In the third phase of the former Portuguese nautical cartography, characterized by the abandonment of the influence of Ptolemy's representation of the East and more accuracy in the representation of lands and continents, stands out Fernão Vaz Dourado ( Goa ~ 1520-~ 1580 ), whose work has extraordinary quality and beauty, giving him a reputation as one of the best cartographers of the time.

Ammianus Marcellinus considered the Alans to be the former Massagetae: " the Alani, who were formerly called the Massagetae " and stated " Nearly all the Alani are men of great stature and beauty ; their hair is somewhat yellow, their eyes are terribly fierce ".

Restoring the former beauty of the falls was described in the report as a " sacred obligation to mankind.

Another monument of relevant importance that has been restored to its former beauty is the monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, in which the mortal remains of several known personalities rest, among them Giuseppe Mazzini, Fabrizio De André and Oscar Wilde's wife.

In the early 1960s, Lamonte McLemore and Marilyn McCoo, a former beauty pageant winner, got together with two other friends from Los Angeles, Harry Elston and Floyd Butler, to form a group called the Hi-Fis.

Deborah Fátima Carthy-Deu ( born January 5, 1966 in Santurce, Puerto Rico ) is a Puerto Rican actress, host, and former beauty queen.

It was later renamed Park Falls for the scenic beauty surrounding the former falls on the south side of town.

Smith married former Miss Virginia USA beauty queen Patricia Southall on April 22, 2000.

It had once provided shade for its owners ; now it stands there as evidence of the former beauty of the property.

His mother, Nina Bruce ( née Warren, 1939 –), is a former beauty pageant queen.

Rich palaces and parks of extreme beauty are found in the former imperial residences in suburbs of Moscow ( Kolomenskoye, Tsaritsyno ) and Saint Petersburg ( Peterhof, Strelna, Oranienbaum, Gatchina, Pavlovsk Palace, Tsarskoye Selo ).

Much of the landscaped beauty of the parks surrounding Lady Bird Lake can be credited to the former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, who, in the 1970s, focused her attention on the Town Lake Beautification Project.

Merivel lives a life of debauchery there, but also finds pleasure in restoring the house to its former beauty with the support of Will Gates ( Ian McKellen ), the man who runs the estate.

* Linda Louise Rowley, former beauty queen who held the title Miss Alaska USA

Julia is an elegant, outspoken liberal intellectual ; Suzanne is a rich, flashy, often self-centered former beauty queen and Miss Georgia World.

A 1927 silent film version produced and supervised by Cecil B. DeMille and starring former Mack Sennett bathing beauty Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart, was remade as Roxie Hart in 1942 with Ginger Rogers in the title role.

* Celia Ryder-Charles's wife, " Boy " Mulcaster's sister, and Julia's former schoolmate ; a vivacious and socially active beauty.

Under the Ringwraiths Minas Ithil was perverted into a horribly corrupt version of its former beauty.

Gregorio Luke, former director of Museum of Latin American Art who conducted lectures about belly buttons told, " The belly button has been a sign of beauty in goddesses as different as Astarte, Venus or Aphrodite.

On January 4, 2012, MacKay married Nazanin Afshin-Jam, an Iranian-born former beauty queen, in a ceremony in Mexico.

Later on, Vigoreaux went on to host other shows such as Sabado en Grande ( Big Saturday, also with Roberto ), El Show del Mediodía ( The Midday Show ) and De Magazin, one of several successful media partnerships with talent agent and former beauty queen Desiree Lowry.

He has two daughters with former wife, beauty contest winner Tuba Altıntop.

He married Frances Teresa Stuart, the celebrated beauty and alleged former mistress of King Charles II.

Mae Jemison, physician and former NASA astronaut, wrote in the book, Queen Bess: Daredevil Aviator ( 1993 ): " I point to Bessie Coleman and say without hesitation that here is a woman, a being, who exemplifies and serves as a model to all humanity: the very definition of strength, dignity, courage, integrity, and beauty.

