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4 unusual facts about Lois


Lois-Ann Yamanaka

While Yamanaka believes that her characters "know the sound of their own voice," and admits to being highly inspired by her own experiences growing up amongst Hawaii life and culture, including the pidgin language, she also attributes much of her work to the other authors who have inspired and influenced her.

Many of her critically acclaimed literary works are written in Hawaiian Pidgin, and some of her writing has dealt with controversial ethnic issues.

She describes her experience as, "In the presence of this genius, I felt embarrassed." (216) Yamanaka also cites June Jordan, Ai, Thulanie Davis, and Jessica Hagedorn as major inspirations in terms of their use of voice in poetry.

Susan M. Schultz

Schultz has also published critical articles and review essays on Hart Crane, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Ann Lauterbach, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and others.


Alfred B. Fitt

His second wife, born Lois Dickson (b. 1933), married Fitt after divorcing Emmett J. Rice, making Fitt the stepfather of Susan Rice.

Arthur Goring Thomas

(Creator cast: Georgina Burns (Esmeralda): Barton McGuckin (Phoebus): William Ludwig (Frollo): Leslie Crotty (Quasimodo): Clara Perry (Fleur-de-Lys): Leah Don (Lois): J.H. Stilliard (Chevreuse): Ben Davies (Gringoire): G.H. Snazelle (Clopin).

Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air

When Lois suggests that Peter finds a new friend, she tells him to find a kindred spirit like Judas found in Pontius Pilate.

Blood Run Site

The State of South Dakota Game, Fish, and Parks Commission, upon offer of land sale by owners Buzz and Lois Nelson and the sole civilian testimony by SD author of Blood Run (book) (a volume supported by a SD Arts Council Grant) and Sioux Falls Public Schools and Office of Indian Education teacher, Allison Hedge Coke, the Commission voted to acquire the area as state park land in January 2003.

Brian in Love

Stewie emphatically denies doing so, but Lois and Peter are convinced that it is a sign that Stewie is ready to potty train.

Cartoon Wars Part II

For example, "Laundry" + "Date" + "Winning" + "Mexico" + "Gary Coleman" becomes a clip of Lois asking Peter to do the laundry, after which Peter recalls winning a date in Mexico with Gary Coleman.

City Lore

City Lore’s staff consists of professional folklorists (Steve Zeitlin, the founder and executive director, Elena Martínez and Amanda Dargan), historians (Marci Reaven), photographers (Martha Cooper), ethnomusicologists (Roberta Singer and Lois Wilcken), and arts and education specialists (Anika Selhorst).

Deep Throats

Brian decides to become a taxicab driver, but soon becomes intent on exposing the corruption of Mayor West to the public after receiving a $400 parking ticket for parking his taxicab on a handicapped zone without permit next to a store where Brian bought some milk for Lois.

Desert Hot Springs, California

Upon her death in 1996, her family sold it in 1997, to two longtime regulars and close friends of Lois', trans-media designer April Greiman and architect-educator Michael Rotondi.

Grimm Job

Jack (played by Peter) is sent out by his wife (played by Lois) to sell their cow (played by Brian Griffin) for money to buy food.

Hermione Lee

In the USA, she has been a visiting teaching fellow at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, a Whitney J. Oates Fellow at the Council for the Humanities at Princeton, an Everett Helm visiting fellow at the Lilly Library at the Indiana University at Bloomington, and the Mel and Lois Tukman Fellow of the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers in 2004-5.

Indulkana

Without in any way approving such a policy, Lois acknowledges that she had a happy childhood there, and later at the Colebrook home at Eden Hills.

Jeffrey McClain

When Representative Steve Reinhard was unable to run for another term due to term limits, McClain, along with Lois Fisher, sought the Republican nomination.

Jenson v. Eveleth Taconite Co.

It was filed in 1988 on behalf of Lois Jenson and other female workers at the EVTAC mine in Eveleth, Minnesota on the state's northern Mesabi Range, which is part of the Iron Range.

Jordi Mestre

Since spring 2011, Jordi became the male protagonist of Lois Jeans's new campaign.

José Marchena Ruiz de Cueto

He acted as editor of L'Ami des lois and other French journals until 1799, when he was expelled from France; he succeeded, however, in obtaining employment under General Moreau, upon whose fall in 1804 he declared himself a Bonapartist.

Juan Luis Carrera

Juan Luis Carrera is a musician and recording engineer based in Washington, D.C. As a musician, Carrera was the bassist for the Dischord Records band The Warmers and has also played with bands like Lungfish, Lois, Junk Man Ran, and The Junction.

Kenneth Sanborn

He married Lois Leidel, and they had four children: Christine, Janice, Mark, and Alan.

Lois Darling

In 1962, the Darlings' friend Roger Tory Peterson suggested to author Rachel Carson that Louis and Lois be hired to illustrate her forthcoming book, Silent Spring.

Loïs Lane

The group is known in the United States as Lois L, because the group was named after Lois Lane, the girlfriend of Superman.

