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Gladys

The launch name used for USA-215, an American reconnaissance satellite operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office


Abbott Handerson Thayer

Among his devoted apprentices were Rockwell Kent, Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Richard Meryman, Barry Faulkner (Thayer's cousin), Alexander and William James (the sons of Harvard philosopher William James), and Thayer's own son and daughter, Gerald and Gladys.

Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke

Brooke was the son of Bertram, Tuan Muda of Sarawak and Gladys Palmer, daughter of Sir Walter Palmer, and heiress to part of the Huntley & Palmers biscuit fortune.

Arlington Ladies

The history of the group traces its existence to 1948, when Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Hoyt Vandenberg, and his wife Gladys, witnessed young servicemembers being buried without any family members present on one of their walks through the cemetery.

Barbara Jeppe

Born in the mining town of Pilgrim's Rest, she was the daughter of Victor Brereton, a land-surveyor, and Gladys Evans.

Bill Hinnant

He was cast as Bruce Carter, a 26-year-old college student (though he had already graduated from Yale in real life) who lives temporarily in Westwood, California, with his aunt, Gladys (Cara Williams), and her husband, insurance salesman, Pete Porter (Harry Morgan).

Carolyn Meyer

Born as an only child in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Carolyn Meyer began her first "novel," Humpy the Caterpillar and Gladys the Snail: A True Life Romance at age eight.

Charles Bonham-Carter

Bonham-Carter first married in 1902 Gladys Beryl Coddington and they had two sons, including Victor Bonham-Carter.

Christine Willes

Christine Willes is a Canadian television, theatre and film actress who is best known for her roles as Delores Herbig on the Showtime comedy-drama Dead Like Me and Gladys the DMV demon on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper.

She also appears in a minor recurring role on the show Reaper on The CW, as Gladys, a demon from Hell who works in the DMV.

Christopher Finch-Hatton, 15th Earl of Winchilsea

On July 10, 1935, he married Countess Gladys Széchényi Sárvár-Felsövidék, daughter of Count László Széchényi Sárvár-Felsövidék and Gladys Moore Vanderbilt.

Clyde Lamb

On August 31, 1934, when Gladys was living in Calumet City, Illinois, she inserted a dozen broken hacksaw blades into pears and traveled to Gary, Indiana to visit her husband in the Lake County jail.

Cranham, Gloucestershire

A Fairport Convention album, Gladys' Leap, is named after local postwoman Gladys Hillier, who would jump over a local stream to avoid a long journey.

DiMenna–Nyselius Library

Steady technological improvements continued to augment the library-a CD-ROM reference center in 1990 thanks to the Gladys Brooks Foundation; a CD-ROM LAN in 1991 thanks to grants from the E.L. Cord Foundation and the George I. Alden Trust; an online public access catalog in 1993; and a computer lab with 25 workstations in 1997.

Easy to Wed

Van Johnson's biography, MGM's Golden Boy states that Lucille Ball's performance as Gladys "reveals the embryo of her Lucy Ricardo role in the later I Love Lucy television series," and also states that Keenan Wynn had been in a motorcycle accident before filming, had his mouth wired shut, and as a result, he had to talk between his teeth while losing thirty pounds in four weeks.

Edna Malone

Malone was born in Nelson, British Columbia, began her dance training with Gladys Attree in Nelson, and was invited to study at the Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn School in Los Angeles, California in 1917.

Elvis and Gladys

The biopic which depicted Elvis' relationship with Gladys is featured in the TV series Elvis (2005), which starred Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis and Camryn Manheim as Gladys.

F. Wayne Valley

In 2005, California State University, East Bay in Hayward, California launched an aggressive construction project with the building of three new facilities: the Wayne and Gladys Valley Business and Technology Center (VBT), the Pioneer Heights student housing expansion and the University Union annex.

Frank Swindell

In 1910 he married Gladys Dorothy Wells at St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, the service was conducted by the Right Reverend Charles James Ferguson-Davie the Bishop of Singapore.

George Salis-Schwabe

Gladys married British businessman Paul Crompton and died with him and their six children in the 7 May 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

Giving Up

In the UK, where the Gladys Knight & the Pips original of "Giving Up" failed to chart in its June 1964 release, a belated cover of the song was recorded in 1965 by Julie Grant with her regular producer Tony Hatch and released that March without evident result.

Gladys Ambrose

Gladys Ambrose (28 December 1930, Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire – 4 July 1998, Knowsley Village, Merseyside) was an English actress of film and television, best known for her role as the gossipy Julia Brogan on the long-running soap opera, Brookside, which she played from 1985 until just before her death from cancer in July 1998 at the age of 67.

Gladys del Pilar

In 1994, Gladys was in Melodifestivalen, the Swedish pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest and came in second with The most beautiful thing I know.

Gladys Hulette

Gladys Hulette (July 21, 1896 – August 8, 1991) was a silent film actress from Arcade, New York.