The actress will star as a " brilliant and successful woman who begrudgingly goes to work for her less-brainy but more popular sister – a former beauty queen, weather girl and now big-city Mayor.

Although the former queen, Isabella II was still alive, she recognized that she was too divisive as a leader, and abdicated in 1870 in favor of her son, Alfonso.

When Arsinoe IV, Egypt's former queen, was paraded in chains, the spectators admired her dignified bearing and were moved to pity.

Not long after, however, she was visited by Christina, former queen of Sweden.

* Queen dowager, a former queen consort whose husband has died

* August 9 – Anglo-Powhatan Wars: The English launch a major attack on the Paspahegh village, capturing and executing the native queen and her children, burning houses and chopping down the corn fields ; the subsequent use of the term " Paspahegh " in documents refers to their former territory.

After her abdication on the same day, Christina, now the former reigning queen of a Protestant nation, secretly converts to Catholicism.

IMOGEN / INNOGEN, Daughter to Cymbeline by a former queen

Adam of Bremen in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum is unique in equating Cnut's mother ( for whom he also produces no name ) with the former queen of Sweden, wife of Eric the Victorious and by this marriage mother of Olof Skötkonung.

But since Adam is the only source to state the identity of Cnut's with Olof Skötkonung's mother, this is often seen as an error of Adam, and it is often assumed that Sweyn had two wives, the first being Cnut's mother, and the second being the former queen of Sweden.

When King You replaced Queen Shen with the concubine Baosi ( and designated Baosì's son as the crown prince ), the former queen ’ s powerful father, the Marquess of Shen, joined forces with Quanrong to sack the western capital of Haojing in 770 BC.

The result was that the " Widow Capet ", as the former queen was called after the death of her husband, plunged into deep mourning ; she refused to eat or do any exercise.

# The Quadruple Alliance of April 1834 was formed by the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Portugal to support queen Isabella II of Spain against her uncle Don Carlos, Count of Molina, who claimed the Spanish throne under the succession law of 1714-1830, and queen Maria II of Portugal ( represented by her father Pedro, 18th Duke of Braganza, former Emperor of Brazil and King of Portugal ) against her uncle Miguel of Portugal, who proclaimed himself absolute king before the Portuguese Liberal War.

The former queen received a generous settlement, including Richmond Palace, and Hever Castle, home of Henry's former in-laws, the Boleyns.

On some labels there were flattering images of Marie-Antoinette that appealed to the conservative factions of French citizens that viewed the former queen as a martyr.

She remained in France, again pleased by her status as queen at the French court, until 1810, when Napoleon forced her to return to the Netherlands at his new wedding — he did not consider it suitable to have the daughter of his former spouse at court.

Along with Dooku, Jango Fett ( Temuera Morrison ), Jango's son Boba ( Daniel Logan ), and Poggle the Lesser, Gunray and Haako sit back in a private viewing to watch the former queen and the two Jedi be sentenced to death in the Geonosian execution arena.

The former queen, Arsinoe I, is banished to Coptos, a city of Upper Egypt near the Wadi Hammamat, while her rival adopts her children.

* Farideh Diba ( born Farideh Ghotbi ) ( 1921 – 2000 ), mother of the former queen of Iran, Farah Pahlavi

Sturges consulted with Lake's doctor to see if she could perform the part, and hired former Tournament of Roses queen Cheryl Walker as Lake's double.

Caria was conquered by Alexander III of Macedon in 334 BC with the help of the former queen of the land Ada of Caria who had been dethroned by the Persian Empire and actively helped Alexander in his conquest of Caria on condition of being reinstated as queen.

Roger married his first wife, Elvira, daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile and his fourth queen, Isabella, who may be identical to his former concubine, the converted Moor, Zaida, baptised Isabella.

Lycophron ( 1191 ) relates that Zeus ' mother, that is Rhea, is skilled in wrestling, having cast the former queen Eurynome into Tartarus.