Helen of Troy - Helen of Troy For the mythical Helen of Troy, see Helen Helen of Troy was a pseudonym of Helen Wellington-LLoyd, a follower of punk band Sex Pistols who occasionally appeared in films by/about them. links: [1] Internet Movie Database entry on Helen Wellington-lloyd.
Helen Gandy - Helen Gandy Helen Gandy was the personal secretary to J. Edgar Hoover during most of J. Edgar's tenure as FBI Director. She kept the most sensitive of J. Edgar's personal files in her office, instead of Hoover's, thus when Hoover died, Nixon's order's to seal Hoover's office were inconsequential and Gandy was able to destroy a large amount of material..
Helen Keller - Helen Keller Helen Keller (circa 1948) Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968) was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA. When she was 19 months old, Helen was struck with a fever and became both deaf and blind. The lively child changed into a little wild 'animal' who terrorised the people around her. In 1887, her parents, Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller, finally contacted Alexander Graham Bell, who worked with deaf children. He advised them to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts. They delegated the teacher Anne Sullivan, who was then only 20 years old, to try to open up Helen's mind. It was the beginning of a 49-year period of working together. Sullivan demanded and got permission from.
Helen Hunt - Helen Hunt Helen Elizabeth Hunt (born 15 June 1963) is an American actress. She was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of an acting coach. She co-starred with Paul Reiser in the television sitcom Mad About You. She won Emmy Awards for her performance in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999. She has also had a successful film career and has been in Hollywood movies such as Cast Away and As Good As It Gets (with Jack Nicholson), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1998. She is the first actress to win both an Emmy and an Oscar in the same year. Filmography Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The (2001) Timepiece (2001) Cast Away (2000) Pay It Forward (2000) What Women.
Helen Atkinson-Wood - Helen Atkinson-Wood Helen Atkinson-Wood is an English actress. She is probably most famous for her role as Mrs Miggins in television's Blackadder but was also a prominent member of the cult radio comedy programme Radio Active, where she played the role of Anna Daptor, a role which was reprised in the televisual equivalent of Radio-Active, KYTV..
Helen - Helen Note: Helen of Troy (below) was not the same person as the Amazon Helene or the friend of Aphrodite Helene, nor was she the same person as Hellen (son of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the ancestor of the Greeks), nor Helenus, son of King Priam of Troy. According to Roman mythology, Leda bore Helen and Polydeuces to Zeus while at the same time bearing Castor and Clytemnestra to her father and husband Tyndareus, the King of Sparta. In some versions, Helen is a daughter of Nemesis, the goddess of vengeance. As the story goes, Zeus cohabited with Leda in the form of a swan on the same night as her husband, King Tyndareus. To the former she gave birth to Helen and Polydeuces, and to the.
Helen Stephens - Helen Stephens Helen Herring Stephens (born February 3, 1918 in Fulton, Missouri; died January 17, 1994 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American athlete. Stephens, the Fulton Flash, was a strong athlete in sprint events - she never lost a race in her entire career - but also in weight events like the shot put and discus throw, and she won national titles in both categories of events. Aged only 18, Stephens was sent out to the 1936 Summer Olympics. There, she won the 100 m final, beating reigning champion Stanislawa Walasiewicz. Her time of 11,5 was below the World Record, but was not recognised because of a too strong back wind. Next, Stephens anchored the American 4 x 100 m relay team that won the.
Helena Bonham Carter - Grey in Lady Jane (1986) Lucy Honeychurch in A Room with a View (1986) (novel by E. M. Forster) Caroline Abbott in Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) (novel by E. M. Forster) Helen Schlegel in Howards End (1992) (yet another E. M. Forster novel) Armanda Weinrib in Mighty Aphrodite (a 1995 Woody Allen film) Kate Croy in The Wings of the Dove (1997) (novel by Henry James) for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress Rosemary in Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997) (novel by George Orwell) Marla Singer in Fight Club (1999) (novel by Chuck Palahniuk) Ari in Planet of the Apes (2001).
Helene (mythology) - (mythology) In Greek mythology, Helene (different from Helen of Troy as well as Hellen) referred to two different people: A friend of Aphrodite's, Helene helped her seduce Adonis. A daughter of Tityrus and an Amazon. She fought Achilles and died after seriously wounding him..
Helen Clark - Helen Clark This entry is about the NZ Prime Minister. For others, see Helen Clark (disambiguation). Helen Elizabeth Clark (born February 26, 1950) has served as Prime Minister of New Zealand since December 1999. Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party, she formed successive minority coalition governments with the Alliance party (1999, with parliamentary support from the Green Party) and with Jim Anderton's Progressive Coalition Party (2002, with parliamentary support from the Green Party and the United Future New Zealand). The Honourable Helen Clark Appointed PM: December, 1999 Predecessor: Jenny Shipley Date of Birth: February 26, 1950 Place of Birth: Hamilton, New Zealand Political Party: New Zealand Labour Party Clark served in the Labour cabinets of David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer and Mike Moore, first as Minister.
Helen, Georgia - Helen, Georgia Helen is a city located in White County, Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 430. Formerly a mining town, the city ressurrected itself by becoming a replica of a Bavarian alpine town, in the Appalachians instead of the Alps. Tourism is the main industry in Helen, catering mostly to weekend visitors from the Atlanta area. Helen is extremely crowded in late October, when autumn leaves typically peak. It also hosts its own Oktoberfest during September and October. Geography Helen is located at 34°42'9" North, 83°43'39" West (34.702396, -83.727508)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.5 km² (2.1 mi²). 5.5 km² (2.1 mi²) of it is land and none of.