Fort Wayne, Indiana News, Gladys Hulette, September 13, 1917, Page 5.

Gladys Kravitz

In the episode of The Simpsons entitled "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore", Gladys Kravitz has a statue in the TV Museum inside the "Hall of Nosy Neighbors" (next to Ned Flanders).

Gladys Landaverde

Gladys Nataly Landaverde Hernández (born 23 February 1990 in San Ignacio, Chalatenango) is a Salvadoran middle-distance runner.

Gladys Maccabe

William Conor was also an associate and Gladys painted his portrait in 1957 (now hanging in the Ulster Folk Museum).

Gladys Porter High School

Gladys Porter High School is a 5A public high school in Brownsville, Texas and is the successor of "Brownsville High School".

Gladys Root

In July 1964 an indictment was issued against Gladys by the Federal Grand Jury in connection with her actions during her defense of one of the defendants in the kidnapping case of Frank Sinatra, Jr., the teenage son of Frank Sinatra.

Gladys the Swiss Dairy Cow

In July 2003, the cow sculpture was converted into "Gladys in an Itsy-Bitsy Teenie-Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini".

In October 2004, the cow sculpture was converted into "Gladys as Dracula".

Gladys Waddingham

Gladys Waddingham (1900–1997), a Spanish teacher at Inglewood High School in Inglewood, California, for 45 years, was the author of many books about her adopted city.

Gwladys

Saint Gwladys ferch Brychan or St Gladys (Latin-Claudia), daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog, was the queen of the saint-king Gwynllyw Milwr and the mother of Cadoc "the Wise", whose vita may be the earliest saint's life to mention Arthur.

Heather Shakespeare

She was born Heather Gladys Cameron, at Weetangera, a sheep farm near what is now the Canberra suburb of Belconnen.

Jack Batton

The complex was opened for the entertainment of young people in the city by Larry B. Hunter (1896–1971) and his wife, Gladys Powell Hunter (1899–1973), the owners of the local Coca-Cola franchise.

Jemuel Apelar

He is married to Gladys Antonio Apelar, a member of the royal Antonio-Cuevas family of Basilan Island, Philippines, descendants of Datu Kalun.

Joan Hinde

Instead, Joan Hinde forged a sparkling reputation on the live variety stage becoming a regular fixture with artistes such as Elsie and Doris Waters, Jimmy James and Co., Gladys Morgan, The Black and White Minstrel Show, Max Bygraves, Sir Harry Secombe and Ken Dodd.

Kilwinning Old Parish church

The Memorial Screen was dedicated in 1990 to the memory of Colonel A. R. Cole-Hamilton who died at Gallipoli in 1915, his mother Sarah, and his wife Gladys.

Kiss Me Sergeant

Kiss Me Sergeant is a 1930 British comedy film directed by Monty Banks and starring Leslie Fuller, Gladys Cruickshank and Gladys Frazin.

Mary Grace Canfield

In 1966, Canfield played Abner Kravitz's sister, Harriet, on three episodes of Bewitched in the interval between the death from ovarian cancer of actress Alice Pearce, who played Abner's wife, Gladys Kravitz, before the hiring of Pearce's successor, Sandra Gould, in the role of Mrs. Kravitz.

Milton Sills

In 1910, Sills married English stage actress Gladys Edith Wynne, a niece of actress Edith Wynne Matthison.

Moon and Son

The series starred Millicent Martin as a clairvoyant, Gladys Moon, and John Michie as her very attractive psychic son, Trevor Moon, who travelled between Folkestone in the United Kingdom and France, doing readings and selling occult and astrological goods from their mobile "salon" (called "Visions") and getting involved in various adventures along the way.

Owen Moore

While working at D. W. Griffith's Biograph Studios, Moore met a young Canadian actress named Gladys Smith whom he married on January 7, 1911.

Philip Richard Morris

His daughter Florence married the archaeologist Alexander Keiller and his eldest daughter, Gladys Morris (1879–1946), married the noted British sportsman, journalist and editor, Bertram Fletcher Robinson.

Set to Music

Mad About the Boy - Beatrice Lillie (as a schoolgirl), Laura Duncan (A Girl of the Town), Gladys Henson (A Housemaid), Moya Nugent (School Girl's Younger Sister), Rosemary Lomax (Society Woman's Friend)

Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet

Their daughter, Gladys, married Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke, of the family of the White Rajas of Sarawak, titled "His Highness The Tuan Muda of Sarawak" in 1904 and converted to Islam in the 1930s.

Slow Down Baby

Songwriting – Christina Aguilera, Mark Ronson, Kara DioGuardi, Raymond Angry, William Guest, M. Knight, Edward Patton, Gladys Knight, Marvin Bernard, Michael Harper

Yaowapa Boorapolchai

She defeated Ivett Gonda of Canada and Gladys Alicia Mora Romero of Colombia in the repechage tournament to win the bronze and become the first Thai Olympic medalist outside of boxing and weightlifting.


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