perkins, Appalachian author James Still, poet Albert Stewart, country music star David Tolliver from Halfway to Hazard and actress Rebecca Gayheart.

It also has 1 private school called Ashford Academy which is from grades K-12 and also has a daycare, the Headmaster of the school is Rebecca D. Baggett.

It was built with a $ 600, 000 bequest from the estate of Beulah Rebecca Hooks Hannah Tingley ( 1893 – 1986 ) and is maintained without the use of tax dollars.

Actress Kirstie Alley is known for her role in the TV show Cheers, in which she played Rebecca Howe from 1987 – 1993, winning an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award as the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1991.

In 1857 John and Margaret Prey, adult sons, John W., Thomas, and William, and teenage children, David and Rebecca, came from Wisconsin to preempt land near the proposed town called " Olathe.

Lou's wife, Rebecca, disregarding the town's history, renamed the community " Oriental " after a nameplate from a sunken ship that washed up on a local beach.

" On Dec. 11, 1926, a 22-year old University of Texas at Austin student named Rebecca Bradley posed as a reporter from the Beaumont Enterprise and convinced officials from the Farmers National Bank of Buda to let her use the typewriter.

In the first, Grayson plays the teenage daughter, Rebecca, of the eccentric Yancey family from Lynchburg, Virginia.

Near the end of the Second World War, Allied forces discovered that the SS had compiled lists of people slated for immediate arrest during the invasion of Britain in the abandoned Operation Sea Lion, and Wells was included in the alphabetical list on the same page of " The Black Book " as Rebecca West.

* Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award ( IL ), 1999

* Rebecca MacKinnon — Book Publishing

He is perhaps best known as Addison DeWitt in All About Eve ( 1950 ), Jack Favell in Rebecca ( 1940 ), and the malevolent tiger Shere Khan in The Jungle Book ( 1967 ).

* Big Book of Science Things to Make and Do by Rebecca Gilpin & Leonie Pratt

* Rebecca Book Notes at Literapedia

Book I: Rebecca.

The Rebecca Caudill Young Readers ' Book Award ( RCYRBA ) is a program sponsored by the Illinois Association of Teachers of English, the Illinois Reading Council, and the Illinois School Library Media Association.

His stage credits include Under Milk Wood ( as the Narrator ), In Praise of Love, Run for Your Wife, Having a Ball, Wonderful Town, Make Me An Offer, Lock Up Your Daughters, Wonderland, Bells Are Ringing, How the Other Half Loves, The Anniversary, A Touch of Danger, Murder by the Book, Same Time Next Year, Misery, Worm ’ s Eye View, Rebecca, Jeffrey Archer ’ s The Perfect Murder and he has played Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls.

Although the death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is not explicitly recorded in the Bible, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried at Bethel, at a place that Jacob calls Allon Bachuth ( אלון בכות ), " Oak of Weepings " ( Genesis 35: 8 ).

* " Rebecca's Camels Bible " 1823: " Camels " replaces " damsels " in one instance, making Genesis 24: 61 read " And Rebecca arose, and her camels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebecca and went his way.

A common theme in thrillers ( innocent victims dealing with psychos ) is seen in Hitchcock's film Rebecca ( 1940 film ) | Rebecca ( 1940 ), where Mrs. Danvers tries to persuade Mrs. De Winter to leap to her death.

Du Maurier denied copying Nabuco's book, as did her publisher, claiming that the plot used in Rebecca was quite common.

He is wheeled out by a nurse, who is revealed to be Brenda ( Rebecca Gayheart ), the previous film's killer saying that they have a lot in common.

As records were not kept of the deaths of the very poor, the first recorded case was that of one Rebecca Andrews on 12 April 1665.

It has been conjectured that the character of Rebecca in the book was inspired by Rebecca Gratz, a Philadelphia teacher and philanthropist and the first Jewish female college student in America.

He had a total of fifteen Carson children: five by Lucy Bradley, his first wife, and ten by Kit Carson's mother, Rebecca Robinson.

One was the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, Rebecca Latimer Felton, a suffragist who held white supremacist views.

* 1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.

* November 21 – Rebecca Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first woman United States Senator.

* Rebecca Bloomer's novel ' Unearthed ' ( 2011 ), the first in a series, depicts a futuristic human colony on Mars.

The film was Hitchcock's second Hollywood production since leaving the United Kingdom in 1939 ( the first was Rebecca ) and had an unusually large number of writers: Robert Benchley, Charles Bennett, Harold Clurman, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, James Hilton, John Howard Lawson, John Lee Mahin, Richard Maibaum, and Budd Schulberg, with Bennett, Benchley, Harrison, and Hilton the only writers credited in the finished film.

In 1940, he produced his second Best Picture Oscar winner in a row, Rebecca, the first Hollywood production for British director Alfred Hitchcock.

Juniata's first classes were held on April 17, 1876 with Zuck teaching Rebecca Cornelius, Maggie D. Miller, and Gaius M. Brumbaugh, the only son of Andrew Brumbaugh.

* Beckett's Catastrophe – dedicated to then-imprisoned Czech dissident playwright Václav Havel, who became president of Czechoslovakia after the 1989 Velvet Revolution – was first performed at the Avignon Festival on July 21, 1982 ; the film version ( in Beckett on Film ) was directed by David Mamet and performed by Harold Pinter, Sir John Gielgud, and Rebecca Pidgeon.

The current general manager, Rebecca S. Motal, is the first woman to serve in that position.

In August 1995 ForeFront Records released One Way: Songs of Larry Norman, a tribute album that included covers of 14 Norman's classic songs by ForeFront artists, including dc Talk ; Audio Adrenaline, Grammatrain ; and Rebecca St. James, whose father, David Smallbone, booked and promoted Norman's first concerts and distributed Norman's early records in Australia, including his eponymous 1977 album, ( which is also known as Starstorm ).

Miguel Angel < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s mom, Rebecca, however, begins to relent on her opposition towards Miguel Angel and Estrellitas love once she realizes she was wrong about Estrellita ( she thought at first Estrellita was a gold digger ) and that it was her friend and Miguel Angel < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s ex, Santa who was the actual gold digger, and that her husband wasn't the man he pretended to be.

In the founding days of Whittier, when it was a small isolated town, Jonathan Bailey and his wife, Rebecca, were among the first residents.

There were a total of fifteen surviving Carson siblings: five by Lindsey Carson's first wife, and ten by Kit's mother, Rebecca Robinson, Lindsey Carson's second and last wife.

The Longview area was first settled by European-Americans, led by pioneers Harry and Rebecca Jane Huntington, in 1849.

Banks was born at Waltham, Massachusetts, the first child of Nathaniel P. Banks, Sr., and Rebecca Greenwood Banks.

Albert Tatum first married Rebecca Elizabeth Ann Menefee about 1837 in Chambers County, Alabama.

In the early 1850s, Rebecca Pennell offered a course on teaching methods which was the first of its kind, while John Burns Weston, class of 1857, established a long-standing precedent by being both student and faculty simultaneously.