Loïs Lane is a Dutch girl group of Indo (Eurasian) descent, consisting of the sisters Suzanne and Monique Klemann.

Lois M. Leveen

She auditioned for the voice of her own character, but actress Vicki Lewis was determined to be even more “Lois-y” than Lois Leveen herself, and she was cast in the role instead.

Lois Orr

Lois Orr (23 April 1917 - August 1985), also known as Louise Cusick, Lois Cusick and Lois Culter, born in the Jewish hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, lived in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, where she was a member of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM) female militia.

Lois Rodden

Lois was born on May 22, 1928 at 12:22 am MST (rectified by her) in Lang, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Lois V Vierk

# River Beneath the River – 14:13 - Eva Greusser (violin), Patricia Davis (violin), Lois Martin (viola), Bruce Wang (cello); commissioned by the Barbican Centre for Kronos Quartet

Lois Wilson

Lois W. also known as Lois Wilson (née Burnham) (1891–1988), co-founder of Al-Anon and wife of Alcoholics Anonymous founder Bill W.

Love, Blactually

The episode begins with a costume party, where Brian and Stewie are both dressed as Snoopy from Peanuts, Quagmire dresses up as Napoleon Dynamite, Peter dresses as Laura Bush, Lois as Michael Dutton Douglas, Joe as Mark Spitz (although people believe he is cripple Thomas Magnum), and Cleveland as Charlie Chaplin.

Moments to Remember

According to the Four Lads Frank Busseri, the introductory verses were sung by Lois Winters of the Ray Charles Singers and the spoken words in mid-song were recited by Pat Kirby of the Steve Allen Tonight Show.

Murder of Dennis Jurgens

Dennis was adopted by the Jurgenses of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, a suburb of Saint Paul: Harold Jurgens, a former bandleader turned electrician, and Lois Jurgens, a homemaker.

By this point, Lois' rage and mania had gone beyond her ability to maintain an appearance of normalcy, and she and Harold had relocated to rural Stillwater, Minnesota, possibly to escape the gossip of their former neighborhood where Dennis was killed.

There was also a great deal of suspicion surrounding Jerome Zerwas, the brother of Lois Jurgens, who was a police lieutenant in the town of White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

Packanack Lake, New Jersey

Tom Cruise, (actor and producer) resided on the east side of Packanack Lake on Lois Court.

Pailadzo Captanian

Pailadzo taught Lois how to make Armenian pilaf and in 1955 Tom and his brother Vincent, who worked at the Golden Grain Macaroni pasta company founded by their father, came up with the initial recipe for the rice-and-macaroni mixture called Rice-A-Roni.

Rowena Farre

This is confirmed by family trees published on Ancestry.com and elsewhere which show Daphne Lois Macready as the daughter of Brig. Gen. John Macready (1887-1957) and Marguerite Mary Milling (1890-1982).

Seahorse Seashell Party

When Lois tries to tell Meg that she is simply taking her own problems out on everyone else, Meg brings up her mother's delinquent past and tells her that she is far from the perfect parent, and harshly berates her for constantly and ruthlessly pointing out Meg's shortcomings and pointing out how she has neglected to protect her from harm and guide her through life in fitting in and being more like other people.

Stewie Loves Lois

Lois makes a reference to Barbara Bush after waking up from her dream of killing Stewie.

Superman robots

In Superman (vol. 2) #170, Jeph Loeb wrote a very controversial story where, in defending Lois Lane from certain death, Krypto almost killed Mongul by ripping his throat out.

Supermom

According to Lois Wladis Hoffman, PhD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, "most mothers in the United States are employed", even if their children are less than one year old.

Tabitha Brown

Born on May 1, 1780, in Brimfield, Massachusetts, Tabitha was the daughter of Lois Haynes Moffatt and Dr. Joseph Moffatt.

The Show Off

The film has been remade a number of times, in 1930 with Hal Skelly and Doris Hill as Men Are Like That, in 1934 as The Show-Off with Spencer Tracy, Madge Evans, and Lois Wilson in a different role, and in 1946 as The Show-Off with Red Skelton.

The Son Also Draws

Peter insists on driving Chris and the rest of the family (Peter's wife Lois, their daughter Meg and their infant Stewie) to the Youth Scout headquarters, in Manhattan, to get Chris readmitted.

Thomas Leverett Nelson

Thomas Nelson was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire, March 4, 1827, one of twelve children of John and Lois Leverett Nelson.

Torchy Blane

Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel cited Glenda Farrell's portrayal of Torchy Blane as his inspiration for the personality of the character of Lois Lane, and the name of Lola Lane (who also played Torchy Blane) as his inspiration for Lois' name.

Turban Cowboy

Peter is invigorated by their jump and keeps up skydiving despite Lois' concern, even as his jumps usually result in accidents like falling on Meg at dinner, falling on a ninja that killed a woman, and falling on the castle of the Pig King from Angry Birds with only one pig left alive.


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