FGM is considered by its practitioners to be an essential part of raising a girl properly — girls are regarded as having been cleansed by the removal of " male " body parts.

Over two thousand girls — mostly teenagers but some as young as eight — were charged over the next three years with having circumcised each other with razor blades, a practice that came to be known as Ngaitana (" I will circumcise myself "), so-called because the girls claimed to have cut themselves to avoid naming their friends.

Robert Davy and his wife became the parents of five children — two boys, Humphry, the eldest, and John, and three girls.

Contrary to popular belief, freeborn girls were as likely to receive formal education as boys, especially during the Roman Empire — unlike the lack of education, or purely manual / technical skills, proper to a slave.

In 1914, she started Rosebuds — later renamed Brownies — for younger girls.

His four older siblings — Jennie, Effie, Loua and Emma — were girls.

Staines is also home to a number of successful junior football clubs: Staines Town, Staines Lammas and Staines Albion, as well as girls clubs Kempton Girls FC — Colne Valley and the U11, one of the best girls junior clubs in Surrey.

An early 17th century broadside ballad, " The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow "— which is so deft and literate it has been taken for the work of Ben Jonson — describes Puck / Robin Goodfellow as the emissary of Oberon, the Faery King, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.

Boys generally wore dark blue pants and jackets, girls — brown dresses with black aprons and black bows ( on special occasions, white aprons and bows were worn ).

They were not only tolerated, but even admired — up to a point, the point at which girls were expected to become women .”

Villeneuve was seen driving a VW before stopping and saying at the camera that he has nothing against German guys ... much less for the " allemandes ", referring to the vehicle and German girls — a reference to his rivalry with Michael Schumacher and for the incident at the 1997 European Grand Prix.

Simek says that this original concept was " superseded by the shield girls — Irish female warriors who lived on like the einherjar in Valhall.

Near this hostelry lie St Catherine's school for girls and St James's school for boys, formerly a convent, in a building on the site of Pope's white stucco villa and the location of Pope's original — surviving — grotto.

He told Jean Mercier of Publishers Weekly: " When I was a kid — 12 to 14, around there — I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball.

Within the traditional focus in Indiana on high-school basketball, the Beech Grove Hornets have earned one IHSAA State Championship — that of its girls team, in Class 3A of the 2003 tournament.

Our lifeboat was filling rapidly and despite what I had heard of the inhabitants of Eromonga, I was glad to see a long and graceful outrigger manned by three bronzed girls glide out of a lagoon into the open sea and toward our craft.

When she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody ''.

And at three different times during our turbulent marriage strange girls, with the commonest of accents, telephoned to announce to me that Letch had sired their unborn children!!

There the middle one of the three curves denotes `` mean Skeletal Age '' for the Maturity Series boys and girls.

Eight classrooms in three structured schools furnished 72 cases, 36 boys and 36 girls.

Assistant Fire Chief Chester Cornell said gas fumes apparently were ignited by a candle which one of the three Kowalski girls present held for her mother, because the flat lacked electricity.

This was a reference to a boating outing Carroll had with the three girls and their family.

Pressured into finding Dulcinea, Sancho brings back three dirty and ragged peasant girls, and tells Don Quixote that they are Dulcinea and her ladies-in-waiting.

At seventeen, Emily attended the Roe Head girls ' school, where Charlotte was a teacher, but managed to stay only three months before being overcome by extreme homesickness.

In addition to Veronica, the popular clique consists of three wealthy and beautiful ( but deeply unhappy ) girls with the same first name: the malicious leader, Heather Chandler ( Kim Walker ); the bookish bulimic Heather Duke ( Shannen Doherty ) and the weak-willed cheerleader Heather McNamara ( Lisanne Falk ).

In October 2008, all three girls made the choice to leave the mansion.

Jawaharlal was the eldest of three children, two of whom were girls.

In May 2005, Namibian troops were accused of sexual exploitation of young girls and women ; three Namibian soldiers were sent home from the force after a United Nations investigation found them guilty of " engaging in sexual activity with civilians ", which is against United Nations rules for peacekeepers.

Among these, nine for boys and three for girls.

During the first half of the 20th century, the movement grew to encompass three major age groups each for boys ( Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Rover Scout ) and, in 1910, a new organization, Girl Guides, was created for girls ( Brownie Guide, Girl Guide and Girl Scout, Ranger Guide ).

As a result, on 2 September 1939, three school girls, Margaret, Mary and Katherine, came to live at The Kilns in Risinghurst, Lewis ' home three miles east of Oxford city centre.

