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This group had been Palfrey's greatest worry since Anna was in bad health, and her children were too young to work for their keep.
In recent years Anna Xydis has played with the New York Philharmonic and at Lewisohn Stadium, but her program last night at Town Hall was the Greek-born pianist's first New York recital since 1948.
It was there that their first child, a daughter they named Anna Bronson Alcott, was born on March 16, 1831, after 36 hours of labor.
Bronson described her as " a very fine healthful child, much more so than Anna was at birth.
He was born into a family of writers, the best known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.
Alexios was the son of Ioannis Komnenos and Anna Dalassena, and the nephew of Isaac I Komnenos ( emperor 1057 – 1059 ).
The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.
The real driving force behind this political alliance was Anna Dalassene.
Anna then protested that the family was in fear for their lives, her sons were loyal subjects ( Alexios and Isaac were discovered absent without leave ), and had learned of a plot by enemies of the Komnenoi to have them both blinded and had, therefore, fled the capital so they may continue to be of loyal service to the emperor.
This request was granted and Anna then manifested her true theatrical and manipulative capabilities:
Straboromanos tried to give her his cross, but for Anna this was not sufficiently large enough so that all bystanders could witness the oath.
Alexios was for many years under the strong influence of an eminence grise, his mother Anna Dalassene, a wise and immensely able politician whom, in a uniquely irregular fashion, he had crowned as Augusta instead of the rightful claimant to the title, his wife Irene Doukaina.
Dalassena was the effective administrator of the Empire during Alexios ' long absences in military campaigns: she was constantly at odds with her daughter-in-law and had assumed total responsibility for the upbringing and education of her granddaughter Anna Komnene.
After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.
While the early explorers used horses to cross the outback, the first woman to make the journey riding a horse was Anna Hingley, who rode from Broome to Cairns in 2006.
He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
Maria was a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary.
Charles Henry Alston was born on November 28, 1907 in Charlotte, North Carolina to Reverend Primus Priss Alston and Anna Elizabeth Miller Alston, and was the youngest of five children.
She was a daughter of Henry V of Iron, Duke of Żagań and Anna of Mazovia.

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The research and ideas behind the study on Anna O. was highly referenced in Freud ’ s lectures on the origin and development of psychoanalysis.
In 1967 the ‘ Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento S. Anna ' was founded which, together with ‘ La Scuola Normale ', formed a highly prestigious learning and teaching centre.
Englander worked on film inserts for highly prestigious BBC dramas such as Rudolph Cartier's Quatermass and the Pit ( 1958 – 59 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1961 ), and later programmes such as Doctor Who, Dad's Army, Colditz and Maigret.
A distant cousin, Alexander Taneyev, was also a composer, whose daughter, Anna Vyrubova, was highly influential at court.
RESOLVED That we view with feelings of deepest interest and solicitude, the firm and manly resistance which is made by those patriots under the highly and distinguished chieftain Santa Anna, to the numerous encroachments and infractions which have been made by the present administration upon the laws and constitution of our beloved and adopted country.
Serhiy Hrushevsky's father was a highly decorated official ( his awards included the two Orders of Saint Anna and the Bronze Cross, and a title of nobility ).
In a 45-page response to the highly critical report by UN envoy Anna Tibaijuka, President Robert Mugabe's government says it acted in the public interest, and denied that it was responsible for the deaths of several people during clean-up operation, and was carried out in compliance with the government's laws, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported on August 17, 2005.
Today it is a sprawling commercial street with the colony transformed with many shops and other establishments. It is a highly sought out upscale Residential as well as commercial property in Anna Nagar.
* Friedman, Milton and Anna J. Schwartz, A Monetary History of the United States, 1867 – 1960 ( 1963 ) ISBN 0-691-04147-4 classic monetarist explanation ; highly statistical

