Thurman's maternal grandmother was Swedish-born Birgit Holmquist, from Trelleborg, who in 1930 modelled for a nude statue that overlooks the harbor of Smygehuk, Sweden ( Birgit's father was of Swedish descent and Birgit's mother was of German and Danish descent ).

Upon receiving a thank-you letter with Thurman's name as editor on the letterhead, she withdrew, despite pleas from Alexander acknowledging Thurman's " selfish treatment of those who have helped him gain a place in the literary world " and stating that he would not let Thurman run amok.

In 1873 Thurman crafted a strategy that led to Ohio choosing once more a Democratic legislature, and electing Thurman's uncle William Allen as governor.

As a Democrat, he voted with the seven-member minority, in favor of the Samuel J. Tilden electors in all cases, but the Republican majority prevailed in all the votes, and Thurman's 1867 gubernatorial opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, became President.

Thurman's machine is sometimes considered the first vacuum cleaner.

Uma Thurman's mother, Nena von Schlebrügge, was a model born in Mexico City in 1941.

Thurman's maternal grandfather was Colonel Baron Friedrich Karl Johannes von Schlebrügge, a German military officer who had become one of the senior Nazi spies in the Americas but who was also jailed by the Nazis for protecting Jewish friends.

Thurman's mother was previously married to LSD guru Timothy Leary.

Hawke married for a second time in June 2008, wedding Ryan Hawke ( née Shawhughes ), who had briefly worked as a nanny to his and Thurman's children before graduating from Columbia University.

A fifteen second clip of the Quincy Jones theme tune is played in the Kill Bill movies whenever Uma Thurman's character sees an enemy.

In the 1994 movie Pulp Fiction, John Travolta's character confessed to Uma Thurman's character that his only celebrity crush was Emma Peel.

9 No. 2 in the background ) to Thurman's house to give him his present ; he arrives at the house but the police shoot him eight times in front of the neighborhood.

Wood played the younger version of Uma Thurman's character, Diana.

Miller's volume includes her editor's overview, the text of Thurman's memoir, extracts from the Convention's records, interviews with participants, and a postscript by Richard DeLong.

In many tournaments for the game, the Bills were highly sought after and often banned because Thurman's computerized counterpart was so good it gave the user of the Bills an unfair advantage.

Tom Thurman's Movies of Color and Peckinpah.

Sometimes, only Thurman's voice would be heard.

( In the novel, Sweetie May Carr, a character modelled on the real-life Hurston, christens the Harlem rooming house where Dr Parkes, modelled on the real life Alain Locke, establishes a salon of artists, Niggerati Manor, just as Thurman's own rooming house was in real life.

He himself, as many others of the literati did, would hold parties on Saturday nights, which Langston Hughes described in The Big Sea by observing that " at Wallace Thurman's you met the bohemians of both Harlem and the Village.

For the next four years, Thurman's pay was attached in order to pay the debt.

Thurman's story Cordelia the Crude was a story about a sixteen-year-old black girl becoming a prostitute — an image that would have outraged black critics of the time, whose view of black female sexuality was that images of it should be moral.

Satya Bellord, who was Uma Thurman's martial arts double in Kill Bill, is a member of the Ninjai Gang

Thurman's locker was emptied by the Bengals organization.

The alchemist Robert Boyle is credited as being the father of chemistry.

During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">

It was erected to honour the memory of the Reverend R. H. Emmerson ( 1826-1857 ), father of the former premier of New Brunswick, Henry Robert Emmerson | H. R. Emmerson.

Her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive ; he was of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his family's original surname was Valvrojenski.

* Christian Bunsen ( librarian ) ( 1770 – 1837 ), chief librarian of Göttingen and professor of modern philology, father of Robert Bunsen

Despite his growing admiration for Wallace and his cause, Robert is dominated by his father, who wishes to secure the throne for his son by submitting to the English.

Robert the Bruce, intending to join Wallace and commit troops to the war, sets up a meeting with him in Edinburgh where Robert's father has conspired with other nobles to capture and hand over Wallace to the English.

Learning of his treachery, Robert the Bruce disowns his father.

** Robert Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), physician, father of Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 )

Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who " frowned on display of emotion " and his mother Lois as " an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive.

Marion Zimmer Bradley refers to him as " a second father ," Frederik Pohl calls him " a founder ," and Robert Silverberg says he was " seriously underrated " and " one of the great shapers of science-fiction publishing in the United States.

Nine years earlier, Robert Hardy had played Donald's father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, in the BBC2 Playhouse television drama " Speed King "-both were written by Roger Milner and produced by Innes Lloyd.

* Robert Waring Darwin ( 1766 – 1848 ), father of the naturalist Charles Darwin

In the end, Robert Tisdall and Erica Burgoyne are united, with Erica's father smiling benevolently.

Along with J. Robert Oppenheimer, he is frequently referred to as " the father of the atomic bomb ".

Gerald's father, William Robert Gardner ( 1844 – 1935 ) had been the youngest son of Joseph Gardner ( b. 1791 ), after whom the firm had been renamed, and who with his wife Maria had had five sons and three daughters.

His father introduced him to the Neapolitan nobility and the French-influenced court of Robert the Wise in the 1330s.

Robert II crowned his son — Hugh Magnus — as King of the Franks at age 10 to secure the succession, but Hugh Magnus rebelled against his father and died fighting him in 1025.

This sought to bar Prince Henry from both thrones by stipulating that if either King William or Duke Robert died without an heir, the two dominions of their father would be reunited under the surviving brother.

Must was created by Harry Roberts and his father Robert Roberts in 1910 as a non-alcoholic alternative to beer.

Scarlett was born in Jamaica, where his father, Robert Scarlett, had property.

In a note prefixed to the Collected Edition of his wife's poems, Robert Browning tells us that " On the early death of his father, he ( Edward Moulton ) was brought from Jamaica to England when a very young child, as ward to the late Chief Baron Lord Abinger, then Mr. Scarlett, whom he frequently accompanied in his post-chaise when on pursuit.

Rock has actively raised Robert Jr., born in 1993, as a single father since birth, and continues to live with him in Michigan.

Today, he is often regarded as the father of germ theory and bacteriology, together with Robert Koch.

* Robert Ormond Maugham, English barrister and father of Somerset Maugham