Katherine Young - Katherine Young Katherine Young (鄭珣; Pinyin: Zhèng Xún), born May 5, 1901, a centenarian, is the oldest known user of the Internet. She was born in a small Hakka village in the Fujian province of China, and attended college at Yenching University in Beijing (then Peking). She married Paul T.J. Young, and raised four daughters in China while staying one step ahead of the Japanese invasion of 1937. After the war ended, the family lived in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and eventually immigrated to California in 1958, finally settling in Palo Alto where she resides today. She served as president of the Lytton Garden Rose Club until 1998, when she decided she needed a break. Needing something else to do, she made the fateful decision to.
Katherine Mansfield - Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield served as the pen-name for Kathleen Beauchamp (October 14, 1888 - January 9, 1923). Born in Wellington, New Zealand, she moved permanently to Europe as a young woman, met and married John Middleton Murry, contracted tuberculosis in 1917. Later she joined the Gurdjieff commune south of Paris France called the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man and died there at Fontainebleau. She is buried in the cemetery in the Fontainebleau district in the town of Avon where there is a street named in her honour. A writer of short stories, Mansfield developed the techniques of Anton Chekhov in the genre. Much of her work reflects her New Zealand childhood. Bibliography: In a German Pension, 1911 Bliss, 1920 The Garden Party, 1922.
Katherine Paterson - Katherine Paterson Katherine Paterson is an award-winning Americann author of books for children. Katherine Paterson She was born in China in 1932 to missionary parents. She graduated with a degree in English from Kings College, Bristol, Tennessee. She taught for a year at a rural school in Virginia before going to graduate school in Virginia. She received a Master's degree and worked as a missionary in Japan. She married her husband, John, in 1962. They have four children. Her first novel was written while taking an adult education course in creative writing. Her awards include the National Book Award (Master Puppeteer, 1977 and The Great Gilly Hopkins, 1979), the Newbery Medal (Bridge to Terabithia 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved, 1981), the Scott O'Dell Award for.
Katherine Heigl - Katherine Heigl Katherine Marie Heigl (b. November 24 1978) was born in Washington D.C, USA on the 24th of November 1978 to parents Nancy and Paul. A short time afterwards, the Heigl family moved to New Canaan, Connecticut, where Katherine was to spend the majority of her childhood. The youngest member of her family, Katherine, or “Katie” as she is known affectionately, has two elder siblings, John and Meg. Tragically, her older brother Jason died in 1986 of brain injuries suffered in a car accident, after being thrown from the back of a pickup truck. When doctors determined Jason was brain-dead, the family made the difficult decision to donate his organs. Not only did this painful chapter give Katherine a greater perspective and appreciation for life,.
Young - Young Some people with the surname Young: Adrian Young, member of the band No Doubt Andrew Young, activist in the Civil Rights movement Bob Young, CEO of Red Hat Brigham Young, Mormon religious leader Coleman Young, a former mayor of Detroit Cy Young, baseball pitcher John Young, astronaut Joseph Young, brother of Brigham Young Katherine Young, world's oldest Internet user(?) Neil Young, musician Owen Young, founder of RCA and diplomat; Time's Man of the Year for 1929 Robert Young, actor Robert Young, linguist Steve Young, football player Young is also a town in New South Wales, Australia..
Katherine Maclean - Katherine Maclean Katherine MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an American science fiction author. Employed as a biological laboratory technician, she began writing science fiction in the late 1940s. Her work has been principally short stories, often with a biological theme, and sometimes showing remarkable foresight. Examples: Syndrome Johnny, published in 1948, before it was even certain that DNA carried genetic information, is about a series of engineered retroviral plagues, initially propagated by blood transfusion, that are genetically re-engineering the human race The Diploids, from the 1950s, in which a young lawyer, who suspects that he may even be an alien because of certain physical and biochemical abnormalities, discovers that he is a commercial human embryonic cell line, sold for research, and illegally grown to maturity..
Karl Freiherr Mack von Leiberich - did excellent work. He was promoted first lieutenant in 1778, and captain on the quartermaster-general's staff in 1783. Count Lacy, then the foremost soldier of the Austrian army, had the highest opinion of his young assistant. In 1785 Mack married Katherine Gabrieul, and was ennobled under the name of Mack von Leiberich. In the Turkish war he was employed on the headquarter staff, becoming in 1788 major and personal aide-de-camp to the emperor, and in 1789 lieutenantcolonel. He distinguished himself greatly in the storming of Belgrade. Shortly after this, disagreements between Mack and Loudon, now commander-in-chief, led to the former's demanding a court-martial and leaving the front. He was, however, given a colonelcy (1789) and the order of Maria Theresa, and in 1790 Loudon and Mack, having become reconciled, were again.