They had three children, all girls: Anne Isabella ( 1837 – 1919 ), Jane ( died at 8 months ) and Harriet Marian ( 1840 – 1875 ).

" The three lead actresses were castigated in numerous publications, including The Saturday Review, which wrote, " Ten years ago ... Parkins, Duke and Tate would more likely have been playing the hat check girls than movie-queens ; they are totally lacking in style, authority or charm.

The show centers on Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, three kindergarten-aged girls with superpowers, as well as their " father ", the brainy scientist Professor Utonium, who all live in the fictional city of Townsville, USA.

In 1991 Craig McCracken, then a student in the character animation program of CalArts, created " The Whoopass Girls " as a drawing of three girls on a small sheet of orange construction paper.

and `` Marmee '' March, like Sophie Szold, was the competent manager of her brood of girls, of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds' five.

and when a young man like Morris Jastrow had enjoyed the Szold hospitality, he felt obliged to send his respects and his gifts not merely to Henrietta, in whom he was really interested, but to all the Szold girls and Mamma.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

Sofonisba Anguissola was born in Cremona, Lombardy, around 1532, the oldest of seven children, six of whom were girls.

After Nicolas I became Tsar, however, Bakunin senior gave up politics and devoted himself to the care of his estate and the education of his children, five girls and five boys, the oldest of whom was Mikhail ( Michael ).

On July 19, 1879, Holliday and his business partner, former deputy marshal John Joshua Webb, were seated in their saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico when former U. S. Army scout Mike Gordon got into a loud argument with one of the saloon girls whom he wanted to take with him.

He was known to have had trysts with several prepubescent native girls, some of whom appear as subjects of his paintings.

In the fourth episode of season 3, he won a tropical island in a poker match in Las Vegas and got married to two girls, but he's not sure whom, since he was a little drunk at the time.

Irina's first cousin, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, whom she had been close to when they were girls, was disdainful of Felix: " Felix is a ' downright civilian ,' dressed all in brown, walked to and fro about the room, searching in some bookcases with magazines and virtually doing nothing ; an utterly unpleasant impression he makes – a man idling in such times ," Olga wrote to her father, Tsar Nicholas II, on 5 March 1915 after paying a visit to the Yusupovs.

* In Lolita, the protagonist is attracted to pubescent girls whom he dubs " nymphets "; " faunlets " are the male equivalent.

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.

She is originally a cute, little sister whom Eric shared a humorous relationship with as he used her to win the hearts of girls he had hoped to date.

Smith traveled to England to collect the girls and brought with him their mother, Monimia, from whom they had been separated.

* Gokula-Taruni-She whom all young girls of Gokul worship

The youngest of ten children ( of whom she and four others, all girls, survived ) of a high-ranking Taiwan ( ROC ) diplomat, she was born and raised in Washington, D. C. She graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, and went on to receive a degree in journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1969.

Huey, Dewey and Louie share similar passions such as listening to rock music, getting revenge on those who anger them, impressing girls, getting money, pulling pranks, role models whom they look up to and admire, playing games and reading comics.

Marc Dutroux ( born 6 November 1956 ) is a Belgian serial killer and child molester, convicted of having kidnapped, tortured and sexually abused six girls during 1995 to 1996, ranging in age from 8 to 19, four of whom he murdered.

The BCATP provided an enormous and continuing economic boost, particularly in the Western provinces that were still recovering from the decade long depression. The final report of the BCATP Supervisory Board calculated that “ more than 3, 750 members of the RAF, RAAF, RNZAF and Allied nationals under RAF quotas married Canadian girls ,” many of whom remained in Canada to raise families.

LaVerne had founded the original group, and often acted as the peacemaker among the three during the sisters ' lives, more often siding with her parents, to whom the girls were extremely devoted, than with either of her sisters.

The Matebele had swept the country, destroying the fields, carrying off the cattle, and slaying the people-saving only the young boys and girls whom they would bring up as members of the Matebele.

Fanny and her Radlett cousins have long suspected that the sexually ambiguous Boy, whom they have named the " Lecherous Lecturer ," has pedophile tendencies and he is a joke amongst Fanny's cousins for his inappropriate touches and furtive, " lecherous " behaviour towards young girls.

The couple had three children, all girls, one of whom died in infancy, and one in 1886.

He was the youngest of a family of eight children, five girls and three boys – among whom were Raphael ( Rouphael ) and Shawki ( Fr.