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Sarah " Saartjie " Baartman ( before 1790 – 29 December 1815 ) ( also spelled Bartman, Bartmann, Baartmen ) was the most famous of at least two Khoikhoi women who were exhibited as freak show attractions in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus —" Hottentot " as the then-current name for the Khoi people, now considered an offensive term, and " Venus " in reference to the Roman goddess of love.
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Sarah Baartman was born to a Khoisan family in the vicinity of the Gamtoos River in what is now the Eastern Cape of South Africa.
In 1810 Bullock figured briefly in a law case concerning Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman brought to England for purposes of exhibition as the " Hottentot Venus ".
Sarah and before
Great actors and actresses -- the most notable being Sarah Bernhardt -- were hired to repeat their stage performances before the camera.
A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.
Poe may have become engaged to Sarah Elmira Royster before he registered at the one-year-old University of Virginia in February 1826 to study languages.
She is known for her appearance in the film Emily and subsequent relationship with Prince Andrew, son of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, before his marriage to Sarah, Duchess of York.
* 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
Others had taken similar steps in the twentieth century, including Irene Morgan in 1946, Sarah Louise Keys in 1955, and Claudette Colvin nine months before Parks.
In a last-ditch attempt to win the war, Skynet sends a cybernetic assassin called a Terminator back through time to murder Connor's mother Sarah before he is born, thereby preventing Connor's existence and the success of his future rebellion.
< BLOCKQUOTE > Genesis 25: 9 And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre ; The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife .</ BLOCKQUOTE >
Drew Barrymore auditioned for the role of Cécile, and Sarah Jessica Parker actually turned the role down, before it eventually went to Uma Thurman.
* The novel Daughter of Troy by Sarah B. Franklin is written from Briseis ' point of view with a substantial pre-history before the events of the Iliad unfold.
When Sarah is harassed by a vagrant with a snake ( whom she had encountered before in her new house ), he is immediately hit by a car and the girls believe that together they willed it to happen.
In the early 1980s, he had a short-lived third marriage, to Ann Queensberry before remarrying Sarah Miles in 1988, with whom he remained until his death in 1995.
At the Thursday night rehearsal for the graduation, senior Sarah Barlow included a prayer that explicitly mentioned Jesus Christ, and during the graduation, student Laci Rae Mattice led people in the Lord's Prayer before a moment of silence.
In 2009, previous Hume Bank president, Jeffrey W. Thompson, 40, of Hume, Mo., plead guilty before U. S. Magistrate Judge Sarah W. Hays to the charges of making false statements to the FDIC as part of a bank fraud scheme that caused such significant losses that the bank was pushed into insolvency.
She began her education at Dulwich Preparatory School, before moving on to Kent College, Pembury where she was friends with Sarah Sienesi, with whom she subsequently shared a flat in Fulham and who later became her Lady-in-Waiting.
By his own account he had explored the gardens, scaling the kitchen garden wall in the process, and set the staff to work, then ate breakfast with the housekeeper and met his future wife, Sarah Bown, the housekeeper's niece, as he later put it, completing his first morning's work before nine o ' clock.
In November 1955, just three weeks before Parks ' defiance of Jim Crow laws in Montgomery, the Interstate Commerce Commission, in response to a complaint filed by WAC Sarah Keys, closed the legal loophole left by the Morgan ruling in a landmark case known as Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company.
A member for a short time during this period was Sarah Brightman, who went on to join the more raunchy Hot Gossip before marrying Andrew Lloyd Webber.
In February 1893, Stone invited her brother Frank and his wife Sarah to come see the bust, before it was shipped to Chicago for display at the upcoming World's Columbian Exposition.
She also briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College and joined Alpha Gamma Delta, before dropping out to pursue music.
Sarah and 1790
In 1792 Sarah Otway, daughter of Sir Thomas Cave Bt ( who in 1790 had married Henry Otway, High Sheriff of Leicestershire in 1804 ), inherited the estate on the death of her nephew Sir Thomas Cave, 7th Baronet.
Hale was born in Newport, New Hampshire, the son of David Hale, a lawyer, and of Sarah Josepha Hale ( 1790 – 1879 ), a popular poet.
Sarah grew up to be a remarkably handsome and attractive woman, and caused some surprise by marrying John Austin ( 1790 – 1859 ) on 24 August 1819.
Daniel Dunklin was born to Sarah Margaret ( Sullivan ) and Joseph Dunklin Jr. in 1790 in Greenville, South Carolina.
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His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).
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