January 9 - Reese, poet 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer 1857 - Henry B. Fuller, writer 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters 1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar, church historian 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (†1926) 1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter, etcher 1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch opera singer 1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (†1939) 1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet, translator 1875 - Gertrude Whitney, sculptor (†1942) 1876 - Hans Bethge, writer 1879 - John Broadus Watson, behaviorist psychologist (†1958) 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet, critic (†1938) 1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian, writer 1890 - Karel Capek, Czech.
Jack Wagner - in Los Angeles in USA, he spent many years as a young man in Mexico before returning to Los Angeles to work for D. W. Griffith on his early films. Between the years 1909 and 1912, Wagner worked mostly as a furniture painter or set designer and second unit cameraman. He then turned his attention to gag writing and found a job with Mack Sennett writing gags for Keystone Kops shorts. His specialty was comedy construction, especially the famed car chase scenes. When the United States entered World War I, he joined the Army's first motion picture unit. He photographed several battles and was discharged in 1919. He continued working through the teens and 1920s as a gag writer. He also worked as an assistant director and second unit man for.
Jessica Tandy - Foxfire, in 1978 for The Gin Game, and in 1948 for A Streetcar Named Desire. After an acting career spanning some 65 years, Tandy found latter-day movie stardom in big-budget, major-studio releases and intimate dramas alike. From a young age she was determined to be an actress, and first appeared on the London stage in 1927, playing, among others, Katherine opposite Laurence Olivier's Henry V and Cordelia opposite John Gielgud's King Lear. She also worked in British films. Following her first marriage to actor Jack Hawkins, she moved to New York and met actor Hume Cronyn, who became her second husband and frequent partner on stage and screen. She made her American film debut in The Seventh Cross (1944), and appeared in The Valley of Decision (1945), The Green Years (1946,.
John Cassavetes - he did masterly work in blockbuster hits of the late 1960s, including World War II epic The Dirty Dozen (1967) — for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor — and Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby (1968). His next independent film was Faces, which lay down new themes for later work. Starring Cassavetes's wife Rowlands, Faces depicted a contemporary suburban marriage in the process of slow disintegration, with the accompanying desperate and degrading sexual improprieties. Cassavetes held an unflinching camera on the pettiness and emotional greed of the distancing husband and wife and their lovers, but in the end the pathos of their story gives them a unexpected dignity. Faces was a critical and financial success, nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Supporting Actor and Actress). After.
Ida Saxton McKinley - working as a cashier in a bank, she caught the attention of Maj. William McKinley, who had come to Canton in 1867 to establish a law practice, and they fell deeply in love. While he advanced in his profession, his young wife devoted her time to home and husband. A daughter, Katherine, was born on Christmas Day, 1871; a second, in April 1873. This time Ida was seriously ill, and the frail baby died in August. Phlebitis and epileptic seizures shattered the mother's health; and even before little Katie died in 1876, she was a confirmed invalid. As Congressman and then as governor of Ohio, William McKinley was never far from her side. She spent most of her waking hours in a small Victorian rocking chair that she had had since.
Hakka - and the third and higher floors contain living spaces. Examples of Hakka tu lou buildings in Fujian with terraced rice fields in back. Prominent Hakka include: Adrienne Clarkson, Governor-General of Canada Deng Xiaoping, Paramount Leader of the PRC Hong Xiuquan, king of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping Lee Kwan-Yew, former prime minister of Singapore Lee Teng-hui, former president of the Republic of China The Soong Family Charlie Soong The Soong Sisters Soong Ai-ling, married H. H. Kung Soong Ching-ling, married Sun Yat-sen Soong Mei-ling, married Chiang Kai-shek T. V. Soong, premier of the Republic of China Katherine Young, oldest known user of the Internet See also: Hakka language, Hakka cuisine. External Link Hakka Culture Information.
Henry II of England - This was one of Henry's major contributions to the social history of England. As a consequence of the improvements in the legal system, the power of church courts waned. The church, not unnaturally, opposed this, and its most vehement spokesman was Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, formerly a close friend of Henry's and his chancellor. Henry had appointed Becket to the archbishopric precisely because he wanted to avoid conflict. The conflict with Becket effectively began with a dispute over whether clergy who had committed a secular offence could be tried by the secular courts. Henry attempted to subdue Becket and his fellow churchmen by making them swear to obey the "customs of the realm", but there was controversy over what constituted these customs, and the church was reluctant to submit..