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Three of these films, Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ) and the adult / mainstream crossover-feature All About Anna ( 2005 ), were made primarily for a female audience, and were extremely successful in Europe, with the first two being directly responsible for the March 2006 legalizing of pornography in Norway.
Anna Freud reported the successful treatment of homosexuals as neurotics in a series of unpublished lectures.
Leigh was well enough to resume acting in 1946, in a successful London production of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth ; but her films of this period, Caesar and Cleopatra ( 1945 ) and Anna Karenina ( 1948 ), were not great successes.
The successful 1941 film of the book had a cast including Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O ' Hara, Anna Lee, Roddy McDowall ( as Huw ), Donald Crisp, and Barry Fitzgerald.
In 1997, she continued her string of successful films with William Nicholson's Firelight, filmed in England, Véra Belmont's Marquise, filmed in France, and Bernard Rose's Anna Karenina.
In 1770 he married Anna Barbara " Hannah " Meyer, the daughter of a successful potter.
Especially from the beginnings of the new decade, many artists have emerged by releasing Laïko-Pop with Dance recordings, such as Kostas Martakis, Katerina Stikoudi, Stan, Demy and X-Factor contestants such as Eleftheria Eleftheriou and Ivi Adamou, with previously successful artists such as Sakis Rouvas and Anna Vissi, also contributing to the trend.
A number of noted opera-singers ( Nicolai Ghiaurov, Boris Christoff, Raina Kabaivanska, Ghena Dimitrova, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Vesselina Kasarova ), pianist Alexis Weissenberg, and successful artists ( Christo, Pascin, Vladimir Dimitrov ) popularized the culture of Bulgaria abroad.
The group consisted of successful record producers Danski ( Born Dennis van den Driesschen ), Delmundo ( a. k. a. Wessel van Diepen, their protégés Pronti ( Sebastiaan Molijn ), Kalmani ( Eelke Kalberg ), DJ Jurgen and face and lead singer Judith Anna Pronk.
It is unknown whether the letter was sent, and whether Anna, Victoria, Sam and Boris were successful in their attempt to leave the city.
He married the successful crime novelist Anna Katharine Green in 1884.
The successful film starred Rex Harrison as the king and Irene Dunne as Anna.
Russian influence increased further when Frederick August II, the Elector of Saxony, in his successful bid to succeed his father on the Polish throne in the 1730s, agreed to grant Anna of Russia her choice of successor to the Courland duchy in exchange for Russian support in the War of the Polish Succession.
In the Memorial Park it is possible to see diverse items such as the first stage of the Black Arrow Rocket, Britain's only successful independent space launch that was recovered from the surrounding Anna Creek Station.
Juan sent out scouting parties to the Missions of San Antonio in search of a suitable base camp for the Texans and participated in the early successful Battle of Concepcion and the 2 month long, Siege of Bexar, that drove the troops of Santa Anna out of Texas.
Jonathan Rivers ( Michael Keaton ) is a successful architect and lives a peaceful life with his wife Anna ( Chandra West ) until her unexpected disappearance.
British pop singer Lolly ( real name Anna Kumble ) was very successful scoring three Top 10 hits ( two of which went Top 5 ) and her album also went Top 25.
Penrhyn Stanlaws ( 1877 – 1957 ), one of the most successful and sought after cover artists of his day, picked Anna Q. Nilsson to become one of his models.
Raskob was born to John and Anna Frances ( Moran ) Raskob in Lockport, New York, where his father ran a successful cigar-production business.
Gordy, like most of her family, became a successful businesswoman, starting out as a co-operator of the photo concession at Detroit's Flame Show Bar in the early fifties with sister Gwen, later starting her own namesake label, Anna Records with Gwen and Billy Davis in 1958, a year before her brother Berry launched Tamla Records, later to be a subsidiary for Motown.
Henri, a successful and affluent Jewish lawyer, and his wife Anna wanted to adopt her but her mother would not allow it.
Three of these films, Constance ( 1998 ), Pink Prison ( 1999 ) and the adult / mainstream crossover-feature All About Anna ( 2005 ), were made primarily for a female audience, and were extremely successful in Europe, with the two first being directly responsible for the March 2006 legalizing of pornography in Norway.
In 1997, Leland co-wrote and directed The Land Girls starring Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel and, in 2000, wrote and directed Episode 6 of the enormously successful HBO Miniseries Band of Brothers.
She had a successful career at MGM, RKO and Columbia including important roles such as the tragic Beth in the original Little Women, among many other film appearances including Frank Capra's Lady for a Day and Gabriel Over the White House ; Sequoia ; Limehouse Blues with George Raft and Anna May Wong ; The Ghost Goes West, opposite Robert Donat ; and Rasputin and the Empress, with the Barrymore siblings ( John, Ethel, and Lionel ) in the only movie they all made together.

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