Helen Township, Minnesota - Helen Township, Minnesota Helen Township is a township located in McLeod County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 835. Geography \nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 91.2 km² (35.2 mi²). 91.2 km² (35.2 mi²) of it is land and 0.03% is water. Demographics \nAs of the census of 2000, there are 835 people, 295 households, and 241 families residing in the township. The population density is 9.2/km² (23.7/mi²). There are 300 housing units at an average density of 3.3/km² (8.5/mi²). The racial makeup of the township is 98.08% White, 0.12% African American, 0.48% Native American, 0.24% Asian, 0.48% Pacific Islander, 0.24% from other races, and 0.36% from two or more races..
Helen Maria Jackson - Helen Maria Jackson Helen Maria Jackson (October 18, 1831 – August 12, 1885) was an American poet and novelist, who wrote under the intials of "H. H." (Helen Hunt). She was born Helen Maria Fiske in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of Nathan Welby Fiske (1798-1847), who was a professor in Amherst College. In October 1852 she married Lieutenant Edward Bissell Hunt (1822-1863), of the U.S. corps of engineers. In 1870 she published a little volume of meditative Verses, which was praised by Emerson in the preface to his Parnassus (1874). After twelve years of widowhood, in 1875 she married William S. Jackson, a banker, of Colorado Springs. She became a prolific writer of prose and verse, including juvenile tales, books of travel, household hints and novels..
Helen Prejean - Helen Prejean Sister Helen Prejean (b. April 21, 1938) is a leading American advocate for the abolition of the death penalty. Her crusade began in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1981, through a correspondence she maintained with a convicted murder, Patrick Sonnier, who was sentenced to death by electrocution. She visited Sonnier in prison and agreed to be his spiritual adviser in the months leading up to his death. The experience gave Prejean greater insight into the process involved in executions and she began speaking out against capital punishment. At the same time, she also founded "Survive," an organization devoted to providing counselling to the families of victims of violence. Prejean has since ministered to many other inmates on death row and witnessed several more executions. She.
Helen Hayes - Helen Hayes Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 - March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose successful and award-winning career spanned almost 70 years. She was eventually to garner the nickname "First Lady of the American Theater". Born Helen Hayes Brown in Washington, DC, she began a stage career at an early age. By 10, she had made a short film called Jean and the Calico Doll, but she only moved to Hollywood when her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur, signed a Hollywood deal. Her sound film debut was The Sin of Madelon Claudet, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She followed that with starring roles in Arrowsmith, A Farewell to Arms, The White Sister, What Every Woman Knows and Vanessa: Her Love.
Helen Chadwick - Helen Chadwick Helen Chadwick (1953 - March 15, 1996) was a British artist. Chadwick studied at Brighton Polytechnic and then at the Chelsea School of Art. She has often been identified as a feminist, with several of her works addressing the role and image of woman in society. Her work often used organic materials, such as meat, flowers and chocolate. She is perhaps most famous for Piss Flowers (1991-92), bronze sculptures cast from patterns made in the snow by her urinating there. Earlier works include Viral Landscapes, a series of photographs from the late 1980s where blotches (actually magnified images of cellss from her body) are superimposed over landscapes, and Meat Abstracts (1989) large photographs of meat juxtaposed with leather and fabric. Among her last works.
Helen Mirren - Helen Mirren Mirren aged 24 in Age of Consent (1969) Dame Helen Mirren (born July 26, 1945) is a British actress. The "sexy" image she acquired in her youth has been little affected by encroaching age. She is particularly well-known for her role as female detective Jane Tennison in the Prime Suspect series of television dramas. She was invested as a DBE on December 5 2003. Partial Filmography Age of Consent (1969) O Lucky Man (1973) The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991) The Madness of King George (1994) Gosford Park (2001) Calendar Girls (2003) External Link The IMDb entry on Mirren.
Helen Frankenthaler - Helen Frankenthaler Helen Frankenthaler (born December 12, 1928) is an American abstract expressionist artist. Born in New York City, her work is influenced by Jackson Pollock. Her career was launched in 1952 with the exhibition of Mountains and Sea. In it, she introduced the style of painting directly on to an unprepared canvas, so that the material absorbs the colors. This style, known as "stain painting" was imitated by other artists (notably Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland) and launched the "Color Field" school of painting..
Helen Gardner - Helen Gardner Helen Gardner (1909-1986) was an English literary critic. A fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford from 1942, she became professor of English literature in the University of Oxford in 1966. She edited The New Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1950..
Helen Garner - Helen Garner Helen Garner (born 1942) , is an Australian novelist. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a high-school teacher. Garner came to prominence at a time when Australian writers were relatively few in number, and Australian women writers were themselves something of a novelty. Her first book, Monkey Grip (1977), relates the lives of a group of welfare recipients living in student-style accommodation in Melbourne. Years later she stated that she had adapted it directly from her personal diaries. In subsequent books, she has continued to adapt her personal experiences. Her most famous book is The First Stone (1995), an account of a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College. This book was a best-seller in Australia, but also attracted considerable criticism..