Henry VII of England - on attaining the monarchy was the question of establishing the strength and supremacy of his rule. There were few other claimants to the throne left alive after the long and bloody civil war, so his main worry was pretenders such as Perkin Warbeck, who were backed by disaffected nobles. Henry succeeded in securing his crown by a number of means but principally by dividing and undermining the power of the nobility. Henry's first action was to declare himself king as-of the day before the battle, thus ensuring that anyone who had fought against him would, technically, be guilty of treason. It is interesting to note, therefore, that he spared Richard's designated heir, John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln. He would have cause to regret his leniency two years later, when.
Heavy Metal (movie) - The movie's framing story is about a little girl who is terrorized by a glowing green orb, The Loc-Nar who claims to be the sum of all evil who kills her father and then shows her a bizarre series of tales to illustrate his malevolent influence These stories are in order: Harry Canyon: In a dystopic futuristic New York City, a cynical taxi driver rescues a young woman from murderous gangsters who are determined to gain possession of the Loc-Nar that her archeologist father found. Unable to afford police protection, he hides her in his apartment and they become lovers. The next morning, Harry wakes to find the woman gone and he is threatened by corrupt cops and the gangsters who demand he cooperate with them. Eventually, the woman decides to.
Heroines in literature - Erskine Caldwell: Claudelle Vera Caspary: Laura Willa Cather: My Antonia John Cleland: Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure J. M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello Colette: Gigi D.G. Compton: The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe Marie Corelli: Thelma Josephine Cox: Jinnie Stephen Crane: Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Victoria Crosse: Anna Lombard and Martha Brown, MP E.V. Cunningham: Sally Roald Dahl: Matilda Owen Davis: Jezebel Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué: Undine R. F. Delderfield: Diana Marquis de Sade: Justine and Juliette Charles Dickens: Little Dorrit Peter Dickinson: Eva Benjamin Disraeli: Vivian Grey and Sybil or, The Two Nations Ménie Muriel Dowie: Gallia Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie and Jennie Gerhardt Allen Drury: Anna Hastings George Eliot: Romola Sebastian Faulks: Charlotte Gray Edna Ferber: Dawn O'Hara Fanny Fern: Ruth.
U.S. House election, 2004 - Running Alabama 2 Terry Everett Republican 1992 Running Alabama 3 Mike Rogers Republican 2002 Running Alabama 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 1996 Running Alabama 5 Robert Cramer Democrat 1990 Running Alabama 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 1992 Running Alabama 7 Artur Davis Democrat 2002 Running Alaska Don Young Republican 1972 Running Arizona 1 Rick Renzi Republican 2002 Running Arizona 2 Trent Franks Republican 2002 Running Arizona 3 John Shadegg Republican 1994 Running Arizona 4 Ed Pastor Democrat 1990 Running Arizona 5 J. D. Hayworth Republican 1994 Running Arizona 6 Jeff Flake Republican 2000 Running Arizona 7 Raul Grijalva Democrat 2002 Running Arizona 8 Jim Kolbe Republican 1984 Running Arkansas 1 Marion Berry Democrat 1996 Running Arkansas 2 Vic Snyder Democrat 1996 Running Arkansas 3 John Boozman Republican 2000 Running Arkansas 4 Mike Ross.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - of Albermarle in 1668. In 1671 he was elected chancellor of Cambridge, and in 1672 high steward of the University of Oxford. He favoured religious toleration, and earned the praise of Richard Baxter; he supported a scheme of comprehension in. 1668, and advised the declaration of indulgence in 1672. He upheld the original jurisdiction of the Lords in Skinner's case. With these exceptions Buckingham's tenure of office was chiefly marked by scandals and intrigues. His illicit connexion with the Countess of Shrewsbury led to a duel with her husband at Barn Elms on January 16 1668, in which Shrewsbury was fatally wounded. The tale that the countess, disguised as a page, witnessed the encounter, appears to have no foundation; but Buckingham, by installing the "widow of his own creation" in his.
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner - was an award-winning bi-racial comedy movie starring Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, Sidney Poitier, and Katharine Houghton. The movie was about a young white Americann woman (Houghton) who went on a holiday to Hawaii where she had a whirlwind romance with a black doctor (Poitier); the two will marry and she will return with him to Switzerland. The bulk of the film deals with the daughter's return to her middle-class American home bringing her new fiancé to dinner to meet her parents, and the discrimination that the family faces afterwards..
