The Lombards, claims Ross, killed the serf who ventured to marry a free woman, while the Visigoths and Burgundians scourged and burned them both.

* Mahaina-A woman who claims to suffer from alcoholism but is believed to have a weak temperament.

" She was the first woman to successfully claim the throne of England, despite competing claims and determined opposition, and enjoyed popular support and sympathy during the earliest parts of her reign, especially from the Roman Catholic population.

* In " Smith and Jones ", the Doctor claims to have once owned a " laser spanner " until it was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst, described by the Doctor as a " cheeky woman ".

* February 17 – A woman named Anna Anderson tries to commit suicide in Berlin and is taken to a mental hospital, where she claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia.

Apollonius of Rhodes, on the other hand, claims Jason would not allow a woman on the ship because she would cause strife on the otherwise all-male expedition ( Argonautica 1. 769-73 ).

Although the dance didn't originate in Poland, the Oxford Etymological Dictionary claims its name is derived from the Czech polka meaning " Polish woman " ( feminine form corresponding to polák, a Pole ).

* In Ghostbusters II a woman named Elaine appears on Dr Peter Venkman's show " World of the Psychic " and claims an alien told her that the world would end on February 14, 2016.

Maria Theresa, as a woman, was perceived as weak, and other rulers ( such as Charles Albert of Bavaria ) put forward their own competing claims to the crown as male heirs with a clear genealogical basis to inherit the elected dignities of the great Imperial title.

The document itself drew from writings by the evangelical Quaker Sarah Grimké to make biblical claims that God had created woman equal to man and that man had usurped God's authority by establishing " absolute tyranny " over woman.

The unseen working class woman who Goole claims has committed suicide whilst pregnant with Eric Birling's baby, and who has been mistreated by each member of the Birling family and by Gerald Croft.

The French rejected her claims, arguing that since she herself, as a woman, could not succeed, then she could not transmit any such right to her son.

* Atalanta is included on the list by Pseudo-Apollodorus, but Apollonius claims that Jason forbade her because she was a woman and could cause strife in the otherwise all-male crew.

The book claims that the way to defeat a vampire is for a woman who is pure in heart to distract the vampire with her beauty all through the night.

Ovid then notes that some equate Anna Perenna with the Moon or with Themis or with Io or with Amaltheia, but he turns to what he claims may be closer to the truth, that during the secessio plebis at Mons Sacer ( the Sacred Mountain ) the rebels ran short on food and an old woman of Bovillae named Anna baked cakes and brought them to the rebels every morning.

He also claimed that he had been given the book by a Tuscan woman named Maddalena, although historians such as Ronald Hutton have disputed the truth of these such claims.

To test Elphin ’ s claims, Maelgwn sent his son Rhun ( who had a reputation of never being turned down by a woman ) to Elphin ’ s house to despoil his wife ’ s virtue.

* In 2009, a case went to trial in France, after a woman claims to have been pressured into paying € 21, 000 ($ 29, 400 ) to the Church of Scientology for lessons, books and medicines for her poor mental state accused the Church of Scientology of " organised fraud ".

This was an age in which women were seen as " hysterical " and " nervous " beings ; thus, when a woman claimed to be seriously ill after giving birth, her claims were sometimes dismissed as being invalid.

The driver is permitted to invite a woman he claims is his sister onto the box of the carriage, and when he kisses her, Mr. Eager promptly forces the lady to get off the carriage box.

Also according to the Augustan History, his wife was a Roman woman called Fabia Orestilla, born circa 165, who the Augustan History claims was a descendant of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus.

According to the notoriously unreliable Historia Augusta, his mother was a Roman woman called Fabia Orestilla, born circa 165, who the Augustan History claims was a descendant of Roman Emperors Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius through her father Fulvus Antoninus.

In the film, a 75-year-old woman from Auvers-sur-Oise ( not Jeanne Calment, who lived in Arles several hundred km to the south ), who claims to have known Van Gogh when she was a young girl, meets star Kirk Douglas, and comments on how much he looks like the painter.

She had offered to walk, but Pamela knew she would not feel comfortable about her child until she had personally confided her to the care of the little pink woman who chose to be called `` Auntie ''.

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.

usually, this is most exasperating to men, who expect every woman to verify their preconceived notions concerning her sex, and when she does not, immediately condemn her as eccentric and unwomanly.

Miriam said that she must be assured that `` that other woman, Olga, will not be in luxury while I am scraping along ''.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

He advised the poor woman not to appear in court as what she was charged with was not in violation of law.

Tessie, everybody thought, was a strong woman, but she was only strong because she had Alfred to lean on.

Every woman has had the experience of saying no when she meant yes, and saying yes when she meant no.

The woman had the glassy look of an invalid, as if she had not slept at all.

She stood there, a large old woman, smiling at the things she would say to him in the morning, this big foolish baby of a son.

Drunk or sober she was the most attractive woman in the world for me.

The remarks she made about the sufferings of a lonely woman seemed so broad at first that he didn't know what to make of them, but after the sixth drink he put his arm around her and suggested that they go upstairs and look for her checkbook there.

Then she looked at the old woman again, her eyes calm.

What hope lay in the nephews, she asked the intensifying light out there, with one married to a barren woman and the other divorced, having sired two girl children, with none to bear on the Packard name??

One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ''.

At another phase in the therapy, when a pathogenic mother-introject began to emerge more and more upon the investigative scene, she muttered in a low but intense voice, to herself, `` I hate that woman inside me ''!!

it was as if she was showing me one of the reasons why she hated that woman inside her.

Earlier, this woman had been so filled with a chaotic variety of introjects that at times, when she was in her room alone, it would sound to a passerby as though there were several different persons in the room, as she would vocalize in various kinds of voice.